I posted this on the 15th but it some how got deleted and haven't been on here since then so I didn't see it was gone until today. I am pissed I have to do it all over again. As I wrote before...
I am taking a break to take care of my house, I will still will be eating the same, cutting down on my soda in take and adding more water to my diet. I am also going to add a multi vitamin and calcium supplements since I am lactose intolerant and I don't drink milk.
Anyway here are my totals for this challenge from (the beginning) & *since last week*... Neck: 14.00 inches
(-.75) *-.25* Bicep: 14.75 inches (-.50) *-.25* Forearm: 10.00 inches
(-.50) *-0* Chest: 51.75 inches (-1..25) *-.25* Waist: 46.25 inches
(-1..25) *-.25* Hips: 57.50 inches (-1.50) *-.50* Thigh: 28.25inches
(-2.00) *-0* Calf: 18.00 inches (-.50) *-.25*
Total inches lost: 8.25!! Weight: 280 (-6.2)
*0*
I didn't lose as much as I wanted but I lost and that is what is important.
I am not weighing in today cause I am sick as hell. It took a lot just to get me over to the computer. I was busy earlier before I started to feel sick. I replanted all the bulbs in my garden. Its a long story of what happened with that and I don't feel like going into it now. I think it was good exercise cause I was sitting down and getting up and just moving in ways I normally don't. My arms are killing me and so is my hand. I have a HUGE blister on the palm of my right hand from all the digging. Anyway I think I am going to just wait until next week to do my weigh in and do my measurements. So in the bath I go and then to bed.
I know that this is 2 days late compared to my usual Monday but I wanted to weigh in on the 1st of the months and then they days it falls on therefor after. Anyway I am down to 280lbs only 5lbs to go and 28 days to do that in. We are cleaning the house from top to bottom this week and that is a big job considering all the rooms are on different floors. I will be doing alot of stair walking with lots of things in my arms cause things are all over the house. Plus we will have lots of trash to take out so there will be the walking to the dumpster and back at least 10 times and that is good walk with a slight hill on he way back. As soon as it is all clean I can finally start the Walk Away the Pounds videos cause then I will have lots of room to do them.
Anyway here is my total loss
from (the beginning) & *since last week*... Neck: 14.25 inches (-.50) *-0* Bicep: 15.00 inches (-.25)
*-0* Forearm: 10.00 inches (-.50) *-0* Chest: 52.00 inches (-1.00)
*-.25* Waist: 46.50 inches (-1.00) *-0* Hips: 58.00 inches (-1.00)
*-.25* Thigh: 28.25inches (-2.00) *-0* Calf: 18.00 inches (-.50)
*-.25*
Weight:280 (-6.2) *2* How ever i did gain .2lbs back but isn't much considering how much I ate on the 28th, I thought I would have gained it all back.
I wish I knew people were actually reading this stuff and cared. Please if you are reading this leave a comment, it doesn't have to be much, just something. Oh and yes I get comments when you aren't a member they show up in my Private Messages. So please please please let me know you are out there.
I have mixed feelings about this last week. I did lose weight but I gained some inches in spots where I was losing. I mean it isn't enough to make me give up by any means. I am starting a new thing when I go pick up the girls from school. I am going to leave earlier to pick them up than the walk around the block in front of their school. It is easier than walking to go pick them up and then back cause there is a big hill. I need to ease my way into walking cause of my back and knee and I think this is just what I need. I will also be starting these exercises that I found online to do with a body ball.
Here are my total loss from (the beginning) & *since last week*... Neck: 14.25 inches (-.25) *+.25* Bicep: 15.25 inches (-.50) *-.25* Forearm: 10.00 inches (-.50) *-0* Chest: 52.50 inches (-.75) *-.25* Waist: 46.50 inches (-1.00) *+.25* Hips: 58.50 inches (-.75) *-.25* Thigh: 28.50 inches (-1.75) *-0* Calf: 18.25 inches (-.25) *+.25*
Weight:282 (-4.8) *-.4*
My next weigh in will be Wednesday, October 1st instead of Monday September 29th and then every Wednesday during the month of October.
I have decided I don't care how much I way as long as I get down to a certian size. I would like to be a size 14/16 so about 45 - 33.5 - 43.5. I am currently (9.16.08)52.50 - 46.25 - 58.50 so that means that I need to lose 7.5 - 12.75 - 15, I don't know why but it seems more reachable than losing 100lbs. If I get to my goal measurements and I have lost 100lbs its a plus but if I only lose 75lbs thats ok too.
Is it an old wives tale, or is breakfast
the most important meal of the day? OK, your mom always made you eat hot lumpy
cereal in the morning, so as soon as you escaped her clutches, you developed the
breakfast was a bagel... at lunch.
You've realized your adolescence ended
(about 10 years ago!) and now it's time for a change. Your pants are too tight,
you can't climb a set of stairs without huffing and puffing and you feel much
older than your years.
Breakfast can make or break a diet, because
breakfast helps set the tone for the rest of the day. If you're one of those
people who thinks skipping breakfast is a good way to lose weight, think again.
Here are the top reasons why you should
definitely eat breakfast every day:
1. Break the fast.
Ever think of what "breakfast" means? Your body responds to not eating
for hours and hours by "slowing down," diminishing its metabolic rate and
burning fewer calories to conserve energy. By eating breakfast, you wake up your
metabolism and get your engine humming, burning those calories you need to burn
to lose weight.
2. Eat more, weigh less. Researchers
have repeatedly shown that people who eat breakfast have a better chance of
losing weight, and keeping it off. When you skip meals, you're so hungry by
lunchtime you eat the entire cow! The National Weight Control Registry shows
that among those who've lost 30 or more pounds and have kept it off more than a
year, 90 percent report eating breakfast most days of the
week.
3. Are you interested in doing better at work and school?
Don't be a bed head. Breakfast helps wake you up. Studies show that
people who eat breakfast are more alert and do better on tests than people who
skip breakfast. The USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion Symposium
titled Breakfast and Learning in Children, cites myriad studies that show
eating breakfast helps "improve memory and positively affects the tasks that
require the retention of new information. Conversely, a hungry child can be
apathetic, disinterested, and irritable when confronted with difficult tasks.
Breakfast is the key." No doubt adults need breakfast as much as kids
do.
4. Breakfast is your chance to
eat the foods you may not eat the rest of the day. You can't go wrong
with a whole-grain cereal and berries with nonfat milk -- here is your fiber,
folic acid and calcium in one easy-to-grab bowl.
5. Skipping
breakfast makes you grouchy. Studies show that people who eat breakfast
tend to be in better moods (when I'm hungry -- watch out). Breakfast gets you
started on the right track for the day. If you start out with a healthy
breakfast, then you set the mood for lunch. You're more likely to choose
something reasonable for lunch if you've paid some attention to your breakfast
choices.
6. Cancel the danish or sugared doughnut first thing in
the morning. They cause a blood sugar dip a couple of hours later.
You'll be desperate for something to perk you up, and will be more likely to
grab another high-sugar refined carb for a quick sugar rush.
7.
Breakfast makes your machine run better. Get yourself on a schedule
with a healthy breakfast, and you're ready to take on the
world.
8. If you're a parent, set a good example. By
skipping breakfast, your kids will think it's not important. Breakfast doesn't
have to be a big affair, but don't wimp out. Make it a habit, and your kids will
be way ahead of the game, too.
9. Don't eat dessert for
breakfast. If you think a glazed doughnut or a breakfast bar with 30
grams of sugar are breakfast items, then think again. Doughnuts are fried lumps
of sugared dough, and many breakfast bars should be labeled "candy bars"
instead.
10. One more word about labels. If it says
"nutritious," it doesn't necessarily mean it's healthy. Cereal manufacturers are
experts in marketing, using words that send a message of health. Unless you read
the labels, you eat at your own risk. Kids' cereals can have more sugar than
candy. Protect your kids from getting hooked on these cereals; they'll get used
to all the sugar, and will want only pre-sweetened cereals.
Buy cereals
that have minimal sugar such as regular Cheerios, not honey nut or other
sweetened versions; corn flakes, not frosted flakes; shredded wheat minis, not
frosted and sugared; and look into some of the newer, healthier cereals like
Kashi (the unsweetened kind). Then let your taste buds rule. Add your own sugar.
I guarantee what you or your kids add will be a fraction of what the cereal guys
add -- sometimes up to eight or nine equivalent teaspoons per one-cup
serving.
Week two down and 6 weeks to go of this challenge I have given myself to reach my first goal of 275lbs. I didn't have as big as a loss as last
week but I did lose. If I lose 2lbs a week that will put me over my
12lbs goal, I need to lose 1.33lbs a week to get to my goal.
I didn't work out at all this week cause I had a horrid cold and I keep getting migraines which stop me from doing anything and everything. I need to clean the house really bad so that should be so good exercise going up and down the stairs with all the crap that is in the wrong room.
This is my total loss from (the beginning) & *since last week*... Neck: 14.00 inches (-.50) *-0* Bicep: 15.25 inches (-.25) *-.25* Forearm: 10.00 inches (-.50) *-.25* Chest: 52.50 inches (-.50) *-.25* Waist: 46.25 inches (-1.25) *-.75* Hips: 58.50 inches (-.50) *-.50* Thigh: 28.50 inches (-1.75) *-.50* Calf: 18.00 inches (-.50) *-0*
Weight:282.4 (-4.4) *-1.2*
I am well on my way, I feel so proud of myself at how well I am doing by just changing what I am drinking and how much food I do eat. Once I add exercising in there it will really start coming off and showing.
Well week one is done with. I am not happy with my exercising or eating before a certain time but I will get there. We went to the zoo on Saturday and I did great with the walking. We made it to see almost every animal which is hard to do with 3 little ones and a slow Mom. I think I am going to start walking around the block with my kids when they get home from school cause just that one day made a difference. I need to start eating breakfast when my kids do cause I am sure that will help me some. After having kids I have never found time to eat breakfast cause all I wanted to do is sleep. I need to start eating toast or something. Any way I have a loss in weight and inches this week.
I am more happy with the loss of inches than weight cause I have never looked as heavy as weighed. I have a goal for my ideal measurements and I have a ways to go but I am going to get there.
Well this is my day one. I have been eating better portions and better in general. I am working on drinking less soda and more water. We went out to eat today and I couldn't finish my meal, that has never happened to me before. Not complaining though.
My work out consisted of walking around 3 different stores, store 1 was for 1 1/2 hrs, store 2 was for 45 mins and store 3 was for 25 mins. In each store I was pushing my 30lbs son and my 40lbs plus the the things we were buying. In a few months I will start doing Walk Away The Pounds but my house isn't clean enough to be doing that in any room. So my work out for now will be cleaning my house and getting things for myself instead of having one of the kids or husband getting or doing it for me. Each room is on a different floor so it is a work out in its self just going from room to room.
This challenge I am doing right now is until October 31, 2008. My starting measurements are: Neck: 14.25 inches Bicep: 15.50 inches Forearm: 10.50 inches Chest: 53.00 inches Waist: 47.50 inches Hips: 59.00 inches Thigh: 30.25 inches Calf: 18.50 inches
