Weigh In Wednesday - 1 · Awesome! Hybrid Calisthenics

Weigh In Wednesday - 1

It's been a week since my Day 7 in a row post. It's been quite the week...

I was doing exercises consistently every day...until Monday. On Saturday night, I looked in the mirror and thought I looked and felt slimmer, so I really wanted to weigh myself that night and not wait until today. I was 329 pounds! That's exactly 30 pounds I lost from my heaviest on June 1st this year. It felt great. All was good. I kept doing squats, incline pushups and my other go to exercises daily and all was well...until it wasn't.

I do want to preface this next part with this so you can understand the deeper reason why I chose to do what I did--you need to know the context (I will try to summarize the best that I can). My husband was the new guy in his last work place and then in December 2025, he got a 6 week layoff notice that his job will end January 30th. He has been looking for work since December and there just hasn't been any work for IT in our city and surrounding cities. Nothing to even apply too. Employment Insurance only covers rent and nothing else. Bills don't get paid, no grocery and fuel budget. Thankfully the local Salvation Army has helped us with some food and fuel gift cards to get by.

Well, on Monday, my husband bought (with our EI money that's for rent...but we did recently moved and are waiting for our damage and pet deposit refund to come in the mail from their head office on the other side of the country)...he surprised me and bought 4 LARGE pizzas from Too Good to Go (basically an app where restaurants, grocery stores, bakeries, gas stations can sell food for a fraction of the cost...food that would be thrown out at the end of the day if not sold, so they heavily discount it on the Too good to go app).

Now I want to add that I am very gluten intolerant and we are broker than broke. There's no way he could eat 4 large pizzas himself before they must be thrown out in 2 days. I HATE wasting food, ESPECIALLY when we are in such a financial hardship season. I felt like I had to help him eat the pizza or it would mostly get wasted. So I have been eating nothing but pizza Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Each consecutive day eating gluten is worse than the prior day. I will just list the current symptoms now. I feel extremely nauseous as I type this whole message and for the last few hours. I have sharp abdominal pain that comes and goes as it moves through my intestines. I have frequent headaches and extreme fatigue (even after getting good sleep--yes, I am finally getting good sleep again! 🥳). I am very bloated from the gluten and extra gassy from it. I feel nauseous and gross and I still wanted to share my weigh in Wednesday post with you all. (Don't worry, this won't happen again as I told my husband if he's going to get pizza, only buy enough that he can finish on his own as I don't want to feel like I must help him eat it or it gets wasted. He knows what it's doing to me. He never pressured me to eat it or forced me to eat it, but I pressure myself as I can't stand wasting any food, especially in such a bad financial hardship season).

I weighed myself tonight and I am 336 pounds and I was so shocked it jumped that high since Saturday night I was 329 pounds. I didn't really workout much on Monday or Tuesday because of this gluten intolerant situation but on a break where I felt decent, I did work out earlier today because I felt heavy and gross and just needed to do something. So I did 30 minutes on the elliptical machine and leg pressed 240 pounds for almost 10 minutes and lifted 25 pound weights. That's all I could do and felt so done after that as the gluten sickness was coming back. But yeah...I am NOT HAPPY with that amount of weight gain so quickly but it is what it is. That won't happen again. It took me away from my exercises and makes me so sick and in pain. Pizza is done except for 2 or 3 pieces that will get thrown out when I wake up in the morning. I am sure my body is severely inflamed from the gluten which adds to the weight gain and the bloating. I understand it is unhealthy food and the lack of exercise that causes weight gain, but I think a little extra weight gain was caused from inflammation in my body and swelling. That could then be a good thing in a way making some of the weight I gained easier to lose moving forward since some of it is simply inflammation (but this is just a guess and may not be a fact). Anyways, looking forward to a better week ahead. No gluten tomorrow!--yay... hopefully I will heal my insides sooner rather than later so I can give a good effort to exercise. I will do what I can tomorrow as I do want to maintain daily workouts again and lost it for 2 days in this whole situation. I gotta keep showing up for myself. That's what I keep telling myself.

Off to bed now. I do read every comment even though I may or may not be able to reply...or take a while to reply. I am a busy momma with a toddler and I hardly have any free time to reply to people as I am going to school and am a mom and still wanna workout too...not to mention showering and cleaning the house. It's a busy season for me and I may not be able to reply to everyone right away, but I do read every comment and appreciate all your comments. I will write back when I can. I will like your comment so you know I have read it. See you next week for Weigh In Wednesday - 2.

8 comments

Weigh In Wednesday - 1