Weekly success rates:
Adhering to my bedtime: 80%
Taking my vitamins: 100%
Daily Yoga/Strength: 100%
30 minutes cardio 4x week: 100%
Drinking 3 water bottles daily: 90%
Sticking to my meal plan: 86%
No pop/ no coffee: 100%
Overall success rate: 94%
Challenge: ACHIEVED!
I stepped on the scale this morning and I admit I was a little bit disappointed to discover my weight loss for the week was only 1.8 lbs.
*frowny face*
I had been hoping for something a little more dramatic since the first week is supposedly all detox and fluid balancing and such.
However, I'm trying to have the right attitude and keep my chin up.
Here are all the reasons a mere 1.8 lb loss is encouraging.
- It's still a loss, and since I measured at the same time of day, it's probably not due to during-the-day fluctuations.
- I was wearing shorts last week and this week I was wearing workout leggings. That's worth a few ounces, right?
- It will keep me from getting cocky and reckless in my food efforts this week.
- Losing slowly is better for you anyway.
- Even at this rate, I'll still lose 25 lbs by the end of the challenge.
- It's almost a certain time of the month, which makes its share of contribution.
Now, more importantly than what the scale says, I should talk briefly about how I feel.
I feel really good.
At the moment, I don't feel like scaling Everest (see last bullet point above), but since about Day #3 onward I have felt level, balanced, and the cloud of malaise that ordinarily hovers over my head is basically gone.
I got almost 6,500 words written toward my novel this week. That alone makes it a quantifiable success.
Onward and upward! (downward?...)
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