Beth walking like an Egyptian while we make pancakes last Saturday. Who says we don't get exercise in the kitchen?

I’m really enjoying this. I love that I’ve gotten started, I love that I have a path I’ve stayed on for an entire 14 days (miracle!), and I love that you’re all along for the ride with me! The benefit to a blog, besides accountability, is the community. It takes a village to raise a child, and I’m pretty sure it takes a village to get in shape and lose weight, too.

Goals Progress

I posted the simple summary of the week on the Progress page.

1.) Eat three veggies this week.
Done! This was pretty easy. I had 3-4 large salads*. I eat a ton of fruit, so it isn’t like I get no produce, but getting those veggies in is really hard for me. Considering my Plan involves eventually eating three servings of veggies a day, I really need to keep working on this. Green smoothies, here I come!

2.) Exercise at least three days this week.
Done! I exercised 5 days this week. It wasn’t intentional, Beth just kept wanting to swim and swim and swim with her new pink goggles, so we just kept going to the pool. In Week 3, I’m going to try taking an exercise class.

3.) Write about my progress.
Done! I’ve written several posts this week.

Weight Loss…..er….gain

I actually gained .65 pounds this week. And you know what? I don’t care. I’m guessing the weight gain came from either one or a combination of three things:

• I went to the Melting Pot on Friday and ate my weight in cheese and chocolate.
• I exercised almost every day, and may have built some muscle (which weighs more than fat).
• I’m not tracking calories. My agenda for the first couple weeks was to build some good habits, not break any bad ones, and it’s very likely I’m eating too many calories a day to lose weight.

If it’s the Melting Pot, well that was just worth it. I’ll gain a half pound to get to eat there a couple times a year. If it’s the exercise, well that’s great! I might have a skosh more muscle, which is fantastic. If it’s eating too many calories, well that’s okay too, because it’s more important to me that I build up my good habits of exercise and eating veggies first, before I tackle eating significantly less.

* I was writing all this down on a Google calendar, and I had it embedded on a WordPress page, but the code kept disappearing (honest!), and so it keeps loading as an empty page. I’m working on it over at the forums.