Broken Scale?

A bit over a month ago I decided to tackle it, to get on top of it and to stick to healthier eating and a workout schedule. I made a plan to use the remaining 13 weeks of the year to reach the weight I want to have, made a plan and dove into the adventure.

Thanks, Danny, for inspiring me!

I figured an update is overdue. Over the last couple of days and weeks I had Willow’s comment in the back of my mind, who mentioned that you need to get there first before patting yourself on the back. Totally agree with her. As she stated often we make a plan then tell people about it, try to achieve it, fail and then explain why we have not reached our goals using many excuses. Bottom-line: It’s better to keep it all to yourself until you have reached said goal.

You might ask yourself where I’m going with this. Well, I’m definitely not about to find any excuses or tell you that I have failed. Nope. But I’m also not where I wanted to be and frankly, I have no clue why. I have stuck to healthier eating. I have stuck to the workouts, even on my resting days I’ve been active. Knowing how my body has reacted in the past I should have dropped at least 3-4 kilos by now. But I haven’t and it’s frustrating. I have dropped just about 2 kilos (on a good day…).

Over the last week I analyzed my approach. I checked what I ate, I took the full moon into consideration. But nothing really explains to me why the scale does not show a lower number. Maybe I’m simply not patient enough. But if this continues like that I will be far from the goal I set by the end of the year.

As I said, I’m not giving up. This all is about being consistent and that’s what I’m planning to do. My body might have changed, its metabolism might have changed. The explanation might be as simple as that. I will keep my eyes on my original goal although I know that dropping about 6kilos in about 6 weeks will be a lot, probably too much. I know I can lose it but if I lose weight that fast I usually put it back on again in a similar amount of time, at least some of it.

I was really hoping that this update will be a success story. But hey, this is life and sometimes it does not do what we want it to do, right?!

On a good note: I also mentioned that I measure myself too when starting a diet (or better changing eating habits) and I have lost almost 4cm around my tummy since I wrote my first post about this journey. So that’s a good thing!