What am I talking about? I am talking about saying that it’s time to stop wallowing in pain and start working on this weight loss thing again.
Yes, I’m still on pain But yesterday I could feel that I turned some sort of corner. The pain dropped in intensity. Well maybe not intensity.... but, the pain dropped from constant intensity to bursts of intensity. The ache is constant still. I also dressed myself without anyone’s assistance and I did it without crying or gasping in pain! Go me!
Over this last week, I didn’t go hog wild with my eating. In terms of weight watcher points, I ate my daily points and all of my weekly points. In calorie counting terms, I ate around 1600 calories. By the book, that should be enough for a wee tiny loss! But for me that is a maybe maintain (if I’m lucky) but most likely a gain. Yes, I ate my pain! I’m a food addict. I eat every emotion and ever feeling. I’m not proud of it, but that is unfortunately who I am.
But if this really is a broken rib (ribs) the healing is going to take weeks...6-8 weeks. I can’t eat my myself silly for that long! I also can’t go that long without some kind of formal exercise. And....I started a challenge in the month of May that I am shamelessly copying from Another blog I follow I started off gung ho...and on day two I fell apart when I had that accident!
Sooo....a week late but here I am, presenting myself for the challenge. You see. I may have messed up and/or missed the first week of the challenge but there are still three more weeks where I can have success! If I throw in the towel and say ‘next month’ I lose three weeks of opportunity! That would be a travesty!
So here I am....ready to rock out the next three weeks of this challenge.
So what are the parameters of the challenge?
Here are the goals that were set over at
Lessofme108days- Stick to between 1,200 and 1,400 calories a day
- A minimum of 7,000 steps per day
- Lose 10 pounds by May 31
- Post progress on my blog
So how are my goals different?
1. My calories will be the same....low because that’s where I lose.
2 So I knew that the 7k steps were going to be rough. I am aiming for 5k OR a bike ride. (Yes, I plan of still riding).
3 lose weight...7 pounds is my goal Since I have ‘lost a week’ I would say that I’m ‘hoping’ for 10 pounds but that may not be realistic.
4. Share my progress...of course! :-)
So here we go. It’s not going to be easy because the pain does persist, but I can’t lay down and let the weight come back! I want to win the war against this weight...that means that I need to fight the battles...even when I don’t feel at my best!
