Hello everyone! Last week I hit a milestone in my journey – I am 50 pounds down! I’ve done a lot of hard work, maintained my self control and learned new things about myself in this short timeframe and I’m excited about what’s to come! I’ve added a personal trainer to my equation a month ahead of when I had originally planned to. I figured, why wait? I’m in good shape and maybe he can help me lose my next 50 a little faster than I did on my own. My first session was this past weekend and he killed me, lol. I am just now able to walk normally – until today, I was walking like a mummy! But I know that’s what I needed – I have focused so much on cardio that I need to tone up certain areas and just become a real powerhouse in the spring. I’m very excited about the second half of my journey and I appreciate all the supportive and kind words you all have given me!
I feel like I talk a lot about my own personal views on dieting and weight loss, so I thought I would include a quote from an article I saw on WeightWatchers.com today that was spot on...
“So how does success happen?
Everything I’ve seen from our successful members clearly shows that losing weight and learning to keep it off requires a combination of all of the following:
1. Becoming more mindful of what we eat. Research has shown that keeping a food diary is remarkably effective in helping us tackle issues related to 200 daily food decisions.
2. Learning to make food tradeoffs we can live with. Deprivation always fails us. There is only so much misery we can bear. However, if we start choosing foods that taste great, are naturally filling, and provide bulk, we can better avoid the misery.
3. Taking accountability and control when we feel out of control by employing tools that give us a way to avoid being a victim to our food environment.
4. Learning to rebuild our personal food environment, at home, in the office, in our cars etc., we can create a place where we avoid temptation.
5. Recognizing that the best kind of willpower is the discipline to have a plan before we enter a scary food situation.
6. Recognizing that simple, easy to do routines can help to make healthy behavior second nature. Boiling the ocean never works. However, implementing a few small changes at a time can have a profound multiplier effect on our other behaviors.” (Source: weightwatchers.com)
I’ve talked about these in different capacities over the past 6 months, but I think each of these is important for long term weight loss and maintenance. I have incorporated each of these steps during my 50 pound weight loss and I believe these are absolutely necessary for success. You can’t be unprepared, eat the same foods consistently and have lack of willpower and lose weight. Long term weight loss is a combination of planning and willpower and you need to plan to develop and maintain willpower. If you go back to my first few blog entries, I write about making food swaps, cutting out certain foods altogether and preparing ahead for my week (or at least the next few days). I was religiously recording my food in myfitnesspal.com and working out consistently 4-5 days a week. I don’t record my food in the tool now since I have a pretty good idea of what 1400 calories looks like, but I will still look up food if I need a calorie count, and I am not too proud to go back to logging my food if my weight loss stalls in the future. I am determined to achieve my goal by May and I am going to do whatever is necessary to get there in the healthiest way possible. I believe by adding a personal trainer and continuing to use the 80-20 rule (eat healthy 80% of the time and have what you want 20% of the time) that I will be just fine. I am still on track to lose 18 pounds or more for my birthday and will be working harder than ever starting next week when my classes end. I can’t wait to see what I can accomplish with a little more time during the weekdays! For those of you who have been working hard: keep it up! For those of you that have fallen off the wagon: get up, dust yourself, look at old pictures of what you want to look like again, and get started! No need to wait until Jan 1st – you could be 10 pounds lighter by then! Eat healthy and keep moving everyone!
| Weigh-in | Date | Pds Lost/Week | Weekly Goal | Total Lost |
| START | 9-Jul | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Week 1 | 16-Jul | -10.3 | 5 | 10.3 |
| Week 2 | 23-Jul | 3 | 3 | 7.3 |
| Week 3 | 30-Jul | 2 | 3 | 5.3 |
| Week 4 | 6-Aug | -2.1 | 3 | 7.4 |
| Week 5 | 13-Aug | -3 | 3 | 10.4 |
| Week 6 | 20-Aug | -3 | 3 | 13.4 |
| Week 7 | 27-Aug | -2 | 3 | 15.4 |
| Week 8 | 3-Sep | -3 | 3 | 18.4 |
| Week 9 | 10-Sep | -2 | 3 | 22.4 |
| Week 10 | 17-Sep | -4.00 | 3 | 25.4 |
| Week 11 | 24-Sep | -3.00 | 3 | 26.4 |
| Week 12 | 1-Oct | -1.00 | 3 | 28.4 |
| Week 13 | 8-Oct | -2.00 | 3 | 28.4 |
| Week 14 | 15-Oct | -2.00 | 3 | 30.4 |
| Week 15 | 22-Oct | -5 | 3 | 35.4 |
| Week 16 | 29-Oct | -1.8 | 3 | 37.2 |
| Week 17 | 5-Nov | -4.2 | 3 | 40.4 |
| Week 18 | 12-Nov | -3 | 3 | 43.4 |
| Week 19 | 19-Nov | -1 | 3 | 44.4 |
| Week 20 | 26-Nov | -3 | 3 | 47.4 |
| Week 21 | 3-Dec | -3 | 3 | 50.4 |
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