Back on Track

Got in a good one today :,)

~1.75 mile WU ~3 miles with sprint surges tossed in, each one longer than the last ~1 mile CD

9:11/8:34/8:22/8:25/7:57

Once I got moving my “easy” pace naturally picked up and by the end I felt like I could go forever, much needed

AND I’M NOW OFFICIALLY AT THE LOWEST WEIGHT OF MY ADULT LIFE!!!!

HW: 225 lbs.

CW: 167.4 lbs.

Total lost overall: 57.6 lbs.

Goal weight 1: 195 lbs.

Goal weight 2: 190 lbs.

Goal weight 3: 185 lbs.

Goal weight 4: 180 lbs.

Goal weight 5: 175 lbs.

Goal weight 6: 170 lbs

Goal weight 7: 165 lbs. (2.4 lbs. away)

Goal weight 8: 160 lbs. (7.4 lbs. away)

Goal weight 9: 155 lbs. (12.4 lbs. away)

I FUCKING DID IT!!!!!!

I’M EXACTLY 100 LBS DOWN FROM WHERE I STARTED!!!!!

I’ve been fat my whole life….

I’ve literally never accomplished anything (big) in my life…

I didn’t get to go to high school graduation….

I dropped out of college (a few times) and massage school….

My marriage ended in divorce….

Literally anything having to do with me and men, and me and money has been a complete shit show….

When you gotta date, but gym is life😂 @ashleynocera

Drumroll please!

🥁🥁🥁

I lost 2.4 pounds this week!

Eating wise: I stayed within my points, which did include all of my weeklies and four rollover points. But! That’s what they are there for. And I actually tracked everything, rather than just shrugging and trying to move on and slipping up later (my M.O.)

Fitness: I hit my step goals most of the week, and went to two fitness classes, including one I’ve ever tried, and loved. If only I could tell 2012 me that I “loved” a fitness class.

How did everyone else do this week?

Crossfit at home workout ✔️

Workouts for this month: 2/14

AMRAP (as many rounds as possible) in 20 minutes; 1 exercise away from 3 rounds!

Rounds - Reps - Exercise:

another fact is that 500 calories isn’t even enough for a new born.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/bush-torture-memos-commer_n_188190.html

In a footnote to a May 10, 2005, memorandum from the Office of Legal Council, the Bush attorney general’s office argued that restricting the caloric intake of terrorist suspects to 1000 calories a day was medically safe because people in the United States were dieting along those lines voluntarily.

“While detainees subject to dietary manipulation are obviously situated differently from individuals who voluntarily engage in commercial weight-loss programs, we note that widely available commercial weight-loss programs in the United States employ diets of 1000 kcal/day for sustain periods of weeks or longer without requiring medical supervision,” read the footnote. “While we do not equate commercial weight loss programs and this interrogation technique, the fact that these calorie levels are used in the weight-loss programs, in our view, is instructive in evaluating the medical safety of the interrogation technique.”

Another another friendly reminder that the Minnesota Starvation Experiment subjected adult men who were VOLUNTEERS to 1,560 calorie diets and the psychological effects were so profound that one volunteer cut three of his own fingers off and could not remember why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment

These men were volunteers who knew exactly what they would be going through and when it would end, and who believed they were doing it for a good and moral reason (the research was used to help rehabilitate victims of starvation and famine at the end of WWII).

And these are the things we are expected to engage in FOREVER to stay at a “healthy” weight.

Reading about the Minnesota Starvation experiment was my wake-up call.  It was what kicked me out of my eating disorder.  The guy missing three fingers, whatever his name was, he was the last straw for me.