Welcome to week 16! Week 16 of the 20 in 20 challenge is finished! I’m feeling a little bit of stress about this coming to an end! My end goal is 140 – I HOPE I will make it!
First, my weight:
- High of 149
- NEW LOW of 145.9!
- Saturday’s weight: 145.9
- Weekly average: 148.2
- Total loss so far: 11.8 lbs (based on average)
Diana has proved invaluable. Thank you thank you thank you!
Weekly goals
- Drinks 5/5 Goal: M-F water, black coffee, tea, and post-workout drink. No issues.
- Exercise 4/6 Goal: 3 BJJ classes, weight lifting 1 day, running 2 days. Went to 2 classes and injured myself, ran 2 times, didn’t lift weights.
- Diet 5/5 – Goal: 4 days no pasta/bread/sugar. Yep.
- Diet tracking 4+/5 – Goal: M-F tracking calories – 1400 Tracked everything, went over once.
- Sleep 3/3: Goal: 7 hours 3 days this week. 3 days at 7 hours, 2 days at 6+ hours.
Successes/challenges:
- Success: Tracked M-F and checked in with Diana all but one days.
- Success: I am DEFINITELY in the 148 range – my numbers show it.
- Success: Hit a new weight loss low.
- Challenge: Oh man – Thanksgiving is coming up! Must be prepared – like going to war!
- Challenge: Met a man – and there could be dinners and drinks in my future!
Next week’s goals:
I’m not going to be tracking the no pasta/rice/sugar M-F or the drinks M-F any more because they’re not a problem. Instead I’m going to focus on calorie tracking, exercise, and sleep.
- Again, checking in with Diana every day.
- Diet: M-F tracking 1400 calories, weekend = 1 cheat meal per day, 1 dessert per day Note: This may change to one dessert per week.
- Exercise: 3 BJJ classes, weight lifting 1 day, running 2 times
- Sleep: 7 hours 3 days this week
How are you dealing with Thanksgiving? What is your strategy?
Pictures:
I feel fit and firm now! I feel amazing! I actually look more “ab-alicious” however, I intentionally don’t flex for the camera in these, so you can’t see it as much.
For comparison:
You look great!! I wish I didn’t get derailed, but I’m not stopping!! And I’m back at the gym finally. We’re not going out of town to see family for thanksgiving this year, so we’re just going to a friends house. That’s good because as last minute guests I won’t want to eat too much, and I won’t have to deal with left overs!! At weight watchers we talked about filling half our plate with fruit / veggies. (clean veggies lol) and then 1/4 turkey and 1/4 stuffing and potatoes. Not drinking too much, because once you had a couple, who cares about tracking!! And plan a small piece of the best dessert. They also say, if you look at ALL the available food before putting it on your plate, that you’ll be able to make better choices. That’s advice for buffets too. So here’s to not going crazy on Thanksgiving. Good luck!!
Good advice about the drinking! I can’t have more than one right now anyhow, but I agree that if I had any more that I’d be more likely to throw caution to the wind.
I’m a big fan of virgin bloody marys, so I am going to start ordering that if I go out to bars.
Nice strategy – I’ve heard about using your plate like that:
http://www.wesweight.com.au/_blog/Weight_Loss_Tips/tag/Weight_Loss_Tips/
THANK YOU for the good tips!
GOOOOOOAL! I have lost 20.4 pounds as of this morning! I expect to put that .4 pounds back on Thursday LOL. So…I am 175.4 pounds now, and you can do the math for my starting weight (shudder). I was 160 when I got pregnant with Griffin, so I have about 15 more pounds to lose by April if I want to hit my new goal. I’ll stay on this challenge and keep reporting, although I’m not sure I’ll lose any weight now that the holidays are approaching. If I can just maintain, that will be awesome. I don’t really have a strategy for Thanksgiving–my plan is to eat whatever is at the table and enjoy it, and just make sure I don’t eat like that for the entire day. I think ultimately my goal will be around the same as yours–somewhere between 130 and 140 would be a healthy weight for me at 5’6″.
OMG THAT’S AMAZING! CONGRATULATIONS, YOU! I’ll be curious about my end weight – which I think will end up simply being a end size rather than weight. Ultimately it will be size that I concern myself with, even if the scale goes up due to muscles.
First of all, congrats to everyone! I knew as soon as I took the first bite of my beloved fiance’s cooking that he would be trouble for my weight loss goals lol. But it’s all good. Weight watchers also taught me to pile that plate with the good stuff because it is harder to get too many calories from fruits and veggies. I also finally found some dates in my tiny town (Rener Gracie’s videos had me wanting to try them), and I can say two of them really did satisfy my major sweet tooth after dinner tonight! Anyway keep up the good work, everyone!
VERY COOL! I’ve been meaning to pick up dates at the international food market here. I’m a HUGE fan of dried plums – so freaking delicious.