August Recap / September Goals

AUGUST GOALS
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AUGUST REALITY

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Weight

I thought about not setting a weight goal because I don't plan on weighing in until September 1st (if I can help it), but I will say that I'd like to lose another 5-6 pounds like this month. That'd make me feel great and would set me up to be DONE with this plateau and under the 300 mark. Still, I'm not weighing in so I won't be able to stress over the numbers there. There are so many other beautiful numbers I can focus on - like fitness minutes! ;)

Weight August 1st: 304.2

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Weigh-in on September 1st put me in at 296.4, a loss of 7.8 pounds!
I'm going to go ahead and say that I've:

* Broken my plateau!
* Started losing weight again, finally!
* Reached a milestone! I am no longer that 300-lb woman. I'm an ALMOST 300 pound woman. *lol*

So, how did this happen? What did I do to get here? I stuck it out. Focused on being as healthy as possible, and let the rest just take care of itself. There's something to be said for putting the tools away for a bit when they're frustrating the crap out of you.

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Fitness

So this month, and with sticking with my pattern/theme, I'm shooting for 888 minutes. *dopey grin* That would average out to almost 29 minutes every day. A marked improvement.

And how am I going to get there? I'm sticking with the following schedule for August.

Sunday - 30m yoga/PT stretches
Monday - Swim
Tuesday - NROLFW
Wednesday - Swim
Thursday - NROLFW
Friday - Swim
Saturday - 30 minute walk or run

I will try to make every workout I can without stressing myself if I miss one here or there.

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So, I didn't exactly reach my goal. 888 minutes. It should not have been hard. And had I been able to make that final week's push I would have made it easily. But whatever the hell was going around hit me last week and it hit me HARD. I couldn't STAND without getting severely dizzy, so working out was literally out of the question. Even Saturday when I started my Plank-A-Day Challenge I noticed some of the symptoms continue to linger, but I'm pushing through them now and still getting done what I need to get done.

Final count - 747/888

Honestly, I'm not all that pissed about it. It could have been better...but it could have been much worse. This calendar doesn't look that bad, actually...



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Food

Eat more Paleo. Also, I've reset my tickers again on both MFP and Spark, so they have me at a lower calorie range. I'm not lifting as hard as I was months back, so there's no need for me to refuel at higher ranges. Still, I'm not going to stress if I go over now and again. I've been eating pretty consistently around 2000-2400 calories so dipping down to 1600 is going to be really difficult if I try to just go there straight on. Plus, I don't think it would be good for my body. So I'm going to allow myself the higher level of my range - around 1950 - and not stress if I go over a couple hundred calories now and again. In fact, my plan is to not stress at all, because that just leads me to binge/emotional eating. I'll be fine eating anywhere from 1600 to 2400 calories...and I still will try to hold myself down from raging if I get to 2600 on a honest to goodness "hungry day"...because we all have them.

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It was a free-form type plan, but it actually worked for me. There wasn't a crapton of emotional eating or feelings of extreme guilt. It has been difficult adjusting to the new lifestyle restrictions of my family members (who would've thunk it!?), but I'm trying to settle into finding a happy medium of obsession and moderation. That being said, I didn't really track my food in August because I found it was stressing me out. Whenever I did check in, I realized I was eating anywhere from 1500 calories some days to about 2500 others. I was generally in a good place, so I didn't much concern myself over it.

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OTHER

I'm also going to work on keeping my "Weekend Projects" going around the house.

Also, I want to try to keep up my off-site blog. fitfatgirlblogs.blogspot
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- That didn't happen! *lol*
- But that did, for the most part. It's been challenging, but fun.
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So, all in all, August was a pretty okay month for me. 747 fitness minutes. A mile swim success. 7+ pounds lost on the scale. And a milestone of 299 hit and surpassed.

All in a month's work, right?! ;)

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SEPTEMBER GOALS

Weight

September 1st WI: 296.4
October 1st GOAL: 291.4

Loss of: 5 pounds

(I'm trying to be reasonable here...)


Fitness

Fitness Minutes: 1000
(250 per week for 4 weeks, which is about 5 workouts each week that last 50 minutes)



Basic Plan:
Sunday - Yoga
Monday - Swim
Tuesday - Bike
Wednesday - Run/Walk
Thursday - Swim
Friday - Bike
Saturday - Football Drills*

I ran football drills with Ethan on Sunday since he had the day off from games for the holiday weekend. I figured it couldn't hurt for him to see me doing what I was asking him to do and I thought it might ignite some competitive spirit in him. We gathered all our things on Sunday, headed to the HS football field, and spent the next 60+ minutes (we had to stop for a potty break) doing things I thought might help him on the field. We ran through his warm-ups first, just so he could see me doing them as well. We ran a lap around the track, did bear crawls and high knees - everything they force them to do at practice. We did a 20-yard-dash and timed out some planks and even ran one round of stadiums (running up the bleachers and back down again). My entire body was sore the next day (and today), but it felt really good to get out there and practice throwing and blocking and snapping the ball with him, and I think he really loved it. Plus, it's a friggin' Kick-Arse workout! So we're adding those in once a week this month for the benefit of both him and I.

I'm also adding in biking. I don't know why...but I felt I needed to get out of the water a little bit before it gets old and I start hating it.

And, no, I haven't really set aside real ST time, but I plan on trying to get it in where I can. *shrug* What can I say? I can't be 100% perfect, so I don't even try any longer. I'm going to do what I can. Agree to what I know I can commit to...and then try to push myself from there.

Also, as I mentioned, we're doing a Plank-A-Day Challenge. I missed yesterday (seriously ticked me off, but whatever), but otherwise I started my planking on September 1st and was proud to still be able to go past a minute. Next goal? Hold it longer than 2 minutes. Other goal? Get to 1 minute on side planks (HA! I can do 20 seconds now and I whine the entire time! *lol*).


Food

No more than 6 times eating out this month.
Pack lunches from leftovers or sandwiches.
Eat mostly Paleo, but allow some indulgences.
Track all food at least 4 days a week.
Stay around 2000 calories.
FOLLOW THE MEAL PLAN!


OTHER

Drink 10+ glasses of water per day.
Blog at least 4 times a week.
Use weekends to organize the house STAT! I wasted last month. No more!

What are your September Goals?