It’s all up to me

Current weight: 234 (+1.0)

Well, as you can see I didn’t succeed on healthy eating during the party last night. If I’m being honest, part of it was due to being jealous of how thin my sister has gotten. I have been the one to receive praise lately over losing weight and getting smaller and all of a sudden I felt like a whale sitting next to her. The intelligent thing to have done would have been to eat the healthy veggies I brought for a snack but instead I skipped those over and continued to eat the sodium-heavy snacks I made for the day before. Live and learn. I also started TOM today so I realize some of the cravings and insatiable hunger had to do w/that but it was probably 90% emotional eating.

So I’m starting over. And I mean completely starting over. Instead of telling myself that I have already lost 60-ish pounds and I have about 85 more to go, I’m just going to say that I need to lose 85 pounds. My “high” weight is going to be 234 pounds, never to be seen again. I’m going to recapture that feeling of excitement that you have when you first start on this adventure and make some serious progress. I am still realistic to know that I will lose weight slowly, my plan is to be under 200 by New Year’s, that’s 35 pounds in 6 months. Slow and steady wins the race.

So how am I going to accomplish this? Glad you asked
1. No more loosey-goosey on the meal plan. I’m going back to my regular pattern of meals. I do allow substitutions but only after carefully considering what I need to remove in order to add something else.
2. Since Sundays have turned into a free-for-all as far as food is concerned, I am going to plan out my meals in advance. I’m still going to have to allow myself treats or it won’t work for me, but 1 cookie cannot, WILL not, turn into 5.
3. I need to get back to using the cardio equipment at the gym. With it being summer it’s not as convenient to go to the gym b/c it takes about 10 minutes to get there. Not a huge deal, but by the time I drive there, workout and come home it’s 2 hours. Much easier to pop in a DVD in the basement. But since when do I let the fact that something is hard get in my way? I’m a tough chick and I will plan my time so that I have those 2 hours to devote to myself.
4. I am also going to break up my workouts so I do something in the morning and something in the afternoon. Our nurse arrives at 6:45 so I will do a DVD in the morning (either Chalean Extreme on weights days or TJ/YBB/yoga/pilates on non-weights days) and then go to the gym in the afternoon. Not only does it keep my metabolism firing all day, it keeps me busy in the afternoon when I like to snack and helps me to make healthier supper choices.
5. I am going to continue to weigh myself every day. I really like the accountability. And it actually reduces the power of the scale b/c if the number is up one day then it can be down the next day instead of having to wait an entire week.

Today I am starting well. I did the CE workout this morning, have stuck to my eating plan all day and just came back from the gym. I did 60 minutes on the treadclimber, 15 minutes on the ellipitical and devoted a complete 5 minutes to stretching afterward for a total of 2 hours today. Tomorrow I’ll do an hour on the ellipitical and 20 on the treadclimber, mixing it up so my body stays challenged. In a month I’ll change this plan.

I’d love to hear any suggestions and please kick my (hopefully shrinking) butt when it needs to be kicked.

Progress toward workout goal: 43/300