Week Four: Progress Report

Meh. Not a great week. Well, that's not true - it WAS a great week, and then I let myself get all pouty and whiny Friday, so I used it as an excuse to stray all the way through Sunday evening. I didn't go ballistic (no pigging out, etc.), but there's no doubt it hampered my efforts. No reward earned this week.

I'd rather not dwell on it. At the very least, it's refreshed my healthy efforts. And I'm hopeful that with the addition of some Metformin to help with my PCOS issues, my weight loss plateau will slide down again. At least my RE seems to think it will, so I'm game to try again.

Up until Friday, I did well with my sticker chart. Paying attention got me into bed by 11 most nights and it kept my sugar below 15g more often than last week. Still a good motivational tool for me. Nothing new to tweak this week, just going back to the same mentality I had before it slipped this weekend.

Here's the rest of the health summary:

Keep a food diary and maintain a low-carb, low-sugar, low-caffeine, no-artificial-sweetener, no-alcohol diet: Continued to fill out daily worksheets to log my food and total all carb, caffeine, and sugar content.

Be able to jog ¼ mile at a time without a walk break: Practiced doing two-tenths-mile intervals again this week at 4.5 mph (2 miles total), 4.8 mph (2.5 miles total), and 5 mph (3 miles total). I'm making my run/walks longer this week and keeping them slower, with longer running intervals, to try to increase my endurance and get closer to those quarter-mile intervals I'm after.  

Get to a healthier BMI – between 26 and 27: Slight backslide - up to 30.2. (Starting BMI 31.2; Week 1---30.2; Week 2---30; Week 3---29.9) I know I can improve this week! 

Increase my physical strength: Went to CrossFit three times this week.  

Get up between 6:30 and 7:30 every weekday: Did this 4 out of the 5 weekdays = met my goal for last week. Will keep the same goal for this week.

Get to bed by 11:00 every weeknight: Improved from just 1 weeknight last week to 4 this week, and the amount of sleep I got improved, too. Will be working to do the same this week.

Get an average of 7 hours of sleep every night: I got 7, 9, 7, 6.5, 6, 10, and 8.5 ... getting better!