"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

One Week

Well, I weighed myself today. It's been a week and I couldn't wait any longer. I'm down 2.6 pounds from last week! Thing is, I've been recording my weight for months because I like keeping track of things and it's not abnormal for me to fluctuate that much each week. The trick will be to keep it going down. Even then, the numbers went down.

I was reading online about weight loss and many sites say that it is best to lose a max of 2 pounds in a week for it to be healthy. This is also encouraging. Though, I did look up how many calories I should be eating. Never found a clear answer. I did, however, find a site that had me put in my weight, height, gender, how much I want to lose, and how fast. Not helpful. I don't know how long it should take me to lose that much.

I have also looked at girls who are my weight and look a lot heavier than I do. Maybe I'm bias but I think I look like I weigh less than they do. Thus, I'm not sure what weight should be my goal. I'm not sure why this is. I did do ballet for 13 years and had a lot of muscle. Not sure how long that sticks around. And muscle weighs more than fat. Right now my goal is to lose 35-40 pounds. But I'll see where I'm at along the way and if that is too much or not enough.

Calculating losing 2 pounds or so a week I would be there by Thanksgiving or so. Haha, just in time for the holidays. I read another blog of a lady who had lost a lot and wanted to lose a little more before her vacation. Well, we're hoping to go on a cruise this fall--probably October. I would love to have lost 20 pounds or so by then. I think that might be my goal for now :)
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  1. Courtney at RRIJuly 17, 2012 at 2:49 PM

    Congratulations on your weight loss so far! The usual suggestion for figuring out the amount of calories you need to eat to lose weight (though it is far from exact--just a ballpark number) is to take your current weight in pounds and multiply it by 10 (so if you're 160, 1600 calories and so forth.) If you're looking to maintain your weight, multiply it by 12.

    If you're looking to start permanently keeping the weight off, you may want to look not only at what you eat, but why you eat. I can't tell you how frustrating it is to know what you need to do to lose weight, but never seeming to be able to actually do it. It's easy to get caught in bad patterns around food, especially with emotional/stress eating or eating out of boredom. These patterns only arise because we all have underlying needs that need to be addressed--it's just sometimes we mistakenly handle them with food. Take a look at this video in my link. It does a great job explaining our needs and how we can stop destructive patterns.

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