When I finish that week I will be starting up the 21 Day Fix. I think I am going to eat some pizza as a reward that weekend. Then hit that 21 Day fix workout plan along with the nutrition plan. I have been using the 21 Day Fix nutrition plan and the portioning with the containers since Feb 14th I think. I am thinking about altering mine just a bit, by decreasing my yellows by 1 per day. That will eliminate a simple 130 ish calories per day and almost a 1000 per week. That may not seem like a lot but lets look at it. Take out 130 cals per day that is 910 per week and 3640 per month. 3500 cal = 1 lb of fat. Instead of gaining 10lbs per year you could theoretically lose 12 lbs per year just with this simple plan. Now it isn't all that simple, but you see the power of one small choice per day and how it can be compounded over the course of a week, month and even a year. What about the next 10 years? How could that one decision affect you over a 10 year period? That is how I have begun to think about food lately.
I am ok eating the same thing almost every day. It fits within my meal plan and it tastes good and it's pretty clean. Food is really only fuel for the body. We do tend to attach emotions to food which causes us to experiment with different foods and like more foods more than others because of the way we feel after them. Some foods give us negative emotions like guilt, remorse and self loathing. We hate ourselves for succumbing to the sweets or goodies, but we rarely praise ourselves for eating the good foods. That is how we are made up. We deny ourselves self praise, but we never miss an opportunity to kill ourselves for the smallest missteps. I am done with that.
That leads me to tonight and then next Saturday. Tonight I am apparently going to hang out with some friends from high school. Some of them I haven't seen in 8 or so years and others since we graduated in 87. The location is a local restaurant that is known for awesome burgers, but not the healthiest of foods. I have to decide if I will choose to eat with the crowd or eat at home before hand. On the one hand I want to see how I can do in a "normal" environment but then I want to stay on track. No matter my decision, it is only one meal and never the end of the world. I won't allow this one meal to be the undoing of all that I have done, which so far is losing 48 lbs. I am down to 302 starting at around 350. The scale read around that number, but it only goes to 300, so I am hoping that it is accurate or pretty close. I thought I was actually heavier and I might have been. However, the scale now reads 302, which is really close to 300 (the max for that scale) so no matter if I was 360 or 340. I was up there and now I am almost under that 300 mark. Either way, I have worked hard and I have lost weight. It is very noticeable and my clothes are proof of it.
Next week is week 12 and it will be the same as week 10. The only part of the week I am not looking forward to is pilates. I just don't do that well with it and it is a lot of ab/core work. I need it, but I suck at it. One nice thing coming up in April is the monthly challenge and it looks like it is going to be an ab challenge so I will be hurting in this one. Burpees this month and well I can do them. I actually enjoy them. They suck, don't get me wrong, but I love how I feel after adding 5 more on from the day before and knocking them out. Accomplishments are awesome, but you have to do some work first. I love the feeling of hitting failure and knowing that I just gave all I had. Laying there on the deck after knocking out a bunch of pushups, unable to do another, I know I worked and I know I will see great results from that.
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