It's currently 3:28 a.m. I went to bed at 10:00, and have been laying here awake ever since. Oh insomnia, why do you only hit on work nights? Seriously, now I'm going to have to call in (I don't know about you, but I can't work on no sleep - I can't even type a sentence in here without making a ton of mistakes, so assuming I was able to drive myself to work without killing myself in a car accident, I'd be making stupid mistakes all day, so no thanks).
Anyway. I came up with a plan last night, before I went to bed and never went to sleep. The name of this blog is 30 Days of Denise, because when I started it, I was chronicling a 30 day challenge of basically behaving on my diet and not messing up at all. I succeeded, and then never did that many days in a row again. Well, I'm going to change that, because while I've been doing well on weekdays, for the most part, I have been falling apart on weekends, and it can't continue. I have a deadline here, people! I can't screw around anymore, not even for a day or two on the weekends.
So, here's the plan I came up with, while I was failing to get to sleep. For 28 days in a row (less than the 30 in my blog title, but oh well - an even four weeks is just easier to keep track of), I will do the following:
*Eat between 1200 and 1550 calories per day (the amount Spark People tells me I should eat in order to lose weight).
*Exercise - cardio for half an hour, and then floor exercises to strengthen my abs, butt and legs, plus hand weight or resistance band work for my arms (every day for the cardio and floor work, every other day for the weight work).
*Eat at least one piece of fruit. Okay, this may sound like a no brainer for most of you, but even though I like apples, bananas, strawberries, mandarin oranges and orange juice, if given the choice between any of those and a granola bar as a snack, I'll take the granola bar every time. I need to work on getting more fruit into my diet.
*Drink at least 8 glasses of water every day. This is usually an easy one for me, except on the weekend. Then I allow myself a soda or two, and the water doesn't happen. It's time to change that. I can still have a weekend day soda if I want, but it has to come in addition to the water, not in place of it.
*Don't step on the scale until the 28 days are over! This may well be the hardest one for me. When I'm not doing well, I have no problem staying away from the scale. Who wants to see their weight go up? Not me. But when I'm doing well, I want to see the weight go down, so I end up getting on the scale every day. It's not healthy for my state of mind. So I am setting this part of the challenge to keep me off the damn scale until each 28 day period is over.
In addition to the above things, I'll be writing in here every day. If I don't really have anything to say (I'm wordy, but not wordy enough to do a whole essay every single day), then I'll just do an entry giving the following stats at the end of each day:
Number of Calories Eaten:
Cups of water I drank:
What fruit I ate:
What I did for exercise:
Did I step on the scale?: (This one should always have no for an answer, and having to post the answer here will hopefully help me stay off the blasted thing.)
So there's my plan, that I detailed to myself when I should have been sleeping. I'm hoping to get on the scale at the end of the 28 days and see good news. We'll see!
Oh, and I don't have an exact starting weight for this 28 day period, because my period is due, and the water weight has packed on, so I stayed off the scale this weekend (plus I ate way too much the last two days). I will say, though, that on Thursday I was down to around 212.75. Woo! (I say around 212.75 because I can get on my scale five times and get five different weights. It's frustrating, but what are you going to do. I usually go with the lowest weight I get - that was the lowest on that day.) Who knows, maybe in this first 28 days I'll get below that 200 number! This season's biggest loser contestants are calling having a weight that starts with a 1 being in "Onederland." I want to be in onederland so badly! Maybe 28 days from now I'll be there.
Okay, now I'm going to mindlessly surf the web in lieu of sleeping, then call in to work as an insomniac loser, and then probably lay in bed or on the futon all day watching TV and wishing I weren't so tired. I will still get in my exercise, though. I don't have to be wide awake and alert to sit my ass on the exercise bike and pedal while watching TV.
Here's to a great 28 days! And no repeat of this insomnia anytime soon!
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I like your plan! I'm the same with sleep. I cannot function and it's dangerous. I am always impressed with people who can get little to no sleep and then continue on with their day. I fall apart :-) It's another reason why I hate going to Europe, actually! (messing with my sleep and the overnight flight)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, you have a good plan! Can you put your scale away? Mine is up in a closet that takes work to get out so if I am going to weigh myself, it's an ordeal.
Here's to a fabulous 28 days! (and more, actually!) Spring is coming (seems impossible to believe but it will be here!)
Thanks Melissa! I can't put the scale away - it's an old doctor's scale that my mother bought from a health supply place in the 80s or 90s. You know, you stand on it, the bottom weight goes on 200, the top lever slides back and forth until the whole thing balances. All I can do is be strong enough not to get on it in the morning before my shower.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, here's to a fabulous 28 days! With good nights of sleep throughout, hopefully! (I've slept about three hours now, and am still exhausted - I really don't know how people do their days on such a small amount.)