Week six of the 20 in 20 challenge is finished! Only 14 to go! End goal is 140 for me. You’ll have to excuse me as I do a bit more reflection and share more pics, because I hit a MAJOR MILESTONE in my life. Also, there’s a cool article up on eatyourkimchi.com about losing weight in Korea.
First, my weight:
- High of 154.7
- NEW LOW of 151!!
- Saturday’s weight: 151.6
- Weekly average: 152.9
- Total loss so far: 7.1 lbs (based on average)
Weekly goals:
- Drinks 6/7 Goal: Black coffee, water, perhaps pocari sweat, and my post-workout choco milk. One beer is okay. Only one day not doing this – I had a tonic water. But I realized I don’t like the feeling it gives me, so I think I’m done with them. I also discovered a vinegar drink – you mix it with water. Delicious and healthy.
- Exercise 4/6 Goal: 4 days of BJJ (I CAN go: today, Sunday, M, T, W, F – so if I hit 4/6 I’m at goal, more = bonus points!), 2 days to the gym. Excellent – hit 4 days of BJJ but completely failed on gym.
- Diet 4/6 – Five days of 1400 calories. Six days of no pasta/rice/bread/sugar. Ack. I’m doing really terribly on food tracking. Sunday I ate an Indian food buffet. Monday = goal, Tuesday I met with my friend and I ate a whole homemade pizza. The rest of the week I ate well but didn’t track. Geez louise.
- Sleep 5/5: 6 hours 5 nights this week. Made my goal with spare change. Hit almost 8 one night and almost 7 one night.
Successes/challenges:
- Success: Hitting my BJJ goal
- Success: New weight loss low – 151, a total of 80 lbs lost
- Challenge: Really hate tracking food
- Challenge: I’m starting to feel like I can reward myself with food. >_<
Next week’s goals:
- M-F 1400 calories.
- M-F no pasta/rice/bread/sugar.
- Drinks: Black coffee, water, vinegar drink and my post-workout choco milk.
- Exercise: 4 classes of BJJ, 2 days to the gym. DANG IT I WILL GET TO THE GYM!!!
- Sleep: 6.5 hours 5 nights this week, one day of 8 hours.
Measurements:
For whatever reason, I got a bug up my butt to measure myself 2 weeks early. I am COMPLETELY shocked.
- Thigh: now 23″ was 30″ 7 inches lost total!
- Calf: now 16.5″ was 20″ 3.5 inches lost!
- Belly: now 35″ was 45″ TEN INCHES LOST!
- Hips (around the butt): now 39″ was 49″ TEN INCHES LOST!
- Chest (note: around top part near armpits): now 35″ was 40″ 5 inches lost!
- Biceps: now 12.5″ was 15″ 2.5 inches lost!
- Waist: 30″ (didn’t measure back then) – the size my THIGHS USED TO BE!
I recognize that many people who have lost weight suffer from Body Dysmorphia – and funny enough, I was just reading an article about it –Body Dysmorphia: The Side Effects of Losing Weight by Crissfit. To be clear: I don’t believe I was ugly when I was fat. I just had no awareness of how fat I was. I feel like I’m in one of those body swap sci fi episodes.
How did you do? What were your pros and cons for the week? Did you stick to your plan? How are you on your goals?
Pictures:
For comparison:
Holy crapoli. Your face has slimmed to the point where I practically don’t recognize you.
Awesome! Keep it up!
SMOOCHES I LOVE YOU! ^_^ I know – I plan to visit a convention when I visit home and it’s VERY possible some people there will absolutely not recognize me.
“Waist: 30″ (didn’t measure back then) – the size my THIGHS USED TO BE!”
Way. To. Go. And +1 on the face slimming!
YAY! Thank you!!!
Damn girl, I am so very impressed. I have managed to come up to where you are heading down… if that makes sense! I’m not working out much at all due to this fertility treatment crap.. but I am eating pretty healthily, and still losing weight though slowly (1 lb a week, 2 if I’m lucky.) I’m 10 lbs down from my all-time high, but still 6 lbs up from where I used to live (and easily 15 lbs higher than where I would be more comfortable.)
Haircut is cute too. 🙂
Okay! Is this where I check in?? Well here goes!
Upper arm – 14 inches
Chest – 41
Waist – 39.5
Hips – 49
Waist to hip ratio – .81 (the lowest of Moderate risk, .80 is low risk!)
Thighs – 27
So far this week is going pretty good!! Just have to motivate to get in some strength training, my biggest challenge!! TRACKING that food!!!
Julia before= Fabulous
Julia now= Fabulouser
Yay!!!
Congrats on the weight loss! I also recently lost a lot of weight and understand how hard it is. I dropped 35 pounds and am now down to around 10% body fat. I used the paleo diet to drop my weight and keep it off. I would like to lose another 5 lbs or so but I am happy with where I am at. Keep up the good work!
Wow. 10%? When I visit home in January I’m planning to go to a BodPod and get my body fat percentage accurately checked!
Your progress pictures are amazing. I need to take some of my own, not nearly as dramatic as yours though.
When I first lost my weight I went through some weird body image issues. My brain knew I looked better but I felt so weird weighing less than 180 pounds. I am a former rugby player and I had this whole body image of big, tough guy who weighed more than 200 lbs and could break almost any tackle. So then when I looked in the mirror and saw a skinny guy looking back it felt so weird and I wanted to gain weight back (preferably muscle). Unfortunately I don’t think I will be able to put on 25 lbs of muscle to get back up to 200 lbs but over the past couple months I have gotten used to my new weight.
Thanks! I still have a little ways to go, but it’s weird to reach that point where I’ve lost ONE THIRD of my body weight! o_O
Yeah – I’m still in transition – by this time next year I should be at my target size and be in maintenance. I figure it will likely take more than a year to feel like it’s MY SKIN.
Hooray! Excellent work on your weight loss- we’re totally bjj weight loss buddies 🙂
I just want to add that your new -do looks so cute!
Thanks! My first mohawk – an accidental one, but I like it now that it’s a tiny bit grown out.