Thursday, August 31, 2023

It's been 100 days.....need to reset and reevaluate

Thursday COMMUTE 3.6 miles home, LA have me a ride in

It's been 100 days since I started Noom, it seems, based on my excel sheet. Tomorrow is line 100. I started out at 136, today 134. I didn't start seeing change until 40-50 days ago, when I saw more consistently 131-133. But then the last 3 days here, after seeing 131-132, back to 134, ugh. 

This isn't a weight loss blog, it's a training blog turned to personal improvement and stress management, to mark events and changes, successes and failures.

Recently
1. I started climbing to the 7th floor at work 3 times a day
2. I completely quit reddit and internet, as in actually Blocked from access. 
3. I settled in the last week or so into a meal plan that has watched carbs (still relatively high) but low fat (for gall bladder)
4. I'm doing HIIT (kinda) 3 times a week, this is the 3rd week already!
5. I stopped fake butter entirely. Replaced it with hummus, and as I'm typing this I'm seeing that all I did is transfer the problem. 
6. As of new goals yesterday, no phone while eating, no tupperwares either. 

Ongoing
1. I'm biking to work most every day
2. I'm getting at least 10K steps a day, walks and running
3. I'm running only 4-6 miles a week. (does that count as running?)
4. I'm avoiding stupid foods, but (denial) I'm still eating sugar now I've just switched to honey instead of jam.

Stuck in
1. Bad M3 habits- random and unmeasured and too much
2. Bad weekend habits - same as above
3. ...... what else am I blind to? Go back and edit a few of the above to really get into this. 

So now at 100 days, the start of a month, and post Super Blue Moon, I think it's a great time to re-evaluate. 

1. I had to reset the tracking in my Excel. I was too far behind and "in the red". I almost kept the original columns just in case, but didn't. But I can see where I was supposed to be (8.0-1.5). So close, I thought. 

2. I lose track entirely in the evening, and let's not be blind or in denial here. I have my planned meals, this week finally maybe coming up with a better way to have a "treat" as part of it all, but I still nomnom and munch and don't keep track. I think, well I didn't eat the egg yolks so this is OK. (I didn't eat the yolks this morning, then ate hummus, then said well it's OK I didn't eat the yolks. Blindness. 

3. I'm still doing CO most nights, like having a piece of paper or hair stuck to your finger and trying to remove it just puts it on another finger. The reported averages are 1400s, but are they? Probably not. Denial. 

4. My draw to azuc, jam, rice cakes, etc, ugh, even with hummus, which I started eating with honey, drives the evening noms I thought a treat would solve this, but then this morning I ate my treat before leaving for work. See #2 about yolks, See #5 above for continuation on this. 

So in review -- I don't stick to plan! I plan for a serve of hummus, 2 rice cakes, and half serve of honey this week. But in reality it becomes 4-5 rice cakes, unmeasured hummus, and unmeasured honey. 

So what to do. (quit using the word "so", for starters).
1. Meal plan with a treat, but stick to that treat.
2. Keep with the no-phone, no-tupperware goal, this will take time
3. Get out of Moria in M3. Have a set chore or goal, I've been saying this for months now.
4. At work, eat in the sunshine areas away from lab.

And quit typing here, jeez go get something done. Like, climb some stairs or something. 


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