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Quest for Skinny Erika: Week 6

Posted By: Erika Mitchell on 03/15/2011

Quest for Skinny Erika: Week 6. I think there comes a certain point in every weight loss journey where the novelty wears off and motivation becomes a problem. After the euphoric rush of that initial weight loss success, it can start to feel a little more difficult to kick yourself off the couch and into the gym.

Or maybe your particular temptation is food. Like, maybe you’ve been watching what you eat really well and you’ve lost some weight. You’re feeling good about yourself, looking better, and the cookies in the break room start looking a little more innocent. They call out to you with their sugary sweetness, spouting lies about how one cookie couldn’t possibly hurt.

That’s kind of where I ended up this week, on both counts. I’ve lost some weight, I consider the gym my second home, and I’m nearing that dangerous portion of my weight loss journey where I’ve started feeling like maybe I know things. Like maybe I can use my own judgment to determine when I need to exercise and what I need to eat.

But I’m wrong.

My judgment is what got me into this mess. My judgment is what convinced me that surely two cupcakes would be even yummier than just one. My judgment can’t be trusted. Not yet.

Something that definitely helps with this is knowing my trainers are going to be asking me twice a week how I did with my eating and exercising in between sessions. Accountability is crucial to someone like me who used to routinely accept both advice and therapy from baked goods.

One thing I’ve learned is you don’t want to make your trainers mad. I think telling them their advice and hard work have gone to waste all because I couldn’t just say no to chocolate would definitely qualify as making them mad.

It’s obvious that my trainers spend a lot of time planning my workouts, and if I squander their hard work, well…Let’s just say I can expect to be doing a lot more push-ups to pay for it.

Here are my stats for this week!

Weight: 198.2 lbs (I lost 1.2 lbs last week!)

Waist: 41.5 inches (I’m not discouraged by the lack of change in my waist from last week. Waist measurements are tough to do consistently because it’s hard to measure in the same spot every time)