Weigh in Wednesday Power of one Final Check In!

Wow I cannot believe it has been 8 weeks since the Power of One challenge began!!!! I kicked off the challenge here with very high expectations. I did not anticipate it to go this horribly. It has been very hard to lose weight while training for my first half marathon Sunday.To me this doesnt make sense, you would think since I am running more and exercising more than I ever have that my body would drop the weight quicker... But I cannot focus on only scale numbers and maybe that is why this challenge was so good for me.

I learned that even when you are not losing pounds as quickly as you may want to you may be losing inches and the weight will catch up. I also learned that you cannot get discouraged as you get closer to your goal the weight will take longer to come off. I guess my main problem is I am a perfectionsit. I wanted to hit goal weight in 1 year. Tomorrow marks my Weight Watchers anniversary and I just wanted to be in the healthy BMI weight range and waiting to hit lifetime status. I feel like I failed. I need to remember that my highest weight was 277lbs and that was not even 2 years ago. That the size 18 pants and I have parted ways a long time ago and we have come a long way.

I have not failed in the grand scheme of things, and tomorrow I will be recapping all of my accomplishments this year and maybe it will help me realize what I have accomplished. But for today and for this challenge I will admit I am disappointed. I think its the first challenge on the Sisterhood where I did not pull in big loss numbers and make it into the leader boards. It does not help that I am very competitive ;) But again these are my issues and this is my blog so I can complain about them :)

I wanted to lose 18 pounds I am seeing now this was unrealistic! I wanted to train for my half marathon, I did this. I also was in a size 6 pants, I am now in a size 4. So I am happy I dropped a pants size and I am happy to report the 4's now require a belt so it makes me feel good :)

I learned to measure my inches if nothing else in this challenge and I will continue to do this every 8 weeks. I think working on inches is a good way to whittle down your problem areas without focusing on losing weight. So I will share with you my spread sheet:

Date	Bust	Chest	waist	hips	thighs	knees	calves	upper arm	forearm
12/31/2010	37.5	35	31.5	35	22	16	16	11.5	10.5
2/23/2011	36.5	33.5	30	33	20.5	14.5	16	11	9

I started doing Jackie Warner's Total Body Circuit with 10lb hand weights during these 8 weeks and clearly between that and Jillian Michael's Shred It With Weights with my 15lb kettlebell, it helped me lose some inches!!!! I was pleased with my progress. I would like to lose some more in my chest area and my calves. I have a tough time fitting into skinny jeans because my calves are so big :/ but they are all muscle so I am not sure how to whittle these down!

Weigh in this week was not as pretty as it usually is:

Yup up .6. So sad but there is nothing I can do about it now. I have to focus on what is coming Sunday and just keep working harder to make to goal. I have to wake up to the reality that it may be as far as I want to go. I am starting to see the outline of my ribs and the veins are out on my arm as you can kind of see in my calories burned this week :

I am clearly working my ass off. I am burning 2300 calories a week working out about 6-7 hours every week. So I will celebrate this during the close of the challenge :)

Sorry this post is clearly longer than Ii expected!

Results for challenge:

Start 168 lbs

Current 161.4 lbs

Lost 6.6 lbs

percent lost 3.9%

how did you do on the Power of One challenge?

How do you feel about BMI standards?