This was my first week back in a deficit after taking a week of maintenance. Last week as I expected I gained a little weight, nothing crazy, this week I lost most of what I had gained. After 4 1/2 years of deficit, deficit, deficit, my body is not super thrilled with continuing to be in a deficit.
I’m not gonna lie, if I had been 100% consistent in those 4 1/2 years, I KNOW I would be at my goal weight by now. I cannot make myself have done better in THE PAST, all I can do is make sure I am better from now going forward.
At Christmas, I took 2 entire weeks off for the holidays and while we were visiting my husbands family in Missouri. I didn’t count a single thing. And as I knew would happen, I gained weight. I was also hoping this would kick my body into some good week of weight loss. The entire month of January I had really good losses every week. When February came around, the weight loss slowed…by a lot.
So a couple of weeks ago I went back to the strategy that was working for me towards the end of last year, I would take a week of maintenance followed by a couple of weeks of weight loss and see what happens. So last week I was up 2 pounds, which I expected with all the extra food. This week I am down 1.8 and hormones did not do me any favors this week.
I am going to stick to this plan for a while and actually give it a chance. Switching plans every couple of weeks when I am not seeing the progress I want is not doing me any favors. I am close to my goals but still haven’t lost all the holiday weight gain. Since the beginning of January I have hit my goals EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. I am super proud of my consistency, I have not been this consistent in I don’t even know how long.
I hope everyone had a good week and I cannot wait to see what the last 30 days of the challenge bring!
