A Bad Week?

So, I didn't lose a single pound last week. And now we're at what I usually find the hardest part of any period when I'm trying to lose weight - The part where I don't. I haven't gone on a REAL diet ever, just done things like cut out pop or anything deep-fried for a period of time, or worked out really hard for a month. And when I don't see results, I am discouraged, and I quit. Or I comfort eat (mmm my favourite type of eating).

I had my cheat day on Saturday and I thought it might be really bad. Generally we don't want to overdo it when we get to cheat, so I ate a light breakfast and snacked a little, and by the end of the day had only gone over 400 calories. Which, considering I ate delicious buffalo chicken fingers and fries, isn't that bad. I also had an alcoholic drink with dinner (TEQUILA) and a pop. And I didn't even finish the pop! WONDER OF WONDERS. I also ice skated (barely) for an hour (I logged it as like, 20 minutes because most of it was spend with Brad skating backwards dragging me because I couldn't move myself), and had a Rye and Coke after. All in all, not too bad for a cheat day (Just wait until next month. Cheat. Birthday. Weekend!). I figured maybe with weighing myself after a cheat day, I would weigh more, but I was still hungry in the morning, and I weighed the same as last week. How depressing.

I've been doing some research though, on the message boards on My Fitness Pal, and that is super helpful. A lot of people don't notice much weight loss at first, or don't lose weight every week. And I was thinking maybe that even though I was staying under or just at my calorie goal for the day, what I was eating was preventing it? But apparently not, because people were saying they were still eating junk food, but less and logging it in their calories and still losing weight. Not that I'm going to start eating all the junk food I'm trying to wean myself off of, but it's hopeful to know that my microwave dinners, quesadillas and soup, aren't going to keep me fat.

I'm just really discouraged, but hoping to see results by next Sunday. I don't notice a difference in how I feel, other than I'm often hungrier and drinking more water to balance it out. And peeing a lot. A LOT.

Also, Instead of cardio last night, I did P90x Legs and Back, but since I down own pull-up bars or a resistance band, I just did legs. And now I can barely walk. I like doing strength training though because even though I have no idea how many calories it burns, in the end my stronger muscles will burn more calories than my flabby fat, and I'll notice more results. I'm just currently in a lot of pain. Since my birthday is coming up I think I'm going to ask for some lame fitness stuff, like girly weights (yeaaah light blue dinky 2lb and 5lb hand-weights, I'm such a pussy), a resistance band, and a heart-rate/calorie monitor, so I can see more accurately how I'm burning calories versus how machines tell me I'm burning them. And to see how many I burn killing myself at p90x, you rat bastards.