On January 5, 2010, I started my first weight loss attempt. I told myself I wasn't going to overthing the scale. I was only going to weigh in once a week. I had to fight the urge to weigh every morning. However, when January 12 rolled around, I jumped out of bed and headed to to scales. Weigh Day! I was shocked when I got on the scales and weighed 12 lbs less than I did the week before!
Some of my friends (both online and in real life) told me that it was mostly water weight that I lost. I didn't care. I weighed 12 lbs less than I did the week before. I think I lost 10 lbs the next week and then my weight loss leveled out at 5lbs a week for about two months. Then dropped down to 2 lbs a week. But that 12 lbs in one week (water weight or not) was heck of start and motivated me to stay on track.
So anyway, last week was my first week back "on plan". I woke up Monday morning, cooked my breakfast. After I ate I wrote it all down in my handy dandy notebook (thanks Blue's Clues) and started my first week back at work. I knew the structure of a 9 to 5, or in this case 8 - 4:30, (who are we kidding? More like 8:30 - 4:30!) would help me stay on track diet wise. And sure enough, by the end of the day I had written everything down and gotten in my 45-minute workout. Day 1 was in the books!
Day 2, day 3, and day 4 went just as well - didn't cheat at my diet and got my exercise in.
For day 5, things got a little hairy. The diet was no problem, but by the time the workday was over, I just could not bring myself to workout. I considered trading my Friday weight lifting for Saturday's cardio, but finally talked myself into staying on schedule and banged out my 45 minutes on the weights.
Day 6 - I had to work all day testing about 20 students. I did my fair share of moving around the room and was exhausted when I got home. I decided, as crappy as it may sound, to count that as my cardio for that day.
Day 7 - Sunday - The worst day ever for diets. I've always had trouble maintaining a schedule on Sundays. Sunday is a day made for naps - I think that's actually a rule somewhere. Thou must nap after church on Sunday...and possibly snack.
I got to thinking about it and one of my downfalls last go round with this weight loss stuff was that once I was off Nutrisystem, I was like a kid in a candy store. I knew how to eat as long as I had Nutrisystem food, but without it, I was just back to bingeing. So I decided that I would use Sunday for a flex day. On Sundays, I will eat real food. Food that I prepare myself. Food prepared on a device other than a microwave. Food served on a real plate (well, probably paper plate) and not in a plastic dish. So that's what I did. I managed my portions, but I ate real food. It even allowed me to get in the kitchen (and on the grill). That's my me time. I think I did alright for my first try at restraint.
Alright, so anyway, today (January 9) was my first week Weigh Day. I got up and went to the scale before I ate breakfast. I don't know if there is any science behind this, but I always weigh on Weigh Day before I eat anything. Anway, remember the opening of this blog? How I was so motivated after a loss of 12 lbs my first week? Well, I'm motivated again. Last week the scale was 262.8, and today it was 250.2.
So its good to see the old tried and true Diet and Exercise still works for me! I've only got 50.2 lbs to go! At a rate of 12 lbs a week, I'll be at 200 lbs by like the middle of February or something!
Of course, I know better....
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