Weigh in day -- and I did some jogging today!
So today's weigh in was -- disappointing, frankly. After sticking to
plan rigorously all week, and averaging 1436 calories (64/17/19) this
week, I guess I expected a bigger loss. But I'm not going to let it get
me down. I lost 0.4kg (.88 lb) this week, and a loss is a loss. I
could feel myself starting to get bummed when I saw that number --
thoughts of 'WTF, I've been so good all week, this sucks', etc started
to surface. But I quelled them. I will not be a slave to the scale!
No matter what that number says, there were other signs this week that
were very encouraging!
First, I FELT great, I felt thin and
healthy and had a spring in my step all week. My bum bag (I can't call
it a fanny pack anymore; fanny doesn't mean your back side in Australia, but rather the -- um -- front side!)
was a lot looser around my waist though I haven't adjusted it. My
clothes fit better and my hubby said he can see I'm getting smaller, at
least through the upper body. Shouldn't all of these things mean way
more than the number on that scale? Yup. And they do. But I'm still
disappointed. What I'm not, though, is defeated! It doesn't matter.
I'm feeling great eating this way, so why on earth would I quit?
Just
a few short years ago I had nearly a hundred pound weight loss under my
belt, and after getting stuck on a plateau for a long, long time I gave
up. I let the fact that the number on the scale wasn't budging give me
an excuse to throw in the towel and go back to unhealthy eating. After
all, what's the point? It's not working anyway, why should I bother?
Why continue to deny myself? But with that kind of thinking, the only
thing I was denying myself was a healthy, fit body. So the one thing I
will NOT be doing this time around is quitting.
For one thing, I
don't feel I'm being denied anything -- I'm truly enjoying what I'm
eating, and I'm not getting hungry. I've actually reduced the amount of
food I'm putting in the lunch box this week because I can't eat it all
anymore. And after dinner, I never get hungry anymore. That in itself
is a major accomplishment! I'm one who was always hungry, even just an
hour or two after a meal. It had to be my blood sugar levels out of
whack -- and this way of eating has corrected that. So if for no other
reason than that, why wouldn't I keep doing this? And as hubby reminded
me, I did have a big drop last week, so really, there's no reason to be
disappointed with today's number.
On
another note -- I'm quite proud of myself! I went jogging this
morning! OK not the whole time -- I went on my normal walk that usually
takes me about 55 minutes to complete, only I added jogging intervals.
Now I've done that before, and only managed to get in 2 or 3 jogging
intervals, but this time I got 7 of them in there. And while I can't
jog for a very long period of time, all up I spent a total of 6 minutes
15 seconds jogging this morning! For me, that's fantastic. I think if I
keep that up, I'll be able to make those intervals a bit longer each
time. So I'm really proud that I did that, and my walk only took 45
minutes today, so I shaved 10 minutes off my time by jogging a bit.
Hope you all had a fabulous week -- off to read some blogs.