As the pounds have been coming off since I began my Optifit journey in October, I have thought a lot about how dumb it was to regain that weight. How all of this hard work I was doing now hadn't even got me back to where I was before I put that weight back on.
At my 10 week weigh-in, the fancy scale spit out my little paper announcing that I had lost a total of 37 pounds! HOORAY! That darn 35 pounds was FINALLY gone and I am now making real progress! What an exhilarating feeling that was! It was a good moment.
On a side note, I think the science of it all is fascinating. When I had lost 21 pounds, and was a bit discouraged that I wasn't losing more, faster, I had a visit with Kristi Flicker, our registered dietitian. Kristi whipped out her calculator and did the math. Based on my metabolic testing when I began, I needed X number of calories each day to exist. I was eating Y number of calories per day. With a pound of fat being equal to 3,500 calories, I should be losing an average of about 3.5 pounds per week. Well, some weeks I would lose 2, some 1, then 5.... But at week ten I had lost 37 pounds, proving that Kristi really does know her stuff!
I still have a loooooooooooong way to go. But I am finding so many moments along my journey that give me inspiration and motivation to keep on keepin' on. Life is good, and I am not going to settle for being a big marshmallow any longer! ◦
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