It has been three weeks since I started this 'journey' of a better life. Two since I've really committed myself to it. I weighed in this morning at 238.4 lbs. That is 15 pounds down!!!!!! I hit my first mini goal. I do understand that it will start coming off slower, but the only advantage to being fat is that you lose weight faster I suppose.
I've been doing some version of working out every day, and hitting my miles walked goal of a minimum of 3 just about every day. I let myself slip a little this weekend, which I have to make sure not to do this weekend if I want to hit my next goal (more on that in a moment). My diet this week so far has been absolutely excellent, and I intend to keep it that way. I just FEEL so much better than I have when I've been on carb/sugar overload. That doesn't say that I don't have room for improvement.
Areas I need to work on:
1) Consistently hitting my calorie goals - if anything I haven't been eating ENOUGH, and the last thing I want to do is push my body into starvation mode and slow down my metabolism.
2) Motivation to go to the gym- This is HARD. I make it through a day of work, and then have both kids to try to get fed, changed and into bed, and THEN have to get my butt up and go to the gym. Thankfully I have my lard-butt dog to guilt me into at the very least walking him at night if I haven't already gone and worked out.
3) SLEEP - This is my huge area of failure. I do not get enough sleep for my body to recharge itself. Sleep is essential. I am trying to go to bed a little earlier every night, but because of all of the reasons in #2, that isn't really an easy task. Especially on nights that I go to the gym.
4) Strength training. To this point I've been almost purely cardio. I do a little bit of circuit, but honestly at this moment I feel like lugging around 240 pounds of flesh is an awful lot of strength training. I intend to start adding this in slowly, but I want to hit my next goal first.
Which brings me to my next goal :D
I want to be at 225 or below by September 1st. That is a minimum of 13.5 lbs in a month, a calorie intake/burn deficit of 1600 a day. Impossible? No. Difficult? Very. But I'm pretty sure I can do it.
I'll keep you posted!
<3 ~Me
