Monday November 21, 2011; 7:22pm: Ok, no joking around for just a moment, I lost another 4.8 pounds this week!! For a program where one is supposed to average between 2-3 pounds per week, I am doubling those numbers with ease, AND because I am religious with my measurements and 100% committed to the program!
My total weight loss for the 14 days I have been on the "New Outlook" program from the folks at the Aultman Health Foundation is 13.2 pounds. While I have yet to feel the difference in the way my clothes fit I have to admit that I am more motivated than ever to stay very strict with the plan even during my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving. Here's how I see it:
1. It's one day! I have a lifetime to taste all the things I love about that day, but I do not want to interfere with the positive changes my body and mind are undergoing.
2. If I can pass up pizza in week one and chocolates in week two, I can certainly stick to a couple of shakes, low cal yogurt pack, a piece of fruit, and 6.5oz of lean white turkey meat and steamed and raw vegetables.
3. Yes there is still a constant muscle ache when I work out, but it'll ache much less with less weight on the body and I'm half way through the sore phase in that process!
4. No I'm not this positive all the time but it's hard not to be when I'm this much "less fat" already! I am noticing more energy and stress being handled in a much more productive way, that's something right?
5. For the final not such a revelation moment of the evening, for the first time I am realizing how little I really need all the things I used to and still in many ways do crave. I went to lunch the other day with my wife and I ordered with my grilled chicken salad water with lemon and a diet coke. Craziest thing ever: the diet coke tasted overly sweet, too sweet actually. So I set it aside. Dropping 13.2 pounds in only two weeks: now THAT IS sweet!
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