Well my work schedule changed AGAIN so I am now working 8 am to 5 pm. I am so used to getting off at 3:30 that it has been a tough adjustment. At home it's not too bad. We are eating dinner a little bit later which actually eliminates my evening snack. I also now force myself to take a lunch hour. I use the opportunity to go to the gym. I've made it through 2 full weeks. According to My Fitness Pal, I burned 3,169 calories last week. I am really loving it. It gives me a break from work, I am meeting some really cool people and I am feeling good. One thing I don't like very much is that after my workout, my hands shake for about 30 minutes. I have to come back to work and have a snack to calm it down. Surprisingly WebMD said it was nothing to worry about.
I ran across this the other day: "Diet" is not a verb, it is a noun. The verb is "eat". I don't diet, I eat. Diet is what I eat. I can't cheat on a diet. If I eat something that was not on my plan, I didn't cheat. I just didn't follow my plan. If my plan isn't achieving what I intended or I can't follow my plan, I need a new plan. It really helped me this last weekend when we were out of town. We took an impromptu trip down the coast to Astoria, OR and Long Beach, WA. Our first stop was Costco where we dropped way too much money, then to the fish market for oysters and clams and finally to the beach.
At Costco, we did like we normally do and had Sausage Dogs. I decided to only have one and I am so glad I did because those things are packed with 570 calories each. At the fish market we each got a crab cocktail which is about 2 or 3 ozs of crab meat. It was so good, freshly caught and cooked that day. Then at the beach, Roger really wanted Ice Cream so I had a small one scoop of Mocha Almond Fudge. It was the perfect size and I didn't feel sick or guilty afterward. Of course, I didn't bother to look up calories for anything the rest of the day either. On our way home, we stopped by PJ's Pizza in Cathlamet. There used to be one in Centralia that we went to all the time and when they closed we found out there was one in Cathlamet so we were on a mission to find out if they were the same. Oh yes indeed they were. The best chicken wings and pizza. Yum Yum!
I have really been focusing on drinking a lot of water too. In fact, I have been drinking only water except for 2 cups of coffee and one soda in the last 2 weeks. I decided to look up how much water you should drink in a day. There was a website that gave a calculation. You take your current weight and times it by .66 and that is how many ounces you are supposed to drink. So for me, 450 x .66 is 297 ounces plus 12 ounces for the 30 minutes of exercise I do a day is a total of 309 ounces. that is nearly 2.5 gallons a day. There is no way that I could EVER drink that much water and still get anything done. I would be in the bathroom every 10 minutes. I settled on shooting for 128 ounces a day, which is a gallon. So far, it hasn't been a problem. I stole a sports bottle from my brother-in-law the last time I was over and it holds 27 ounces. I have 2 of them before the gym, 1 at the gym and 1 after. Then when I get home, I drink at least 2 glasses of water. I haven't noticed a huge difference but, I was only drinking tea and water anyway.
When I weighed in this morning, I had dropped below the 450 mark. It was something I had been shooting for. My total weight loss is now at 54 lbs. I haven't been losing as rapidly as I would like but I know the first few weeks at the gym would be an adjustment. I am entering into my third week now. I met a very nice lady in her 60s yesterday who encouraged me to try the elliptical. She said it was her best option because of her knees. Thanks Rosie, and Happy Birthday!
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