The Week Three Blahs

Statistics say that most people give up on their New Year's Resolution after about three weeks.

I can feel my resolve slipping.

I ate right and worked out HARD at Jyze. I had a killer workout on the elliptical trainer on Tuesday but couldn't squeeze in a workout on Thursday (it was Payton's Pinewood Derby) so I cleaned my house like a crazy person on Friday and sweated my guts out. I cheated a bit, had a little piece of chocolate cake on Friday when we had our D&D night and had a tiny slice of chocolate cream pie on Sunday for Shane's birthday. That couldn't effect me too much, could it?

Yesterday morning I weighed, thinking I'd probably only have lost a pound since I did cheat a little.

Nothing. In fact, I'd gained 0.2 pounds.

At that moment, I actually felt some of my willpower shoot out of my ears, float around my bedroom for a moment and seep out of my leaky windows, travelling to wherever broken willpower goes. What the heck!? I've been working so hard! We've been eating so healthy, tons of veggies and super lean meats, drinking tons of water, limiting sugar and carbs and everything yummy!

See, on Weight Watchers I never had  a plateau problem. I guess I thought I was immune. We're following the 17 Day Diet plan and the doc that wrote it says that you won't hit a plateau. Yeah, right.

So as difficult as it is, I'm sticking to the plan through the end of the week. If, by Friday, those scale numbers (and my hips!) haven't gotten a little smaller, I'm switching to Weight Watchers. At least then I can have chocolate as long as I count it!

Here's my positive note for the week: I taunted our Jyze instructor, Chris, into a plank war through Facebook on Friday morning and we taunted each other like crazy the rest of the day. He sent a huge message through FB to everyone he knew, and even texted all the members of our Jyze class to tell them about the plank war. Consequently, I started to panic and worried about it all weekend. I had taunted and trash-talked my way into a frenzy. Monday morning we got to Jyze and I could tell Chris was trying to wear my shoulders out so I would lose. I'm not going to lie -- I went a little easy on the shoulder workouts. Then it was time for the plank war. There were 8 people at class that morning. We got into plank position and I thought "This isn't so bad! I can do this for awhile." I did something that morning that I don't usually do for planks: I put my jacket under my elbows, thinking it would make it easier. After about 30 seconds, I realized I was DEAD WRONG. I felt like I was sliding! Time ticked by so slowly as one person, then another, then another dropped from exhaustion. I hung in there and forced myself to hold the position. Shane and Krysti kept telling me that Chris had to shift his position a few times. I knew I could beat him. Finally, after about 3 1/2 minutes, Chris fell. That left just Kandice (his wife) and me! We held in for another 30 seconds or so, then I couldn't take it anymore. I had beaten Chris, that was the important thing. Kandice won, just barely. If I didn't have these extra 40 pounds to hold up, I could've beaten her : )

So yeah, that was the highlight of my life!

I hope all of you are doing well! Let me know how it's going.... tell me I'm not the only one struggling!

Love you!