Alright, One week down on this trek to happiness and you know what? Dieting is hard. I've already had to make a few adjustments to the original meal plan, but that is ok because I'm not giving up just refocusing. I also now have protein powder which is a little more essential than I originally planned but am looking forward to the benefits. And I just want to thank everyone helping me out with the hardest part of this last week, What to do with freaking oatmeal!! That first day was rough but it does make you appreciate protein powder more. Anyway thanks to you guys I have a ton of Oatmeal recipes to try and someday I will write about them all, but for now let's get into week 1.
Starting stats for week 1: 216.5 lbs and 23% body fat.
Ending stats for week 1: 214.5 lbs. and 21.5% body fat.
So honestly number wise week 1 was positive, but lets take a closer look.
Pros of Week 1: Eating smaller meals and being more conscious of what I'm eating. Worked out 1 day. Meal planned for this week.
Cons of Week 1: Only worked out 1 day, had about 4 cheat meals, 2 were extremely late at night and pointless.
Overall just the habit of eating smaller portions really helped out so refocusing this week should help out even more but we will see on that. The new goals for this week are to stick with the workout plan. This should be more possible from the protein powder helping recover quicker. Cut back on cheat meals and watch the timing of meals. Lastly plan and prep meals for the next two weeks.
So goals set, I will follow up on them next time. Now to the happiness part of the experiment. Does this change in behavior actually make me happier? Hard to tell since I didn't do so hot sticking to it the first week, but I do feel better. This next week should give me a better perspective after week 2. As an old personal trainer friend of mine would say let's have some fun! (It never was fun, but thats a different story)
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