I'm not complaining about my progress thus far, I promise! But January has been my slowest month by far - down 5.6 pounds. Again, I'm not complaining, but it's a big difference from my recent averages of 10 pounds a month. I use an app on my iPhone to track my progress and my rate of loss has slowed down so much that it's currently predicting it'll be December before I reach my goal. I know I can do better than that.
I think the best thing to do when you hit a rough patch is to regroup and buckle down. So I'm going to take a break from planning my own food for the next month and get my food from a local healthy meals delivery company I've used before to clean up my palate. I've been eating more processed foods and want to get back to fresher stuff with less salt, more balanced nutrient-wise and a controlled calorie count. I've been staying within 1500 calories a day consistently, but I feel like I've been drifting, getting lazy, and not planning as well as I used to. My hope is this will remind me what healthy, fresh eating feels like, inspire me with some new ideas for things I can cook for myself and break me out of my processed food rut.
And the other part is exercise. I need to be doing more (how many years have I been admitting this to you all and not doing it? It's shameful, I tell ya). I'll never be a gym rat, but even long, brisk, daily walks would be an improvement over my haphazard exercise now. Consistency and commitment to it is what I need.
So I'm officially declaring February my reset month. I'm starting over. Cleaning house. Improving my habits. Going back to what I know works and seeing if that snaps me out of this slow patch.
Anyway, thanks for letting me ramble. You all are such a huge part of my accountability! What would I do without my 3FC friends?