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Motivation
October 24, 2011
It’s funny how the need to organize myself to study for an exam can be channeled into obsessively tracking my diet and exercise to result in 13 lbs of weight loss in 6 weeks. It’s not so funny how once the exam was over, that resolve to continue the diet and exercise to finish the weight loss disappeared. So net weight loss at this point is 10 lbs. The goal was originally to finish losing 25 lbs by Black Friday, so I could get myself a whole new wardrobe, but this is no longer a healthy option. Although, if I regained my resolve somehow starting today, I could still lose 10 lbs by then. “If” being the operative word.
Doesn’t help that in a couple of days I’ll be heading down South to the land of Paula Deen. Have you seen the food out in those parts? With the schedule there and the food, I seriously don’t think that I’ll be adhering to a weight-loss diet for the next week. So if I start a week later, then 8 lbs weight loss if I start in a week.
See? It’s helpful to write things out like this for myself, because 8 lbs less is plenty. I’d be overjoyed if I was successful at that. So I guess the goal now is to not gain anything this week, and get back to tracking obsessively when I return.
Wish me luck.
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