Hot Mom? NOT......yet!

I wanna be a Personal Trainer when I grow up.

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  • Name: MoxyMom
  • City: Somewhere In
  • Country: CA

My Weight Loss

Height:
Start weight: 199.10lb
Current weight: 180.00lb
Goal weight: 140.00lb
Lost to date: 19.10lb
Remaining: 40.00lb

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Well, as previously mentioned...I've reached the half-way mark.  That's the good news.  The BAD news is that I've stalled out.  No progress in the last almost three weeks.  Sucks!

My Personal Trainer Certification course arrived from ISSA, though, so that's exciting.   I have to say that it looks amazing...the text, study guides, business guides, etc.  Can't wait to dig in!

Back to the stalling....   I finally reached half-way and then we went on vacation (and I ate too much) and then we had another week of vacation here at home (again, prolly ate too much) and NOW, I'm frustrated. 

The scale doesn't love me any more! 

I also joined the gym and have been working out for two and a half weeks now.  I'm guessing (since this same thing happened to me way back when I first started to try and lose weight) that the added weight training is a big part of "The Stall", but it's still sucky.  I was alternating upper and lower body every day (also doing cardio), but I've decided to do things a little bit differently...

Day 1:  Cardio (Walk2Jog) 39 mins |  Lower Body Workout  30-40 mins

Day 2: Cardio (Walk2Jog) 39 mins Cardio (Walk w/ Incline) 20 mins

Day 3: Cardio (Walk2Jog) 39 mins |  Upper Body Workout 30-40 mins

Day 4: Cardio (Walk2Jog) 39 mins Cardio (Walk w/ Incline) 20 mins

And so on....   THIS way, I'll be getting in more cardio than weights and will hopefully trick the scale into moving.  Already this week (started Monday) the scale has moved a bit even though TOM is on the way. 

Also got together with our offline group this past Sunday (we'd missed almost a month because of vacations etc) and that felt really good.  It's time for us to set new challenges for ourselves with rewards/consequences and start filling out our weekly sheets (we get points based on both time spent exercising AND total weight lost each week).  Fun stuff!

Nothing really jumped out at me at the meeting, but then as I was walking home I realized that it's almost exactly five months until Christmas.  AND, if I can manage to lose 5 pounds per month I can actually hit my 140 lb target.  As I was previously shedding at a rate of about 8 pounds per month (1.7 lbs / week) I'm hoping that I'll be able to manage 5 lbs per month and reach goal.  Should be doable, but not if this stalling continues.  We'll see how it goes! 

Anyway, I have to get myself ready and off to the gym.  Going with a buddy really keeps me on track, so I hope that everyone tries their best to find someone to pair up with.  Makes all the difference!

 

Comments to this post:

Buddies!

Isn't it nice to have a working out partner!  Great job on the working out!  Keep it up....your looking good!




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