Learning Curve

Friday, Week 2 140lbs

Mistakes I've made:

1.  Incorrect dosage of PAGG stack
For some ridiculous reason I ordered the Mega Green Tea tablets that are 750mg and only need 1 dose daily.  I took these each day for a week and felt awful.  No wonder.  I replaced them with a version I found at Whole Foods (400mg) and have ordered the PAGG Stack combo pill from BodyBuilder.com (not yet arrived).

2.  Massive amounts of food
I do not need 2500 calories a day. I don't know why I felt I had to consume in volume what I didn't have in selection, but certainly my portions could be considered binging aside from Saturday's Cheat.  I think I mentally equated "you don't need to count calories" into "gorge yourself on beans".  It's not a good thing. I've scaled back my meals considerably.  I'm not any more hungry, just naturally consuming normal portions instead of forcing in massive, uncomfortable loads.  5 eggs in one sitting?  Seriously.

3.  Weighing myself obsessively
Tracking is one thing... this is clearly an unhealthy habit I'm getting myself into.  I am working it.  I'm down to once a day today.  I think I'm simply anxious to see how this is working for me and the cheat day still freaks me out.  I may relax a bit once I get a few consistent weeks behind me and see how it all works out in the larger scheme.  At the moment I'm feeling very detail oriented.

Things I'm getting better at:

Definately getting my system of regular meals together.  I've added lettuce wraps with a lean protein, guacamole and julienned raw veggies.  I'm preferring a protein mix upon waking and before working out  then eating a couple boiled eggs before I even shower.

Making sure I have lean protein on hand by pre baking/poaching chicken & fish + boiled eggs and a bag of lentils precooked in containers in the fridge is a priority and makes life easy.  Having a salad prepared in the fridge is also becoming a no brainer no matter what I'm cooking the family for dinner.  I just add my protein on top and I'm good to go without much thought or fuss.



Tomorrow is my official weigh in.  I'll be relieved if I'm back where I was last week (139) before cheat day.  I'm working on making forward progress thru these small changes and since I only have 10lbs to lose now I may have to read the chapter on the last ten.  I skimmed thru it initially and I have to say it looked intimidating and much "stricter".   We shall see.  Maybe once I've mastered this plan and it becomes routine I'll feel more prepared to make bigger changes.