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My never ending journey to not look like a walrus

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  • Name: ashleyb
  • City: Memphis
  • Region: Tennessee
  • Country: United States

My Weight Loss

Height: 162.6cm
Start weight: 210.00lb
Current weight: 210.80lb
Goal weight: 140.00lb
Lost to date: -0.80lb
Remaining: 70.80lb

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Ho Hum

I lost a pound on my first weigh-in, but wasn't super excited because it's the first week, and there's always a water drop. Even though I was on plan, I still feel like I ate too much last week. I did succeed in my one week goal of not eating out of the vending machines or in a drive-through. However, I broke that today with an Egg McMuffin for breakfast. No biggie.

My plan for my husband to keep the baby Sunday while I cook didn't work out so well. I did cook, but two of the things just didn't turn out, so I've still found myself without prepared foods all week and scrambling for dinner.  I'v been especially disappointed with what I've been feeding Chandler.

Still no progress on the exercise front. Honestly, it just seems so far away. I have so little time that when I do get half an hour, I greedily use it for something I actually WANT to do. This is usually something calm and quiet, like reading, or just vegging out.

I've been looking at gyms again and would like one with a pool so I can take Chandler swimming. However, the only one I can find is downtown, and has a parking issue. I just know that I have to park far away and haul a gym bag and a toddler out in all weather, I just won't go. Those of you with toddlers will understand this.

There is a gym close to the daycare, so I could go before I pick her up, but it's small and expensive. It doesn't have much other than bikes, ellipticals and some weights. The class times aren't convenient. Blah. This is just one of those downsides to living in the heart of a city--all the new, good gyms are in the suburbs.

Anyway. That's what's going on with me. Back to work now grading really poorly written essays.

Comments to this post:

How about...

Do you live or work near a university?  Both of the university's I've worked at were only too happy to have paying members.  No YMCA?  Keep peeking around, surely there is something nearby in a reasonable range.  If I didn't have the gym, I'd likely DO NOTHING from November until May.  I understand... Also, as a single working mother of four (now 16-22) I know how important my going was to my sanity and my good health.
 
Best of luck!  = )

Hi Ashley

Haven't posted to my extrapounds blog in a long time, but I have been updating my other blog at http://www.dharmadishes.blogspot.com.

I finally got my drivers licence, so now I can get my focus back on my fitness regime. I'm up to 139/140ish now and hope to get back down to 132-134ish. It doesn't sound like much, but it makes a big difference to the way my clothes fit, believe me!

You're sounded very down in your last few posts. Come and see me at my Dharma in the Dishes blog, please! Hope you get to feeling better about all this soon. xx

Carla




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