03 Apr, 2009
81.5lbs lost in 208 days!
Posted by: Hilary In: Slump Buster Challenge!| Weekly Weight In
It’s been 208 days since I started living life! I got on the scale this morning and lost 3.5lbs! Yayy! I also figured out the I have lost 7″ off my chest, 7.75″ off my waist, 7.25″ off my hips and 2″ from my arm! Holy crap, that’s -24″ total. I can’t even imagine going back to my old ways. Getting on the scale I think back through my week to see what I would have changed, what I could have done more of or eaten less of. I’m usually happy with M-Th but F-Su I’m rarely very happy with my choices. I need to think about these things every morning and apply them to my day so that as I step on the scale at the end of the week, I know that I did everything possible. Seeing my weight drop is way more exciting than any food I could eat or any tv show I could watch instead of exercising!
I was thinking about what’s different this time than the other million times I’ve tried to lose weight.
~ I joined the YMCA! (this means I don’t go home after work to workout and find other things to do, which was always my problem)
~I found 3fatchicks and started this blog! (seeing all the amazing stories from “losers” past, reading other women’s struggles that I also have and thought I was alone with, joining different challenges to continue to push myself, and getting comments with congratulations and encouragements have been great)
~I eat more healthy foods! (before, I ate junk that was just low enough in calories to fit in my points. Now I focus on getting fresh fruits and veggies, eating whole grains and drinking lots of water)
~I FINALLY realized that the alternative is to DIE, young and unhappy!
Thank You to all who have been a reader, encourager, challenger and friend!!!! (or Sister!)
**8:30pm Update**
Whoa! Did the lower body workout tonight with Heather. Haven’t done it in a few weeks with all the running I’ve been doing and it kicked my ASS! We went out to dinner tonight and I couldn’t count my points. I did really well though, had a few chips with salsa and then 3/4ths of a mini wet burrito. I won’t count today as clean eating but I already got in my water and 30 mins extrra of exercise. (actually 60 mins over!)
SB Challenge : Clean Eating = 4/5 days
Water = 112/80oz today
= 5/5 days
Exercise = 310/250
April Goal = 3/28
Next weeks host in CHASING PAVEMENTS - let’s hope she doesn’t kill us!
