better eating and less drinking - week 3

I think this is the end of the third week.

i ate better this week. healthier meal at lunch, and a lighter dinner. my drinking was way down until i got to columbia for the SIPA Board Meeting (yes, for those of you who did newspaper in high school, I am now on the board and planning the yearly conference). that involved drinking in the evenings and a trip to Viva La Vista, which was 40 downtown restaurants offering samples.

it was amazing and uplifting to be in a vibrant city with a food festival that drew hundreds of people.

my exercise did not go as well as i had planned, and i hope to go more this week. work - again - kept me at the office late most days. what needs to change there is a determination to run for at least 20 minutes when i can't go to the gym. tomorrow night, i plan on going to get new tennis shoes b/c the ones i have now hurt my feet when i run due to their age. (not MY age!)

i didn't post my numbers the last time due to my unhealthy habits, but i think that defeats the purpose. i need - for my purposes - to hold myself accountable, and if i hide the numbers, then there is no incentive for me to do better.

so here we go:

weight - 182 pounds
(i checked with a digital scale, and my scale at home is only a few pounds heavier...so i'll stick with it to keep my baseline comparison accurate.)
waist (at my hip bones) - 38 inches
stomach (at the belly button) - 40 inches

so that's a 3 lb loss and a one inch loss to my stomach.


let me say that one reason i like doing this is because i'm becoming almost as embarrassed by my current pictures as i am when i look at pictures of skinny me from the hazy days of bartending in columbia. there's a tagged picture of me on facebook from this weekend in columbia that makes me look chubby. when i wear a collared shirt, i can scrunch up my head and make my neck disappear.

thank you all for saying yes to belhelmel's endeavor.