Tuesday - Almost!! Again.

I buckled down Sunday and Monday and lost 2.2 pounds of the crap I put on last week.  I learned a lot last week!  Here are the highlights:

Even though I wrote that I was thinking about doing a maintenance-y, lose-y thing, what I meant was that I wanted to DO maintenance and GET RESULTS like I was still losing.  The physics doesn't work like that.  If I want to lose, I have to ACT like I want to lose. Dieting and maintaining are two different things.

I got loose with what I ate (hello, rice and pasta are NOT foods that I can have every week and still lose) and with portion sizes.  My not-weight loss last week shows that if I'm gonna eat like maintenance, that's what I'll get.  We get out what we put in.

I lost discipline on the working out.  I ran errands on  my lunch hours instead of working out and expected the workout time would just magically happen.  It didn't. I have to devote precious time to working out, meaning I'll have to NOT do other things.  If I don't work out, I don't get results.  It's pretty simple and it doesn't happen without me making workouts a priority over other things, like finishing construction work on my house.

I still want to lose 15-30 more pounds, so I can't stop.  Dieting isn't hard when I put my mind to it and do it.  I can't slack off and hope that magically weight will evaporate from me.  I did that for 10 years and gained 100 pounds.  I don't want to be in a place where I'm trying to lose, but not very hard and I'm in some never-never land where I never reach goal.  I wanna git somewhere fast-ish and then change over to maintenance.

So here it is:

I'm gonna (continue to) DIET until I hit 185 and then think about continuing down to 169.  I re-upped Sunday and Monday, did good food, some juicing, some Jillian Michaels, and lost 2+ pounds.  I'm SO SO SO close to Onederland and the momentum is there to keep going.  I had my slack off time and my wandering in the woods last week.  Now I'm back and focused.

Good day all!!