Week 3

I am realizing how much of life is centered around food and eating. The 21st was my wife's birthday. We went to a restaurant for lunch with her parents to celebrate. I made it my lean and green and did ok. My wife and I also went out for dinner on tonight. I went a bit overboard on the salad bar, but not too bad overall. I am getting a lot better at navigating restaurant menus. I also know to have a plan of attack before we get to the restaurant. This has been extremely helpful.

I seem to have plateaued this week. I got down to 290 and basically stayed there all week. 290 is a difficult number for me because it's what I would get down to in the past when I was trying to workout. I would always just seem to stay stuck on 290. It was like, as long as I was working out, I could eat a little or a lot, healthy or terrible and I would just stay at 290 lbs. I started hearing that voice in my head this week; the voice that tells me that I will never get past this plateau.

So far, I haven't listened. My non scale victories of feeling clothes fit better and having more energy have sustained me, but I hope that something happens soon. It's discouraging. My health coach has just been encouraging me to stick to the plan and wait it out. I start thinking maybe I need to tweak something with how I'm doing the 5 and 1 plan. Maybe I need to incorporate some sort of metabolism boosting supplement.