Weight Loss Journaling

DAY 28:

Things are still running fairly smoothly here. I'm anxious to see what the scale is going to say on Sunday morning, but I'm hoping to take advantage of the next few days. I'll be working out hard and at a high intensity the next few days to make my final push to weigh-in.

I still struggle with my eating habits. I'm not eating anything bad, per se, but it's important that I stick to a strict schedule. My goal is 1900 calories a day or fewer, with a majority of my calories being eaten before workout time. That means that I need to eat small portions for dinner. I think that, for a lot of people, that's the opposite of how we've been raised. Growing up, breakfast was a bowl of cereal and some OJ, if I ate breakfast at all. Dinner was always a big (from-the-box) meal with all the helpings we wanted. I think the concept of eating less at night is such a paradigm shift for me because I was thin and healthy until college, when I met my hubby. I forget to take into account the fact that I'm 27 years old and my metabolism is different. Add to that the PCOS I developed after getting married and rarely exercising and, DUH; I need to change the way I eat. It's still hard and I do fight it more than I should, but I'm getting better.

Here's what my daily menu should be:

Breakfast is usually 2 eggs scrambled with some veggies, 2 slices of turkey bacon, a whole wheat tortilla and coffee.
Mid-morning snack is a piece of fruit and a piece of part-skim mozzarella string cheese, although I usually only have one or the other because I'm never hungry in the morning.
Lunch is a BIG salad with some sliced deli meat, homemade vinaigrette dressing and lots of pumpkin seeds on it. Sometimes I'll have a piece of ww toast or another tortilla.
Mid-afternoon snack is a piece of fruit.
Pre-workout snack (at about 4pm) is two slices of ww toast with peanut butter.
Dinner is always a small serving lean meat, usually baked, with a big salad or some sauteed veggies and, every once in a while, some brown rice.
Dessert, at least an hour before bed, is usually some low-fat vanilla yogurt mixed with a few frozen berries and a banana.


See? It's a lot of food if I eat it all. And that day usually comes in right at 1900 calories, which is the amount needed for me to lose 2 lbs a week without working out. I just need to keep it going. I'm always on the threshold of not eating enough for breakfast and lunch and eating too much for dinner. However, as long as I'm losing and making positive changes in my body, I guess things are going well.

DAY 27:

I'm on Day 27 of my 31 day commitment to allowing Jason to plan my workouts and monitor my meals. It has been such a great experience and I'm pretty positive I'll be asking him to do the 28 days of February for me as well. I'm not sure what my loss will be for the month, but I'm pretty proud of all that I've accomplished:

1. No sodas in 27+ days.
2. Not missed a single workout except for four days when I was too sick to.
3. Increased my sprints from five laps per 20 minute period to 8 laps.
4. I need new undies...these are too big!
5. I'm getting the right amount of sleep; not too much like I used to.
6. I have a better attitude in general.
7. I recognize my cravings and do my best to curb them with healthy alternatives.

I'll have to come back on Sunday to report what my total loss for January is. I weighed 199 on the first and weighed 225 this time last year. I'm hoping for 189, but I'm SUPER happy to be consistently under 200!