My Goals for Week 2:
1. No eating after 7 pm2. Make a meal plan to try and incorporate healthy food choices
3. Do at least 30 minutes of cardio 4 days this week and at least 1 day of strength exercises
1. I did much better this week at not being tempted. It is getting easier to just stop eating once dinner is done in the evening and just drinking lots of water.
2. Monday I went shopping and got all sorts of healthy snacks and food for my meal plan. The only thing I didn't count on? Having to make a pan of fudge and a batch of cookies for a work Christmas party. We ended up with a few leftovers, but I was very good and limited myself to 2 small pieces of fudge a day. 'Cause I know I'm not saying no to fudge.
3. I did awesome with my workouts this week! Between cardio and strength exercises (and trying to make up for the fudge) I did ten total workouts. Ten!! None shorter than 30 min a day. Uh, yeah, I'm as shocked as you are. I normally HATE working out! But I found some "Dance off the Calories" workouts that actually keep me interested because I do love to dance.
And so it's time for this morning's weight in.
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Excuse me, what?!?But I did twice the workouts I aimed for!
And ten times more than I was doing before I tried losing weight!
And I didn't even eat the dang fudge like I wanted!!!
Can you say disappointing?
Bummer.
Serious bummer.
I talked to my husband about it and we've decided that perhaps, with all my workouts, I started gaining muscle. I think I need to stick with it and see if I can get that muscle metabolizing and burning off all the extra fat.
That's plausible, right?
Here's the game plan for this week:
My Goals for Week 3:
1. No eating after 7 pm2. Limit sweets and avoid overeating too much (especially important since this week is Christmas!)
3. Do at least 30 minutes of cardio 4 days this week and at least 1 day of strength exercises
Wish me luck!!
3 comments:
Sounds great! Way to go! Also your body may not be used to all that water yet and may be trying to store it. Once it gets the idea that you aren't drinking more to save yourself from a drought it will process it quicker. :) Remember once you have more muscle you burn more calories so Yay YOU!!!
Hey Sara Bee!
Don't strees it. It's actually probably not muscle gain, but water retention from all your extra workouts. Your muscles will do that to help themselves heal when they've been worked more than they're used to. Next week should be a good week, so keep at it! You're doing GREAT!
Sara, remeber our little talk earlier this week? I'm going on 3 1/2 months and I still haven't lost the first full 10 lbs. I've been aiming for. And I don't have the luxury of excerizing in my apt b/c my floor intergity is iffy ad since I live on the second floor, I just say no. I even made a goal sheet to do better this week and failed at everything simply b/c I didn't WANT to. But I tried inicially and I've started counting my points again most days, so it IS an improvement for ME. Also, you're breast feeding. All those things that say it's easier for nursing mother to lose weight are full of it. You may be burning calories faster, but every woman's body is different. Did you know it's only safe enough to lose one pound a week while breast feeding so it doesn't affect your milk supply? Yeah. I was bummed out, too. But hey, at least you know why it's been so hard! Dont' punish youorself for needing a days or two to veg and nt exercise if you need it, Just make sure not to drag your feet too long about or you'll turn unto me and knock off the rest of the week! Also, don't worry so much about things through the holidays about losing. The most important thing is to maintain this current weight and not deprive yourself of the things that make it Christmas and New Year's special for you. Just make sure to measure and eat small portions, but don't say no completely or you'll binge and regret it. Give yourself a high five! You've done awesome!
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