Sheesh I went MIA fast. So I was off to a decent start, lost about 6lbs. I'm not looking to set any speed records so I was happy... then one day I got the brilliant idea to go rollerblading. Loaded the baby up in the jogging stroller and started out on my 5 mile round trip path... made it 2.5 miles before I completely ate it. Had to grit and bear it alllll the way back home as the hubs was at work. Got road rash all down my lower leg and the spots that didn't get scrapped to nothing got some nice looking bruises. Having never had road rash before boy was I surprised at how much that hurt!! took a lot longer than I imagined to heal too. So needless to say I wasn't working out a whole ton but I was still managing to get a little in. Then the next weekend.... food poisoning... and to make it worse it was something in my own home that I ate and I had no idea what it was other than something hubs didn't eat. Did a massive purge but I'm a bit shy of food in my own house and having a really really hard time wanting to cook again.. so I've slipped into a crap eating funk that is proving really hard to get out of. I'm hoping making it to the market this weekend and hitting up the farm stand on monday will help. Honestly all I want is to eat out constantly and its not so much cuz I'm craving the food its just a mental block in my head that I can't get over. Crazy fear somewhere in there that food in my own home= food poisoning. ugh. Not sure how much it has set me back in the weight loss area since if all that wasn't enough aunt flow has shown up and brought uncle bloating with her.. So a bit hard to get a read on where I'm at. In a few days I should know. UGH.
ok. venting over. How to fix. Going to load up on fresh vegs and fruits and figure out dinners and lunches and give myself options. I'm thinking I'll splurge on some stuff like cooked chicken and healthier ready to go things I can throw together in case this dang mental issue persists and I can't get into cooking for awhile still. Working out for the near future- biggest loser video game I think 3 or 4 days a week, walk to the farm stand monday (1.75miles) and 2 other walks in there somewhere. I'd like to get up before the baby and jump on the treadmill maybe twice a week but that may come later. Her sleep schedule isn't regular yet so I sleep when I can :) Ah feels nice to write out a plan even if its rather sketchy!
Its been a looong time! Its been er um ahem uhh a few years :) And still basically the same weight. I will find out tomorrow. So obviously haven't been on the diet train in the last few years but time to saddle up and hop on! I did have a baby last year. Baby girl is 6 1/2 months old now! I did manage to only gain 16lbs while preggers and lost it all the week after giving birth. So thats a plus. Dealing with the new body is a whole other monster. And I'm still nursing so I won't really be counting calories but I will focus on eating healthy stuff. The holidays definitely threw a lot of sugar and junk at me! I also want to focus on an exercise routine. I know it takes 21 days to form a habit and the first 7ish days for me are always the worst. We got an XBox Kinect and I've been trying out games on there. Tried Your Shape, Biggest Loser and Dance Central. All pretty fun. Also got some workout videos from a friend. Now if I could get the baby girl to actually take a nap during the day I would have the perfect time to workout. Having a kid that on a good day takes two 20min naps is tough! Not much time to do anything really. But anyway need to get in the habit of walking the dogs. Would love to jog regularly with our mut as he ahs endless energy and could probably go 10miles before slowing down lol.. Plus that I can stick the kiddo in the stroller and go! Anyways I'm off for now! Will get back in the blogging habit!
So I've been doing ok the past few days. Nothing horrible food wise, a lil ice cream and a couple cookies but not too bad and was accounted for. The only thing as far as food that I think threw me off is the stupid box of cereal I've been snacking on too much. Not the worst I could do but definitely not good. But anyway thats my only slip up. I did walk the dog sunday, it was a good walk about 2 miles and part uphill so I was feeling it. No walking yesterday, grocery day but at least that kept me moving and lifting lol. Today I plan on doing the 2 mile walk again. Eventually theres a 4 or 5 mile path I want to take but I dont think me or the dog could handle it yet but we are working up to it :) I keep wanting to add more in as far as workouts but I'm just so dang tired all the time I think I just need to keep it simple. Enough to lose and then hopefully my energy will come back and I will be able to get more in and kick it up a notch. Striving for slow and steady for now. Anyways I'm off to do some work and try to get rid of this monster of a headache.
is it friday yet??? lol I'm so flippin tired. I literally cannot keep my eyes open at times. I almost missed a meeting yesterday cuz instead of taking lunch I just closed my door and put my head down on my desk and was out cold lol. Woke up with 5mins to get ready thankfully.
No exercise yesterday. Tuesday I did get a walk with the dog in. I'm going to really have to struggle to get a good schedule down. Its proving more difficult than I thought. Working late kills any time I have. Oh well. It'll work out some how. Hopefully today I will be able to fit a walk in with the dog. Starting around 7:30 she starts getting really irritated if we arent getting ready for a walk lol. Shes funny. She whines and cries and tries to jump in my lap. Its nice tho that shes there pushing me to get out. Now only if she liked to jog. She prefers to stroll and sniff haha. We'll work on that.
Anyways I'm off to work on some stuff and try to figure out who the heck just barged into my office and asked me questions lol. SHHSH ppl I'm busy posting :)
So yesterday didn't go all that great. I forgot shopping nights I don't have time to workout so there was no exercise. But thats ok, I'm not getting off track. While I didn't exercise, I didn't stop moving till 9pm so its not so bad. Not like I was sitting on my butt chowing down on something so I'll take it :) Got good food in the house now. Tonight I have to go back out shopping for junk so not entirely sure if I'll get to work out. We shall see. Its waaay too hot at work to walk at lunch time. I'd be drenched in sweat and so stinky for my afternoon meetings LOL. I weighed myself last night but not sure I believe what the scale said. It showed 193. I'd be happy if its true but I'm doubtful. Need to try a diff one.
Well the plan today is just eat well, keep moving, even if its not a workout, till 9pm and yeah.. thats about it :D Hope everyones doing well!
Man its been a long time. So I've been MIA and pretty much doing nothing about losing weight. No idea even what I weigh now, haven't weighed myself in forever. Probably good though, don't want to see how much I've set myself back lol. So heres the deal on why I've been missing. DH moved to AZ, I moved in with my grandpa, I've been out to AZ, made a trip down south to visit a friend, and just life keeps throwing things at me. I'm not doing well being away from my hubby and thats probably the root of all my problems but I'll get through it. Food has been... well bad to say the least. between traveling and just plain emotional, comfort food has been the staple. But no more. Going shopping tonight gonna get good food, fruits and veggies and some chicken and ground turkey. I'm on a budget of $20 a week for food but since I blew a bunch yesterday at the fair, I'm trying to cut it down to $10 for this week. Hopefully I can do it.
And for exercise... my goal is to start small. I'm back to not sleeping well at all and I have no real schedule going, its always changing so I'm hoping to walk the dog each day and then jog 30-45mins at least 3 times a week. Thats the goal for now, at least this month, maybe next month too. I'll up it eventually. I want to add weights in twice a week too but my dummy self packed those up and they went to AZ so no telling when I can get those back. But I may have an exercise band I could work with... hmm.. might have to go digging thru stuff try to find that. '
Anyway I'm emotional but trying to get back on track. I would love to be able to surprise my hubby next time I see him with a decent weight loss. Well...I know it wont be next time I see him cuz thats in a couple weeks but maybe the next time after that. I think that gives me something good to work towards. When I went down to visit my friend we took pics and it was so bad. I guess it was good I saw what I look like but man oh man. I wanted to cry. Or just be like whos that fat girl?!? lol couldnt possibly be me! haha. oh well. Only I can change that. OK enough for now. Off to get some work done and check on some ppl. Its good to be back :)
got back from the trip last night, had to clean and then passed out. So tired. We stayed with our friends whos 1.5yr old gets up every morning at 5:50... so we were up late and then up at teh butt crack of dawn every morning since we were sleeping in the family room. But its ok we are just tired. We found an apartment in the area we wanted. 2 bed 2 bath, like what we have about the same square feet too. Its got 2 pools! and grass which was a big plus for the pup. We are paying extra for a downstairs and a view.. a view of what, who knows, its AZ.. theres rocks and dirt and mountains with rocks and dirt LOL. But its all good, its almost 1/2 what we pay now in rent so thats very nice and its gated which is nice too. Has a pretty nice exercise room too, like twice the size of most places fitness rooms. Its a few miles away from our friends which is great. So now just to move. Oh and DH doesn't even have to pack our stuff!! I didn't know the company is paying for movers to come and they pack and unpack everything. We just gotta move my stuff first so my stuff doesnt end up in AZ lol.
The weekend since we were out was bad on food but not horrible. I did have some processed food type stuff that I'm not used to when our friends made dinners which wasn't all taht bad but I do notice now I'm really craving sugar and stuff which I haven't in quite awhile but oh well. No real exercise either but its ok I'm not stressing about it. I can't add any stress on myself with everythin else going on since I'm alrready starting to get migraines and be miserable. But I'm back on track food wise this week. Did a work walk though it was only 1 lap cuz it was hot. Planning on getting the dog a walk tonight, she hasn't seen her lil boyfriend at the park for awhile so that will be fun. But yeah thats about it! I'm still working on catching up.. seems something always comes up like today we have the visual inspection on our apt by the movers so gotta clean a bit so they can walk around lol. Anwyays I'm still here and cheering everyone on even if its just to myself lol.
So not a horrible day today. DHs lunch went nice, had 2 plates of salad with as little ranch as I could put on it but still have some taste and then I had 2 slices of pizza but I left the crust. Oh and water to drink :) I'm happy with it. I did eat somebodys string cheese out of the fridge at work. I feel so bad... I thought it was mine but I took a bite and realized it was regular not light and knew it wasn't mine.. I ate it lol which was bad cuz it wasnt light but I feel bad I ate somebodys cheese mostly. Such a nerd. I'll just go buy one tonight and replace it tomorrow. But other than I'm good.
Only got in the work walk and walk with the dog yesterday, had to go to the grocery store instead of swim but thats ok I got yummy fruit now :) Today no work walk since we had lunch out so just walk with the dog and swimming! My butt was sore yesterday from swimming on sat. lol. I upped it to 15 laps and I felt it in my bum thats for sure! Ohh I walk the dog to the park and shes got a lil boyfriend there! Theres a couple ppl that we all walk at the same time and we let the dogs off leash if theres no other dogs around and they run and run and run! And my dog and this one lil boy dog do most the running its so cute! So I call him her boyfriend lol.
And for the super news :) My grandfather said hes willing to try me living with him. My mom thinks hes just nervous about my dog being there. He doesnt want to trip, doesnt want to accidently let her out the door, doesn't want her escaping the backyard etc. He walks with a walker and its quite an effort (trouble moving feet) so I'm sure hes worried about her being in the way. But I think she'll do fine. Hes also worried about her being so active and hyper. She gets super excited to see ppl at first but once she sees them and is used to the situation she calms down. Heck at home she usually ignores DH for the most part and just follows me around lol. So I'm hoping it will work out. It will be an adjustment but its not for a really long time so I will stick it out :) And hopefully grandpa will be able to too!
Anyways, our plans may have changed, we may be going out of town tomorrow instead of thurs not sure. We have an early afternoon apt tour thingy on thurs so we may drive halfway tomorrow instead of having to get up at the butt crack of dawn on thrus. But anyhow, I know I haven't been commenting much, but its hectic with moving and such. I'm trying to catch back up :)
Weekend wasn't too horrible I suppose. Wasn't great food wise, was better than other weekends but still not where I want it to be. Did get a little exercise in, swimming and a walk but again not where I want it to be. I need to pump it up a bit. I'm starting to get discouraged since I'm still just staring at those damn same 5-6lbs and its not going further. I knew it would be a fight to get it off but its so easy to get discrouaged. I'm still chugging along but I dunno I guess a good loss would be very nice about right now. But I know its all up to me. This week, I'm aiming for my 30min walks at work, 45min walk with the dog and then 30min swimming each day, which I've found if I go kinda late I can usually get in when no ones around. But that will only be mon-wed since thus-sun we are out of town. I was sooooo hoping we would be staying at a hotel when we go out of town, that way maybe I would have a pool or workout room to get exercise done but its not looking good. DH really wants to stay with his buddy.. so not excited about that. I just don't like imposing on ppl and always feel in the way and I will have pretty much no way of working out. I could go walking around their neighborhood but its like 100 there and I just don't wanna do that. So I guess I will focus all my energy on eating right. I think I'll take cereal for breakfasts, maybe some protein powder for lunches just in case, that way I could pass if we were eating junk for lunch at their house. I'll pack some apples too, I think those would make it there and some almonds. Well its a start. I'll get to play with their 2yr old son too and hes chunky so maybe thatll be a workout lol.
Tomorrows a farewell lunch for DH at work. Its at a restaurant, going to be pizza and salad buffet. I think I will be ok. We had pizza yesterday at the mall, those big slices, I had half of one and was done and didn't really want to even see pizza again for a long time lol. So I will most likely pile on the salad tomorrow and maybe have a slice of pizza but probably not. Wed is DHs last day. I'm jealous. He gets 4 1/2 weeks off before he starts his new job. I would LOVE that. SO damn jealous. He could have started earlier and just had 2 1/2 but of course he chose more time off. Sometimes I feel like I need a break. I know I gotta stick it out here for awhile. Really trying to make it here a year. I still have no place to live after next month. Gave grandpa a hard copy of what I emailed him since he never got it supposedly so we will see what he says. Would be wierd staying there but who knows if hell even want me there.
Anyway, I'm off to see what work I can do... Or draw on my white board that sounds like more fun.
yay! Had a great day yesterday. Food was absolutely perfect. Well the ice cream should have been eaten earlier but oh well. No work walk but did get a walk with the dog in. Jogged the little part of the trail. No idea how long, I just jogged till I was no longer comfortable. Probably only like a min or two. Plan on just trying to increase it little by little. Maybe just jogging that same part for a few days or a week maybe and then increasing it a tiny bit from there. Slowly but surely! The dog seriously does not like jogging though lol. Poor thing. She could stand to lose a pound or two too tho! Then after that walk DH surprised me and actually said hed go swimming with me! So we did and I did 10 laps. So much fun. I felt great!
Today the plan is just walk with the dog tonight. No work walk since we go out to lunch on fridays. No swimming cuz its Sci Fi Friday so DH definitely won't move from 8-10pm.
I went shopping yesterday at old navy, needed some some pants. I hate shopping, such a downer having to try on pair after pair after pair... I'm refusing to buy size 18 which is what would fit the most comfortably. I wanted 16s, pants that were a bit tight right now, but that I could still wear so they will last longer as I'm dropping weight. I know if I get 18s they won't fit for very long at all, I'm kinda in between an 18 and 16 right now. I found an awesome pair of pin striped pants, 16s that fit great and were 3.97! I was stoked. Also got a pair of plain black slacks. I didn't let myself get all down about it like I usually do, I usually get all depressed about my size after shopping but I just didn't let myself. I am what I am. I'm working to change it, change my size, but for now this is me. Plus I just told myself, having to buy 16s is better than buying 18s, its a step in the right direction! Well anways, I've been slacking off on keeping up with ppl lately, hopefully I can get back to that. Have a great weekend everyone!
