A Day in the Life of Maintaining a 100 lb Weight Loss

What’s it like to maintain a 100 lb weight loss? What do you eat in a typical day? How much do you exercise?

Just like anyone else, my days vary, but this was a typical day last week. I’ve been maintaining my 100 lb weight loss for close to 10 years. I am currently tracking my food and exercise with the My Net Diary Ap (My Fitness Pal is another good one) on my smartphone. Some days I track calories and sometimes I don’t. When my weight is lower, I don’t. If I see my weight going a little on the higher side (I try to stay within a 5 lb range), I keep track again.

A Typical Day Maintaining a 100 lb Weight Loss

5:15 am Alarm goes off. *groan* Remind myself it’s only the 10 seconds of getting out of bed that are really tough.

5:30 am. Workout #1 Head the the gym with my husband Mike for 30 minutes of ellipical and 30 minutes of weight lifting with free weights.

7:00 am. Breakfast.

1/3 cup old fashioned oatmeal, cooked with water

1 container chobani strawberry yogurt

1 tsp chia seeds

1 oz mixed nuts

8:30 walked kids to school but then fairly sedentary throughout morning, working at computer on blog and preparing for upcoming speeches.

Noon — Housework, ran errands.

1:00 Lunch.

1 bowl turkey veggie bean chili, homemade

1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese

1 small salad with various veggies, romaine, spinach

a few croutons

1 T light ranch dressing

1 full size Reeses peanut butter cup

Afternoon — more computer work, took 30 minute nap.

3:00 — kids home, housework, took Paul to piano lesson. Come home, start dinner, help with homework, manage chaos.

5:00 — Dinner

(Click here for one of Bekah’s pancake recipes.)

3 Bekah’s homemade pancake awesomeness — whole wheat banana.

1 T smart balance

2 T light syrup

4 slices ready-cook bacon

1/2 banana, strawberry slices.

6:45-8:00 Workout #2 – Tae Kwon Do Practice.

8:30 Home and get kids into bed. Attempt not to yell too much.

8:45 Snack 

String cheese

peach

2 double stuff oreos

9:00-10:00 Veg reading a few blogs, get stuff ready for next day — lunches, formula for Zack, load dishwasher, workout clothes out, chat with Mike.

10:00 Bedtime for tired but content mom!

Approximate Calories eaten: 1,950.

Is my typical day what you expected? What does your typical day look like with eating and exercise?

Click here to read my 100 lb weight loss series.

 

 

• Faithful Fitness: God, Weight Loss, and Exercise
• Why My eBook Hasn’t Been Popular
• One Weird Thing that Helps Me Enjoy Exercise More
• How Does Guilt Fit into Weirdly Faithful Fitness?
• Are there Good Foods and Bad Foods?
• The Freedom of Constraint
• Call Me Weird, But…I LOVE the Paleo Lifestyle!
• Do This When You Feel Ridiculously Underqualified
• Laughter is the best…Fitness?
• Motivations for The Coming Week
• Ask the Experts for Fitness Advice: YOU!
• I Am a Person Who
• How my Son’s Life-Threatening Condition Gave Me Freedom
• Do You Need Exercise Accountability?
• How Losing the Guilt Breaks the Cycle
• My Family Hates Exercise
• Garlic Sweet Potato Mash
• Grace for the Now
• How Workouts Can Lead to Fat Gain
• Your Expert Advice: Fitness
• Don’t Forget de’ FEET!
• Four Steps to Tell Your Support Peeps What You Need
• A Day in the Life of Maintaining a 100 lb Weight Loss
• Three Girls and a Dog
• The Red Zone: How to Enjoy the Holidays and Stay Fit
• How to Avoid Burn Out and Find Fitness Success

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