Last Chance Workout

I'm beginning to not like Fridays. See, I go to Weight Watchers on Saturdays. That means that on Friday I'm counting points like crazy, trying to eat fruits and veggies all day long, drink enough water, and of course, getting in that last minute workout right before bed, praying and crossing my fingers that in the morning I will wake up a few pounds lighter.

At my unofficial weigh in today I was down 1.6 pounds this week. I'm always afraid that the scale is wrong or that I'll get all excited about my weigh in but then the WW scale will say I gained 50 pounds that week, or something crazy like that.

Anyway, since this all started with Hilary as my inspiration to begin this journey I thought I would go with her goal from last year: lose 1 pound a week. I think I started off on the wrong foot by losing 4 pounds each week for the first 2 weeks. Now that I set the bar high I want to hit that each time, which is totally unrealistic unless I'm on the Biggest Loser Ranch and Jillian is kicking my butt 12 hours a day. :)

Shouldn't I be happy with 1.6? Shouldn't I say "Good job Mary. Nice going, keep it up!" No. Instead all I hear is Jillian yelling at me saying "this is your last chance workout, get up and get on that treadmill!" I have to say, I think Jillian (or at least my mind's version of her) is right. Yes I could say, "hey, I worked hard this week, I met my goal. I'm good, I'm good." But would I feel good about my efforts at weigh-in tomorrow? Would I feel like I did ALL I could do? No, I'd be wondering just how much lower that number on the scale might have been if I'd given just 10, 20, 30 more minutes, whatever I could do.

So here I am in the middle of my busy day actually looking forward to working out tonight. Me! Can you believe it? I sure can't. I'm ready to work, I'm ready to put in the time tonight, I'm ready to see those numbers on the scale go down.

It's never too late to try. It's never too late to get up and move, even if it's just for 10 minutes. That's 10 minutes more than it would have been and that's progress!