Mel emailed me earlier in the day to ask how I was feeling and if I was ready for the weigh in. I did not have time to respond to her message, but thought on it later when she asked me in person. I didn’t want to respond because I did not want to jinx anything. I had a good feeling about things over the last week. Even though I had been restricted to the elliptical and swimming I think the cardio was a good idea for me personally. My times and resistance on the machine has gone up, I’m sweating sooner, getting my heart rate up sooner. All things that contribute to the body burning fat efficiently. My food choices this last week were better than the previous two weeks. Planning is truly helpful, I would really like to say planning is everything. I know for myself that planning reduces my stress.
While everyone else was running stairs and running around the ice rink, I was on the elliptical. I will be glad when I can be with the group again hopefully next week. Thank goodness this did not happen at the beginning before relationships were made or I would really be alone. So I sweated on my own and joined the group for the stretches and cool down. Mel worked everyone hard again, there was a lot of sweat dripping off some of the group.
Weigh in was tonight as well and the results are in. I was the biggest loser for the week, it felt good to be there and I was hoping for one time to be there. My goal was to get below 280, didn’t make it but darn close, next week I will be over that hump for sure. Shannon also was disappointed tonight that she did not make her goal for this week, but we had to remind her that she still lost. I think that food is still a culprit for most of us and it takes time to realize how. That was my lesson over the last two weeks just how much it does affect things as I was not losing much until I addressed my food. Shannon is working her tail off, and making only little steps, she also needs to look at her food choices still. We discussed last night that she may not be getting enough calories and not the right kind. I know that she has made a lot of changes in how she eats and that is exciting and cool. The hard part is looking at things and realizing it is not enough, at least it was for me. O. k. for the result of the weigh in, here they are.
Kareen 3.4 lbs 1.15%, S 1.6 lbs 0.89%, C 2 lbs 0.86%, Shannon 1.8 lbs 0.83%, A 1.6 lbs 0.55%, R 0.8 lbs 0.45%, J 0.8 lbs .36%, B 0 lbs 0%. To date the group has 118.8 pounds, not to shabby.
Till tomorrow – here’s to less of us.
Doc
