Weight a Minute ~ Week 1
Each week I will be honest and lay it out there ~ what I did right, what I did horribly wrong, and what my goals are for the next week. I really appreciated all of your comments and heartfelt words of encouragement on my journey to this point. Please keep them coming, because I know that I struggle to attain a better body image and I can admit, your words help me rebuild my self-confidence. If you see something that I am doing wrong or have a better way of doing something, please let me know. I love feedback!
July 4-10, 2010
Weight Loss: 0 pounds
What I Did Right This Week:
- Drank 1 gal of water every day
- Worked out 4x. Increased my running speed to 5.0 from 4.2. Did 5 minutes on Stairmaster.
- Ate 4 servings of veggies & fruit each & every day
- Learned how to steam veggies
- Cooked all of my meals except for 1 dinner out ~ huge accomplishment for me!
- Ate before 7:00 pm 6 nights
- Only went out 2x
What I Did Wrong This Week:
- Drank heavily both nights I went out
- Drank 2 Pepsis
- Ate 3 Strawberry Chocolate Oh Katie Cookies
- Ate after 7:00 pm once
- Couldn’t stay on treadmill past 25 min when I increased my speed
- One day I could only do 7 min on treadmill before I pushed the stop button
Goals For This Week:
- To not eat any processed foods!
- Make my protein shake 4x
- Make chicken in crock pot to be used all week
- Eat red meat only once
- Workout 5x and do 25 min on treadmill at my higher speed
- I have 2 nights already planned to go out ~ can only drink 2 glasses of wine each night
- Can only have wine on the 2 planned outings ~ this will be tough!
- To be in bed by 10:00 pm every night
- To release 2 lbs
I felt pretty good this week – I actually looked in the mirror and didn’t run screaming from the room. I really tried to make going to the gym a habit and to go even when I really didn’t want to. I was honestly surprised and touched by the amount of people that read my first blog on my weight-loss journey Now Weight a Minute ~ it was read 578 times!! I hope you stay with me through this, I hope I stay with it too! Until we meet again next Sunday…
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You really didn’t do anything wrong my friend. Just watch the drinking. That’s the killer for me EVERY TIME!!!!
Keep it up!
You are awesome. Keep up the good work. Diet Pepsi was my downfall. I still cheat once in a while but not every day.
I’m keeping up with your blog. You are everybody’s diet and exercise buddy now!! I’m with you and you are doing great!