Fat Friday #2: First Week Success!

I have wonderful news!  I lost 2.1kg in the past week :-) I now weigh 129.9kg, which is still a pretty steep tip of the scale, but it's movement in the right direction ;-)

What I've been doing this week:

We happen to have a dog named Jimmy.  Up until March, we had a back yard we could let him out into in order to do his business.  Now that we've moved house, however, he needs to be walked regularly.  Because of my schedule with the baby, I find it difficult to fit in walking him in the afternoon and evening, so over the course of the last week I have walked him in the morning (630am) six out of the past seven days.  Sure, that's only 10-12 minutes each day, but that's still more locomotion than I had previously committed to.

Also, I have altered my eating habits to ensure I am attaining several food-habit goals.  One is to drink a minimum of 8 glasses of water a day, which I have been very successful at achieving daily, largely due to the fact that I am carrying my pink 1 Litre water bottle around with me practically everywhere.  I have also committed to eating a minimum of 5 servings of fruit or veggies each day, and am hoping to hit 8.

I'm following a slightly modified version of the way I was advised to eat while I was pregnant (my dietician gave me a little whiteboard sheet with boxes to check off for how many servings of each food group.)  It's been modified in that I'm spacing my meals every two-to-three hours, and limiting my servings to approximately one-cup of food per "meal," as per the recommendations of the eating plan provided by a specialty clinic to my mother.  I started it partly to support her, so that she knew she wasn't alone, but mostly because when I first read about it, the entire idea horrified me.  "One cup?!" I exclaimed, "Is that even possible?"  And then I realized that that was my North American portion-miseducated consumer-brainwashed knee-jerk response, and I was resolved to re-educate myself.

So far, things are going well.  I really am quite surprised at how satisfying one-cup meals are.  It helps a lot to know that the next meal is only two or three hours away ;-)

More next week!