I'm luving my eliptical

now that I've worked out a couple of kinks I really like my new-to-me eliptical. the first two nights I only managed a couple of minutes. Tonight I got into a good groove and went 7 minutes and then 10 minutes. I decided to keep a little excel spread sheet of my time, distance, calories burned and heart rate. It has a neat feature of fat calories burned too. Who knows how accurate the calorie count is.  I'm sure my legs will feel it in the next day or so... they already feel a bit stiff.

Hope everyone has a Fabulous February!

I am proud that....

for one whole month - I have not eaten any junk food from the vending area or had any soda.   That is a huge accomplishment for me.  My normal intake at work is at least 2 (but usually more) rice krispie treats a day, at least one soda (about 50/50 diet vs regular) and usually full fat popcorn 2-3 times a week.  That's just the regular crap.. there are also the days the M&Ms or Reese's call me.     All of this is normally in addition to my regular meals.  I usually have soda at my evening meals too.  I figured the calories are at least 3 pounds worth of calories not counting any of the chocolate.   I've proably saved about  $70 just in junk food. I've only visited one subway and no other fast food restaurants.  Thats a lot of french fries my body didn't have this month....  and for that I'm very proud.  I haven't lost as much weight as I would like  7 pounds since the new year.. but I have gained... looser clothing, a whole bunch of energy.. an extremely happy disposition!

I am PROUD!!!    Next goal :  continue this through February! 

I got the Eliptical!!!

I got a used Proform Eliptical. It has some cool features (a fan for one),  a place for my water bottle and whole bunch of digital displays.  It's tougher than the one at the gym, it could be the position or stride I'll have to work with it a bit and see if I can find an online book or something.  I did about 5 minutes tonight. I got interupted by a phone call from a friend.  I call us diet ying and yang.  In our case ying is good and being on plan and yang is the total opposite. We never are yingin together or yangin together.  But fortunately for me I've been  yinging very well.. .. she is totally on the other side and it's not pretty.  She was just having a totally bad day in every aspect, work, home stuff, and car issues and financial.. I was trying to encourage her and also gently tell her that anger binging doesn't make it any better.. I probably didn't help and I know sometimes when I'm upset I don't want to hear that either.   I do worry about her health - but all I can do is pray.  

I had a good day eating and pretty good exercising. I got a great walk in at lunch. I went to the credit union outside my building and then took my MP3 player and took the long long way back to my office.  Then ate my salad and fruit, had yogurt for snak. Tonight I made brown rice with spinach, a little cheese and some light sour cream.. I added some shrimp and it was yummy.  Then played with the eliptical.  I'm going to try and add a few minutes a day.  

Tony Little Rock and Roll review... my opinion

So last week I was watching HSN and got mesmerized with yet another piece of exercise equipment.  I ordered it and it arrived today.  I like that there was no assembly but I really wasn't that impressed with it that I wanted to keep getting on it.  It's easy to get on and I didn't fall off, it comes with a very small mat to put it on for hardwood floors but the equipment moved and then it would grab the mat and it squaks a bit.  It could be because my weight - I'm still under it's weight limit but at the upper end of it.  I didn't bother to open up the dvds and look. I'll give it a few more days and see if I like it any better.  I'm still convinced the best piece of equipment I have is the flexi leash attached to one of my dogs and my MP3 player in my ear.  I walked for about an hour and 15 minutes. most at a good pace. It slowed down when my older dog got to grandma's house and she wanted to go in. Grandma has snacks, but grandma was sleeping and Honey  didn't want to leave her  yard and kinda gave me the pout walk.. the OK I'm still moving but we're not gonna get anywhere fast walk.   

Today was ok eating wise.  I did have a tiny bit of sugar I had an "M"   I was in a meeting and one of the men had a bag of M&Ms and rolled a few my way. I took one, put it in my mouth then took it out and then decide OK just this one. And that's all I had.  My bosses wife baked two chocolate cakes and I had one bite.  I've been avoiding that kind of stuff all month and while it was good.. I didn't feel the need to have anymore.  Tonight when I got home I had some pretzal chips and a light dill dip I made with light sour cream and some black eye peas.  I kept wanting more and was rummaging around the pantry and picked up the box of brownie mix (I really need to get rid of it) and looked at the calories and decided that was way too many and if I started I wouldn't stop.. so then I decided to make some brown rice and started boiling the water.. while that was happening I went and changed into sweats and after I did that I didn't want to eat anymore and my dogs were after me to walk them.. they are very very very persistant.. they follow me around everywhere.  They are both wanting me to take them first. I usually make them take turns which whoever is left behind does not understand. You've never seen more well behaved children then when I get the leash out. The both sit pretty and look up at me with those pleading "pick me first mommy" eyes.   They truly are the best exercise I have and they make sure they make me do it, even if it's just a mile or so.   The scale hasn't moved much lately but I'm hoping this week something will happen and it will start going down again..

Ahhh the weekend

and I'm making it a pretty lazy one.  It has been a tough week a work.   Yesterday I woke up late, went to get some bloodwork done and got coffee and a scone afterwards.  Later I got a subway sub and I would probably have broken down and gotten chips and a soda had there not been a woman next to me holding a weight watcher book in hand while ordering her sub.  It's been almost a whole month without a soda of any kind or any chips.  But I had a hard time with bread.  I had the scone, then the sub and then for some reason I decided to finish off my westrn bagels.  Now they only have 1-2 points each but I put a little butter on them so that up the points and then they felt like a brick in my tummy. I went to bed feeling bloated and with a huge headache.  I felt better this morning and the scale was evenly kind.  I had a nice breakfast, made  cream of brocolli soup with f/f half and half  but added light sour cream and a little cheese.... still low fat and delicious.    Today finally I undecorated the Christmas tree. It's still in the corner but will be down tonight  and I'll have room for an eliptical I might buy from a guy at work.  Haven't decided yet on that purchase yet.   I have a gym membership and I like the eliptical there... we'll see.

it's hard to think of titles EVERY time I post....

Been having a couple of not so perfect days but still not too bad. Monday my salad man was out sick   so we didn't get salads and it was a holiday so no place in my building to get food... so we went to Ruby Tuesdays.. I like their salad bar. I had a couple of the mini burgers and said do NOT put any fries on my plate and then I had the salad bar with that and had all healthy things except a little cheese and croutons, and a little dressing on the side.  Then at home things got a little out of hand.. I had two lean cuisines.. I don't know why.. .. and I don't know why I did it again tonight.. actually tonight I needed to eat two just to get all my  WW points in  

I did get some exercise in tonight. I bounced around the house while watching biggest loser and then took a short walk with the dogs. I also got in some weights and squats.

I'm such a sucker for exercise things on tv.. I don't know why.  HSN had this  Tony Little rock and roll thing as the days special value and I looked at it a couple of times and broke down and bought it.   I'll try it for a few weeks and see if I like it and would do it consistantly. If I don't fall off and break my arse then it may go to work with me.. it's kinda small I could do it in my cubicle.    We'll see... the local UPS guy knows me pretty well from all my returns.

My old boyfriend wants to come to work in my office.... I told him to send me a resume and when we have some openings coming up in a few weeks I'll give it to the right person.. ... ooooh that would be awkward if he were hired.

I haven't weighed since yesterday morning.. which seems so long ago.. I was a bit disappointed that scale didn't move but my clothes fit better, I feel energetic, so I'm not complaining.  But I thought I'd give the scale a few days of rest before I returned.  Hopefully it will appreciate the hard work I did last week and I'm trying to do this week...

still hangin in and eating healthy

I had a pretty healthy weekend eating wise and exercise.  I made some homemade clean out the fridge veggie soup.  It has carrots, broccoli, spinach, and barley... pretty good.  I ate that a couple of meals. I managed to get to the gym yesterday afternoon.  I had a good worksout, my next door neighbor was there.  I'm sure he was thrilled (I'm being sarcastic) to get a front row view of my big behind. But I have to thank him, I went longer on the eliptical than I had planned, because I didn't want him to think me a wimp.  I also did the leg press, inner and outer thigh machines (I made the most ungraceful escape from one of them because I couldn't get the machine to release and let me out).  I also worked on my abs.  I also went bowling a couple of games with a friend of mine..  So I'm sore today.    I got in a good walk with the dogs today and have done great on my eating.  Let's just hope Mr. Scale doesn't let me down in the morning.

I have to work tomorrow while most of the town is off.  My building is undergoing some renovations and they had the heat off all weekend (it's darn cold) and I don't think we'll have working bathrooms tomorrow. The closest public restroom is probably the burger king.  I have a ton of work to do before meetings on Tues/Wed. But once I'm done if it's freezing in the office then I'll be gone for the day.  

Hope everyone has a happy healthy Monday!

Down the scale we go...... yahoo!

Finally I'm seeing some consistant weight loss.  The scale moved down another notch and I'm prepared to have an excellent eating day.  It's rainy, cold and dreary here but I'm going to get hopping on my chores after a good healthy fibery breakfast.  I made a nice salad (spinach, strawberries, carrots, avocado with a homemade rasberry balsamic dressing) last night for dinner and I'll make one for lunch and dinner today to have with some homemade soup.   I'm trying to use up things in my fridge and pantry this weekend.  That may be one of my projects to clean it out. I'll take some things I don't need to the church pantry. Like the box of brownie mix.  That has been a real victory for me. I've had a box of triple chocolate brownies in my cabinet and everything to make it since the holidays. It's gotta go cause there will be a day that I'm not so strong and it can't be my downfall.  I really have not had a desire for processed flours or sugars or just general less healthy things that I had been eating ---- THANK YOU LORD!

I went a little farther in some calculations with my vending food I ate last year.  I figured the cost for just my rice krispie treat habit was well over $200 - honestly probably was more closer to $300.  That's just rice krispie.. I indulged in popcorn/soda, peanut M&Ms and other things occassionally.  I could have done a lot of things with that money besides putting it directly on my butt.

Off to be somewhat productive on my lazy day..... Have a safe and healthy weekend!

TGIF!

The scale inched down a little more today.  If I would end my late night forage for food, it would probably be better. I succombed to oatmeal last night late because (here's my lame excuse) I couldn't get warm. Tea would have warmed me, ff/sf hot chocolate would have warmed me...

The salads will be continued until we get a legal department ruling.. yippee. That could take months.... I'm eating mine now.     the fruit is like candy to me now.  I haven't ventured to the vending machines since the beginning of the year. No sodas, no candy, no rice krispie treats.  thank you Lord.  I just did a quick calculation of just eating rice krispie treats last year did to me... no wonder I gained weight.   I ate over 19 pounds worth of calories in rice krispie treats.. this is just saying 2 per day of the work days .. I didn't do it all days but some days I had 6 and not 2 and that doesn't count any weekend work I did...    ARRRRGGGGGGGHHHH... that's only rice kripsie treats, doesn't count the popcorn (full fat) and soda I might have had an average of 2 times a week, or any other crap I had... notice my chart... now we know why that spike is up....... don't we....   I told the people in the vending table cube to just yell the number 19 to me if I start venturing over to the table.

I'm looking forward to a nice rainy weekend of getting a few things done in the house and maybe a movie.  Hope everyone has a happy healthy weekend.

Wednesday

I haven't posted in a few days because I've just been crazy busy.  My endoscopy showed a hiatal hernia.. I kinda figured that since just about all my relatives have one.  No change in what they looked at last time so I probably won't have to do another one for quite awhile. I'll have to see what we need to do about the hernia.   My weight is about the same I'm having some issues with late night eating and I've been eating sweet potato pancakes... don't get the mix.. it's evil I tell you.  But it's gone so I won't be tempted by it. 

My wonderful lunch catering service is going to end this week. It became very popular and my manager decided that he needed to find out if there might be some conflict of interest with the wife of one employee selling other employees the food.. they ain't making a profit.  But this is a definite case of it's better to ask forgivness than ask permission. The ruling came back nope can't do it.. that's because we work for a large govt contractor where we can't  do anything.  We're gonna go up the ehtics and legal chain a bit I think we can probably present a good case - but the concern it was breaking a policy of no soliciting.. which no one was doing. The man put the stuff in the fridge we ate it we were happy and if we were happy then it has to be wrong...... I'm highly irritated... it was such a good and healthy thing... So I will have to copy what she did for us with the salads.  I'm determined to get this weight off. I go back to the doctor Feb 7 to check my weight and I want to be down another 10 pounds.  That means I gotta move my butt.

Got some new jeans I ordered from ebay...I found a smaller pair in some I had now that were brand new and about 1/3 of the price and they had a shirt added in the package. It will be a few weeks before I can fit in them but gives me something to work towards... It's hard to find a pair of jeans that fit my butt, hips and waist and length.  Can't beat ebay if you know what you are looking for.  This vendor had a ton of new clothes and great prices.