Monday's Fat Stats - Week 6

Everything in this life has its complement. Up and down, sad and happy, good and bad, energetic and tired, young and old. Why then does it surprise me that my weight loss efforts should be any different? If I have a good day, shouldn't I expect an off day? If I have a good week, why am I surprised when a bad week follows?

Although I am quite an exceptional example ;) I am still only human. I screw up, I have a hard time, I lose my temper. And, for the most part, I whine a little whole bunch and then just move one. There is something about exercise and eating right though - when I screw up, everything in me screams to just throw in the towel and say SCREW IT!

This weekend I spent nearly every waking hour studying for a certification exam I have coming up. In the kitchen was one of my most favorite things in the world - Robin's Eggs!!!

Oh my sweet love, where have you been all my life?

So my thought process went a little like this:
I've been studying so hard - I DESERVE some!
Just a couple of them won't hurt me.
Well fudge, I've already had 20 handfuls, might as well finish the whole damn bag :(

Now it's Monday, and I didn't lose a single pound last week. Big surprise there - but regardless it's a huge disappointment. I want to say Forget It! I'm tired of working out, I'm tired of having smoothies, and fruit and raw almonds.

But, for every up - there's a down. For every good - there's a bad. And for every screw up - there's the choice to do better next time. I'm sure as hell going to while the whole time, but I'm GOING TO DO BETTER THIS TIME!

Before showing you this week's numbers, I want to point out what we've done so far:

Fat Girl Slim has lost 14.5 inches and 6.4 pounds!!!

Muffin Top has lost 5.75 inches and 5 pounds!!!

Not to shabby if you ask me - regardless if this week wasn't exactly epic.

Fat Girl Slim's Week 6 Numbers:

Muffin Top's Week 6 Numbers:

The towel will not be thrown in this week! Here's what we will be doing, in addition to 3 days of cross training:

Workout #1

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:

Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)

Walk 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)

Jog 3/4 mile (or 8 minutes)

Walk 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)

Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)

For writing on your hand

Workout #2

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:

Jog 1 mile (or 10 minutes)

Walk 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)

Jog 1 mile (or 10 minutes)

For writing on your hand

Workout #3

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:

Jog 2-1/4 miles (or 25 minutes) with no walking.

Persevere! It will be worth it in the end :)