Everyday QB Challenge-Week One Update

Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.-Charles ‘Tremendous’ Jones

Let me start off simply by stating the facts: I reached my ‘mini-goal’ and dropped the first 2lbs of weight for my goal of 245lbs by August 1. So I’m now sitting (literally) at 275lbs, 30lbs to my goal.  I was relieved to weigh in yesterday and see that I had gotten off to a good start. Now let me emphasize the ‘good start’ aspect of that last sentence and say that I didn’t meet every part of the steps I laid out to reach my goal. I only worked out twice during the week and, while I ate less and was more aware of what I was eating, I still made poor eating choices.

I offer no excuse, except to say that I’m at a starting point. In starting new habits and breaking old ones, I realize that Newton’s laws have seemed to play a part. Particularly the truth that objects at rest, tend to stay at rest. Since my lifestyle for the past year has been mostly sedentary, the first week of adhering to a rigorous schedule was strenuous. But what I found to be true about objects at rest staying at rest, is also true of the converse statement, that objects in motion tend to stay in motion.

Yesterday, (day one of week two), I had an extremely productive day. I had a solid workout and the rest of my day was very productive. I ate healthy and minimal throughout the day (excusing two bowls of icecream last night) and I found that as I started the day active and productive, the momentum of the morning carried me over through the rest of the day.

This gives me hope for the future and, as the ball is so difficult to get rolling, hopefully as I push to develop these new habits and leave the old ones behind, the ball will start rolling faster and faster and the progress and habits can become more and more productive.

So there’s my first update, as honest as I can be about how I did this past week. Thank you to those of you who commented and have mentioned that you are supporting me to attain this goal. Here comes week two…