And on my rest day, to boot. I gave blood today. (I do every 8 weeks) The problem was, I forgot to eat before I went in. I had a noon appointment, and had only had a small amount of spinach at 6:30 in the morning, and nothing since then. So, I gave blood (in a record five minutes lol) and as I got up, I got all woozy and got quite a headache. Of course, what do they have there to help with that? Juice and doughnuts, of course. Oh, or if I wanted, I could have cookies. So, rather than risk passing out, I had some apple juice. (Such a no no on Atkins induction!) and still, I felt like crap, so I nibbled on a doughnut. Before I knew it, the whole doughnut was gone! Eek! I was feeling better, though. Then, I'm of the TERRIBLE mindset that if I cheat once, the whole day is shot, and well, since there was a STREET FAIR right outside of the bloodmobile, I treated myself to a GINORMOUS FREAKING funnel cake, a mango smoothie, teriyaki chicken, pancit, rice, and lemonade.
Then, of course, I think, "Well, I already went off the deep end...why not?" and got myself a venti iced nonfat caramel macchiatto with extra caramel. *Sigh Who wants to put a wager on how much I'll have gained in the morning? I'm betting about five pounds. Ugh.
I couldn't even exercise today because I gave blood and was feeling so crappy.
Oh well, tomorrow is a new day. Time to pick myself back up, dust myself off and renew my resolve!
Goodbye extra pound...and yet another pound!!! I woke up this morning and the scale told me I had lost two pounds!!! YIPPEEE!!!! So, there goes that extra pound PLUS ONE!!!!
If you check out my graph, you'll see a one pound gain. :( I'm convinced it's just the extra exercise. My body isn't used to being pushed like this. Someone once described it to me like this:
Your body is used to just walking along, minding it's own business. Then all of a sudden, you start running...running for your life. (This is the intense exercise) Your body thinks, "Oh crap, I must be running from a bear!!!!" and kicks into high gear. You stop running. However, your body isn't convinced that the bear is gone. It super hydrates the muscles to get ready to do what it's not used to doing again. It wants to be ready to run from that bear!!! Thus, the weight gain. As my body gets used to the added exercise, it should release the water and realize this is just a normal thing that it doesn't need to prepare for, and I should start dropping weight faster than ever.
That's the theory, anyways. I finally made it through the Start it Up video today...all the way through with no breaks, no extra walking in place, no letting my arms drop. So, that means I'm ready for Ramp it Up! The thought scares me. I'm still so sore from Start it Up. However, they say once you can make it all the way through, it's time to move on and push yourself even harder. I think I'm going to do SIU one more time tomorrow to make sure today wasn't a fluke, take Sunday off, then start Ramp it up on Monday!
Hubby has decided that he too needs to get some exercise and has tentatively agreed to a 6 am workout with me, Monday through Friday. He didn't seem too enthused about it, but wants to do something, so this will have to do. lol He scoffs at how difficult I find these videos. I can't wait to hear him singing a different tune after he gets through it!
So, I was feeling guilty about not finishing the Start it up video in the Slim in 6 series. I figured if I'm committed to doing this, I need to not give into the temptation to just turn off the video when things start to hurt. So, I started it up and made it through the whole thing!!!
I did have to take a couple of breaks and just walk in place for a while though. At one point, I lunged down, but just didn't have the strength to get back to standing. I was just kinda stuck there...trying to get back up, but not moving at all. LOL It was really odd. I had to drop to my knees, then get back up that way. I'm bound and determined to get more pushups in. I was only able to do 8 with the video before I just couldn't get my body back up again. That sucked.
So, I have a major sense of accomplishment now. However, I am SO FREAKING SORE. I'm serious. It hurting my biceps to just type this post. LOL I went to stand up just a minute ago and literally collapsed to the floor because my quads were so exhausted that they didn't want to hold me up. LOL I'm SO not going to want to get out of bed in the morning...I just know it.
However, I'm going to get out of bed and do SIU again! I can do anything for six weeks.
So, I just got some Slim in 6 videos. You're supposed to do them six days a week for six weeks and see quite a difference. So, I figure I'll give it a go. Six weeks isn't so bad. I can do six weeks. I started on the easiest video. It's only 25 minutes! I can do that! That's easy!
WRONG!!!!!! 13 minutes into it and I just couldn't move anymore. OMG, I'm so sore! LOL It TOTALLY kicked my ass. It doesn't help that I was already sore from yesterday's tae bo workout, but DAMN! The moves look SO easy, but my arms feel like they're about to fall off and my legs are shaking. I'm so out of shape, it's pathetic. Just yesterday I was giving myself a pat on the back for making it through the tae bo video without taking a break, and even thinking, "Wow, it's already over?" when it was done. I thought I was doing pretty well. Now I know better. LOL
It truly is amazing what a difference exercise makes. I still hate it, but I realize that I feel SO much better when I actually do it. Exercise has ALWAYS been the bane of my existence. lol Even in highschool, when I was an average weight, I HATED exercise. I HATED P.E. I tried to take whatever PE class didn't require running. I did archery and folk dancing a number of times. lol I just hate physical exertion. When I took baseball, I always got stuck in right field because I wouldn't run. I wouldn't play. I literally, sat out in the field and yelled, "THERE IT GOES!" as the ball went overhead. Needless to say, I was usually chosen last for teams. LOL
Since I recently started exercising, I've realized a few things:
Exercise begets exercise: I feel guilty sitting on my ass when I get done exercising. I feel like I'm negating what I just accomplished. It feels OH SO WRONG to sit down after I'm done working my ass off. So, I tend to get things done around my house when I'm done exercising because I feel like I HAVE to move.
Exercise improves my posture: It's not because I'm strengthening my abs and my lower back muscles (which I'm sure I am) but I don't want to slouch anymore. If I find myself slouching, I automatically straighten up and suck in my abs. I feel like I'm working so hard to improve myself that it's stupid to slouch and look like a complete slob.
Exercise wakes me up: The days I don't exercise, I find myself dead tired in the middle of the day and often find myself just falling asleep on the couch. The days I exercise, I feel energized and have no desire to sleep.
Exercise improves my libido: I think it just makes me feel good about myself, which in turns makes me feel sexy, which in turn helps hubby get lucky. LOL
Exercise tires me out: WHOA...wait a minute? Didn't I just say it wakes me up? Yeah, but it also tires me out. I usually have a very hard time falling asleep at night. It's not unusual for me to be up until five in the morning, just laying there, trying to sleep. (Perhaps it's those naps during the day LOL) When I exercise, as soon as my head hits the pillow, I'm out!
Exercise makes me happy: Wait, how can something I hate so much makes me happy? Well, it's because I feel like I'm doing something for myself. I'm actively DOING something to make myself a better person. This makes me happy. I feel good about working to achieve something that I've longed for. I feel a sense of accomplishment when I exercise. When I don't, I just feel like a guilty, fat slob. That's not exactly the best feeling. You know what IS one of the best feelings though? Knowing that you have control over yourself and the things you do to your body. That's just awesome!
I'm sure the list will become MUCH longer the more I exercise. For now though, these things make me VERY happy.
So, yesterday was my third day in a row that I didn't exercise. I've never actually felt guilty before about not exercising. I suppose the fact that I feel horribly guilty is a good thing, right? In fact, it made me get up off my ass and jog a mile on the treadmill last night at 11:30 JUST so I could say that I DID, in fact, exercise that day. Afterall, after midnight would be the next day, right? So, technically, only two days of no exercise. LOL Yeah, way to justify, Katie! I suppose as long as I get it in, that's all that matters, right? Oh, I also did 100 crunches in the middle of the day, but I don't really count that as exercise. I mean, I do. But when I say, "I worked out today," I don't mean I just did 100 crunches and I don't count 100 crunches as my workout for the day. KWIM?
So anyways, yeah. Back on track with the exercise. I will NOT let the fact that I hate exercise keep me from doing what is best for my body. I figure diet is all fine and dandy, but I can lose even MORE weight if I exercise. Why on earth wouldn't I?!?!?!? That's just freaking crazy. I'm depriving myself of foods that I love so I can lose weight, why is that so much easier than getting off my lazy ass and jumping around for a bit? LOL
So, I have one sit on my ass day out of the two I'm allowing myself this week. I'm hoping to not use both of them up
It's my best friend. It's my worst enemy. It greets me every morning. It is the last to see me before I go to bed every night. It has the ability to make me jump with glee. It has the ability to make me kick it in anger. It is my scale.
Today, the scale was my friend. It read one pound lighter than it did yesterday! GO KATIE! I have been through a number of different scales through the years. When I'm pregnant, scales have a habit of getting into fights with the wall. The wall usually wins.
I've actually gotten much better than I used to be. Now I only weigh myself when I wake in the morning and before I go to bed at night. It used to be around five times a day. Yeah, I'm a bit obsessed.
You know what I WISH I was obsessed with? Exercise. lol Man, I freaking hate it. Which, would be why again, I went a full day without exercising yesterday. Day one of seven today. (I decided to do Sunday through Saturday instead of Saturday through Saturday) Only allowed to rest days this week. I need to choose them carefully. Today was going to be one of them. I was supposed to go and give blood this morning. (You can do it every eight weeks...what's keeping you from making that appointment? Don't feel like saving a life today? ) Unfortunately, my daughter got into my purse and managed to lose my license. So, I had cancel my appointment. Hopefully I'll find it soon so I can reschedule. However, that means I can exercise today! I WILL do it!
I'm in an October abs challenge on two different boards that I'm a part of. Friends and Families is a parenting board and the Atkins Diet Bulletin Board...well, that's pretty self explanatory. lol The F&F challenge is to do as many crunches this month as you can. For the ADBB challenge, you choose a goal for the number of crunches you'd like to do this month. I've chosen 50 crunches a day, for a total of 1550 crunches! I'll keep you updated on my progress here as well just so I'm a bit more accountable for my actions and/or inactions.
That's right...you heard it....WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH! That was the sound of my favorite person, the Whoosh Fairy, taking FOUR POUNDS off of me OVERNIGHT!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH...GONE!
I usually lose every single day while in the first two weeks of Atkins. Within the first two days, I usually lose about five pounds, then about a pound a day from then on. This time around, while I wasn't expecting quite as dramatic of a loss, I was still expecting to lose every couple of days. You can imagine my dismay when I GAINED weight, then STAYED THERE, after my initial eight pound loss. I realize it hasn't been all that long, but it felt like FOREVER. Then, out of nowhere....WHOOOOOOOOOOSH! This morning I woke up four pounds lighter than I was yesterday morning! GO KATIE! THANK YOU WHOOSH FAIRY! LOL
Oh, and btw, because I need to be completely accountable for all of my actions (or in this case, inactions) I did not exercise at all yesterday, and boy did I feel it. I was dragging all day long. New goal though: Saturday to Saturday: Exercise at least five of the seven days!
I'm thinking about getting the Turbo Jam DVD's. Anyone have those? What do you think of them? I'm LOVING my Crunch Pilates DVD's, but I want to mix things up a bit. I think I need to go through my boxes from the move and find my Tae Bo videos. I'm getting a little tired of the same ol' same ol'. What are your favorite exercise videos and why?
Most people love Fridays. It's the end of the work week, it's the end of the school week, just one more day of the daily grind and you have two days of relaxation ahead of you. Those are the reasons I DREAD Fridays!
It's the end of the work week: This means hubby will be home for two days. Now, don't get me wrong. I ADORE my husband. He's my best friend and I simply don't know what I'd do without him. However, that's part of the problem. When he's home, all I want to do is hang out, lay around and cuddle with him all weekend. Add to that the fact that I look silly exercising, so I use him being home as a reason to not exercise. I don't want him watching me exercise. I send the kids upstairs while I work out because I don't want anyone watching me. Hubby doesn't listen as well as the kids do. lol Oh, then there's the fact that when he's home, it's as though I have another child. He doesn't cook. He rarely cleans. He's always asking me, "Is there something you can make me to eat?" I swear he wears me ragged on the weekends.
The end of the school week: Egads. I never realized just how well my younger sons got along until my girls started back to school last month. The house is SO quiet during the day. (Well, except for the NON STOP talking of my four year old!) My boys rarely fight. The moment the girls get home though, all hell breaks loose. There's fighting, screaming, hitting, yelling, more screaming, more yelling...well, you get the point. TWO FULL DAYS of that is all the weekend brings!
So, the weekend most definitely is NOT two days of rest for me. It's more work than the weekdays and my diet seems to go to hell. Ugh, I'm such a whiner! lol Gee, I wonder where my kids get it from! lol
Off to do three miles on the treadmill. My legs always feel like jello after getting off the treadmill, and my body feels like it's still in motion. It's very strange. I'll probably update later if I can function well enough to walk to the computer.
) Unfortunately, my daughter got into my purse and managed to lose my license. So, I had cancel my appointment. Hopefully I'll find it soon so I can reschedule. However, that means I can exercise today! I WILL do it!