Monday Stats - 1/10/05

I spent some time this weekend thinking about whether I was going to keep weighing in. If I'm truly shifting the focus away from the numbers, then it seems sort of counter-productive to weigh in every week. But then again, I do have a 20-lb loss goal this year, so I should at least keep track.

In the end, I've decided on weekly status reports on the habits I'm working on, rather than on the results of those habits. I am going to post my weekly weight on the sidebar, but I'm only going to write a weigh-in post once a month (for category tracking...sometimes I like to go back through the weigh-in posts for reference, a la "now when did I first weigh x amount?").

So, here are the stats for this week:

Exercise:

Worked out 3 of 7 days

Upper-body strength training: 1
Lower body strength training: 0
Abs: 2
Cardio: 3
Biking: 0
With Noah: 1
At work: 0

Food:

Sensible eating*: 2 days

Procrastination:

(These, unlike the others, should go down over time.)

Missed deadlines: 3 (two of these were gym visits)
Projects started/completed at the last possible moment: 4
Noah late for school: 4**
Late for work: 4

*Any day under 30 WW points, or roughly 1500 calories. That's easier to quantify than actual nutrition, so I'll go with it for now. I'll concentrate more on what I'm eating after I've gotten control of how much.

**He was on time for the actual school day every day, but late for before-school music practice every time. So only Friday counts as on-time, since there is no practice that day.

Wow..you sound a lot like me these days. I am trying to shift my thoughts to feeling healthier and stronger as opposed to the struggle with the numbers. I think it is really the way to go, dont you?

oh, absolutely. At least from where I sit right now.

There was a time when I needed to concentrate on the scale, but it was back when everything was new and I was actually seeing major results. After a year-long plateau (about 85% due to my own slacking), I needed a different approach. :)