The quickest change I could make was what I was drinking. A lot of our calories come in liquid form and can cause some quick weight gain (source: Mayo Clinic). I swapped out the sweet tea and Mountain Dew for water. I got a few of the big bottles of water and refilled them throughout the day. This made a significant change in weight on it’s own.
About three weeks after I started this process a bit of a wrench was thrown into the fun. I was in the area of the “Do Not Use” order from the Elk River Chemical Spill (see WV Water Crisis) that began on January 9, 2014. I wasn’t buying bottled water, I was refilling bottles in the tap. Now I was unable to do this among the other thousand things that had to be thought about during and after the chemical spill.
I started doing some workouts during this time but now we couldn’t shower in our homes. This makes for an interesting time after you have done a workout. Workouts were put on hold, consuming water was cut back, and we had to eat so frozen dinners and fast food came into play. This certainly put a hamper on the weight loss.
On January 21st I had a routine going with the water situation and was drinking more water again. I was able to cut back on the higher calorie drinks I had been consuming.
It wouldn’t be until February 24th before I started working out again. Keep in mind that I had not been doing much exersize to begin with so I was starting all over. The at home workouts were sporadic to say the least. However, things would get kicked up a notch and change my life on March 21.
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