Elizabeth’s Week 4 Day 6
Food diary:
Meal 1: protein shake mixed with 8 oz. of 1% milk
Meal 2: 2 scrambled eggs with 1/2 bell pepper, onions, mushrooms, and 1/2 piece of left over steak; 8 oz. of V8
Meal 3: apple, 1 tbs peanut butter, cheese stick
Meal 4: hamburger w/out the bun, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, and onions; handful of Doritos; 1 can of Diet Coke; 2 sugar-free hard candies
Meal 5: 12 almonds, 12 edamame
Meal 6: salmon patty, 1/2 can of green beans
Dessert: 1 sugar-free cherry jello cup w/ 1 tbs Cool Whip
Exercise: 30 minutes elliptical, 20 minutes weights (chest, triceps, abs), walked to work
Thoughts: At work today we had a faculty luncheon…hamburgers. I skipped out on the white bun and the cookies. Using the lettuce leaves as a way to hold everything together worked really well and tasted yummy. I’m glad that I practiced some self-control.
So, I got on the scale today for an unofficial weigh in. I’m at 266.5! That means I have lost close to 20 lbs. I guess it all depends on the scale though, since we originally weighed in on Annette’s. Glen and I purchased a scale that also calculates body fat percentage. We are waiting for it to ship. I am excited to see these numbers too, not just pounds.
In the past, whenever I start exercising again I don’t lose a lot of “weight” but I lose body fat. Meaning, all that weighlifting is building lean muscle mass. I’m just glad the scale is moving again, even though not seeing it move doesn’t always indicate failure. 