So today is the first day of my dietbet challenge. Well, the first official day of it. I have been eating Paleo for two weeks now. The way I put it is "HARD CORE PALEO". Fruits, vegetables, protein - that is it. No dairy, no grains, no legumes. I did this last year for two months and lost 33 pounds but two weeks into the Paleo I also started CrossFit, which I LOVE but I can't afford the gym. I have done it really sporadically at home for the past year but not the three times a week I did it for the month last year. What a difference I saw in my body! Incredible. Then I started to introduce sugar and junk and didn't gain weight. So I ate a little more here and a little more there. Before you know it I was up 18 pounds from the 33 I lost. Thankfully I didn't gain it all back. That would have been killer. I was so excited thinking that I would be down to my "normal" weight for my 50th birthday.
This weight gain has been really recent, too. I have only been obese about two years and overweight maybe four. I thought for sure it would just come right off in a couple of months when I first started gaining. That is how it always was when I was younger. Now I am older and have a job where I sit anywhere from ten to twelve hours a day. UGH! It makes it so hard to lose the weight that I don't even have an opportunity to keep it off.
I am two weeks into Paleo and have lost four pounds. Too bad that can't be figured in with the dietbet weight loss. Ah, well. If it keeps up like this I will make my goal and win the bet. I am glad I already started Paleo because is it becoming a habit already and I don't miss sugar and junk at all. I think about eating it but it passes. I also quit Diet Coke because I hated the way it was making me feel. That is going to be even harder than sugar to kick. It is what I turn to when I am upset. I have to remember not to cave this time. I have quit Diet Coke about as many times as the average smoker quits cigarettes.
I know I HAVE to work out if I am going to really lose weight and look good. Toned muscles look so much better than untoned. I want my slender thighs and waist back. I still am 50 so I can still be my goal weight at 50.