LESS Alcohol ~ JUNE 2023 ~ One Day at A Time

Hi all, I'd love to join in! I'm recently back to MPF and am trying to focus on not only losing some weight, but also health goals. Alcohol is a huge pain point for me, and I simply don't moderate well, especially with wine.

My goal for now is to be AF until next week when my husband returns from his Army duty. We've already planned on having some beers when he returns. He doesn't moderate either, and we enable each other terribly with it. (Thankfully, we also enable healthy habits.)

It's nice to "talk" with others who have similar struggles...

After my one night of binge drinking at the conference a couple weeks ago, life seems properly back to its "new normal" now.

After ten weeks of counting every calorie, I'm now not doing it. I'm going to try using what I've learned and seeing if I can combine that with the necessary discipline to achieve close enough to the desired calorie deficit. I've lost a total of twenty-three pounds over the last ten weeks, so averaging almost two-and-a-half pounds a week. I'm OK dropping down to a target of losing one pound a week looking ahead.

I've got about three weeks left until vacation and I'd like to get another two pounds off, for a total of twenty-five pounds eliminated since starting this journey.

On the body fat goal, I'm really wanting to get down below 20%. Last night, the scale said 20.2%. I'm almost there.

My weights for lifting are going up a bit. The other day, my wife took a video of me leg pressing on the machine. Genetically, my legs are the easiest for me to progress on. Anyhow, I pushed up "the stack"--400 lbs.--ten times. I'm surprised I can still do something like this at the age of fifty five. Anyhow, I was grinning ear-to-ear on the video. I suspect the last time I did this was almost ten years ago.

On cardio intervals, my speed is increasing some. Last night on the high speed of the final interval, I hit nine MPH (6:40 pace) on the treadmill and a heart rate of 162 BPM which is a few beats from the my max.

Needless to say, I ache often and much from the workouts I'm doing.

My long-term plan continues to be to have lost twenty-five pounds from March to July and then the pursue the final ten pounds to lose from July to October to be ready for next year's ski season.

My wife is the best partner in doing all this. Over the last two years, she's lost 120 pounds after a gastric sleeve surgery. She's working out with me every day and getting quite toned herself. I think she'd like to get off a final five to ten pounds over the next number of months too. Her huge concern, even fear, is that she relapse and regain what she's worked so hard to lose. My doing all this, especially now, is a way that I can support her in her even bigger journey than my own.

She's my high school sweetheart. We had spent almost thirty years apart before reconnecting now about seven years ago. This vacation trip in a few weeks will be our fourth wedding anniversary. I'm so glad she was heavier when we reconnected and when we married too. I love her so much and for who she is. She is incredible.

Quick post before a full day ahead. I have lost almost 10 lbs and many inches since Halloween ‘22 while building muscle strength. I now weigh what I did about about 35 years ago. I’ll keep on plugging away to get to ultimate maintenance with another 5 lbs. loss - might take me a year but that’s okay!

And drinks played a big part in being overweight too. Today I found I can enjoy cooking everything under the sun, mostly clean and within my calorie range (another reason LA is critical to my long term success).

Have a great day all who follow!

AF until weekend…..

June stats:
AF - 5
A - 1

Personal Goals:
AF - 20-22 days
A - 8-10 days

Alcohol is such a con-artist trying to get you onto it's hook!

@Womona ...yeah, it's been several weeks that Pittsburgh has been hazed over. Now that the wildfires have moved east, Thursday night and Friday will put us in a danger zone. Like, "don't breathe the air". Okay, talking heads on TV...can you suggest an alternative ?? My COPD is not happy.
Oddly, there has been no mention here in the news of how the Canadians are faring. They are the ones living in a forest fire, no??

"Tis an ill wind....etc" ...Not wanting to add alcohol to an already stressful situation , am doubly committed to being AF right now. Tonight's Italian sausage stuffed criminis over polenta whispered "Chianti " , and I whispered back "AF beer".