ohhh yaaa!

Remember these?  My best friend "the bleachers"?  Well I rocked them at lunch!!!  :) 

Legs are officially jello!! 

Feeling unmotivated today

I slept all night for the first time in a very long time but I am feeling unmotivated.  I think because of my dads surgery tomorrow, I am a bit stressed and just want to veg.  But I am going to exercise today anyway.  I am going to do the bleachers today....get this emotional bug out of my system!

Oh what fun!!

Had a great weekend!!!  How about you?  Trisha and I had a challenge this weekend of one hour of intense exercise and 125 oz of water.  DONE!!! I am very proud of me!  :) 

I did a lot of intervals on the treadmill while baby slept or played on his mat next to me.  He is starting to move about on his own so I had to keep an eye on him!  I would split up my exercise by doing 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the evening.  It seemed easier that way and I thought maybe I would burn more calories! :) 

So my weigh in the is morning:

last week: 186
this week: 185.5

only a half a pound but I will take it!  I am still feeling a bit bloated so I bet I see a pound or so gone this week.  I would like to set a personal goal of two pounds.  This week is going to be stressful.  My dad is going in for open heart surgery and I am a bit worried.  Ok, a lot worried!  I am going to bring lots of fruits and veggies to snack on and some fruit leather. My water bottle of course!  I am an emotional eater so we will see how this goes.  I am also going to try and chew more gum.  I find that I don't snack as much when I chew gum! 

I need to find some exercises to do while at my desk.  I sit where people in the lobby can see me, so I have to be kinda sneaky!  I do have one of those little pedal cycles under my desk, I need to use that too.  It isn't a workout so to say but I would be moving! :)  Got any ideas for me?

Back to Basics

So today I am starting the Back to Basics in all areas of my life.  Everything from health to home seems to have gone awry.  I look around and my house is messy and unorganized.  Can't stand it!  It makes me frustrated and angry.  I don't want to feel like that.  I must unclutter and cause I can't keep up.  I need to reorganize and go through papers and magazines and baby stuff!  I must go through clothes and only keep the stuff I will wear and go through everyone else's stuff too!  I need to just do it, to buy those plastic totes and put away the seasonal clothes when the season ends so that I have more room and less clutter.  Maybe I should have a yard sale!!!  I can't get ahead of myself, baby steps.  I just need to make more time available and less clutter both body, mind and home!

With my healthy lifestyle journey, I need to revamp my eating habits. I need to journal and be truthful.  I am going to admit, I will cheat myself if let unattended! :) I think I have been consuming more calories than I realize because I just guess on calories and figure I will burn it off later.  So I am going to keep a food journal and I am going to post it and most importantly, I AM GOING TO BE HONEST WITH MYSELF!!!  I have read it many times in other blogs about this.  It just makes sense.

Why is it so hard to be honest with ourselves? 

Finally Friday

It's Friday folks...in case you didn't already know! ;)  I am going into the weekend with a challenge from the War of the Scales.  Check it out! 

The week has been busy and stressful and sad and happy and lots of exercise!  I am ready to just sit and be still for like 5 minutes this weekend! LOL! 

So I am in the need of some good healthy lunch ideas and dinner ideas.  I need to revamp my recipe book and to keep it simple and quick.  I need to incorporate more veggies and fruits.  And some healthy grains.  So send me some ideas!!! 

Also, school starts next week here...what are you doing to get organized and get the kids ready? 

My Measurements

First the beginning - 7/11/2011

Waist -38
Thigh - 25
Hip - 47
Bust - 42
Arm - 13

As of 8/18/2011

Waist - 34
Thigh - 24
Hip - 43 1/2
Bust - 37 1/2 (holy crappola!)
Arm - 12 1/2

Total of inches lost all over this darn good lookin body - 13.5 

That is soooo worth smiling about and to put the number on the scale in the dust!!! 

Time to confess...

I didn't lose any weight this last week.  But I also didn't gain.  It is TOM so I am hoping that is the culprit that caused me to fail at my goal. 

I have been exercising a lot and I miss it now when I skip a day.  It has become important to me and I like it!!  I have been making good choices in food and eating correct portions.  But I need to focus on my water, I don't think I am getting enough. 

I am going to start walking up Ash hill on my breaks again.  And then today a lady at the office wants to walk up Kermel with me!! Tomorrow is a bleachers day and then I am also going to fit in a walk at night too.  I want my family to be active so after dinner I want us to go for a walk. 

This week is my first week of getting a CSA veggie/fruit box!!!  I am super excited.  It will have a loaf of homemade bread too!  I will pick that up on Thursday. 

I went to a beautiful wedding this last weekend.  My baby boy did sooo good!  He didn't fuss a bit!  So that made it a lot less stressful for me!  My hubby was in the wedding so he was busy helping and doing his job.  We stayed a cute little motel Friday night so it was like a mini vacation! 

This week seems busy and its only Tuesday!  I think cause work isn't my favorite place to be for sooo many reasons, it makes life a bit harder for me.  But at least I have a job!!! 

Do any of you participate in a CSA or food co-op?  How do you like it?

A contest I want to win!!

I will do EVERYTHING I can to win this!!  I want a Hydrapak so badly!!!

http://www.enduranceisntonlyphysical.com/2011/08/hydrapak-review-and-giveaway_09.html

Fingers crossed!

Where have I been!?!?!

Geeze, I have been neglecting my blog!!  But I have not been neglecting my weight loss journey!  I am 186.0 this morning. That is down 1.5 from last week!  I am down a total of 9 lb from the beginning. I am seeing a difference in my hips and bust area.  I feel thinner!!!  YAY! 

This weekend I exercised when I should have napped LOL!  But I felt like jogging.  My body isn't ready for a full out jog, so on Friday I put baby in the stroller and we walked and jogged for about 2 miles.  I was sweating up a storm!  Then Saturday, the stroller tire was flat so after baby boy went down for his nap, I hopped on the treadmill and walk/jogged for 30 minutes which ended up being about 1.5.  Then on Sunday I did the same but this time I went farther in the same amount of time.  I really felt good and time flew by!  I would walk for 2 minutes and jog for a minute.  5 minute warm up and 5 minute cool down. 

Today I am going to do bleachers.  That seems to get my week off to a good start and is so hard for me!  I can only go up and down 4 times and I am spent! Then I walk for about a mile.  Then tomorrow the plan is to walk up the Kermel hill. 

My goal this week is to lose 2 lbs.  I seem to have the 1 to 1.5 down, so I need to challenge myself to 2 lb loss.

It was Stampede weekend here and I was very proud of me!  I didn't eat any junk food and we only went for about an hour on Saturday afternoon.  It was so blazin hot that we decided it would be more fun to be at home in the air conditioned house! LOL!  We are getting old!  None of the fried foods looked very good so I was glad for that! And not only did it not look appealing, but it also wasn't worth eating and ruining all my hard work.  My husband was like "your month of hard work would be gone in 15 minutes, crazy huh?" Definitely! 

Don't forget to check out the War of the Scales!!!

Ode to Watermelon

Oh watermelon, how I love thee.  You help me through the sweet times and keep my cool.  My health will forever be indebted to you!

Thank goodness for a new week!

I read this blog entry this morning from one of my favorite bloggers, Tricia

Dear Stephanie, (I added my own name here, on her blog, she had her name of course! LOL!)

You were handed something amazing this morning: a clean slate, a new day, a fresh start.

Now its up to you to go forth and ROCK IT!

Love,
Me

I think I need to remember this every morning when I wake up.  I think it will help me throw away the "garbage" of the day before.  You know the kind that sneaks up on you and weighs you down.  Not scale wise so to say, but life wise.  I have been bogged down with the ickies and I am feeling better physically.  I need to work on "me time" this week and it looks like the only time I will have will be at lunch.  Normally I do my grocery shopping at lunchtime so that I can get home at a decent hour and still cook dinner and hang with the family, but I need to exercise...I need that time and I miss it!  So after I scoop up the kids after work, they are going to help me shop so I still have my "me time" at lunch.  I deserve it and I need to make me a priority. 

This weekend was a whirlwind!  I didn't exercise like I wanted to but I was busy and my baby was wanting to be held a lot!  So I got a good arm workout and a lot of pacing! LOL! 

My weigh in for today is:  187.5, not a huge loss but a loss!  Not too bad with feeling under the weather. 

Today, I am doing the bleachers and maybe a jog if it isn't too hot.  But bleachers for sure!! 

Now time to log in and post in the War of the Scales!

I gots da cold...

UGH! I feel like crap!  I feel unmotivated and lazy.  I feel sleepy and drained.  All I want to do is to sit still and close my eyes.  It is killing me to type and seems like I am moving mountains to put effort into anything.  I just want to sleep.  Feeling like this puts me on edge too.  A bit grumpy if the need arises. 

But I did walk today anyway.  I thought maybe it would make me feel better.  Not so much.  My throat is scratchy and sore...time for tea. 

On my walk I was going to stop by the school and do a couple set of the bleacher steps but it was locked up due to the landscape being treated with chemicals.  I took it as a sign to come back to the office and rest.  I did get a 1/2 hour in though...better than nothing!

I feel unmotivated even though last night I put on two pairs of pre-pregnancy jeans and they went up and buttoned but they were tight!!!  But still I should be super duper excited!!! But I am too drained...

I feel like Eore!

It's Monday!

So I weighed in this morning and I am at 188.8, which is a loss of 1.2 from last Monday.  Not as big of a loss as I would have liked to have seen but since it is TOM time, a loss of any kind is great!  :)  So I need to boogie on over to the War of the Scales and post my weigh in and check on Trisha! 

I will post more about my weekend later...