This is Month 1, Day 2 of the 6 pack abs challenge and I am back again.

2 for 2!

Seriously, I hope you enjoy it, are encouraged or motivated by it, or are my inspiration for the day!

If you missed it, you can see Day 1 here or you can use the link above to get to the main abs challenge.

On to day 2!

I lost 3 pounds in one day?

I weighed a dead even 200 pounds this morning as I finished out day 1 and started day 2.

That’s 3 pounds less than yesterday! So how did I lose 3 pounds in one day?

The simple answer is, I didn’t. The scale doesn’t lie, and I was 3 pounds down, but most of that is just flushing out my system with good amounts of water, good food, and no salty food that makes you hold water.

It isn’t a permanent thing so I don’t count it as true weight loss until I can hold that consistently. A few days more I guess. Either way, it is fun to see the scale drop so it is a good motivator!

Lose 15 pounds in 30 days?

On my way to 188. 3 pounds down and 12 more to go to reach 15 pounds lost in a month. Simple changes got a good bump start.

Consistent meal plan and nutrition will be the way I hold it and keep moving down. Today is another day I should be able to just clean up my system and keep dialing in…

Today’s food plan and tracking for 6 Pack abs progress:

1. Today’s Weight beginning of day – 200 pounds 
2. Today’s Weight end of day (next morning) – ?
3. Goal progress plan vs actual – Goal 2001 – Actual ? so ? overall and ? goal.
4. Potential pitfalls specific to today
   1. My training partner, That Guy, is out of town again, but leg workout is on tap and I can do that without any real spots
   2. Same as yesterday, I have to do carpool pickup from my daughter’s swim team so I won’t leave work until close to 8 getting home close to 9:15 and dinner hasn’t been prepped – gotta be careful that late
   3. Boss’ mom is not doing well so I have to pick up some work from him as he travels home to help her. No problem for me, but hope his mom is better soon.
   4. I have a house I am leasing in prep for moving Friday. Walkthrough is this afternoon right around dinner so I will have to keep out of drive thru line!
   5. I started this series and it is stressing me knowing there are some little things that are just not right… it shouldn’t, but it does. Mental.
5. Opportunities specific to today
   1. Working late again will give me time to climb stairs, walk on treadmill, do some crunches or get some extra exercise in.
   2. I already did and will get more chats with some motivating people prepping for the next round of Featured Fitness people. These are great!
   3. Workout this morning and the bonus miles last night got me really motivated.
   4. I started back my pushup/situp before workouts this morning – 3:30am and my motivation level was high! Plus I got 160 pushups and 100 situps in before I ever left for the gym.
   5. Should have another weight drop just due to increased water and lower sodium on my second day.
6. Inspirations – This one is from Donna

   • Here's where I am in my journey. Where do I want to go with this? All I know right now is I'm after gainz. #growtime pic.twitter.com/c7DgfqHwGU

     — Donna (@Sugarfoots615) August 12, 2014

7. Motivational quotes
   • You don’t get abs by doing abs… You get to see abs by losing fat! – A very wise man
8. Goal body part pic from someone’s blog, twitter, pinterest or facebook – same one from Doug for today – See Donna’s abs in that tweet!
9. Small win of the day – gotta celebrate the little things and enjoy the process
   1. Walked an extra 2 miles today and climbed 15 extra flights of stairs
   2. Bonus 160 pushups and 100 situps
10. Tweeter of the day with picture – same one from Donna for today
11. Site of the day – BodyBuilding.com – probably the biggest online resource available and tons of great, free information and really well done videos and plans.
12. General Observations and plans for tomorrow
    1. Today is going very well so far and less hungry than expected… so far!
    2. Still taking action!
    3. Seeing some good support messages from Twitter and this blog. Going to need it so thanks a lot everyone!
    4. Tomorrow is going to be tough again with the close, move, work, life… Need to keep tracking this early and often!

I will see how the morning weigh in goes and I might come back with the chart with my daily progress – only on day 2, but I want to keep tight track of my goal progress

Thanks again for all your encouragement and support. Abs are going to be here just in time for a nice little Christmas present to myself! Hopefully rivaling “That Guy” or even better, but don’t tell him I said that – don’t want him to see it coming…

Check how I am progressing on my abs goal this month here!

Or go straight to Day 1 here

And Day 3 here