three days in a row to the gym.. that could be a recent record. I went today and did the eliptical for 15 minutes doing some sprints a few times in there, and then I walked the treadmill on hills for 40 minutes and I was sweating good afterwards.. I feel so good after I've gone... I don't know why I don't do it every day.. ... and today I was rewarded for going by seeing a fine specimen of a man. I feel like I stalk this man.. I do go about the same time he does and I can't help looking.. .. he's probably between 45-50, short military salt and pepper hair cut, nicely built but not crazy muscular and has the sexiest shoulder and back muscles..... ahhhhhhhhhhh ..... so why don't I go there more often......
Eating is doing well too. I made bbq chicken breast in the crockpot... the sauce was bbq sauce, dijon mustard and honey.. then after I shredded it I added a little more... had to put it away or I would have eaten three chicken breast worth of it. this afternoon I made an awesome dessert... sliced banana, tsp of honey, and about cup of blueberries and I heated them up and sprinkled a little cinnamon. Would have been excellent on ice cream but I put them on cherrios (now that's a bit wierd but I wanted to cut the sweetness of them)
Been a good day and hope to make it a great week.....
I usually read posts at least once a day but forget to come and post myself. Not much going on... but I did start WW at home with a friend from work. We took a picture to show our start (it's posted in my pictures page for the world to see) and hopefully we'll be able to stick with it at lease a month LOL and take a picture each month. We'll weigh in once a week.. not really a competition but just helping each other. Let me tell you the picture is very sobering, especially seeing the side view and my right arm. My right arm is currently about 2 inches larger than my left arm. I broke it and have a plate in it and the doc said it would take a few years to get back to normal.. hello we're coming up on two years this week and it still huge.
Anyway have been doing very well this week and really really trying to log what I eat.. I found a cool food log thing on about.com you can put in all your food and it analyzes your calories and nutrients...gives you suggestions for maybe something healthier... also has a nice exercise log in there...
I'm off to the gym... for a good workout and good sweat fest
Down .2 My wight this morning was 227.0 which is my lowest this year and I'm feeling great about that! Need to keep up the exercise and eating good. had a struggle today - didn't take my lunch and didn't get out of a meeting until 2ish and was starved. I had brought a can of tuna and we keep stuff in our work kitchen to make tuna salad but I couldn't find the can opener.. so I went to the canteen they had a cold salad that had a scoop of pimento cheese and a scoop of chicken salad and some other things. I got that and a coke.. now why did I get a coke.. 5 empty points.. but yet satisfied. tonight is mahi mahi and steamed veggies.. yummo. Then workout and also weed some of the garden.. so I'll get some good sweating in. Hopefully tomorrow will be another lower weight day..
I did my first workout with my new firm videos and I made it all the way through except for the last floor exercises and I decided to do some standing abs stuff... and then it was over... wow.. I got a good sweat but it was good.. easier to follow than the previous firm videos I've tried and hid away.
Tomorrow I hope the scale shows me the lowest weight this year.... we'll see. I feel great, eating is good, things are good...
may it continue onward and downwards. I really want to push through the 220s quickly and get to the 2teens.....I'm ready to get this weight off..
Ain't mondays fun ...... I usually never feel like I ever accomplish anything on a Monday. Today I accomplished eating well though.. I was smart enough to plan ahead.. took canteloupe and strawberries, okra/tomatoes on brown rice, had a couple of boiled eggs for a protein snack and some yogurt.. stayed far away from soda and junk/vending food. Came home and did two miles of WATP and then walked my dogs a little over a mile.....I decided I better start working out with the WATP tapes again before the firm gets here just to get my muscles really moving..... I forgot as easy as they are after you've kicked and done knee lifts for 45 minutes you do feel like you've had a good work out. My plan is to keep doing those every day until the firm arrives and then do the firm dvds.
I postponed my doc visit... well I forgot it was this week and I forgot to go do the blood work.. so I have a month reprieve to show progress to the doc so she won't force me on medicine. This means really watching my salt intake, my sugar intake and probably working on eating oats and cheerios more. Last time everything was normal but she wants them to be better normal because she says I'm diabetic.. I do my glucose test I'm usually very good readings... so I'm not going on any medicines unless I have to.. my goal is to be 5-10 pounds less than last visit and everything perfect. So planning what I eat is a must!
I thought I would take a few minutes to put some random thoughts down...
I've been stood up twice by someone that placed an ad for a fitness partner. She and I are both the same size and go to the same gym...... she is a visiting nurse and the first time was because of work but the second time she was suppose to be off.. a phone call would have been nice. hmmmpf!
One of my buddies goes to a wellness center in town for water aerobics and emailed me excitedly about a new 8 week boot camp they were doing and it was suppose to be intense and you have to be committed and they hunt you down if you don't show up.. and she told me it was free... well she was wrong free equals $280 for the session.. i'm not sure where she got confused.. needless to say I'm disappointed yet relieved because I was really thinking about it.
Sat I woke up with a bad tummy ache - I couldn't barf or poop out...so I layed in bed a few hours watching infomercials... The Firm one came on and I gave in.. not to the one on the infomercial but to the one at Kolhs because shipping is 99 cents.... had I hit the magic send button when I first looked at it it would have been another $5 cheaper..... anyone have these new Firm tapes.... it doesn't look as confusing as my other firm tapes... we'll see..
yesterday I went to the veggie market and got some fresh stuff ... then ate at cracker barrel. I have been cutting up my fruits and veggies today so I'll have no excuse why I don't eat them fast... I made some okra and tomatoes over brown rice...tonight.. nice filling 3-4 point meal. I'll take the leftovers for lunch tomorrow.
Today my friend (boot camp liar LOL) and I have been challenging each other to stick with a cleaning task for 30 minutes and then we report back to each other what we have accomplished.. it has worked usually I'm so scattered brained or overwhelmed by the task that I just go watch tv .. my dining room is completely uncluttered , I have cut up all my veggies...and put them away.. got to get the fruit put away but it is cut... my next task is to get it put away and then clean the kitchen completely. Mop the kitchen and dining room.... tomorrow we will tackle the alcove in the bedroom where things go to hide... it's suppose to be my chill out and reading nook but the big recliner is just the perfect place to collect things I don't know what to do with at the moment
I had the help of a stomach bug. I hate being sick, I went on vacation and had so much to do at work and home when I got back and I don't feel like doing any of it. I stayed home another day because of the bug and I at least feel like doing laundry and picking up some.....
Good things my garden is growing and I'm getting some fresh veggies out of it, mostly summer squash but I'll have peppers and tomatos in a few days I think.
Dress barn had some great sales on dresses. I bought two nice ones on the 19.99 rack and then got anohter $10 off..... I bought one for the shrug that came with it - because a little shrug jacket by itself was $35 and I got both dresses and the shrug for less and it was practically identical.
I'm hoping to feel like eating something light today and then get back on a really healthy regimen and continue the weight loss.. I keep playing with these pounds and I want and need them gone.
Oh.. Oprah had some amazing weight loss people on her show yesterday and I'll need to go check out her website to see some more info.. I think it was great they all did it without surgery....they looked great.. if they can do it I can do too!
Well last Friday night I got myself all dressed to go workout at the gym, had planned what I was going to do and for how long and I wave my magic key at the door and nothin, try again and nothin.... my gym membership can't possibly be expired because I'm still fat.... hmmm.. so Saturday I call them and ask about it and they say it's expired and for some reason I thought my expiration date was in august. Well the price went up a little bit so I decide I'll look around at another gym that just opened that I pass by on the way to work. So Monday I pull into the parking lot and I see a familiar truck.. my pastors - he doesn't live far from there. And I think about leaving then... he hadn't seen me in a few weeks... I'd been there some but not in worship service....anyway I get brave and I go talk to them and I ask one simple question.. how much is it for 1 year membership. I always pay in full for a year because my company will reimburse me half... nice of them. I'm pretty straightforward and when I ask a question I want the answer to that question, not any other question or a jumbled up answer to the question. If it is $5 million I would have preferred that answer to any other long way around to the answer.. well no such luck because they had to go into how different they are from other gyms, how they take you by the hand and assess you and help develop a plan blah blah blah.. it took them a long time to get to the answer I wanted...and they also mentioned supplements which is fine but don't tell me about them the first time I'm there... so I try to keep an open mind even though I'm not thrilled about seein my preacher all sweaty and I'm not thrilled about him seeing me all sweaty and fat rolling around.. he belongs in a suit or dress casual....that's really the least of my worries with the place... I get them to give me a week pass to try it out. So I take my clothes to work with me next day and I leave from work and go straight there I'm on a mission.. i want to work out an hour hour 15 minutes and then go home and meet my friend from work that is spending the night because she has no power from the tornados coming through on Sunday... so I go get dressed and ask them to show me how a couple of pieces of equipment work and bam.. there is a trainer and I think he's going to show me stuff so he asks me what I want from the gym... helloooooo I'm short, fat and I want to lose weight.. then he takes me into the office and goes over all this pitch about how strength training is so important and why.. which I know all that but I'm nice and he has me do a couple of things on the floor but really all that was accomplished was a hard sale on how a trainer could help me meet my goals.. which I would like one but the way he pitched it was like a car salesman and not just striaghtforward and he was like a man on speed.. and then I realized he was drinking some super high energy drink he was whacked up on caffeine.. anyway..after 90 minutes I didn't get any workout done... and I walk out of there pissed... OMG - they have no clue but I was really annoyed.. sorta like when the car dealer takes your keys to look at your trade and then holds you hostage. So today.. I looked at one more gym.. kinda a circuit training place but not 24 hour access now.. and didn't have much equipment.. then I went back to my old home gym, the one I loved and saw the owner that I've dealt with from the beginning and he through in a couple of months free and it was still cheaper than the other place...... now I can get back to some good workouts, and I may investigate a trainer after vacation..... but I think I'm gonna look on youtube.. if they can tell me how to fold a fitted sheet well then I'm sure there will be some good interesting workout plans and personal trainers on there.
I got on the scale this morning and weighed 229.4 which is .2 from my posted weight back in February. I was 229.2 for about 6 seconds and then gained about 5-7 pounds back and I've been up and down with those pounds for 3 months. ( I never changed my weight because I figured I could get back to it in a few days.... wrong) I finally got myself totally back on track and for some reason I thought I was lower than that weight and I could actually change it to a new low weight for the year.. but no. However, it will keep me staying the course and I'll make it tomorrow and keep going. I really really really want to see Onederland by the end of summer.
I bought this really nice 3 piece set off QVC but it has nooooo stretch whatsoever and although the pants go on... we cannot sit without stretching or busting a seam. I'm two weeks away from a week at the beach and I would love for this to be a nice going out outfit. Although i'm only going out with my mom down there..
I did the C25K first week podcast again tonight. I decided to do it tonight because I hate going to the gym on Mondays. I made it all the way through, I feel good about the accomplishment after that I did some upper body weight training, not too much but did get a good sweat on. I also ate very well today. Had a good healthy cereal breakfast, lunch was a BK grilled chicken salad with diet dressing, fo supper I had left over veggies and the other half of my salmon from last night. I'll bake some honey mustard chicken tonight while I walk my dog around the block and then get a bath and get in bed. I'm hoping to see some results on the scale in the morning. I know I won't be down to what my weight says I am.. but it will be closer. Hope everyone has a great and healthy week.
