Weigh In Day

This week I have been focusing on eating only foods that I could log into LoseIt!. I logged everything, from low calorie drinks to condiments. It takes a lot of time to log everything but after a while it does become a habit and is easy to maintain. That is why I owe today's results from the scale to my entire week.

Today's weigh in revealed a 1.2 pound loss, talk about excited!! I wasn't sure what to expect because my last two days of eating have been kind of off schedule, but seeing that loss has motivated me to get back on the right track, which means; more clean eating, more exercise and more water.

Since starting the Biggest Loser workout I will take measurements next week to see how they compare when the 6 weeks are over.

Total loss this week: 1.2 pounds
Total loss for the month: 1.2 pounds
Total loss since the start of this journey: 16.4 pounds

Monthly Goals

My May monthly goals are pretty straightforward.

• Since starting the Biggest Loser workout (which runs 6 weeks) I have enjoyed it enough to know that my biggest goal for the month of May is to workout at least 5 days out of the week. If I have a day or so off, that is fine because my body needs to rest.
• I would like to drop at least 4 pounds, that is a pound a week and if I stick to "clean eating", water intake and exercise, I should be able to achieve it. Focusing on those three things can also help me when it comes to losing inches, which I hope will occur this month.
• Junk foods in something I want to cut out as well, no sweets for at least 5 days out of the week, instead my goal is to supplement those sweets with fruits.
• Logging foods everyday is something that I know will keep me accountable on this journey and for the past week it has helped me to see every single thing that is going in my mouth and how many calories they hold.

While these may not seem like a lot of goals they are big to me because they are things that I have yet to accomplish on this journey and by giving myself a month to get the done, I should be okay. 

Month in Review

Although yesterday was May 1, I didn't even pay attention to the date. I guess I was buried under all of that school work and didn't know what was going on in the world around me, let alone the date. The good in all of this, is that I took two of my hardest exams yet today and that means I no longer have to worry about them. Now, on to the purpose of this post.

Looking back at April, it started out ROUGH and I put that in all capitals for a reason, I gained 4.8 (yes you read correctly, a whopping 4.8) pounds. Now of course that gain came after a substantial loss so although I was pretty bummed at first, I stepped back and evaluated what I had or hadn't been doing. After all, that gain came after a substantial loss and I never have two of those in consecutive weeks.

In the end I came back from that and lost 3 pounds the following week, but gained 0.8 pounds the next week, which when I look at it (the average), it equals what I should have been losing in the first place.

Exercise wise, things really picked up at the end of the month. It was the first time I stayed on the ski climber (I think that is what I saw on the machine that I call the other elliptical) for an hour burning over 600 calories. That is also the same day I started the Biggest Loser workout. Although things got off to a rocky start at the beginning of the month, they picked up at the end of the month.

I am not sure how much "clean eating" I did over the course of the month but I never it was enough to help me drop those unwanted pounds.

Although April wasn't exactly the weight loss achievement month I wanted it to me, it was a month that I shouldn't complain about because it got me 30 steps closer to my goal.

Upcoming

Here is what is on its way to this blog:

• Month in review (April)
• Monthly goals (May)
• Overall reaction to week one of the Biggest Loser workout

These are just the first few topics planned, but of course, there will be more to come. Stick around and enjoy.