It’s a lovely spring day on Long Island – and my heart is warmed by a 9lb weight loss! I made some significant changes to my diet during the last month that have a positive impact on my overall health by design, and now it’s provided a nice increase in weight loss. As of now I’m not going to change my calorie goal because I’ve added cardio and strength training so I want to see another weigh-in result before I tweak any further. Meanwhile – using 8.5 as the denominator – in 6 months that’s 51lbs- I CAN LIVE WITH THAT! That will put me extremely close to my goal in a year. Woo Hoo. As promised, I have added updated photos to Healthy Evolution: https://plus.google.com/communities/100051701532942948392
Forgive the ‘selfie’ effect but it was last minute and honestly I wouldn’t look much different if someone else took it. J
Okay, back to the business at hand. Next weigh-in: June 4th.
Goal Update for May-June :
- Meatless Mondays – I will eat no meat on Monday’s
- Meatless Fridays – I will eat no meat on Friday’s
- 1700 calorie goal will remain for now. I’m comfortable hovering between 1600-1700.
- Sunday will be Paleo Day – that means no breads, cereals, pasta, rice, potatoes, etc.
- Two vegetables at dinner instead of one
- Swimming laps 2x a week
- Weight training – 2x per week leg and back training and 1x week arms / shoulders
Please note when
reviewing below that I changed my daily calorie goal from 1800 to 1700 on 4/23.
At first it was a bit of a struggle, but
I’m now totally comfortable with it and I actually tend to hover somewhere in
the 1600s (which might change now that I’m exercising more).
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A Look Back at 29 Days
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| DATE | Total Daily Calories | Hit Goal? |
| 4/9/2014 | 1705 | Yes |
| 4/10/2014 | 1625 | Yes |
| 4/11/2014 | 1760 | Yes |
| 4/12/2014 | 2460 | No |
| 4/13/2014 | 1572 | Yes |
| 4/14/2014 | 1663 | Yes |
| 4/15/2014 | 1755 | Yes |
| 4/16/2014 | 1695 | Yes |
| 4/17/2014 | 1660 | Yes |
| 4/18/2014 | 1905 | No |
| 4/19/2014 | 1765 | Yes |
| 4/20/2014 | 1770 | Yes |
| 4/21/2014 | 1675 | Yes |
| 4/22/2014 | 1805 | No |
| 4/23/2014 | 1630 | Yes |
| 4/24/2014 | 1680 | Yes |
| 4/25/2014 | 1720 | No |
| 4/26/2014 | 1725 | No |
| 4/27/2014 | 1640 | Yes |
| 4/28/2014 | 1650 | Yes |
| 4/29/2014 | 1570 | Yes |
| 4/30/2014 | 1740 | No |
| 5/1/2014 | 1670 | Yes |
| 5/2/2014 | 1640 | Yes |
| 5/3/2014 | 1545 | Yes |
| 5/4/2014 | 1695 | Yes |
| 5/5/2014 | 1635 | Yes |
| 5/6/2014 | 1610 | Yes |
| 28 Days | Avg. 1713 | 78% Yes |
| 22% No | ||
Tracker (tonight)
