Motivated
Normally my weigh-in day is Sunday and I vowed to hide the scale until then. But this weight-loss contest that I’m in requires you to weigh-in on Fridays so every week I’ll have to weigh twice. I considered switching my weigh-in day to Friday but I worry that this will lead to poor choices over the weekend so I’ll stick w/the two times a week until it causes problems.
So imagine my surprise this morning when I stepped on the scale and saw 238.5, 237.5 and 238.0! Granted, this is a different scale than the one I used last week (it measures body fat so I’m only going to do that weekly, I know, I’m weird) and this scale measures about 1/2 pound lower than my other one, but on Sunday I was 241.6 so that’s anywhere from 2 1/2 to 3 or so pounds gone. Yippee!!!! I’m so glad to see these results b/c I had considred relaxing things a bit today b/c we’re probably going to go out to dinner in addition to hitting my friend’s b-day party but now I have figured out how to have fun as well as stick to my plan. Right now I have things set so that I can have a 700 calorie supper and 2 beers and still stay w/i range.
This morning I did 30 minutes of the Windsor Pilates DVD and I plan to do TJ later. It’s another snow day so I’m taking advantage of the extra time. I do have to say that it was nice to sleep until 6, although I’ll be hating it in June. Oh well, I can’t control it so I’m not going to worry about it. And it would have been irresponsible to have kids walk to school or wait for the school bus when the wind chill hovered around -50.
I’ll check back in w/all of you later after I have done my TJ.
Days on plan this month: 10
Progress toward workout goal: 159/250
I did the TJ workout w/the weighted gloves; I had forgotten how much I liked that workout. Kind of having a bummer w/shoes right now, though. Asics has discontinued the shoes that I wear and I’m hoping to replace them w/something that is comparable. I know I could go to the specialty shoe store and have them recommend another shoe but I’m trying to avoid paying $150 for a pair of shoes. If it comes down to it I will b/c I lived through foot pain last summer and it was awful…as much as I use my feet I need to take care of them. But if I can find a great pair for $90, that will be better. Wish me luck!
Hey! Congrats on the weight loss - cool number! Maybe having the weekend bookmarked by weigh ins won’t be a terrible thing. Eh?
How much do the weighted gloves weigh?
No shoe advice here. I don’t wear anything special for my workouts, just Nike Shox (because I wanted them desperately in my twenties and couldn’t afford them) or my trusty Chuck Taylors.
PS:
I wish my son’s damned school would do a snow or cold day. Just once! It’s the only school in the area to never close. NEVER. No bus system. No fair.
I’m playing catch up and YOU’VE BEEN BUSY! Jeez. Nice job on the loss!!