Today we finally received the results from the first weigh in. Of 42 teams...My team came in 6th place! I am just as surprised as you are. I feel even more motivated than before... we are so close to the top. However it is just the first week and there are still 11 weeks to go... The team with the highest percentage of weight loss was just over 16.5% and the next highest was at 13%. So as you can see, every other team has a lot of ground to cover.
The results were not very well organized so at this point I can't tell you who the biggest male or female loser is for the week, however I can tell you that the woman have been putting in some work. I had been expecting the men to lose 10 lbs in the first week because men lose more than women in general. Also I figured there would be huge losses from men doing Atkins/South Beach or any other low carb diet that would cause them to lose water weight. However what I didn't expect was for the women to lose so much. Me and every other woman that I know who lost weight by calorie counting and exercising lost somewhere between 1.5 to 2.5% of our weight in the first week. However there were some women in the competition who lost 3.5 to 6%... That actually got me down a bit, i really want to win. It made me question whether I was doing all I can to lose weight. But then I realized that it isn't about winning the monetary prize. It's about getting back in shape and feeling good about myself. So whether I'm on the winning team or not, if I reach my goals then I have won!
Daily Journal:
This week I participated in San Diego's restaurant week. Restaurant Week is great because you can get a 3 course meal at a greatly discounted price. Yes I said a 3 course meal. Meaning that I had an appetizer, entree and desert all to myself. And you know what... I didn't feel bad about eating so much. I had fully prepared myself for it. I exercised on two separate occasions today, (a combination of XBOX dancing and jogging outside and elliptical). I also took a look at the menu before I arrived and chose my meal beforehand. Lastly I ate a lot less during breakfast and lunch because I knew I would have a big dinner. Now, I'm not going to claim that I ate under my 1400 calorie goal, however with all the preparation that I did today, I still created a calorie deficit of about 800 calories. So my weight should continue to move in the right direction.
Today I ate about 1750 calories. I burned about 450 calories dancing, jogging and on the elliptical machine.
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