Our local Y is very close to our house. Our kids have done some programs through the Y- soccer, basketball, gymnastics. But we've never become members. It's expensive. I already belong to a gym, we don't have the time to take advantage of it enough to justify the expense. Then we started planning for summer camps and discovered that the cost would be notably less if we were members. The savings was good enough that it more than covers the cost of the monthly membership. So we went ahead and signed up.
An unexpected benefit to joining the Y is that they offer a "Coach Approach" as part of your membership. Jeff and I have already scheduled our initial appointments. Notice that? Jeff and I. Each of us. He's going to start being more active, too. The Coach Approach is a 6 month process where you meet monthly with a Wellness Coach and you can even have a meeting with a nutritionist. I'm eager to figure out a 6 month plan and goal and even more excited to have my husband involved, too.
Using the Y will primarily happen on evenings and weekends. The kids loved the childcare facility. I'm adding group fitness classes to my calendar so that if I have the time and energy, I can slip out for a workout. My hope is that we stay motivated and become a more active family.
I'm planning to write a blog this week for FitCity about new workouts that I try at the Y- the first new thing I did was water aerobics. I did a 90 minute session on Saturday and I really enjoyed it.
Food wise this week was a struggle but also a learning opportunity. I had a hard day and turned to food to soothe my feelings. The good part was that I ended up making decent choices. The behavior wasn't the best. But because I keep a bountiful supply of healthy choices at work, the foods I chose ended up not blowing my points for the day. What did I choose? Baked lentil chips and madras lentils (kind of like a chili dip but no meat). I wanted Penn Station or junk from the vending machine. But I went with the healthy choices in my office and even though I overate and my eating was an emotional response, tracking my points meant that I quickly saw that I hadn't ruined my entire day.
See, in the past, if I caved and went for the junk and crap, I would have figured the entire day was blown and I would have continued to make bad choices. But because I tracked, I saw that I hadn't ruined the day. I saw that the day still had potential. And I still stayed within my points.
So how did weigh in go?
Week 1- I lost 8 lb. Week 2- held steady. Week 3- I'm down 2 more pounds for a total of 10 lb lost!
Goals for this week-
1. My biggest challenge this week will be staying on track while dealing with my period. It's back, sooner than expected, and it's kicking my hormonal booty.
2. Water. I need to ditch diet soda and stick to water. I'm about 85% good on my water consumption but I don't do so well on the weekends.
How was your healthy week?
3 comments:
Yeah, 10 pounds! Great job, Liz!
I have been focusing on trying to be careful about how many sweets I eat, and trying to eat plenty of protein. I know that both of those things are important in pregnancy. But I understand emotional eating and BUSY eating. I know my eating was not what it should have been last week--we have had some difficult stuff happening with extended family, and it's so easy to turn to ice cream and Oreos for "easy comfort."
Congrats. Great progress Liz!
I've noticed my water intake gets all wacky on the weekends. On Saturday I did okay--didn't drink as much as I had been during the week, but still enough. Now yesterday was a different story. We ended up eating all 3 meals out--and yikes, that's a whole issue of itself and I only had chugged some water first thing in the morning. By early evening I could feel the effects of not drinking enough water...I was sluggish. So next weekend I am gonna try to focus on maintaining my H2O input. Good job on your progress; I enjoy reading your updates!
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