Katie's Week 3 in review

Well, week three wasn’t kind to me… I only lost 1.2 lbs! I did a little better on my fruits and veggies, and I did drink twice as much water as the week before and still had 14 of my weekly allowance points remaining but, I guess I should just be grateful that I didn’t gain. Daley  is so sweet in continuing to remind me of this…

  This week, my goal is to get moving!! I want to exercise on my kinect 4 days and my friend, James is coming to walk/run with me on Tuesday to help keep me motivated. It’s only one day I know, but I think slowly getting in the swing of that is best.

  I get very discouraged when I walk or run because of my calves. I have always had very large calves and I guess I can thank my German heritage for that…My calves have very large knots in them (almost like ones you have from stress in your shoulders) and they tighten up and cramp after just walking a few feet. I have been reading online things I can do to prevent this like taking magnesium supplements and integrating more potassium into my diet. I am going to try a banana for breakfast each morning and on Tuesday, I’m going to have one additional banana before we set off on our walk. One great thing I read was how to massage your calves to eliminate the knots. It’s supposed to be very painful at first, but once the knots are gone and I continue the regimen, maybe I won’t have the calf problems I do now. I am going to play the YouTube video for Jay so he can see the techniques and we can start that program too. I’m looking very forward to those massages ;)

  Here’s to a great week for me & Daley! Fingers crossed…..I’m shooting for 3 pounds this week! I CAN DO THIS!!!!

Katie's Week 2 in Review

Not a very good week! I did really well as far as my points go. Thanks to my weight loss last week, I dropped down to 34 POINTS PLUS a day and I did use all but 5 of my weekly allowed points, but still, I get on the scale and a whopping .2 lbs is all I am down. I am very discouraged. I feel very down and to be honest, I wanna go eat a large stack of pancakes from IHOP with a side of ANYTHING FATTENING AND YUMMY! But, I’m not going to…. Daley pointed out today that at least I didn’t gain. Very true! And I’m trying to stay positive and remember that any loss is in fact, a loss. I wasn’t even going for an outta control number. My goal this week was 2 pounds, defiantly not anything close to the .2 that the scale showed me ;(
But, I’m also looking at this like a test of will and I WILL NOT FAIL! Maybe it’s that whole “2nd week curse” I read so much about. After looking a little closer at my journal and tracking log, I did discover a few things about last week. First, I am not drinking near enough water and second, I never hit all my checks on the healthy checks. So, this week, same goal of two pounds and I want to hit all my healthy checks. Eight to ten glasses of water, and all of my fruits and veggies daily. I am NOT giving up like I normally do after a set back like this. I’m so excited for Daley and her 4.8 pound loss too. It is wonderful that both of us didn’t have a bad week because no doubt, without her pep talk this morning, I’d be sitting at IHOP this very minute.