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I’m breaking up with Weight Watchers.
I love the program, and it really does work for me, so this is probably a stupid idea… but I just need a break. I’m having an enormous amount of anxiety with the beginning of the summer semester, and I just need a break.
The thing is, I’m back up. As of yesterday morning, I’m 200.8, which is about a half pound lighter than the week before. It’s not something I’m proud of… it’s just… something that is.
I’m probably headed back to DailyPlate, since I don’t think it’s a good idea for me to go without some kind of tracking and accountability. My plan is to track on DailyPlate for a few weeks and see how things go. The summer semester is going to be completely insane in terms of schedule, so DailyPlate might be easier than tracking points. I’ve had success with it before.
Honestly, I’m more focused right now on success in the semester than anything else, so I think I’m (somewhat intentionally) letting my health efforts take a bit of a backseat. I know I feel better, do better, focus better when I’m making healthy choices though, so I’m hoping that’s the motivation I need to keep things from getting out of control.
I’m also looking for some ideas on exercise, since my schedule is going to be so tight. I’ll be getting up at 4:30, leaving the house at 5:15, spending 45-60 minutes in the car, getting on a bus at 6:15, riding the bus until just before 8:00, walking a half mile, then sitting in class from 8:15 to 2:45 before walking another half mile. I’ll get back on the bus at 3:15 or so, getting home at 5:00, then spending another 45-60 minutes in the car to get home by 6:00. Then it’s a rush to get lunches packed and dinner made before the kidlet goes to bed between 8:00 and 8:30. Then it’s back to bed for another 4:3o wakeup call. I’m just not seeing anywhere to shove exercise in. Yes, I’ll be walking a mile every day, but I’m at a point where that just isn’t making a dent in my weight loss efforts.
I do have Fridays off from class, so I’ll be trying to get in at least an hour of exercise every Friday, and hopefully at least another hour on the weekends. I’m just feeling like my schedule makes exercise sort of a lost cause…
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Hey…I just wanted to say that if you ask any diet/nutrition expert out there and they will all tell you that nutrition is 80% of the game. So I would just walk your mile (don’t stress about) and focus on making good decisions on the food side.
Also…if you ARE super worried about the exercise remember than just 10 minutes of exercise can boost your metabolism for up to 90 minutes afterwards. So take 10 minutes after you put the kids down to do something (jump rope, high knees, squat jumps, etc…) Or Jillian Michaels makes a DVD called the 30 Day Shred. It consists of 3 workouts that are all 20 minutes in length. So you could do that after you put your kiddos to sleep. You can find it on Amazon for like $10. Just some ideas…hang in there!!!
1 Kelly said this (June 5, 2011 at 11:53 am)
Thank you so much for the support and the great ideas! I will definitely be focusing more on nutrition.
2 skinnysushi said this (June 5, 2011 at 12:52 pm)
That is a busy day!! You definitely have every reason to want to focus on school and not stress out about other stuff.
Maybe you could do 5 minutes of plyos first thing in the morning and 5 minutes of ST at night (squats, planks, pushups, etc.) That little bit would still be something. You could also go for walks around the building during breaks in class?
Good luck with everything!
3 Kacy said this (June 5, 2011 at 11:53 am)