Week 8: Excuses & Results

Sorry this is so late.  Time really got away from me this week!  However, I did manage to remember to exercise and weigh in last week.

Excuses:

• My bike broke. :(  That didn't keep me from working out, although it made me very sad.

I moved a lot this week:

• (5) Walk/Runs, mostly walking for a total of 9.42 miles and 159 minutes (2:39)
• (1) Hour-long Yoga class

Results: I lost 1 lb this week, down 11 lbs in 8 weeks. I am currently 158 lbs, and have 19 to go.

So, I am really irritated that the tire on my bike won't act right.  My gift to myself for 20 lbs lost is a new bike, but I feel like it will take me longer to get there without my being able to do the exercise that I have been enjoying the most!  Maybe it will be more motivation for me to get to 20 lbs off faster, so that I can start riding again.

In the meantime, I need to refocus on the free or cheap resources already available to me.  I have new running shoes, check.  I have a cheap gym membership at work, check.  I have rollerblades that I am still afraid of, check.  I have two very active kids, check, check.  I have to hustle these resources until I can't do it anymore.

Without giving too much away right now, I feel that there are other changes afoot in my life (good ones, maybe?), so any consistency and regularity that I can create where my fitness is concerned will be beneficial should any good, major change occur.  More in a future blog post on that.

I saw the picture that I took of myself the day that I started this project.  I was surprised at just how much difference 11 lbs lost makes.  My intention originally was to post the picture in my first blog post, but honestly, I was/am too embarrassed by what I saw.  I am promising myself and both of my readers that when I meet the critical midway point of 15 lbs lost, that I will post my before and after photo here for all to see.  I think I have plenty of time between now and then to talk myself into thinking that this is a good idea!

My plans for Week 9?  Keep up the slow and steady weight-loss pace.  I am telling myself that this is how to do it if I really want the weight to stay off.  It might now be peeling off as quickly as I would like, but I only have 19 more pounds to lose in just over 10 months.  This should be gravy, right?  Not very thick, low fat gravy, of course...

Here we go, Week 9!