Its been 6 months and ...

Looking at that title I just can't believe its been 6 months since I began my weightloss journey. I mean wow! I began my journey on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 just 2 days before Thanksgiving. Most thought I would be crazy to start right before the holidays. I wanted to prove that you could still eat healthy and in moderation even during the holiday. So on Thanksgiving and subsequently Christmas I was there in my kitchen with measuring cups and the food scale weighing out portions, putting portions into containers and freezing, etc. Since that date I have lost 48 lbs and said goodbye to the 300's.

As of today I am at 299.4 lbs. Sadly though I've hit another plateau which has really caused me some issues throughout this journey thus far. My goal was 10 lbs a month but I will not argue with 8 lbs a month at all I'll take that everyday! But it would be nice to get my 2 lbs a week consistently. Right now the pattern is I'll plateau for a week or a week and a half then all of a sudden nail 4-5 lbs lost in a week. Its like my body is catching up or something. I don't know I just know the body is an interesting device.

Speaking of which I've been learning about my body's physiology. Since I began this journey and was using www.myfitnesspal.com to track my food/exercise I have NOT replenished burned calories. However, through trial and error I found that my plateaus happen more frequently so I have to replenish about 30-50% of burned calories in order to attempt to combat the plateau.

So what have I been up to and doing? Well I've, in celebration, have been participating in a 5k every month and have done 4 so far! Each time my time is improving. My last 5k the miles have been about 14.5 minutes.

My exercises have been kind of all over the board. I still have my "gauntlet" that I do and try to do about 2-3 times a week. I've been doing a lot of walking I try to do a 5k walk 2 days a week. Today I am going back to my Tae Bo. I took a hiatus from Tae-Bo because during the workout Billy would say "2 more sets" and like 5 sets later would say "Walk it out" I realize now that wasn't him per se it was the editors/producers. Also Billy would do like 1 set then walk around the room and motivate/talk to the camera. I got irritated and instead of using that irritation to push harder I walked away. Now that I understand a little more about what it takes to make a workout video and that its not a 1 shot production its usually 3-4 workouts spliced into 1. Also that the motivation/walking around talking is an important part to keep the person watching/using the video to keep going. So now tomorrow I'll reintegrate Tae Bo back into my workout regimen because its something I love to do and if I get irritated I'll use it to push forward and if all else fails I'll concentrate on the other people working out in the video because they are pushing through with those of us using it.

So that's about it for now. Just wanted to post a blog about my 6 months especially considering some of the "followers" of this blog aren't on my Facebook.

Until next time! Here is the latest profile pic I took on the 6 month anniversary.