- Diet starting weight: 304
- Week starting weight: 304
- Today’s weight: 299
- Week weight loss: 5 lbs
- Total weight lost: 5 lbs
For the observant among you I am sure you have already noticed that I have updated my diet starting weight to be 304, up from the 295 when I started doing my weekly updates over 3 years ago. Hate to have to do it but a fact is a fact, and the fact is when I started my Countdown to Vegas goal (see Putting My Money Where My Gut Is) that is where I was at.
Am I happy about a 5 pound loss? Of course. Did I really and truly do anything to deserve that result? Not really. It was mostly a normal week where I didn’t do anything terrible, had just a few very minor slipups and didn’t do any exercising to speak of. It was the kind of week where you can still get the good results that I had because I think I started the week at a higher weight than my body is accustomed to, so as long as I didn’t do anything stupid I had to come back down. The challenge is that my body seems to like to settle in at 295 if I continue to have weeks like this, so obviously I will need to kick it up a notch.
Things I did well this week:
- Repeated my mantra “Vegas, baby, Vegas” numerous times every day, which helped keep me focused on making better decisions.
- I was on the road the first couple of days of the week and did well - stocking up at a grocery store for meals instead of dining out.
- Dinner one night was roasted brussel sprouts and braised fennel - trying out potential side dishes to bring to Thanksgiving.
- Drank a lot of water every day, had my share of salads*, kept portion sizes reasonable overall.
- 100% avoided eating any of the Christmas cookies my wife made. Yes, Christmas cookies before Thanksgiving.
* I got a few coupons for free Fresh Express salad kits from Steve v4.9. Thanks Steve! Yesterday for lunch I mixed up the Caesar-Lite one and managed to eat about 3/4s of it since my son happened to be hungry at the same time, as well as too lazy to make his own meal, so he noshed on mine. At least I got him to get his own fork.
Things I did not so well this week:
- No exercising other than one trip to the dog park with my wife. And dog.
- Although I avoided the Christmas cookies I wasn’t so good with the Halloween candy, we still have some small pieces of chocolate and I managed to graze on some. Halloween diets are tough!
All in all not a terrible start to my goal of losing 40 pounds by June 30th, 2011.
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