240.4
Yeah! Good scale day today. I'm so pleased. I kicked butt yesterday on the treadmill and did 85 minutes. Most of it walking, yes, but hell that's still a huge victory. Haven't climbed on that machine in too long. I did 20 minutes first, running as much as I could (about 10 mins of it) then was getting tired and bored. I'd been listing to my music, but was getting bored anyway, so I decided to let myself "walk" and try to get through a tv episode on my Ipod. I've never watched the show Grey's anatomy, but a few weeks ago decided I'd like to give it a try, so I'd downloaded the first season (9 episodes) to my ipod. So I clicked on episode 1. And walked through the whole darn thing. I mean it was great. I got totally absorbed for about 50 minutes. I'd continue to check myself and be sure I was still walking fast, keeping the heart rate up, and every 10 mins or so I'd make myself run for a minute or two to get the heart rate going, but it worked. I ended up burning 870 calories, which is awesome and likely the reason for this morning's good weigh in.
So this week is going to be something of a challenge just because I'm really busy at work. I have 2 depositions scheduled -Tuesday and Wednesday- that I'm not yet totally prepared for. But I'll get through them, I'm sure. Today I'll get everything finalized, but then I have a lot to do before the next week when I have my client coming in to prep for her deposition the following week. Basically I'm about 4 weeks from the end of discovery in a relatively big case, so lots going on.
That's ok though. I still plan to make my gym workouts. I didn't get there this morning like I'd planned, in part because I didn't sleep well last night. I couldn't get to sleep for some reason. But that's ok. I have my bag in the car and essentially have to drive by the gym to get home and I have my assignment, so I will go. I only have to put in about 50 mins, so there's no good excuse to dodge it.
So week one down of my challenge with my brother and I'm down 4.4 lbs. Not bad. Of course he lost 10.5, but that's a guy for you. My only hope in winning this challenge is that he'll slack after a month or two. I'm the tortoise, he's the hare. Besides, if I end up losing 40lbs over 4 months, I'll happily pay my brother $100 for the motivation. I need to lose 70 total, which is just daunting, but for now, I'm taking it one month, one week, and one day at a time. Today I will track everything I eat, stay within my points, and it the gym for an hour or so. That will be a successful day.
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Monday, January 12, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
Homework Completed!
242.6
Well I did my homework - not as initially planned, but I did it, which is what counts. I've had a couple non-scale victories (NSV) in the last 24 hours that I'm very happy about. The first one was last night. I didn't end up going to the gym like I was supposed to (that is not the NSV obviously). I have not good excuse. My bad excuse is that I wanted to watch the national championship game with friends and didn't get out of work in time to hit the gym first. But I promised myself I'd go this morning before work. And I did! More on that later.
So anyway, last night I went out to my favorite bar - Y-Knots and watched the game with friends. Going in I had 14 points left for the day (and none earned due to the bailout on the gym). So I had the cheese quesadillas for 7 points and had 7 left. AND..... then I had only 3 beers (6pts). Yes, sireebob, I went to the bar and didn't go over on points. That's right. Normally I'd have some wings, or chicken fingers and tater tots and about 5 beers (a bucket- but over many hours..). Not last night. I stopped at 3 beers and switched to diet coke. And amazingly? When I got home not drunk, I didn't have the urge to binge like so many other nights when I drink to much. Yeah me!
Then this morning NSV #2 is actually GOING to the gym. Yes, I promised, but how many times have I gone to bed without exercising "promising" to get up and do it in the morning. Rarely does it happen. But this morning it did. I did 20 mins on the treadmill and about 30 mins doing the weight training program I had been assigned.
This is actually good. Not good that I skipped yesterday but good that I did my weight training on a Friday. Since my gym is near my work (30 miles from my house) it's less convenient to do weight training on the weekend, and it's important to take a "rest" day between weight training days, so by doing it today I've gotten myself on a M-W-F schedule. Had I done it yesterday I'd have had to fit it in sometime this weekend. That said - I don't plan to be a total bum this weekend. I do have a treadmill at my house, so there's no good excuse there. I know I'll be sore tomorrow and Sunday from the first weight training in a long while, but that doesn't prevent me from at least WALKING for 20-30 mins Sat. and Sun. so that's the plan. I will be happy if I just "walk" for 20 mins both Saturday and Sunday. In reality, once I get on the darn thing I won't be satisfied with walking the whole time so I will likely kick in some running. But to get my butt on there, I'm telling myself all I have to do is walk. That should work.
Tonight is going to be a challenege. My best friend is in from Hawaii and we're going out. Which definitely means drinking - no way around that. But I need to plan out my day food wise so I still have some points left and don't go over. I'd be so proud if I woke up tomorrow, having a great night out, and didn't feel guilty about going over in points. That's the plan.
Well I did my homework - not as initially planned, but I did it, which is what counts. I've had a couple non-scale victories (NSV) in the last 24 hours that I'm very happy about. The first one was last night. I didn't end up going to the gym like I was supposed to (that is not the NSV obviously). I have not good excuse. My bad excuse is that I wanted to watch the national championship game with friends and didn't get out of work in time to hit the gym first. But I promised myself I'd go this morning before work. And I did! More on that later.
So anyway, last night I went out to my favorite bar - Y-Knots and watched the game with friends. Going in I had 14 points left for the day (and none earned due to the bailout on the gym). So I had the cheese quesadillas for 7 points and had 7 left. AND..... then I had only 3 beers (6pts). Yes, sireebob, I went to the bar and didn't go over on points. That's right. Normally I'd have some wings, or chicken fingers and tater tots and about 5 beers (a bucket- but over many hours..). Not last night. I stopped at 3 beers and switched to diet coke. And amazingly? When I got home not drunk, I didn't have the urge to binge like so many other nights when I drink to much. Yeah me!
Then this morning NSV #2 is actually GOING to the gym. Yes, I promised, but how many times have I gone to bed without exercising "promising" to get up and do it in the morning. Rarely does it happen. But this morning it did. I did 20 mins on the treadmill and about 30 mins doing the weight training program I had been assigned.
This is actually good. Not good that I skipped yesterday but good that I did my weight training on a Friday. Since my gym is near my work (30 miles from my house) it's less convenient to do weight training on the weekend, and it's important to take a "rest" day between weight training days, so by doing it today I've gotten myself on a M-W-F schedule. Had I done it yesterday I'd have had to fit it in sometime this weekend. That said - I don't plan to be a total bum this weekend. I do have a treadmill at my house, so there's no good excuse there. I know I'll be sore tomorrow and Sunday from the first weight training in a long while, but that doesn't prevent me from at least WALKING for 20-30 mins Sat. and Sun. so that's the plan. I will be happy if I just "walk" for 20 mins both Saturday and Sunday. In reality, once I get on the darn thing I won't be satisfied with walking the whole time so I will likely kick in some running. But to get my butt on there, I'm telling myself all I have to do is walk. That should work.
Tonight is going to be a challenege. My best friend is in from Hawaii and we're going out. Which definitely means drinking - no way around that. But I need to plan out my day food wise so I still have some points left and don't go over. I'd be so proud if I woke up tomorrow, having a great night out, and didn't feel guilty about going over in points. That's the plan.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Take me back to school!
242.8 (small increase yes, but hey, I did have a few beers last night...)
Is it odd how when you have a plan for your health, a weightloss plan, a work out plan, an overall plan with goals and steps to get there, you feel better already. I mean I've only been back on track 3 days and I know there's no physical evidence yet, but I already feel slimmer, more confident, more motivated, more energized. Funny.
Today I took a new step in my plan to beat my brother's butt - I signed up for a new gym. Well actually it's an old gym - one I used to belong to when I worked at a firm four blocks away, before my days as a prosecutor, but new now, nonetheless. There's a gym in my building but I went in there the other day and realized that it's so small, neglected, etc., that I never go and never feel motivated to go. It's independently owned, so understandably they can't do a lot of renovations or keep the equipment super current. This "new" gym is one I used to go to - it's a chain (LAFitness) and there are like 3 billion locations around Atlanta, actually a brand new one near my office that I didn't even know exsited, that has a pool (very cool). And it's actually cheaper than the independant, in-my-building gym (which I guess shouldn't surprise me).
So I signed up. And I have my gym bag with me. And I'm going to work out tonight on the way home. I asked about personal training prices, and man they're just so damn expensive. I mean $240 a month to get a guy for 30 minutes once a week? And it goes up from there as you can imagine. Ridiculous. The only reason I wanted a personal trainer is to have someone develop a program for me, and keep me motivated. Well I decided to do the next best thing. Right after I signed up for the gym, I headed two blocks down to the Barnes & Noble and bought 2 things -The Body Sculpting Bible for Women and "The Ultimate Workout Logbook". For $40 I get most of what I wanted an instructor for. The bodysculpting book has a program that has me lifting weights 3 days a week, telling me exactly what exercise to do, changing the program every day, and then cycling to a new program every 2 weeks. Ok - so I have my program.
The "logbook" is, believe it or not a good part of my motivation. Let me explain. I've realized that if you want to be successful at something you have to figure out how to utilize your strengths to get it down. Self motivation is not a strength of mine. I'm a lazy bum. If I had the metabolism of my huband or best friend I don't think I'd even know what a "dumb bell" looked like. I'd totally be lazy and live off the benefits of my body's ability to burn the food I ate.
Alas, I don't so I need to find the "strength" that can get me what I want. In yesterday's post I found one - competition. I hate to lose, particularly to my brother, so that will keep me going to some extent. For a while at least. But I need more.
I thought about it today and realized that I need to tie my love for school into this journey. Yes, I do need to keep learning about fitness and nutrition, but what I really mean is I need the structure. One of the things I LOVE about school is its structure. You have a definite beginning - the first day of class - and a definite end - finals, and everything in between is planned out. For many classes you know the first day the assignments you'll have for every subsequent class. You have a plan - a road map.
I like assignments. And I like finite end points and goals.
So this log book and "program" gives me that. I have an assignment. I have to complete a very specific routine three days a week. And my "grade" is based upon my writing it down in my log book.
So where's the definite end? Of course there's not really an END end - I'll be doing this my entire life - but there are mini-ends. First is the first 2 weeks - the "program" has me doing a set routine for 2 weeks, then it changes. Then it's the first 6 weeks - the program gradually intensifies for 6 weeks then you cycle back to the first week's intensity, but with a different routine.
Then there's the running portion. Part of my assignment 3 times a week is to get on the treadmill and do the cardio. The program in the book just calls for 20 mins of cardio - no program for that. That's not good enough for me. For me, I've always measured my success cardiovascularly based upon my running. I've done a marathon, for goodness sake. But today when I jump on that treadmill, honestly I'll be lucky to be able to run a half mile straight without walking. So I need to build that back up. Slowly.
So I'm using the Couchto5K program to get me back in running shape - thus - giving me an assignment for each day. Today I've already written it down on a post-it to take with me to the treadmill. Along with my post-it outlining exactly which weight training exercises to do.
Today is Day 1. And I will get my homework done.
Is it odd how when you have a plan for your health, a weightloss plan, a work out plan, an overall plan with goals and steps to get there, you feel better already. I mean I've only been back on track 3 days and I know there's no physical evidence yet, but I already feel slimmer, more confident, more motivated, more energized. Funny.
Today I took a new step in my plan to beat my brother's butt - I signed up for a new gym. Well actually it's an old gym - one I used to belong to when I worked at a firm four blocks away, before my days as a prosecutor, but new now, nonetheless. There's a gym in my building but I went in there the other day and realized that it's so small, neglected, etc., that I never go and never feel motivated to go. It's independently owned, so understandably they can't do a lot of renovations or keep the equipment super current. This "new" gym is one I used to go to - it's a chain (LAFitness) and there are like 3 billion locations around Atlanta, actually a brand new one near my office that I didn't even know exsited, that has a pool (very cool). And it's actually cheaper than the independant, in-my-building gym (which I guess shouldn't surprise me).
So I signed up. And I have my gym bag with me. And I'm going to work out tonight on the way home. I asked about personal training prices, and man they're just so damn expensive. I mean $240 a month to get a guy for 30 minutes once a week? And it goes up from there as you can imagine. Ridiculous. The only reason I wanted a personal trainer is to have someone develop a program for me, and keep me motivated. Well I decided to do the next best thing. Right after I signed up for the gym, I headed two blocks down to the Barnes & Noble and bought 2 things -The Body Sculpting Bible for Women and "The Ultimate Workout Logbook". For $40 I get most of what I wanted an instructor for. The bodysculpting book has a program that has me lifting weights 3 days a week, telling me exactly what exercise to do, changing the program every day, and then cycling to a new program every 2 weeks. Ok - so I have my program.
The "logbook" is, believe it or not a good part of my motivation. Let me explain. I've realized that if you want to be successful at something you have to figure out how to utilize your strengths to get it down. Self motivation is not a strength of mine. I'm a lazy bum. If I had the metabolism of my huband or best friend I don't think I'd even know what a "dumb bell" looked like. I'd totally be lazy and live off the benefits of my body's ability to burn the food I ate.
Alas, I don't so I need to find the "strength" that can get me what I want. In yesterday's post I found one - competition. I hate to lose, particularly to my brother, so that will keep me going to some extent. For a while at least. But I need more.
I thought about it today and realized that I need to tie my love for school into this journey. Yes, I do need to keep learning about fitness and nutrition, but what I really mean is I need the structure. One of the things I LOVE about school is its structure. You have a definite beginning - the first day of class - and a definite end - finals, and everything in between is planned out. For many classes you know the first day the assignments you'll have for every subsequent class. You have a plan - a road map.
I like assignments. And I like finite end points and goals.
So this log book and "program" gives me that. I have an assignment. I have to complete a very specific routine three days a week. And my "grade" is based upon my writing it down in my log book.
So where's the definite end? Of course there's not really an END end - I'll be doing this my entire life - but there are mini-ends. First is the first 2 weeks - the "program" has me doing a set routine for 2 weeks, then it changes. Then it's the first 6 weeks - the program gradually intensifies for 6 weeks then you cycle back to the first week's intensity, but with a different routine.
Then there's the running portion. Part of my assignment 3 times a week is to get on the treadmill and do the cardio. The program in the book just calls for 20 mins of cardio - no program for that. That's not good enough for me. For me, I've always measured my success cardiovascularly based upon my running. I've done a marathon, for goodness sake. But today when I jump on that treadmill, honestly I'll be lucky to be able to run a half mile straight without walking. So I need to build that back up. Slowly.
So I'm using the Couchto5K program to get me back in running shape - thus - giving me an assignment for each day. Today I've already written it down on a post-it to take with me to the treadmill. Along with my post-it outlining exactly which weight training exercises to do.
Today is Day 1. And I will get my homework done.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
First Run a Success
232.4 (up, but am sore so I'll blame it on that).
I did it. I got back to the gym. I had to do all the stuff you do at a new gym - figure out where the lockers where, how the towel service worked, where everything is located. But, I did all that and then I got on the treadmill. And Ran. I ended up doing week 4 of the C25K program. Essentially I did a 5 minute warm-up walk, ran 1/4 mile, walked 1/8 mile, ran 1/2 mile, walked 1/4 mile, ran 1/4 mile, walked 1/8 mile, ran 1/2 mile, walked 1/2 mile. Ultimately I ended a little over 2.5 miles, in about 33:00 minutes. Not bad. I burned about 400 calories, and am a little sore today but all that was to be expected.
I didn't hit the weights like I'd hoped. I'm always bad about motivation for weight training. But I didn't beat myself up about it because I did the most important thing - started again. So today I'm going back. I packed my gym bag, brought it to my office, and it's sitting in the corner of the room looking at me.
Last night I started thinking about things - I felt good that I'd ran again, but I was beating myself up for not eating right or drinking enough water that day. Then I realized that I can take this one step at a time. Always in my life when I decide to do something I do it 200%. I mean I go overboard and try to do it al at once. And I'm usually sucessful - for a time at least - until I burn out. This time I want to be ok with taking it slow.
I decided last night that today I'd work on eating better and drinking more water, with a goal of doing a little better each day. And sticking to the gym. I am going a little crazy in that department with plans to go every work day. I don't have to go for long, but I want to make myself go every night before I go home. I rarely have evening commitments that require me to be home at a particular time, so it shouldn't be a problem most of the time. Also, part of the reason I haven't been good about exercising on my own treadmill is that by the time I get home, I'm starving, and want to eat dinner. That's usually about 8:00 at night and I by the time I'm "digested" enough to feel comfortable exercising, it's bed time.
So this is a good solution. I work out right after work then I can go home and have dinner without guilt. And go to bed without guilt. I'll use my treadmill on the weekends, so it's not all a waste. That's the plan. Day 1 in the books. I'm going to shoot for getting under 230 by the end of the month. That should be really doable, but I'm going to set small goals this time around, and meet every one of them.
I did it. I got back to the gym. I had to do all the stuff you do at a new gym - figure out where the lockers where, how the towel service worked, where everything is located. But, I did all that and then I got on the treadmill. And Ran. I ended up doing week 4 of the C25K program. Essentially I did a 5 minute warm-up walk, ran 1/4 mile, walked 1/8 mile, ran 1/2 mile, walked 1/4 mile, ran 1/4 mile, walked 1/8 mile, ran 1/2 mile, walked 1/2 mile. Ultimately I ended a little over 2.5 miles, in about 33:00 minutes. Not bad. I burned about 400 calories, and am a little sore today but all that was to be expected.
I didn't hit the weights like I'd hoped. I'm always bad about motivation for weight training. But I didn't beat myself up about it because I did the most important thing - started again. So today I'm going back. I packed my gym bag, brought it to my office, and it's sitting in the corner of the room looking at me.
Last night I started thinking about things - I felt good that I'd ran again, but I was beating myself up for not eating right or drinking enough water that day. Then I realized that I can take this one step at a time. Always in my life when I decide to do something I do it 200%. I mean I go overboard and try to do it al at once. And I'm usually sucessful - for a time at least - until I burn out. This time I want to be ok with taking it slow.
I decided last night that today I'd work on eating better and drinking more water, with a goal of doing a little better each day. And sticking to the gym. I am going a little crazy in that department with plans to go every work day. I don't have to go for long, but I want to make myself go every night before I go home. I rarely have evening commitments that require me to be home at a particular time, so it shouldn't be a problem most of the time. Also, part of the reason I haven't been good about exercising on my own treadmill is that by the time I get home, I'm starving, and want to eat dinner. That's usually about 8:00 at night and I by the time I'm "digested" enough to feel comfortable exercising, it's bed time.
So this is a good solution. I work out right after work then I can go home and have dinner without guilt. And go to bed without guilt. I'll use my treadmill on the weekends, so it's not all a waste. That's the plan. Day 1 in the books. I'm going to shoot for getting under 230 by the end of the month. That should be really doable, but I'm going to set small goals this time around, and meet every one of them.
The Gym
231.6
Well, I did it. I re-signed up for the gym. Gym membership is a funny thing for me. I've always had one up until March of this year. I started being really good about exercise in law school when I first started weight watchers, and have always had a gym membership since. But when Erik and I bought a house and moved a town away from where my current membership was, I just let it lapse. I had gotten a treadmill from my dad and had built up my other exercise equipment for the house (weight bench, yoga stuff, jump rope, weights, balls etc.) such that I felt it was a waste of money to have a gym membership. But now I realize that all the equipment in the world is useless if you don't use it. Duh right?
Somehow paying for a membership is motivation in itself. And I'm fortunate that my firm has a gym in one of our two buildings that we can be a member of for only $42/month with no sign up fee. Not bad at all, so I did it. Yesterday I went in and signed up. And today I brought my gym bag and will be heading out there in a few minutes. I have to do this. I can't let everything go now just because I'm married. That is no excuse. No, I don't have to go "find a man" anymore, but I do have to like myself. And I always like myself better when I'm exercising, feeling healthy, and losing, rather than gaining, weight. So, back at it.
I've printed out the couch to 5K program and I'm going to see how I do tonight to gauge what week to start on. Before the wedding I was comfortably running 2-3 miles, but I know that stamina is gone and I'll have to build it up again. That's ok though. I'm going to set mini-goals, but there's no deadline here. This is my LIFE now. I need to be a healthy person. For myself, for my husband, and for the kids I plan to have not too long from now. Besides, trying to get pregnant after 30 will have it's own challenges, I don't need to add "excessively obese" to the list. I don't believe I'll ever be "skinny" again, but I can keep things status quo - or at least status quo from before the wedding (meaning drop ~10 lbs). I can do that, and I will do that. Starting today!
Boy I feel like a broken record ,and I'm sure it's no fun to read the same entry of 'back at it today, I swear' that I seem to write every month. But, again, this blog is for me. It's really more of a journal. I need to get down how I feel, what I'm thinking, before I have any hope to follow through. I'd love to have a few readers, and a couple comments now and then, but really I need this for me. So unfortunately that appears to mean a lot of repeat material. Sorry bout that.
So tonight at the gym - the plan is to do at least 20, hopefully 30 or more minutes on the treadmill then do some basic weight training. Get things started right, right?
Well, I did it. I re-signed up for the gym. Gym membership is a funny thing for me. I've always had one up until March of this year. I started being really good about exercise in law school when I first started weight watchers, and have always had a gym membership since. But when Erik and I bought a house and moved a town away from where my current membership was, I just let it lapse. I had gotten a treadmill from my dad and had built up my other exercise equipment for the house (weight bench, yoga stuff, jump rope, weights, balls etc.) such that I felt it was a waste of money to have a gym membership. But now I realize that all the equipment in the world is useless if you don't use it. Duh right?
Somehow paying for a membership is motivation in itself. And I'm fortunate that my firm has a gym in one of our two buildings that we can be a member of for only $42/month with no sign up fee. Not bad at all, so I did it. Yesterday I went in and signed up. And today I brought my gym bag and will be heading out there in a few minutes. I have to do this. I can't let everything go now just because I'm married. That is no excuse. No, I don't have to go "find a man" anymore, but I do have to like myself. And I always like myself better when I'm exercising, feeling healthy, and losing, rather than gaining, weight. So, back at it.
I've printed out the couch to 5K program and I'm going to see how I do tonight to gauge what week to start on. Before the wedding I was comfortably running 2-3 miles, but I know that stamina is gone and I'll have to build it up again. That's ok though. I'm going to set mini-goals, but there's no deadline here. This is my LIFE now. I need to be a healthy person. For myself, for my husband, and for the kids I plan to have not too long from now. Besides, trying to get pregnant after 30 will have it's own challenges, I don't need to add "excessively obese" to the list. I don't believe I'll ever be "skinny" again, but I can keep things status quo - or at least status quo from before the wedding (meaning drop ~10 lbs). I can do that, and I will do that. Starting today!
Boy I feel like a broken record ,and I'm sure it's no fun to read the same entry of 'back at it today, I swear' that I seem to write every month. But, again, this blog is for me. It's really more of a journal. I need to get down how I feel, what I'm thinking, before I have any hope to follow through. I'd love to have a few readers, and a couple comments now and then, but really I need this for me. So unfortunately that appears to mean a lot of repeat material. Sorry bout that.
So tonight at the gym - the plan is to do at least 20, hopefully 30 or more minutes on the treadmill then do some basic weight training. Get things started right, right?
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Married!
Ok, so it's been forever and a day since I posted. I know. But you know what. Getting married is a LOT OF WORK. I mean wow. But I was SOOOOO great. I don't have the words to describe how wonderful it was, how perfect everything went, and how great everyone was to us. So here I am. A Mrs. :-)
And now, I have to go back to life. Back to fighting the battle we all fight our entire life. To be healthy. It's tougher for some than for others. I didn't reach all my goals I set for my wedding day. But I felt beautiful. And everyone said I was beautiful. And even if they only said it because they were supposed to, it still felt really really good.
We had a great honeymoon in the carribean. We got back on Monday. Today is my first day back at work. Yesterday I spent the majority of the day in the Social Security office and the Driver's License office, but it was ok, because I'm just so happy to be married.
I have a lot of thank you cards to write, but besides that, and putting away a few remaining gifts, wedding stuff is over. Now we're back to life. No "dress" to fit into, no "deadline" just life. A life of trying to be fit. So where do we find the motivation?
I dont' know, but I'm actually pretty upbeat about it. i had a very indulgent honeymoon and of course the scale is up now that I'm back. But I'm not sweating it, I'm not complacent about it, but I'm ok with it. Because I'm motivated to get back into exercising. I'm actually planning to hit the treadmill tonight. It's been inactive for a while now, so I think it needs a work out. I know I do.
So, I'm back. Hopefully regularly and for good. I'm ready to take on this new chapter as Mrs.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
First Test
Wednesday
Well, today is my first test of my new commitment. We didn't have a boot camp work out today (we get the first and third Wednesday off). So I have to do my own work out tonight. I'm ready. I have no plans to go out anywhere. I'm going to hit the treadmill and possibly add some jump roping in with my cool calorie counting jump rope. Then I need to do some strength work which I might do on the Wii Fit since I haven't been on there in a while. I'm ready.
I do need to do some grocery shopping, as I'm down to very few easy "mini meals" like we're supposed to do on this program. I usually take some fruit, yogurt, nuts, hard boiled egg, etc. to work for my mid day snacks but I'm out! I'll try to go tonight. If I don't make it, it'll be this weekend before I can go. We'll see how that goes.
Other than that, things are going well. I'm looking forward to this weekend. I've got some plans with friends that should be a lot of fun. I've got a LOT of work to do before then though - so on that note - back to work!
Well, today is my first test of my new commitment. We didn't have a boot camp work out today (we get the first and third Wednesday off). So I have to do my own work out tonight. I'm ready. I have no plans to go out anywhere. I'm going to hit the treadmill and possibly add some jump roping in with my cool calorie counting jump rope. Then I need to do some strength work which I might do on the Wii Fit since I haven't been on there in a while. I'm ready.
I do need to do some grocery shopping, as I'm down to very few easy "mini meals" like we're supposed to do on this program. I usually take some fruit, yogurt, nuts, hard boiled egg, etc. to work for my mid day snacks but I'm out! I'll try to go tonight. If I don't make it, it'll be this weekend before I can go. We'll see how that goes.
Other than that, things are going well. I'm looking forward to this weekend. I've got some plans with friends that should be a lot of fun. I've got a LOT of work to do before then though - so on that note - back to work!
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
9.5 weeks
WEDNESDAY
So I am 9.5 weeks away from the wedding. That would be 67 days. Really? I mean, only 67 days? I feel like I should have more to do. But I keep checking the wedding "checklists" and everything's on track. Now I just need to get closer to finalize a head count, then I can do the last big things on the list. It seems almost too easy.
Now - onto the focus of this blog - weight and weight loss. 9.5 weeks is a long time but not SO long that it is daunting. 4 months is daunting. 67 days is "a bit". I would like to convince myself that I can be a very good dieter/exerciser for 67 days. That doesn't sound unreasonable. I've done it before. We all know I'm going to totally party it up at the wedding and honeymoon beyond. So, can I sacrifice my beloved beer/pizza/fries/burgers/etc. for 67 days? Can I prioritize exercise over poker and sleeping in? Can I?
Of course only time will tell, but here we are, and I'm ready to try. Today I logged my breakfast into spark people. I will log my lunch as well. And dinner. And EXERCISE. Because tonight I am going to dust off my beautiful treadmill and give it a "whirl". Literally. 67 days. I can and WILL do this.
So far today:
Calories consumed: 482
Calories remaining available: 1018
Exercise yet to be done: 60 minutes/~700 calories
HERE WE GO...
So I am 9.5 weeks away from the wedding. That would be 67 days. Really? I mean, only 67 days? I feel like I should have more to do. But I keep checking the wedding "checklists" and everything's on track. Now I just need to get closer to finalize a head count, then I can do the last big things on the list. It seems almost too easy.
Now - onto the focus of this blog - weight and weight loss. 9.5 weeks is a long time but not SO long that it is daunting. 4 months is daunting. 67 days is "a bit". I would like to convince myself that I can be a very good dieter/exerciser for 67 days. That doesn't sound unreasonable. I've done it before. We all know I'm going to totally party it up at the wedding and honeymoon beyond. So, can I sacrifice my beloved beer/pizza/fries/burgers/etc. for 67 days? Can I prioritize exercise over poker and sleeping in? Can I?
Of course only time will tell, but here we are, and I'm ready to try. Today I logged my breakfast into spark people. I will log my lunch as well. And dinner. And EXERCISE. Because tonight I am going to dust off my beautiful treadmill and give it a "whirl". Literally. 67 days. I can and WILL do this.
So far today:
Calories consumed: 482
Calories remaining available: 1018
Exercise yet to be done: 60 minutes/~700 calories
HERE WE GO...
Thursday, May 15, 2008
I'm rocking the exercise, and boy my body hurts!
214.8 (better - now, can we see a 213?!?)
THURSDAY
I am VERY proud to say that I DID hit the treadmill last night. That's right. I got home about 7:45. I hit the treadmill at about 8:00 for 30 minutes, 2 1/2 miles, and about 400 calories burned. Not bad! I also ate a lot at work and lunch yesterday so didn't have anything to eat after I got home mostly because I just wasn't hungry, and I didn't want to kill the hard work I'd just done.
I think I'm starting to get more used to the morning routine because last night, probably for the first night, I just about slept through the whole night. I'm a really light sleeper and generally wake up several times a night naturally. Last night I went to bed at 10:00 - just after American Idol finished - and only woke up once at about 11:30 to pee (normal for me with all the water I'm chuggin these days). The next time I remember waking up was when the alarm went off at 5:00. Not bad. I'm still not quite getting enough sleep, but I'm slowly working my bed time back. It used to be midnight, so 10 is an accomplishment.
Granted Erik's not used to it yet. He tried to get frisky after Idol, and I straight up told him that while I'm doing this boot camp, any "extra-curricular" activities, need to be initiated before 10 pm. Or he's just out of luck. ;-)
This morning we did "field maneuvers", which basically means lots of strength work. We did about 110 reps of dips, sit ups, push ups, and leg lifts, mixed in with some running and lunges. Fun fun!
So I am really sore today. I knew this was coming when I signed up, but boy it hurts. Odd places too. Each day I seem to have a different sore spot. Which is good in the sense that it shows we're working lots of different muscles. But I'd hoped that after a week or so the soreness would be minimal. Today my "obliques" are sore. That's like the sides of your body between your armpit and hips. We did a little work on those yesterday but I really didn't think the exercises were that hard. I guess my body thought they were. Oww. And my backs a little sore today too, though not in the bad way (sharp pain) in the dull ache-muscle soreness type of way.
So I don't think I'll be hitting the treadmill tonight. I just got word that I'm picking up a new project today - in the white collar area - which I'm really excited about. I'm waiting now for the partner to call me. His email suggested some deadlines next week, so I might actually be busy this week, and possibly work this weekend. Which could really help my hours. I need to bill some time baby! All that by way of saying, no extra work-out today. And I'm going to make a serious effort to be in bed by 9:00 tonight to get LOTS of sleep.
In other news - I'm "re-starting" weight watchers today. I probably shouldn't. I'm not planning on actually using their plan. But as I think I said before, we have it at my work, and they weigh in's are on Thursdays at lunch. I have a friend who sits next to me to goes with me. I'd like to use it as an "official weigh in" system rather than a food system. Right now I'm really enjoying the body-for-life system of eating. I got the book in yesterday (titled "eating for lifestyle") and really feel like this is something I can do. Of course the book's system gives you one "cheat" day a week where you can eat anything. Apparently operation boot camp doesn't seem to think that's necessary. Oh well - I can do anything for 3 1/2 more months, right? All for the dress! :-)
THURSDAY
I am VERY proud to say that I DID hit the treadmill last night. That's right. I got home about 7:45. I hit the treadmill at about 8:00 for 30 minutes, 2 1/2 miles, and about 400 calories burned. Not bad! I also ate a lot at work and lunch yesterday so didn't have anything to eat after I got home mostly because I just wasn't hungry, and I didn't want to kill the hard work I'd just done.
I think I'm starting to get more used to the morning routine because last night, probably for the first night, I just about slept through the whole night. I'm a really light sleeper and generally wake up several times a night naturally. Last night I went to bed at 10:00 - just after American Idol finished - and only woke up once at about 11:30 to pee (normal for me with all the water I'm chuggin these days). The next time I remember waking up was when the alarm went off at 5:00. Not bad. I'm still not quite getting enough sleep, but I'm slowly working my bed time back. It used to be midnight, so 10 is an accomplishment.
Granted Erik's not used to it yet. He tried to get frisky after Idol, and I straight up told him that while I'm doing this boot camp, any "extra-curricular" activities, need to be initiated before 10 pm. Or he's just out of luck. ;-)
This morning we did "field maneuvers", which basically means lots of strength work. We did about 110 reps of dips, sit ups, push ups, and leg lifts, mixed in with some running and lunges. Fun fun!
So I am really sore today. I knew this was coming when I signed up, but boy it hurts. Odd places too. Each day I seem to have a different sore spot. Which is good in the sense that it shows we're working lots of different muscles. But I'd hoped that after a week or so the soreness would be minimal. Today my "obliques" are sore. That's like the sides of your body between your armpit and hips. We did a little work on those yesterday but I really didn't think the exercises were that hard. I guess my body thought they were. Oww. And my backs a little sore today too, though not in the bad way (sharp pain) in the dull ache-muscle soreness type of way.
So I don't think I'll be hitting the treadmill tonight. I just got word that I'm picking up a new project today - in the white collar area - which I'm really excited about. I'm waiting now for the partner to call me. His email suggested some deadlines next week, so I might actually be busy this week, and possibly work this weekend. Which could really help my hours. I need to bill some time baby! All that by way of saying, no extra work-out today. And I'm going to make a serious effort to be in bed by 9:00 tonight to get LOTS of sleep.
In other news - I'm "re-starting" weight watchers today. I probably shouldn't. I'm not planning on actually using their plan. But as I think I said before, we have it at my work, and they weigh in's are on Thursdays at lunch. I have a friend who sits next to me to goes with me. I'd like to use it as an "official weigh in" system rather than a food system. Right now I'm really enjoying the body-for-life system of eating. I got the book in yesterday (titled "eating for lifestyle") and really feel like this is something I can do. Of course the book's system gives you one "cheat" day a week where you can eat anything. Apparently operation boot camp doesn't seem to think that's necessary. Oh well - I can do anything for 3 1/2 more months, right? All for the dress! :-)
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Bad Trainer
215.4.
WEDNESDAY
HUMP day. Boy, I never was one of those people who really counted down the days to the weekend until now. I want to sleep in! :-) Oh well - two more days.
My mom left to go back home to Tennessee today. I'm very sad to see her go, but understand she misses her home, cats and the rest of the family who live out there. She did promise to come back, though, despite the fact that she worked so hard while here - 90% was her own motivation, not demands from me. I'm sad to see her go, but glad she got to spend about a week here.
So last night I took her to Outback for dinner. I wanted to treat her before she left, and knew I could be "ok" there diet wise. I was good and ordered the 9 oz lean sirloin and a salad. I was bad and also ordered mashed potatoes, and ate them all, along with the steak, and salad, and a few small slices of bread.
So - I logged it all in my boot camp journal, expecting to be "encouraged" again this morning. But nope. I got the "bad" trainer. See the way this boot camp works is that our class is divided into "companies". I'm in Charlie company (I bet you can guess the other two...yes, Alpha & Bravo). Anyway, we also have 3 trainers, Allen David & Kevin. Each week a different trainer is assigned to a different company. Last week I had David. This week I have Kevin. Now, Kevin is clearly new, I even asked him the first day how long he'd been doing this and he candidly said "a couple months". I suspect this is his first month as an actual trainer. Anyway, he sucks. And not just because he's new. He's just not cut out to be a trainer. One of the cool things about the other two is they keep you motivated. They keep you working. If they're around, they're calling out your name, saying "Come on Cindy - one more sprint" or "Come on Cindy, get a little lower in your lunges". etc. Kevin? The best he can come up with is "Great job everyone" or "keep moving, you're doing great". And most of the time he doesn't say anything. He's just not the right personality type to be a trainer in this environment. So it's a little disappointing when I'm in his group.
That said, I guess it worked out to my advantage today because he apparently didn't see anything wrong with my food entry of "sirloin steak, salad, mashed potatoes". Now, first of all, I did legitimately forget to write down the bread. I honestly thought I'd get "encouragement" anyway for the mashed potatoes, so I certainly didn't intentionally leave it out. But the thing is - any of the other trainers would have questioned that entry. It's not that we don't get to eat potatoes, we're just supposed to limit them, and minimize the toppings/additives/etc. If asked, I would have told him it was from Outback which would definitely have been a no-no. I should have ordered broccoli or green beans or something. But nah - he felt I was all good.
Oh well. I probably should have gone to encouragement anyway - they do let you voluntarily go if you like - but it was easier, of course, to just get on the car and go home. I needed it though - I had over 2200 calories yesterday, when the rest of this last week I've hovered around 1500 which is much better. So I should have burned the extra calories, and I'm sure that's why the scale crept up a bit today.
So, I have tentative plans to hit the treadmill tonight. In part to atone for missing encouragement, and in part because we didn't get much cardio in today. We did an ab circuit training thing which I will definitely feel tomorrow, but I'm certain I burned less calories than normal. So I'd like to kick it up a notch and try to run. Additionally, with the boot camp I haven't been on the treadmill in over a week. I want to keep running and eventually do a half marathon, so I need to keep at it. Wish me luck - finding motivation at 8:00 pm is hard.
WEDNESDAY
HUMP day. Boy, I never was one of those people who really counted down the days to the weekend until now. I want to sleep in! :-) Oh well - two more days.
My mom left to go back home to Tennessee today. I'm very sad to see her go, but understand she misses her home, cats and the rest of the family who live out there. She did promise to come back, though, despite the fact that she worked so hard while here - 90% was her own motivation, not demands from me. I'm sad to see her go, but glad she got to spend about a week here.
So last night I took her to Outback for dinner. I wanted to treat her before she left, and knew I could be "ok" there diet wise. I was good and ordered the 9 oz lean sirloin and a salad. I was bad and also ordered mashed potatoes, and ate them all, along with the steak, and salad, and a few small slices of bread.
So - I logged it all in my boot camp journal, expecting to be "encouraged" again this morning. But nope. I got the "bad" trainer. See the way this boot camp works is that our class is divided into "companies". I'm in Charlie company (I bet you can guess the other two...yes, Alpha & Bravo). Anyway, we also have 3 trainers, Allen David & Kevin. Each week a different trainer is assigned to a different company. Last week I had David. This week I have Kevin. Now, Kevin is clearly new, I even asked him the first day how long he'd been doing this and he candidly said "a couple months". I suspect this is his first month as an actual trainer. Anyway, he sucks. And not just because he's new. He's just not cut out to be a trainer. One of the cool things about the other two is they keep you motivated. They keep you working. If they're around, they're calling out your name, saying "Come on Cindy - one more sprint" or "Come on Cindy, get a little lower in your lunges". etc. Kevin? The best he can come up with is "Great job everyone" or "keep moving, you're doing great". And most of the time he doesn't say anything. He's just not the right personality type to be a trainer in this environment. So it's a little disappointing when I'm in his group.
That said, I guess it worked out to my advantage today because he apparently didn't see anything wrong with my food entry of "sirloin steak, salad, mashed potatoes". Now, first of all, I did legitimately forget to write down the bread. I honestly thought I'd get "encouragement" anyway for the mashed potatoes, so I certainly didn't intentionally leave it out. But the thing is - any of the other trainers would have questioned that entry. It's not that we don't get to eat potatoes, we're just supposed to limit them, and minimize the toppings/additives/etc. If asked, I would have told him it was from Outback which would definitely have been a no-no. I should have ordered broccoli or green beans or something. But nah - he felt I was all good.
Oh well. I probably should have gone to encouragement anyway - they do let you voluntarily go if you like - but it was easier, of course, to just get on the car and go home. I needed it though - I had over 2200 calories yesterday, when the rest of this last week I've hovered around 1500 which is much better. So I should have burned the extra calories, and I'm sure that's why the scale crept up a bit today.
So, I have tentative plans to hit the treadmill tonight. In part to atone for missing encouragement, and in part because we didn't get much cardio in today. We did an ab circuit training thing which I will definitely feel tomorrow, but I'm certain I burned less calories than normal. So I'd like to kick it up a notch and try to run. Additionally, with the boot camp I haven't been on the treadmill in over a week. I want to keep running and eventually do a half marathon, so I need to keep at it. Wish me luck - finding motivation at 8:00 pm is hard.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Good scale, good scale...
214.2
TUESDAY
Wow. So friendly scale today. Please don't let me down on Thursday! I was very good yesterday and hit the treadmill for 60 minutes of good interval training. I bought a heart rate monitor the other day. I'm a little disappointed because the model I bought doesn't calculate calories. But I am pleased ot see that it interacts with my treadmill such that I don't even have to wear the wrist part - it transmits directly to the treadmill. So that's cool. I had a good run and kept my heart rate up and down in a pretty good range for intervals. I also ate very minimally all day until we went out last night. I knew we would be going to Y-knots, so I only had about 600 calories all day until we left. I also burned over 600 on the treadmill. So, I allowed myself a little splurge at dinner and had this wonderful southwestern wrap they have that of course has lots of cheese, but is really good. I calculated it, generously I think, at 750 calories. Who knows though with something like that.
But I have stuck with the no alcohol streak. It's been 17 days. And honestly, I don't even miss it. I haven't been at an event or party yet that really centered around alcohol, so mostly I've just given up having a couple beers when Erik & I go out. Now, I just get diet coke, and really don't feel all that deprived. Once again, I'm not vowing I've given it up completely till the wedding, but no need in pointless drinking right now. Every calorie counts. In looking at my calendar I don't really have anything scheduled in the next few weeks that should tempt me. This weekend I'm going to Panama City for Bike-week but am going to meet my dad and brother, neither of whom really drink, so shouldn't be tempted there. The next weekend, mothers' day weekend, my mom will be in town, so no temptation there. Frankly, I don't have any temptations until possibly June. Boy would that be crazy if I could hold out that long.
Who knows. Just taking it one day at a time. Today I have my follow up appointment for the Lasik where I'll get my contacts out. I'm going to try to do a separate post on that tonight and update how things are going.
TUESDAY
Wow. So friendly scale today. Please don't let me down on Thursday! I was very good yesterday and hit the treadmill for 60 minutes of good interval training. I bought a heart rate monitor the other day. I'm a little disappointed because the model I bought doesn't calculate calories. But I am pleased ot see that it interacts with my treadmill such that I don't even have to wear the wrist part - it transmits directly to the treadmill. So that's cool. I had a good run and kept my heart rate up and down in a pretty good range for intervals. I also ate very minimally all day until we went out last night. I knew we would be going to Y-knots, so I only had about 600 calories all day until we left. I also burned over 600 on the treadmill. So, I allowed myself a little splurge at dinner and had this wonderful southwestern wrap they have that of course has lots of cheese, but is really good. I calculated it, generously I think, at 750 calories. Who knows though with something like that.
But I have stuck with the no alcohol streak. It's been 17 days. And honestly, I don't even miss it. I haven't been at an event or party yet that really centered around alcohol, so mostly I've just given up having a couple beers when Erik & I go out. Now, I just get diet coke, and really don't feel all that deprived. Once again, I'm not vowing I've given it up completely till the wedding, but no need in pointless drinking right now. Every calorie counts. In looking at my calendar I don't really have anything scheduled in the next few weeks that should tempt me. This weekend I'm going to Panama City for Bike-week but am going to meet my dad and brother, neither of whom really drink, so shouldn't be tempted there. The next weekend, mothers' day weekend, my mom will be in town, so no temptation there. Frankly, I don't have any temptations until possibly June. Boy would that be crazy if I could hold out that long.
Who knows. Just taking it one day at a time. Today I have my follow up appointment for the Lasik where I'll get my contacts out. I'm going to try to do a separate post on that tonight and update how things are going.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Back on Track
216.4
MONDAY
Well, I have to admit that I've not been real disiplined the last few days with the lasik issues I've got going on. I'm back though. I did a good run/walk this afternoon, and am back to tracking everything in sparkpeople. I'm hoping to see the numbers go down by the end of the week and do a real "weigh in" on Thursday!
MONDAY
Well, I have to admit that I've not been real disiplined the last few days with the lasik issues I've got going on. I'm back though. I did a good run/walk this afternoon, and am back to tracking everything in sparkpeople. I'm hoping to see the numbers go down by the end of the week and do a real "weigh in" on Thursday!
Monday, April 21, 2008
Boot Camp
215.4 (hell yeah)
MONDAY
I had a great weekend. I'm in such a good place today. First, I had no alcohol. Erik had Daniel and we didn't go out at all this weekend. As I posted earlier, I was kinda sick on Saturday morning, but somehow it mostly cleared itself up by Saturday night and I feel good today. Yesterday I was kind of lazy but got a lot of little things done around the house including laundry, sorting and responding to mail, organizing counters. I didn't get any boxes unpacked, but I'll count my small victories.
Food-wise I was fabulous on Saturday which showed me 215.4 yesterday on the scale (so this is day 2 in the 215's). Yesterday I splurged a little at dinner, had 6 wings and small fries at Taco Mac, but I was really low on calories there rest of the day so apparently it didn't hurt me on the scale this morning.
Last night Erik left for a 4 day trip to DC for work. After he left, I had dinner, then went and browsed Books a Million for a couple hours. I ended up buying a book that provides a boot-camp style program for 6 weeks that includes cardio, weights & pilates. It's called 6 weeks to a bikini. Now I'm much farther than 6 weeks away from wearing a bikini, but I liked the format, I liked that all of the weight training could be done at home, and I like the bit of pilates thrown in. I've always wanted to try that and never did.
So, with that encouragement, I got my lazy ass up this morning at 8:00 am (I know - so NOT early) and hit the treadmill for my "Week 1, Monday" assignment. It was interval training which basically means really hard running mixed in with jogging/walking for recovery. I was actually a little disappointed with how I did. I did the exercise as assigned, but expected to be able to kick it up a bit considering my recent running. I guess over a week off, and being sick this weekend, did me in, cause I was REALLY tired and didn't run nearly as long as I've done before. Hopefully Wednesday's cardio will feel better.
Either way, I did 55 minutes on the treadmill this morning for 4 miles and over 600 calories burned. Not a bad start to the day. Now I knew I'd feel good if I could get myself up and do the exercise. Why did it take me so long to do it?
I really hope I can stick to this program. I'm a little less than 19 weeks out from the wedding, which means I could do this program 3 times through and maybe really see some changes.
So - so far so good. Last week I cut out the alcohol. This week, no alcohol PLUS exercise. I really think I might see something good at weigh in on Thursday!
Here's to: Day 9 of no alcohol Day 1 of Boot Camp!
Here we go...
MONDAY
I had a great weekend. I'm in such a good place today. First, I had no alcohol. Erik had Daniel and we didn't go out at all this weekend. As I posted earlier, I was kinda sick on Saturday morning, but somehow it mostly cleared itself up by Saturday night and I feel good today. Yesterday I was kind of lazy but got a lot of little things done around the house including laundry, sorting and responding to mail, organizing counters. I didn't get any boxes unpacked, but I'll count my small victories.
Food-wise I was fabulous on Saturday which showed me 215.4 yesterday on the scale (so this is day 2 in the 215's). Yesterday I splurged a little at dinner, had 6 wings and small fries at Taco Mac, but I was really low on calories there rest of the day so apparently it didn't hurt me on the scale this morning.
Last night Erik left for a 4 day trip to DC for work. After he left, I had dinner, then went and browsed Books a Million for a couple hours. I ended up buying a book that provides a boot-camp style program for 6 weeks that includes cardio, weights & pilates. It's called 6 weeks to a bikini. Now I'm much farther than 6 weeks away from wearing a bikini, but I liked the format, I liked that all of the weight training could be done at home, and I like the bit of pilates thrown in. I've always wanted to try that and never did.
So, with that encouragement, I got my lazy ass up this morning at 8:00 am (I know - so NOT early) and hit the treadmill for my "Week 1, Monday" assignment. It was interval training which basically means really hard running mixed in with jogging/walking for recovery. I was actually a little disappointed with how I did. I did the exercise as assigned, but expected to be able to kick it up a bit considering my recent running. I guess over a week off, and being sick this weekend, did me in, cause I was REALLY tired and didn't run nearly as long as I've done before. Hopefully Wednesday's cardio will feel better.
Either way, I did 55 minutes on the treadmill this morning for 4 miles and over 600 calories burned. Not a bad start to the day. Now I knew I'd feel good if I could get myself up and do the exercise. Why did it take me so long to do it?
I really hope I can stick to this program. I'm a little less than 19 weeks out from the wedding, which means I could do this program 3 times through and maybe really see some changes.
So - so far so good. Last week I cut out the alcohol. This week, no alcohol PLUS exercise. I really think I might see something good at weigh in on Thursday!
Here's to: Day 9 of no alcohol Day 1 of Boot Camp!
Here we go...
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Report Card
217.2
TUESDAY
Well I was "almost" perfect yesterday. I did go home and, after laying on the bed and whining to erik that I didn't want to do anything, I dragged my lazy ass out of bed and got on the treadmill. And - of course - I'm thrilled I did. I decided to try something different. I covered up the stats on the treadmill with a towel and just ran. I promised myself I would run for 6 songs before I looked at where I was. I roughly guesstimated that would be 20 mins or so and 2 miles or so. All went well till Erik popped in to see how it was going. So we "peaked" at about 1.14 miles (mid-way through song 4). Then song 5 was a Justin Timberlake song I downloaded that was like 7 minutes long! I got through about 3:30 then had to click next.
All in all, I peaked about mid song 6 to see I'd just crossed over the 2 mile mark. The goal was to do 3 miles straight - running - without walking. So the last mile I totally had to focus and do the countdown..."8 minutes left, 8 minutes left, 8 minutes left, 7 and a half minutes left, 7 and a half minute left," etc. You get the point. It was tough - but hell yeah I did it! 3 miles ran in 30:30. Awesome. Of course no incline, so that time would be much higher on real roads, but still. It's been a LONG while since I ran 3 miles straight.
I finished it out with a quarter mile walk for a total of 35 minutes and 557 calories burned. Very nice.
For dinner I had a success as well. After my run Erik & I were talking and he said "I want Pizza." Eww. I said. Yes, I actually said Eww to pizza. Don't know where that came from. Turns out he didn't really want pizza so much as he just wanted to stay home and not cook. So I made us both tuna fish sandwiches with light potato chips for dinner. Not bad.
I didn't have my 1200 calorie day unless you subtract the 500 calories I burned. I ended up scoring about 1750. But all was logged in sparkpeople. And I did see a little lower number on the scale today.
Still have some work to do by Thursday to avoid a gain, but we're solidly in the 217 area now, so that's better than a few weeks ago.
Here's to progress!
TUESDAY
Well I was "almost" perfect yesterday. I did go home and, after laying on the bed and whining to erik that I didn't want to do anything, I dragged my lazy ass out of bed and got on the treadmill. And - of course - I'm thrilled I did. I decided to try something different. I covered up the stats on the treadmill with a towel and just ran. I promised myself I would run for 6 songs before I looked at where I was. I roughly guesstimated that would be 20 mins or so and 2 miles or so. All went well till Erik popped in to see how it was going. So we "peaked" at about 1.14 miles (mid-way through song 4). Then song 5 was a Justin Timberlake song I downloaded that was like 7 minutes long! I got through about 3:30 then had to click next.
All in all, I peaked about mid song 6 to see I'd just crossed over the 2 mile mark. The goal was to do 3 miles straight - running - without walking. So the last mile I totally had to focus and do the countdown..."8 minutes left, 8 minutes left, 8 minutes left, 7 and a half minutes left, 7 and a half minute left," etc. You get the point. It was tough - but hell yeah I did it! 3 miles ran in 30:30. Awesome. Of course no incline, so that time would be much higher on real roads, but still. It's been a LONG while since I ran 3 miles straight.
I finished it out with a quarter mile walk for a total of 35 minutes and 557 calories burned. Very nice.
For dinner I had a success as well. After my run Erik & I were talking and he said "I want Pizza." Eww. I said. Yes, I actually said Eww to pizza. Don't know where that came from. Turns out he didn't really want pizza so much as he just wanted to stay home and not cook. So I made us both tuna fish sandwiches with light potato chips for dinner. Not bad.
I didn't have my 1200 calorie day unless you subtract the 500 calories I burned. I ended up scoring about 1750. But all was logged in sparkpeople. And I did see a little lower number on the scale today.
Still have some work to do by Thursday to avoid a gain, but we're solidly in the 217 area now, so that's better than a few weeks ago.
Here's to progress!
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Barely Obese
215.4
THURSDAY
YEAH. I saw 215 this morning. Woo Hoo. I'm kicking BUTT this week. I go to my weigh in in about an hour and am expecting a good 3 lb loss since last time I went (3 weeks ago). I'm very pleased.
I updated my ticker, though, and am still technically "obese". I'm right at 30 BMI. If I remember correctly under 30 BMI is considered "overweight" but 30 or above is "obese". Boo. I definitely don't feel "obese". If you asked a random stranger if I looked "overweight" or "obese" I think 9 out of 10 would say "overweight". I'm definitely not skinny, but I hate that word - obese. Perhaps it's due to the level of obesity in America that my 40 lbs over weight doesn't "look" as bad. Who knows. I plan to be "overweight" by next week. :-)
On another happy note, I had a GREAT run last night. I ran 2.5 miles without walking, then walked .1 mile, then finished out another .5 miles running. For a total of 3 miles ran. I cooled down, of course, with a bit more walking, but that's definitely the best I've done in a long time. I told Erik earlier this week that I'd be running 3 miles straight by the end of the month. Looks like it might be sooner that I thought! I'm so pleased. It felt good too. It was tough near the end, of course, but it really felt good. (especially when I was done!) :-)
So tonight Holly & I scored tickets to a Sugarland concert here in Atlanta at the Fox - a very cool, very old style theatre. I'm excited. A co-worker couldn't go so we got them half price.
This weekend's plans are unpack, unpack and unpack. Oh and I might make Erik take me to see 21 this weekend. It's a movie based on the MIT blackjack team that worked Vegas for lots of money. We've both read the book the film is based on "Bringing Down the House" and I really want to see it. I'm a gambler at heart, what can I say.
Other than that, my life will consist of working on the house, running, and tracking my world in Sparkpeople. I love you sparkpeople! :-)
THURSDAY
YEAH. I saw 215 this morning. Woo Hoo. I'm kicking BUTT this week. I go to my weigh in in about an hour and am expecting a good 3 lb loss since last time I went (3 weeks ago). I'm very pleased.
I updated my ticker, though, and am still technically "obese". I'm right at 30 BMI. If I remember correctly under 30 BMI is considered "overweight" but 30 or above is "obese". Boo. I definitely don't feel "obese". If you asked a random stranger if I looked "overweight" or "obese" I think 9 out of 10 would say "overweight". I'm definitely not skinny, but I hate that word - obese. Perhaps it's due to the level of obesity in America that my 40 lbs over weight doesn't "look" as bad. Who knows. I plan to be "overweight" by next week. :-)
On another happy note, I had a GREAT run last night. I ran 2.5 miles without walking, then walked .1 mile, then finished out another .5 miles running. For a total of 3 miles ran. I cooled down, of course, with a bit more walking, but that's definitely the best I've done in a long time. I told Erik earlier this week that I'd be running 3 miles straight by the end of the month. Looks like it might be sooner that I thought! I'm so pleased. It felt good too. It was tough near the end, of course, but it really felt good. (especially when I was done!) :-)
So tonight Holly & I scored tickets to a Sugarland concert here in Atlanta at the Fox - a very cool, very old style theatre. I'm excited. A co-worker couldn't go so we got them half price.
This weekend's plans are unpack, unpack and unpack. Oh and I might make Erik take me to see 21 this weekend. It's a movie based on the MIT blackjack team that worked Vegas for lots of money. We've both read the book the film is based on "Bringing Down the House" and I really want to see it. I'm a gambler at heart, what can I say.
Other than that, my life will consist of working on the house, running, and tracking my world in Sparkpeople. I love you sparkpeople! :-)
Monday, March 31, 2008
Weee Living healthy really DOES work...
218.0
Monday
This weekend was WONDERFUL. Well, it actually started off bad because my Lasik procedure didn't happen. Really frustrating. I took the day off work, and had it all scheduled to get a ride for my 11:00 am appointment. Then I got a call, the night before, from the clinic - one of those computer reminders - that said "just reminding you of your appointment at 1:15 pm." What? I thought it was at 11:00. It's like 7 pm when they call so I just go with it and call my ride to reschedule. So I show up at 1:05 pm on Friday. I get there and she says "what? you're appointment was at 11:00!" Oh hell. Turns out the call they gave me was for my follow up appointment on tuesday. Why they called me for THAT appointment the day before my surgery, I don't KNOW. But by the time I got there, the doctor was on his way out to other appointments and could do it. I was SOOO frustrated I actually cried in the stupid eye clinic. Grrr. But - I took the frustration home, allowed myself a luxury nap then got back to work on unpacking and eating right.
I've been very good for about 5 days with a little splurge last night at Longhorn. This Sparkpeople thing is working really well right now. I actually saw 216.6 on the scale yesterday. Then Longhorn and a few beers last night, but today - right back on track. I've had 1450 calories for the day AND ran 4 miles today on the treadmill, walking 1 more for a total of 817 calories burned! Hell yeah! So I know that's really not enough food for one day with that kind of work out but today is a detox day after yesterday's splurge. I'll balance out again tomorrow to a reasonable number. Hopefully I'll see that beautiful 216 again tomorrow!
I'm still going to keep weighing in with WW because I bought at 16 week at-work pass so I'm already paid. I just won't tell them I'm doing sparkpeople instead. It's still good for the weekly accountability and the pep talks. Besides if I lose 10lbs in the session my firm will reimburse 50% of my costs. I'm only down 3 as of last weigh in so I need to do 7 in the next 6 weeks or so to get that reimbursement. They way this week is going, though I think I'll hit 5 by Thursday.
Why is it that some weeks motivation doesn't seem to be a problem. Why are those weeks so few and far between? I'm going to ride this as long as I can...
Monday
This weekend was WONDERFUL. Well, it actually started off bad because my Lasik procedure didn't happen. Really frustrating. I took the day off work, and had it all scheduled to get a ride for my 11:00 am appointment. Then I got a call, the night before, from the clinic - one of those computer reminders - that said "just reminding you of your appointment at 1:15 pm." What? I thought it was at 11:00. It's like 7 pm when they call so I just go with it and call my ride to reschedule. So I show up at 1:05 pm on Friday. I get there and she says "what? you're appointment was at 11:00!" Oh hell. Turns out the call they gave me was for my follow up appointment on tuesday. Why they called me for THAT appointment the day before my surgery, I don't KNOW. But by the time I got there, the doctor was on his way out to other appointments and could do it. I was SOOO frustrated I actually cried in the stupid eye clinic. Grrr. But - I took the frustration home, allowed myself a luxury nap then got back to work on unpacking and eating right.
I've been very good for about 5 days with a little splurge last night at Longhorn. This Sparkpeople thing is working really well right now. I actually saw 216.6 on the scale yesterday. Then Longhorn and a few beers last night, but today - right back on track. I've had 1450 calories for the day AND ran 4 miles today on the treadmill, walking 1 more for a total of 817 calories burned! Hell yeah! So I know that's really not enough food for one day with that kind of work out but today is a detox day after yesterday's splurge. I'll balance out again tomorrow to a reasonable number. Hopefully I'll see that beautiful 216 again tomorrow!
I'm still going to keep weighing in with WW because I bought at 16 week at-work pass so I'm already paid. I just won't tell them I'm doing sparkpeople instead. It's still good for the weekly accountability and the pep talks. Besides if I lose 10lbs in the session my firm will reimburse 50% of my costs. I'm only down 3 as of last weigh in so I need to do 7 in the next 6 weeks or so to get that reimbursement. They way this week is going, though I think I'll hit 5 by Thursday.
Why is it that some weeks motivation doesn't seem to be a problem. Why are those weeks so few and far between? I'm going to ride this as long as I can...
Monday, March 3, 2008
Poker is Financing my Wedding (dress..)
219.6 (not bad!)
MONDAY
This weekend went by SOOOO fast. So much going on, again. This wedding planning stuff is hard. So, Friday night Holly & Dana come over for dinner & Wii for the boys and Tivo catch up for the girls. I had a bit too much wine, but not bad otherwise. Saturday Holly & I met up at 10:00 to start our crazy day of dress trying-on. I was determined to buy a dress on Saturday. I've probably tried on 100 different dresses by now, so it was time to commit. Our day started in Douglasville - a town about 25 miles west of us. We found a dress I absolutely LOVED. It's a maggie sotoro, and the rack size was a 14. It almost fit, but definitely was a little snug. After a conference with the seamstress who assured me that she could make that one fit, we decided it would be better to order one so I could add a few inches to the length. Being 5'11", almost nothing fits me off the rack, length-wise. So we did all the measurements, the store talked to the factory and supposedly was told that we could get that dress, plus 4 inches, in a 16 on July 7th. Not bad. but I didn't want to commit b/c I hadn't stopped by another store I had on my list. So I gave them all my information, got their card and assurances I could order it over the phone later that day, and we headed to carrolton. Just to be sure.
The Carrollton store was another 20 miles away, mostly south and a little west. We got there, tried on about 7 dresses, and were not wow'd by any of them. By now, it's about 2:45 pm and we're hungry and tired. We started heading for home, and I decided to order the one from Douglasville. I literally have the phone in my hand and it is ringing when Holly says - we have to go to Belles & Beaus - a bridal store in my own town that oddly enough I haven't been to and is where Holly got her dress. She's right. We never made it there. So I hang up and we trek another 30 miles back to Fayetteville. Well, Belle's & Beaus is under new management from when Holly got her dress, and they had a very small selection. Nothing the appealed to me. We didn't even try one one. By then it's 4:30 and we have another hour and a half before all the shops close, so we decide to try ONE MORE in Peachtree City (PTC). I'd been in this shop with holly about a month ago for her to try on bridesmaid dresses, before I was ready to try on wedding dresses, but hadn't looked at their stock.
So we get to J. Andrews in PTC, and find out they carry Maggie Sotoro - the designer that made the dress I fell in love with in Douglasville. Now PTC is MUCH closer to where I live now and our new house than Douglasville. Like about 20 miles closer. So I decided I'd try on their dresses, but if I didn't like them I'd order my Maggie from them. Now starts the trouble. Of course none of their dresses compared, so we started trying to figure out how to order my dress. It's about 5:30 now. Maggie has a great website, but for some reason I couldn't find my dress on it. So I called the Douglasville store and asked them for the design number "so I could show my mom online". They put me on hold for like 20 minutes (ok, maybe 5) and then came back and gave me a very odd model number. I said, ok, thanks and hung up. Of course that model number wasn't found on the website either, so this time Holly took my phone, and playing me, bullied them into giving me the right number. They really didn't want to, obviously for the exact reason I wanted it, but finally she got it out of them. She basically said she's not buying a dress if her mother couldn't see it and if they don't give it to her she'll go somewhere else. I worked. Unfortunately, that's not the end of it.
We still couldn't find it on the website, though the number is of the right type. Finally the owner of J. Andrews discovered that it was a discontinued design. Through all her "inside" resources, she discovered that they didn't have any in stock in my size and weren't making it anymore. Unfortunately, by that time the factory was closed, so she couldn't call them directly. This was so confusing as I thought the Douglasville store had talked to the factory about this specific dress. Turns out, they may have just talked to them generally about how much additional length was, and when the ship date would be. Odd. I just don't know. So we ended the day very depressed. The J. Andrews owner is going to call the factory today and call me back, hopefully with good news, but I'm just not confident. So depressing! I was ready to buy and then it gets snatched away. The worst part is that the dress I fell in love with was almost $300 cheaper than any other one I've liked. Booo!
So by then it's 6:00 and we're beat, frustrated, and starving. We met Dana for dinner at Longhorn, and then I headed off to a poker tournament I had won entry into through the company we play with. It's was a free tournament, but had a $1000 prize pool to the various winners. By 1:00 am I had won the tournament, and after making a deal at the final table, took home $500 of the $1000 with the rest being divided among 3 other players. Very cool. That $500 will definitely be going toward the wedding, and this stupid dress hunt. Here's a picture of me after I won (very tired!)
MONDAY
This weekend went by SOOOO fast. So much going on, again. This wedding planning stuff is hard. So, Friday night Holly & Dana come over for dinner & Wii for the boys and Tivo catch up for the girls. I had a bit too much wine, but not bad otherwise. Saturday Holly & I met up at 10:00 to start our crazy day of dress trying-on. I was determined to buy a dress on Saturday. I've probably tried on 100 different dresses by now, so it was time to commit. Our day started in Douglasville - a town about 25 miles west of us. We found a dress I absolutely LOVED. It's a maggie sotoro, and the rack size was a 14. It almost fit, but definitely was a little snug. After a conference with the seamstress who assured me that she could make that one fit, we decided it would be better to order one so I could add a few inches to the length. Being 5'11", almost nothing fits me off the rack, length-wise. So we did all the measurements, the store talked to the factory and supposedly was told that we could get that dress, plus 4 inches, in a 16 on July 7th. Not bad. but I didn't want to commit b/c I hadn't stopped by another store I had on my list. So I gave them all my information, got their card and assurances I could order it over the phone later that day, and we headed to carrolton. Just to be sure.
The Carrollton store was another 20 miles away, mostly south and a little west. We got there, tried on about 7 dresses, and were not wow'd by any of them. By now, it's about 2:45 pm and we're hungry and tired. We started heading for home, and I decided to order the one from Douglasville. I literally have the phone in my hand and it is ringing when Holly says - we have to go to Belles & Beaus - a bridal store in my own town that oddly enough I haven't been to and is where Holly got her dress. She's right. We never made it there. So I hang up and we trek another 30 miles back to Fayetteville. Well, Belle's & Beaus is under new management from when Holly got her dress, and they had a very small selection. Nothing the appealed to me. We didn't even try one one. By then it's 4:30 and we have another hour and a half before all the shops close, so we decide to try ONE MORE in Peachtree City (PTC). I'd been in this shop with holly about a month ago for her to try on bridesmaid dresses, before I was ready to try on wedding dresses, but hadn't looked at their stock.
So we get to J. Andrews in PTC, and find out they carry Maggie Sotoro - the designer that made the dress I fell in love with in Douglasville. Now PTC is MUCH closer to where I live now and our new house than Douglasville. Like about 20 miles closer. So I decided I'd try on their dresses, but if I didn't like them I'd order my Maggie from them. Now starts the trouble. Of course none of their dresses compared, so we started trying to figure out how to order my dress. It's about 5:30 now. Maggie has a great website, but for some reason I couldn't find my dress on it. So I called the Douglasville store and asked them for the design number "so I could show my mom online". They put me on hold for like 20 minutes (ok, maybe 5) and then came back and gave me a very odd model number. I said, ok, thanks and hung up. Of course that model number wasn't found on the website either, so this time Holly took my phone, and playing me, bullied them into giving me the right number. They really didn't want to, obviously for the exact reason I wanted it, but finally she got it out of them. She basically said she's not buying a dress if her mother couldn't see it and if they don't give it to her she'll go somewhere else. I worked. Unfortunately, that's not the end of it.
We still couldn't find it on the website, though the number is of the right type. Finally the owner of J. Andrews discovered that it was a discontinued design. Through all her "inside" resources, she discovered that they didn't have any in stock in my size and weren't making it anymore. Unfortunately, by that time the factory was closed, so she couldn't call them directly. This was so confusing as I thought the Douglasville store had talked to the factory about this specific dress. Turns out, they may have just talked to them generally about how much additional length was, and when the ship date would be. Odd. I just don't know. So we ended the day very depressed. The J. Andrews owner is going to call the factory today and call me back, hopefully with good news, but I'm just not confident. So depressing! I was ready to buy and then it gets snatched away. The worst part is that the dress I fell in love with was almost $300 cheaper than any other one I've liked. Booo!
So by then it's 6:00 and we're beat, frustrated, and starving. We met Dana for dinner at Longhorn, and then I headed off to a poker tournament I had won entry into through the company we play with. It's was a free tournament, but had a $1000 prize pool to the various winners. By 1:00 am I had won the tournament, and after making a deal at the final table, took home $500 of the $1000 with the rest being divided among 3 other players. Very cool. That $500 will definitely be going toward the wedding, and this stupid dress hunt. Here's a picture of me after I won (very tired!)
Lots of fun, but very exhausting. I didn't get home till about 1:30 Saturday night (sunday morning!) and got up about 9:00 for church with Erik & Daniel. After church we dropped off Daniel and then Erik & I had lunch and then spent 5 HOURS registering for our wedding at Dillard's and Linens & Things. We were SOOOO tired after that. Who knew it would be such a chore to pick out things for people to buy us?!? Crazy.
We got home and totally vegged out the rest of the night. Watched a couple movies, played a little online poker, and passed out.
This morning, I'm proud to say, I got up and did 30 mins on the treadmill. I'm still not nearly up to the ability to run all 30 yet, but I did run 1 mile, then did a hard walk on incline for the rest of my time. I'm hoping to be up to running a full 3 miles in 30 by the end of the month. I think I can do it.
So, this morning's scale is probably pretty accurate. Although I did drink Thursday, Friday & Saturday nights, I had only one meal on both Saturday & Sunday with all the running around we did, and boy i can say that trying on those heavy wedding dresses, and trekking around huge box stores for a registry gives you a work out. Sheesh. So I'm hoping to get the scale down another couple pounds this week. I think I can do it.
Erik & I leave for California for 4 days on Thursday, so I've got to really kick butt at work and at this diet before we leave. I'm absolutely planning on using the 24 hour gym at the resort, but I'd love to go into this mini-vacation seeing under 218 on the scale. Here's hoping!
Monday, February 25, 2008
Dress Shopping
220.8 (at home)
MONDAY
This weekend Holly an I went dress shopping for my wedding dress and her bridesmaid dress. I was really down about it at first because I hate trying on clothes knowing I won't fit into them. Dress shopping is like the worst of that because many of the stores only carry "stock" sizes of 10 in all styles. But I agreed to give it a go anyway.
We started at a small bridal shop near where my new house is on Saturday. They had some "discontinued" dresses in my size (16/18) that were pretty, and at least two of their designers had a really cool thing where even though it was a 10, they had additional zippers inside that would let you zip it up in bigger sizes. That was neat. It made the back look weird, but at least you could see what the front looked like. So, we spent about 2 1/2 hours on Saturday and found a couple good ones and one that I really liked. Of course it's $1300...
Sunday we decided to hit David's Bridal. A big chain with 3 different locations in Atlanta. We hit the southlake one, closest to where we live. The great thing about this store is that they STOCK lots of sizes. The encourage buying off the rack, so they carry lots of styles in all sizes. I think I tried on about 15 dresses in my size. A few we had to go down or up a size, but we could still zip them (with a lot of holding of breath) and I got to see lots of styles. It was great. I found one I absolutely fell in LOVE with and I think might be the one. I always thought I'd get a "simple" dress, long and poofy but mostly just satin with minor embellishments. Not at all what I found. Once I started trying them on, I realized I wanted mine to be different. I didn't want my dress to be "similar" to anyone else's I know. I want to "wow" the people at my wedding. So I found one that is very different, and I totally love. It's very flattering on me (at least as much as can be expected). I didn't buy it, but I've definitely tagged it #1. here's motivation for me though - the "regular" sizes only go up to 16 which I could get into but was very tight. The "plus" sizes go from 14W-26W so I can definitely get it in my size. Thing is - plus sizes are $100 more. So, I need to make the 16 work.
The ladies at the store said I need 16 weeks for the order to come in. 20 weeks to be safe with alterations and stuff. So, I'm going to give my self about 3-4 weeks to drop a few pounds and try it on again. Then I'll hopefully be able to order the 16 in good conscience.
Other than that things are going well. I saw 219.4 on the scale yesterday morning (then had a big steak dinner) so I think I'll see a loss this week at WW. I also have a "new" plan (again) for work outs. Now I'm going to try to do them in the morning. Which is just unheard of for me so we'll see how it goes. Thing is, unless I have an appointment at work, which is rare, my "start" time is flexible. I can come in when In want. I just have to get my hours in. If I want to be here 10-8, that's cool with them. So there's really no excuse for not getting it out of the way in the morning.
So this morning I hit the treadmill. I did 30 minutes. I only "ran" 1/2 mile, but I did some speed walking on increased incline. I know if I get into a routine, my fitness will improve rapidly and I should be running the entire 30 minutes within a month. So that's the plan. Mon, Wed & Fri, I'll do 30 minutes on the treadmill before I leave. Tuesday and either Sat or Sun I'll do weight training for 30 mins. One day down, 188 days to go. :-)
MONDAY
This weekend Holly an I went dress shopping for my wedding dress and her bridesmaid dress. I was really down about it at first because I hate trying on clothes knowing I won't fit into them. Dress shopping is like the worst of that because many of the stores only carry "stock" sizes of 10 in all styles. But I agreed to give it a go anyway.
We started at a small bridal shop near where my new house is on Saturday. They had some "discontinued" dresses in my size (16/18) that were pretty, and at least two of their designers had a really cool thing where even though it was a 10, they had additional zippers inside that would let you zip it up in bigger sizes. That was neat. It made the back look weird, but at least you could see what the front looked like. So, we spent about 2 1/2 hours on Saturday and found a couple good ones and one that I really liked. Of course it's $1300...
Sunday we decided to hit David's Bridal. A big chain with 3 different locations in Atlanta. We hit the southlake one, closest to where we live. The great thing about this store is that they STOCK lots of sizes. The encourage buying off the rack, so they carry lots of styles in all sizes. I think I tried on about 15 dresses in my size. A few we had to go down or up a size, but we could still zip them (with a lot of holding of breath) and I got to see lots of styles. It was great. I found one I absolutely fell in LOVE with and I think might be the one. I always thought I'd get a "simple" dress, long and poofy but mostly just satin with minor embellishments. Not at all what I found. Once I started trying them on, I realized I wanted mine to be different. I didn't want my dress to be "similar" to anyone else's I know. I want to "wow" the people at my wedding. So I found one that is very different, and I totally love. It's very flattering on me (at least as much as can be expected). I didn't buy it, but I've definitely tagged it #1. here's motivation for me though - the "regular" sizes only go up to 16 which I could get into but was very tight. The "plus" sizes go from 14W-26W so I can definitely get it in my size. Thing is - plus sizes are $100 more. So, I need to make the 16 work.
The ladies at the store said I need 16 weeks for the order to come in. 20 weeks to be safe with alterations and stuff. So, I'm going to give my self about 3-4 weeks to drop a few pounds and try it on again. Then I'll hopefully be able to order the 16 in good conscience.
Other than that things are going well. I saw 219.4 on the scale yesterday morning (then had a big steak dinner) so I think I'll see a loss this week at WW. I also have a "new" plan (again) for work outs. Now I'm going to try to do them in the morning. Which is just unheard of for me so we'll see how it goes. Thing is, unless I have an appointment at work, which is rare, my "start" time is flexible. I can come in when In want. I just have to get my hours in. If I want to be here 10-8, that's cool with them. So there's really no excuse for not getting it out of the way in the morning.
So this morning I hit the treadmill. I did 30 minutes. I only "ran" 1/2 mile, but I did some speed walking on increased incline. I know if I get into a routine, my fitness will improve rapidly and I should be running the entire 30 minutes within a month. So that's the plan. Mon, Wed & Fri, I'll do 30 minutes on the treadmill before I leave. Tuesday and either Sat or Sun I'll do weight training for 30 mins. One day down, 188 days to go. :-)
Monday, February 11, 2008
Back on the Exercise Wagon
Last WI: 222.2/WW WI 223.2/At Home WI: 220.8
MONDAY
So I was very good this weekend until last night, but I'll get to that. Friday night I actually worked until 8:30. It wasn't planned, just something that happened. Another associate needed help getting a project out the door and I had no major plans (Erik had Daniel) so I agreed to help out. Not bad for the hours anyway. I did hit McDonalds on the way home, but hadn't eaten much all day so I call that an "ok" day. Saturday I kicked butt. It was a VERY productive day. Erik had a Toastmasters meeting so I agreed to watch Daniel for a few hours during the day. After a bit of Wii (he is addicted, that boy) we went out and ran all the errands I had on my list. When we came home we played a bit more Wii (I rented two games, so I encourage his addiction I guess). Then Erik came home and I ran out to meet Holly to look at invitations for the wedding. I ended up ordering very cute poker invitations. I'm very excited about them, I'm supposed to get the proof today. I'm not excited about the price, but everything about weddings seems expensive.
After invitations, I met with my realtor, and signed what I think will be the final contract on our house. They accepted our final offer that went out on Thursday. We are set to close on March 18, so the next month is going to be CRAZY. After meeting with the realtor, I came home and ran on the treadmill. Nothing fabulous, but I did make a whole mile before walking. Considering my significant lapse in exercise commitment, I'll take it. I ended up covering 2 1/2 miles I think. not bad.
Sunday I got up before church (the EARLY) service even, and lifted with my new weights I bought at Walmart on Saturday. Boy am I feeling it today. I did just upper body and I knew I'd be sore in my legs from the run. Then we went to church. Then Holly, Erik, me and Daniel went back to our wedding facility for thier "wedding extravaganza". Basically I got to try their food, make some final decisions on chair covers/centerpieces, and show Erik the whole place. I think he liked, but I also don't think he cares too much.
After that Erik & Daniel went home and Holly & I went to IKEA. I LOVE IKEA, but I just get very overwhelmed in there. We were there b/c Holly need to by a dresser, and I wanted to look at bookshelves for the new house. I didn't buy any because obviously we haven't closed, but I think I know what I want if things all go as planned.
After that Erik and I went home and played Wii baseball until 12:30 in the morning. I had rented a baseball game because I know he likes the Wii Sports baseball game. I don't love it and should have known it would frustrate the hell out of me. He beat me 3 games in a row and we did one more that I think he let me win. I was SO frustrated. I hate being a sore loser, but I'm so competitive, it's hard to stop sometimes. I appologized for being so frustrated and I know he forgives me and understands, but sheesh. Get over it cindy - it's just a GAME.
Ah - can't stop my competitive nature I guess.
But yesterday was full of bad food choices. I didn't do so bad for breakfast - had an egg on a english muffin, but lunch was burger king and dinner was the Varsity (a really greasy drive-in in Atlanta) with taste testing in between on the site. Oh and 4 beers while playing Wii w/Erik. So not necessary. I'm so mad at myself, especially for the beer, because it really is a waste. Yes, I like the taste of beer, but 4 beers over 4 hours isn't going to affect me at all, and it's just wasted calories. When will I learn....
Today I plan to have a very low point day. I saw as low as 219.2 yesterday on the scale, so today's number is understandable but a disappointment. I really want to see a good loss on Thursday so now's the time to get things in the right direction. I do have dinner plans with my "mentor" at work, but I've already vowed to order a salad. Hopefully I can stick to that....
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
No reward for hard work today.
Last WI: 221.6/Morning WI; 223.6 (wtf?)
TUESDAY
So, I know weight fluctuates daily based on more than just caloric intake. But I was hoping to see a lower number this morning. I was so good yesterday. Ate exactly my points, plus one of the activity points I earned by running 2 miles/walking .5 yesterday after working late (8:30). So dedicated and so not rewarded. Oh well - we'll do it again and hope for the best tomorrow. Gotta keep pluggin along. I did really well with water and fruits and veggies yesterday too, so all around a good day. Here's to another...
I won't be working out tonight as I think I need a break after two hard pushes on the treadmill. My legs are a little sore and I'd hate to hurt myself after my slackerness the last few months. So today is off to rest, and back at it tomorrow.
So far this morning I've had a balance bar and a banana (total 6 pts) and I'm still starving. I think today is going to be a tough day. I've got to figure out a yummy, filling, low point lunch to keep me going.
Other than that, no new news.
TUESDAY
So, I know weight fluctuates daily based on more than just caloric intake. But I was hoping to see a lower number this morning. I was so good yesterday. Ate exactly my points, plus one of the activity points I earned by running 2 miles/walking .5 yesterday after working late (8:30). So dedicated and so not rewarded. Oh well - we'll do it again and hope for the best tomorrow. Gotta keep pluggin along. I did really well with water and fruits and veggies yesterday too, so all around a good day. Here's to another...
I won't be working out tonight as I think I need a break after two hard pushes on the treadmill. My legs are a little sore and I'd hate to hurt myself after my slackerness the last few months. So today is off to rest, and back at it tomorrow.
So far this morning I've had a balance bar and a banana (total 6 pts) and I'm still starving. I think today is going to be a tough day. I've got to figure out a yummy, filling, low point lunch to keep me going.
Other than that, no new news.
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