4 Weeks In |Charlottesville Photographer

We’re now four weeks into the MOLO Challenge with Baby Boot Camp. Well, I’m a little late posting this and so we’re actually nearly five week into the challenge. Truth be told, I really wanted to skip this post because it’s been a tough two weeks for me. I weighed myself after week three and saw that I hadn’t lost any weight that entire week. I was really mad about that. I had been killing myself physically with going to our workouts and then running 12 miles that week. I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t lost even half a pound. So the next day, I weighed myself. Same weight. And the next day I weighed myself. Same weight. And then I started weighing myself multiple times a day. What the heck is up with that? I mean I know what I was doing was illogical but I just knew the scale had to be wrong. And then after about four days of doing that I gave up. This is always how things go for me I told myself. I lose five pounds or so and that’s all I can lose. And then I go back to how I was before. This is my cycle. I started making poor food choices again and just gave up.

Then last Saturday I did our local Birth Expo. Of course I was sharing a table with Baby Boot Camp so I shared with Kira my frustration. She encouraged me to do a food journal for the next week to see how things were going there because I do work really hard when it comes to the actual exercise portion. I am working on my food journal now and am doing my best to measure things out and am hoping that I can break through this. I know that I need to mentally change from thinking of this eating change as a way to simply lose the weight to more of a I’m eating to nourish my body and give myself energy way of thinking. I’m just not sure how to do that. I mean, will I ever not want pizza because it’s not very good for me? Probably not. So how do I make that switch? That’s where I am this week. Same weight as two weeks before, wondering how to flip that switch in my brain. My motto at this moment is, “Deep breath, just keep going.”

Pictures from pre-challenge, after week two, and after week four. All the perspective changes makes it super hard to tell but still not much change. I do have a solid plan for taking these from the same perspective from now on though.