10 Day Challenge Update: Two Days Down

So… my plan for Krissie’s 10 day challenge is to replace my three meal a day plan with one that involves at least five, smaller meals per day — in the hopes that this will a) keep me from feeling deprived, b) keep me from overeating at dinner and c) allow my stomach to shrink a bit.

Day one was awesome. (Well apart from the piece of cake that I ate for my last meal of the day).  I ate when I felt hungry, and found myself getting full after just a small amount of food.  And as a result, my evening meals really weren’t any bigger than those from during the day.  *And* by the time I reached the day’s end, I was about 300 calories under what I usually manage to squeeze into a day (and that’s WITH the cake!)

Day two was much harder. My husband and I went to a boat show in the morning and then did our weekly grocery shopping together.  As a result, we were out most of the day and therefore I couldn’t just eat when I was hungry.  I had to wait to eat, and as a result, I was pretty damned hungry.  Still, though… I managed to keep each meal relatively small and I was well under my caloric intake for the day.

Anyway, even though today was a bit tougher, I’m feeling good about this new way of dividing up my meals.   This is only day two, but I feel like I can stick it out for the full ten days and perhaps even make this a permanent change — which makes other changes seem a little less daunting.

In other good news, it turns out that I actually WON Fat Bridesmaid’s pedometer challenge! It’s so exciting because not only do I *never* win anything, but I also didn’t have time to keep track of the other competitors, and therefore winning really was a giant surprise! I didn’t win by much, though.  Ready2shrink was hot on my tail with a whopping 259,927 steps — which is totally awesome!  I’m seriously so proud of all the other people who stepped up (har!) to FBM’s challenge.  This was such a great idea and I really want to thank Fat Bridesmaid for issuing the challenge in the first place.

Yay for us!

Wanna Win A Bike??

Gosh. I do!

When I was a kid, my brother and I had to share a bike. He was younger than me, but taller and stronger by an early age. So… he’d put me on the handlebars and we’d ride around our neighborhood park. I haven’t owned a bike since way back then, but thinking about having one again brought back a flood of beautiful memories. If I were to win this contest, (which I’m not counting on since I never win anything), I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t ride anyone around on the handlebars, but I think it would give me an excuse to take off the virtual “training wheels” and kick my fitness routine into high gear.

Go see Scale Junkie and get your link on.

Pedometer Challenge Wrap Up

I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve had a busy week… which has resulted in poor eating habits but lots of steps. Here’s my numbers:

Sunday: 12,574
Monday: 17,201
Tuesday: 17,039
Wednesday: 12, 254
Thursday: 16,454
Friday: 14,413
Saturday: 16,602
Sunday: 12,232

(click the link to see the pictures)

I’m not sure if we’re supposed to count Sunday (today) or not, so my totals are as follows:

Week 3 Total(s): 106,537 (w/o today) -or- 118,805 (w/today)
Weekly Average(s): 15,220 (w/o today) -or- 14,851 (w/today)
Challenge Total(s): 290,753 (w/o today but w/bonus steps from wk 1) -or- 303,021 (w/today but w/bonus steps from wk 1)
Challenge Average(s): 13,854 (w/o today but w/bonus steps) -or- 13,773 (w/today but w/bonus steps)

I wish I’d had more time to keep up with the other people who were participating in Fat Bridesmaid’s Pedometer Challenge, but I hope that everyone else benefited as much from this challenge as I did. Regardless of who “wins” I feel like I’ve already won. Even though this week was a tough one for me food wise, the pedometer strapped to my waist kept me moving my ass even on those days when I didn’t really want to. So… I just want to say thanks to FBM for lighting a fire under me and for keeping us all moving over the last several weeks. *mwa!*

Anyway, I didn’t weigh this week. I have no good reason for this except that I’ve been afraid of what the scale would say. I’ve really blown it food wise this week and I have no choice but to really buckle down from here on out. Perhaps not recording all of my food every day wasn’t that great of an idea after all.

Lots to ponder.

Have a great week, everyone.