Motivation, or the Lack Thereof

So I'm thinking about motivation and progress today. I've made the 10-minute mark on my twice-daily walks, I'm rather proud of that. It's obviously still short of what most would consider an "actual" workout, but it's double what I started with! There's no way I'd have been able to walk briskly (well, briskly for me) for 10 minutes without stopping before I started this.

Unfortunately, being able to exercise longer doesn't really help with anything other than, well, exercising longer. There's not much effect on my life in general, which doesn't help much with my motivation. Having lost exactly nothing last week, my motivation is a bit low this week. I'm not quitting or anything, but it's harder to make myself go out and exercise and so on. I will be very, very happy when I can start seeing some positive effects in my daily life from this program. I don't really care what they are, as long as they're noticeable! Obviously, the end goals and motivations are summed up in the list of reasons I've got posted to the right of the page, but I'm a long, long way from achieving those.

Anyway, yesterday's intake...

Breakfast: 1 egg, scrambled, 3 pieces bacon - 1.55g
Lunch: Salad - 8.49g
Snack: 1 oz almonds - 2g
Dinner: Chicken with Red Wine Sauce, 1 cup frozen green beans - 11.47g
Dessert: Sugar-free Jell-O, 2 tbsp whipped cream - .8g
Sodium: 2713mg
Veggies: 9.18g
Total: 24.31g

Anticipating that I was going to make 375 yesterday, I had Chad take a set of "progress" pictures of me. I never did get a set of "before" pics done, so I guess those will have to stand in. I'm going to try to do pics at every 25 lb increment so that I'll be able to see if there are visible changes. When I was on Atkins the first time several years ago, I lost over 60 lbs, and although other people could see a difference in me, I never could. I know I was smaller. Some of my clothes were too big, I was able to buy smaller sizes in the store...but I couldn't see it. It's amazing how demotivational the inability to actually see that change is. I'm hoping that the pictures will help me with that. Once I've got a few sets of pics done, I'll post them on the blog so you guys can see. Well, assuming that the weight loss starts up again, I will.