Shannon, Travis and I have been having a weight losing contest. Really, I think it’s to help me kick start my baby weight loss, since I was not doing anything about it before this diet/contest. The three of us decided to put our money where our mouth is…literally. It’s a simple contest with simple rules…Whomever loses the most percentage body weight to there starting weight wins a big chunk of money from the two “losers”. Travis and I will have to pay the money out of our personal accounts if we lose, so it gives us more incentive to try and win. We are on day eight right now and we end this contest at around 11am this Sunday.
How am I doing?
Pretty good I think. Basically I am following the workout a lot and try and eat 1200 calories or less a day approach. I have gone down a bit, but I don’t know if it’s enough to win. I only have messed up once so far and it was because I decided to drink on Saturday and drinking always clouds any rational judgment one may have. The only good thing about my slip up is that Shannon and Travis have slipped once too, so we are all even in that department.
It this hard?
Yeah, to an extent. I don’t think I can keep up a 1200 calorie diet every day, but I do think my diet after this contest will still combine the low calorie and high exercise approach. I will just have to always plan my eating day. So, if I know I am going out to dinner somewhere, I can plan my eating day around that to “save” up my daily calories or exercise more for that day. We will see how it goes.
Am I happy?
Sure, I guess…I mean is a born foodie ever happy with restricting something that they love? What I am trying to teach myself is if I have something really good, but not good for me, I should only have a little bit of it and I should savor every bite. Which is what I should have been doing a along, but we all know how hard that can be.
How long will I be on this?
Who knows…forever? I mean, once you stop being conscientious about your eating and exercise habits, isn’t that when you gain weight? I don’t want to be on a diet forever, but I am sure I will have to be aware of what I am doing or else, I’ll just end up here again and I don’t want that.
Where is here?
Well, let’s just put it this way…by the time I get to my goal weight, which is reasonable for my height and age, I will have basically taken off two Brook’s…and for those of you who don’t know how much Brook weighs…well, she is about 32 pounds. Now, before anyone has a heart attack, I was over 200 lbs when I gave birth to Blake. Now that is a shocking number and I cringe writing that amount down for all to see, but it’s the truth. I was huge! So to go from the over 200 mark to my goal of 140 – 145 is like taking off my body, two of my daughters.
Can I do it?
God…I hope so! Part of me looks in the mirror and always sees a thin person, but then I look at pictures of myself and I am like, “damn who is that fat girl?”
So, here is to making healthy eating choices 90% of the time and to going to the gym…I am officially declaring this summer as The Summer of the Workout. I feel like I should tell myself, Godspeed! Or I feel like I should wish myself good luck…Hell, why not.
GOOD LUCK JOLENE!
