Cory's Quest for a Healthier Life

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Good job - I weighed myself on day 1 of reality (aka - yesterday), but knew a lot of it was post-holiday bloat. New Year, new attitude, right?!
 
Welcome back, Cory!

No one does well with this over the holidays. I sure as hell didn't. The good news is we're all back on track in early January.
 
Two days of no soda is a great start! New habits have to start small. Just think, yesterday it was only ONE day since you'd had a soda...and now you've doubled that :)
 
Yesterday was good. I've outlined several goals for a day/week and I managed to hit them all. Here are my goals:

Daily:
No soda
10,000 steps
Under 2000 calories
8 hours of sleep
No eating out

Weekly:
Exercise 5 days a week, not affiliated with walking 10,000 steps

I managed to hit all of those goals yesterday. Walked 10,152 steps, went to zumba for an hour, cooked all of my own meals, no soda, and ate about 1500 calories. Today probably won't be as good. The wind chill outside is about -4 degrees (F). Fuck that noise. I'd do a class at the rec center, but they don't have one today so I had intended to go on a hike. I still would, but I don't have appropriate clothes for those kind of temperatures. Somehow they migrated to my parents' house and never made it back to my apartment.

I have to say, the holiday bloating is finally gone and it feels amazing.
 
I did ok yesterday. Got in my 10,000 steps, ate around 1800 calories, and had no soda. I didn't do more exercise due to a combination of the frigid weather and my brother wanting to come over. I made chicken and dumplings because he had been cutting firewood all day, which can be disaster in the making. I don't think I can explain my love for chicken and dumplings. I managed to keep myself under control though. Also, I managed to refuse free workplace food yesterday. I'm always happy when I do that. The free goodies are sometimes a weakness for me.

I'm really hopeful this weekend that I'll see a lower number on the scale for the first time in two or three months.
 
Did good yesterday. Walked 11,000 steps, ate around 1500 calories, and went to zumba. I'll definitely get my walking in today, but I don't know what to do about other exercise. There isn't a class at the rec center and I can go ride horses because everyone is out of town for a tournament. I don't want to skip, but I also don't necessarily want to walk more either. Hmm.

Will probably weigh today. I'm really nervous about it. I know it'll say more than I want it to, especially after the holidays.
 
Weekend was good! It was maybe a little bit lazier than I would have liked, but I did get some exercise every day. I've also been soda free for a week now. I couldn't weigh myself, unfortunately. I went home to find the scale was broken. Honestly, it's probably for the best. I know for a fact that this particular scale was a cheap piece of crap and didn't give me the best readings. Now I'll buy one I want instead of using my dad's cheap ass shit.

Also, I think I'm going to lease a horse. The same one I fell off of a couple months ago. I'm so excited!
 
Getting excited about leasing a horse you fell off, hey? Glad I'm not the only eccentric one here! Doing well Cory & getting back in the swing of things. Go us!!
 
My weekends are almost always lazier than they should be. And if for some reason it's not I just whine that I was too busy, haha.
 
Yesterday was kind of mediocre. I did my 5 miles of walking, but didn't go to boot camp like I had intended. I also wound up eating close to 2200 calories. Because of my BMR and the walking, I should still be at a deficit for that day, but still. I think my hormones are shifting because of the PCOS and it makes me fucking exhausted. Like I could sleep for 10 years or so.

Today was much better. Did all my walking and went to zumba. My calories were really low, around 1000. Usually I try not to go that low, but I wasn't hungry at all this morning so I didn't eat breakfast. Plus, I figure it makes up for yesterday's mediocrity. My dinner tonight was awesome, btdubs. I had a big spinach salad with tomatoes and a reasonable amount of ranch dressing, sauteed mushrooms, and venison tenderloin I had marinated in caribbean jerk seasoning.
 
I'm sad. I found out yesterday that I don't get to lease that horse and there's nothing else either in my price range or enough of a challenge for me to want to lease. :/

Yesterday was ok. I didn't do any other exercise, but I did walk 5 miles. Ate around 2000 calories. I think I'll try to do the same today. That's the upper limit of my range, but I've been around 1500 fairly consistently for the last couple weeks and I'm feeling a little run down. I think I need to find a better balance of high and low food days.
 
Sorry the horse thing fell through. Adjusting to calories is always tough. I'm a bit in flux myself with 2 days over calories. My game plan is to go to bed hungry or whatever it takes to not go over calories for the next couple of days and then it should be easier. That has been my experience anyway. Have a great day!
 
Ok, so the weekend was pretty good. I got a new scale and decided to reset my ticker so that this weekend's weight is like a new start point. It's reads higher than my old scale, which I was expecting to be honest. There was a difference of 7lbs between my old scale and the scale at my doctor's office. So, my official new start point is 254.5 (my pre-holiday weight according to my old scale was 249, so this is about where I would expect to new scale to put me).

Also, I've been soda free for two weeks.
 
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