Today is SUCH a good day for me, a red-letter day really.
Apart from the fact that I woke up needing 2 more hours sleep, and therefore bailed on going to the gym with my friend, I’ve been feeling a lot better today. Remnants of the cold are still hanging around, but I feel like I have more energy, and will definitely be up for aquafit tomorrow.
When I weighed myself this morning something WONDERful happened…I had lost weight despite eating all that junk yesterday and not working out. This just made me feel good because it means I factored the junk food into my diet properly, so I feel a little less guilty. I like this a lot because when I reach my ideal weight I plan on being able to eat chocolate and other things, but I need to learn how to compensate for the junk food by practising self-restraint with some other food choices later in the day. So I guess I’m getting better at this!
Anyway, another amazing thing happened today! I have officially lost 10 POUNDS since I started about a month ago (okay, so a month and a week ago), and I’ve decided that I will analyze my body and so on every 10 lb’s. So I took some more progress photos and compared them to the ones from a month ago…not too much progress. That disappointed me a lot because I thought you’d be able to tell more, but then when I was getting changed, I decided to wear new pair of shorts. I bought these shorts with Titi and Calgal last month when we went fashion shopping and I hadn’t worn them yet, but I thought, “I’d better wear these before it’s too cold to”, and guess what??? They are almost TOO BIG!!! They’re a size 12, and a little stretchy, but they’re loose on me in some parts, and I can pull them down without undoing them! This was so encouraging that I decided to make the 10 lb mark a time when I would look at all the clothes I couldn’t fit into anymore and give the old articles of clothing a whirl.
In this small pile of clothes I found this pair of pants that didn’t fit me last month (it hurt my stomach to do them up and they were too tight in the butt…you know the kind) but THIS month they fit me!!!! I was honestly giggling I was so giddy about it. They’re a size 11, so hey, that’s progress! I thought I’d push my luck and try on a pair of size 10 capris, and they fit pretty well too, but they’re stretchy and are just a little too form-fitting across the butt for me right now. Maybe in another 5 or 10 pounds. But still!!!!!!
Anyway, I’m so excited because I’m nearly in the 150’s, and the Boy said that once I hit the 150’s he’ll buy me an ipod for when I go jogging. He’s cute because he knows I’m incentive driven, and he’s told me that I’ll get something new when I hit the 140’s too…I’m thinking maybe a good pair of running shoes or something. NOT clothing because I totally plan on continuing this downward trend until I hit my goal, and that’s when I’ll go clothes shopping.
ALSO here’s another reason why today has been so awesome. I was feeling better in the late morning, and I was so pumped about my recent weight loss that I wanted to keep it going, so I went jogging. I told myself that I would only stop and walk when I felt like I absolutely HAD to (and I assumed that would be pretty soon given the cold), but I actually ended up jogging my ENTIRE route without stopping to walk! Even when I had to cross the busy street twice, it was miraculously clear and I just jogged on through. This is such a big deal for me, because it means I can jog 2km without stopping…just think of the possibilities in a month from now!
For all you avid joggers out there, I don’t know if you’ve found better software for this, but there’s this cool website called Runningmap.com and you can chart out your route and it’ll tell you the distance of it based on the scale of the map. It’s pretty cool, and you don’t even need to sign up for it.
So, to sum up, it’s on days like today that I think to myself, “I LOVE losing weight. It’s hard and sometimes it sucks and feels like it’ll never happen, but it will, and when it does my self-confidence will be given such a boost that I’ll be addicted to it and more motivated and want to keep going”, or at least that’s what my inner-monologue was saying earlier!
It’s midday so I know I might eat some junkfood later, but if I do, I’ll be sure to update this, don’t worry! I’m all about the honesty today. Here are the stats:
Weight: 160.8
Workout: Jogged 2 km (non-stop!!!), walked 0.55 km
Junk food: Leftover pizza for late lunch/early dinner, a couple pieces of chocolate that I had the self-restraint not to eat yesterday
