Hometown 20 weekly report

Last week's weight: 178
This week's weight: 176
Change: -2 lbs.

Detailed reporting below the fold.

Food

1. No more than 1700 calories per day, Sun-Fri. Still a 1000-calorie limit before 6 pm on weekdays. I got 2 days out of 6, plus one squeaker that came in at 1719. However, this Sun-Fri business is just not working out. It's a good idea in theory, but in practice? Just doesn't happen. So, since I am getting results and this doesn't seem to be necessary anyway, I'm dropping Sunday. But you saw that coming, right?
2. Free Saturdays. ONLY Saturdays. I'm mostly good with this. Sundays are hard, and Friday nights are not much easier, but I'm getting there. Blah, blah, 21-days-to-a-habit, etc.
3. 2L of water daily. This, I did. I had some issues with not drinking enough on the weekend ride, and I was slightly dehydrated for a couple days. I made up for it at the end of the week, though, when I bumped myself up to 3L/day. I think this was another major factor in losing 2 lbs this week, so I'm making it permanent.

Exercise

1. Three short cardio workouts (30-45 minutes) Yup. 2 walks and an elliptical.
2. Two long cardio workouts (1 hour or more) One. But it was 4 hours, so I think I'll give myself a pass on that.
3. Two strength workouts, with abs I had a tiny epiphany about this last week. I've been struggling for weeks to get motivated to do the Kathy Smith DVDs. I couldn't understand why it was so hard--I liked them fine, I was feeling stronger...what was the issue? Well, I finally realized that the issue is that I don't like working out at home. Or with videos, really. So this week, I went back to the sculpting class at work, and I feel right about it. The upper body/lower body exercise ratio isn't always consistent, but it's worlds better than skipping workouts entirely.

As a side note, my HRM numbers were fabulous this week--7:16:40 total time, 4112 calories burned. Rock. On. What a difference 50 miles makes. :)

Accountability

Journal everything Sun-Fri. No, really--everything. I actually did pretty well this week--I have complete food journals for Friday, and Mon-Thurs. Sunday? Well, you know.

So, this week was much better than last week. Next week should also be really good, since I have the metric century on Sunday. Hopefully, it won't get rained out...it's been thunderstorming in the afternoons here lately, and I've been watching the weather forecast like a hawk for days. I'm going to be so disappointed if it's still storming on Sunday.

Congrats on the loss and reaching the halfway mark!! I love your site.
Smiles :)
Ang

Yay! Nice loss there woman! Congrats :)