Review time. On my report card and goals statement from 2/5/03, these were the objectives:
Diet - Less than 11500 calories per week
Exercise - 1000 calories burned in deliberate exercise
Weight loss - 6.5 lbs (enough to get down below 200)
Water intake - 2 L per day
Multi-vitamin - Take one every day
Click More>> to see the report card and a new set of short term goals.
REPORT CARD
Diet - When I gained 3 lbs by the 3rd week, I became a little disheartened and gave up for a bit. I have no records of the last part of week 7. But if we just forget that one ever happened, and do the average for the 3 weeks I do have data for, we come up with an average of 11099 per week. Not too shabby. However, since I had a major slack week, I don't feel right giving myself an A. Grade: B
Exercise - did better this 4 weeks than I did for the last one, so I guess that's progress. I only met the goal once, during the second week. My average for all 4 weeks was 463.3 calories--less than half of the goal. Grade: C-
Weight loss - This was a time of ups and downs. I apparently put on a lot of water weight when I upped the calories, and it gave me fits. At my highest weigh-in (at the end of my slack diet week), I was 208. Barely a week later at the last weigh-in, I was 205.2. Tracking this by gain/loss per week, we have:
In the end, I was left with a net loss of 0.3 lbs. This falls far short of the 6.5 lb. goal. The lesson to be learned here is that I should not give up and go on a week-long eating binge just because I gained a pound or two. It's probably water, and it will come back off. Just relax. Grade: D
Water intake - I did much better with this than I did in past weeks, though I only started tracking it on the report card this time around. According to records, I only met the daily goal once. For the three counted weeks, I averaged about 0.4L per day. Grade: C-
Vitamin - I took 12 vitamins in 21 days. Over half, but not by much. Grade: C-
So...probably around a C- average. Not very good progress. If I were a kid coming home with that report card, I'd be so grounded.
SHORT TERM GOALS
I've added a measurements category, since I feel like I should be tracking that now.
Diet - less than 10,500 calories per week.
Exercise - Burn 1000 calories in deliberate exercise. Also, follow the Fat-Burning Workout plan every other day for these 4 weeks. Cardio work on some of the off days.
Weight loss - I'm going to be conservative here, so as to not set myself up for disappointment. 5.4 lbs in 4 weeks. (this will take me to 199.8, which is under 200, dammit. It's been a year since I've seen that first number a one. Maybe 2 years.)
Inch loss - I'd like to lose 2 inches, somewhere. The body parts I'll be measuring are bust, waist, hips, thighs, calves, and upper arms. As long as there's a cumulative loss of 2 inches in all those measurements, I'll be happy.
Water intake - 2L per day
Vitamin - Take one daily
Yeah, that's it. So now we're ready to start into the 3rd 4-week stretch. Wish me luck (...and willpower, and strength).
Posted by Joy at March 5, 2003 08:20 AM