This has been the hardest month for me on my #weightlossjourney.
I thought for sure I was going to be reporting a gain. But turns out it is not as bad as I thought. The line still slopes downward!
Lesson Learned.
There is one big lesson I learned this month. If I want to lose weight, I have to stick to the plan. Twice I veered away — but both times I was able to get on track.
Veered off Course.
The first veer happened when I stopped “tracking” what I was eating. Normally I keep a rough tally in my head throughout out the day of the calories I am consuming. This month I thought I had it all figured out by portion size and generalities. So I didn’t track. Then when the evenings came (which are my weakest times), I thought I had enough “room” in the diet budget to eat a bowl of popcorn or some chips. But I couldn’t be “sure” because I hadn’t been keeping that tally.
So when the scale failed to show the desired results, I knew that had to change. And I am tallying again.
The second veer happened when I was on vacation in Florida with my private chef (daughter-in-law). She is such a great cook, I just wanted to eat and eat and eat. It was not convenient to weigh myself — so I was not even tracking my weight. Thankfully, I remembered that I was going to have to report to my readers at Reformed Health. That’s when I got back into the correct frame of mind. Accountability has been such a big help for me on this journey.
Who are you accountable to? I tweet and blog my journey.
Here are a few of my tweets for July — the successes and the challenges.
The below analysis shows that I missed a few dates. Those were from my trip to Florida — btw grandchildren are great exercise.
| Date | Weight |
| 1 | 157.6 |
| 2 | 157.8 |
| 3 | 157.8 |
| 4 | 158.6 |
| 5 | 158.2 |
| 6 | 158.2 |
| 7 | 156.6 |
| 8 | 157.0 |
| 9 | 156.6 |
| 10 | 157.0 |
| 11 | 157.6 |
| 12 | 157.2 |
| 13 | 156.2 |
| 14 | 156.2 |
| 15 | 156.0 |
| 16 | 156.2 |
| 17 | 157.2 |
| 18 | 157.2 |
| 19 | 158.2 |
| 20 | — |
| 21 | — |
| 22 | 157.0 |
| 23 | — |
| 24 | — |
| 25 | — |
| 26 | — |
| 27 | — |
| 28 | 158.2 |
| 29 | 157.4 |
| 30 | 157.8 |
| 31 | 156.8 |
| Total loss per month: | .8 pounds |
| Total highest to lowest this month: | 2.6 pounds |
| Total from previous month end: | .2 pounds |
| Total loss from beginning to end: | 28.2 pounds |
Are you on a weight loss journey?
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