Hi All!
Congrats to everyone for their losses and efforts for the 1st week!!!
I was very happy with my 2 pound loss last week, and like someone else mentioned, 2 pounds is a lot for me too. My metabolism is slow and I have too much % body fat and not enough muscle mass (YET!)...and I'm 57. I wish I exercised when I was yo-yo'ing with my weight when I was younger.
So many of you are incorporating exercise along with losing weight, and trust me, you're doing the right thing! I wish I had been exercising all along, but I started exercising in my 50's and so it's never too late (but sooner would have been better).
I felt good about my food choices yesterday. Our oldest son came for a visit and we ended up going to In-N-Out. Though I'm trying to transition into vegetarianism, I did end up getting a hamburger (protein style, which means no bun and just in lettuce leaves; mustard on it with the tomato) and only ate a few fries. Then we went to a movie (Iron Man - great flick!) and I didn't get my usual popcorn. At this point, our younger son (age 25) had joined us, so they were all hungry after the movie - we ordered pizza from a pick up pizza place and got that on the way home. I only had one piece of cheese pizza. I know sometimes weight gain from eating more than one usually eats can show up a couple of days later, but I weighed the same this morning that I did yesterday. It's great to know that making good food choices makes a difference.
It is still taking me a very long time to get my % body fat down, does anyone have any suggestions or things that have really helped them? I've probably gone down from approximately 42% to 38%, but it has taken me 8 months just to get that much down (and I'm 13 pounds down; I have 20-25 more pounds to lose - my goal is to lose that by the end of this challenge!!!). I do know I haven't been eating enough protein, so I'm trying to increase that. I've heard that you should have protein throughout the day, does anyone do that?
I hope everyone is having a glorious weekend!! I'm enjoying reading everyone's postings!!! I'm so happy to be on the BLACK team.
Take care
Cheree