MS6: Week 5 Check-In

After a shaky and slow start to this week, it ended up being very a respectable week. I'm down -2.6 for this week, -10.4 (OMG!) for this milestone, and -48.4 total. I'm .6 away from 1/2 way there. Maybe tomorrow?! At -10.4 for the milestone, this is my best milestone since beginning in June. Ten pounds even was my previous high loss for a milestone. I'm going to stay the course and hope for another 1.6 by next week, the final week of this milestone. That would give me -12 for the milestone; which would be DOUBLE my lowest weight loss change in a milestone. Maybe these little goals and wishes seem odd but I need them. In work (especially) and in life, I work best under moderately high pressure. It seems the more pressure and stress I face, the more I 'step up to the plate' to deliver. I think my motivation and drive thinks 'If I'm not being pushed, why should I try hard?' As far as I know, I've never cracked under pressure but I did enter the dark orange or maybe even pale red zone on the pressure gauge in 2003.

I got my final cardio day in and so made all of my exercise goals for the period. I really think that is key to my continued success. I know, I know. It's like a big duh. It's what you read everywhere and probably have heard from a doctor or some other professional more than once in your life. But, it's one thing to know it and a completely different thing to believe and live it. I train with Renee today and then she's going to Mexico (yes, the green monster is getting me) so I won't meet with her next week. I'll be on my own. Which shouldn't be too much of a problem now. I've been seeing her long enough that I have a decent repertoire of exercise. I should be able to keep myself going while she's gone. After 3 weeks, I still feel like I made the right choice in joining Anytime Fitness. It really has opened up a ton of new exercises for me.

And my last thought for the day. Another two pair of pants are being washed and then added to the donation pile. The Lupus Foundation people must really love me. They came in October and picked up 4 trash bags of clothes. They came again in January and picked up 6 more bags. Now, I've got another bag 1/2 full already. This losing weight thing is an expensive business. I feel like I'm on a pretty continuous cycle of buying and donating clothes. I hope my taxes don't get audited because the IRS will never believe all these donations were ligit! But, dropping 4-5 pant sizes certainly requires new pants!

Until later. . .

Think Smart. Eat Well. Move More.