Food column: 5 stickers and 2 Fs. FAIL. One day I didn’t plan as well as I should have. The other day, we went to a buffet and I was thinking there would be plenty of good choices too. There was, but having all of those bad choices at my fingertips proved too much for me. Although, there were some little wins. I picked a cupcake and they all had a ton of frosting on them. When I started eating it though, I discovered the actual cake part was nearly tasteless and the frosting tasted like shortening. I only had one bite and didn’t eat the rest of it. I tried another dessert and found that after the first bite, it was too sugary and I didn’t eat the rest of it either. It’s interesting how the body’s tastes change when you start giving it what it needs vs. what will simply fill it up.
Exercise column: 6 stickers and 1 F. FAIL. The F this week was more of a scheduling issue. The room I have the elliptical in was occupied for part of the day. Unfortunately, it was the part of the day where I would have been able to exercise so it didn’t work out.
I have decided to up the distance I exercise daily by ¼ of a mile. It’s time. The distance I have been doing is getting easier and I need to keep it challenging.
Water column: All stickers. PASS! I have decided to make my requirement 96 oz minimum instead of 64 oz. I find that even if I get 64 oz a day, I still feel like I’m dehydrated. As always, I will adjust again if needed, but I feel comfortable with this change.
Lose 2.2 lbs this week?: YES! I lost 3.0 lbs actually! If I was staring at a wall last week, this week has helped me put a big crack in it. I should be able to knock it down next weigh in if I keep the pressure up. I don’t know if I ever mentioned it, but I keep track of my weight by two different scales. The scale at home and the scale at the gym. (There’s roughly 2 lbs difference between them.) Well, this week on my home scale I broke into the next 10 lb range! It should follow on the gym scale next weigh in, but I am excited!
I also noticed I’m able to wear different clothes in my closet. I was beginning to hate some of my shirts because they made me feel fat. Now I have most of them in a bag ready to donate. I’m exploring the clothes I forgot I have since I haven’t been able to wear them for a long time.
Aren’t closets funny things? If yours is like mine, you will have it divided into invisible categories:
Clothes I can wear now:
I mostly hate them. The rest I’m just tired of. I won’t buy any more because they’ll be the size I am now so I’ll just deal with these.
Clothes I can almost wear:
If I’m good by starting to exercise and eat right I can fit into these soon.
Clothes I bought in the hope I will fit into them someday:
This is how I wish I could dress all the time. If I lose all the weight I need to lose, I can!
THE outfit:
The one outfit that epitomizes the way I wish I could feel all the time. Fitting into this outfit would boost my confidence to its peak. I would feel like a whole new person.
Speaking of past weights, I looked back on my weight records and found a couple of interesting things:
I haven’t weighed my current weight since December 2011.
When I lose 13.5 lbs from my current weight, I will weigh the same as I did in 2009.
When I lose 19.5 lbs from my current weight, I will weigh the same as I did in 2003.
Some exiting milestones approaching!
How will I feel if I reach my goal this week?: My goal this week is all stickers. I believe that will lead me to lose 2.2 lbs and then the scale at the gym will be in the next 10 lb range as well.
I will feel amazing and energized in my quest. I will feel excited to continue progressing and happy that I am staying on track to reach my goal weight.
How will I feel if I don’t reach my goal this week?: I would be very disappointed. I don’t even want to think about it. I will reach my goal this week!
Total weight loss: 16.1 lbs
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