Wow! I can't believe it has been 20 weeks since I started this weight loss & fitness journey. In some ways, it seems like I've been on track for a year and sometimes it seems like just yesterday. I thought I posted for Week 19. Matter of fact, I know I wrote it, but apparently I must've not published it somehow. Last week I lost 2 pounds...woohoo! And now this week, I am down 1.8 pounds! I am very, very pleased because I had been losing very, very slowly.
I am now down a total of 31.8 pounds. The last 4 weeks, I have averaged 1.7 pounds per week and that is great for me. I had been averaging about a pound a week with some of those weeks only losing 1/2 a pound. I am super thrilled with an increase at this point instead of a decrease.
One of the best things to come out of this weight loss besides feeling more confident about myself and just believing in myself again, is that I have so much energy. It's amazing how much better I feel just in my day to day life. I still don't get enough sleep so I am sleepy, but even when I'm tired and sleepy I still feel so much better physically. This time of year last year, I would come home on a night off from games and was so tired and drained of all energy that I would do a lot of sitting and half the time I would fall asleep just trying to watch some tv and accomplish nothing with my evenings. Now, I have to just make myself go to bed. I don't have that weighed down feeling I've had for so long...both physically and mentally. It's been great and has given me so much incentive to keep going and get to my target weight...and then maintain!
From Lysa TerKeurst in Made to Crave....
This journey will require you to make tough sacrifices, but look at it as embracing healthy choices rather than denying self.
