I learned 2 things from this challenge.
1. This Diet Bet thing is a lot of fun! I like the fact that you are only competing against yourself. You either meet your goal or you don't.
2. I'm not really ready to tackle losing this baby weight just yet. Since I'm still feeding Quentin it was a bit difficult to try to cut out calories. I was able to set aside time to walk and spend a little time in the gym, but being exhausted from lack of sleep meant that I was pushing myself more than I probably should at this time. I also saw a decrease in my milk supply which made me a bit nervous since I plan on feeding Q for 3 more months.
Since I ended the diet bet I have not been working out and I have not been eating overly healthy, so when I stepped on the scale today I fully expected to have gained some of my weight back. I was shocked to see that I actually lost weight, weighing in at 139.4.
I made one change that I think has played a big part. For years now, our eat out budget has been $50 for 2 weeks. Ask me how many times we've stayed within that budget. Yep, pretty much never. We usually end up using our entertainment and miscellaneous money on it too. I decided I was pretty tired of eating out and wasting money on eating out, so we are now strictly staying within that budget.
This has caused us to be very selective on when we eat out, where, and what we get when we are there. We usually try to spend no more than $10-$15 per meal out so now we are sharing meals. This means that we aren't over eating and are usually drinking water. This has been working out really well for the past 4 weeks and I think has played a big part in helping me to keep the weight I lost for the challenge off.
Below are my before and after pictures. Not too bad and they definitely make me excited to hit the ground running in just a few months!
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