Generally one would think that the Holidays would make time speed up and generally make one feel crazy, while that is still true, the holidays also make weight loss slow down....way down.
So in order to combat this phenomenon, I have decided to set small goals for myself, and to go easy on myself if I do have a set back or slip up.
So my goals for this holiday season are/were as follows:
15 lbs lost by Halloween
20 lbs lost by Thanksgiving
25 Lbs lost by Christmas.
Seems easy enough right, just 5 lbs a month, easy considering that I've been losing about 2 lbs per week up to now...but the reality is that with each of these holidays comes celebrations, food, drinks, candy, desserts etc etc etc.
So for Halloween I made it to 15 lbs, by the skin of my teeth, but I made it. I also hosted Halloween so I could control what I ate and what was around. I sort of succeeded with that, I made veggie chili and ate well, but I did have a couple glasses of wine. Minor but still a set back.
I'm currently working on getting to 20 lbs by Thanksgiving, as of Saturday AM (11/5) I was down 19.6 lbs, so getting to 20 by Thanksgiving a few weeks from now should be easy. But last night we went to a birthday party, we live within walking distance to the house where the party was...which meant I could have an extra drink....and that meant I would again eat worse than if at home. I enjoyed myself, I had a couple drinks, ate the pulled pork sandwiches and had a great time! But this AM I was up 1.6 lbs. Which means as of today I'm down 18 lbs.
There were times when a set back like this would push me to eat even worse over the rest of the weekend, and promise myself that I would start again on Monday. But not this weekend, today I made an effort to eat well, to stick to the plan and try to get back to my 19.6 lbs lost as soon as possible.
My motto these days is work towards small goals, and ignore small set backs.
Status
Total to lose 100 lbs
Total lost 18 lbs
Remaining 82 lbs
It has also come to my attention that even a lost of 100 lbs would still technically put me in an overweight classification per the BMI. But for now I'm sticking to my 100 lb loss goal and will revise it as I get closer when I determine what my true goal should be.
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