Week #2 Roundup

Two weeks down and 1/8 of the way finished!


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: 86%
Sticking to my meal plan: 100%
No pop/ no coffee: 100%

Overall success rate: 95%

Challenge: ACHIEVED!

Weight Loss: 3.3 lbs!!!


This is a perfect number, really! It's nice and substantial but not huge enough that it's going to my head and pushing me into the danger zone of reckless. My average weight loss for the first two weeks is 2.5 lbs and that's super healthy.

Let's see about trying to hold that pace.

Thoughts/observations:

The "new" excitement of putting my plans into motion has definitely worn off, and this weekend it was extra tough to get by without indulgent snacks. Part of that is my fault, because I devoted most of Saturday to reading and watching Netflix (with slight detours for writing, exercise, and light chores), and try as I might the urge to have comfort food while watching TV has not lessened. I'm going to have to come up with some more proactive strategies to deal with this problem, since I've still got a long way to go and there's still a lot of winter to hole up against too.


I do have some ideas...


As to how I feel... level, level, level. This is such a win. Bedtime has been the easiest, most enjoyable change to adopt for this challenge. I'm waking up more easily and I'm not feeling sluggish during the day. I'm learning to separate physical weariness from mental weariness. A good workout is enough to shake me free of the latter, most of the time.

Weekly word count: 4,518. Not as much as last week, but still making me happy, and I'm close to finishing a first draft of this manuscript. The reason I include it here is because part of my long-term goals for this challenge is to be healthier not just for my own vanity (that's a huge part of it, yes) but so I can live my life better, and writing is my thing. I'm not the best at disciplining myself to do it, so prioritizing my time and finding the best way to make it happen has been a fun sidebar to fold into this challenge. It's a way to think of my success in a different way than just pounds on a scale. Pounds run the risk of coming back, but these words are my achievement forever and I achieved them now.

(Provided I'm making my appropriate backups, as should every writer, every day. Heh).

And now, a motivational song for Monday!