Go Rockies!

Well, the Colorado Rockies hopefully will win this game of the World Series.  This town is currently Rockies crazy.  Right now they are down in the series 0-2, so they need to win to boost their confidence.

When I got up this morning, I got on the scale and it is down 1 pound from last week.  My muscles feel sore from the exercise.  So I must be doing something that is hopefully working. 

My cousin's son's birthday is today, so we are supposed to go over there for cake and ice cream, I'm going over, but am going to resist the cake and ice cream.  I think for Brianna's birthday we are going to just have family over, and make homemade spaghetti, that way I can control what is in the sauce.

Routines are hard . . .

Well, Monday night, I didn't go home and do my Firm tape.  But I did do the Pilates again before bed.  Tuesday morning I did get up and do my Firm tape, and last night I did my Pilates, the stretching at night is really helping.  I did the Firm this morning also.

But I am now in this mindest that since I am working out, I get to eat more.  If I'm hungry that's one thing, but I'm not I just want to eat.  So I'm trying chewing gum, when I feel like I need to eat, and I'm not hungry, I put a piece of gum in my mouth.  The jury is still out on if it is working or not, I just need to give it some time I think.

I have to say the Pilates was a godsend last night, Nate and I were fighting, over stupid stuff, but anyway, Brianna wanted him to put her to bed, so normally I would have dived into a bowl of ice cream, but instead I got my workout done, when I was done with it, I didn't want the ice cream, and the Pilate's really helped me destress, and get over the argument, I'm not ready to 100% concede, but I'm not as mad as I was. 

Oh, and one week from Sunday, my baby is going to be 3!

Cold

Well, the snow has come and gone, now we are just left with the cold I think the news this morning at 5:00 am said it was 26 degrees.  It's only supposed to be mid 50's today, but by the middle of the week we will be back up to the mid 70's just in time for the World Series games here in Denver, this is the time of the year for crazy weather as winter starts to set in.

Winter is actually my favorite time of the year, I lived in Southern Arizona most of my life, so I never really experienced true changing of the seasons.  Now that I am here in Colorado, I love when the seasons change, but Winter is my favorite.

So I got up this morning, and didn't do my Firm, but did my Pilates, I should have done the Pilates last night to stretch and didn't, when I got up this morning, my thighs and arms were aching, so I decided to do the Pilates this morning, when I get home from work tonight, I'll do my Firm workout, then before I go to bed, I will pull out the Pilates machine again, and hopefully this will take away some of the aches, and get me back on the right track.

Well, work is calling my name, so I had better get to it.  Hope everyone has a great day.

Be good to yourself, because if you aren't no-one else will think that they have to be.

Houston - We Have Snow

That's right we went from 76 degrees yesterday afternoon, to 33 degrees and snowing when I ran to the grocery store this morning to get laundry soap and stop and get gas for the week.

When I got home, I pulled out my Firm DVD's and did 3/4 of one, so about 45 minutes, I wanted to finish the whole thing, but I couldn't do it.  My plan is to start getting up early every morning, and doing one of the DVD's, then in the evening pulling out my pilates machine.  Joy - I think you are right, every household probably has a Firm tape/DVD in there somewhere.

Down

Last Saturday when I weighed, the scale said 229, today it says 227.5.  I'm okay with that, it isn't great, but it's a start.

Today was free day at the zoo, so my brother and sister in law took Brianna with them, we rearranged Brianna's room, with her new twin bed, no more toddler bed, my baby is growing up.  It was a perfect day to be outside.  It was about 76 degrees and tomorrow we might see snow!  But after we got our inside chores done, we went for a walk, about 2 miles roundtrip, I'm happy with that, my muscles feel tight so I may pull out my pilates machine before I go to bed to try and stretch.  Tomorrow morning, I'm going to pull out my Firm DVD's that I bought a couple of months ago, it's time to put them to use.

Due Diligence

I woke up this morning, thinking about my weight loss plight.  It was almost a year ago that I started this blog, did really well bloggin and losing weight, then just dropped it.  Well, I didn't just drop it, but I didn't keep up with it either.

Then I was checking my e-mail this morning and found a note from Joy, asking me if I was ready to start loing weight and sticking together.  The funny thing is, I was just thinking about her and Kristie earlier this week and was going to check out their blogs this weekend to see if they were doing any better than me in the blogging and in the weight loss.

Most importantly, Joy's note got me thinking even more about everything that is going on.  I can lose this weight, I know I can, that's when it came to me, the secret to my weight loss is . . . due diligence.

When I was bloggin, and tracking my food, and making sure I was conscience of all of my choices, I was beig ver diligent of my choices as it related to my health and weight loss goals.  I was doing really well, I was succeeding, so I let it slack a little bit, then a little bit more, then a little bit more, the result, I'm back to where I was a year ago when I was getting ready to head to Las Vegas with my husband and enjoy our 5th wedding anniversary.  I wasn't happy with the way my clothes fit then, and I'm not happy with how they fit now.  I wasn't happy with my fitness level then, and I'm not happy with it now.  But if I look back to February and March of this year, I wasn't satisfied, but I was becoming happier with the way my clothes were fitting, my fitness level was getting better and stronger, I was seeing progress.  Si it was okay for me to "cheat" and not pay as close of attention to my eating habits for that one week, it was okay for me to "cheat" and not pay attention to how my body was feeling when I wasn't exercising consistently.

I sabotaged myself, well, not anymore; I can't let it happen again  From today forward, my new motto is due diligence.  I'm worth it, I need to do this for me, I'm scared to do this for a number of reasons that I have touched on in earlier blogs, and that will probably come up over the course of this life changing event, but I will work through it and I will come out a better person.

Tomorrow I will weigh myself and that will be my new starting point.  I took my measurements last week, so I will use those as my starting point.  I have the number 124 in my head, it's been in my head since I decided last year to lose weight, I don't know if that is my magic number, but that is the number that I am going to reach toward.  I'm going to go back to following Weight Watchers Point System, I still have all of my information and when I was diligent about following it, I was doing really well, but I want to incorporated more whole types of foods into my diet, so I have a couple of cookbooks that fall more into the whole foods ideals, meaning leaving out refined sugards and processed flours that I'm going to look through this weekend.

I have read a ton of diet books throughout the years and I think that there is comething positive that I can take out of all of them.  I would like to try and incorporate what I think will work out of all of them and make my own version of WW.  I want something that I can take ownership of, in reality, it doesn't have to be something  that will work for anybody else, but me.  I want it to be something where I can figure out as I go what works for my body, what types of foods slow down my progress.  I'm going to keep a food log in my day planner and try and figure out my eating patterns, I know that they are there, but I need to figure them out and figure out what they mean for me.

Over the last several years, I have forgotten how to put myself in the mix of being taken care of, I do very well making sure that others are taken care of, both in my personal life and in my work life, well I need to put myself at the top of the taken care of list, I need to start with me.  Once I do that, taking care of everything and everyone else will fall into place.

Let's make this a great ride, and make this a place where we can encourage eath other, laugh and applaud each other on successes, and hold each others hand and help each other up through the hard times.

Up a Pound

I'm up a pound from last week, but honestly I really haven't been doing anything to prevent that.  Nate took Brianna swimming this week.

I need to plan out the menu for next week.  I really do better when I have a menu in hand, I know what I'm going to make and I don't stray.

Nate is golfing this morning, so it's just me and my girl right now.  I made breakfast, we had scrambled eggs with whole-grain toast with some peanut butter and light jam, and water.

I paid for 3 months of the gold membership for here, I'm just not used to journaling, if I can make it a habit over the next three months, then I will pay for a year.  i like some of the added benefits of the gold, like turning off the advertisements.  It's not that I mind them, but if it is an advertisement for some type of weightloss item and I'm not using it, I don't want it advertised on my blog, if that makes sense.

Has anyone heard of the 5 Factor Fitness?  It was written by the same guy who helped Jessica Simpson recently drop all that weight in a month.  Well I ordered it.  One of the girls at work uses it, and has since before Jessica, it's based on 25 minutes of work out 5 times a week, the workout is broken down in to 5 parts:

1. 5 minutes cardio
2. 5 minutes upper body
3. 5 minutes lower body
4. 5 minutes core
5. 5 minutes cool down cardio

With the upper body and the lower body you do the sets back to baack and then take a few seconds break.

There has definately been a visible difference with her.  I'm not sure if I believe the 25 minutes 5 days a week, but the big thing is that the book walks you through exactly how to do the exercises, which is something I need drastically, so I found a used copy online and ordered it.  It should be here today or tomorrow.

I'm Back With A Vegance

So, it has been a while since I posted.  I haven't dropped off the planet, life just decided I had better things to do with my time.  :)

It has been a crazy couple of months, and I am back up about 5 pounds, I just reset my weight, so I'm not positive.  May was a blur, my boss was out most of the month with Kidney Stones and then she had to have surgery for the Kidney Stones, which put more on my workload.

June and July have been all about my husband's stepdad, the first weekend in June, he had a massive stroke, we are the ones who found him and we figure that he was by himself for between 4 - 6 hours in the heat.  He is still in the hospital, so we have been making trips over to check on him and his mom every other weekend.

I have been good about watching my portions, I just haven't been good about tracking my points for WW, so my goal is to do that and by the end of next week, I want to be back on track with that.

On the bright side, Brianna has been taking swimming lessons two nights a week, Nate has been taking her to the classes and I will swim laps for the 1/2 hour that she is in lessons, then we play in the pool for another 1/2 hour, I'm feeling it.  I think I'm going to look at their aquatic classes on the weekends.  I just need to see what we are going to be doing with Nate's dad.

May Goals

Here are my goals for May, 2007

Weight Loss Goal - 6 pounds for the month of May

Overall Goals

• Take measurements and a picture at the beginning of the month. 
• Weigh in every Friday morning
• Track al daily and weekly points used consistently
• Exercise at least 4 times per week
• Drink at least 48 ounces of water daily
• Take multi vitamin daily
• Pack items needed for work the night before, less opportunity to fail
• Journal consistently - not sure what consistent for me is, but I'll figure it out.
• Work on finding a proper balance for me between, work, home, diet and exercise.

So I figured I needed to ge the goals down and out there before the month was over.

As of last Friday, I was officially back on plan.  I'm still trying to find the right balance with everything.  I thought I had it there for a while, but it seems like since vacation in Arizona at the beginning of April, I'm a step behind constantly.  I haven't been journaling here, but I have in my head if that makes sense.  I just need to take the time to get here and post, it really helps daily, that is one of the things that I miss.

There really isn't a whole lot going on for me that is big, but there is just a whole bunch of little things that add up to a bunch of big things, if that makes sense.  It's time to go through the closets and switch seasons around, which is depressing because I don't like how I look.  But it is getting better and I will get to where I want to be.  I am fitting into some clothes that are a size smaller than I was, so I'm happy about that.  I got my hair cut, so I need to get a new profile picture up, it is definately shorter, and will be great for this summer.  Who knows how long I will keep it like this, but for right now, I'm liking it.

I got my mom an iPod shuffle for Mother's day, she has been borrowing mine and decided she liked it and was going to get her one.  So we got one for her this weekend.  Then she dropped the bomb that she was going on yesterday and buying one, so she got it a week early.  I spent almost all day Sunday downloading and copying her CD's up to iTunes and getting it ready to go for her.  She likes how compact it is, because she has been walking 3 miles everyday.

Work is calling, so I need to get to it.  I will get to journals on my lunch hour, or right after work.  Have a great day.

Bad Two Weeks

So last week was an F for me as far as a grade goes, but ironically I gave myself an "A" for exercising, I did it 5 days last week.  But the rest of the week, I didn't track any points, I ate what I wanted when I wanted, and I wanted anything edible that was insight!  I gained 2 pounds.

This week hasn't been much better.  Work has been really stressful and I've been working 12 - 13 hour days this week, so I've been eating whatever is easiest, I haven't planned any meals, I'm exhausted by the time I get home so I haven't exercised.  My period started this week which is probably TMI, but I feel bloated and blah.  I know that I'm probably going to see another gain when I get on the scale tomorrow, but right now I really don't care.

But tomorrow is another day, it is my weigh in day, and I'm committing to getting back on plan and staying on plan, I felt so much better, both emotionally and physically when I was on plan just a couple of weeks ago, I want that feeling back.  Nate's going to take my measurements Saturday morning for me.

I'll get on tonight and post my new goals for May, they are pretty much the same for April.

Oh yeah, my overall weight loss for April was 4 pounds, I'm pretty happy with that.