Fit-to-Fat-to-Fit Blog Day 12

Goal weight: 195.

Current weight: 227.6

Three weeks down. Nine to go.

First of all, I am very proud of all my 5 a.m Fit4Change teammates and thank them for the encouragement and motivation they give me.

I weighed in today.  According to their scales, I lost one pound this week — and I wasn’t pleased.  After the first week of losing seven pounds and the second week of losing ten, one measly pound seems like a mighty small number.  I have hit a plateau.  Excuse me as I curse a bit.

#$%#$%

OK, I’m back.  I’ve been playing around with physiology long enough (starting with high school football weightlifting) to know that this is not the end of the world. So I’m keeping a few things in mind:

1. I’m putting on muscle. Muscle is denser and heavier that the fat that I was carrying.

2. How do I know? I have lost 2 1/2 inches off my waist.  Yup. I barely fit into size 40 pants at the beginning of the month and my gut hung over. Now I am wearing size 38’s and they are loose.

3.  This is a marathon, not a sprint. My goal is 50 pounds. I have lost 18 in three weeks. I am on target.

4. I started in the beginner group. I’m now in the intense group –In three weeks!  I can run four miles now. I couldn’t walk up a flight of stairs before.

Next week, I’ll lose more than a pound.  And by April 28 when Patrick House weighs me on the air, I’ll weight 195 lbs.  I’ll also have my life back.

The view from the plateau is beautiful: I can see my goal clearly in sight.

And that’s worth getting up a 3:45 in the morning for. Trust me.