Gotta Keep on Keepin on!
So this is the point of training where my mind needs to step in and tell me what I logically already know. My weight has been the same for 4 days now. BUT - I know that this is the point where the weight starts to come off harder. I also know that this is the point that I gave into frustration last year and basically gave up.
I have 9 weeks to go. More than 9 weeks and 6 lbs to lose with about 6 % body fat to lose. That amounts to a pound a week and each pound should be a percentage of body fat. I KNOW this - yet every morning, I get up and expect the scale to be down a pound.
I lasted through 2 grueling - almost suicidal workouts yesterday and I felt sure that because of it, I would wake up a pound or two lighter this morning, but I didn’t. And I have to convince myself that all is not for nothing. Maybe those 2 workouts took off .3 lbs and since my scale only weighs whole pounds, I didn’t see the change.
Each workout is getting me closer to where I need to be and I need to talk myself back into the reality that this is NOT going to get any easier. And just because i don’t eat anything that’s not on my diet in a day doesn’t mean that I am going to magically lose weight. It just doesn’t happen like that.
So I have to keep on keeping on and know that one of these mornings, I am going to get up and see the weight down and know that I worked my shrinking ass off for that 1 lb for a week! But it will be 1 lb closer to where I need to be.
January 29, 2008 at 6:41 am
stick through it, 1lb per week isnt so bad, just be careful if the scale goes up instead of down, lose the weight TOO fast and you are losing the muscle that is what the judges wanna see
January 29, 2008 at 6:50 am
I know you can do it! I have the same b.f goal as well–I’m at about 14% right now and have 13 left–so I’m feeling the pressure. You are on top of your game–keep doing your thing girl! I’m rooting for ya!!
January 29, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Not so sure what I need to lose with bf but i do know that i have 15 lbs to go and at a pound and a half per week, just might not be feasible, however, if I put my mind to it and get to the gym at every opportunity possible, I just maybe alright.
if anything by april I will be alot leaner than i am now!!
145???????? 148????????or 158 I don’t think so!!!
my daughter so had ice cream tonight and I practically drooled over it, I said to myself step away from the ice cream and remember i just came from the gym do i want to sacrifice that hour of hard work for a teaspoon or bowl full of ice cream NO I want to eat the whole darn thing!!!