accountable
Okay, so I was terrible and didn’t really complete any of the Hot by BlogHer challenges this week. It’s not them it’s me.
I definitely wasn’t feeling the diet this week. Diet = meh. Yeah, yeah, I know you’re not supposed to call it a diet but let’s not kid ourselves, when you’re severely cutting your calories as I am – it’s a diet.
Anyway, I was feeling food deprived so I upped my calories to 1500/day for this week but I also upped my workouts.
Now that it’s slightly warmer in the mornings (like 40 instead of 20!) I’ve been getting outside more. As soon as I get Josh on the bus I’ve been setting off for a 2 mile walk – Saturday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday so far! I’ve also continued my stair stepping, mini-trampoline, and hand weights every evening.
Rather than worrying about losing weight this week I concentrated on building muscle. I did stay level on the scale, but I feel stronger. The killer hill on my walk isn’t feeling so killer anymore.
I don’t want to get bored with this. I don’t want to lose my motivation. I don’t want to stop. I just needed to change things up a bit, and I see that I’ll probably need to do that on a regular basis.
I appreciate the feedback I get here – more than you might imagine. I feel like, not only am I accountable to myself, to my family, and to my local friends, but to all of you too. I know you’re all cheering me on and it makes a world of difference to me. Accountability is my fallback motivation, when my will power temporarily fails me. Thank you for that.