Weekly Weigh-In: Learning To Love Small Victories

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aug 3 weightI’m down a total of 0.6 lbs. Not as much as I hoped, but I’ll take it. The needle moved in the right direction and I need to keep it up. This plateau’s kung fu is very strong. But I’m stronger. I will break its death grip.

I have essentially lost 2 sticks of butter this week. When you put it that way, -0.6 lbs is pretty frickin’ awesome.

Funny, when I got off the scale I felt disappointed. I know that the average safe weight loss is up to 2 lbs a week.  But like most people, I focus on “2 lbs” and that becomes my weekly benchmark. I need to temper my expectations. If I keep up the work I’m doing this week – eating right and exercising – I’ll have weeks where I’m down 2 lbs or 0.3 lbs.

I just need to keep my eyes on the prize and celebrate all the victories…no matter the size.

Weekly Weigh-In: Dodged A Bullet

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Despite Wednesday’s food bender (and the alcohol last week) I’m up just 1 lbs. Sure I’m relieved, but I can’t help but feel that my body granted me a reprieve. So constant carb vigilance or I pay the piper the next time I set foot on that scale.

Weekly Weigh In – Down 3 Lbs!

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chartThe numbers are moving in the right direction again. Down 3 lbs since the end of June. I expect the rest of my Arizona weight to fall off by the end of this week.

I postponed the daily walks the last week. I really wanted to focus on good eating habits. Plus the humidity was brutal last week. But the walks start back up this week – rain or shine.

Weekly Weigh In – April 13

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april 13 weigh inAnother good week. I’m down 1.6 lbs. That puts me at a total loss of 68 lbs. If I keep it up, I should be close to losing 25% of my body weight near the beginning of June. Very happy!

I do think I need to improve on my water intake. That started slipping towards the end of the week. Don’t know why, as I always have water with me. I had to play catch up last night. I ended up staying up a bit later than I wanted just to finish that last glass of H2O. I’m half way through my quota today, so I think I’m back on track.

When I told my hubby about my weight loss, he was surprised that it was “only” 1.6 lbs. I think the look on my face made him realize his faux pas. He quickly corrected himself to say, “that’s awesome.”

I wasn’t upset with him. It’s not uncommon for me to go to my weigh in feeling confident after a week of staying on program and working out, thinking I lost a tonnage but ended up “only” losing .2 lbs.

The truth is average weekly weight loss is up to 2 lbs. When I first started my most recent adventure in weight loss, I was losing 4, 5 and even 8 lbs. in a week. Why? Water. I needed to lose all the excess water in my body before I could burn the fat. Now I’m burning fat, the weight comes off at a slower pace (which is also much more healthy to boot!).

The most important thing is that the weight is coming off.

Weekly Weigh in – April 6

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With this weeks weight loss, Dot to Trot has lost more than 20% of her total body weight.

With this week’s weight loss, Dot to Trot has lost more than 20% of her total body weight.

Despite battling an infection this week, I ended up losing 1.8 lbs. So it looks like the new trainer is paying off. That makes the total weight loss 66.4 lbs which means I’ve officially lost 20% of my body weight!