My Daily Win

I haven't posted in a couple of weeks because frankly nothing of interest has been happening on the fitness/weight loss front. I've been chugging along, doing my workouts and following my daily food plans. With a few days off here and there which I will not beat myself up about. I lost a few more pounds in March and was down to 216.4 at the end of the month. So all good as far as it goes.

But I've been getting into a funk lately. Maybe (probably) it has to do with needing some time off of work and a real vacation which I haven't had in almost a year. Also the weather has been mostly crappy which puts me in a bad mood. And the weight loss routine has become just that. A routine. And routine bores me.

Talking to Rog yesterday about finding things other than the number on the scale to tell me I'm making progress, we discussed goals. Other than the weight loss goal, I don't have any. My strength training is going well but I'm not working out in a situation where I'm going to see great gains and certainly not to make grand goals. Until my weight loss is done and I can eat enough to sustain harder workouts that's not going to happen. I could probably come up with some walking goals but again...boring. Then he said I need some wins and we hit on the thought of a daily win. I need to come up with daily wins, those small victories that are moving me along the path to progress. The big wins don't come often enough to keep up a real sense of excitement. This part of the process is the boring slogging part where many people give up. WHICH IS NOT HAPPENING, NO SIREE!!

I can post about my daily wins which may not seem like much but can keep me interested and keep me going.

Today's daily win is a weight loss (complaining as I was yesterday that it's not happening!). Today I was 215.2 lbs., down almost a pound since the beginning of the month. Yay!!!  Also a win was going up 5 lbs. on the single arm lat pulldown. Yay, me!! Yay, progress!!!