Health

I've done an amazing job this week getting myself back on track. I've tracked my calories and cardio every day. I went over my calories 3 days, one of which was father's day and the other two days I only went over by 50 calories. I had a net savings of over 500 calories for the week. Weight-wise, I'm back down where I started the summer which is disappointing but at least I'm back on track. I looked at my weight chart for the last year and I've lost 13.5 pounds in the last year. I'm ok with that. If I lose another 13.5 pounds in the next year, I will be 1.5 pounds away from lowest weight ever! I'm going to do my best to journal my food during the school year as well. I think that will help me avoid temptations and at least maintain. I know if I just eat the same breakfast and lunch every day it will help me stay on track.

I was trying to do the ab challenge but my motivation was lost with the sit-ups. I could not do them as a kid and I truly struggle with them as an adult. My tailbone has always been a huge hinderance to me with various exercises. I can't do pilates without being in excruciating pain and it is the same with sit-ups. So, instead of completely giving up on the whole ab challenge, I think I need to modify it. I'm going to start Monday (tomorrow we are traveling all day so I don't even want to commit to that) and instead of just doing crunches instead of sit-ups, I'm going to double it. So the first day is like 8 sit-ups or something like that so I will do 16 crunches.

My further motivation is that I am now able to button and zip my size 12, pre-baby pants. Yes, they are like a second skin and the muffin top is unsightly BUT THEY ZIP! A year ago when I was going through clothes to give my sister, I could not even get one leg all the way in. Luckily they were too big for her so she gave them back. My dream has always been to be able to get back into my Eddie Bauer khakis. I love them. It was a dream to get into them in the first place so they are very special to me.