Today I finally hit a milestone I haven't seen since before I got married 15 years ago...I'm in the 220's!! Only 29 to go to get to the 100's. I haven't seen that on the scale since my early 20's...I just turned 40 on Sunday. LOL Now all I have to do is keep up on my healthy(ish) eating and walking in the mornings and/or evenings. I think the big difference this time is that my husband has figured out that he can't lose weight on his own either. We joined Weight Watchers together and we're supporting each other. It makes a huge difference.
I actually made it to day 3 alive. :) My feet are killing me, but I stayed on the treadmill for an hour and did 3.32 miles. Feels great to feel like I've accomplished something with my health. Now, the same problem I have had for a LONG time: FOOD! I do great the first half of the day, but after 2 or 3 pm it all goes down hill. I was thinking that working in the afternoons/evenings would help but when I get home between 8 and 9 I'm starving and that's when I eat dinner. Today I'm going to make a small salad and have it in the fridge and ready to be eaten when I get home. I know I shouldn't eat that late but I'm not sure what else to do.
We have a new community center that's only a block away and it has a gym, so I joined yesterday. It's so much more convenient than driving 15 miles to 24HR Fitness (plus, the membership is up next month anyways). Yesterday and today I walked on the treadmill for an hour, my feet are killing me now, but the rest of me feels GREAT! My plan is to go 5-6 times a week. I work afternoons/evenings at the salon, so I have no excuse to not go first thing in the morning after dropping the kids off at school. I like it when things are convenient like this.
Well, here we are again at a new year and here I am again resolving to loose weight for good this year. Let's hope this is the year I actually accomplish my goal. Not to say that I failed last year, I did loose, just not as much as I had hoped for. Let's be honest, I didn't actually do my all to accomplish my goal, so I have no one to blame but myself. I had an "ah ha" moment today...I'm turning 40 in 2011!!! That scares the crap out of me. I'm not at my healthiest and I need to get control of my eating...it's only going to get harder to loose weight as I get older. This is going to be a great year! 2010 has ended with a great accomplishment. As of today I have graduated from school as a Master Esthetician. I also started my new job as a hair stylist this week and officially start in the salon on New Years Day...very exciting way to start the year. I'm going to take it as a sign that 2011 is going to be the year that I get control!!!
I finished week 2 and feel great. Week one was a lot easier that week two, but I had a loss both weeks. First week I lost 5.6 lbs. and the 2nd week I lost 1.4 lbs. for a total lost of 7 lbs. I've been walking about 5x per week and I feel so much better. My walking path is 3.2 miles so last week I got in 16 miles for the week. I missed yesterdays walk because we had SNOW! Seriously sick of this wet, cold weather. I'm ready for summer. I really want to see a 3 lbs. loss this next week so I'll have a total of 10 lbs. loss (but I'll be happy with any loss).
I've survived day 2 and I'm feeling great. I've made some healthy choices in my eating, that I wouldn't normally do...a lot more veggies and fruit added to my meals today. It even tasted good. I even stayed track on my points.
We've had some rainy weather the last couple of days and I've been wanting to get out and go for a walk, I have a gym membership, but it's not the same and getting out into the fresh air. Tonight there was a break in the rain, so we packed the kids into the van, drove to the trails and took a 2 mile walk. I even did something that I haven't done since I was about 19....I jogged. It wasn't long, just a few steps here and there towards the end, but I did it and I'm proud of myself.
So far, so good. I'm loving how easy it is to eat right when you have a way to simplify calculating calories, fat and fiber. I didn't go to the gym today, but I have done a lot of housework. Tomorrow is gym day. I need the exercise to stay on track.
My weight at the first weigh-in was 244.6. I'm going to use my WW weigh-in's as my weight here, I just hate that it's the weight WITH clothes and it's in the afternoon. Usually I weigh myself as soon as I wake up...minus clothing. I hate seeing a jump in the weigh, but it'll start moving downward soon.
Today is not only Mother's Day, but also my 13th wedding anniversary. DH asked me what I wanted and I told him I wanted to join WW. So, this morning, he gave me the money to go down today and join. I'm very happy that the main office has a Sunday meeting. I don't want to wait a day longer...I'm not a patient person. This will not be the first time I've joined, but this is the first time I've felt 100% ready to join. The last time I went it was with a friend who wanted to join. I thought it was a good idea at the time, but my heart wasn't in it. I'm joining for myself this time.
In keeping up with my new years resolution, I went to the gym for the 2nd time this week. The first time was great, however, I am a klutz and things are going to happen. I was hoping the first day was just a fluke and the 2nd time would be better. NOPE!!! Klutz strikes again. The first day (Monday) I was going along great, then my towel comes off the control panel of the treadmill, lands on the belt and flies off the back. I'm going at a good pace, so I just leave it (plus, I'm totally embarrassed and don't want to stop and draw more attention to myself). About 20 minutes later a guy walks by, picks it up and hands it to me. Good thing I was already breaking a sweat and my face was red from exercise or it would have been red from embarrassment. Luckily, that was the worst of it for day 1. Jump to day 2 (today). There I am going along on the treadmill, doing great for the first 20 minutes, then all of a sudden my ipod jumps off the control panel hits the belt with a LOUD clunk, and flies next to the treadmill next to me. I was just getting ready to slow my treadmill down when the guy on the other side of the treadmill that my ipod hit, jumps off his treadmill, runs over and gets it for me (he didn't even stop or slow down his treadmill), hands it go me (again, glad my face was already red from exercising) and not missing a beat, jumps right back onto his treadmill at full speed. What a nice guy! I was really hoping that at this point I would be able to finish my workout without any other problems. Yea, not gonna happen. I'm on the last 6 minutes of my 60 min. walk and my shoe comes untied. Sheesh!!! I was really determined to finish the workout so I slowed down my speed and finished my last few minutes at under 2 mph...I was afraid that if I kept up my speed up I was going to end up flying off the back of the treadmill and hit the wall...I'm a klutz, it could have happened. LOL As soon as I workout was done, I cleaned off the treadmill and hightailed it out of there. So, 2 days out of 2 I have dropped something off my treadmill. I really hope this trend does not continue or I'm going to have to tie everything to me.
I hope everyone else had a better workout experience.
Only 29 to go to get to the 100's. I haven't seen that on the scale since my early 20's...I just turned 40 on Sunday. LOL Now all I have to do is keep up on my healthy(ish) eating and walking in the mornings and/or evenings. I think the big difference this time is that my husband has figured out that he can't lose weight on his own either. We joined Weight Watchers together and we're supporting each other. It makes a huge difference. 
Luckily, that was the worst of it for day 1.