Starting Weight: 164 / Current Weight: 158 / Goal Weight: 150
Okay. This is getting a little old. Although, after a week of travel and lots of eating out with my parents, sister and brother-in-law, I am still at 158lbs.
This week, we’re going to the gym every morning, and I’m doing all cardio instead of weights. Hopefully that, plus a little bit less eating out, will help me continue toward my goal weight of 150. My only question is, How many times can I get “back on the wagon?“
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I must still have Romans on the brain b/c I couldn’t help but think of those great phrases of Paul: “shall we continue to sin so that grace may abound. By no means.”
if losing weight is anything like santicification, then your probably alright with God, though your personal trainer would probably say otherwise…
I think you’ve got to take the same approach as anyone else getting back on the wagon from whatever vice they’re trying to kick: just take it one day at a time. When you get up tomorrow don’t think about how you’re going to stay on the wagon for the rest of the week. Just think about what you have to do today. Think about what meals you’re going to have. Think about what snacks might be pushed your way. Plan to get to the gym.
If you fail, don’t worry. You’ve only failed today. Tomorrow you can start back on the wagon.
Notwithstanding that comment, your goal weight isn’t the end of the road. The next leg of the journey will involve staying there. Staying there will require the same sort of things you’re doing now, so don’t just try to fit them in wherever you can: this is a whole lifestyle change. (And if you manage it, you get a really good sermon illustration out of it. I built a recent sermon around my experience at the gym, and it was probably the best received sermon I’ve ever preached!)
By the way, don’t neglect the muscle work. Fat is (essentially) burnt by muscles, especially the big ones. If you can increase your skeletal muscle mass (especially in the legs) your cardio work will burn a lot more fat. Also, don’t forget to take your increased muscle mass into account when you’re weighing yourself. A four pound loss can mean you’ve lost five pounds of fat but gained a pound of muscle.