{"id":306,"date":"2008-12-09T18:09:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T18:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2008-12-09T18:09:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T18:09:56","slug":"patience-is-a-virtue-and-other-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/09\/patience-is-a-virtue-and-other-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"Patience is a Virtue, and Other Crap…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not particularly patient.\u00a0 I can seem patient, but in my head I’m counting the minutes, days, or weeks ’til I get what I want.\u00a0 When I can count, I’m at least content.\u00a0 When it’s something unquantifiable, like “when am I going to get a promotion” or “when is my weight FINALLY going to start falling off again”, I go nuts.\u00a0 If someone would tell me I could do what I’m doing, lose an ounce a month, and be at my goal weight in 12 years, I might ALMOST be able to handle it better than the uncertainty.<\/p>\n

\"\"I’m not sure what exactly caused the plateau.\u00a0 Things were going along swimmingly all summer, then September hit and it was like the weight gain trifecta: extreme stress at work, my parents living with us for an indefinite amount of time, and everyone’s birthdays who weren’t in March were in September.\u00a0 Plus a gaming convention in town with wicked afterparties.\u00a0 So basically, apply a ton of unusual stress, and then give TONS of outlets to overeat and drink.\u00a0 I think under the circumstances I did ok, but my mistake was to try that month, under extreme duress, time crunch, and lack of sleep, to STEP UP my workouts.\u00a0 I’m tackling harder workouts now without a problem, but that was NOT THE MONTH to do it.<\/p>\n

At the very least, feeling like such an extreme failure all month made me realize that I wasn’t doing my body and mind any good by treating it that way, so October saw me cut my cardio time, increase my weights and eating overall.\u00a0 I just couldn’t keep feeling exhausted and cold all the time!\u00a0 Well, it certainly FELT better, and while the first two weeks saw a bit of weight loss, it slowed and stalled out.\u00a0 November, for my sanity, I decided to completely go off the grid.\u00a0 That felt even better, and by the end of the month I finally felt like I had some gas in the tank and wasn’t running on fumes.\u00a0 My lowest recorded weight over these 2 months was 164.8.\u00a0 Considering I hit 170 in mid-August and hit 165 in mid-October, so the last month and a half, I’ve seen literally 2 ounces of loss.<\/p>\n

\"\"However, there’s been other progress.\u00a0 The weight training is really changing my shape.\u00a0 In a space of 5 lbs, I’ve gone from squeezing into 12s barely to being comfortable in 10s.\u00a0 My stomach is MUCH flatter, my arms are more defined, and I’m much more comfortable with my hair up.\u00a0 Coats are fitting differently.\u00a0 Also, I’m so so so close to an unassisted pull up, I’ve increased most of my weights, and I’m now comfortably running 5 miles in just over 50 minutes.\u00a0 These things are all great, but sadly, the scale is still the ultimate measure.\u00a0 I’m still too big overall for my likings.\u00a0 I don’t want to stay at 165 lbs forever.\u00a0 I don’t want to be petite, waifish, or modelesque, but I’d like to get a bit further away from hulking, stocky, and linbackeresque.<\/p>\n

I’ve been tracking and cutting calories this month (just a bit – I seem to naturally stay between 1500-1700 on good days unless I’m splurging, trying to cut back to 1300-1400) and trying to be patient.\u00a0 Today, I stepped on the scale for the first time in 5 days.\u00a0 I was even questioning doing it because I felt bloated, but I’m glad I did, because I saw a new low – 163.6.\u00a0 I have never been so dang happy over 1.2 lbs, but I’m practically giddy today.\u00a0 It’s not so much the number, but that there is actual progress again.\u00a0 What I’m doing is working again.\u00a0 And I can totally do this!<\/p>\n

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I am not particularly patient.\u00a0 I can seem patient, but in my head I’m counting the minutes, days, or weeks ’til I get what I want.\u00a0 When I can count, I’m at least content.\u00a0 When it’s something unquantifiable, like “when am I going to get a promotion” or “when is my weight FINALLY going to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUhDu-4W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}