Get Fit: Week 11

Exercise: I yogaed Monday morning before school, Wednesday night, Friday afternoon, Saturday morning, and Sunday afternoon.  That's FIVE times!  I'm proud of this, folks.  AND - I got 15 miles in! I've been walking every day with a coworker and most evenings with the kids.  I feel very good about 15 miles, especially in light of the fact that this was the first week of school with kids.

Diet: Crash. And. Burn.  I made a multitude of bad choices this week.  Don't believe me?

• Date night.  Rick ordered these on our date night.  He knows french fries are my favorite food.  He did ask me ahead of time if that was okay, and I agreed, thinking, "I have done so well. I'll even eat a few." Ahem.  A few turned into a whole handful - with Ranch and everything.  Ugh!
• TWO restaurant salads.  I ordered a salad on date night (after the cheese fries) and ate the whole thing - cheese, meat, and all.  And then the next day Rick's parents took us all out to Red Robin and I had ANOTHER restaurant salad - toppings and all.  I dipped my dressing...but still.
• Cookie dough.  I think baking needs to be a thing of the past for me.  I can't do it without sampling the doughs and batters.  And this particular night, Charlie was having so much fun putting M&Ms in and sneaking them and eating the dough that I just threw in the towel and joined in.  I probably ate about half a cup of cookie dough total and a good handful of M&Ms.  And felt physically awful afterward.  And then the next day I ate one of the baked cookies.
• Banana bread.  I allowed myself one small slice. It was made with applesauce instead of oil, but it was not okay. Oy.

Please don't get me wrong - there is nothing wrong with doing the above things every once in awhile.  But if you are trying to lose weight, things like this really set you back.  I gained at the beginning of the week and had to work my tail off at the end to lose any weight at all.  Not a good practice, and I am SO CLOSE to my goal that I really can't afford weeks like this.  UGH!

Week 11 Goal Review:

• Yoga 4 times.  FIVE! Woot woot!
• Walk 10 miles. FIFTEEN!  As my son would say, "Yay-uh!"
• Keep up the water-drinking. I've been trying to drink 24 oz before I even get to school, 48 while I'm there, and at least another 24 in the evening.  Not a complete success this week, but close enough.
• Have a GREAT first week of school.  Things were GREAT with the kids.  I am excited about this year!

Breakthroughs:

• Saturday morning I walked into the living room getting ready for yoga.  I hadn't put my shirt on yet, so it was just me in my shorts and my sports bra.  I caught my reflection in the mirror and was like, "Wow.  This look so much better than it would have three months ago."  My husband walked in and gave me the eyes and the head-nod.  It was nice. :)  I didn't look great by any means, but I looked great considering!
• Rick and I went shopping and he found me these neon pink pants to try on.  I was like "Really?"  They were 8s. I'm not there yet, but I tried them on to humor him.  They fit.  I nearly had a conniption.  The last time I fit into 8s was nearly a decade ago, and it was only one pair.  I bought them mainly because of that.
• This morning at church, a lady did a double-take and said, "You have lost so much weight!" And then she looked at Rick and said, "Dude, your wife is hot!" To which my husband responded with noise something like "Tpschtch yeah she is!" :)
• I'M IN THE 140s!!!!! This hasn't happened since 2005!!!
• Weigh in: 148.8 (Wish it were more, but the lesson is poor eating does not equal weight loss, no matter how many times I yoga or how many miles I go.)
• Total weight loss so far:  36.7
• Just 3.3 lbs to go!

Week 12 Goals:  

• ROCK SOLID on the diet.  I'm sick of these last almost-four pounds.  No, thank you.
• Keep a log of what I eat.  I am going to try a photo diary of what I eat, starting with this evening.  We are headed to some friends' house in our old town and, in an effort to keep myself accountable to eating only plant-based foods for the week!
• Yoga four times.
• Walk 12 miles.

And, for the first time, I'm giving myself a weight loss deadline.  I want to be at 145 before the month is out!  It seems pretty doable - maybe even easy - when I consider that I only have 3.3 more lbs to go, but the last 8 or so lbs have come off MUCH more slowly than before.  Hopefully I can lose this week and next week and be at my goal by the end of this month!