BMC update

Note to self: Make a challenges category.

So, week 1 was both good and bad for me. I didn't meet all the goals, but the challenge did help by holding me accountable. Even on the goals I didn't meet, I came closer than I have in the past couple of months. Here are the stats:

1. Follow the Flexpoints, and don't eat the activity points. This didn't happen. Not a single day. One day I was close, but the rest I was ridiculously over. The good news, though, is that part of the reason I was ridiculously over is that I didn't "forget" to enter things into the points tracker like I (let's be honest here) usually do. Since I wanted to be straight with the other challengees, I was honest with myself.

2. Cardio 5 days per week. This is the only goal I met unconditionally. In fact, I would have had 6, if I hadn't eaten myself into a food coma Sunday night and gone to the gym as planned.

3. Strength training 3 times per week. I did both sculpting classes, but nothing else. See also Sunday food coma, above.

4. Water. As is my custom, I did really well with this on the weekdays, and practically dehydrated on the weekend. It's all about the routine. I think I did drink 3L on either Saturday or Sunday, though, so I think I met this one 5 of 7 days.

5. Vitamins & Meds. If my pillbox is to be believed (it's pretty sad that I don't actually remember), I only missed the vitamins one day. The glucophage, I got one per day consistently for every day I took any pills at all, but only took both daily dosages on 2 days of last week. As for the Clomid...if I HAD GOTTEN MY DAMNED TOM at all, I would have started it. Since I SO haven't, I didn't. So no foul there.

Yeah, so the stats aren't looking so good...though I did show improvement in all areas from my pre-challenge habits, so it's not really as bad as the numbers make it seem.

My goals are staying the same for the rest of the challenge, with one small exception--I'm going to let myself eat the activity points. It's not a concession I really wanted to make, but this week made me realize that maybe baby steps are in order. First, let me get through at least one week without eating MORE than my allotted flex & activity points...as long as I'm losing weight that way, I see no reason to restrict myself further. Removing the activity points from the equation was a little too drastic for my little backsliding self.

So anyway, week 2. Here we go!