Weeks 3 and 4

My apologies.  I had a particularly busy week last week, and by the time things slowed down I decided just to combine two weeks in one post.

Last Monday my weight was unchanged: 148.4 if I remember correctly.  This morning it was 145.2.  That's a loss of 3.2 pounds from week 2, and a total loss so far of 6.6 pounds.  I feel like I'm on track finally!

Couple of things: my review of the Gorilla app and some news from the doctor.

First of all, the Gorilla app.  I really like it so far.  I love that I can do it anytime (even without shoes if I'm so inclined) and I can easily keep track of how many workouts I have done for purposes of my reward system.  However, I want to add in a few other apps to try as well.  I have four separate apps that have 5 minute workouts for targeting certain areas: abs, arms, butt, and legs.  I'm going to throw those in as well.  I can rarely make a schedule of workouts for the week and stick to it, so I need to learn to make use of time as it comes available.  That's why I like these short little workouts.  And so far they seem to be helping.  Once I get a bit more advanced I'll go back to attempting Insanity.

Secondly.. I had a doctor's visit and they wanted to do some blood work.  The results came back that my thyroid levels are low, my vitamin D levels are low, and I'm low in iron.  No wonder I've been exhausted and light headed all the time!  I just attributed it to being a mom.  I need to go back in 90 days to recheck everything, but in the meantime I'm taking mega-doses of iron, Vitamin D, and a whole bunch of other vitamins.  It's funny.. as much as I think I know about vitamins and their deficiencies, I did not see this news coming at all.  I had no idea.  It's nice to have a diagnosis that should be relatively easy to fix.  I was getting frustrated with my ongoing exhaustion.

I feel great having dropped over 6 pounds so far.  I really felt like I wasn't capable of losing weight without doing something drastic.  I'm kind of ashamed to admit that.  I didn't think I'd see results.  I guess now I know that I just haven't tried hard enough in the past.  One battle I've always had is compulsive eating.  I don't have one serving of ice cream, I have three.  Or six.  I cannot stop at one candy bar or one brownie.  And I can't even do it with things that aren't treats, like my regular meals.  I hadn't really noticed how rare it was for me to only take one helping of whatever I was eating.  In the past two weeks I've really tried to pay attention to that.  I stop after one serving.  I avoid the foods that I think I can't stop with.  And it's showing on the scale, which motivates me to stick with it.

So here's to another week with good results.  Until next time!  Thanks for reading!

Side note: I did not take measurements this morning.  I'll do that tomorrow morning and update this post at that time. 

**Update**
As promised, here are the updated inches lost.  From two weeks ago I have lost another half inch in the waist for a total 2 inches total so far, and another inch off my hips for a total of one and a quarter inches.  I don't know if it's realistic to have "goal" inches but I'm currently 4.5 inches from my goal in the waist and 2.75 inches from my goal in the hips.

And as I sit here and update this, I'm drinking a protein shake made from a scoop of vanilla powder, organic sugar-free soy milk, about a cup of tropical fruit (pineapple, mango, and strawberry) and a couple tablespoons each of vanilla yogurt and OJ concentrate.  It's pretty good, but even all that fruit doesn't drown out the vanilla taste of the powder.  Next time I'm going with flavorless I think.  But for now I think I'll reduce to 3/4 of a scoop and see how that goes.