Wednesday Weigh In and other tidbits...

The number today...(drum roll) 182! Loss of 1 lb!  I am steadily losing in a healthy fashion and it is great! I feel great!  I have to say seeing this weight is a big relief.  I haven't seen this number since before I was pregnant. 

I would like to thank My Fitness Pal for their continuous support and positive actions to get me to the lowest number on the scale.  I would like to thank my blogging friends Prior Fat Girls, Tricia, Real Fat Blog, and all my twitter friends.  Of course I would love to thank my family for their continued support and putting up with all my crazy meals! Oh, I am running out of time, I will have to just thank all my fans! Que the music! HA!

This time of year is a sneaky calorie one.  All the goodies and parties!!! I must plan accordingly and so far so good. 

So my husband took a try at my roasted Kale chips again and I told him the last time I made them I did it wrong that this batch would be better.  He loved them!  I kept catching him eating more and more!!!  I had to stop him or I wouldn't have any to snack on today!!  What a funny thing, to make a family member stop eating veggies!  Never thought I would see the day!

So I must go and log my kale chips into My Fitness Pal... until next time!

I lost something....

A POUND!!! LOL!  I lost a pound this week to be at 184.  What a wonderful thing to lose!!! :)



A non scale victory (NSV) for me today was getting up early to exercise! My treadmill is on the frits it seems so I did a weight program from the Oxygen Magazine I purchased a few weeks ago.  It is the Off the Couch issue.  And I have learned a ton from it.  Heck, I carry it around in my purse to flip through for motivation!!! 

I have been having people ask me if I have been losing weight cause there is something different about me.  I want to tell them, "Yep, I have lost weight, in my feet! It's nice you can tell that when I have my shoes on!"

But I do feel different.  I feel happy with myself.  :) I have been clapping my hands cause I know I'm happy!! 

I think that I am going to switch things up a bit.  Move things around, try new ideas. I am going to have weigh in's be on Wednesday's.  I think that will help me switch gears when needed.  I can't always be perfect on the journey, I have figured that out! 

Oh and I did something nice for myself yesterday!  I took a nap!  My hubby took baby boy to town and I slept! I always feel like I am missing out on my day and on doing something when I nap.  But you know, I was doing something, something nice for me.  And darn it, I deserve it! And the hubs deserves some quality time with baby boy! He never gets one on one time because he works all the time, 7 days a week. But he does have some things that he is responsible for when it comes to caring for our little one.  But I often feel so sad because he misses out on a lot of the growing up stuff.  I take a TON of pics and send them to him all day on the weekends! :)

Weekends are crazy...this weekend will be a busy one too!  I enjoy the holiday season of making presents and goodies for everyone and all the activities!  I have a cookie swap to attend!!!  I am going to make a low cal cookie to share. My daughter will be home from her dads, and I have an idea for the kids to do for grandparents for Christmas!  I will share with you after the holidays as to not spoil it for the grandparents that read here!!!  :) 

On to lose more, move more and drink more! ;) Water that is....

Weigh in and decluttering!

So I just weighed in on the challenge blog. I have lost a pound to bring me to 184. 

My weekend was great!  I finished my 5K in 41 minutes, and I jogged a good portion of it.  I went at it alone but I had Trisha in my sights the whole way.  Everyone was so nice!!!  Next year, I am jogging the whole thing! I was sore for the next three days!  My shins felt like the bone was bruised and I couldn't even touch my them!!  My ankles were sore and couldn't twist them around.  I made sure before the race that I stretched out really good in those areas because I knew doing my mock run that they would hurt.  I think, well I know, that I need to work on form and breathing.  I mentioned in the other blog that I had EIA (exercise induced asthma) before, and I know it doesn't just go away but I haven't had to use an inhaler for many years. Course I don't think I have ever done anything this intense for quite sometime! But I had the wheezes for that night and the next day.  I am seeing about a refill on my inhaler! See how that helps my endurance!

Yesterday, I did my lunchtime workout and went to the bleachers and then for a long walk.  My thighs are feeling it today!

Tomorrow is my daughters Jog A Thon and I am going to see about doing a couple laps with her!  We shall see, she is pretty quick! 

I haven't written down my food the last couple of days.  But I haven't went over 1300 calories because I eat the same things everyday!  ;)  Tonight is NOT leftover night, so I am tracking today.

I am going through a phase where I need to declutter, everything.  I want to simplify my life a tad bit.  So at home I have boxes that I am going to go through each room and see what I can throw away and/or donate and/or store in storage.  Our house is small and we don't have any extra space and I feel cramped!  I also need to give my jeep a good cleaning on the inside.  And I am going to work on my procrastination.  I think that goes hand in hand in decluttering!  :) 

Monday weigh in and such

So this morning the scaled tipped to 185.6 so that is a loss of 1.2 lbs for me!!! :) 

I have submitted my registration for the 5K Autumn Leaf Run on October 1st.  I want to jog the whole thing but I don't want to set myself up for failure, so I am doing the C25K training up until the race and I will do intervals accordingly at the race, and if I end up jogging the whole thing, that will be awesome!!!  I did sign up to be timed which I have never done in the past.  This is my personal challenge to me.  Something I can own in my health journey. 

I did get up this morning and do Day 3 of week 2.  I had two voices in my head...one telling me to "just stop and get my cup of coffee and relax, your too tired"...and the other voice, "just 15 minutes, you will feel accomplished when your done, you only have 2 more jogs until your done, your rockin for waking up and doing this!" Lucky for me, the good voice won! LOL! :)  My hubby keeps telling me good job and how proud he is that I am doing this.  It is nice to have someone support me and my changes and to eat differently and to step up with chores and make it a bit easier to fit in exercise.  Doing this race will give me the adrenalin to keep going and to challenge myself even more!!!

A week or so ago I got one of those weight lifting type magazine for women.  It has some good articles.  I don't have a gym membership so some of the weight programs are hard to do at home. But I have to say, after all these years, people still do the very same weight lifting exercises!!!  I laughed and told my hubby that nothing has changed!!!  So obviously, just like eating fruits and veggies and lean proteins, weight lifting techniques are pretty solid too!  Just put together differently!  HA!

So today the start of a new week in the weight loss world.  Clean slate!!! 

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?

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?

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!!!