I’ve been thinking about my weight loss plan for over two weeks now. I’m a list maker, and I intended to write a post outlining my overall weight loss plan in one of my lovely organized, categorized, and bulleted lists. It just ain’t happening! Every time I sit down to outline my plans, my mind wanders to another task, any task and the list hasn’t gotten written. Then I thought maybe this time I will take the approach that I learned in the Millionaire Mind Intensive – Ready, Fire, Aim. Just Fire/Start Walking now and Aim/Plan later.
I was going to ease myself back into walking soon. I’m not sure when soon was going to be but screw soon, I hate the way I looked in the picture from this week end and I’m going walking tonight (on the River Walk of course) It is 87 degrees and humid not the best time for me to try to start walking (I walked once last week and a little this week end so it is not exactly a cold start). Humidity is a trigger for my Asthma. I will take a couple of preemptive puffs on my inhaler and go for it, walking just can’t wait, I look at that picture of me in Canada and know that I must act now. Positive change begins now, not sooner or later. Tomorrow I will polish up my bike fill the tires and head out for a 15 minute ride.
I didn’t listen to the Four Day Win at all in the last week but the concept from the book that has stuck with me, and is working is to make a super simple goal and stick with it for just four days, then four more … and so on, and so on, until with out much fanfare a new habit has formed. So, water, journaling and exercise four days at a time.
Water
Thanks to the Four Day Win I just started with something so, simple that I couldn’t mess it up. I started by increasing my water intake. That is easy enough drink 32 oz. or as much as I can in the morning (I have a 32 oz. Weight Watchers mug next to my bed) then drink 32 oz. or more during the day plus what ever tea that I drink. I have a 32 oz. water bottle on my desk at work. When I get home I finish off water left from the morning and work on about 16 – 24 oz. of water in the evening. Drinking 1/2 my weight in ounces (I haven’t gotten to 129 ounces yet which would be half but I average 96 oz.) was one of the tools that helped me to successfully lose 60 lbs on WW in the past. So now I have that going I can comfortably say 6 day out of 7 I’m consuming 96+ounces of water.
Journaling
The next thing on my mental list was to begin writing a food journal again. This is going fairly well I made to a four day win but had a set back this week end. I took my journal with me to Canada and didn’t log anything. So I started again on Monday.
River Walk
Lisa and her sweetie were chilling on the River Walk when I got there. I haven’t seen her sweetie in years it was good to see him. We said our good-by’s because tomorrow she is on the road to Toronto to do genealogical research. Check out her sites: www.gotgenealogy.com & www.thegenequeen.com
That is my cousin genealogist extraordinaire.
The Walk was great; I felt good afterward. It was quite humid; using my inhaler must have helped as well as the pleasant breeze from the river, because I did not experience any breathing problems. This was a great idea.
The overall goal is to lose weight, but right now I just want feel good in my skin and like what I see when I look in the mirror.