First week of my fat loss project is finished with mixed results:
Weight: up a couple pounds as of Sunday 1/6/24
Bodyfat %: steady
Nothing to get discouraged about at this point since I spent most of the week better understanding my current eating habits and figuring out where to make adjustments. The biggest adjustment is my old nemesis: Ronald McDonald. I have to find a healthier way to eat breakfast, which involves waking up earlier or staying up later to prep breakfast for the next day. Neither is impossible. Lunch isn’t a problem as I pack my own most days when I go into the office. Dinner, well, I’m in another play so I need to pack a dinner as well for the days I go into the office. Fortunately, my office has a shared refrigerator and microwave so I can at a minimum heat something up before heading to rehearsal.
I’m doing better on the activity front. I worked out twice last week and moved more during the week according to my Amazfit watch (think Apple Watch but less expensive). This coming week I start my dance classes again (once a week. Both tap and ballet barre – which is mostly stretching).
I also made a discovery with my weekly progress or accountability picture. I look a lot better, IMHO, with a sweatshirt or pump cover, as the cool kids say, on. I have to watch the camera angle though as it can make my shoulders wider and hips narrower. Next week if I work up the nerve I might take a side picture, too.
Onward to week two!
Journeys With Dave 
I will make an unsolicited suggestion for the breakfasts… I use an oatmeal from the company called One Degree. I use the sprouted rolled version, which I make, then add unsweetened coconut flakes, sprouted raw walnuts, raw, fermented cacao nibs, hemp powder, flax powder, and raisins, and sweeten it with a monk fruit/stevia blend. I also add cinnamon and vanilla. Using Sun Warrior peanut blended with water, that gets stirred in as well. A boatload of amazing protein. Is healthy as heck. It can be made once a week, split up into 1 -1 1/2 C servings, and stores very well. all the ingredients I use are organic. I don’t eat it every day, but I could. I trade off between Ezekiel Bread and eggs. (eggs being a day when I have more time to cook)
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