Crunch Time
It’s getting time to get serious about weight loss.
For the last few months I have been hovering around the 165 lbs range - a little above and a little below. My original weight loss goal was to lose 23 lbs by the end of 2007. I hit that goal sometime in May 2007, well ahead of the target date. Wisdom says that should set another goal to keep the momentum going.
The current goal is to lose another 35 pounds by the end of 2007. I have barely made a dent in the new goal. What’s going on?
On the plus side, I am happy to say that I haven’t given back the gains (or losses depending on how you look at it) from my effort to shed a few pounds. Unfortunately, I really haven’t made any progress to speak of. Arrggghhh!
Might be time to notch up the efforts by consuming less food. This is the part I have been dreading, actually cutting back on my food consumption. Up until now, I have lost weight by making “lifestyle” changes. For instance, not eating after dinner and drinking a lot of water each day. I could still eat pretty much what I wanted.
Now might be the time to cut out the snack before dinner, or the donuts on Fridays, or the pantry grazing on the weekends. Additionally, I am going to need to keep up the exercise effort, the type of exercise that gets you good and tired. And not just the weekend warrior type stuff to make up for not exercising during the week. At least a few times during the work week, I’m going to have to do something like hit the YMCA and use the ergometer for one of those torturous rowing sessions.
Consider this a note to self to getting going again.
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It’s getting time to get serious about weight loss.
For the last few months I have been hovering around the 165 lbs range - a little above and a little below. My original weight loss goal was to lose 23 lbs by the end of 2007. I hit that goal sometime in May 2007, well ahead of the target date. Wisdom says that should set another goal to keep the momentum going.
The current goal is to lose another 35 pounds by the end of 2007. I have barely made a dent in the new goal. What’s going on?
On the plus side, I am happy to say that I haven’t given back the gains (or losses depending on how you look at it) from my effort to shed a few pounds. Unfortunately, I really haven’t made any progress to speak of. Arrggghhh!
Might be time to notch up the efforts by consuming less food. This is the part I have been dreading, actually cutting back on my food consumption. Up until now, I have lost weight by making “lifestyle” changes. For instance, not eating after dinner and drinking a lot of water each day. I could still eat pretty much what I wanted.
Now might be the time to cut out the snack before dinner, or the donuts on Fridays, or the pantry grazing on the weekends. Additionally, I am going to need to keep up the exercise effort, the type of exercise that gets you good and tired. And not just the weekend warrior type stuff to make up for not exercising during the week. At least a few times during the work week, I’m going to have to do something like hit the YMCA and use the ergometer for one of those torturous rowing sessions.
Consider this a note to self to getting going again.
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