Status Report – Week #7 April 25, 2010
Posted by Scott in Motivation, Weekly Weigh In.8 comments
Another weigh in, another week gone by and I really feel like I am losing my way. Things have continued to be hectic at work, and in my life in general. I feel that the good habits that I had been developing over the past few weeks, have been slipping, and I am starting to feel the effects of my inaction. This has been a busy day for me, and I have spent a lot of time thinking about what to write for this update. I came up with this: emotions, results and direction.
Emotions – After a couple of weeks of feeling like I have had day after day of failures, I am feeling pretty down. I have had 3 very crazy weeks at work, and my personal life has had its share of challenges as well. When I started this journey, one of the things that helped motivate me tremendously was reading other peoples blogs about their weight loss journeys. I have struggled to find time to even stop by a few blogs and get updates on the fine folks in the blogosphere. So the net result is many hours of work, few hours of sleep, little blog reading motivation and just a general feeling of defeat. All of this has resulted in me falling into some old patterns. The worst of which was emotional eating. Whenever I get down on myself I turn to food. Cookies, brownies, candy or anything else that my family has brought into the house that is bad for me. I need to change. I need to get back on track. How? That is the question.
Results – Now this is where it gets crazy and hard to explain. This week, somehow, I don’t know how, I managed to lose two pounds and get down to 254 when I got onto the scale this morning. I have no idea how this happened. I ate pizza twice this week, lots of pizza one day. I ate fast food three times this week because I have been too tired to fix even the simplest of meals at home, and I just didn’t care at the moment. Although the regret soon hit me, just not enough to stop me the next time I hit the drive through. Exercise this week resulted in a zero. Zero work outs, zero walks. Just a zero! I need to change that.
Direction – I need some. Small steps must be the goal for the week. Anything I do that is positive will be 100% more than what I did this past week. I will walk this week. I will prepare my meals ahead of time and not hit the drive through this week. I will set my goal to read at least three blogs per day this week so that I can get motivated to get back on track.
