Scale Saturday 2018: Week 4

This week was an odd one. Despite working hard all week, the scale stayed the same four days in a row, with just a couple big drops. I know it's all part of the fluctuation of it. I just hope after this I never have to come back down from as great a weight. Those of you who followed along with my weight loss three years ago may remember I proclaimed up and down (no pun intended) I would never do this again. Life has a way of sneaking up and sucker punching me in the face. 

I stepped up my exercise this week, and it felt good. Sore, but what my body had been missing for too long. I combined "power walking" with floor exercises: planks, scissor kicks, and leg lifts. 

I was able to get more sleep as well, which makes a huge difference in outlook. Addie has been waking only once or twice a night, though a couple nights ago Ian was up crying for hours. It turns out he has double ear infection now. Our computer crashed as well a couple days ago, so I'm back to blogging on my phone, which is not ideal. What a month it's been. 

I wanted to share with you a healthy meal we had this week before we get to the scale part. I love pasta, so not allowing myself noodles of any kind is truly a sacrifice. This supper amazingly didn't feel like much of a compromise to me! The best part is everyone loved it.

1 cup spaghetti squash: 35 calories

1/4 cup spaghetti sauce: 40 calories

3 ounces ground venison: 134 calories

or 3 ounces baked chicken breast: 110 calories

My plate with the chicken totaled 185 calories. The boys and Eli had the stuffed squash with venison sauce. We use venison in place of hamburger a lot here because, living in a family of hunters, it's free meat (besides the work of butchering, grinding, and packaging it). It's also a much lower calorie option. Three ounces of 93% lean ground beef is 170 calories.

Since I gained those 5 pounds last week, this is a loss of 3 new pounds, which is right on track.