So I'm three weeks into my diet and I just spent the last seven days weighing the exact same weight. My total weight loss so far stands at 14 pounds, most of which was lost in the first week. However, I have officially hit my first proverbial wall. That point in which your weight loss hits a stand still even though you are still counting your calories and making sure to adhere to all of your diet rules. All of my excess fat that hasn't been converted to solid fat already has left my body and the most that I can hope to lose now by continued dieting is maybe 3-5 pounds a month.
Now, even though I've spent the last week continuously hungry while staring at my scale daily as it flashes the same number over and over, I am not detoured. This is the part of the diet that breaks most people. The first week you get on a high watching the pounds drop off all the while trying new foods that you are shocked to find that they are good for you and taste so good as well. But midway through the second week when your weight loss slows to a halt, and you become tired of eating your salads with oil and vinegar it all of a sudden doesn't seem morally incorrect to choke someone for a cheeseburger with extra crispy bacon and a side of seasoned curly fries.
But like I said, I am not detoured. I've know this would happen since before I started Operation Lose an Olsen Twin and frankly I'm proud of myself for reaching my first wall so fast. However now I feel like I'm standing at the bottom of a giant mountain. I know that I've done everything I can to prepare myself to climb this mountain. I've studied it, I bought the right equipment, I've even practiced on smaller mountains to get ready but know I'm actually at Mt. Everest and it suddenly feels like such an enormous challenge that I begin to doubt myself. You see now I have to add the last missing piece of my diet to the mix. I have to exercise.
Is it odd that I'd rather attempt to exercise a demon from a human than exercise my own body into shape? It wasn't always this way. When I was in high school I worked out constantly. I wrested so it was a huge advantage to you if you were significantly stronger than your opponent and I loved to win. I got higher than any drug I had ever tried every time I pinned someone in the first period or reached a new high on my bench press (maxed at 255 btw!). However when I started this diet I was 100 pounds heavier then what I wrestled at and I'm pretty sure I'd have a hard time even benching 100 pounds since I haven't had a full workout since the last time I walked off the mat my senior year so many years ago.
But there is no way around it, I am set on achieving my goal prior to my sons next birthday so I have less than 10 months to lose 50 more pounds of die hard fat. The only way to achieve this is to bust my flabby ass into shape. I plan on starting with really light aerobic sessions and heavy stretching to get ready. The last time I tried to lose weight I started with running. We ran three miles the first day and I blew out my knee before the week had ended. Needless to say, that set my spirit back. It would take 2 whole years before I could bring myself to make another run at getting into shape and I have no intention to set myself back like that again. My goal is to join a MMA gym in a few months once I get my body strong enough to handle being pushed that hard and I've proven to myself that i am committed to this.
So along with my random rants, movie reviews, and any of the other things that make me laugh that i will post on this blog, I will also try to keep my progress updated. I will probably post diet tips that I've learned if anyone wants to hear them. As all of my close friends and family know, my biggest hobby is cooking and I am very good at my hobby so I can share a ton of healthy cooking tips that I learned prior to starting my diet and have found to be amazing at helping keep me on track. A lot of people joined me at the beginning of the year on the road to a thinner them and if it keeps them going then I'd love to share my support.
So until my next post I will remain hungry and I hope you stay interested.
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