Bonjour...weekly check-in time! Let's talk numbers, as in the 4 lbs I lost this last week. Thanks mostly in part to the 3 day thing I keep squawking about. I was thinking I'd try it again today but, it gets really hard! So maybe next week. And cutting your calories that often just tells your body that you're starving to death and you lose muscle, not fat. So I don't recommend doing it all the time. Once or twice a month to help out is probably good.
I think that those two weeks of slacking off early this month and not eating very well has hurt my chances of reaching my goal of 10 lbs this month. I'm not too sad about that because I'll be close, but lucky if I reach that mark. I have a soft goal for the rest of the month of an additional 2 lbs, pretty sure I can do better, but baby steps. I am already lighter than I have been in the last 4 years and other people are starting to notice!! Once I hit that 2 lb mark I will have lost a grand total of 20 lbs, a feat I have not achieved since I was about 20 by taking a random supplement that is no longer found on the market (scary!) But yea for small victories!!
This week's plan includes starting a round of the 30 day shred, 5 days a week for 30 days (and if you've ever attempted Jill's 30 day shred, you know that this workout is HARD!!) so I am a bit terrified. I usually do it once or twice a week and am so sore after that that's all I can do! But I have yet to do a whole 5 days of workouts this month (last week my day 5 work out was a 1 mile walk with the kids so I don't count it) even though I have been planning it for sometime, so it may be time to step it up!
Does anyone know just how hard it has been to eat well this month? There is so much candy around that it has proven rather difficult!! I feel that October is one of my personal "bad" diet months. November, eh, that's usually confined to one day of binge eating, and December usually I'm baking for other people, not having that stuff around the house, but October? The kids got a ton of candy from the Mickey's trick or treat party at Disneyland earlier this month, which means each person who went got about 1-2 lbs worth of candy each! Then we have an additional 3 days of trick or treating that we are doing this year at school/church/Halloween! So even more candy! I am also setting a smaller goal for next month for this reason. I can't put so much pressure on myself when there will be temptation staring me down all the time, I'm human you know and chocolate is my weakness!!
Next week's update will include pictures and numbers! Time to let it all out there!
How's everyone else doing? Struggles? Victories? Fill me in!
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