Weekly Update December 17 2015

So originally I was thinking I wouldn't weigh myself because we're getting close to Christmas.  But in the end I decided to yesterday.  Here are those numbers:

weight: 210.8 lbs
fat percentage: 45.5%
hydration: 37.4%
muscle: 26.8%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2350

I think that's the highest my weight has been since I started weekly weigh ins.  But it's not significantly more, so basically I'm maintaining my weight.  And going through the next few weeks, that's my hope: maintaining.  I know that's going to be hard because there are a few big meals on the near horizon and I'm going to be less active.  I work Monday night and Tuesday all day, which means yoga is out and so is swimming.  I could try to go another time next week, but I have a feeling I'll be getting ready for Christmas, which is at the end of the week.

But anyway, that's a problem for next week.  This week had enough of its own problems.  On Monday night, I went to my parents' place for dinner.  The plan was to decorate their tree then do yoga with my mom.  Unfortunately by the time we finished with the tree, my glucose wasn't high enough for yoga.  So we decided just to have tea.

That night I went home and made a bunch of cookies for gifts.  Which of course meant I was sampling dough all night (especially since these were new recipes). 

Then on Tuesday, I had a Christmas lunch with work people.  I ended up with this huge panzerotti (I still have half of it in my fridge - that's dinner for tonight).  Lunch was a lot of fun!  Unfortunately I was following it up with swimming.  By the time I got into the pool I was still so full that I was barely able to move!  Where we go swimming has a free swim from 2:30-4pm, which was unfortunate on Tuesday; I was starting to feel better right around 4pm, which is when we got kicked out of the pool.  If we had been able to wait longer I probably would have been fine. So that's a lesson learned: don't have a huge meal right before swimming (or realistically any exercise) - wait at least an hour, if not slightly longer! 

These last few days, I've started to feel like I'm getting a cold.  So we'll see how that goes - hopefully I can get enough rest to avoid getting sick right before Christmas! 

Weekly Update December 8 2015

Apologies, I meant to post these last week, but I had a job interview I was preparing for, which ended up taking up a lot of time.  So here are last week's numbers:
weight: 210.4 lbs
fat percentage: 45.9%
hydration: 37.1%
muscle: 26.6%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2348
And here are today's:
weight: 209.6 lbs
fat percentage: 45.6%
hydration: 37.4%
muscle: 26.8%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2343
Last week's numbers were really disappointing because they were slightly worse or the same as two weeks ago.  This week's are slightly better or the same as two weeks ago (weight is slightly lower, but all the other numbers are pretty much the same as Nov 26th).
Last week I did yoga on Monday night with my mom.  Then like normal, I went swimming with my dad for about 40 minutes on Tuesday.  I got a late start to the day though on Tuesday, which I think is why I went low at the end of swimming (after I got out of the pool I was about 2.7, which is much lower than I've ever been at the end of swimming since I started going with my dad).  Like I said, I think it was due to my later start getting up and I only backed off insulin for about a half hour or so before swimming.
Last week, swimming was also a lot tougher because of the Better Belly Yoga my mom and I did.  When I got into the pool, I was right sore from the night before!  This week my mom and I did Lara Hudson's 10 Minute Solution Rapid Weight Loss Pilates (neither of which I seem to have talked about on here or on Fitness Reviews).  If I'm not as sore when I go swimming today, that'll mean my abs are getting stronger!
One other issue I've had during the last week is that I've been going quite high in the evenings.  I thought it was due to me failing to carbohydrate count, but I went quite high (18.5) last night after doing Pilates (without adjusting insulin).  At the end of the dvd I was 7.7.  So I had tea with nothing in it.  But when I got home, I was 18.5.  So something is clearly wrong and I actually will need to do some basal tests really soon (which I totally hate doing) to see what's going on.  I've been needing to do them anyway, it's just hard to fit them in because life is super busy lately.