Healthy You Challenge Check In #24

Starting Weight (5/13/09): 320 lbs.
Last Week's Weight: 293 lbs.
Current Weight (10/20/09): 291.2 lbs.

Weight lost this week: 1.8 lbs.
Total Weight Lost: 28.8 lbs.

1.2 lbs until 30 lbs lost!!!!

Will post measurements tomorrow.

Pescetarianism, Three Months Later

In July, when I decided to quit eating meat, I told myself that I would do a three month trial. See if I could make it on days when it was hard, but not make it seem like I didn't have an out if I changed my mind. Well, Wednesday marked 3 months and except for the dreaded mid-flight cobb salad incident, I haven't eaten any meat at all.

I thought I was beyond serious temptation, until R got beef and broccoli yesterday. It smelled so good! It made my stomach gurgle and my mouth water. I kept staring at it. I didn't eat it, but it was a good reminder that I will probably still be tempted by meat now and then. I have stopped eating it--but I haven't forgotten how good it tastes! So I have to be vigilant.

The three months have taught me that:

1. This is something I can totally do.
2. I make healthier choices when I don't eat meat.
3. Nine times out of ten the decision is really, really easy.
4. I will be shocked when it's hard. But when it's hard, it will be harder than I expected.

Healthy You Challenge Check In #23

Starting Weight (5/13/09): 320 lbs.
Last Week's Weight: 293.6 lbs.
Current Weight (10/20/09): 293 lbs.

Weight lost this week: 0.6 lbs.
Total Weight Lost: 27 lbs.

Next week I'll post new measurements. For now, some non-scale victories:

1. I can touch my thumb and index finger around my wrist.
2. My si 16 jean jacket fits in the shoulders again (can't button it yet, but it's cute enough to wear).
3. Favorite black Avenue leggings getting lose in the caves.
4. On Sunday, I bought a size 20 dress off the rack at Ross without trying it on. It fit perfectly.
5. Got two orders of fish tacos on Sunday. Only ate one of them.
6. Got an excellent night's sleep last night. Superb.

Riesling with Links

1. I bet the new Ghostface Killah album will sound even better on the treadmill.

2. Truths you know and should hear again. From dietblog.

3. You should be reading Who Ate My Blog?.

4. Fatshionista will be on the radio tomorrow!

5. McDonalds is strangling America. From strangemaps.

I Feel Fat When...

1. I'm wearing clothes I think are ugly.
2. I'm wearing baggy clothes--even cute ones.
3. I get an uncontrollable urge to gorge on food even though I'm not hungry.
4. I get an email that someone has posted a photo of me on facebook.
5. I'm sitting in a tiny car.
6. I'm trying on clothes in awful dressing room lighting.
7. At the doctor's office.
8. I'm at the hair dressers with wet hair.
9. I order a large amount of takeout food.
10. I get chub rub.

Healthy You Challenge Check In #22

Starting Weight (5/13/09): 320 lbs.
Last Week's Weight: 294.4 lbs.
Current Weight (10/8/09): 293.6 lbs.

Weight lost this week: 0.8 lbs.
Total Weight Lost: 26.4 lbs.

Hmmm...between the wine tours and breweries, this last week clocks in at my worst nutritional week since I started. But I lost more than last week, so who knows. But I won't take the .8 lbs lost for granted, and this week I'm totally off vacation mode and back on plan. Plus I have an extra few doses of relaxation stored up from the trip.

Healthy You Challenge Check In #21

Sorry for the very, very belated post with last week's update. I kept sleeping in too late to weigh-in (I don't do it with wet hair, period). But I got the numbers on Thursday morning, and then promptly went out of town. Which will make tomorrow's weigh-in spectacular, I'm sure.



So here we are:

Starting Weight (5/13/09): 320 lbs.
Last Week's Weight: 295 lbs.
Current Weight (10/8/09): 294.4 lbs.

Weight lost this week: 0.6 lbs.
Total Weight Lost: 25.6 lbs.

My First 5K--Check

I finished my first 5K walk today. And it was a blast. Everyone was walking pretty slowly, but it surprised me that my natural walking pace was faster than a lot of the people around me. I started out toward the back of the pack and finished somewhere in the middle. The event didn't keep time, but I had my heart rate monitor on, so I know my time was 1 hr and 10 minutes, with 656 calories burned.

Normally when I work out, I go to the gym by myself, get my workout done, and head out. The festive atmosphere and the buzz of everyone moving together towards the same goal made the same work easier and more exciting at the same time. I loved it.

So now I've got to start working the Couch to 5K program (and not quit for the like ninth time), so I can run a real 5K race. There's one the Saturday after Thanksgiving that's pretty much the last one near Philly until next year, so I have to start this week if I want to run a 5K in 2009. I have 8 weeks to get prep, so it's on.

Healthy You Challenge Check In #20

Starting Weight (5/13/09): 320 lbs.
Last Week's Weight: 296.4 lbs.
Current Weight: 295 lbs.

Weight lost this week: 1.4 lbs.
Total Weight Lost: 25 lbs.

Yay yay yay! 25 lbs lost. That is all.

My First 5K

I did it. I registered for my first 5K yesterday. It's a walk, not a race, so they won't be keeping time and I can go at my own pace without feeling the least bit guilty. One of my co-workers asked me to sign up because his father died of diabetes when he was young. I hesitated at first because I can't run very far at all. When he told me it was just a walk, I got really excited. Of course, not excited enough to actually go through with registration until last night. Baby steps.

I'm really stoked. To get in the mood, I did two miles at 3 miles an hour on the treadmill today. Not very fast, but steady. When I finish this walk, I hope the experience will get me enthused about public events enough to train for a 5K run.

If you're in the Philly area and you want to check it out, the website for the event is here.