Sunday, April 8, 2012

I'm Not Surprised

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Thankfully today's the first rest day of the Blogging From A to Z Challenge. I need it. The writing is okay. I'm writing posts ahead of time and scheduling them. I have up to K written and after I write this post I'm planning on writing L. But it's not the writing that's been a problem. It's the commenting. I started out really well at the beginning of the week, I commented on almost 20 blogs the first day. Normally that's about the amount of blogs that I comment on in an entire month. Commenting is overwhelming for me and so far it's been a struggle to continue commenting.

So onto this week's weigh in! I wasn't surprised at all.

Weight: 262.8 lbs
Week Change: +0.7 lbs
Total Change: +0.2 lbs
Pounds to Goal: 117.8
BMI: 41.25

I have a plan but I'm having trouble implementing it. My plan isn't all kinds of crazy. It's to do yoga twice a day and walk Noel daily. Three sessions of cardio a week, three sessions of strength training a week and one rest day. For eating it's to maintain a negative net of calories every day. While I'm struggling over whether to schedule my rest days or just take them when I feel the need, that's not the problem I'm having.

The way I see it I can implement this one of three ways. I've been trying to dive in completely and do both the exercise and the calories. But I'm getting overwhelmed and am struggling to maintain it for multiple days. So that's not working for me. The other two ways are to implement exercise first and calories later, or to start with the calories first and the exercise later. I've read books arguing for instituting the exercise first but I've also read books saying that the calories need to come first. So I'm not sure which to do.

When I lost weight before, it just happened. I didn't have to put much effort into it. I went from having constant access to food to having limited access so my calorie count went down naturally. I was on my feet and active through the work day and would stop at the gym to relieve the stress from work on my way home.

I'm thinking that I'm going to try concentrating on just the exercise this next week. It's generally easier for me to control myself calorie wise than it is to motivate myself to do the exercise every day. I'll be really diligent about making sure that I get in all the exercise and just leave the calories alone until next week.Then my biggest problem is figuring out what to do about the rest day. Do I schedule it? Or wait till I'm tired and feel the need for one?

4 comments:

  1. I hear you with the problems with weight loss. The last time I lost weight it just happened, I exercised and ate properly, had no cravings etc....then I had stress at work for the last year and I gained weight like crazy...eating to calm my anxiety...now I am struggling to find my groove again and that bugs me extremely. I so need to go back to my self from a year ago, just don't know how! And how I did it the last time!

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    1. Tina - I'm a horrible emotional eater. Highs, lows, and boredom all manifest themselves as food cravings.I know what I need to do, it's the doing it that's a problem. That's is the hardest part of losing weight imo.

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  2. I have a bunch of Leslie Sansone Walk-At-Home DVDs and in one of them, she recommends making sure you get your movement in and the rest will come easier. Makes sense and it will tone your body as you loose weight so it doesn't get all flabby (like mine currently is!)

    I only have a couple more posts to finish & schedule before I can sit back & relax. I agree with the commenting! I just go on the A-Z website, scroll down to a random section & open a 10-20 in new tabs. I don't comment on every single one, but I can usually find something to say on most of them.
    Oh - and then replying to the comments left on my own posts, too! INSANE!!

    Good Luck!

    Lisa, the Life of Lisa

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    1. Lisa - I had really rational thinking as to why I decided to focus on exercise first, but at the moment I can't think of it.

      I found a few sites before and I'm wandered into a few from twitteror other blogs. I read probably about 40ish a day but only comment on about 5. Bad participant. I know.

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