Day 8

That's right! First weigh in day! I am super psyched to announce that after exactly one week of dieting I have lost 11 POUNDS!!!
No joke.
Woo-hoo!!!

And to celebrate this grand news, I went to the gym with Shelayna and did the circuit again.
Before any haters or genuinely concerned folk start questioning how healthy this is, let me just state a few things. I have been eating a bare minimum of 1,200 calories a day, and that was yesterday when I didn't exercise. The rest of the days I easily put in 1,500 calories, and I have the food diary log to prove it. I also put in very close to an hour of exercise 6 of the last 7 days. That being said, I'm still surprised that I had results like that so quickly. I fully expect to get to the point soon where 11 pounds in a month will be a great month. So why did I drop all this weight so quickly? The simple answer is to look at how badly I was treating my body before. I wasn't eating right. Not only was I eating too many calories, but it was a lot of the wrong stuff. I've now switched to a high fiber, vitamin rich diet. I also did not get in a lot of exercise. That has obviously changed in a big way. So making all of these changes so quickly is like going from 0-60 really fast. My body is getting used to being treated so well. The honeymoon won't last.
However, knowing all of that doesn't make me any less happy right now. This is more than I could have hoped for.

- 11 pounds side view

- 11 Pounds

But apparently I'm still adjusting to gravity -11 pounds because I almost ate the floor on the steps at the gym today. And when we were warming up on the bikes, my feet inexplicably decided to free themselves of the peddles and just stop. After she stopped laughing Shelayna intelligently noted, "It's a good thing that's not a real bike." Too true. I would have been picking asphalt out of my knees for a week. So, no triathlon in my near future.