Relaxation
I took the morning off from walking, and it felt fabulous. Sometimes I feel like I’m making excuses when I tell Allyson things like “I would cook more if I didn’t have to take over an hour out of every morning to exercise,” and “I would rather be at home unpacking things than walking,” but apparently there’s more than a little truth to my statements. Today, upon getting up and refusing to walk, I promptly made butter garlic mashed potatoes with artichoke hearts, put away all of my laundry, emptied out almost all of the kitchen gear boxes, and took out an armload of trash. I need to remember exactly how much of a toll 1000-1500 kcal paired with 70+ minutes of exercise every day actually takes on me the next time I lament that I’m not getting things done as fast as I’d like.
Unfortunately, not exercising today paired with actually eating a total of three meals on Sunday (which hasn’t happened in over three months now), has led to somewhat lackluster weight progress this week. I’m still losing at an appreciable rate though, and my overall rate of weight loss over the course of my diet plan has been 1.05 kg/week. I also managed to keep my streak of being below the trend line alive, which is no small victory.
-0.68 kg/week with an average daily calorie shortfall of 873 kcal.
I ran the calculations of approximately how many calories I’m burning based on how quickly I’m walking, how much I weigh, and how long I’m walking, and it turns out that I’m burning over 400 kcal everyday just with exercise. That’s 2400-2800 calories per week, a figure that completely negates the calories from two whole days of eating. It’s no wonder I’m losing weight.
Unfortunately, it looks like my Wolves shirt is still too small for me. I had been hoping to fit into it by the time the season kicked off, but I doubt I’m going to lose many inches by Saturday. I don’t really consider this a failure so much as a completely unreasonable target.
I’m considering buzzing my hair again. I know that Allyson likes me with hair, but I look so much neater and put together when I have a nice even 1-2 mm of hair all over my head.