Progress Report

Well as promised, I will tell you folks (all .. one of you) about my progress so far.

As humiliating as it is I figure it might help someone eventually.

In 6 Weeks I have lost 2.5 inches off of my chest, waist, “abs” (aka food baby), and thighs. I have also lost 3 inches from my hips. The is 13 inches my friends. 13. In 6 weeks. Not too shabby huh? I think… I don’t know what’s normal but I am pretty happy with it. Of course I wish it could go faster, but unless I am some kind of super-model-actress-woman with personal trainer/chef/stylist I think 13 inches in 6 weeks is reasonable.

Now, in 6 weeks I have lost about 8 pounds. I say about because the first few weigh-ins were at night and now I weigh-in in the morning.  That is moderately reasonable however I could do better if I had been doing more cardio and eating a bit better.  Restaurants, birthdays, and Hockey game pretzels are NOT the key to weight loss. However, I now try to drink 8 cups of water a day even if I don’t succeed every day I am trying pretty hard, if I wore a pedometer I bet about 2/3 of my daily steps would be towards a bathroom.

I really need to kick up my cardio fat burning… I just am not good at getting motivated when I am home. I really need to get on that…

Also, I have been given a “reward” motivation so I really need to get moving. I have been promised a trip to Syracuse to go shopping once I get to 145lbs. 10 more pounds. That is so far away, but only kind of… hopefully it isn’t too long. I would like to lose more weight before Easter as I am going to a wedding for a friend of mine and I would like to look lovely.

 

So I wanted to show you my little “game” if you will. If you go to http://corpo.mvm.com/en/shopping/weightloss.php you can click through and create a little virtual version of yourself. What I did was make a time line of my “self” and even if 5 lb increments doesn’t look like a lot it really looks impressive when it is all said and done. I will add the next images as I achieve them. So far just down one picture, not much different yet… honestly no difference apparently according to this but you will see as it goes along it gets better. (Hopefully)

 

 

 

I highly recommend the virtual model, I find it pretty motivating and it is pretty easy to create and I like that it has different options for different body types (top heavy, bottom heavy hour glass) as well as small build, medium build, larger build. Fiddle around with it for a bit and you will find the one that looks most like you (even if, like me you don’t like it right now) and you can see how you will turn out when you get where you want.