Week 1 Results/Chip Challenge #2

Week 1:

202.6, a loss of 1.2.  Yahoo!  But seriously, please can next week be THE WEEK?  I really would very much love to never write a "2" at the beginning of my weight ever again.  At the very least, I'm saying it's happening in August.  Period.

I met both challenges, though I struggled more with the exercise minutes.  Tracking definitely helps me stay in that accountable mindset, and since I'm doing my simple notebook method, there is NO excuse.  I don't even have to take the extra step of figuring out calories or doing a search for a particular food or multiple ingredients.  I just list "chili" or whatever it is and move on.  I reserve the right to get back into a more specific app at any time I want to feel more hardcore, but for now this is what's keeping me tracking.  At the end of the day, I put a star by my favorite food of the day.  With one exception the entire week, the star always goes to "real food" (ie not chips or dessert) eaten when I'm truly hungry.  Go figure.  

I squeaked in my 150th minute at nearly the last minute.  I skipped a couple days midweek, which meant that I had to have a marathon cardio session Thursday night, double yoga yesterday morning (I had been doing 10 minutes, upped it to 20), and I was still 9 minutes short going into last evening.  15 minutes walking around an outdoor shopping center with my friend took care of that.  Whew!

WEEK 2 CHALLENGE:

Organization, friends!  It's the golden key to successful weight loss.  By the end of the weekend (bonus points for the end of today), we will have planned our meals for the entire week and bought groceries for said meals.  We will have chopped whatever veggies we need to chop and portioned anything that needs to go into baggies.  We will have arranged a schedule so we know when we're working out and what we're doing.  (Although walking is different because that fits in wherever it can.)  We will have workout clothes laundered and ready to go.  

During the week, we will simply follow the eating plan/workout plan we have laid out!  It's on the calendar/list, so it's not an option NOT to do it.  If a different situation comes up (ie friend invites us to lunch), we'll roll with it because we're not letting our weight loss plans turn us into antisocial weirdos, but we will make healthy choices wherever we go.