Hey guys!
Phew, this has been a busy week for me! Sorry for the lack of posting, I feel terrible not keeping up to speed with you all but I will definitely catch up with your news.
First up, my weigh in this week was pleasantly low, towards the end of the week it was starting to creep up but I always like to use my lowest weigh in for the week for personal morale/motivation. It's pretty awesome seeing me on top of the 20-Something Charts, and also positioning in the Top 15 Overall. I know it won't last as the challenge goes on, I am slow with weight loss, but it's nice for now
My Thursday - Saturday was busy socially, which has been great. We went to a pizza party arranged by the apartment complex, I had 2 slices which is pretty great for me considering it was free pizza! I also had a cupcake too, and it was delicious. I saw a little girl though, it was kinda funny but kinda sad, the girl was overweight and just going crazy with the food. She made multiple rounds of the pizza and had 3 huge cupcakes. She practically shoved me out of the way to get to the cupcakes! I think she was about 5 or 6? I know she doesn't really know any better yet, so in a way that's what made it slightly amusing, but I couldn't help but cringe when seeing how animalistic she was being with the food.
We met some of our neighbours at the pizza party and they're so cool! My boyfriend and I were both feeling a bit hard done to having not met many people we connected with yet, but 3 of our neighbours were there and we clicked straight away. So we spent all Thursday night with them, we had a movie night on Friday then we went to a lantern festival on Saturday with them. Hurray for new friends!
Friday it was mine and my boyfriends 7 year anniversary together, we went to Foxbrothers BBQ, a Texas styled BBQ place that is amazing and we ate delicious BBQ. Good for the soul, not for the body. >_>
Today I'm starting an edit for a feature film I've signed up for. It's an independent film, so I'm not going to get paid unless the film does well when it's released, but it's good for my portfolio which is why I took it. This morning I've seen 2 paid editing positions local to me, dammit! Given, they're for commercial work, when I want to go into film, so I'm doing what I want to be doing but the money would be awesome. Oh welly.
Anyway, this week is going to be me focusing on balancing work and social life. I have a bad habit of putting off work (life working from home, people!) to socialize and vice versa. I also need to throw in healthy living too, so while last Tuesday I did an epic workout (that had me sore for 3 days!), I put off working out the rest of the week because of other plans. Focusing on 1 thing a day is bad, I can't sustain that forever, so I need to learn how to create my own working week. I'm already doing it now by posting this, haha, oops!
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Mimi - Glad to hear your diet plan has been making you feel full for longer! I'm so glad to hear that you kicked cancers a$$! What better way to treat yourself than to giving your body the awesome treat of losing weight? Personally, I don't do diets. I find them far too restrictive and as soon as I see any rules I want to break them. Tell me not to eat chips and all I want are chips. Because of that I find counting calories works the best for me. If I'm honest with myself and count calories then I avoid overeating. Once I start exercising I actually WANT to eat healthier because I want to improve my cardio performance.
I feel you on slow weight loss, but you know what? 0.2 lbs is a loss. Plain and simple. Sure it's not 2 lbs, but each day you're living life better and healthier and in the long run that's incredible. Give yourself a break, if weight loss were easy and we could all lose 7 lbs a week then there wouldn't be a forum like this one! We're here for you, we're here for the long journey ahead, so it's best to get settled into the mindset that this is a marathon and not a sprint or else you'll end up sabotaging yourself out of frustration. I've been there and done that, I hate seeing other people do it too! If you feel frustrated at the scale, just weigh in once a week.
munchey - I used to be friends with a body builder and he swore by the method of exercising first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. He was shredded, so there must be some truth to the theory! I hope you find some success with it. Well done on talking yourself out of chips!! Congrats on 3 lbs down, that's amazing!
Phae - Thank you for sharing that, I never thought of it that way. I'm definitely happy to see the turn out for the challenge now, not that I would have stopped it if just a couple of people were here! It was just surprising not to see the usual swarm. I run these challenges throughout the year, so if you're looking for a challenge to stick to in the long term then look no further! After this Halloween there is the Christmas/NYE challenge, then the New Year New You challenge, then the Sizzling for Summer challenge which is when I usually take a break from running the challenges until Halloween season. I'm right there with you with counting calories!
Chunkah - Wow, that's interesting! So great that you've found what works for you in such a detailed way. It's not exactly healthy, but if I have a chai tea latte in the morning I actually feel "full" until lunch time despite not having eaten anything. I've definitely heard of the theory that making breakfast the biggest meal of the day, lunch a normal sized meal and dinner a small meal has quite a great effect. It makes sense since we spend most of the day burning the food whereas if we have large dinners we're less likely to burn that off in the evening when we relax/sleep.
torito - I hope you got your good nights rest, that sounds so tough! That's so crappy that no one would come in to replace you
. Does that happen often? Good luck with the house hunt.
rebelle - Welcome, welcome!! Good job on staying away from red meat! Protein all the way
flower1 - Welcome back! Glad to see you!! I hope you manage to reach your goal this challenge
Crow - Welcome to the challenge! I like aiming for weights that put me into different categories too, there's nothing like getting under that line. I was seeing my weight creep up towards obesity again, which is when I decided to make the change. I hope you're successful in this challenge, you can do it!
susiemartin - Welcome and good luck!
Kay7 - Thank you for remembering! The move went well! Nothing bad happened on the drive over and unpacking/buying furniture went well. The apartment definitely felt like home very quickly, after that it was about settling into the area. I think it's taken about 4 months for us to feel like we're fitting in socially and with work, but there's still lots more to be done. We've made some great friends, we just need to progress in our careers a bit more. But I'm happy with where I am.
I weigh at home, and it sounds like you need a new scale! I always weigh the same when I get on and off (I usually check twice to make sure my scale is ok!)
terryc - Hi there, welcome to the challenge! I just wanted to make sure that your starting weight that you entered was the weight you were at 2 weeks ago, not your overall starting weight? 6.4 lbs is an amazing drop in weight over the space of one week so I just wanted to make sure it was accurate!
NightOwl - Congrats on the loss!