Off Track

Weigh in's were Wednesday and I didn't even lose a pound. I lost .6 pounds. It kind of frustrated me because I lost 8.2 pounds in the first week and it's like this week, the scale wouldn't budge. I'm halfway thinking that it's due to my sodium intake. I've tracked that and unfortunately, out of the 2,300 mg that they recommend on Spark People, I'm getting an average of 1,000 mg over that. That bites. Everything I eat has a decent amount of sodium and although it was easy to give up pop and start my diet, I'm not sure that I can give up sodium so quickly. I'll try to limit my intake, but this is what's going to be my biggest struggle.

So, my diet is still going as planned (minus sodium) however, I've been slacking on my workouts. I was supposed to do 30 minutes of cardio and all of my strength training on Wednesday. Well, I did my strength training, I just happened to skip out on my cardio because the day was rather busy. I told myself that I would finish up my cardio on Thursday.

On Thursday, I started my cardio. I had been jumping rope for five minutes in my parent's kitchen (I know, what was I thinking?), when all of a sudden, my rope hit the light on the ceiling and it came falling down. It shattered in pieces all over the floor. I obviously stopped.

So, then I told myself that I would finish it up today, which means not only do I have to do seven strength training workouts (2 sets of 15 reps each), but I have to do 55 minutes of cardio instead of thirty minutes. I did my step ups a few minutes ago for ten minutes so now I have to jump rope (vigorously) for ten minutes, jump rope (slow) for ten minutes, go for a twenty minute walk, and do five minutes of vigorous jumping jacks. That's what I get for slacking.

Crummy

It seems like in the past couple days, I've been nothing but frustrated. I can't even pinpoint why. I just wake up in a crappy mood and everything gets under my skin. Too bad my horoscope for this week wasn't right, "You've been really stressed out but thanks to the cosmos, you will be relieved of a significant amount of stress this week." It started out that way. For one day.

Well. Weigh-in's are tomorrow and I'm not thrilled at all. If anything, I'm nervous. I lost 8.2 pounds in the first week and it's like now, I can't lose an eighth of a pound. I've been doing all of my strength training and cardio three times a week, I've been taking metabolism pills, drinking loads of water, quit drinking pop, and I'm staying in my recommended nutritional value range. Whatever I'm doing wrong is not obvious. Perhaps it's just the way it is. The weight loss in the first week motivates you for the second week and then the second week lets you down. No wonder so many people's diets fail. - Just for the record, I don't plan on being one of those people.

Just thought of something. They say that the more sodium you consume each day can make you retain water and ultimately keep the pounds. Perhaps my sodium intake should be kept track of so I can see if that's the issue...

Updates on my progress (or lack of) tomorrow.