Fitness Challenge

We started a fitness challenge at work a couple of weeks ago. The goal is to lose ten pounds in eight weeks. A lot of groups go for higher weight loss, but we didn’t want to promote anything unhealthy. Everyone puts in $20 at the beginning, and the money is split between everyone who achieves their goal. The person who loses the most gets a free dinner on the rest of the group.

I had planned to get back to healthy eating and doing a little exercise anyway, so I figured I’d join in. I’ve slowly been losing weight over the last few years, forty pounds in total, but I’ve been at the same weight for half a year or so now. I figured this would be a good kickstart for my system.

The first week I ate decently, and I actually ended up losing 2.5 pounds. This was the first full week I ate solid food in a month, with being sick twice and dentist appointments the previous month, so I thought I’d be gaining weight for sure.

Tomorrow is our second weigh-in, and I’m pretty sure I’m screwed. I’ve had two friends visit, at different times, in the last week, and any idea I had about living healthily went out the window. It was great to have them here, but it was also hard on the ol’ body. Over the weekend I had eggs Benedict for both breakfasts and a blended avocado milkshake, which was much tastier than it sounds but just as fatty. This was but the tip of the lard-ass iceberg.

This next week I’ll get back into the swing of things, I hope. I was focusing on veggies and fish, and that seemed to work well for me. I didn’t think I’d even come close on this, but now I feel like I could actually pull it off if I work a little at it.