Okay, so this was the kind of day that I have been trying to get back for a little while now. Yesterday I spoke about how there have been days where I was okay with food, but not with exercise. Other days I have been good with exercise, but I wasn’t counting my calories the way I should have. And yet on even other days I got to exercise AND eat right, but I just didn’t have the time the journal all of my stuff for the day. All of these components are equally important. They are all pieces to putting together my personal life puzzle for each day. Some pieces might look bigger or smaller than others, but without all of them, your puzzle is incomplete. Well my puzzle seemed to be coming up incomplete the past few days for one reason or another. Still in the fight and holding my own….
….but I feel like I could be doing better. It seems to be showing on the scale too. Like I said, not doing BADLY per se, but there is always room for improvement. Well today seemed like the first day where all of the pieces to my puzzle fell right into place. I was good with all of my meals: cereal with banana, 1% milk and a cup of tea for breakfast, tuna on rye bread with a salad for lunch, and a turkey burger with a baked potato and veggies for dinner. Totaled my day out at just about 1,900 calories. Mostly because I had the turkey burger out at one of my favorite neighborhood hangout spots (Cronin’s – go there!). And since it’s hard to know the EXACT number of calories when someone else is preparing your food, I always “guess-timate” a little higher just to be safe.
Paid a visit to my mom and had dinner with my dad (who seems to be on his own little journey these days and doing really well I might add). And today I even made sure to call my sister and brother. What can I tell ya….I’m a good sibling and son. Lol. I try to be anyway. Got home and went for a jog right away. Nice and easy…still easing back into my runs. Headed down Fire Ave. here to the back of Meg’s school. Bout a mile and a quarter in all. Then headed down to the safety and comfort of my man cave for a round of reps with the cards. Felt really good when all was said and done. That’s definitely something you will take away from doing something like this too. A feeling of accomplishment. It doesn’t always come easy…but there’s nothing like it once you get there.
Little steps lead to big changes…
Starting Weight – 271 lbs
Current Weight – 264 lbs
Total Weight Loss So Far – 7 pounds
Goal Weight - 199 lbs
A Life Worth Weighting For - March 12th, 2013 by Donald McDermott
Day Twenty-Three
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