Current Weight: 184.2
Weight Lost This Week: Gained 0.4 pounds (boo hiss)
Total Weight Lost: 1.8 pounds
I weighed myself every which way possible this morning, but the fact remained. A 0.4 pound GAIN. Grrrrr...Ok still down overall from 186, but it is hard not to be disappointed when you see a gain in Week 2. I know this is all part of the process, and I could have made even better choices, and your body starts to freak out a smidge when you change things so radically and store fat cause it thinks it's starving, and maybe next week will be a really big loss, blah blah blah. I am consciously trying to break my all or nothing mentality of the past as in, "See, I was so careful this week and it's not working, so I guess I'll just eat half a pan of brownies." No. It is frustrating, but I am choosing to focus on what I can still improve in terms of my diet, other healthy goals, and keeping up the things that I know are working well for Week 3.
My Goals for Week 3:
1. Just keep tracking, tracking, tracking (sung to the tune of Just Keep Swimming from Nemo). Tracking my food with exact portions is so important and it works so I need to keep it up.
2. Move my body every day. Some form of exercise needs to happen for at least 30 minutes every day. This will be tricky as I am traveling this week back to WI, but I need to really get in this habit.
3. Get enough sleep. I had a very difficult time falling and staying asleep this week, and I don't think that helped anything. I need to make it a conscious effort to get 8 hours of sleep.
4. No fast food. I haven't had fast food (other than Jimmy Johns) in the last 2 weeks. Traveling for me, especially back to the Midwest, makes that tempting. I will avoid the airport Wendy's, or Tacos El Rey and Infusino's back home. I know my weaknesses, and although there are better choices to be found at these places, I tend not to make those better choices when I am there :-)
5. Plan ahead. I find myself starving after an airplane ride, or running around my hometown to catch up with everyone and then just eating whatever. I will pack healthy snacks and be mindful of not letting myself get so hungry that I want to eat everything in sight.
I will be checking back with a weigh in next Wednesday after I get back to Ariona, so I'm using the same scale consistently. Unless of course I find a scale in Wisconsin that tells me I've miraculously lost 10 pounds in which case I will be posting sooner. Here's to a great week of travel and just making the next healthy choice one at a time!
Thanks for checking in and I'd love to hear what you are doing to lose weight/get healthy in the comments section below. Every week I will post a question and would love for you to answer it and share your wealth of knowledge!
This week we are wondering ...
What are some of your best healthy travel tips?
Weight Lost This Week: Gained 0.4 pounds (boo hiss)
Total Weight Lost: 1.8 pounds
I weighed myself every which way possible this morning, but the fact remained. A 0.4 pound GAIN. Grrrrr...Ok still down overall from 186, but it is hard not to be disappointed when you see a gain in Week 2. I know this is all part of the process, and I could have made even better choices, and your body starts to freak out a smidge when you change things so radically and store fat cause it thinks it's starving, and maybe next week will be a really big loss, blah blah blah. I am consciously trying to break my all or nothing mentality of the past as in, "See, I was so careful this week and it's not working, so I guess I'll just eat half a pan of brownies." No. It is frustrating, but I am choosing to focus on what I can still improve in terms of my diet, other healthy goals, and keeping up the things that I know are working well for Week 3.
My Goals for Week 3:
1. Just keep tracking, tracking, tracking (sung to the tune of Just Keep Swimming from Nemo). Tracking my food with exact portions is so important and it works so I need to keep it up.
2. Move my body every day. Some form of exercise needs to happen for at least 30 minutes every day. This will be tricky as I am traveling this week back to WI, but I need to really get in this habit.
3. Get enough sleep. I had a very difficult time falling and staying asleep this week, and I don't think that helped anything. I need to make it a conscious effort to get 8 hours of sleep.
4. No fast food. I haven't had fast food (other than Jimmy Johns) in the last 2 weeks. Traveling for me, especially back to the Midwest, makes that tempting. I will avoid the airport Wendy's, or Tacos El Rey and Infusino's back home. I know my weaknesses, and although there are better choices to be found at these places, I tend not to make those better choices when I am there :-)
5. Plan ahead. I find myself starving after an airplane ride, or running around my hometown to catch up with everyone and then just eating whatever. I will pack healthy snacks and be mindful of not letting myself get so hungry that I want to eat everything in sight.
I will be checking back with a weigh in next Wednesday after I get back to Ariona, so I'm using the same scale consistently. Unless of course I find a scale in Wisconsin that tells me I've miraculously lost 10 pounds in which case I will be posting sooner. Here's to a great week of travel and just making the next healthy choice one at a time!
Thanks for checking in and I'd love to hear what you are doing to lose weight/get healthy in the comments section below. Every week I will post a question and would love for you to answer it and share your wealth of knowledge!
This week we are wondering ...
What are some of your best healthy travel tips?
