In January, my husband and I decided that we needed to lose the weight that we had packed on during my pregnancy (baby weight for me and sympathetic baby weight for my husband). I didn’t realize how far we had come until I was looking at pictures from a Resolution 5K we did together on 1/1/19. Progress pic
F/29/5’1”/SW 173/CW 157 (-16)/GW 120
M/28/5’6”/SW 178/CW 164 (-14)/GW 150
We have been doing CICO. Our weight loss got off to a rocky start and it took a good 3 weeks to actually start losing weight consistently. Our bodies couldn’t figure out what to do for the first week or so and we were dealing with vicious cravings. At the beginning of our journey, we didn’t really have any strategies to deal with the cravings so we would ultimately give in to them easily. Once we realized that we weren’t making progress, we looked at what our obstacles were and adjusted from there.
Our main obstacles were eating out frequently (we’ve been trying to get out of debt so this obstacle was getting in the way of two goals we had for ourselves), eating over our daily calorie goal set on MFP, and being too sedentary in the evenings.
My husband came up with the idea that to help us overcome these obstacles, we should design an incentive program that rewards our weight loss efforts with monetary gains. Since we are skimping on personal spending money while we get out of debt, it was extremely motivational to earn extra bucks! Here’s how it works: you earn $1 for every day you are on calorie. 30 minutes of exercise equals 50 cents, 1 hour earns $1. If you are on calorie for 22/28 days, you earn a bonus $10. 28/28 days earns you a bonus $20. Last month, my husband earned $35 and I earned $25. Hoping to get the $20 bonus this month!
What we’ve learned: If something isn’t working for your weight loss, look at your obstacles and come up with a plan!
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