Day 55: Plateau Breaker
Breakfast: 7:00
am--supplements (1 vitamin, 1 lipocell, 1 neuroslim, as well as my
normal glucosamine/chondroitin, vitamin C, and calcium chews) 2 eggs
Snack: 11:30
pm--S4L wild berry drink
Lunch: 12:15 pm--supplements (1 lipocell) 2 c romaine, 6 oz chicken, LOTS of Morton Lite Salt
Snack: 3:30 pm--S4L butter pecan bar, orange
Dinner: 7:30 pm--supplements (9 fish oil, 1 lipocell) 2 c romaine, 4 oz beef, LOTS of Morton Lite Salt, ketchup, mustard, light MW
Water: 100 oz water
Wow. I know it's been a looong time since I posted, but I had no idea it had been over a month. I'm sorry :-( I know many of you have asked about how things are going, and some of you need this encouragement (whatever small amount I can offer you), and I really wanted to post, but not badly enough to sit down and do it.
Just like I mentioned above, the longer you wait, the longer you wait. I've found this with my blog; I've also found it with eating on plan, with exercising, with my business--basically, with anything. I'll admit it: I've had several days over the last few weeks where I ate lots of things that weren't on plan. I've been off plan more days in the last month more than I've eaten on plan. I've eaten some really bad (for you, but they tasted so good!) things. My weight loss has showed it too. (In my defense, my birthday is the same week as Thanksgiving, so we took several days off there. I came back having lost 2 pounds though!!) I haven't lost nearly as much as I should have at the rate I was losing before Thanksgiving. I also had a REALLY hard time getting back on track.
I've found it takes a huge amount of ambition and motivation to do something after you've placated yourself and let bad habits form and take hold for any amount of time. Let alone a month. If I had decided that the day after my birthday I was going to be at my lowest weight (which I actually was--3 days later), and stayed on track after that, I would have written about all the delicious things I ate over Thanksgiving and been proud to tell you that I am still doing well. Instead, I hit that low, decided I didn't need to stay on plan to lose the weight, gained several pounds back, and haven't had a day fully on plan since then. I also avoided going in to S4L, ashamed of my failure to stay on plan. I'm not really sure what made me decide to go back; I just went in this week, talked to one of the girls I've connected most with, and amazingly, after eating fast food for days on end over the last month, I had only gained 2 pounds since that low point. I was encouraged (this time to eat well, not to eat whatever--that's how I got in this situation) and we decided that the best thing for my motivation would be to see some real progress.
Kara and I discussed how I felt stuck between 260 and 265 and I was yo-yoing from one to the other (well, technically 261...). I told her if I could just break out of the 260's that I would feel like I was getting somewhere.
Bring
in the Plateau Breaker. It hasn't been the most pleasant 2 days (I've
had to eat ONLY the things listed, for the same meals each day), but I
weighed myself at home this morning and believe I could very well make
it to my goal. I really want to be 259 or less when I go weigh in tomorrow. I think from there, I will feel like I've lost more and am on pace for reaching my final goal in a timely fashion. I'll let you know tomorrow whether I made it :-)
Back to waiting: If you want to do something in your life, start NOW. The longer you wait for the perfect time, the perfect job, the perfect weather, the perfect person, the perfect financial situation, the window of opportunity will close. You want to start exercising? Stretch and do some pushups today before you go to bed. You want to go on a trip? Start saving all your extra cash or get another job. You want a better marriage/family life? Turn off the phones and TV and spend time with them. You want to read the Bible and pray more? God's waiting. Open your Bible.
The longer you wait to get started on something, the further you get from the reason you wanted to do it in the first place. If you distance yourself from your dreams, desires, from those ideas of the lifestyle you want to lead by waiting, you'll fill yourself up with excuses and talk yourself out of how much you truly desired it in the first place. One of my new favorite slogans from Pinterest inspired me and I'd like to share it with you:
One year from now, imagine all that could happen in your life. You could have read the Bible cover to cover. You could have a child. You could train for a marathon. You could fall in love and get married. You could do any number of things. Or you could keep putting off your dreams for "tomorrow," "Monday morning (which ironically is tomorrow)," "a better ________________ situation." I'm so pumped up about all the things I want to change and explore, that I doubt if I'll be able to sleep for several hours tonight!
On that note, I should go spend time with my hubby, read our Bible, pray for guidance and direction for our lives, and God's blessing on our families until we can be with them again. Go. Do. Now.
