On the Path of Goals and Dreams Update for 9/11/2011

Time for an update!

As of tomorrow, I've been on my new way of life for two months. Seems almost surreal to say that, actually, because it almost seems like forever and yet no time at all. A strange sort of mental time warp!

I'm actually doing really well with the food aspect of my Revised Lifestyle :) I bought some coconut flour and tried the coconut muffin recipe Yasmine found. They were good so I need to bake some more. My husband has also started making our own full fat yogurt which ROCKS since I know exactly what's in it and we sweeten it with one of the splenda coffee syrups. Every once in a while I feel like I miss something but if I give it a few minutes, the feeling passes and I'm back to the low carb bandwagon.

I've lost about twelve pounds so far which puts me 11% of the way to my goal. YAY. It's not coming off super-fast but it's coming off. I'm actually hoping the fact it's not too fast will help my skin adapt back to a smaller shape instead of hanging off me. Shrink-to-fit, shrink-to-fit (repeats mantra).

I'm also proud that I'm still on my "No Excuses" six-day-a-week gym plan. I've completed eight weeks without a miss and am now on nine weeks. Scarily enough, I think I'm starting to enjoy it! Not everyday, though. Some days it takes everything I have to get my ass out of bed and off to the gym, but I do it anyway. My resting heart rate is slowing, my heart rate recovery time is getting faster and it takes faster walking to push me into the 120s or so which is my minimum heart rate for "exercise".

I did manage to give myself shin splints by trying to fast but those seem to have mostly resolved now. But, instead of just going for broke again, I'm trying harder to be patient. Yesterday I walked for an hour with 30 seconds of running at each ten minute mark. I'm going to try to keep myself on that pace every other day this week with just walking and no running on the days between.

I won't have my BFF, Jo, take measurements again until next month and we'll see what happens there. Right now I'm still wearing basically the same size but I can tell some differences in how things fit. I certainly have more energy and feel better overall.

Onward!