Days of abstinence: 27
Days until surgery: 57
Weight: 165.2 pounds
My progress is not on downward movement of my scale, but with the
changes I said I would implement this week.
They are:
- Go back to my normal coffee consumption, which is 2 cups a day.
- As soon as I read the article, Saturday, on how stress impacts weight loss and understood how increased caffeine consumption can cause an increase in the hormones that impede weight loss by further whacking out my biorhythms, I poured out the rest of my second pot of coffee and decided that I would no longer make pot number 2. This isn’t a big deal, it’s not hard to only have a couple cups of coffee in the morning, but I had started relying on a 3rd of 4th cup to “get me through the morning.” I’m fine with 2 cups. I drink them in the morning with my breakfast and while I blog. By the time I get to work I am done drinking coffee. Success!
- Workout for an entire hour by adding a jog/walk to the end of my Black Fire routine.
- Yesterday, this did not
happen. In fact, yesterday, I did not
work out at all. That is because I
worked a 13.5 hour day on Sunday and did not get to bed Sunday night until well
after 11. But I went to bed at my normal
time last night and was able to get out of bed at 4 this morning. I did my Black Fire workout and then headed
outside for a jog that turned out to be more of a 2 mile walk. That’s OK.
I had a feeling that my body wouldn’t really want to run after the
workout, but I got outside, jogged part of it, and increased my workout time to
slightly over an hour. This felt
great! And I now I have a goal which is
to be able to jog the entire 2 miles after my workout. This is quite attainable. Success!
- Get the support I need at work from my bosses so that I don’t feel like I am carrying too much of the load on my own shoulders.
- I have spoken to two of my bosses about the need for support. Both were quite understanding and even apologetic about not understanding sooner how the lack of support from them was impacting my ability to get my job done. Even though I worked 13.5 hours on Sunday, so did the entire Board of Directors. I was not there alone. We ploughed through something that needed to be ploughed through, as a group. I put the finishing touches on it yesterday morning, but as a group we got most of the work done, together. Yesterday I worked a reasonable 9 hour workday and was home in time to cook the last of our meals for the week and eat dinner with Jack. Success!
I feel good about the
progress on all three fronts. I’ll still
work too much over the next couple of weeks, but I am trying to keep it all in
perspective. Reducing the stress I feel
is very important to my overall health.
It really did feel good to get outside and jog/walk this morning. The sky was beautiful.
I know yesterday’s post
about the number of calories in the food at Jason’s Deli was silly. I’ve known forever that the calorie count in
food at most restaurants is ridiculously high.
I guess what surprised me more than anything is that the number of
calories in the food didn’t even register to the people that were ordering the
food. When the menu popped up on the
projector and they were choosing what they wanted to eat, the first thing I saw
was the calories. If I had to order from
the menu I would have looked for the 3 or 4 things with the least number of
calories that had a decent amount of protein in it and ordered that. It has become such a habit to pay attention
to how many calories that I consume that I just assume everyone does it, at
least when it’s easy. I always assumed
that if restaurants posted the calories in their food people would naturally start
picking healthier options. But, if I use
this very small sample size as evidence for the population as a whole, that is
not the case. The calories in the food
they were consuming didn’t even phase them.
Knowing how many calories were in each item did not impact their choice
at all. I was genuinely surprised by
this. I guess I shouldn’t have been, but
I was. I must be totally indoctrinated
into the habit of “watching what I eat,” because I now make the assumption that
everyone does it, as least a little bit, at least when it’s easy. Wrong.
That’s it for today. Running late, already.
Have a beautiful day!!
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