Yep, we finished another week of training and eating healthy and the hubby and I each lost one pound each. Gail lost three pounds and Pete gained one. Since we are in this for our health and not really "in it to win it" no one mentioned his gain. Seriously though, this makes a five pound loss for me so far during the challenge and brings my total loss since joining the gym to 12 pounds. I hadn't wanted to admit that one day I saw 200, but I did. Only once mind you, but I'm counting it in my pounds lost. I was weighing in at 197 and 198 on a regular basis. This morning after shedding all my clothes, I weighed 188.8. I am actually quite motivated.
As a group we joined a site called My Fitness Pal. We set our group up so we could view each other's daily food entries, and that is also helping to motivate me. Except, I found out after years of thinking 1000 calories or less was ideal...it's not. I need to be eating between 1200-1400 calories daily to LOSE WEIGHT. Having been a life long dieter, I thought I knew it all. Well, I'm here to admit that I don't. I was sabotaging my own health by consuming too few calories. I am having to make myself eat more, but I really think it's going to be the real deal.
So our last training session consisted of punching the banana bag, doing step exercises, lifting weights and doing crunches and the plank. We also ran laps, bicycled and ellipitical-ed. Even while sweating profusely, I realized that I kind of like this. It hurts, but it feels good to hurt from exercise, and not just from hauling my own weight around.
So that's it from me this week. Remember to look into "starvation mode" and "eat more to lose less". It's real. Seriously, it is.
As those Life cereal kids used to say to Mikey..."try it, you'll like it".
1 comment:
Well done, and yes, 1,000 is way too few calories and make sure you are drinking lots of water toooooooo.
Hugs, Liska xxx
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