Stellar Path

I am currently in 4th place with a loss of 11.4 pounds this week. Given that probably three or four pounds of that was water, I am pretty pleased with my weight loss. I would have liked a bigger number, (who wouldn’t?), but given that I have been exercising and watching my diet for weeks, that just wasn’t to be. So this makes me think that perhaps I can have a big loss again next week. After all, HOURS and HOURS of cardio, combined with a healthy low carb diet, may do it.

I am not a fan of low carb. I do not like the spirit of it, I do not like the practicality of it, I do not like anything about it. I do not like the way I smell when I do low carb. I do not like the way I feel when I do low carb. (Although I must say, the excessive cardio is releasing some major endorphins, so I feel pretty good right now.)

However, my trainer (my personal trainer, who has known me for a year, not my contest trainer who has known me for a week) has recommended I do low carb because she’s noticed signs of insulin resistance in me, and this is one proven way of getting the weight off. I trust her judgment on this, because she is a big advocate of a balanced diet and recommends low carb only as a last resort to prevent diabetes.

I do low carb now because I am in a contest to lose weight and I want to drop big numbers. The handful of times I have done low carb, even for a few days, I’ve lost big. We’ll see if this maintains. I certainly hope so. When I am clearly over the hurdle of being insulin resistant, I will go off low carb and do a healthy, balanced diet of lowered calories.

I’m not sure if I’ve told exactly how the weigh-ins work, so I’ll give the rundown now. (And I’ll post the video as soon as they release it, which will probably be Wednesday.) For the first three weeks, we are completely safe. On the weigh-in at the end of the third week of training, two weeks from tonight, the team with the lowest percentage of weight loss will lose their lowest percentaged member.

The guys, the red team, beat the girls, the blue team, by 0.2% tonight. That’s not much. If this had been the fourth week, the girls would have lost their member with the least percentage, which I believe would have been Denise tonight.

The top winner was Daniel, who lost 17 pounds. After him was Jeanette, who lost 16 pounds. After that was Chris, with 12 even, and then me with 11.4. After me was Kayvan with 9.8, and to be honest, I’m not sure how everyone else broke down, although I do remember that Vaughn only lost 2 pounds this week. I hate that for him; I could tell he was definitely upset about it, but what can you do?

So I’m hitting it as hard as I can this week. Even this contest has rumors of the second week slump. I plan to be the biggest loser next week, and I am going to pull ahead of everybody. I’m winning this contest if it kills me.

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