Initial Starting Weight: 250lbs
Current Weight: 221.8lbs
Weight Lost this Week: 3lbs
Total Weight Lost: 28.2lbs
Food and Tracking
- Daily weigh-ins -7/7, moving in the right direction
- Daily food logging - 7/7
- Weekly blog every Sunday/Monday - 1/1
This weekend has been a bit of a challenge, as I am staying with my lovely generous in-laws. They are great people who cannot make me welcome enough, and part of doing this involves rather generous portions of deliciously rich food. I am currently feeling the effects of a big chinese meal, roast ham dinner and leftover ham sandwiches. I am glad that I have finally started to feel comfortable asking for smaller portions, and not to have butter or other fatty condiments as standard. I’ve also started having at least a pint of water with meals. I have definitely not eaten as well as I would have if I’d been in control of my meals, but I have managed some damage limitation. Hopefully, I won’t be too far off course. It has taken a bit of doing not to be awkward or difficult, and also not to go crazy about losing control of my meal planning. Oh well, these can’t be lifelong changes if they don’t allow me to be flexible and live my life.
Exercise
- 10,000 steps a day - 7/7
- Daily kettlebells - 0/7, it really doesn’t look like trying to do it first thing in the morning is working out for me. I think the kettlebell should move back downstairs so I can do it while watching TV.
- 5K training twice a week - starting this week
I have two physical challenges planned:
- Race for Life (5K run - 25th July) for Cancer Research - 12 weeks
- London Walking Marathon (24th of September) for Huntington’s Disease Association - 21 weeks
I haven’t run properly since July last year (the last Race for Life), and it is something I have really wanting to get back into. Today, I bought my new trainers, paid my £15 entry fee and decided to be my own first sponsor (£25 - to shut up the ‘if you care about it, why don’t you donate money yourself’ crowd). I have 12 weeks to shape up for the 5K, and I have the lofty ideal of running it in my fastest 5K time ever (record so far is 35 minutes, about 5 years ago, last year I managed 42 minutes).
The Walking Marathon looks like quite good fun, going around all of the sightseeing bits of London, but I worry that I may be underestimating how big a feat it is. Between slowing down as the day goes on and having to take breaks, at a 3mph pace it would still be a good 9 hours. The husband is really up for doing it with me, as it is better than a run for being able to do it as a couple (or group, if we can get more people on board) and it has particular meaning as there is Huntington’s in his family. Exciting but scary.
So, overall, using MyFitnessPal really seems to help me track my food intake, and my spiraliser has been pretty epic for helping me to cut down the ice and pasta while still feeling satisfied. Also, my 10,000 is pretty impressive because I have been doing it so consistently for so long, but I have more challenges to come :)