Weigh in time

Today concluded the challenge I made to lose 10 pounds in two weeks. As you could tell from my previous posts I was very excited that I was losing weight in a positive direction. I was only about half a pound off from my goal on Friday so I though I’d have no trouble. Well it turns out my body is insane! When I weighed in this morning the evil scale told me I only lost 5 pounds!

It is very frustrating to me to have come so close then blown it. I’m very big on accomplishing what I set out to do, and it is a big disappointment to myself to have not met my goals. My girlfriend tries to encourage me by telling me that losing five pounds is better than gaining five pounds, but I tried so hard and was so close. Five pounds just doesn’t seem good enough. I know my body weight fluctuates on a daily basis, so maybe tomorrow I could be back down closer to 220 but it is too late by then.

I don’t think it would be so frustrating if I didn’t work so hard. Over the past weekend I skated almost 40 miles in total! I did 12 miles on the Greenway Friday, then another 12 miles there Saturday, and Sunday morning I did 5 miles in front of my apartment, followed by another 10 later in the day. In additional to that I ate healthy over the weekend, so since I weighed in at 220.6 Friday I should have easily lost half a pound by skating 40 miles.

I’m going to blame my scale on this one, I must have miss-weighed myself on Friday because there is no way I gained so much weight while eating right and exercising. Luckily I get a new ’scale’ tomorrow. I pre-ordered a Wii Fit and hopefully that will add to my weight loss motivation.