Last week, I declared, as well as you can declare in blog-form, that I needed a victory. I'd been stuck in a Bermuda Triangle of fitness. I wasn't really gaining weight, but I wasn't really losing any weight. It was depressing me. I was losing confidence, I was losing steam, I was losing the area known as my neck.
So, last week, I decided to go for the win. I would work my rear end off to lose two pounds in a week, or so. (My previous weigh in had been on Friday, May 13th and I declared the mini-challenge on Monday, 16th. I didn't weigh myself again until yesterday, May 24th). And, I did it!
In fact, I lost 6 pounds. Boo-yah. Of course, there is always 3 pounds of give and take because of water, time weighed in, big meals, blah, blah, blah, but I consider that a victory. It's so much a victory that I have officially updated the Ass-o-Meter.
How did I do it? Well, for starters, I weigh a lot, so when I exercise, I burn off a lot of calories. I did try to up the ante when it came to exercise. And, I really tried to watch what I ate during the week. I held off the booze until the weekend, and even then, I tried to moderate what I was drinking. I gave myself Sunday completely off from calorie counting, but I tried to get a solid workout in.
What did I learn? My week was awesome. I felt really good. I was eating well, sleeping well, and taking good care of myself. I felt more confident in my clothes, I slept better, and I think I was more productive. In my book, that's a win. And, it inspires me to want to keep winning (I knew it would).
Next up, I want to lose two more pounds this week. That will put me back at my Juice challenge winning weight: 217. I don't want to get over confident, what with Memorial Day and a wedding going down in the next couple of weeks, but I've got some benchmarks I would like to start hitting and this was one of them.
So, the slump has been busted. The Triangle has been navigated. Victory begets victory. Now, it's time to get serious. Thankfully, there's a serious challenge coming my way in June. Who knows, I may be able to update the Ass-O-Meter image from what you see, to something like this:
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