This marks the beginning of week 2 for my whole eating-right-and-exercising-so-I-can-lose-weight process.
I need to come up with a better name for this. Maybe a spoof of The Biggest Loser. Like “Josh is a Big Loser” or something. Maybe that’s not the best choice (maybe it is). I’ll think of something. If you have any ideas in the meantime, comment below.
Anywho…
As of my “official” weigh in this morning (and by official, I mean standing on my bathroom scale at home every Monday morning with slightly less than any clothes on) I lost 1.0 pound this week, for a total of 1.0 pounds (since I’ve only been doing this for a week – duh).
I had some words of wisdom given to me yesterday, and I decided to try them out. A friend of mine who has successfully lost and pretty much kept off about 50 pounds told me that I need to give myself one day per week to eat whatever I want without thinking about it (within reason – no 36 ounce steaks wrapped in bacon and a side of an entire cheesecake or anything like that).
I think I’ve decided to make that day Sunday, which is a little stupid probably since it’s the day before I weigh myself every week, but I figure if I do it every week I’ll see the same progress either way. So yesterday I didn’t count calories or pay much attention to what I ate. I still exercised some restraint, and I felt pretty good. No overeating or anything. And I still lost a pound.
And the best thing is that it seems to have renewed my motivation for this coming week. I’m not tempted to cheat or anything today, and I’m still motivated to eat well and exercise. If I give myself a day like that every week, this could work out really well long term.
Looking forward to my Power 90 stuff coming in the mail this week. UPS tracking show that I should get it tomorrow! That would be great. I’ll probably wait to officially start it next Monday so it lines up with my schedule, but we’ll see. I might do a preview week this week or something since I’m going to work out anyway.
Pressing on through week 2.
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No way. I know you’re screaming at me right now, but when we get past this hump, you’ll thank me.
Today will be more of a challenge for me. I’ve done well with my eating habits lately, but today I have a lunch meeting with a client and am going out of town for a concert this afternoon/evening. That means I’m going to be eating out twice today. This will be my first real test.
Thankfully, I know where we’re going for lunch, so I have a plan. Hopefully I can figure out the right thing to eat for supper tonight too. It will be really easy to cheat today though.
I’m confident that I can figure it out though.
And Jenna, you’re going down.
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So I’m beginning a little “race” with my sister-in-law to lose a few pounds. I learned last night that she plays dirty.
We watched my nephew while they were out for a while, and when they came back, she was “nice” enough to bring me two containers full of Skyline cheese coneys at about 10:00 (which is when I really start to get hungry again in the evenings).
Unbelievably, I didn’t have a single one, even though Marie told me it would be “okay” to have half of one. I thought about it long and hard, but decided not to.
Man, that sucked.
I wanted one (or six) bad.
But I want to get rid of my “small man boobs” worse.
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I’m remembering how much exercise sucks after you haven’t done it in so long. I’ve been walking, running, I will be lifting some weights, and I’m taking the hundred pushups challenge, and my body is screaming at me right now.
Not to mention that my stomach is screaming too, almost as loud as my body. It’s amazing how some simple changes can really mess with you. I actually had to change the channel last night several times when food commercials came on because they literally made me hungry as soon as I saw them. I’m not trying to starve myself by any means, but I know I’m not going to drop the pounds unless I change my diet in general – both in content and in portions.
One thing I’m learning though is that sometimes it takes someone making you mad (like your doctor) to get you off your butt to do something.
Thankfully, someone made me pretty mad.
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Still processing everything from Unleash 2009. What a great conference. I can’t believe it all happened in one day. Do yourself a huge favor and go watch the videos.
On a non-related note, I had my first doctor’s visit in quite some time yesterday, and it turns out that I need to lose about 20 pounds, which sucks. But thankfully I now have a great doctor who actually cares, asks me questions, and will hold me accountable to try and help me (a novel concept, right?). It’s so refreshing to go to a doctor that actually wants to prevent you from actually needing him. Then he’ll actually be able to focus on the people who really do need his help. I was going to pull a big scriptural connection out of this relating to the church, but I think you get the point. I’ll leave the complex connections to Mike. :)
Now I just need to start posting here more so that I can have some other people holding me accountable for dropping some pounds. I go back in 3 months, and I’d like to have at least dropped 15 (if not all 20) of those pounds by then.
Here we go!
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Our church leadership team is gearing up to go to the Unleash Conference at Newspring Church in Anderson, SC this week. It’s going to be a great time for us to grow together as a group and recharge us all.
I’m looking forward to coming back with a renewed passion for what we do. Our preaching minister, Mike Edmisten, and our worship/youth minister, Brian Morrissey, went last year, and they both came back on fire.
The only part I’m not looking forward to is 8 hours in a 15 passenger van with 11 of us. Could get crowded…
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