Status Report – Week #7 April 25, 2010
Posted by Scott in Motivation, Weekly Weigh In.trackback
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.
I needed to read this post tonight. It’s been a week of bad choices here, as well. Well…more like a weekend of them. Anytime I have a 3 day weekend it’s almost a guaranteed fail on the diet. So how about we attempt to find our way back on the path together?
Direction? I dunno if I have that but I can try for the small steps part. How about we commit to both doing 3 miles this coming week. I won’t let you down if you don’t let me down…3 miles…for the week….we can do that, right?
I said three since you used 3 in your goals about the blogs 
You can do this…WE can do this! 3 miles?
Thanks Craig, that is a great idea. I like the concept of 3, it seemed easy enough last night when I wrote out the small steps. I can do 3 miles this week. I won’t let you down, and I am sure you wouldn’t let me down. We can do it!
If there’s one thing that I’ve learned in my own weight loss journey, it’s that we don’t have to be perfect all the time to lose weight. You can have a bad week and get right back on track, without having to feel bad about it. There is no rush after all, you can lose weight fast or more slowly, whatever feels comfortable for you at this time in your life. Every time you slip up and get back to your healthy habits, you are reinforcing the good habits. You’ve already lost a lot of weight, so use that as your motivation for the upcoming week! Good luck I’m rooting for ya!
Thanks Carla! I knew that the great people of the blog world would be there for me. Your comments really mean a lot. I even lost weight, and just didn’t feel right about it. I am getting back on track this week!
I too have been struggling these past few weeks and have lost my way to some extent. I think that I over trained which led to some minor injuries and I had to take some days off and that really killed my momentum. I did run my first half marathon this weekend and I’m hoping to get a race recap up tomorrow on my site. I got to get the ball rolling again!
Half Marathon!!!! Dude! That is outstanding! What an accomplishment. I think a bit of rest and recovery is in order. Maybe now is the time to focus on some different areas to help get that ball moving again. And let me say it again – Half a freakin Marathon! WooHoo!
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