Anemic again! Double WTF!!!

I'm anemic again... It happened a few weeks ago. This time I know that it is because I have not been taking care of myself. Celiac Disease makes absorbing iron hard, and then throw in being vegetarian and not being careful about your iron for a few weeks and you have a disaster on your hands...

Be wiser than I have been... I'm on vacation and have to spend time recovering... Not cool.

Iron rich foods people!!! Beans, quinoa, edamame, eggs, lentils...

Weekly Results - MUST WORK OUT!!!

Results

• -1.4 pounds (Total of -37.8 pounds)
• Still did not get another pedometer, but resolved to do so soon. I NEED the motivation provided by tracking steps…
• Gluten free, sugar free, ate fish a few times again.

Thoughts

This has been another off week… I got back into eating carefully and healthy, but I really have not worked out. I’ve done a lot of walking. I’ve been active, but have not gone to the gym… I guess what I am learning is that routines are sacred. Throw off your routines and everything goes crazy!

Unfortunately, I am going to have to try and get back into routines while on vacation because I’m not going to back in Louisiana for about a month and that is just too much time to lose messing around. ENOUGH LAZY FOR ME!

I have set a summer goal. By the first week of August I want to have lost another 15 pounds. That gives me about seven weeks. This is completely possible as long as I stay on track this summer. 

Nothing to wear...

I have lost enough weight now that none of my clothes fit properly except for the shorts I bought last week, and slutty skirt w/tube top... None of which does me any good since I arrived in Utah yesterday and it is still freezing... Not literally freezing, but its too cold for me.

I either need to go get a pair pants today or I need to attempt to use my mom's sewing machine right now... Hmmmmm...

Weekly Results (very late due to being in New Orleans for a week)

Results
-1.4 pounds (I was on vacation and we ate out a lot... This is a miracle.) Total lost: 36.4 pounds.
Steps - I broke another pedometer and lost one in a swamp... I'm not going to buy another one... I walked a lot this week...
Not gluten free (contaminated at a restaurant), Not sugar free, Not vegetarian (I ate a lot of seafood this week)

Thoughts
I am trying to decide if I should look at this week as a big fail or as a success. I actually lost weight while on vacation and eating out... However I am feeling the effects of eating sugar, gluten, and maybe the seafood too... Hard to tell what is causing me to feel so tired. I just don't have the energy that I had a few weeks ago and I wonder if it is the poor diet recently or if it is simply that I have been running around like a crazy person since school got out.

This last week was really a huge reminder to me that many of my dietary choices are about being healthy and feeling good rather than losing weight because I lost weight, but feel like crud...

Anyway... Today is my first day back on track. Its requiring a fair amount of coffee...

I normally HATE photos of myself...

I have long hated pictures of myself. I avoid getting them taken at all costs. Any photos that do happen to be taken and posted on Facebook I quickly un-tag. Today however I was touring the region and seeing sights. All day long I was shooting pictures of myself and sending them to a girl I'm interested in. Showing her where we were at and what we were doing.

I looked back over the photos that I took and still disliked them, not because of my weight. Instead of disliking them because of my weight I disliked them because of the dorky looks on my face, or the hairs that were out of place, or way the shot was off-center. It was interesting. I liked it. I am starting to think I am looking pretty good!

UGH... The heat...

I know I already wrote one kind of self-indulging post about the heat here in Louisiana, but I thought of another fitness aspect yesterday.

Yesterday it was so warm that I could hardly stomach eating at all... It reminded me of how I used to feel in Spain. In Spain during the summers it would get so hot that we would live off of fruit and Danone Coconut Yogurt. I really wanted some of that yogurt yesterday.

Of course, also just like in Spain as soon as the sun went down and the temperature dropped a little bit I could eat without feeling sick... (The heat really never bothered me this much the previous two years here in Louisiana... Not sure why this year is so bad.)