My First 100 Days
I’ve been holding at 166 for weeks now.
Mother nature has come and gone again and luckily my chocolate cravings hit just as I received a bag of Godiva Chocolate Truffle Coffee from one friend and a massive box of Godiva biscuits from another for Valentine’s Day. It’s a good thing we women burn an extra 15% of calories during that special week because I was a chocolate eating fool! If you add to that the fact that I have not been exercising then you have some pretty damning information on me.
It’s OK, I’ll admit it – I have not been giving this the attention it deserves.
On the up side, I’ve been out to eat a few times and always ordered foods that were good for me. I had Thai food for the first time on Tuesday. I ordered Rama Chicken which was chicken breast meat on a bed of deep green steamed broccoli topped with a peanut sauce. (Everything is better with peanut butter on it!) It was delicious! Rice was served on the side but I didn’t touch one grain of it. I ate half the chicken and broccoli and had the other half for lunch on Wednesday. Yesterday, I had lunch at Longhorn Steakhouse and ordered the Parmesan Chicken. It came with a side salad and instead of the potato, I had their garden vegetable mix. I ate the salad (left the croutons) and then ate half the chicken and vegetables. I took the rest of it home for a delicious dinner (which I forgot to eat at a normal time – it was about 8pm when I finally ate). Bad Lisa.
Beginning Monday, my ex husband will be out of town for a couple months so I’ll be settling into a routine with the kids at their house. I’m bringing my bike/desk, kettlebell and P90X DVDs and I’m going to use ALL of them!
Here’s what my measurements are looking like these days:
Weight: 166 (lost 5lbs since December even though my workouts have been rare)
Waist: 31.5 (A loss of 1.5 inches since December.)
Hips: 40 (One less inch since December.)
Bust: 39 (I don’t mind not losing there!)
I’ve also lost a half inch from each thigh and dropped 2% bodyfat since December.
I accept the fact that there will always be ups and downs with plateaus in between. This is a long term lifestyle I’m working on and the changes won’t happen overnight. With that in mind, the ticker on my computer is reminding me that I only have 265 days left until the Lackland Classic.
Wow! It’s been 100 days. Let’s take a look at my first 100 days:
I’ve lost 10 pounds, 8.5 inches and 3% bodyfat.
Another 200 days with progress like that and I’ll be doing alright – not “step-on-stage” alright, but pretty darned good.
I need to kick this up a notch and cut a lot more fat. Is anyone still out there? I could use a kick in the butt once in a while so feel free to leave a comment or email me at Lisa@saxtreme.com if you don’t see any blogs from me.
Please don’t let me slack off?!
We need to keep focused on our progress. We both have leveled off and I’m working and walking the halls of USAA…which ain’t no joke! We’ll get there!
I know we will. It’s just getting into a workable routine. We both have new jobs, new schedules, more personal and professional commitments, book releases, a magazine to publish…meals to plan, workouts to do, sleep to get -WHAAAT? LOL
But this is how it works. Nobody lives in a vacuum. We just have to do the best we can every day and stick with it.
I was a witness of how good you were this week 🙂 You didn’t eat any of the jasmin rice and didn’t order Thai Tea (which has TONS of sugar). I also got to see the definition of your arm muscles as you walked into the restaurant… that’s so awesome, Lisa! Right then and there you inspired me to kick up a notch on my exercise routines and hopefully I’ll get to see my muscles pop out too 😉 Keep up the great work!
Thank you, Ana! It was a great dinner with good company. (And clearly I need to wear that sweater more often!)