WOW - I lost 3.2 pounds last week!!!!!! I am 99% sure it was all water weight because Aunt Flo was in town at the last weigh-in. But, it goes to show that I did eat better, not ideally, but better.
I got to thinking about accountability and other things to help motivate me to lose weight. I realized that holding myself accountable is pretty dang hard and need an outside source to keep it going. And, an indefinite time period for the hostage dress accountability trial hasn't much helped.
After Thursday's meeting, Sandy and I brainstormed a new idea. We both agreed that we needed a short-duration challenge. And we both agreed it could not be scale based because of our 2 totally different body types. WW has check-offs your supposed to get called good health guidelines. When you meet your guidelines, you are awarded a smiley face in that category. Sandy I agreed on a challenge. The person who gets the most number of smiley-faces in a 2 week period wins a pedicure. Short, definite, with a goal in mind. By eating the guidelines, hopefully that will spur us into eating better and thus losing weight.
Part of the guidelines is to get physical activity everyday. I am going to have trouble with that one. I am more active than I used to be, that is for sure. I have a gym membership, that when I am not working 16 hour days, I do like to go to. I worked out Thursday evening and did weight lifting like my trainer advised. Saturday morning, I am still feeling the pain.....I definitely worked the muscles. So, here is a question, when I get home from work, should I go work out even though my muscles are still sore?
I am on shift at CAMS in Portland. Everything is going very well, and they may be shutting down hyperbaric operations within the week. DANG! I want to work some more because the money is freakin' awesome. They don't have another contract yet. It is going to be one of those feast-or-famine jobs. But, I will take the money while I can get it.
Later taters
Yes you should work out again. It will help work through that soreness, plus if you wait till your not sore your muscles will have forgotten what they did and it will be the same story all over again.
ReplyDeleteyes, workout...in other words, "Yeah, what Sandy said!"
ReplyDeleteShort, sweet and do the point goals are always good...in project management we call if low hanging fruit-attain those short-term goals first so that you have the momentum of improvement on your side when you hit the harder goals.
I think that you staying on track with your drinking water and eating...even if you don't do all of the exercising that you think you should...while you are transitioning at work speaks volumes about your dedication.