Starting weight: 197.2
Last Recorded Weigh In: 164.2
This Week: 163.2 Difference: -1.0 Total Loss: 34.0
Victory!!! It’s one thing to lose big, it’s another to lose big two weeks in a row! It looks like my changes are working. I’ve lowered the sodium, added in exercise (both cardio and muscle building activities), and I’ve been listening to my body’s hunger signs. I’m getting to know myself so much better on an eating front. Though medium/small (I’m back in my size six jeans, thank you very much!) I can eat, and eat, and eat and not feel “full”. Satisfied, yes! Full? Not so much. Portioning my food helps immensely with this problem. Another problem – I enjoy always having some sort of taste in my mouth… it’s an addiction in all honestly… getting active/out of the house or keeping my hands busy by working on my crocheting helps me overcome this addiction… and… if worse comes to worse… I can just go brush my teeth and I’m good. (Before you snicker try it!! Talk about a good way to keep yourself from snacking when you’re not actually hungry!!) I’ve also found that I can no longer get by without activity. I need to be more proactive about my weight loss and let me tell you, it’s payed off big time.
That said, with all these changes and new strategies at my disposal, life still happens. I’m not on some distant farm where all I have to do is workout and eat healthy and watch myself shrink. I live around restaurants and fast food places. I face temptation every day and I have to overcome it or find a way to incorporate it without losing sight of my goals and blowing my whole weight loss journey. This week will have to be an example of the latter… you see, yesterday was date day. Date day is a wonderful day for me and the Hubs. We have childcare all day and we go out to lunch and dinner – sometimes a movie – and it’s all about us. But, well, it’s not. It’s also all about the food. We try the best reviewed restaurants up here in Portland and usually have a 3 course meal for dinner. Yesterday I had my 3 course meal. Vegetable Potato Soup, Lemon Butter Salmon, and six or seven ounces of my favorite frozen yogurt treat with strawberries on top. As far as desserts go, I did well. We drove out to our favorite little (healthy-ish) fro-yo place after dinner instead of ordering the cheesecake… but as far as dinner goes… Yeah. I have no clue what kind of damage I did. Even with the ingredients obviously placed in front of my face, I have no way of estimating how much oil, butter, and who knows what was used to make my meal amazingly good.
To counteract yesterday’s indulgence I need to get extra active today and the rest of my week. I might pull out the 30 Day Shred again; I might up my walking; I might pull out one of the other bazillion workout DVDs that I own. I have options! I’m also going to keep the reigns tight on my food this week. Indulgence should be allowed on occasion. But with every reward there is a cost… basic physics – “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
Wish me luck on that “Equal and opposite reaction.” Truth be told, I think I’m up for the challenge!!
