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[spoiler title=’Click for video transcript’ style=’default’ collapse_link=’true’] ah December it’s a month with a lot of eating so what did it do to my weight let’s talk about it in this month’s progress report so I do these progress reports because I think it’s good to show you real life you know what does it look like when you know you’ve lost weight you’re trying to maintain it or you’re trying to still lose some how do the numbers really fluctuate so in the last progress report I set goals like I always do and I had had a goal of losing two pounds for the month of December which I knew was probably shooting for the moon a little bit because we had a lot going on in December we had you know a road trip that we went on we had a vacation that we went on we had family in from out of town we had parties to go to Christmas parties Christmas baking Christmas Day New Year’s Eve you know tons of opportunities basically to eat a whole lot of food so first let’s talk about my walking results my total step count for the month was four hundred and seventy thousand two hundred twenty-one ah but now the weight which is where I didn’t do quite so good I started the month at 155.14 and then I ended the month at 157.94 and that’s a 2.8 pound gain so yeah there is a slight gain there and you know what I’m really not broken up about it there was a time in my life where that would have been enough to just make me completely go off the rails like give up but I’ve learned you know it’s just a matter of you got to get back to it and always always there’s a reason if you have to gain and I can certainly look back on December and say wow I’m really surprised that I didn’t gain more than that like for example on this past vacation that we went on on that one I did not do the eating plan at all so I did continue to walk six miles a day but I was completely off plan when it came to eating which goes to show you once again you cannot run your fork it’s so much more important to get your eating pattern under control than it is you know the walking or the exercise that kind of thing and I would encourage you if you have that same kind of thing going on you maybe weren’t so good during the holidays get right back on track there’s nothing to worry about you’ll get it back off so let’s talk about the fluctuations in my weight because there some big ones this month my highest single day weight was 161 and then my lowest single day weight was almost 10 pounds less yet 151.4 so my weight really I mean and this really is water weight fluctuations when you see really big numbers like that for me at least because you know during this time there were times we’re eating like Chinese food and snack foods and salty foods and stuff like that and then I can really fluctuate a lot so which goes back again to weighing yourself every day that was one reason I felt so in control this past month and you know like I didn’t wait until January first to just weigh myself I weighed myself every day in December and you know what I knew exactly what my weight was doing and that really helped keep me in check and but it helped me also to enjoy the holidays even more because I knew like okay well I knew where my weight was I wasn’t worried about it and the most of my weight fluctuated in a single week with 6.2 pounds so man I tell you again I’m so glad I weight every single day because then I can tell like oh well that was just you know a little outlier there so let’s talk about January some challenges I actually don’t see any I you know this is like the easiest month to you know try to lose weight because everyone’s trying to lose weight so it’s the beginning of the year and almost like to look you know towards the future and see kind of what do I want where do I want to be and I’m gonna try to continue to lose about a half a pound a week which is about two pounds a month and I would like to be squarely in the really not sure about whether I want to continue to lose down past that or if I just want to kind of stick in there and do some maintenance I’m gonna basically reassess in June and see really where I am what I don’t want to do is just set an arbitrary like 135 and say I’ve got to get down to that number cuz they really don’t know if that’s where I want to be or not so I’m just gonna basically see how this goes with the eating once a day it because this is sustainable for me you know eating once a day having the cheat day on Sunday it’s just a super easy plan to stick with so that does it for this progress report I wonder how your December went – did you do well did you gain a lot did you lose I would be super duper impressed if you lost some weight so be sure to LIKE comment and subscribe down below [/spoiler]
Video Recap
December Challenges:
- Road Trip
- Vacation
- Christmas parties
- Christmas baking
- Family gatherings galore
- New Year’s Eve
December Goal Review:
- Walk 6 miles every day
- Lose 2 pounds for the month
December Results:
Walking
- I walked at least 6 miles every day
- My total step count for the month of December was 470,221 steps
Weight
- I started the month at a 7 day average of 155.14
- I ended the month at a 7 day average of 157.94
- Total gain of 2.8 pounds
- Highest Single Day Weight: 161
- Lowest Single Day Weight: 151.4
- Most my weight fluctuated in a single 7 day period: 6.2 pounds
Analysis
The big takeaway for me this past month was there’s so much more peace when you continue to track your weight, even during the holidays, because you continue to know exactly where you are. Sure, I had a gain, but I know that it will come right back off, as long as I stick to the plan.
Looking Ahead
January is looking like it will be a super easy month to stay on plan. My goals will be:
- Walk 6 miles every day
- On January 31, 2018, my 7 day average weight is at or below 155.94 which would be down 2 pounds from where I ended December
My plan
- Walk 6 miles every day
- Eat once a day
- Cheat day on Sunday
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