Hello all! It's been a few days since my last blog. We have really been super busy. My house is almost finished. Hopefully it will be Friday, then my new furniture comes Tuesday. It's been a mad house, and I haven't had the chance to exercise. Wait..... tha't not true.... I have had the chance to exercise. As I sit here I realize I have used the painting as an excuse not to, yeah my house was a mess and it would have been difficult, but I could have.
It doesn't matter how strong the will power, there is always the temptation lurking. Well, the positive side is... it's not lurking somewhere in the little debbie snack cakes!!!!
Anyhow, I got myself back on track this morning. I was up at 5:30 a.m. and I got in a mile and a half on the treadmill, and then done some sit ups, and some light weights. I was right proud of myself, I never get up in the mornings and do that. But I needed to push myself some.
I am still a little disappointed in myself for not working around this and getting my exercise in, but I am putting this past me as of this point and moving on and taking it as a learning lesson. Must remeber to right this down in my book of motivation.
Well, I hope you all are having a wonderful week. I am also glad to see that some of the ones (and you know who you are) have pulled yourselves back up and gotten back on track!! We have all come to far, to let it get the best of us. Way to go ladies!!!!
Friday is my weigh in so, I guess I will post another then. Keep your fingers crossed. I am really hoping to make 255!!!!!!
Hello everyone! Wow, it Monday tomorrow already....where did the weekend go? I have done really well this weekend. No cheats or anything, but I did have this terrible urge (which I resisted) for a nice ice cold Mountain Dew!!! But that's okay - it's over now!!! However I still have not held up my end of the bargin and done my exercising yet. Friday night was a late night, and yesterday we went to pick out our living room furniture!!! It's so pretty, but will not be here until Tuesday after next....ugh, that's okay the painter will not be finished painting until the end of the week. Finally getting rid of the puppies that I have, 3 went yesterday, and I have 3 left! *note to self, get dog fixed!! Today I have to clean, and get groceries.
Tomorrow starts a new week and it starts with me getting my butt back into gear with my workouts, but today with all the cleaning could count as one, since there is a lot of cleaning to do.
Anyways, some of the blogs I have read this week show that some of you are down and out and seems that you are near the edge of falling of the weight loss wagon, COME ON GUYS, YOUR BETTER THAN THIS!!!!! We can all do this together. I seem pretty strong on my journey to finding my inner skinny chick, and I do have some remarkable willpower like I have never had this time, but reading your blogs, and comments help me out too, and I am sure that I am not the only one that it helps. So to all of you out there who are thinking of giving up, DON"T DO IT! Start with me tomorrow and refresh your journey! Together we can do it.
Hello!!!!! Well it was weigh in day today! All of those who weighed in today, I hope that it was a good one. Mine sure was. I have finally hit the 250's! That's still considered obese, but I have not been in the 250's for several years. I have to get there....I WILL GET THERE! 165 gets closer and closer every week.
So as it stands, I am down 50 pounds from my highest of 308, and I am now 38 pounds down since starting back on my plan since May 9th, 2008. Plus I had set a 3 month goal for August 9th. My goal was to be at 263 by that date. Well, that date isn't even here, and I have already passed my goal by 5 pounds!!
I am really starting to be able to tell that I am finally losing it. At first, I could not tell at all. I haven't really been able to exercise this week at all due to all the painting going on, but I will get back into it this weekend, and next week. I still have about 3 weeks until my 3 month goal date. I am really aiming to about 11 pounds under that 263 goal weight. Only 6 more to go. If I can hit that weight of 252, then I will be one month closer to my goal weight. I had planned on shooting to lose about 11 pounds a month. I know towards the end it will probably be harder and I may hit a plateau, but I am trying.
Anyway, enough of me running on about myself. I hope you all have had a really good week, and that you have done really well. If not, just pick up with it again tomorrow.
Remember one bad day doesn't define the rest of the journey.
It's been a couple of days since I last blogged. It's been crazy around here. The painting is still going on here....slowly, but it's going. But the brighter side of that, it's that last thing we have to do and the remodling of our house will be complete!! Work is going okay, I still wish though sometimes I could hit the magic mute button on some people!!!
We ventured out last night and took my son to a Professional Wrestling show. We all had a blast. Sadly my husband had a bratwurst , but he has been hiting the gym this week. I am dragging though, we got in really late and I still had to work today, plus the painters were here at 7:30.
I decided to sit down and catch up on some of the blogs. I really love reading about everyone and seeing how they are doing, and i love reading the really nice and encouraging comments I get. You guys are great!
I have been doing really well. I haven't cheated, broke down, gave up or anything. A part of me keeps wondering when the melt down will happen. I guess like in the past it just happened. But now the choices that I make about how and what I eat, just seem like second nature. I am hoping that I will say goodbye to the 260's this Friday and hello to the 250's which by the way I have not seen since about 2003.
I really have to get back to my exercising, but this week has been crazy already. Will do that tomorrow, so tired....must sleep soon!!!!
Anyway, good night all, and if you had a not so great day today, wake up tomorrow and make up for it! If you had a good day today...keep it up. We're that much closer!
Hey everyone, Happy Sunday. I hope that everyone is having a wonderful and healthy weekend. It's been a long one here. My painters started Saturday, so my house will be in complete shambles for the next week or so, but what they have done already looks so good. I am so excited.
I had birthday party to go to yesterday - options for eating there - Pizza Hut Pizza & Pasta, YIKES! Those are so my favorite, but I chose not to eat it. I had one bite of my husbands pizza and pasta just for the taste. So I won that battle with temptation, and I came home and had a turkey sandwhich w/ a slice of watermelon. Much better!
I did however have to go up town, which worked out as a benefit for me. I decided I wanted something new to wear to the party since all of my clothes are really starting to look very loose on me, to the point that I should probably go ahead and get rid of them. I was trying on a cute shirt that I found that was form fitting so I had to get my regular size in it, but the pants that I tried on were a 24 and I grabbed a 22 just in case. How about I tried on the 22 first, and it was a tad to big! I did not dare get the size 18, because I didn't want to push it.
Just to give you a picture, when I started out I should have been in a 26 because my 24's were starting to cut me off, but I refused and kept stuffing myself in the 24's! So I just bouht the shirt and come home. I went to my closet, and looked in the very back were I have hidden the smaller sizes in hopes that one day I might be able to get back into them. I pulled out my 22's and they fit! THEY FIT!!!! No sucking in the stomach to zip them, no walking around with muffin top!! I tried on the 20 that I had but it was a little snug, but things are made different, so I am not discouraged. TOM is visiting right now, so I am not surprised they didn't fit. However since his visit, the scales say I dropped another 1.3 pounds so I hoping to maybe make the 260 mark this week.
Anyway, I have loads to do today, so I better get started and stop blogging.
Hey all!!! Well, I can finally say that the tension is releasing!! I got the colors picked for my painter (who starts painting the inside of the house Saturday), got my house clean for the most part, got my car cleaned (the beach is not longer in the car), got mine and Garrett's hair cut today (feeling lighter), and I just had a great work out. I walked a mile and a half, w/out stopping, I have added some weights to tighten up the flabby arms, worked in about 45 crunches, 45 sit ups, and I got my morning yoga in!!! I feel like super woman today! I am excited about the weigh in, even though TOM should be visiting pretty soon. I really wish I felt like this everyday.
Anyway, I hope you all are having a good day to and that you are doing well. If it has been a bad day... don't worry, you can make tomorrow better!
I haven't been around in the last couple of days. I have reall had a lot going on since the 4th. Well, I told you I was about to have my house painted. I never realized that picking out paint, (for an entire house) was so stressfull and irratating. But I finally prevailed, and he starts Saturday. I am really excited too. Hopefully it will all come together and look good. So as I realized that someone was about to see every inch of my house, I decided that I really needed to go through each room and kick the clutter out, and vaccum behind and under all the pieces of furniture that we tend to only go behind maybe twice a year for deep cleaning, like the bed, the dressers etc.
So for the last 2 days I have used that as my exercise, not to mention that I am totally frustrated when I am working my buns off to turn and see my husband laying on the couch wathcing TV. I hate the excuse " well, you didn't ask me to help". That's okay, payback is coming!!! By the way, he starts a gym on Monday, so his eating habits in the last couple of days has really gone down the drain.
Anyway, I am really excited to weigh in tomorrow, I am really hoping that I have done well. I did some yoga this morning, but other than the cleaning, I have really done much in the exercise department, BUT I have maintained and done really well with my eating.
Anyway, hope that you all are doing well and working hard on staying on track, but it's off to the showers and to work.
Okay people the 4th of July weekend is over. Not bragging, but I hope everyone did as well as I did or atleast the best they could. It's a new week and the year is half over. (I can't believe it) The worst parts of the year are headed our way with Thanksgiving and Christmas!!!! Well my resolution for the rest of the year is to add more exercises to start tighting so that I don't end up flabby!!
Hope you all will make some too! Have a great week, and let's kick butt doing it!!!
Hey everyone! Well it's finally Sunday, and the end to a long weekend. I haven't really been on the treadmill this week. I have been really busy. But I will make up for it this coming week. I had a cook out yesterday to go to. I was really proud of myself. I had loads of willpower. There was so much southern food there, baked beans, potato salad, slaw, hush puppies, bbq pork, chicken, and veggies! I only had about a tablespoon of beans, slaw, & potato salad, and small piece of chicken that I tore all the skin from. When I got on the scales this morning, I was down to 265. This is a mile stone for me because I am no longer in the 100 pounds plus group. I now only have just the 100 pounds to lose. That is still alot, but the 43 pounds that I have lost since my highest weight is also alot.
Otherwise, not much else to report, I am still trying to pick out my paint colors for the painter, and my husband is not any help at all. I am looking forward to hitting the beach this coming weekend. I bought a new bathing suit a couple of weeks ago that was too little, I am hoping with the weight I have lost and "hopefully" what I may lose this week, I will be able to fit into it.
Well, better cut it short, I still need to clean up some, and finish picking paint.
, but he has been hiting the gym this week. I am dragging though, we got in really late and I still had to work today, plus the painters were here at 7:30.