A Good Loss

I had a great month – so much going on in my life – but putting all that aside for now because once again my heart is warmed by a 6lb weight loss -- since 5/7. That’s about 1.5lbs per week!
I celebrate in my heart and mind but for now, back to the business at hand:

Next weigh-in: June 30^th  

Date	Weight
2/13/2014	351
3/13/2014	343
4/9/2014	336
5/7/2014	327
6/4/2014	321
Total Lost:	30

June GOALS:
Daily Calories: 1700
Monthly Weight Loss: 8lbs.
Exercise: 35 min daily

Journey Data and Goal Updates:

 

Goal Update for June – July
   

      1. Seafood Friday’s  (meatless)

2         2. Daily Goal:  5 Vegetable Servings

4         3. Swimming laps – 2x per week
      4. Strength Training – 2x per week  (body weight exercise)
      5. Paleo Dinner Every day
      6. No Carbs after Lunch
      7. Exercise: Walking minimum 35 minutes daily (increased from 25)

 So, there are some new goals here: Instead of Meatless Friday I’m switching to Seafood Friday (still no meat). Meatless Monday’s are permanent. And instead of Paleo Sunday (which I wasn’t able to make work) I’m making all dinner meals “Paleo”. So, no more rice, pasta, potatoes, quinoa, bread, wraps, cereal, etc. at the dinner meal. I can make periodic exceptions – but this is a permanent goal so the majority of dinners will be Paleo from now on. Additionally, no carbohydrates after lunch means just that. I started this recently and feel that I’m able to make the commitment.  During the past month I also added this goal: ‘2 vegetables at dinner’ which basically gave me a total of 3-4 servings per day. I now further increase that to 5 full servings a day.

Note: I’m very excited about these goals in particular, Meatless Monday, Seafood Friday, Paleo Dinners and 5 veggies per day. I consider them to be significantly important Bricks in the wall of my healthy life and future. A foundation that I will build upon - over time. So when I think about the importance of losing weight slowly, over time I find some real advantages in calorie counting, setting short (and long) term goals, adding exercise goals, monitoring and tweaking over time. This is not ‘just’ a weight loss journey – it’s much more than that. This is a life changing journey – in every way. It’s changing my attitude about food, changing what I eat, how I eat, how I think about food. It’s changing my health, my nutrition, my brain. It’s building stamina and muscle. It’s a total body and mind makeover that can only be successful if done slowly over time, which is why the long hard road works best for me. It gives me the time needed to develop good changes - slowly but surely turning them into habits. It’s all so exciting to me.
 

You’ll also notice that some goals I simply drop from the line-up as we go. No fuss no muss. I usually search and replace them with goals that work better for me. Perhaps one day I’ll get back to some of them, but maybe not. There’s a saying “The Best Exercise is the One You’ll Do”.  Yup.  

Next weigh-in June 30^th, that’s 26 days from today. Let’s get down to business. There's so much to do. It’s going to be the most exciting month yet!

A Look Back at 28 days
Date	Total Daily Calories	Hit Goal?
5/7	1710	No
5/8	1545	Y
5/9	3000	No
5/10	1675	Y
5/11	1685	Y
5/12	1440	Y
5/13	1485	Y
5/14	1500	Y
5/15	1560	Y
5/16	1675	Y
5/17	1672	Y
5/18	1595	Y
5/19	1545	Y
5/20	1680	Y
5/21	1690	Y
5/22	1585	Y
5/23	1510	Y
5/24	2600	No
5/25	1855	No
5/26	1495	Y
5/27	1670	Y
5/28	1565	Y
5/29	1450	Y
5/30	1760	No
5/31	1325	Y
6/1	1680	Y
6/2	1585	Y
6/3	1470	Y
28 days	Avg. 1679	85% Yes	7% Improvement
		15% No

 

Calorie Tracker will post tonight!