06/20/2009 18:35
Feeling better
Ok, so it's been several days since I logged on. I've not been feeling the greatest, so needless to say I not been eating well, but I also, haven't overeaten. Small victories I suppose. I did run on Monday, and flet really good for doing it. However, that was the only day this week that I worked out since I wasn't feeling well. Now that I feel like I'm running about 95% I should be right back on track starting either Sunday or Monday. I guess these sorts of setbacks should be expected. Going to do a weigh in on Monday, haven't done one of those in about two weeks. It's time to know exactly how on track I am. I'll check back in on Monday.
06/15/2009 23:47
Yay working out
Ok, maybe not yay, but I am proud of myself for having stuck to my "appointment". Plus I have committed to running a 5k with my cousin on July 4, so I have to run now, so that I'm able to run then. It won't be my first 5k, but it is the first one since May. I really enjoy running them, and plan on working my way up to a marathon. But I'm just going to start with baby steps at this point.
Eating is still going well. Making dinner for my mom and sister right now. Keeping my fingers crossed, this is a new recipe and my sister is VERY picky. I guess we'll see.
06/09/2009 15:59
Need to get on a rountine
Ok, so I'm doing really well eating. I've been eating good food, several times a day and no junk. So yay me! But as far as exercise goes, I really need to get myself on a rountine. Having just moved home with my parents that hard. Plus I'm still getting used to being in KY instead of Memphis, but what is really throwing me is work. First of all I didn't work at all for 3 weeks. But the bank account can only handle so much. Now I'm working but I transfered from a full-time to a part-time schedule. I really miss my 9-5. It's just easier for me to get on a routine. Oh well, this is only my 2nd day back at work, I'm sure I'll figure it out.
Today, I'm going to eating good, heathly food. And when I get home from work, I'm going to exercise for at least 30 minutes. I check back after we see how it goes.
06/06/2009 05:33
Good/Bad day
Ok, so I had a good day and a bad day. Good in the sense that I had a lot of fun hanging out with my parents and sister, and for the first time in a long time didn't really stress out about stuff including food today.
It was bad in the sense that I didn't eat well, and didn't work out at all. In the past I would have stressed out about the bad eating and the not working out, but instead I'm using my new found positive attitude and have decided to look at it this way; I didn't work out today but I have worked out 5 times this week. I didn't eat several small meals and track my calories the way I know I need to so I can lose weight, but I didn't eat a bunch of junk either so it really wasn't that bad.
Let's just hope I can remain positive, because a positive attitude is definately an area of opportunity in my life.
06/04/2009 17:43
Trying to stay on track
Ok, so I'm really looking forward to going out today, I'm meeting a friend I haven't seen in a long time, but of course we are going to lunch. Now I know that it is not practical to think that I will never go out to eat again because I am trying to loose weight, but it seems like I've gone out quite a bit this week. Of course I've only been back in town for a week now so of course everyone wants to get together. I'm just going to have to do my best to choose something healthy instead of the burger that I'm sure will look amazing.
But I guess that's realy what this is all about, finding the balance between life and dieting.
Of course I still have to motivate myself to work out today to. It's glooming out and I seem to have a hard time being motivated when the weather is crummy. I mean it June and it 's only like 60 out. I like to run outside. I hate the treadmill. And until things settle down a little bit I don't have a gym membership and I miss the gym. It just gives me the chance to change things around a little bit. I guess I need to learn to be more postitive in life. So I'm going to really try to be postitive.
So instead of complaining that I miss the gym, I'm going to try to look at it this way, I don't have a gym, but I'm lucky enough that my parents have a treadmill and a space in the basement that is big enough to work out.
Ok so I have rambled quite a bit through this post. I'm going to try to be a bit more organized next time around. And I'll check in with my work out that I plan on doing today.
06/04/2009 03:06
Back on the horse...yet again
Ok so I was just looking through my account and I have noticed that it has been just over a year since the last time I logged on to Extra Pounds. It has been a very rough year for me weight wise and personaly. I have gone up and down in my weight going from about 155 to 130 and back up to 145. I have survived probably the hardest break up I have ever had to go through and have just moved from Memphis back home to Kentucky, which is both a blessing and a curse. I have moved in with my parents for the time being until I am able to get back on my feet and get a place. I'm glad to be home for the most part, Memphis held little more than heart ache for me. However, I'm almost 30 and I'm not at all where I thought I would be at this point in my life. And while I'm grateful for everything my parents have given me, living with them again is a HUGE adjustment.
All that being said I really think that getting back on track with my weight and blogging about it will really help me start to feel better about myself. Plus my baby sister is getting married in exactly 4 months and I'm the maid of honor. While this makes things hard on me considering my recent break up, I really want to look good in those pictures I'm going to have to look at for the rest of my life
. I'm horrible about journaling of any sort even though when I do do it on a regular basis I know I feel better so I'm really going to try to blog every day or every other at the least.
05/12/2008 13:55
New Week
Well, today is the offical start of the new week for me(sundays I consider my "cheat" day) I didn't cheat yesterday so much, just didn't keep track of my food, but I had no "cheat" foods so I don't think I did too badly. I'm back to keeping track of my foods today, and just got back from a run. It was a much shorter run than usual (I had been doing about 3 miles) just a mile and a half, but my goal was not so much distance, as picking up my pace, I've been pretty consistant with a 10 minute mile, and I wanted to beat that. My goal was to get around the lake in 15 minutes. I was just over that in 15 minutes and 12 seconds (the path is actually a bit more than 1.5 miles) so when I calculated my minutes per mile, I did actually run about a 9 minute mile. Not breaking any world records, but I hit my goal.
Speaking of goals, a short term goal of mine was to be at 135 by the 19th, if I keep up with my 2lb weight loss a week, than I will be just under that goal right on schedule, which is really the first time I've hit a goal that I set on time, so I'm going to have to work really hard to make that happen!
05/10/2008 11:58
crazy week
So it's been a crazy week, and I'm really suprized to see that I lost two pounds, I expected a loss, just not another 2 pounds, I didn't do as well as I did the week prior with my food and expecially exercise, maybe this means my metabolizism is finally speeding up a bit, that would be nice.
Hope everyone had a good week as well
