In reflection on week one, Maggianos aside, I did well on the eating for balance & portion. To aid in reflection and keeping myself honest on food intake I have been keeping an eating log. Just a small notebook where I jot down what I eat and when. With it I use one of the classic white & blue plastic Bic pens with four ink colors to choose from. If what I've ate is well balanced and portioned then it goes in the book in green ink. If it was just OK, not bad or great; then blue ink. And if I've missed the mark entirely then red ink it is. For the past week I have 4 such entries in red. Not surprisingly two of these are restaurant visits; Bill's Pub & Maggianos. The other two were evening slips, also not surprisingly, where I took liberty to enjoy this Russian dessert my son made for a school project. I forget the name of it but it was a highly sugary & fatty little treat. Otherwise many green entries and a few blues fill my log for week one.
As for exercise I exercised just once, yesterday, which of course wont cut it going forward. My intent is to add more exercise in week two and begin to put a routine together. Going to need help with good routines for someone just starting such a mission.
With an initial 2% weight loss one might expect that I should plan on this mission taking 50 weeks. But we all know that's not an exact correlation I can make. When I started this I figured this will take between 1 & 2 years; so if I do accomplish it in 50 weeks I'll exceed expectations. Something to hope & strive for.
Looking at he picture above I know it is hard to see the 2% loss from Day 1 to Day 8, but trust me there is 2% less width there. Going to be less width a week from now too!
Goals for the coming week will be to have less red entries and exercise more than week one.
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I think that you are off to a great start...sure not perfection, but it is your plan and it is working for you. While it sounds corny, I wouldn't worry about the timeline unless, of course, that is a specific motivator for you. For me, time took care of itself as long as I looked at each day as an opportunity to hit a healthy lifestyle homerun. Sometimes they were just doubles and triples...but I rarely struck out or hit into a double-play because I only had that single day or that single choice to focus on instead of a long run of days ahead to be concerned about.
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That's a great start. These lifelong habits take time to kick in and you've got to be able to live life a little too.
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