2/16 170.4
2/23 171.5
3/2 168.4
3/9 170.6
3/16 166.7
Fun fact: collectively, our Getting There bloggers have lost 64.8 pounds since we started. In a month! And for many of us it's been a month of setbacks and gains here and there. Phil has also been successful in staying cigarette free for the entire month, and he's struggling but staying strong. We've got a helpful support system behind the scenes, and it feels like we're turning a corner. I would love for us to hit the 100 pound mark by April 1st... I know we can do it.
After a disappointing week last week, where I really only had two days that were solidly on track with no slipups, I challenged myself to have six flawless days... and with a little accountability help from my friends, I did it! No improvised midday snack justifications ("Well, I'll eat this now and just won't have any dessert later", and then eating dessert later anyway), I drank my water, I exercised at least fifteen minutes every day. The potential challenges I addressed last week were very easy to meet, so no problem there. I'm deep into my sushi training right now, and it's hard because I feel like I need to know what all of the different varieties taste like so I can recommend them to people (based on things like spiciness, fishy flavor, etc). One little piece of six kinds of sushi adds up. But when I had to sample several in one day, I called it lunch (even though it didn't feel like lunch because I was having a tiny taste of something every fifteen or twenty minutes).
Sushi is incredibly high in calories for the amount of food you get. I always assumed it was generally healthy because nothing in it is that bad for you- but I was surprised to find that even our healthiest traditional maki (rolled sushi with rice) is over 500 calories for the entire package (and it's hard to eat less than an entire package if you love it like I do!). But I did learn how to make spring rolls, which are far lighter. And they're super pretty!