How I would actually feel if I believed I really consumed the numbers down below ...
A lot of things can happen in four weeks.
- Weight can be lost
- Changes can be made
- Habits can be formed
- Habits can be broken
- Plans can die
- New plans can be made
- Seasons can change
- Mindsets can change
Sometimes, I think this daily monitoring just holds me in place, but other times, I know that's not true. Life happens whether you track it or not. The day moves on whether I track it or not. I also know that what I do not track, I do not do, so therefore, tracking helps me STAY on the track I have chosen.
In this first third of my 12-week year, I have:
- Improved my mood
- Read at least 45 pages of a book (I can't tell you the last time I did that)
- Stopped the constant achiness and paininess in the major joints
- Improved mobility as the days progress
- Cancelled some plans
- Made new plans
- Made plans to travel by myself to a place I've never been
- Splurged on said travel plans to a level that I had not done up to that point
- Got another raise (the second during my first year at the "job")
- Achieved purging of some of the things from my past that have held me stagnant
- Learned that how I care for myself is far more important and valuable
- Lost at least seven pounds, if not more, depending on the day
- Eliminated 98% of processed sugar from my dietary intake
What have I not yet done that I said I was going to do:
- After review, mostly, it's that movement thing.
We have undoubtedly established that I am not a gym rat, or whatever witty name it's called now. I used to do a lot of workouts here at home, in the living room, with the TV. I don't know why I just can't get back into it. I have all the resources I need - TV, internets, streaming DDP Yoga workouts, DVDs.
I am expert level at procrastination. I am also expert level at thinking about all the things I want to, need, and should do ...
We interrupt the regularly scheduled program to announce this:
Ironically, this was playing in the background as I wrote the above para:
Since you can't see the title, it's: "Don't Wait for Inspiration. Just Do Stuff."
As he said, you're never gonna feel like it. Just do it.
That being said, I remembered, after approximately 5-10 trips back and forth, to put on the pedometer. I just want to get a baseline of how much I do NOT move during a normal day. There are approximately 35 steps betwixt my desk and the bathroom, so if we factor (again, pun not intended) in approximately three trips back and forth, and leave out all the other shorter-distanced movement, let's just say I got in 200 steps before the pedometer, and 35 steps for the last trip from desk to bathroom - plus whatever the pedometer says right before bed ...
Baby steps. As some witty fitness person said, "You can't measure what you don't track." At least I'll know my starting point.
It's not just about exercise for weight loss. It's about circulation. As my job is 95% sedentary, circulation is lacking. The feet randomly go numb, as do the butt cheex. Movement is necessary for health, just in general. Plus, it will help keep the blood sugar down at below-diabetes ranges.
The reason, I so easily forgot, that I don't track food? DEAR LAWD, it is nearly impossible to get a precise configuration of recipes unless you have all day, every day, in between meals to look up each ingredient, and enter it into the platform (MyFitnessPal, in this case) and then transfer it to the other platform (FitDay, in this case) ... and even then, it's just not coming out right because there are variables you don't know from other peoples' recipes. Ugh.
I do not believe the macros when it comes to the meatloaf or chaffle recipes. If I had consumed THAT MUCH Fat and Protein, I would currently be asleep; nay, comatoast. I did do much better with almond consumption, coming in at just about two servings exactly (28 grams each), but then I et some of those French-fried onions. So yeah, carbs were a bit higher today - about 32 grams, net. Oh. Well.
Then, Fitday says I should eat over 2100 calories per day to lose the required amount of daily weight to meet my goal, so I didn't go WAY over that, but I'm going to guess that typically, I don't even get near 1800. Which is the whole point of tracking things this week, to see the truth (or as close as I can get to it) in the numbers.
It's been an odd day. Tomorrow is a new day.
Day 30 Progress
Weight: 207.6
What I Et:
Steps: 1860 + 235 uncounted
Reading: 8 pages (45 total)
60 Days to Goal!
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