Week Three - Progress Report



Sad panda didn't meet her goal. No new sneakers this week.

I'm proud of my continued efforts, but still frustrated with little weight loss. HALF a pound this week, making the total 7.5 in 3 weeks.

I have a consult with my reproductive endocrinologist (I'll just call him "baby doctor") Friday to assess all the tests we took and will ask him if he has added nutritional advice for me. In the meantime, I'll keep on keepin' on, with added attention to two areas this week: sugar and sleep.

The sticker chart (see pic) was a good motivational tool for my inner 6-year-old, and now it holds some good at-a-glance info for me to analyze. As you can see, I'm not at all consistent with getting 7 hours of sleep or keeping my sugar intake to 15g or less per day.

So here's the plan:

SLEEP: No Internet after 9:00 weeknights; 10:30 weekends. Exception: I may read it from my phone as part of my reading before bed routine, but must do it ready for sleep, from bed. Get ready for bed early (i.e, shower/wash face/pajamas between 8 and 10 p.m.). Get into bed by 10:30 p.m. on weeknights. Then, even if I read for an hour, I can still fall asleep by 11:30 and wake up at 6:30 for CrossFit or 7:30 other weekdays and get 7 or 8 hours of sleep.

SUGAR: My target is 15g, and the days I missed I only did so by 5 or so grams. I can avoid the end-of-day too-high sugar tally by using products that have less sugar and making sure to get sugar content info before I eat something instead of being surprised when it's too late.

Here's the rest of the health summary (made shorter because most of the info's in the chart now):

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. Improved on the caffeine front, earning stickers all days instead of just 5. Need improvement on sugar intake; will follow plan above. Kept carbs to between 50 and 100 (even had 3 days below 50!) all 7 days.    

Be able to jog ¼ mile at a time without a walk break: Practiced doing two-tenths-mile intervals this week at 4.5 mph (2 miles total), 4.8 mph (2.5 miles total), and 5 mph (3 miles total). This is almost the length I'm shooting for, and it's hard for me. I'll continue with the same interval length this week and hope it gets easier with practice.

Get to a healthier BMI – between 26 and 27: Down to 29.9. (Starting BMI 31.2; Week 1---30.2; Week 2---30) Still going down, however slowly ...  

Increase my physical strength: Went to CrossFit three times this week. Also hiked two miles - lots of hills to climb.  

Get up between 6:30 and 7:30 every weekday: Did this 3 out of the 5 weekdays = met my goal for last week, but would like to increase it to 4 this week.

Get to bed by 11:00 every weeknight: Only managed this 1 night again; will follow what's planned above to improve this. 

Get an average of 7 hours of sleep every night: I got 8.5, 6, 7, 6.5, 5.5, 6.5, and 9. Needs improvement, and the plan will help.