Pounding the Pavement
Last week, I ended up with a net gain of three pounds. Three pounds! I didn’t comprehend how I could be changing the nature of how I eat and how I act, and still gain. But I did. It was devastating, but it also thrust me forward, into the mindset required to push myself. I started walking, and as I said before, I managed a whole one lap around a standard track before I couldn’t go any further. That’s one quarter of a mile.
Moving again, Tuesday I managed a half mile, but I had to stop four times for fifteen second breaks during the second lap. Wednesday I managed it with only two breaks. Thursday and Friday there was rain, and I couldn’t hit the track, so I walked around Walmart and focused on making sure I was active.
Well, it paid off.
Today I went to the doctor’s office and weighed myself. Same scale. Same basic clothes (t-shirt and sweats). I weighed in at 498 pounds. If you happened to see last week’s weigh-in, that’s a loss of nine pounds.
Nine pounds.
That’s more than a gallon of milk. About half the weight of your average Thanksgiving turkey. A (very) healthy newborn baby. That’s how much I lost.
Nine pounds. I’m pretty stoked.
So… more exercise this week, and greater water intake. I’m making certain to have a sixteen ounce glass of water every hour, and I actually managed two laps around the track this morning – that’s half a mile! – without stopping a single time. By next week, I should be able to handled three laps.
For me, well, it’s pretty unbelievable.
As an aside, I wonder how difficult it would be to find someone who’d be interested in documenting my weight loss. I mean, I’m shooting for a goal of two hundred pounds or less, and to get there I’ll have to shed three hundred pounds – the weight of two and a half cheerleaders! – so while I’ve already learned a lot about what I need to do, I have no doubt I’ll learn a lot more, and that information is going to be good not just for me, but for anyone else who wants to drop their weight and get healthier.
If you have any ideas or know anyone who might be interested, pipe up.
In the meantime… ONWARD!
