weight loss diary: week 3 of 15

Yoinks! Last night I took some herbal muscle relaxant to alleviate the pain in my jaw and totally did not get up this morning. Add in the time change confusion (I thought 12:00 was 11), I ended up not getting out of bed until around noon. I made getting up early one of my goals for April.

Overall, a good week... although I took a pretty hard fall off the wagon on Friday night...

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Week 3 Stats, 3/26 - 4/1:

• Weight: 129.5 lbs
• Body Fat: 28.5%
• Body Fat Lost: 0.5 lbs
• Total Points: 195 (target = 186.5)
• Average Steps: 6,145.3 per day

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Me, 4/2/06. You can't tell from the pictures, but I fit better in the dress. I could see the difference when I put it on.

Workouts:

• Goal: 3 workouts this week
• Tues, 3/28: Elliptical 10 mins, Strength on Bosu 20 mins
• Wed, 3/29: Spinning 10 mins, Kickboxing 30 mins
• Fri, 3/31: Kickboxing 20 mins, Walk 20 mins

Accomplishments:

• Renained pretty much on goal for most of the week
• Had enough points saved up for a 27 point dinner on Friday
• Did cardio kickboxing on Wed, and got my mojo back. I'm better than the teacher! (OK, she was a sub.)
• Walked A LOT. I mean, most of my days were 7,000+ steps, which are not counted in AP
• Went out on Thursday and stuck to my allocated 2 beers. Also I managed to resist the fried foods
• Was at work at 9 or earlier
  

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What Helped Me:

• The blogs and boards, of course. WW and ExP ladies, you are fabulous! Thanks for all of your support.
• Tracking, calcing, tracking, and recalcing. Excel is my best weight loss friend. I constantly recalculate my points for the day/week to understand the impact of my eating.
• Salad and frozen food. Kept me full and happy post workout
• Single-serve natural popcorn. 'Nuff said.
• My friends. Love you all, especially the ones that helped me resist the alcohol on Thurs
• Home workout videos. Did yoga on Sunday and cardio kickbox on Friday, which I might not have otherwise done for time reasons.
  

What Hurt Me:

• Sake. Ouch - a total of 12 points just in sake alone on Friday. This doesn't take into account the 2 glasses of wine (4 points) or 2 glasses of champagne (6 points) that I guzzled on Friday.
• Drunk eating. Hmmm... see a theme? While I was good on Thursday, I lost control on Friday. All that alcohol broke down my inhibitions for cheese-flavored popcorn and more alcohol! Not only that, but I was hangover eating on Sat. Bleh. I made a compromise with myself and am absorbing 7 of he 13 points over from last week into this coming week.
• Didn't weigh in at WW this week. And its only week 2!
• Overconfidence. Seriously. I clocked in at 129 earlier in the week and realized that I'd lost9 pounds. Great, right? Then on Friday, my scale said 127. This gave me a little too much confidence that I could just keep losing weight rapidly, and eventually turned into overeating/drinking on Friday night.

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Week 3 Goals:

• Work out 4x this week, including 1 solid hour of weight training. Currently planned: Spinning on Mon, Elliptical/Weights on Wed, Boxing on Thurs, Hip Hop on Sat
• Target Points: 25.5 per day, 178.5 for week. Was supposed to be 185.5 for the week, but I am sucking up 7 of the 13.5 points that I went over this week. Compromise :-)
• Steps: 6,000 per day
• Weight Watchers meeting on Friday
• Weight: 128 lbs
• Finish weeks 1 and 2 of Body Intelligence program - I'm behind
• Start reading The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle
• Return weight training books to Borders, make flashcards for the Shape program
• Get my freakin car back!

Yeah, I fell off, but I'm climbing back on.