My Very Own Chart!

Hey! I am back to weighing myself. I am now in the 160s!! I69.2 to be exact. Hip hip horray! Haven't been in the 160s since a diet I went on in high school.

The chart will also help motivate me to exercise (later today: elliptical. yesterday: weight training. tomorrow: treadmill and upper body strength split). I will circle the days of the week that I exercise so I have the big picture of how much I am really exercising, and how exercising effects my weightloss. Then on the right, space for note taking.

The decision to get to 148 rather than 150 was made on the following criteria:

1. My MAXIMUM weight that is a healthy BMI is 158. 148 is that minus ten, so if I go through some crisis like surgery and gained some weight, I would have room. (I don't intend to let my weight drift up ten pounds after this lifestyle change, but I know emergencies happen).

2. When I get to 148 I will have lost about 30% of my total weight, which is cool.

3. I will try to stay within the 145 - 150 range.

I am hoping to come home to CA around July 4, because Derek said that is a time when he can take some time off. I want to have a CA visit with him, since he can't come on the trip I am about to go on. The plan calls for me to lose roughly five pounds per month, which is right on track with my average.

Still working on the walking uphill thing. For some reason the treadmill or walking up real hills feels much, much harder than the elliptical still. Going to try again today. I will start slower so I can stay on for a longer time, and then work up.

Have a nice day!