Fridays are my weigh-in day. There’s a strategy involved, too. I weigh myself in the morning (when I weigh the least), before breakfast, but after I nurse Baby Blue. I figure he’s taking about 7-8 ounces off me right there. And if the news is good, a little song and dance will likely follow… something along the lines of “Mama lost two pounds, two pounds… mama lost two pounds, two pounds.”
Well, Baby Blue seems to like it.
This week — at 146 — I did the dance. And mama lost two-and-a-half-pounds. That half-pound is just as important as a half year when you’re six (and a half). I couldn’t be happier. It’s a little more than the goal of one pound per week, allowing for those inevitable weeks when I gain a pound with no logical explanation. It’s not so much that I’m worried about peaking early. And I haven’t given up every dining pleasure and committed two hours per day to the gym to do it.
So my rules for this week are mostly to stick to what I’ve been doing with a couple minor tweaks. I’ll summarize the key rules below:
- Brush my teeth after meals.
- Do daily pushups (I’m sticking to the 19 to 1 knee vs. real ratio for now due to a recent form adjustment that has made them harder, but better).
- Do ab workout 3x per week.
- Eat a salad for one lunch M-F and a healthy turkey sandwich another lunch M-F.
- Do 3 30-minute run-walk workouts with TRT of 14 mintues (today I ran for 20 of the 30, by the way).
- Go soda-free for one day per week (new rule — more on this later).
- Eat two servings of fruit per day.
These rules aren’t meant to be crazy, hard-to-follow, do-it-or-die rules. They’re designed to help me build healthy habits gradually. I probably already eat two servings of fruit daily — but I want to be sure. I want it to become such a natural habit that instead of craving that cookie, I crave the apple. Veges will come later (not that I’m not eating veges regularly right now… but you get the idea).
Mama lost two-and-a-half pounds… two-and-a-half…
…only 17 (and a half) to go!