Week 3: Excuses & Results

This was a fun week.

Excuses:          

• (…chirp, chirp), well, maybe I should have skipped the thin crust veggie pizza and red wine the night before my Wednesday weigh-in…I’m not sure if that is a real “excuse,” versus stating a fact.

I worked out 6 times this week:

• (1) 45 minute bootcamp (cardio, free weights, plyometrics, tabata training, etc., all thanks to my trainer)
• (1) 30 minute session of hard cleaning of my bathroom.  I broke a sweat!  I told you guys that I would count this.
• (1) 2-hour session of off-and-on the rink roller-skating
• (1) 1-hour yoga class
• (1) 20 minute bike-ride for 3.4 miles
• (1) 45 minute walk on the treadmill for 2.6 miles

Results:  I lost 2 lbs this week, making it a grand total of 7 lbs in 3 weeks.  I now weigh 162 lbs, and have 23 to go!

I drank a lot of water…like copious amounts. 

I think I peed about 5 times (no lie!) between 1 and 5 pm yesterday.  I walked out of a meeting at work, not once, but twice, to relieve myself.  Everyone will think that I am going to the bathroom to puke or that I have serious bladder issues. 

I have always been an under-drinker of water, but am quickly learning the importance of it.  I think this has been key to my results, because instead of grabbing a soft drink, I always have a bottle of water in my hand.

I enjoyed the bike-riding and roller-skating this week.  These were both things that I enjoyed doing as a kid, and I actually have no good reason as to why I ever quit. 

My kids bought rollerblades for me 2 years ago as a birthday gift, and I have never worn them (scared!), but after spending an afternoon allowing my inner roller queen to come out, I think that I have mustered the confidence to take the blades out of the box and use them to blade up and down my street sometime this week in one of my 5 am workout sessions.

My 13 year old son fixed the tire on my bike, so I was extremely happy to get that out on the road for a short ride one morning last week.  The downside is that the bike is a little on the cheap side, and is a bit of a rough ride, but I had so much fun on it, I almost didn’t care.  Almost…

As I approach the 10lb milestone, I thought that maybe I should sweeten the pot for myself, by rewarding myself with things, as I am also on a financial diet.  These are my thoughts so far:

10 lbs:  

20 lbs: 

30 lbs:  

I would love to hear other ideas from my two readers, as well.

Week 4 will bring lots of change to my routine.  We get back to school, so my days will begin much earlier because of my having to get my son to his math class at the high school every morning.  Sports practices for the kids are also starting, and will take place a few afternoons per week in addition to their games.  I feel that I have everything timed out to the second, so hopefully my plan to keep this workout pace will prevail.  I still hope to use the free or nearly cheap resources that are already available to me, and then maybe build on that as the pounds continue to melt away.

On to week 4…