9:25 amBootcamp Day 1.
Trying to get lots of stuff done today: work on front door, install storm door, cut grass, de-weed grass, go grocery shopping. Tomorrow I want to take the whole day off and enjoy hanging out with my kid and getting pampered.
This morning the first thing on my mind was "BOOTCAMP!"
I am changing the way I keep track of points. The way I do it now is to subtract what I eat each day from my total number of allowed points (29) and the remainder of the points is "banked" so that if I go over my allowed points on other days, I can use banked points to cover it. The rule is you are supposed to eat more than the minimum number of points each day (24) so you can bank as much as 5 a day. The new way of doing it is to start each day with them minimum number of points and if you go over, you use your flex points (you have 35 flex points each week). It is exactly the same number of points per week, but with the old way, I was focused on stay beneath the higher number (and often going over) and with the new way I will be focused on the smaller number and trying not to go over. So it is all mental. I have gotten so used to eating 29 pnts a day though, I need to reevaluate my meals and snacks and see how they fit into a 24 pnt a day diet, only using my flex points when necessary.
I weighed in this morning. LAst week I thought I would give it another week due to PMS, but I don't want to put it off. There were 5 weeks in April already (we weigh on the first saturday of the month and April had 5 Saturdays). I lost 8 lbs in April and have lost 28 lbs total. I have been doing this now for 4 months.
I am going to move our scale back to the basement. We have it up in a cabinet but it is still too easy to get and i have done a lot of mid-month weigh ins this month. I want to re-focus on health instead of the number of hte scale so no more weigh ins till the first saturday in June.
8:55 p.m.
First day was HARD. I worked my butt off to get all my errands done (mostly done, enough to rest properly tomorrow.) Got my water in, my veggies, my fruit. Stayed within points. But with all the work around the house, I wanted to treat myself between jobs with a sweet. Having only 1 sweet a day is going to be rough. Grade for Day 1 - A+!
# posted by amy @ 9:25 AM
