A slow summer...

I can't believe that it has been this long since I have blogged.  Good news is that I lost a few pounds and consider myself forever out of the 200s.  I'm still .8 pounds away from my first goal of 20 pounds lost.  Much more to go before this next April which would mark 1 year. 

I was extremely busy with travel and work.  I don't have the faintest idea where the summer went.  Oh well, JC has stayed with me all along and I just need to get off my butt and work a little harder.  It is possibe!

Sooooo close!

Happy Saturday!

This morning my JCC, and I were jumping around the scale - so excited at my WI.  I lost more weight this week and my goal is that this next week is my last to ever have a "2" in front of my weight.  Onederland here I come! 

After last week I had to really psych myself up to contol my urges to eat.  I was feeling depressed and really wanted to sabatoge myself.  (Silly me!)  I didn't even exercise this week but I did a fairly good job of staying on plan.  I'm still on the 1500 calorie a day diet and last week I averaged about 1400 calories a day.  It will be interesting to go to the 1200 calorie plan after my next visit.  It makes me a bit nervous but I guess I was nervous about only eating 1500 calories a day and I've been fine.  Heck fine?  I've been GREAT!

I got together with one of my friends last night and she said, "Wow Christine, you are getting little!"  Little?  What a great word!  I have dropped about another 10 pounds since the last time I saw her so she is really seeing the difference.  I guess that I am seeing it in my clothes.  I've had to buy some new pants/shorts so that's fun.  I'm still not really feeling skinnier though.  Do you know what I mean?  I know that it will come. :)

I do need to drink more water and also to start exercising again.  I didn't exercise at all this week.  I was just so busy with work and personal stuff that I didn't make it a priority.  That shouldn't be a problem this week though. :) 

I can't wait to get my Aveda massage once I hit my 20 pounds lost!  Whoo hoo!  It's really not that far away!  I never really thought that something like that would motivate me, but for some reason it is working this time. 

I need to check up on all of you to see what's new!  :) Take care to all! 

I'm still here!! Thank you to all of you! You are the best!

Hello all!  I've missed you! 

What's new? 

I managed to maintain last week which I was thrilled with.  It felt good to be so worried and yet show up okay.  I fell into a few days which ended this morning of not being as disciplined and now I'm back again by working out 1 hour tonight on the eliptical trainer.  Whew.  I made it over the pass and I'm coasting down hill again. :)  I'm not exactly sure what happened to me but thankfully the funk didn't last too long or was too damaging.

I think my major binges consisted of eating about a cup of light coolwhip on top of my JC chocolate cake and eating an entire bag of trail mix (5 oz?). 

Anyway, thank to all of you for your support.  That's why I'm on here - to write for myself and the great community.  Your encouragement is amazing.

Hugs! 

Stressed out about gaining this week!

I am completely stressed out about the fact that I lost too much weight last week and that I will post a gain this week.  Am I crazy or what?!!  Here is the kicker....it actually makes me more "hungry" and I'm wanting to eat more despite the fact that I'm freaked out about gaining this week.  What?!?

Why do I want to set myself up for failure like that? 

Any advice?  I could really use some.   

Tuesday

It's not fun to go back to work after a nice weekend, but heck, it's already almost Wednesday!  Gotta like that!

I had a nice weekend and didn't do anything too exciting and that was totally okay with me!  We did see Pirates last night and that was super fun!  I love those movies!  How can Keira look so cute in all of those little outfits?

I had a good weekend by working out all 3 days!  Saturday - eliptica for 1 hour, and Sunday/Monday went for a run on my Couch to 5K program.  I'm now up to running for 2 minutes at a time.  That feels great although for some reason yesterday I felt like I was draggin more weight around than the day before.  Weird - why is that?

I hope all is well in your worlds!

Lost another 3.4 pounds. Yeah!!!!

Drum roll please........this is a total of 14 pounds lost  since I started at the end of April!  Wow!  I even hit my 5% goal!  AND I am just 3 pounds away from being under 200 pounds. 

Frankly, I really don't know how I lost that much in one week.  I didn't really do anything spectacular.  I cut down a little bit on my nonfat sugar free cinnamon dulce lattes so maybe that helped.  I also just wasn't as hungry this week as I have been. 

My JCC said that I need to think of what my 20 lb reward to myself will be.  Hmm..... I think that I might reward myself with a massage at the Aveda spa.  I also decided that when I hit my goal I am going to get a black convertible.  I've always wanted one and heck, if I lose all of this weight - I deserve it!  (It won't be a new one - that's fine with me!)

What are you going to do for yourself when you make your goal weight?  It's kind of fun to think about!

I hope that you are all well.  I'm looking forward to catching up on your blogs this weekend! 

No news here.

I can't believe that tomorrow is already Wednesday!  Goodness! 

I'm watching American Idol and just realized that I should move my body from my desk to my elliptical trainer to watch it!  Next commercial break!  I didn't run today like I had hoped so I will need to get that in tomorrow. 

No news here! Hope all is well in your worlds!!!! 

Couch to 5 K - let's try it again!

I was feeling more energetic today and so did my Couch to 5 K run.  I was noticing that with my  10#s gone, it's a little bit easier to run.  There was less jiggle on my thighs and hips.  Awesome!  Now, I can't wait to drop more weight to feel even less jiggle!!!!   I was thinking how I have 1 less sack of potatos that I am carrying around.  That really does make a big difference!  As I was running/walking I did see LOTS of people again.  I live in a busy area but I felt better about myself this time around and turned up my Tina Turner really loud so I really didn't care.

When I got back, my dh but the fan on me because he was concerned that my face was so red.  I reassured him that it's just what my face does and he just hasn't seen me after I've been running like this before! 

I've been reading about everyone's knee problems so I am being very careful.  I don't have a knee problem history but then again I haven't tried to run with this kind of weight.  I don't want to screw up good knees - that's for sure!

I have a great watch that I wanted to recommend if anyone wants to splurge.  It's called MioShape.  It has all sorts of great timers, calorie counters, etc.  I've had it for about a year and it is worth every penny!  www.miowatch.com

Time to do some laundry!

I've missed all of you!

Hi!  I've missed all of you this week!  I can't believe that it is already Friday night!  What happened to this week - I just don't know. 

Eating-wise (I just made that a word.) I had a pretty good week.  I stayed on my JC plan for the most part so I feel good about that.  I did sneak a few crackers the other night but nothing too terrible - like the WHOLE bag so that was good!  Tonight I am trying to savor every bite of my JC BBQ Chicken pizza while my dh is eating my favorite Papa Murphy's pizza.  It's okay, I'd rather eat the JC.  Sure....

Unfortunately, I did not meet my exercise goals this week so that is a bummer.  I did great over the weekend and then my Couch to 5 K went from Couch to 1/2K.  Oh well, it's a new weekend!  I've just been so darn tired.  I know that I keep saying that but I am really, really tired.  My eyes are tired and hot.  I guess it's just darn allergies and I'm just not used to having them so I'm a big baby.  Waa waaa...

I didn't have the guts to do the colon cleanse quite yet. But I'm about 80% sure I'm going to go for it.  I keep thinking that maybe I'm so tired because I have all of that toxic build up that's slowing me down.  Ha!  I'm such a goof!

I hope that everyone is well an I can't wait to catch up and see how things have been.

By the way, it's my WI tomorrow with my JCC. Wish me luck! 

Ups and Downs

Anyone else go through an emotional roller coaster?  Gee, yesterday I was elated after my run and then later on (not sure why) my self esteem dropped so low I was in tears. 

Today was a better day and I felt better about myself.  Sometimes I think that I just get so tired out that I get emotional.  Kind of like a little kid. 

Tonight I did some recruiting at a Culinary School and oh boy did they ever have some yummy appetizers out for us.  I was good though and resisted.  I raced home and ate my JC meatloaf dish which was quite tasty!

I didn't think I was sore today until I took off my heels and OUCH!  My calves are tight and sore!  Well worth it though, well worh it!  Tomorrow I'm scheduled for my 2nd session so I will need to do it after work.  I pray that I will keep my priorities straight and JUST DO IT!