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Back On Track
By Thomas | February 27, 2008
Last Sunday I had a bad weigh-in. I gained 4 lbs from the previous week. I looked at my food journal and sure enough the culprit was bad eating.
My wife and I went out to eat 4 times that week. When we eat out, I have trouble controlling my portion size. We even ordered pizza one night for the first time in a long time (it was freezing outside and we didn’t want to go grocery shopping). I also ate snacks: Valentine’s candy, a cookie here and there (not more than one or two a day, but they add up), sugary cough drops, cheese. I had started drinking a mug of cocoa everyday. I also missed some workouts so it’s really no surprise I gained weight.
Once I nailed down the reasons for my weight gain, I put myself back into line. Thank you food diary! It is so easy to correct mistakes when you can see the causes for them clearly, plainly and in chronological order on paper. I am more careful of my eating now.
A new thing I’ve started doing is to do a few rounds of Bas Rutten every morning on an empty stomach (after weigh-ins). It gets me started with a little sweat in the morning and I’ve heard that doing a little bit of cardio on an empty stomach is good for burning fat (can someone confirm if this is true?). It also has the nice side effect of waking (and warming) my (cold) sleepy fat ass up. It takes less than 10 minutes to do 3 rounds. I think this will be a new staple of my routine.
Anyway, to get to the point, I am back on track. My unofficial weigh-ins yesterday and this morning were below my weigh-in two weeks ago. It’s almost as if last week didn’t happen.
Kenny’s going down.
Topics: Weight Loss Challenge 2008 |