Well, life got in the way and with school factored into my life now, I didn't quite meet my exercising goal. In fact, I ended up taking a couple of rest days from exercise due to the fact that I was just plain tired from all the studying and staying up late and family responsibilities. I'm still learning how to balance my life out between school and other life duties and it's really tricky.
For the most part, I did pretty well to stay within my calorie limit per day. Some days I even was under my calories and still felt like I had enough to eat that day. Every Friday here at our house is Papa Murphy's pizza night, so I even ended up having pizza and still did well that day with what I ate. I just made it a point to eat lighter during the first part of the day. I also had a salad for lunch just about every day last week, so I'm pretty sure that helped too!
Monday's are my weigh in days, so I gave myself from last Monday to yesterday to see what my little experiment would yield. Turns out the "experiment" was worth doing because I ended up losing FIVE pounds in just the past week! Crazy, right? I didn't expect to lose that much in a week but between staying under my calories on some days, eating HEALTHY and exercising consistently, it made a huge difference. I'm pretty excited that I'm now only six pounds away from my wedding weight!
This week, my plan is to continue doing what I did last week and just stay focused on my goal. It really feels more like a lifestyle than a diet at this point, so it's just a matter of continuing to make the healthy choices I know I need to make.
One thing that's changed a lot since losing the 32 pounds I've lost so far is the way I see myself. When I look at my reflection, I almost can't believe that's me. It feels amazing and it encourages me to keep on going! I honestly still struggle with wanting to give in to a treat every now and again but I have to remind myself that I love the feeling of being healthy MORE than the feeling I used to think was happiness when I was eating all the junk. Losing bad habits is definitely not an overnight thing but every day it's a choice to choose good or choose bad.
So, that's that. Minus 32 pounds so far and only 16 more pounds to go until my goal weight of 150. I'm interested to see how I'll feel when I meet that goal. Will I want to keep on going? Hmmm, we'll have to see when I get there. :)
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| I stood on a bench in my bathroom to get this pic. :) |
P.S. This is totally unrelated to weight loss, but I just wanted to ask for prayers for me and school. Part of me is enjoying the getting out and learning new things while the other part of me misses my old life so much. If I only would have enjoyed my life as a SAHM more when I was just doing that. Today I had a tough day at school and I just started wondering if I can handle all of this. I know I want to do this, it's just some days are so overwhelming when certain things I'm learning just don't make sense. Please tell me there's light at the end of the tunnel. :)
4 comments:
Yay Veronica! That's amazing. Keep on going and realizing that giving yourself health is loving yourself, treating yourself. You're doing great, keep going. And I will be praying for you with school. It's a hard transition. I admire you for walking out and doing it. Praying for strength, clarity and success.
You look great! You're an encouragement to me to just get with it and start losing!! Hope you really get the hang of school and start to feel like you're really learning some good, useful stuff there. MOPS won't be the same without you, but I totally understand that decision with all you've got going on now…
I can imagine that adding school into your life is a huge adjustment! But, God will help you through... don't doubt that!
and you look amazing!!! congrats!!!
You look fantastic, you were always beautiful - but glad you are getting healthy that is most important.
Hang in there with school.
Be patient with yourself.
It is just the start . . .
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