My weight loss target that I need to achieve in order to lose 100 pounds this year is 8 lbs per month. I have just surpassed that and I still have a few days left in the month. Since I have started the early morning cardio, the weight has been coming off at a steady pace. I am still only doing about 30 minutes of exercise a day on average. Sometimes I do spend an hour at night doing the Yoga routine that I have mentioned, but only a few times a week. The Yoga is more of a stress relief thing than a workout.
Today's official weigh in: 310.4 lbs. That's 8.6 lbs for the month and 39.6 lbs for the year.
I have been compiling a list of foods that are conducive to weight loss. They are high nutrition, low calorie foods that are easy to digest. I am not sure what I am going to call the list yet. When I decide on a name, I'll post them on the blog. Last night I started to incorporate them into my diet. Ironically, I had to take off work yesterday morning to take my daughter to the doctor and take care of some business. We were short on time so we ended up eating at McDonald's for lunch.
So the first day that I want to start eating these super healthy foods, I end up eating fast food which is "the devil" ( Water boy reference). The truth of the matter is that 10 years ago, when I lost 75 lbs in 9 months, I ate fast food 2 or 3 times a week for lunch. It was just a thing of convenience. I didn't have my usual snacks yesterday. I had cereal for breakfast. For dinner I had a small portion of sirloin steak and 2 big bowls of collard greens.
Now for you collard green fans, I didn't cook them in bacon grease, which is an old Southern way of cooking greens that is absolutely delicious, but fattening as hell. I cooked them in chicken broth which is just as tasty but doesn't add a bunch of unnecessary calories into the mix. Collard greens is one of the "super" foods on my list.
Yesterday was full of activity. I started out with 200 crunches on the Ab Roller, I played a round of golf at the Par 3 course down the street, took the family to the swimming pool for a couple hours, and rode 3 miles on the bike. I fininshed out the evening with another 200 situps.
Today's weigh in: 325.6 That's 2 lbs for the month and 24.4 for the year.
I had scrambled eggs for breakfast, and an apple later for a morning snack. I had 3 chicken legs for lunch, when I got back from golfing, and I had some macaroni and cheese with hamburger for dinner. We had our usual popcorn snack in the evening. As always, I drank a lot of water. I can't stress the importance of drinking the water enough.
If you have been following this blog, I hope you see the importance of sticking to your plan. The weight loss that I have on a daily basis is minimal but over time it adds up. I am losing weight naturally and safely. You are losing fat and it is not weight that you will gain back in a couple days. Losing large amounts of weight rapidly is not good for your body. These kinds of diets normally cause you to lose large amounts of water which is very heavy. Once your body rehydrates, the weight comes back with it. You are not really burning the fat off.
