Day 666: I Believe

 

                                                                                            🖤 Get well soon Tommy ! #teamrivs #RageOn 🖤




“I don't believe you have to be better

 than everybody else. I believe you 

have to be better than you ever 

thought you could be.” 
 



It's day 666 of Nutrisystem. I'm glad this milestone didn't fall on Halloween !!! I definitely feel like I am better than I ever thought I could be, in the sense that I've lost the weight, paid off a ton of debt and drastically changed my fitness level. When I started 666 days ago it was the biggest leap of faith I've ever taken. I was stepping out into the unknown and I had no expectations. I didn't know what was ahead. Would it be success ? Would it be yet another failure ? Would it be too hard ? Fate had fixed a lot of the problems in my life and the remaining ones were 100% on me to change. I had to make the decision to feed my soul in a different way. It's been a long journey, one that is not over, and it brings a lot of responsibility with it. It's been easier than I thought it would be, but that doesn't mean it has been easy. I've faltered, I've wandered, I've failed. It hasn't been all sunshine and roses. I've shared some of that and some I've kept to myself. The one constant is learning. I've learned so much about myself and what drove me to food for comfort. This has been all about changing my relationship with food and that is something I'm going to have to be aware of always. Once I reach my goal weight I'll be transitioning to maintenance. I keep telling myself that as long as I continue eating the way Nutrisystem has taught me I'll be fine. I know I can't go back to eating all the junk I used to eat before but I may relax my restrictions a tiny bit. I've learned portion control and I've found a lot of healthy snacks but there is still work to be done there. I also can't go back to sitting on the couch in my free time. Exercise is going to be key to maintaining the loss and for my general health. Most days I really enjoy the exercise so I plan to stay with that. I was thinking tonight about Halloween candy. I used to love this time of year because I had an excuse to buy all the candy I wanted ! I could buy bags and bags of candy bars the minute they hit the stores and no one would know it was all for me. I did the same thing as soon as Christmas candy hit the stores. Same on Valentine's Day and Easter. It's kind of sickening when I think about all the calories I used to shovel in. I'm definitely not going down that road again !


No update on Tommy Rivs today other than the fact that he called his dad to chat. I'm sure progress will be shared again but it'll be on Tommy's terms. I'm just glad progress is continuing to be made and that Tommy is doing better. Rage on Tommy !


Breakfast was a 2.8 ounce 150 calorie package of pancakes with sugar free syrup and a 5.3 ounce 80 calorie Light & Fit strawberry cheesecake yogurt. Morning snack was a 120 calorie chocolate shake with peanut butter powder. Lunch was a 3.8 ounce 220 calorie pepperoni pizza melt and a chef salad. Afternoon snack was a honey crisp apple (90 calories) and an 80 calorie piece of asiago cheese. Dinner was a 4 ounce 260 calorie italian sausage & turkey pepperoni pizza with roasted veggies. Evening snack was a 2.2 ounce 140 calorie lemon zest cake. Total calories for the day are 1140 and I got 80 ounces of water in.


This morning was a complete fail when it came to getting out of bed. By the time I got up I barely had enough time to feed the cats before work. Since today is Friday and it doesn't matter what time I go to bed, I wasn't about to let myself off the hook for the morning workout. My lunchtime workout was a 33 minute hike in Waterville Valley, NH with iFit trainer Casey Gilbert. I could have followed this one without changing any of the settings but I wanted to continue my endurance push. After work was a 31 minute hike with Coach Pain (iFit trainer Dewayne Montgomery). He was doing jogging intervals so I went with my endurance plan. Once I cooled down a little I spent 45 minutes on the Total Gym and then had dinner because I was starving and I knew I wouldn't make it through the 3rd workout on an empty stomach. I ended the workout day with a 22 minute walk along Bondi Beach in Australia with iFit trainer Zac Marion. For all of my workouts today I went with the 4%/3% inclines and speeds of 3.1 to 3.7 mph using varying timeframes. I logged 86 minutes, 4.8 miles and 580 calories. Fitbit says I did over 15,000 steps. 


As expected it was quite chilly this morning - right around 30 degrees. In spite of that I worked out on the front porch all day. We did get some sun by afternoon so that helped warm the porch up. Temps are headed into the 20's tonight ! I'm definitely looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow but I have lots to do so I won't be sleeping too late ! I'm having my family for pasta next weekend so this weekend I'll be grocery shopping, cooking sausage & meatballs and cleaning my house ! On that note I'm tired and heading for a shower and bed.




 

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