On the scale that is.  I haven’t blogged month that last few months.  Life has just been busy and I have been trying to figure out how to keep all the balls I am juggling in the air and the blogging ball has been left to lay under the table gathering dust. 

Well, I am proud of myself that I have completed 36 days of exercise so far this year.  That means I only have 329 more days to go.  I feel great and am so happy that I have found my commitment to myself again.  Sadly, after 31 days of exercise in January, I did lose a pound.  Not one pound.  I weighed the same amount on Jan 31 as I did on Jan 1.  I was irritated and a little flabbergasted.  I thought I was doing great–I felt great.  I wasn’t tracking my food and I obviously should have been.  That’s not entirely accurate.  I tracked my meals and I was eating fine–what I wasn’t tracking was the food I was eating off the kids plates or the type of calories I was eating. 

I have PCOS and have written about it in the past.  I need to watch my carbs and make sure to eat the right kind and not too many.  I shouldn’t have more than 150g of carbs a day and less would be better.  Well, on some days I was consuming closet to 300g of carbs.  That isn’t good for me, nor will it aid in my weight loss efforts.  So, I have download the new LoseIt app for my iphone and am keeping tack of everything I eat and of my carbs/fat/fiber/protein and it has opened my eyes.  And finally 4 days in I have seen some movement on the scale–nearly 2lbs.

I have accepted that losing weight is going to take a lot of work and it really is a numbers game and a numbers game that is more than just calories in vs calories out.  I need to eat the right calories for my body and what my body needs and struggles with.  I am looking forward to my official weigh in on monday to see what a week of doing what I need to do and should be doing has gotten me.