Down another pound!

YAY!! I started drinking my water again, and i'm trying to include more fruits in my diet.... I haven't been so good about going to gym though. Everytime i get home and eat this week, i've just been exhausted. Like take a nap for 2 hours on the couch and then wake up to watch tv with DH before going to bed for real at 10:30 exhausted.

My goal was to make it to 150 before leaving the month of October  that obviously didn't happen. Oh well, a loss is a loss and now i'm under 155!!

wishing for an instant slim fix

Hello everyone! Sorry i haven't written in a few days... i was out in the field for my job and walking through forests, etc. I feel like i've maintained over the last couple of days-even though i ate at McDonalds Thurs, Fri and Mon.

There really wasn't a choice on the place to eat, and i didn't want to bring lunch from home because, well just because. So this little trip into the field effectively stopped my "no fast food" edict. But I'm back on the wagon now!

Yesterday DH and I got an invitation to a wedding in November...that's one month away!! So in addition to having 18 days to get back to a size 6 for clothes shopping purposes, I also have to look good for a wedding in just a month....I guess there is always going to be an event to look good for, even if it's just running into people who knew you in high school at the mall. This thought should motivate me more... I've pretty much stayed away from the scale this week, but i'll weigh in tomorrow.

Going to personal training session tonight...maybe i can convince myself to stay an hour longer to do cardio.

Have a great day everyone!

Arm workout...

worked out with my personal trainer last night... he had someone shadowing him and at one point on the triceps pull down, i was being tag-teamed! "stand up straight!" "stand back here" "no, stand there" "use your core!" "keep your arms in!"

ugh. I should mention, at this point in my workout, i had only 5 more minutes to go and my arms were dead. Like, starting to shake on their own dead. Not cool.

Up a pound on the scales, I'm calling that muscle. I can't not weigh myself everyday and even though i know my body will fluctuate throughout the week because of water, etc... i feel the need to justify every single pound gained.

Watched the Biggest Loser last night- and felt really sorry for Heba. I can't imagine being in the BL compound and only losing 2 pounds a week while everyone around me is pulling out crazy numbers.

In exactly 24 days I will be shopping for new clothes for my birthday with my mom. 24 days before i have to try on clothes and hope to goodness that i have lost the 10 pounds i gained in the last month Why don't i just put it off do you ask? well, because i really need work-appropriate clothes. I'm just waiting for HR to say something to me about my current clothes. Because i gained so much weight so fast, virtually none of my clothes fit and i wear the exact same thing every week. 2/3 of the outfits are starting to look pretty shabby.

Ok, enough of this long post- i'm going to drink my water, eat healthfully, go to the gym, start my new Birth Control, and lose this weight!!

DOWN 3.5!!

I'm down 3.5 pounds!! WOW! I went to the gym last night for an hour and a half and pushed myself to burn 500 calories... go me! I have my personal training tonight and i'm planning on getting there at least 1/2 hour before my session starts so i can get half my workout in beforehand.

Also called the doctor yesterday and had them switch me back to Yaz from Lo-ovrul. The nurse said that a low-hormone BC like Lo-ovrul wouldn't make me gain weight, to which i responded, "Since i've gained 20 pounds in the past 3.5 months, please just humor me." The worst part is, it all in my belly, so pants have become very uncomfortable lately. Oh well, hopefully i can keep up the weight loss

so...

I'm back!! and really in it to win it this time. I thought that fitting into a wedding dress was enough motivation to make me skinny again, but it really wasn't. And...it took all of my bridesmaids to get me into my dress.

So now, i've hired a personal trainer, working out with him once a week. Starting a new healthy eating philosophy- not diet! I'm not good with diets. and trying to wrap my head around the fact that i almost weigh 160 pounds. WOW. How did I gain this much weight? Is my husband really that unhealthy for me?

Or is it my new birth control? I'm currently on Lo-ovrul, changed to it from Yaz because i thought maybe Yaz was killing my sex drive. Should i attempt to change my birth control and see if that helps the weight issue? I've seriously gained at least 20 pounds since i've been on it starting in May.

Any thoughts?

i'm confused by the scale

ok so every morning i get up and get in the shower. every morning i think "wow, my budha belly looks really toned, i guess i'm losing weight!" and then by the time i get out of the shower, i look in the mirror and think " nope, must have been an illusion."

is this some kind of phenom i don't know about how sleep makes you fit and toned and by the time you stand up for about 15 minutes you go back to your flabby self?

Also, the scale changes numbers based on if i stand up straight or slouch. By like 2 pounds. what is the deal?!

it's march already?!?

where did February go??? I have 7 weeks until the wedding. i have no cake, no wedding bands, no marriage license, and we stil haven't picked out our vows... i may go crazy now. is that an excuse to look fat in my wedding dress? every weekend from now until the wedding i have some kind of wedding related social gathering- and i hate it. did i mention that i'm very anti-social?  ok. i haven't weighed in a week. maybe i haven't been doing too badly. i hope.

new plan:

do the train for your body type everyday this week.(mon-friday)

relax with hubby-to-be at beach this weekend

write two thank you notes every night this week until caught up.

eat lots and lots of fruit. and vegetables.

remember that exercise is a get-to, not a have-to.

oy vey.

crunch time!!

it's now 3.5 months till the wedding!!!! i've gotten the new year off to a good start...I go home for lunch now and i have a turkey and cheese sandwich on whole grain bread with water (this is a major improvement over Chick-fil-a everyday) i'm rather surprised that i weighed less eating that everyday and running around a stadium than i do eating better now and working a sedentary job. i guess that just highlights the importance of exercise.

i didn't gain weight! and then i did...

ok so in my last post i had gained weight but looked slimmer with no explainable reason. well the next day i had lost 1.5 pounds -yeah!!

and then i was bad. really really bad. i've had pizza for dinner (just pizza no side salad or veggies to go with) TWICE this week. we had "goodie" day this week which is basically an all day eat a thon. and it was heaven. last night i was doing some "homework" (it's sad that i bring stuff home from work to get ahead on) and i happened to look over to the mirror and realized i now have an almost double chin

i have to go to my fiance's family annual Christmas gathering tomorrow night - it's the first time many have seen me in person and i don't look good hopefully some of this personal expansion is from not drinking enough water and not getting enough sleep. So... today is penance day. i've had my slim fast for the day, i'm going to drink so much water that i'm going to be making a bathroom run every 15 minutes, and no goodies!!!! if it's sweet it had better be an apple missy! after work today i'm going home and going straight to bed. Take that almost double chin!

i look slimmer, but i gained weight?

ok so i'm still in the process of moving my stuff into the new house/attempting to decorate pottery barn style for dirt cheap. i walked all over on saturday trying to scope out deals (don't be too impressed, there was so much traffic it was easier to hoof it than to move the car) and i've also been taking the stairs more at work (it makes me so winded that i can't take them all the time or else people will think i have a serious problem). so my clothes fit and i look slimmer, and my legs feel less jiggly but the scale says i gained1.5 pounds! jeez. i'm just going to pretend like its muscle. whatever... at lunch i'm going to go pick up cat stuff for fluffy to move in this weekend! yay! sweet little fluffball