Week 5 and 6

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Weight lost: +/- 2lbs

This has been a rough two weeks for the weight loss plan. 10 days of Covid kind of whooped up on me. Then within days of recovering, I had a little accident at home that left me bruised, bloodied, and rolling headaches for a few days.

I am now 18 days removed from Covid and 11 from this injury. I am finally feeling like myself again. I spent a few days not feeling sick but I had a strange fatigue that I couldn’t shake. It sucks, but that’s life. So my fitness, diet, and pretty much everything suffered for the last few weeks.

I didn’t weigh myself at all the last two weeks and I had some real hit/miss days with tracking my calorie intake. I feel like I gained two pounds back, but I can’t be sure. How truly bad the last two weeks have been won’t be known for a day or two more. Either way, as I’ve learned in previous experiences – there is no sense in spending even a moment mourning this misstep. This is life. Getting sick happens. Getting injured happens (more than usual if you’re me). The best you can do is shake it off and keep going.

A Challenge Approaches…

Weight loss will now be heading to the backburner anyway, in terms of personal focus. My wonderful husband and I have decided to run our own half marathon on Sunday, October 29, 2023. I am incredibly excited. It will be a little close on timing, as we’re both still in the process of bouncing back from Covid. But I have learned that I tend to focus a lot better on my diet and exercise when I have a goal. Yes, losing weight should be a goal in it of itself. But I know from my past, that unless you have a weigh-in for sports or perhaps a contest that is focused on your weight – being flexible for life being life, is a better strategy. For instance, if you are only focused on losing weight you may neglect the other aspects of fitness. If you just eat less than you burn, you’ll see progress. That doesn’t exactly help your overall fitness. Also, when training for a half you know you’re going to be putting in hard training days. This allows a little more flexibility in terms of diet. For someone like me with a relatively sloooooow metabolic rate, without exercise, there is NO flexibility.

Today I’ll be hammering out the details for the next 12 weeks and eagerly looking forward to starting training tomorrow. I will continue to update on my journey, but it will no longer be my primary focus.