I have not exercised in 10 days! Not exercising begets not exercising. Once you stop, it's so easy to make excuses. I did have some good ones until yesterday. I just didn't do it yesterday. Today I pushed myself into Pilates, and realized how much strength you can lose in 10 days. Holy cow! It was tough getting through my 30 minute video. I made it though, and my heel was very thankful :)
The last few days have been emotionally tough for me. I've been letting life get me down. I was naughty and ate some not so good food, which made me feel worse. Sugar is really horrible and not my friend. I was hoping that doing Pilates today would help me get out of my funk, but it didn't. Before dinner, I looked at Dave and said, "I need to get out of here." I told him I wanted to go for a bike ride. He said, "Right now?" I laughed and told him. "No, after dinner." So we loaded up our kids and hit the bike trail by our house.
I've been out on my bike a few times, and it was tough. I've gone maybe a mile at a time. Tonight, I got to the first mile and did not want to go home. We ended up going to Bidwell Park and letting our kids play at the big kids park there for a little bit. I'm surprised with myself. I made it there and did not feel like I was going to die...lol Every time I've thought about riding to the park, I've thought it was too far for me to make it without keeling over...lol I made it, and I made it back home. It felt so good, and my mood greatly improved. Woohoo! I think we'll be making many more bike trips to the park, especially when the weather cools down. Another plus, riding my bike does not put pressure on my heel. Double Woohoo!
So my total biked was 3.8 miles today. Awesome! Plus I feel so much better. What a great way to end my day :)
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
21 Pounds Gone!
Ok, so I may be cheating a little bit on claiming 21 pounds lost. I normally weigh in officially on Fridays. When I woke up Friday and weighed myself, I weighed the same weight I had the last weigh in. What was weird was I lost no weight during the night, very unusual. The day before I was 0.2 pounds from 20 pounds, what was going on!?! I was blaming my dinner, salted peanuts, anything else I could think of. Still, something just didn't seem right. My stomach bothered me all day, by bedtime I looked at Dave and said, "Something is wrong with my body." TMI alert: I woke up at 1:30am and ran to the bathroom, where I spent most of the next 3 hours. Yep, there was something wrong with my body. I weighed myself during the whole ordeal (I'm addicted to the scale, seriously!) and lost 2 pounds from what I weighed when I went to bed. Like I stated previously, it took three hours for my body to decide I could go back to bed and get some rest. When I woke up in the morning, another 2 pounds was gone. I know some of this is water weight lost due to dehydration, but after the crappy week I had, I'm taking the 21 pounds!
I didn't get to exercise this week. I had a migraine that started last Saturday night and I'm not sure it's gone yet. Migraines drain all my energy, so exercise was not an option. My son and husband were sick on Thursday, and some other things that happened really made this week not a week I want to relive. I'm glad I survived! So now I owe an updated picture. I'm still recovering today, so later this week, I'll get that taken and posted :)
Some improvements I noticed yesterday, while laying in my vegetative state...lol, the stretch marks on my stomach are diminishing in appearance and my stomach is looking less like a deflated balloon. Woohoo! That means my skin is tightening. I like that :) I'm hoping that I'll be up to exercising this week, my hips would really appreciate it. Tomorrow I have my follow up with my doctor about the bone spur in my foot, hope I'll be able to get that taken care of soon. I'm hoping this week is a complete 180 of last week. I feel like I'm being such a downer right now, so I better stop this post before it gets worse...lol
To end this right, I've lost at least 20 pounds! Woohoo! :)
Starting Weight: 314.6
Current Weight: 293.6
Total Lost: 21 lbs
I didn't get to exercise this week. I had a migraine that started last Saturday night and I'm not sure it's gone yet. Migraines drain all my energy, so exercise was not an option. My son and husband were sick on Thursday, and some other things that happened really made this week not a week I want to relive. I'm glad I survived! So now I owe an updated picture. I'm still recovering today, so later this week, I'll get that taken and posted :)
Some improvements I noticed yesterday, while laying in my vegetative state...lol, the stretch marks on my stomach are diminishing in appearance and my stomach is looking less like a deflated balloon. Woohoo! That means my skin is tightening. I like that :) I'm hoping that I'll be up to exercising this week, my hips would really appreciate it. Tomorrow I have my follow up with my doctor about the bone spur in my foot, hope I'll be able to get that taken care of soon. I'm hoping this week is a complete 180 of last week. I feel like I'm being such a downer right now, so I better stop this post before it gets worse...lol
To end this right, I've lost at least 20 pounds! Woohoo! :)
Starting Weight: 314.6
Current Weight: 293.6
Total Lost: 21 lbs
Friday, August 19, 2011
WI #13 and Heel Update
Today was my 13th WI. Good thing I'm not superstitious...lol With not being able to do cardio because of my heel, I was worried that my weight loss would be stifled a bit. Turns out..not really :) I lost 1.2 lbs this week! That brings me up to 18.4 lbs lost. Yay!
I got a call from my doctor's office today. Turns out I have a bone spur in my heel. Not so excited about that. I'll find out more at my follow up appointment in a couple weeks. At least Pilates is not off limits. I've been incorporating more Pilates moves in my workout, and I'm really starting to feel it in my abs. Building muscle = more fat burned, so I'm good :)
I've lost another inch from my waist and (TMI alert) my bra is now on the smallest setting. I'm going to need a new one of those soon :) I'm also getting better at doing modified push ups. Who knows, I might actually complete a real push up in my lifetime...lol Then I might have to move on to pull ups. I may end up being more fit then I was when I was a skinny high school student. That seems so crazy to me.
Ok, so I'm kind of hoping for at least a 1.6 lbs lost next week so I can reach 20 lbs gone. That would be awesome to say I've lost 20 lbs. Maybe I should do an update picture then to show my progress. Hmm...or maybe at 25 lbs lost. What do ya'll think?
I got a call from my doctor's office today. Turns out I have a bone spur in my heel. Not so excited about that. I'll find out more at my follow up appointment in a couple weeks. At least Pilates is not off limits. I've been incorporating more Pilates moves in my workout, and I'm really starting to feel it in my abs. Building muscle = more fat burned, so I'm good :)
I've lost another inch from my waist and (TMI alert) my bra is now on the smallest setting. I'm going to need a new one of those soon :) I'm also getting better at doing modified push ups. Who knows, I might actually complete a real push up in my lifetime...lol Then I might have to move on to pull ups. I may end up being more fit then I was when I was a skinny high school student. That seems so crazy to me.
Ok, so I'm kind of hoping for at least a 1.6 lbs lost next week so I can reach 20 lbs gone. That would be awesome to say I've lost 20 lbs. Maybe I should do an update picture then to show my progress. Hmm...or maybe at 25 lbs lost. What do ya'll think?
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Pity Party and Progress
So, I'm throwing myself a tiny pity party. My heel was injured last week. I've been taking it easy, but it's not getting better, so I went to the doctor today. She would say it is tendinitis, except the pain is only in one spot, so she had me get X-rays done. I'm still to ice it and she prescribed me motrin for the pain. Hoping for the best and that I won't be down for too long.
So here's my pity party: Why so many obstacles in my way when I'm trying to get healthy? My body needs to get over it, I'm going to lose this weight. At least I can still do some Pilates :)
Progress. The other day I was measuring my arms to see if I've lost some inches, centimeters, even a millimeter...lol Nope, nothing. However, I did happen to notice something I've never noticed before. I can flex my arms! If you've known me a long time, you know that even in my skinny days my bi-ceps were laughable. In high school PE, people would turn to watch me during push ups. My arms would be shaking, sweat pouring from my face (ok not really sweat, maybe it was tears...lol), and I still could not lift myself off the floor to complete a single push up. When I tried to flex, a muscle would appear, then someone would push on it and show me how not-a-muscle it really was. Yep, my bi-ceps were non-existent. But not anymore! I can flex, you can push on it and it stays! So exciting. I'd take a picture and post it, but you can't see it with all the fat hanging down from my arms...lol But my hubby can see it, so I'm good with that :) Who knows, maybe I'll finally be able to complete my first push up soon. Hey, it could happen :)
So here's my pity party: Why so many obstacles in my way when I'm trying to get healthy? My body needs to get over it, I'm going to lose this weight. At least I can still do some Pilates :)
Progress. The other day I was measuring my arms to see if I've lost some inches, centimeters, even a millimeter...lol Nope, nothing. However, I did happen to notice something I've never noticed before. I can flex my arms! If you've known me a long time, you know that even in my skinny days my bi-ceps were laughable. In high school PE, people would turn to watch me during push ups. My arms would be shaking, sweat pouring from my face (ok not really sweat, maybe it was tears...lol), and I still could not lift myself off the floor to complete a single push up. When I tried to flex, a muscle would appear, then someone would push on it and show me how not-a-muscle it really was. Yep, my bi-ceps were non-existent. But not anymore! I can flex, you can push on it and it stays! So exciting. I'd take a picture and post it, but you can't see it with all the fat hanging down from my arms...lol But my hubby can see it, so I'm good with that :) Who knows, maybe I'll finally be able to complete my first push up soon. Hey, it could happen :)
Friday, August 12, 2011
Finally, A Breakthrough! WI #12
Before I get into my breakthrough, here's a brief update since my last post:
Now, onto my breakthrough! Last week I decided to switch from the PointsPlus plan to the Simply Filling plan. I had thought about doing it before, but didn't because I felt it was too restricting. With Simply Filling, you don't get daily points. You eat what's on the Power Foods list (mainly fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy, nothing processed) and anything not on the list comes out of your weekly and activity points. Well, I decided to finally give it a shot. I felt like I was over-eating most of the time trying to get all my daily points in. I would be half way done with my dinner, feel full, and keep eating because I wouldn't get all my points in if I didn't. I would feel uncomfortably full when I was through. That didn't make sense to me. I thought I was suppose to be developing good eating habits?
Second reason for the switch: I was not feeling like I was getting the success I should have been. My average weekly weight loss was less then a half a pound a week. Headed in the right direction, but that would only equal 26 pounds lost per year and would take me over 6 years to lose the weight that I need to lose. Something is wrong with that. I would see many friends on the Weight Watchers website losing more weight then I was each week. They were rarely losing less then a pound each week. I was happy for them, but wondering what was wrong with me. Then one night, a seasoned veteran having much success mentioned to another person that there is a small percentage of people who join Weight Watchers whose points are too high. That got the wheels turning in my head, was I one of those in the small percentage? Maybe.
Listening to everyone on the WW website talk about their issues with weight loss and what led them to their weight gain made me realize some things. I had no problem staying in my daily allotted points, I didn't have huge binge eating days, and some other things I can't remember at the moment...lol. This helped my realize that the Simply Filling plan may be the way to go. I didn't really need to worry about over-eating if I stopped measuring my food. My problem was eating the junk food at night after my children went to bed, and since starting WW, that has not been a problem either. The Simply Filling plan would still help me keep my junk food junkie habits in check, plus I could stop eating when I was satisfied instead of over-stuffing myself and feeling uncomfortable to get in all my points. Made sense to me!
Last Friday I started on the new plan. I went ahead and measured and tracked what I ate so I could find out how many points I would be using if I was on the PointsPlus plan. Guess what? I was eating less points and not feeling hungry! To top it off, my weight dropped dramatically. I couldn't believe it! Now, I'm not sure if this is just because I had made a big change, and next week I'll go back to losing tiny amounts again, but I have my fingers crossed that I won't :) Want to know how much I lost? 6 pounds! My official weigh in this morning: 297.4! I've now lost over 5% of my starting weight, and I'm out of the 300s! Can you tell I'm excited!?!
So I know that 2 pounds a week is a healthy weight loss, and consistently losing 6 pounds a week is not. But losing 6 pounds in one week every now and then is ok. I'm not trying to kill myself, I'm eating a perfectly healthy diet and exercising. I'm working on using my Walk Away the Pounds dvd 6 days a week. It's 20-30 minutes of walking per day. I'm doing 20 minutes of Pilates 3 days a week. That's it, not killing myself of the exercise either. I'm happy with the change so far. I feel like I'm listening to my body, and my body is responding. It feels good :) It also feels so good to hear "two hundred" instead of "three hundred" when I say my weight :)
Beginning Weight: 314.6
Week 12 Weight: 297.4
Total Weight Lost: 17.2 pounds
Note: It may look like my average weekly loss was 1 pound, but remember I lost 6.2 pounds the first week. It took me 10 weeks to lost the next 5 pounds. That's why my weekly average was less then a half a pound.
- Weigh In 7: - 0.6 lbs
- Weigh In 8: -1 lb
- Weigh In 9: -1 lb
- Weigh In 10: +3 lbs
- Weigh In 11: -3.6 lbs
Now, onto my breakthrough! Last week I decided to switch from the PointsPlus plan to the Simply Filling plan. I had thought about doing it before, but didn't because I felt it was too restricting. With Simply Filling, you don't get daily points. You eat what's on the Power Foods list (mainly fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy, nothing processed) and anything not on the list comes out of your weekly and activity points. Well, I decided to finally give it a shot. I felt like I was over-eating most of the time trying to get all my daily points in. I would be half way done with my dinner, feel full, and keep eating because I wouldn't get all my points in if I didn't. I would feel uncomfortably full when I was through. That didn't make sense to me. I thought I was suppose to be developing good eating habits?
Second reason for the switch: I was not feeling like I was getting the success I should have been. My average weekly weight loss was less then a half a pound a week. Headed in the right direction, but that would only equal 26 pounds lost per year and would take me over 6 years to lose the weight that I need to lose. Something is wrong with that. I would see many friends on the Weight Watchers website losing more weight then I was each week. They were rarely losing less then a pound each week. I was happy for them, but wondering what was wrong with me. Then one night, a seasoned veteran having much success mentioned to another person that there is a small percentage of people who join Weight Watchers whose points are too high. That got the wheels turning in my head, was I one of those in the small percentage? Maybe.
Listening to everyone on the WW website talk about their issues with weight loss and what led them to their weight gain made me realize some things. I had no problem staying in my daily allotted points, I didn't have huge binge eating days, and some other things I can't remember at the moment...lol. This helped my realize that the Simply Filling plan may be the way to go. I didn't really need to worry about over-eating if I stopped measuring my food. My problem was eating the junk food at night after my children went to bed, and since starting WW, that has not been a problem either. The Simply Filling plan would still help me keep my junk food junkie habits in check, plus I could stop eating when I was satisfied instead of over-stuffing myself and feeling uncomfortable to get in all my points. Made sense to me!
Last Friday I started on the new plan. I went ahead and measured and tracked what I ate so I could find out how many points I would be using if I was on the PointsPlus plan. Guess what? I was eating less points and not feeling hungry! To top it off, my weight dropped dramatically. I couldn't believe it! Now, I'm not sure if this is just because I had made a big change, and next week I'll go back to losing tiny amounts again, but I have my fingers crossed that I won't :) Want to know how much I lost? 6 pounds! My official weigh in this morning: 297.4! I've now lost over 5% of my starting weight, and I'm out of the 300s! Can you tell I'm excited!?!
So I know that 2 pounds a week is a healthy weight loss, and consistently losing 6 pounds a week is not. But losing 6 pounds in one week every now and then is ok. I'm not trying to kill myself, I'm eating a perfectly healthy diet and exercising. I'm working on using my Walk Away the Pounds dvd 6 days a week. It's 20-30 minutes of walking per day. I'm doing 20 minutes of Pilates 3 days a week. That's it, not killing myself of the exercise either. I'm happy with the change so far. I feel like I'm listening to my body, and my body is responding. It feels good :) It also feels so good to hear "two hundred" instead of "three hundred" when I say my weight :)
Beginning Weight: 314.6
Week 12 Weight: 297.4
Total Weight Lost: 17.2 pounds
Note: It may look like my average weekly loss was 1 pound, but remember I lost 6.2 pounds the first week. It took me 10 weeks to lost the next 5 pounds. That's why my weekly average was less then a half a pound.
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