Wow... I just read my last post and it was in Spring!!! I was saying how I had spring fever and the fever got the best of me!!! I pretty much lost my ambition and got carried away with summer. Lots has happened this summer... I met someone and have been in a relationship for 6 months... and my best friend moved to Austrailia last Monday! I had a fun summer but with that I gained 12 pounds!!!! how disappointing and boy do I feel it!!!! I am back though... with my best friend gone now I thought what a better way to deal with her leaving by jumping back on my "Lose it For Good" program. I need to keep myself occupied and I am taking this time to focus on me. So I am going to dust off my Elliptical.... start drinking tons of my water.... get rid of all the nasty food hidden in my kitchen and lose that 12 pounds plus more!!!!
I have seen some of you that were on here from when I first joined this amazing website and sooo many of you have done soooo good and have lost tons of weight!!! Way too go!!!
My plan was to lose all my weight by Feb. because I was planning a trip to Mexico... that is no longer in the works because everyone backed out... but now I have a new trip planned that will be my main focus. My boyfriend and I are planning a trip later next year to Austrailia to visit my best friend.... well that means beach time once again and I am going to get myself into that bathing suit once and for all!!!!
I am sooo happy to be back... this website really helped me lose the weight the first time... and I know it is going to help me lose again!!! how exciting!!!
Wow has it been a while since I blogged.... got the flu a week ago and that pretty much put an end to my exerciseing for a while... I haven't been that sick for a long time.... like 5 yrs or something! I may not have worked out but I did not gain any weight which is awsome... I actually lost .5! I will take that! But I am officially back on the work out kick. I did 15 min on the Elliptical and 15 min. of the Bob's Bootcamp workout and I feel fantastic!
I love that it is spring! I have got spring fever for sure... I really can't stand being inside these days.... I just want to be outside! Summer is on it's way and I am sooooo excited! I love summer!
I love Thursday's! I always go over to my friends place and we cook a healthy dinner and watch Thursday night T.V.! plus it means tomorrow is Friday!!! I do have to teach a class on Saturday but I still love the fact that the weekend is almost here!
After work last night I went over to my friends place, I was sooooo tired from the night before but I said I was going to get some exercise in so we went for a nice walk at Fish Creek Park. It was a bit chilly but it felt good to get some fresh air. It was the best I had felt all day! We have decided that we are going to go for a nice long walk once a week to a different park each time. There is lots of nice trails to walk here in Calgary and we thought it would be neat to try each one. My friend even has a book on the best trails in the city so we are going to check them off as we go. This is why I love Spring and Summer so much, I spend the winters pretty much hibernating and it is so nice to get outside and exercise. The time flys when you are walking in a nice park with a good friend to chat to.
So I went to the Nelly Furtado Concert last night and had a blast. Did not get to bed until about 2:00am so it was hard to wake up this morning to go to work. My legs are sore today from walking all the stairs at the concert last night so I guess I did get a workout yesterday after all!
I find it really hard to do stuff on week nights, it wears me out. Plus I do not enjoy staying up late on a week night because it totally throws me off my whole schedule and during the week I find I am the most focused on my diet and exercise.
Even though I am extremely tired I have already promised myself that I am going to workout when I get home tonight no matter how tired I may be. No excuses! I am not going to get anywhere with this whole weightloss thing if I keep coming up with excuses of why I cannot work out.
Yesterday was a great day! I managed to eat properly and I worked out on the elliptical for 20 min and then I did some strength training. I even conquered the late night eating! I had a great dinner and some popcorn around 7:00pm and that was it! For the rest of the evening I drank water to curb my appetite.
I am getting really sick of the snow! Yesterday was nice and sunny and this morning I woke up to more snow!!! I can't wait till the warm weather! I am going to Nelly Furtado's concert tonight and I was really hoping to wear some of the cute clothes I got in Kalispell, but instead I had to reach for the winter clothing.
I won't be able to workout today, because I simply do not have time, if I was a good morning person I could have done it this morning but I did not get my butt out of bed! So I will definitly be working out for the rest of the week.
Wow did this week fly by! It was kinda hard to get back on program but I did manage to workout 3 times this week, so that is better than nothing! I even went and bought myself a couple 3 pound weights and a 5 pound weight ball to do some of the exercises on the Biggest Loser Workout. Boy do those squats work! I love the burn I feel in the morning when I wake up because I know that those exercises are working! I did however struggle a bit with the food. I really need to cut out the late night eating.. I know I do it out of complete boredom or comfort. So everytime I decide that I am going to snack away I am going to blog here on EP or try to find something to distract me from giving in. No More Eating At NIGHT!!!!!
On Sat. I went over to a friends house for dinner and game night. I watched my portions at dinner but then came the Strawberry Shortcake! oh how I love that dessert so I gave in... thank goodness I had worked out for an hour earlier that afternoon. I was proud of myself for only having one glass of wine with dinner.. for the rest of the evening I stuck to my diet pepsi. One of the girls there has been doing LA Weight Loss and has been doing so good, she has lost 45 pounds and she looks amazing, I am constantly telling her how good she looks and how proud I am of her for sticking to the program. While we were playing rummoli she decided to make a toast and tell the other girls there about my weightloss and how good I have been doing because she knew I would not say anything because I am so quiet about my weightloss. All the other girls cheered me with my diet pepsi and congratulated me on how well I have been doing. It was a nice compliment. I know that the amount on the scale really matters to me but I need to also remember that I have really changed my lifestyle since the end of December. I really do feel better, my clothes are fitting better, my body is feeling better and overall I feel better about myself.
So it is a beginning of new week. I love the start of new week, you get to see how good you are going to do this week. I know I am going to do even better this week, it is funny but even though I hate working out after not doing it for the past few weeks it was really great to get my body moving again this week, I forgot how good it feels!
So I was thinking about all the reasons of why I want to lose this weight for good! After falling off program for the past few weeks, I want to re-focus on why I want to succeed this. It is so easy to go back to my old ways when I do not keep focused on the whole picture. I want to feel better inside and out. I am so sick of tugging on my shirts to hide my rolls, feeling self-concious when out with friends, I want to have more energy and just feel overall healthy. I want to be able to shop and buy regular size clothing. I want to enjoy this summer with more confidence. I want to prove to myself that I can reach this goal for once in my life! I want to prove to my friends and family that I can do this... they are all cheering me on! I have been overweight my whole life and I want to know what it feels like to be my ideal weight. When I go to Mexico next Feb. I want to for the first time wear a bathing suit with my "skinny" friends and actually have fun and not worry about how big I am. I have not worn a bathing suit since I was a young teenager and I feel as though I am missing out on all the fun because of this stupid weight... I am fed up with it and I am going to do this no matter how long this journey is going to take me. I just need to keep these thoughts in my head everytime I do not feel like working out or eating food that I shouldn't. I want to make a life style change and enjoy the rest of my life not worrying about my weight or how I have missed out on so many fun things because of it. I am going to Lose it For Good! I can do this, I know I can! I just need to stay strong.
I am officially back on program... I kept track of everything I ate, still working on getting all my water in for the day and I worked out! Feels great to have succeeded the day!
I did the Biggest Loser Workout #2 DVD when I got home from work today... boy was that a good workout, my legs are still burning! I love how you can design your own workout to what suits you best. If I do not melt off the pounds with that workout I will be shocked! It is quite amazing how once you stop working out for a couple weeks, it feels like you are starting at stage one all over again... I really had to push myself to finish the workout, but I am proud to say that I did it!
I am going to still workout on my Elliptical because I love it, but I would like to try to get up earlier in the morning and do the Power Sculpt Workout.
Tomorrow night I am taking a friend out for dinner for her birthday so I will not have time to workout on my Elliptical so I am going to do it in the morning. Please grant me the strength to get my butt out of bed... I am not a morning person, I like to get as much sleep as I can before I have to go to work. I want to start getting in a routine of working out in the morning so I am going to have to train my body to wake up earlier and go to bed earlier as well, I am a complete night owl!
Holy when you fall off program... you really fall off! I had a wicked cold about 2 weeks ago and that just put me off the edge. I have not worked out for 2 weeks and have not been tracking my food or anything!!! I have not even stepped on my scale for 2 weeks. But I am back!!! Wow I cannot believe how horrible I have felt this past week. I was feeling so good when I was exercising and watching what I was eating. I really miss that feeling so it is back on track for me.
I went to Kalispell this weekend with a friend to go shopping. We had a blast. I love going to the grocery stores in the states. All of you Americans have some really great things you can buy. I bought some of those salad dressing spritzers, spray on butter, and so many other low fat grocery products. I am so excited to try them all. I also bought the Biggest Loser #2 DVD. I can't wait to try it out... I have read that quite a few people on EP love this workout, I am sure I will love it as well.
I am soooo happy to be back... I know we all have our little set backs but we can always find the strength and determination to get back on program! I already feel better!
So I am still not feeling well.... can't wait till this cold goes away. It will be great to feel good again so I can start working out again. I guess the good thing is that I do not have a huge appetite right now because I am sick and when I do try to eat everything just tastes weird. I have had this stupid cold since Wed. night and I am really hoping that tomorrow when I wake up I will be feeling better so I can work out on my eliptical when I get home from work. I was really hoping that by today the cold would be gone and I could wake up early tomorrow and do pilates before I went to work. I want to start doing more pilates in the morning.... it is one of the goals I have set for myself for the month of March. Need to pick it up a notch!
