The only benefit I'm seeing from being sick with a head cold is the fact that I haven't been as hungry as usual. I guess a bonus is that when I do eat, I just eat soup. Egg Drop soup to be specific. And in my sick-stupor I found out that its not bad for you! 1 cup of Egg Drop soup has around 70 calories, 3 g of fat, 3 g of carbs, and 8 g of protein! So I've been living off of it for a few days now!
I worked out on Monday. 25 minutes on the elliptical. When I finished, I truly thought I was going to die. Just the whole trying to breathe thing wasn't working for me.
Yesterday I left work early and slept the afternoon away and tried to sleep my cold away. No exercise.
Tonight...I've got plans to continue to make the couch my home, but I'm going to break out my foot peddler, so where as I won't be breaking a sweat exercising, I'll still be constantly moving while I watch American Idol, and America's Next Top Model. I love my foot peddler. And I love ANTM...am I the only one? I mean the show kills my already low self esteem, but I really love watching it.
Something that brings me down. Thigh hi's. I'd really love to be able to wear them, b/c I so hate pantyhose. But the thigh hi's just seemed to amplify the cellulite and the all around lumpy chunkiness of my thunder thighs. Sad. Until I lose some more weight...knee hi's it is!
That's what I'd like to do! I mean afterall, I worked out twice this week! Shouldn't that entitle me to be at least a couple lbs lighter?
But No, chuckled the scale as it showed me my weekly number, which is just .4 less than last week. Not even a lb, just tells me that I didn't watch it quite enough this week. That I really can't have the one little indulgence daily, and that I really will have to starve myself to get this done.
Debbie Downer huh? I guess if you run the numbers it does make sense...3500 calories burned to lose 1lb, and I burned about 900 this week. Still doesn't really make me feel better.
I'll keep it up though. I'll keep exercising. I mean I have to. I HAVE to lose some weight.
I know I'm newer to these blogs, but so you'll know what my main driving force to lose weight is, well, other than the fact that both of my parents are obese and I don't want to continue that family tradition, is that I don't have children yet. And I'd much rather lose 30lbs, then gain it while I'm pg, instead of adding 30lbs to my already "moderately overweight" self.
there I was...I had written a wonderfully witty post that was sure to impress and astound everyone, previewed it, and then lost it. ARGH!
*sigh*
Day one of my new exercise plan went well. The plan? Well...to exercise, which for the past year (or more really) has been my main problem. Why don't I lose weight? Well, I never exercise. I really, honestly wanted to be able to get down to 155 w/out much effort. I wanted to be one of those people that the weight just melts off, then when I exercise the rest of it just FALLS off, doesn't happen like that. Doesn't happen like that at all. But I finally realized that, so that's ok right?
So now that the basement of my home has painted walls, carpet, my elliptical, and cable hookup on the tv down there, I'm good to go. I got home last night, changed into some workout clothes, laced up the sneaks, and headed downstairs. 30 minutes on the elliptical. My already sore thighs (from tiling a part of this almost finished basement), screamed the entire time. But I made it through. Made it through, went upstairs and chugged some water. It felt good to exercise.
Did I just say that? It felt good to exercise? My gosh. It might be really happening. The effort that I am making, might really get me somewhere.
I'm hoping that if I blog more on here, and try to make some new friends on here, that I'll stay more motivated than by just randomly updating my Myspace blog, since I don't really want to share ALL my weight loss stuff on there with people that knew me "back when I was thin", or my xanga blog with people who yes, I "know"-but not all of them are trying to do the same thing that I am. Which is lose some weight!
My last post on there (xanga.com/thatsmrsmayor2u) was about an article I read, that if you stick to something for at least 4 days, you can do it. Check it out if you want to, along with all my other ramblings.
This weekend, well Saturday and Sunday I went completely carb-free. Now, I'm not on that bandwagon, but I do know that when I cut the carbs, my intertube around my middle really slims, and that's my big problem spot. My plan this time around is to just cut out the white flours and the white sugars. Whole grains and emphasizing on the protein end of things. And since the cable guy FINALLY showed up, I now have a functioning tv in front of my elliptical!
I finally broke out of the terrible 160s..if but barely. But its funny to me how different I feel now that I am in the 150s. I feel thinner. Last night I even think my face (which is very round) looked thinner! Could it be, I finally AM on my way?! Let's hope so!
