Week Six: Progress Report

Ah, Week Six - the week I made a dent in weight loss again! Yay. Upped my Metformin (for PCOS) to 1000 mg this week and have been adjusting well.  

A few hiccups this week - Saturday night we got sushi. I thought "There's so little rice in the rolls - how bad can it be?" Well, not horrible, but almost 100 grams of carbs and 20 grams of sugar in 12 pieces ... so enough to put me over my limits. This taught me once again to look stuff up BEFORE I plan to eat it. 

And then sleep needs work again. I've been up later keeping up with a book editing deadline, but I'll be done with that (WOO-HOO!) this week. Will try to get into bed around 10:30 instead of 11 so I'm good and sleepy by 11:30 p.m.

Dammit, I need those new sneakers. Let's work this, Diana. 

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 all 7 days' worth of  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 - I made up the 4-miler I missed last week, and also did my regular 2-mile run/walk, 3-mile run/walk, and 4-mile run/walk for this week. On the 2-miler I worked in 3 quarter-mile intervals, I did 2 of them in my 3-miler, and just one of them in my 4-miler. I'll up the frequency this week. I'll probably do all quarter-mile intervals for my 2-miler, and then try to do at least 3 for the 3-miler and 2 for the 4-miler. 

Get to a healthier BMI – between 26 and 27: Good progress here - I'm down to a BMI of 29.4, down .5 from last week. (Starting BMI 31.2; Week 1---30.2; Week 2---30; Week 3---29.9; Week 4---30.2, Week 5---29.9)  

Increase my physical strength: Went to CrossFit my goal of 3 times.  

Get up between 6:30 and 7:30 every weekday: Did this 3 out of 5 weekdays. Will strive for my goal of 4 again this week.

Get to bed by 11:00 every weeknight: Maintained my goal of 4 this week. Keeping up the good work! I really need to start getting there by 10:30, though, to be able to actually be asleep by 11:30.

Get an average of 7 hours of sleep every night: I got 8, 6, 6.5, 6, 6, 9.5, and 9. Again, if I don’t fall asleep right by 11:30 then there’s no way I’ll get my 7 hours before getting up for CrossFit at 6:30. Gotta get to bed by 10:30 this week.