Week 5

Alright everyone, week 5 marks weigh-in number 2! I weighed-in at 160lbs today for a total of 14lbs!!!! I am very pleased with the results. I am trying to stay patient. 14lbs is GREAT but I would have loved to have lost a lot more. But I reached my goal of losing 5lbs before the next weigh in. I have been setting small goals for myself. Doing a few more push-ups and sit-ups a night, running a little further than usual before stopping to walk on my nightly runs, taking the stairs more at work, etc. The thing that I like about setting these little goals, although small, it shows that your body IS changing and you ARE making progress. Not much change in my diet. I am still eating the same things, simply because its easy AND healthy...but I can feel myself slowly getting bored so one of my goals this week is to experiment a little bit with different foods. This week Im going to start doing weight training. I want to avoid gaining a lot of weight in muscle so Im going to lift low weight with high reps. When you weight train, it shreds calories, speeds up your metabolism, and increases strength and flexibility. Im still focused on my goal and have absolutely no intention of giving up or letting myself slip. I still have a long road ahead of me but the fact that I am making obvious progress is what's keeping me pushing on.