How to lose 10 pounds in 10 weeks

My purpose with this blog is to share, track, celebrate, and commiserate the loss of 10 pounds in (hopefully) 10 weeks.  Over the past year and 1/2 I've been putting 110% of my focus into my business, Burn Fitness, & my family.  Something I hear from women & men everyday at the gym.  Since my business is exercise I thought I could go auto pilot....do my workouts, eat well most of the time and everything would be fine.  I thought I'd be able to maintain my "easy" maintenance weight forever.  What is my "easy" maintenance weight and what does that mean?  I'm 5' 2" and my lowest ever body weight was 115 lbs...this weight was around sophomore year in college and did not include a muscular body.  Before I had Ryder and then again when I opened Burn Fitness, I weighed 123 lbs.  123 lbs is my easy maintenance weight.  At my last OBGYN appointment, April 2011, I was up to 127.  At that time, I wasn't ready to admit I'd been gaining.  I chalked it up to a different scale, time of day, clothes on etc.  Yesterday, I went to the Urgent Clinic for a sinus infection and weighed in at 133.  Gulp, oh shit, what have I done, etc, etc.  The feeling of doom has been coming on for a while.  I went up a size in lululemon clothing (which is as tight as it gets) and my non-jegging skinny jeans are a bit constricting, otherwise, my clothes still fit sooo...I'd been in denial.  Nothing tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth like the effing scale.  I'm pretty sure that's why I'd avoided it all together.  So here we go, yesterday was my breaking point, now I'm ready to get real about losing this extra weight so I can feel and look my best this summer.

My plan is to eat/drink 1,200-1,400 calories per day, five days of the week.  Journal everything I eat even if it's a single jelly bean.  On the weekends I'll enjoy a couple of free meals, relax on the journaling, but keep my food & drink within reason.  I'll keep my workouts at 6 per week...3 classes at Burn, 2 runs, and 1 cycle class.  People always ask me about online food journals and calorie counters.  I've never been consistent with online sites and apps.  Utilizing food labels and online nutrition info, I'm going old school and writing it down.  Yesterday, I consumed 1,223 calories.  Today, I purchased a few items to make my life easier, a food scale, a glass liquid measuring cup in ounces, and snack size baggies for portioning snacks.  Ugh, it has come to this.  It's a pain in the ass but it works (I hope).  Now it's time to gear up for my 4:30 Lift class with Lee Fenwick at Burn.  Until next time, have a great day!