Happy New Year! I am welcoming in, what I hope to be, a great 2008 with happiness and less depression. I plan on going into the year with a positive outlook on life and planning a wedding that has been waiting in the wings for over a year now. I hope that I'll be able to lose the weight that I have gained over the years of knowing Heath. I want to get back to the 145 except this time I want to be fit. I hate to focus soo much on just the weight but I seriously do not think that I should be 174. I am hoping to be fit for 140 - 150 pounds. Weight is not my biggest concern but it'll be a good motivator even if it's only 10 pounds.
Here's to a new me and doing Weight Watchers again. I will be focusing on the Core version instead of the flex plans that I have done in the past. I love to eat and I love to eat a lot. So, I am hoping that being able to get a little bit more volume and stay eating healthy will be beneficial for me. We'll see. I'm starting in at 174 today on New Year's and I hope the progress will start. My next weigh in will be on Sunday [1.6]. Peace.
My SELF magazine that I subscribe to says that I can drop a size in 31 days. Okay, I am going to try to put that into play. I am a size 14 and I wear a large top. The basic gist is that they give you tips for every day so that if you follow them you can progress and lose weight and get healthy. Here is what day one is:
Log your bites. I have to keep a food diary of everything that I eat.
Well, this is something that I am very familiar with. I have not been doing it for the last couple of months but I did have a 4 month run were I logged everything and was very successful with SparkPeople.
Here is what I had today. I am not ashamed because it is the first day.
Snikerdoodle cookie, 5 Cheese on Wheat crackers, McDonald's quarter pounder with cheese, medium french fries, diet coke, 2 grilled cheese sandwiches, medium french fries, sweet tea, 4-8oz of H20.
My thoughts on today is that I have a lot of work to do. I have a gathering this weekend at my house that I am going to make my famous spinach and artichoke dip. We will be having a lot of junk food. My small goal for the weekend is to clean, clean, clean for hours on end so that I can eat my dip and not feel guilty.
I've decided that even though I am having problems with my sciatic nerve, which is due to actually trying to be healthy!, I am going to push through this and have a great year.
A little history, if I may. I started weight training with a personal trainer back in May of this year and I was getting up in the weights and working out really hard until I developed a problem with my leg. There was a sharp pain in my buttocks that ran down my leg and into my right foot. Well, the problem never went away and I decided to go to the doctor to see what was wrong with my body. Well, I find out that I have pinched my sciatic nerve doing extremely heavy weights on the single leg press machine. Since then I have not gone to the gym, which sucks. I need to get back in there and get my motivation back up. I spent over 6 months training and a lot of money on the sessions to just have them blow away because I hurt in the legs.
I am determined. I have been taking ibuprofen for a couple of days and I'm suppose to keep taking it for a whole month. We'll see how this goes because I'm not going to let it stop me from achieving a goal I was soo close to getting to.
Merry Christmas To All and To All a Healthy New Year
I have over stuffed myself today and for the last couple of weeks I have given into the season's eatings and have enjoyed every bit of it. I am not ashamed of what I've eaten because I went into the holiday's knowing that I was going to eat to my heart's content. I have a personal goal for 2008 that I am going to incorporate more training into my regimen. The training that I am going to include more of is going to be kata. For some reason I put a lot of my personal effort into kata because it's something that I enjoy to no end.
I have a resolution of training harder and hopefully that determination will hold up on a more personal level. I am going to be going through some trying times at the being of the year with my father-in-law to be's back surgery that's going to happen. It'll be a mental and physical change. God will be my strength.
I haven't been up here to blog is such a long time. To catch you up to date I have been using a personal trainer for the last two months at a local Gold's Gym. I have thoroughly enjoyed it! I would have never thought you'd catch me alive in the gym because I'm extremely introverted but it was a big leap and I am so glad that I made it. So far I've gone from 177-169/167 and I've lost several inches. I look forward to continuing my efforts throughout summer. I feel really motivated and I hope I can continue.
Hopefully, I'll be able to see the 150's by my weigh-in on Monday. I'm getting pretty close. I weighed in this morning for the 7 Week Biggest Loser Challenge at WW and I'm at 160.6. I have 0.7 pounds to lose to see the 150's once more! I'm soo excited.
Sorry, but I'm having a comical kind of night, plus boredom. Here are my top five reasons why it's good to be thin:
1. If ever you in an adventure movie, trapped in an elevator then it'll be easier for you to get out if the elevator stops short with only a foot of room to escape.
2. If a shark bites you he won't be satisfied and might starve.
3. If you are running from a mad killer on top of a train then you can easily drop to one side and not worry about being squashed by that passing wall.
4. If you fall off a cliff you can naturally hang-glide to safety.
5. If you go rock climbing you can put your whole body into a crack.
Well, with that being said, I'm going to bed. Tomorrow is weigh-in for the WW boards 7-Week Biggest Loser Challenge. I'm on the blue team! We won last week and I hope we can this week as well.
What's worse than bumps in the road to weightloss? FLUFF. Yes, I have seen the pictures of girls who are my weight and height but they must have it in all the right places because I don't look like that. I have several jiggles here, cellulite there, stretchmarks and rolls ... mercy the rolls. My biggest issue here is that I want to have that streamline appearance.
I have seen ladies who are heavier set and look beautiful with clear complexions and no cleveage on their back. Ladies, you know what I mean. It's just heartbreaking. Sure, I have smaller arms but I wouldn't dare wear a strapless shirt because I have that "smush" of fat that goes from my arm to my side when my arms are down. Ridiculus. I guess I should throw some weight training in there to help me even out as I thin out.
I guess that will be my goal for the rest of the week. Start back with weight training. I wouldn't mind weighing what I weight now if I looked like Queen Latifa in a dress ...
Wow. The first week of Weight Watchers turned out alright. Guaranteed most of the weight I lost was due to water weight but either way it's nice to see the scale go down. I lost 4 pounds the first week. I'm soo excited!
Now, on the Weight Watchers boards I have joined three challenges. The first is a Biggest Loser challenge where I'm on the blue team. The second is a lose 15 by Halloween. I have 11 more to go! The third is the 250 miles by March 1st. This one started yesterday so my progress isn't all that wonderful at the moment.
I have been playing a lot of disc golf and it's been really relaxing walking through the woods. I hope to have even better days ahead this week! Yay.
This blog will be different from the one I hold on myspace.com. I normally blog about several topics on myspace but this will be a blog of health, nutrition, and overall well being. If others find this inspiring then I have accomplished yet another thing: inspiration
I am not sure how often I will blog. I may perhaps put my struggles and acheivements for others to see or I may just offer guidance that I am trying to place into myself and possibly others.
I have successfully completed the first week of my second try at Weight Watchers. The first time in 2004 I lost nearly 20 pds. My mother passed away and food was a comfort. The same has happened this year except with my grandmother passing. I hope for nothing but happy days ahead and weightloss that will boost my energy.
