Lets not talk about the last two weeks of my life as far as eating goes. Let's just say part of it was due to my daughter's b-day and Halloween. Anyway. I realized this last Friday that the beginning of the "eating season" is upon us. Our ward had an early Thanksgiving dinner and I had to make some things for it. My egg nog pumpkin pie, pumpkin cheese cakes and my sweet sweet potatoes. I thought, "Oh no, it's here and I haven't even gotten very far in my weight loss." But as Nina's last post said "We just need to get back on track." So I'm feeling optimistic. One reason I think I'm feeling this way is because I weighed myself this morning and even after two not very good weeks I haven't gained any weight. I was totally shocked. I think it's due to walking a couple of times a week. I'm not even close to my "big goal" that I set. I was really ambitious back then and thought I could lose weight faster than I have been. So I'm going to have to set a more realistic big goal. For now I will share my smaller yet important goals for the week:
Keep track of all my calories and stay within my limit.
Exercise 5 times-at least 30 minutes each.
Start getting back in to running, even if it's just once this week.
No eating past 8:00pm.
Drink 8-10 glasses of water daily.
Lose 2 pounds by next Monday morning.
Can I add some different kind of personal goals as well? These might not be as measurable but I need to put them somewhere so I can personally see how I did.
Turn my negative thoughts in to positive ones.
Play with my kids more this week.
Loved your post! And I think the personal goals are just as important and they are great! It is hard with the holidays coming up, but I think your 8 pm goal is so great, I'm going to have to copy that because night time is when I'm most tempted to eat all the treats that are so bad.
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