Anyone else remember this scene from "10 Things I Hate About You"?
That's how I felt this morning when I weighed myself. I got past the hurdle and I'm back down even LOWER than I was when I almost won my first DietBet.
This is when it gets hard though. This week is an extremely busy week at work for me (with temptations of bad food everywhere!) so I'm only getting to the gym 2 or 3 times, and on Sunday I leave for a conference in Vegas. I'm going to need to be strict with getting up early and working out, which is going to be tough since most programs start at 8:30am. I'm also going to need to control my eating.
I have to stay strong and prove to myself that I can do it.
Not sure if you've noticed, but I tend to disappear on the blog when I fail to meet my goals. I did not meet my DietBet goal, regardless of how close I was.
I keep doing this to myself. I'm doing great, getting close to a goal, and then I either hype myself up, or just stop paying attention/going hard, and I don't meet my goal. In the past 6 months or so, I've set 7 goals for myself that I've failed.
Whenever I think about failing, I go back to this quote by Michael Jordan. I had this on a poster in my bedroom growing up and it has inspired me so much ever since.
Looking at my next goal, I'm focusing on the Biggest Loser competition that I'm running at my job. The contest ends in 4 weeks and I'm determined to break through that -40 benchmark. My overall goal is to be down -41.1, which would make my weight loss for the competition 12.5 pounds. Therefore, I've got 4 weeks to lose 8.5 pounds, or about 2.2 pounds a week.
I'm hoping going to make this goal the one that I meet.
See you next week!
