SIS#30 - On the Road Again

Self-Improvement Sundays

***29 weeks complete, On pace, 72 lbs - Goal 101 lbs in 1 year***

Three weeks of being stuck...and we're on the road again, baby! To be honest, I've been eating a little more. Rather than scrimping more and cutting my points to a lower weight zone, I backed up to my current weight zone for Weight Watchers points.


It's the strangest thing: eating 1200 calories a day, walking 7 miles a day, and loosing nothing.


So the first "decade" is down. In this last 40 pounds, the "60's" are done. Ah, the 60's. I won't forget being stuck on 69 pounds for 3 weeks. I don't know if I can lose all 101 pounds in one year. I want to. But I know I'm learning a few things on the way. Like, doing something really hard is totally different from facing something impossible. And I'm not sure how often we know the difference on the front end.

SIS#29 - Plateau Busting Plans

Self-Improvement Sundays

***28 weeks complete, Behind pace, 69 lbs - Goal 101 lbs in 1 year***

Yes, I'm still on a weight loss plateau. Three weeks with no weight loss. Although it's jeopardizing my one year goal, I'm not very upset about it. I still feel like my body is toning up, so that's very good.

Yesterday I hit my 50 day mark for 7 miles walking every day. So I've walked well over 350 miles in that span. It takes a good case of hay fever to sneeze at that! (It's nothing to sneeze it...let me explain my obscure humor.)

Here's what I'm hoping to do more of to move off of this plateau.

1. Variety in food, both the amounts and the types.
2. Variety in exercise - get some more hills on the walks, do some more running, biking, swimming.
3. Accuracy - make double dog sure I'm not fudging myself.
4. Water - look at 100+ oz per day.
5. Strength training - if I need to take this step, get back into some basic calisthenics: squats, pushups and crunches are my standby's.
6. Non-weight metrics - Look at what else I'm winning at besides pounds: health, clothes sizes, walking miles.

That's a summary of some suggestions I've ready. Three weeks of being stuck is enough for me!

I've been asking myself whether this is all really worth it, or if I should just flip into maintenance mode. But it dawned on me, What if this is just really difficult? I mean, what if it's not impossible, just really hard to do? I can do difficult. I don't want to quit because of difficult. I guess I keep going...