Yesterday was my weekly weigh in. I weigh in everyday, sometimes twice a day, but I only 'count' Tuesday mornings. I know that sounds obsessive, and probably is, but I am honestly okay with small daily fluctuations in either directions. When I get on and am .2 heavier than the day before I think about what I ate and how much water I was able to get in and then think of how to improve that so the number on Tuesday will be one I want to see. Anyway, yesterday was a great day! I am down 3.8 for this week!! After tracking for a month I am down 15.6 and feel wonderful. I track with LiveStrong religiously and have been trying to play Just Dance 3 on the Wii for an hour 5 times a week. Last week I attempted to run (most everyone on the planet would call it a jog, but...) and was able to do 7 minutes out of 35 on the treadmill. I was pretty impressed with myself :) This week I tried to soak in some of the crazy weather the Mid-Atlantic has been experiencing and head outside. I was running for about 10 seconds before I started to hear my heart rate monitor (Polar FT4, LOVE IT!) go crazy saying I had no pulse. I was breathing, barely, so I knew that couldn't be right, and realized in the four weeks I've been doing this I haven't messed with taking the chest strap in! It couldn't get an accurate reading, because there really is less of me and it wasn't firmly against me anymore!! That was confirmation enough, but luckily I started taking measurements last week of my chest, waist, and hips for the future when the scale slows down and I start to feel discouraged, and in one week I am down an inch in my chest, an inch in my waist, and 2.25 in my hips! Yippee!! One week, 4.25 inches gone.
The moral of this week: get a heart rate monitor (they are awesome motivators!) and start measuring yourself! Week to week will be very exciting for you :)
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