(Guess who forgot the) Hometown 20 Challenge weekly report, Week 3

Last week's weight: 176
This week's weight: 174.5
Change: -1.5 lbs.

Details below.

Food

1. No more than 1700 calories per day, Mon-Fri. 1000-calorie limit before 6 pm, Mon-Fri. My records are sketchy. It's safe to say that I succeeded on the 1000-before-6 thing, but the 1700-total thing is not as clear. You'd think it'd be the other way around, eh? Anyway, of the 4 days I recorded, I was under 1700 for 3 of them.
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. (Yes, this is a copy/paste from last week. It still applies.)
3. 3L of water daily. I bumped this requirement up to 3L this week, and did pretty well for the first week. There were a couple days that were short as much as a liter, but the goal was mostly met.

Exercise

1. Three short cardio workouts (30-45 minutes) A squeaker, but yes. One of them was my 20-minute ride after I brought the bike home Wednesday, which doesn't technically meet the requirement.
2. Two long cardio workouts (1 hour or more) I think there were two, but I may be double-counting one 1:15 elliptical/treadmill workout. Sigh. I need to keep better records.
3. Two strength workouts, with abs One. I skipped the class on Thursday...just wasn't feeling it. I'm going to be bringing this requirement down to one workout for next week, because I'm shifting my focus to HR training. I may do just one sculpt class each week, or do an upper-body Kathy. Haven't quite decided which way to go.

My HRM numbers were less impressive than the week before--I didn't write them down, but it came out to around 6 hours, 3300 calories. Unsurprisingly, my weight loss was a 1/2-lb less impressive as well.

Accountability

Journal everything Mon-Fri. No, really--everything. Not so much. I have 4 complete food days--Friday, then Tues-Thurs. Exercise was worse--I'm making guesses based on half-remembered workouts. Journaling was not my strong point this week.

So, last week? Marginally less good than the week before. I'm going to do my best not to turn this into a slow landslide of steadily decreasing numbers. This week? Game (back) on.