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Quest for Skinny Erika: Week 11.

Posted By: Erika Mitchell on 04/19/2011

The Quest for Skinny Erika: Week 11.

To be completely honest, I almost threw in the towel this week. I love the exercise, but all this eating like a responsible grown-up business is starting to wear on me. Eating well is easy to do for a week. For two weeks? Meh. For eleven weeks?

Whoa.

This is hard work. It’s not just the exercising six times a week. I mean, yes, that’s hard work too, but when it really comes right down to it, the most difficult part of this whole journey has been eating well. For sure.

There’s a whole lot of temptation in the world. Restaurant food is ridiculously high in calories. Birthday parties always have cakes or cupcakes or some other kind of confectionary delight. To be succinct, there’s just a freaking ton of delicious food in the world.

Saying no to those every day, the constant discipline, is tough to uphold long-term. Especially for someone like me who had, previous to my journey, made a lifestyle out of saying yes to every culinary delight that crossed my path.

There are two reasons I decided to stay on the wagon. One was my husband. In a moment of weakness I confessed to my husband that I didn’t think I could keep going. And he looked me in the eye and told me he knew I could do it.

Second, the results I’m getting. I would be a fool to look at the difference from week one to now and think I shouldn’t keep going. I mean, I’ve lost 18 pounds in eleven weeks!

So, I’m not throwing in the towel. I have a lot of work ahead of me, but I have excellent help and encouragement. I have to say, having a supportive spouse, partner, friend, whatever may be the second best help you can have in your weight loss journey. The first being, of course, personal trainers who know exactly what you need to do to meet your goals.

Onward and upward, I say, and here’s hoping the next eleven weeks are just as successful!

Here are my stats for this week:

Weight: 189.2 lbs (I lost 1.4 lbs this week!)

Waist: 38.75 inches (Up .25 inches from last week but I’m not worried because it’s difficult to measure in the same place every time)