Life is a series of choices...
Choose wisely.
My Profile
- Name: Zexxii
- City: Harrisburg
- Region: Pennsylvania
- Country: United States
My Weight Loss
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172.7cm
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| Start weight: |
218.50lb
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153.20lb
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| Goal weight: |
149.20lb
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| Lost to date: |
65.30lb
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| Remaining: |
4.00lb
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10/22/2009 17:53
First week of exercising - GOAL!
check, check, check.
So, to recap
Sunday - 20 minute walk
Tuesday - 20 minute walk
Thursday - 20 minute walk
Wed - Pilates (checK)
Sat - Yoga (to be done)
Tomorrow is Friday. Yea! I get to pick my own food for the next month! No more nasty oatmeal square bars! No more nasty clam chowder! The plan is to stick to the plan as much as possible and substituting a couple of things for lunch, and dinner.
For breakfast, I'd rather eat cereal every day, and scrambled eggs or pancakes every once in a while. I suppose I will order alot of cereal or do MoMo.
10/21/2009 19:00
Yoga or Pilates
That is the question.
A little background, first and foremost, I used to be in shape. I was 5' 8" tall with 38 28 38 measurements. I weighed 140 pounds and was solid muscle.
It started in the Navy when we had to do PT quarterly. I decided to become part of the PT program onboard the USS Abe Lincoln and obtained my group fitness certification. I taught step aerobics onboard the ship (the captain bought the ship some steps when I told him I'd like to teach), which, makes step class VERY interesting when the floor is moving.
After the Navy, I went on to teach cycling, body pump (LOVED body pump), body step, and finally yoga after I started going to a yoga studio and fell in love with yoga. I got Yoga Fit certified. It's a decent certification for "gym" style yoga. Ok, so there's the background.
Now, fast forward approximately 5 years later of sitting in front of a computer addicted to a video game (not exercising AT ALL, barely moving at all, tbh), a 7 hour car ride, 12 hours walking around an amusement park, riding roller coasters, and a 7 hour car ride back. On July 7th, I blew out my disc between S1 and L5. The disc between L5 and L4 was bulging.
How do I know this? Well, the PAIN prompted me to go to a doctor. I had a CONSTANT, SEVERE pain in my left hamstring. I was CONVINCED I had torn the muscle completely away from the bone, (i hadn't, but i didn't know that)
The straw that broke the camel's back, I was sitting in the passenger seat of the car during the 7 hour car ride back, with my left leg across my right knee (my incredibly inflexible left hip), and bent over, (read bounced) to pick something up off the floor. I heard a pop, kinda got my attention, but moved on.
The next day, the PAIN set in. I didn't have a doctor at the time. I had moved to Harrisburg from Seattle and never bothered to get a doctor. I called around frantically to the doctor's in the area, FINALLY someone told me about Urgent Care Centers. (have you ever heard of them? I hadn't)
Alas, the doctor that I saw there, (bless her heart, i really should send her flowers) did some tests, thought it was my back, but the tests were inconclusive, gave me steroids anyway (thankfully, that's what saved me I think) a bunch of pain meds and muscle relaxers (knocked me out, thankfully) and sent me on my way.
I went to a surgeon :( who ordered an MRI. That's how I finally KNEW what had happened, and 10 days after taking the steroids, it was like someone flipped a switch, and the pain was in my back (presumably, where it belonged) MRI pictures are COOL btw. :) Although, I couldn't feel the left side of my left foot, it was numb in a triangular shape from the outside in, no feeling in my baby toe (classic S1 symptoms) and DURING the recovery time, both the surgeon and my chiropractor told me if I lost control of my BOWELS that I was to get surgery immediately. (!!!) Scary stuff.
Anywho, so that's the background, and the extent of my injury, and alot of where my motivation to lose weight and get back into shape is coming from, and hopefully, motivates YOU as well. :) Sitting is THE WORST thing you can do for your body. When you MUST sit, USE your abs, lift IN and UP. (a little fyi) :)
I've read it takes anywhere from 6 months to 1 year to completely heal from a blown disc, and many people require surgery. Thankfully I avoided surgery (zomg! quick! knock on wood) and I've been going to Pilates (reformers are COOL!) to strengthen up my core, but I keep wanting to go back to yoga.
So, Yoga or Pilates?
10/20/2009 16:33
YES!
So, the plan was to get up at 7am, hit the gym by 720, treadmill till 740, brief stretch and back home by 8am. Yea, that didn't work out so well, but hey! An hour later never hurt anyone, right?!?!
So, YEA ME! My 20 minutes is done for the day!
I ordered a Bodybugg, since I've been hearing so much about them in the blogs and on the forums (you ladies really should get paid for advertising) :) It should be here in couple of days, I received the email stating they had shipped it today.
So, I've decided that I'm losing my brain. Not my mind, mind you, but my BRAIN. I had SO many math classes throughout high school and the little bit of college I had, but last night, while trying to do my Finite Math homework (i'm FINALLY finishing my degree), I simply wasn't grasping the concepts. :( Holy cow! I've never felt so frustrated with math (that I can remember) as I did last night! arrggghhh! I wanted to SCREAM! But! What I did NOT do, is go get ice cream. 
YEA ME! oh, and matrices are evil, mmmmk. :)
10/18/2009 23:50
Treadmills are FUN!
Not really. But at least I stayed on mine for 20 minutes today. Instead of straight walking, I did the "fat burning" program which, I realized about halfway through, as I was half asleep when I started, that "fat burning" means HILLS. No wonder my quads were burning. But no mind, as my heart rate was up too. So, it's all good.
Welcome to the next 6 weeks of my exercise life! :) GO me! One step closer back to being able to teach group fitness again. (i've asked for information on how to re-obtain my certification) :)
Do two and a half hour naps equate to the same thing as lunch?
10/16/2009 16:13
blah zay
Weigh in was today. I lost another 2 pounds to make 9 pounds in two weeks. :) I should be elated, and all I keep thinking is, I've never eaten so much fruit and vegetables in my life. And for whatever reason, I feel so blase. (sp? blah zay) (of course, it' seattle weather in pennsylvania today, 38 degrees and raining, what about FALL?!?!)
Why is it, I can eat crap every day for years and years, but two weeks after eating healthy food I'm already getting burned out? I mean, we're SUPPOSED to eat fruits and veggies every day all day, are bodies NEED them, and yet, they taste so blah.
I really wish I would have been able to order my food this two weeks instead of having the "auto" shipment for the first full 30 days. Ah well, I must resign myself to getting through these next two weeks, then I don't ever have to eat the oatmeal square bar for breakfast ever again. :)
I keep telling myself I'm going to start going to the gym and walk for 20 minutes three times a week, but I can't commit to which days I'm going to do that. I've been going to the pilates studio twice a week for over two months now. I think going to the gym in the morning would be best, as I can convince myself of reasons not to go in the afternoon. Of course, I'm the kind of person who convinces themselves that 10 more minutes of sleep would totally be worth it, and that 10 turns into 45 minutes of hitting the snooze button. lol As if that type of sleep is worth something.
Since, pilates is Wednesday and Saturday, walking should be Sun/Tues/Thurs, right? ........ bah.... I'm SO indecisive. How was I in shape enough to teach classes? Seems like SO long ago. :)
10/13/2009 22:13
A bunch of no fun
So, I found myself lecturing others on food today, under the guise of (at least that's what I told myself), "you should get on my bandwagon." (What can I say? It's lonely here.) As if, after a week and a half of trying to lose weight, I'm somehow an expert on weight loss and eating, but then I think to myself, How many times have I lost and gained at least 40 pounds? This time it just happens to be 76. /shrug
Ok, I may or may not be qualified, but that's not the point. The point is standing on a soap box lecturing others about what they should and should not eat, or in this case, how much they should or should not eat, is REALLY being a "bunch of no fun" and I really shouldn't be that way, at least not at work. I mean, presumably, I want to get along with the people I work with, as we really are more of a family then co-workers. Right? I mean, really, who spends 8+ hours a day with people who aren't their family? (but then that's another topic entirely, now isn't it?)
So, the question is, how do I not be "a bunch of no fun" at work? My co-workers are used to the me who will eat whatever I want at lunch, Chipotle being our favorite as of late (topic of conversation above), indulge in chocolate and bounce off the walls about 3pm, often spreading the chocolate to all as I bounce.
But this new me is talking about portion control, portion control, portion control and not eating chocolate. In fact, I've asked that the chocolate stay away from me. I even asked my boss today if he liked being a masochist. Well, he was complaining about feeling like crap after eating an entire burrito when he KNEW he'd feel like crap after eating the ENTIRE burrito. (hello? those things weigh like, 5 pounds) Wow, what a bunch of no fun I've become! And he looked at me as such. erm.... oopsii 
But then I thought to myself. It's not just my boss or (just me) per se with the portion control problem. It really is all of America. So, how do we get ALL of America to change their idea on what is a portion of this, that or the other? If we could change ALL of America's way of thinking, I wouldn't be a bunch of no fun, anymore. So, let's get to it! lol /shrug
10/12/2009 18:22
Week 1 down - GOAL!
So, week 1 of my new life is over, and I scored big time! I lost 7 pounds of weight (water or otherwise, it's 7 pounds! have a nice day). I am hopeful for good results for week 2's weigh in, I'm hoping for 2 pounds, but I'll settle for 1. One more step in my journey back to me.
So far, the food on JC has been pretty good, and I haven't had chocolate except once in the past week. I tried the cheesecake, but cheesecake tastes like dirty socks smell, so I just can't do cheesecake. I really need to order some more chocolate, so far, this "diet" has been too easy and I don't want to tempt fate by not having chocolate at hand in case of "emergencies".
I have never thought about food so much in my life as I do now that I have started JC. I used to pick whatever fast food restaurant sounded good that day, and went and ordered whatever I wanted. Now I find myself looking at the menu constantly, looking forward to today's lunch, tomorrow's breakfast, etc etc etc It's strange to me that I would think about food MORE now that I'm trying to change the way I eat and lose weight for the last time in my life.
This WILL be the last time I lose weight, as I will NEVER gain it again. This is a promise I'm making to myself. I have been up and down, up and down, up and down throughout my entire life, and quite frankly, it's getting old. So, self, you WILL be thin again, and you will NOT gain, ever again.
Have a nice day. ;)
10/08/2009 19:08
So.. this is it
The first day of the rest of my life.
