Week 19 of the 20 in 20 challenge is LATE! Sorry! Oh holy crap this challenge is almost finished! How are you doing?
First, my weight:
- High of 145.9
- Sunday’s weight: 145.9
- Weekly average: 145.3
- Total loss so far: 14.7 lbs (based on average)
Weekly goals
- Diet: 0/5 Goal: M-F tracking 1400 calories on MyPlate weekend = 1 cheat meal per day, 1 dessert per day. GAH! Boyfriends are BAD FOR WEIGHT LOSS! Plus, I was sick. 🙁
- Exercise: 0/7 Goal: 3 BJJ classes, weight lifting 2 days, running 2 times Sick sick sicky sick.
- Sleep: 0/3 Goal: 7 hours 3 days this week Dang it! Boyfriends are awful for sleeping time!
Successes/challenges:
- Success: Ummmm…got a boyfriend?
- Challenge: When a super good-looking Spanish man is attempting to feed you dulce de leche, YOU EAT IT!
- Challenge: Said good-looking Spanish man also loves wine, and when he brings wine to you, YOU DRINK IT.
- Challenge: DUDE – HOW DO PEOPLE IN A RELATIONSHIP LOSE WEIGHT? I DON’T EVEN KNOW! This is sincerely the first time I’ve had a HUGE bump in the road. I’m so chock full of happy hormones that I don’t even care. Gah.
- Challenge: Going home next week and my classes are finishing = high stress.
Next week’s goals:
- Exercise: BJJ x1 (work schedule)
- Drinks: 🙁 I know I can’t resist sexy Spanish men handing me wine. Beyond wine, only milk, coffee, and water.
- Food: I don’t even know. 🙁 Bah.
I will post the end on MONDAY (in Korea – so it’ll be Sunday your time, likely). It’ll be complete with befores and afters, including size differences. I already know that I’m not making my end goal, but – DUDE – I lost 15 freaking pounds! What the what?! That’s amazing! Anyway, sorry that my new relationship status has made me be a delinquent!
Report in, people!
Pictures:
Pictures are forthcoming. I took pictures then my battery died and I can’t find my recharger.
My old photo:
LOL. You do seem a little distracted.
Congratulations, Julia. Fifteen pounds in twenty weeks is something. You’ve worked so hard for it, so do care! You want to maintain all that progress you’ve made! Perhaps stay more active when not doing bjj by dancing frequently? Long walks in the park? Romantic night swims?
You don’t lose weight with your boyfriend. You spend time together, revel in each others presence, eat, drink, be merry n soppy n stuff for as long as you can because eventually it changes (it doesn’t die it just morphs into a deeper more respect love than a panting puppy type of love). Lap it up while its there and worry about the weight later, plenty of time in your life (and frankly you look great you’ve got no weight issues, well done!).
Then – you find an exercise ou both enjoy (read: he does bjj with you). You get happy hormones from training together and you associate highs with that person and that subconsciously fuels your relationship while both keeping fit. IMHO.
Love the public accountability btw
find an exercise you both enjoy
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I hope you appreciate how much superhuman restraint I’m employing to not make any smart-@ss comments correlating this suggestion with your “sleep” report for this week. Wait- did that count as a smart-@ass comment?
hahaha!
You’re doing an awesome job!! I was on vacation and went to Disney, so I’ve missed our morning check ins.. I thought I’d keep it up, but it was too hard. Sorry. : ) 15 pounds is great!! I’m still about the same as when I jumped in… I was hoping to get some extra motivation to get my weight loss moving, but I still get easily side tracked. LIFE!! lol But I’m not giving up, and trying to focus on eating healthy. Thanks for the motivation!
Checking in at 170.8 last Sunday, which put me exactly at 25 pounds lost. I’m really pleased because I was pretty sure I’d gain, or at least not lose, weight during the holidays, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. It’s easier than I thought though–I’m letting myself enjoy holiday food while I’m at holiday functions, and just eating sensibly the rest of the time. I’m trying to keep the Christmas cookies and stuff out of the house–pretty hard though when I have 2 little girls who have been asking to make Christmas brownie pops all weekend. I know what I’m doing tomorrow LOL.
As far as the boyfriend thing…yeah, it’s hard. Some of my current physique is due to my 3 kids, but about 30 pounds of it is because of casting caution to the wind after I met Lane. When you have a routine that works for you, and then it gets disrupted.(even in a good way) it’s hard to find a new one that works. But, it’s fabulous when you find someone new and you love spending time with them, and that high doesn’t last forever–Steiny is right that the feelings get deeper, but less all-consuming, long-term. So enjoy this, eat some dulce de leche, drink some wine, and eat healthy the rest of the time when you aren’t around him 🙂