Weigh In Wednesday - Week 1

 

 

WEEK 1

 

 

 

Today is my first official Weigh In Wednesday Link Up with Erin over at She's A Big Star and Alex over at The Skinny Jean Pilgrimage

 

This week has been a pretty good week, it was not my best week ever and I was not actually expecting a loss, due to an episode that involved an entire dinner portion of Hibachi Teriyaki Chicken on Monday. Every day I attempt to go ahead and plan out on my My Fitness Pal app what I am going to eat for all of my meals and snacks, it really keeps me on track and allows me to see what I can and can't have as far as snacks go. Because I weigh in on Wednesday it means that Tuesdays are usually big workouts and low calorie days for me. Yesterday I went on a run attempt to improve my mile time (I didn't but I was only slower by 4 seconds so I'll take that!) and then I went to my apartment complexs' gym as soon as I pulled in to find this beauty waiting for me. I was just in this same gym on Sunday and this machine was not in there. So either it was getting fixed or it's a new machine. Either way I am just glad because it stands for a fantastic workout. I put in about 20 minutes and burned around 200 calories and was very satisfied.

 

I woke up today and went to the bathroom (routine before getting on the scale just in case I can lose .1 or .2 extra pounds hehe) and then got my phone ready to take a picture as I stepped on the scale. I was a little shocked because I was not expecting to lose anything, but to my surprise I was down .2 lbs since the last time I weighed in which was Saturday I think. When I started this whole journey I weighed about 216.3 lbs so that brings my total to 5.3 lbs lost since the beginning. I will take that for now!

 

I mentioned in an earlier blog post about my love for Pinterest and how I use to help aide in my weight loss journey. While I was on it the other day just scrolling through the health and fitness section as I often do when I have spare time I passed across this article on Spark People called 8 Reasons Why You're Not Losing the Weight . It was a really good article and the first thing it mentioned was eating the calories you burned....ooo that hits right to the heart. I am definitely one of those that however many calories I get, I eat. I love to eat, obviously this is where I got myself into trouble growing up. So this article struck a chord and I realized that I can eat just the calories I am allotted a day and then have the extra calories do what they are suppose to do, just burn. I am attempting to move towards a small goal each week to help aide in this whole journey. I figured the best small goal for this week would be to not eat the extra calories that I burn. To help me with this I am not logging my calories from exercise until I am going to bed and have brushed my teeth, hence not tempted to eat those calories. So here's to this weeks goal, next week I will check back in with how I did!

 

For now it's pajama day here in nanny world as I have a child home with pink eye (yuck!).

 

Jenny