In Which I Detail My Plan
10 Mar 2011 1 Comment
It’s no secret my wheels have been spinning for a while now. Sometimes I realize I’m only 20 pounds lighter than last year and that does not make me happy. I wanted to be on my way to goal by now, and I’m still hovering around that blasted 90 pound mark.
I know this is all entirely my own mental block. I’m at a place where I’ve lost so much that I’ve also lost the initial impetus to keep my weight loss going. I can shop at “normal” stores now (albeit for the largest size in the store) and I’m way more active and I’m just all-around a happier person than I was 2 years ago when I started this. I’m also experiencing so much more stress lately with my mom being sick. Honestly, working out has been saving my sanity.
But here’s the deal. I have a wedding coming up. And I need to look cute for it and all of the various family events leading up to it. I have at least 3 dresses that I’m going to need to purchase and wear for this wedding within the next 6 months. Additionally, I have my BFF’s bday party, my anniversary dinner at a fancy restaurant, my own birthday, and Joe’s birthday in that time frame. In short, it’s long past time to cut the crap and shape up. Here’s my plan.
1. I need to maintain a more normal eating schedule. Telecommuting is beyond amazing and allows me the freedom to work out at 1pm and also maintain my mother’s seemingly never-ending string of medical appointments. However, it also means I am surrounded by my food in my house and I can get up and get it whenever I want. When I worked at MDA I had Melissa right across from me, I wasn’t going to stuff my face all day. When I went into the PMG offices every day, there was a no-food-outside-of-the-lunch-room rule. Ergo, also no all-day face-stuffage. I’m going to make an effort to stop the mindless snacking. To that end, I’m drinking more daily water. I’m also instituting a fruit-only snack rule for a while. If I’m not hungry for a 0 Point Plus apple, I’m not hungry.
2. I need to cook more again. I’ve been a basketfull of excuses on this front too. The dishes are dirty, I don’t want to clean the kitchen, I don’t have any chicken in the house. I cannot order as much as I have been, make the choices I have been, and still lose the weight I want to lose. End of story.
3. I need to keep making my workouts a priority. So far, I’ve been successful on this front. I’ve been making my workouts longer and that has helped me immeasurably. I do take heart in the fact that although the scale may not have had a lot to say this year, my body has. When I went to my former boss’ retirement party, everyone thought I had lost more weight, even though I really hadn’t. Clearly, all of this working out is doing *something*.
4. I need to keep tracking. When I slack off on this, I don’t lose the weight I want to lose. I’m making an effort to keep my Weight Watchers online tracker up on my laptop at all times, because that was a habit I had when I was successful on the plan. This is obviously a work in progress. As I assume it will be for the rest of my life, haha.
So this is my master plan. I’ve lost 5 pounds since February, so hopefully I can keep this momentum going and finally, once and for all, break my mental plateau. I’ll try to be a better blogger and keep myself going on this. Here’s hoping haha.
Mar 11, 2011 @ 00:12:48
When did we get on this “In Which” blog post titling kick? I love it, it’s awesome.
You know, I too would have thought that you had lost a lot more than 5 pounds since the beginning of February, because you *look* much more slim. I think you’ve been converting a lot more weight than we thought in to new muscle, which as we know weighs more and may be futzing with what the scale is telling you. This is why focusing on NSVs can help you over the hump/off the plateau. But muscle is awesome because it burns calories more efficiently. I think once you get to a certain point, muscle growth will slow and then you’ll see you start losing again on the scale. Right now there is just a frenzy of new muscle growth. IMHO.