Viva Mexico! - Weight Loss Challenge: Day 28

With only one day remaining, I am very pleased to report that I have recovered from dinner on Monday and weighed in at 169.8 pounds this morning on the scale! This means I only need to maintain my weight today in order to meet my objective of under 170 lbs by the conclusion challenge!

My menu was limited the last two days in an attempt to filter out a lot of the food from earlier in the week. I have actually converted now to plain bagels once I realized how significant the impact was from adding cream cheese or peanut butter to them. I would much rather forgo those calories at breakfast and use them elsewhere in the day. I did find time the past two days to exercise and I will be running 1.5 miles after work today as part of my 5K workout regimen. If I can keep my sodium and calories to a respectable level, I should be able to finish tomorrow below my target weight and begin preparing the celebration in Cancun!

challenge is complete, I am going to crunch the numbers and complete some analysis to see if there were noticeable trends that showed up in my totals. It would be extremely useful to know what worked challenge so I can continue doing more of the same after it is over. It is safe to assume that eliminating all snacks and sweets certainly helped a little :).

Here was the full menu from Tuesday (including exercise): (Morning weigh-in - 172.6 lbs)

-bagel with light butter
-sourdough nibblers (snack size package)
-Birds’ Eye California Blend vegetables (1 package)
-vitamin
-bag of popcorn
-1 mile run - 4.0 mph pace - 190 calories

Here was the full menu from Wednesday (including exercise): (Morning weigh-in - 170.6 lbs)

-vitamin
-plain bagel
-coffee
-baby carrots with tres bean dip (2 servings)
-Lipton iced tea
-turkey hot dogs (2 servings)
-30 minute walk