The Same Resolution??

Am I really going to have the same resolution this year, you know the one, eat right, exercise, all that mumbo jumbo??  Well I am, but I already feel like I have been doing it for a few months so it's not really a resolution right?  So then if I'm already doing that I guess my resolution will be to continue to doing it and to hopefully be successful so that come this time next year I can post that I no longer have a resolution to lose tons of weight.  I'm not saying that I will be exactly where I want to be at this time next year (although I hope I am) but I want to feel successful in my journey so far.  So that is my resolution, to be successful at what I have already begun!  We'll see!

Happy New Years!

The Verdict - Week 15

Wow, if you guys are looking for a workout, get EA Sports Active.  My legs are definitely feeling the burn today.  In a good but sore way, of course!  Today is my first day "off" the 30 day fitness program and I am happy about that!

So let's just jump right into it.  Mr. Scale was not as nice this week, and I am even a little happy about that.  You see, I am a worrier at heart.  If something happens that shouldn't I think the worst.  For example, an unexplained 2 lb. weight loss makes me nervous.  I did not google "unexplained weight loss" because I learned a long time ago that a headache, an unexplained two pound weight loss, a loose tooth, a ringing in the ear could all mean I'm going to die tomorrow.  According to webmd.com or google, that is!  So when Mr. Scale was not so nice this week I didn't mind as much.  Not that I would not have loved a loss but I didn't eat to deserve a loss so again it would be mysterious.

The verdict for this week was 234.6.  A 1.6 lb. gain, so not the whole 2 lbs. I miraculously lost but not great either.  With my new workout program I am hoping to get back into routine and eat healthy again.  Without eating healthy I can expect to fail every week so I hope my cooking motivation kicks in and I can lose this weight!  Wish me luck motivation and healthy eating!

A New Workout

Yesterday I started a new workout!  While I enjoy the Wii Fit it isn't much of a workout like going to the gym.  It is better than nothing but I wanted something more.  I let Aaron know that if anyone asked what I want for Christmas, that I wanted to try EA Active Sports.  Well he told my mom and she got it for me, yay!  I tried it last night for the first time and it was definitely a workout! 

The game actually has a 30 day workout program that I started last night and hopefully will be successful at.  Every couple of days you get a "day off" so it's more realistic.  I think there are about 20 workouts in the 30 days.  Last night my workout was about 20-25 minutes and it calculated that I burned just over 200 calories, not bad!  The workout included walking and running, squats, lunges, "inline skating," boxing and many more exercises.  Some repeated themselves and some didn't.  You had the option to do a light, medium or hard workout.  Since it was my first time trying it I went medium and I think it was just right for me.  When I feel adventurous I might select hard or if there is a day that I stopped at the gym during lunch I might chose light.  I like that I have options.  

I am going to try and update here how it goes so that you can decide for yourself if it is something you might want to try.  I am thinking it is going to be good for me!

The Verdict - Week 14

I've prepared myself all week for this post.  I had not stepped on the scale for the entire week because I knew everyday it would show a number that I didn't really want to see.  I also didn't track my eating because, again, it was something I would not want to see.  Well hello, Loni.  If you put a blindfold on, it doesn't mean you're skinny, it just means you can't see the fat.  Well I have been writing this post in my head since last night and it went something like this.

           "I could throw out a bazillion excuses to why I have such a large
            gain this week, you know the ones, Parker was checked for
            pneumonia on Sunday (and is now on antibiotics to treat it,
            boo),I was sick, Aaron was sick, I had my company Christmas
           dinner, oh I could go on and those things did all happen, but so
           did the choice to eat a Costco hotdog, some cake balls that I
           baked, Jack-in-the-Box and probably some other things I want
           to forget.  I also chose not to go to the gym or to even do the
           Wii Fit.  While life happens, choices happen too.  So this week
           I gained....."

And that was the gist of the post in my head, a pep talk to myself.  Then when I woke up this morning I remembered I had to step on the scale, and it had been an entire week since I had.  I knew it was going to be awful.  I was thinking at least 3 pounds, possibly more.  When I stepped on the scale I thought I might still be dreaming, or that maybe what I remembered from last week was the wrong number.  I stepped on it at least once more before my shower to double check.  233?!?!?  What?  A 2 lb. loss from last week?  Now that my friends, is a Christmas miracle.  Ok maybe that's going too far, but I definitely do not deserve those 2 lbs. and if I want to keep them off I'm going to have to work for it.  I have no idea how it happened and I am definitely not complaining but I did weigh myself another 3 times after my shower to make sure the number was right.  It was.  Now I just need to remember the words I had planned on posting today before I stepped on the scale, then I may just get to that next goal of 25 lbs.

While I know eating healthy this week may not be something I am very successful at being Chiristmas and all, the least I could do would be to get off my butt and take Parker to look at Christmas lights.  Walking would be something, and believe me, I need to do SOMETHING!

The Verdict - Week 13

Whoops!  Betcha thought I forgot about this crazy little blog.  Well, I didn't, and believe me, that's a good thing.  Of course this post is coming a week late ,but thanks to blogger I can backdate it so it shows in order but nobody needs to know that, right?  Right.
So remember here where I said that I don't really get dying deathly ill sick?  Well it happened again!  This time I stayed at work the whole day but I know that because of that day of being sick I only had a .2 weight gain during that week.  Yes, that's right, I said it, a weight GAIN.  You see, that's what NORMALLY happens when you eat junk all week and don't exercise much.  So there it is, a gain again.  Of course I don't like a gain, but this little of a gain I feel I can overcome, so better luck next time, right?  

The Verdict - Week 12

Real quick, it's late and I need to go to bed but didn't want to be late again posting my verdict.  Lots going on, lots to think about, but Mr. Scale was nice this morning.  I kept off all of my "I was sick and didn't eat for a day," weight and lost another pound!  The verdict was 234.8 lbs. this week for an exact one pound loss of weight.  More updates soon!

Something New

So I know that journaling your food while trying to lose weight is VERY important.  But have I been doing it?  No!  Any particular reason I haven't been doing it?  Yes, there is a GREAT reason.  Because then I would be accountable for what I put in my mouth. *drops jaw*

Yes, it is true, sometimes I cheat on my "diet."  Sometimes I have a treat, shoot, sometimes I even eat apple pie and apple dumpings in the same DAY!  But I try not too and I am hoping this food journaling is really going to help.

I have been thinking about it for a while, and wanted to get a really pretty journal to do it in, that way I could get excited to write in it.  Then I kept hearing randomly about sparkpeople.com.  I think it was maybe in a comment on here, I saw it on facebook and I have seen it briefly mentioned on other blogs.  I finally decided to check it out to see what all the "hype" was, and it's true, it is pretty great!  I signed up on Friday and actually started using it Saturday.  You can track your meals, it has meal planning which I haven't used yet, you can track your exercise and there are a lot of helpful tips and message boards where you can get support.  So far I have only used the nutrition and exercise tracking/journaling and I love it.  Guess what else they have, yup, an Iphone app.  This was perfect Sunday when I went to Sweet Tomatoes for lunch and right after I could input everything I ate so I wouldn't forget.  And the best part?  It's FREE!

So here is what the food journaling looks like.  It basically breaks up everything you eat into what meal you had it at and even if you go out if has A LOT of different restaurants nutrition information, so you can still use it.

   
At the end of the day you can chose to "close out your day" and it will tally everything up for you and let you know where you stand on your goals vs. what you actually ate.  I think my caloric goal daily is 1340-1690 or something similar to that and both Saturday and Sunday I was around 1430 and didn't feel like I got jipped.  The food I ate was good and it helped me plan my meals accordingly.  If I want a big dinner I can calculate what I'm going to have for lunch to make sure it is low enough to allow for that big dinner.

Obviously I could write all this down on plain paper, look at nutrition labels myself and it would essentially be the same, but by using the computer it is easier, faster and at the end of the day they do all the calcuations for me.  What could be better?!

I can't wait for tomorrow's weigh in.  I hope it's a good one and that I can keep off the "I skipped a day of eating and lost weight," weight, from when I was sick last Tuesday.

It Worked!

Yesterday I posted that TODAY would be the day I went back to the gym and exercised again.  Well I kept my word and it worked!  I left work at 12 on the dot ready to go do Couch to 5K.  I changed before I left, jumped on the freeway and STOPPED.  Seriously?  Traffic at 12 in the afternoon?  Ridiculous.  I warned my boss that I might be late because I was experimenting if I had time to do this workout so I wasn't too worried but I was sad that this might be a ONE time thing.  If this was how the traffic was going to be then it wouldn't work.  I needed it to take no more than 15 minutes to get there and with that kind of traffic there was no way.

I slowly get one exit further and phew, it's just a stall, so I creep back to up to a speed that may have been slightly over the speed limit, for less than a MILE! Then... brakes again.  Geez, this really wasn't going my way.  The gym is only 5 exits away, it should be quick!  Well I found the next problem, street freeway sweepers.  Yes, apparently 12 noon is the perfect time to sweep the freeway!  I don't know if they do it every Thursday or not, but today they were.  (That's fine with me because normally Thursdays I work my lunch so I would not have normally been able to go today anyways.)

So once I got to the gym I jumped on a treadmill (which the gym was empty, so nice!) and started my workout right away.  I only did a 3 minute cool down instead of 5, but I made it back at 1:00 on the dot!  Of course I still had to change but that is not a big deal, I was back within the hour and providing there are less stalls and street freeway sweepers this could be something I do a couple of times a week!

Now I do have to admit one thing.  I had not done any of the Couch to 5k program in 9 days and the last day I did it outside becaue there were no treadmills at the gym so my sister and I didn't complete the whole thing.  With that I decided I better go back to week 1 and make sure I was good with that workout before pushing myself harder and not finishing.  I did great with the workout and although it's never a JOY for me, it was not bad at all.  I actually may even look forward to doing the next one!

The Verdict - Week 11

Has it seriously been 11 weeks since I started this road?  It has!  Crazy how time flies when you're having fun eating healthy!

So this is my blog and although I love my readers and how this blog keeps me going I should be honest right?  I wanted to lie, I really really did.  Maybe that's why God knocked me down hard with that sickness yesterday, he didn't want me to lie on my own blog and therefore essentially to myself.  I mean, that would be silly right?  Right!

So here it is, Tuesday's version of the verdict was a gain.  Mr. Scale said 238.6 (or 238.4) yesterday morning.  I can't remember which but either way it was a GAIN.  Not good.  I thought about it while I was in the shower (I weigh myself right before getting in).  I thought I could put in my weight from Monday, which was still a gain, but less of one.  Sure that way it won't look as bad, I thought to myself.  Then I remembered that I was only lying to myself, of course my faithful ever so dear loved readers would see the lie, but ultimately it was a lie to myself.  So now I put it out there, the truth!  This morning, (after virtually eating NOTHING yesterday) Mr. Scale was much nicer! (Although I know not eating is not the way to lose weight but if I have to feel so bad that I don't want to eat at least there is a silver lining.)  He said 235.8 lbs.  Now hopefully although I am eating again (yay!) I can continue with the loss and lose even more next week.  So that is the number I'm going with. Which is a loss of 1.8 lbs.
Oh and by the way, although I ate bad I bet if I had done my Couch to 5k workouts I would have been able to stay consistent.  I am starting again tomorrow.  I have had plans everyday to try and go at lunch and here's how that has gone.  Monday - no gym pants, left them at home, bust!  Tuesday - well you know, DYING on the bathroom floor at work, bust! Wednesday (today) - remembered EVERYTHING and boss asks me to work lunch today instead of tomorrow (I always work my lunch on Thursday because I leave early), bust! But tomorrow, TOMORROW IS THE DAY! I am not working lunch and I told my boss I might be a few minutes late because I have never actually driven to the gym, worked out and came back on my lunch hour.  Hopefully I can do all that in an hour but if not, he knows I might be a few late.  If I am NOT late coming back I will try and keep doing lunch time workouts rather than sitting on my tush during that hour!

Late Again?

Yes it's true, I am late again, but before I post my Verdict post I will post about my excuse.  It's legit I swear.  I was SICK.  Seriously so sick I laid on the bathroom floor at my work, gross!  Yeah I felt that bad.  It was awful and I don't even know what I had!  I am not the girl who calls in sick for a cold and I think in the 6 years I have been with this company I have called in sick maybe once for myself and possibly left early due to illness less than a handful of times.  I hate when people cry over a cold.  We were never that family that coddled over a sickness.  It was tough love in our house growing up.  As a matter of fact when I had Parker and had spinal headaches from the epidural  it wasn't until I crawled to the shower that my family realized this just might not be your standard take two aspiring and call it a day headache.

All that to say if I leave from work sick, I really am SICK.  I had no fever, but had body aches and felt so nauseous.  Even a co-worker who I know doesn't think the best of me told me I should go home.  It was bad.  So once I finally left work I went to my mom's house and SLEPT from about 1 to 5, all the while her kitchen was being demolished (she's remodeling) and the noise did not keep me from sleeping. 

I will post my verdict shortly and I'm warning you now, it will be slightly misleading.  I had a gain from Thanksgiving but after only eating a banana and a very small dinner (wonton soup, yum) I now have a loss, more details to come!