Hey There!
Here I find myself again at another Weight-in Monday. And
survey says … 3 less lbs I need to lose to get to 103!
This puts me officially at 11 lbs down, leaving me with only
92 lbs to go! I know what you are saying. “Scuba, be real here. 92 pounds is
still most of Back Street Boy!” I know, I know. But I choose to be a glass half
full kinda guy and I am refusing to be overwhelmed by 92 stupid lbs and choose
to be strengthened and energized by the 11 lbs that I NEVER will have to carry
around or lift up off the couch or the floor after playing with my son,
again! There you go!
One thing different that I did more of this week, is taking
advantage of short periods of time to get moving. At work, for at least one break
a day, I am getting on the elliptical in our small but more than adequate
workout room for 7 to 10 minutes and then doing a few reps of some heavy
things. At home I am doing the same thing in our home gym. Even small sessions,
maybe even more than once a day, will make a huge difference!
It should go without saying that this is going hand and hand
to the high school dance with eating better. By better, I specifically mean
that right now I am just making healthier choices by finding alternatives to
some of the things I am used to eating, eating smaller portions and refusing to
slip into ye ol’ “I have waited to long to eat and I am over hungry, and/or I
had a stressful day, so I deserve to hit some fast food” kind
of thinking.
Hey. No big deal. I just know where that kind of thinking
gets me. It gets me and keeps me fat. I am not saying I will never have a fast
food hamburger again. I am nowhere near making that proclamation. In fact, my
amazing wife and my son and I hit up a great restaurant in town last week and I
enjoyed my first burger in a few weeks (with a salad instead of fries mind you)
and I had zero guilt or anxiety that I was being “Bad”. I am allowing a smarter
“not so great” choice once or twice a week to remind me what I am fighting for!
I will not sustain an eating style where I can’t have something off the
stereotypical unhealthy foods list from time to time. That is called dieting and I am
not dieting. I am losing 103 lbs for life and that is done through being
smarter, not hungrier.
That is a new catch phrase for 103in365! Be smarter, not
hungrier! I do not need to starve myself, or any variation there in, to get
more fit! I just need to be smart about what and how much I am eating most of the time, instead
of making myself crazy hungry in hopes that I will be rewarded with my body
burning up some fat as I sit around eating paper that has pictures of a grilled
cheese sandwiches on it wishing that I was a thin boy. (That got specific, huh?
Not sure where that came from.)
So here are my take-aways for today. Find even the small
moments to get yourself moving, and be smarter, not hungrier!
Make some progress towards your goals this week. Take “build
Rome today” off your TO DO list and make some sort of movement in the right
direction and remind yourself it will make all the difference.
1 comment:
three pounds a week and you'll be down 147 by the end of this. you may be going too fast. ahaha. KIDDING. YOU GO STEVE!
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