LIIIIIIES!!!
Look how freakin' skinny they are to START WITH!!! The stupid add guarantees that it won't roll down like those "other" undergarments...but what they forgot to tell you is that they won't roll down if you have 2% body fat on your ENTIRE body!!! I can NOT even get over how irritated I am about this product! Ugh. Just goes to show. No quick fixes...but I thought it would just smooth everything out underneath my bridesmaid dress, instead I got new lumpies and bumpies to add to the lumps and bumps I already HAVE! Seriously, note to self: NO MORE INFOMERCIALS!
Dieting is like being in the middle of the Alcoholics Anonymous 12 Step program. You go in one day at a time with all the best intentions. You're going to get better, you're going to do this and that...but then you hit a little snag and an evil little voice in your head whispers to you, "You've been doing good these past few days. It's been so EASY. There's nothing wrong with you. You can always go right back on. You've already done it. You can totally have that piece of pizza. It's okay if you have that plate of fries. It's only just this one time anyway. You'll do better tomorrow. You can stop whenever you want. You already know you can do it."
TELL THAT VOICE TO SHUT UP! No, seriously. SHUT UP!
If you haven't reached your goal weight, then having just one turns into just two, and then two is just three and then three is just one day, and then the next thing you know you ate spaghetti, Pizza Hut (twice), french fries, chicken wings, a Sprite and a mango daquiri all in ONE WEEKEND.The weekend is EVIL. Conquer it early. Defeat it before it claims you! It's a long road ahead.
Do NOT think that you're Super Man just because you've been hitting it at the gym a couple times a week. Do not think that just because you're "working out" you can sign up for a two-day volleyball/basketball tournament and jump, dive, squat, run and pivot like you're a pro-athlete and wake up the next day ready to do MORE. Over-doing things sets you BACK because first of all you're too stiff the next day to even move and second of all because you're so stiff and sore, you feel like you're justified when you take three days off from working out. NO!!!
It'll probably kill the romance if you keep trying to check your BPM on your HRM during sex. I haven't learned that one first-hand...but just imagining it doesn't seem all that sexy...
"Hang on...I have to check my BPM! ..Hang on...it hasn't calculated it yet....okay...it says I'm at 123 which is only 64% max...okay, let's go. ...okay...hang on, I have to check my BPM again..."
Despite that....I'm still kind of curious... *LOL*
Monday, June 15, 2009
Things I've Learned...(Part II)
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Day 39: Motivated Slacker...
The not so crafty loser checking in today! What I mean is that I'm still losing (albeit sloooooowly), but I'm definitely not crafting (well, not as much as I should be, anyway) but the biggest thing I'm not doing is BLOGGING! Ugh...
A little background...my department at work was without a manager for about two and a half years which is almost pretty much the same amount of time that I've been working here. So when we got a new manager last week, well...adjustments are needing to be made on my part!!! *LOL* Unfortunately, I can't just get on and blog whenever I feel like it anymore because his office (and the WINDOW to his office) happens to be right BEHIND me. *wrinkle face* Ew. So Catherine is on her best behaviour health-wise and work-wise! Although if you ask me, I ALWAYS have all my work done no matter what else I'm doing! Hahahaha...anywho, ENOUGH OF THAT! Let's get to the healthy weight part!
So due to my slackerly ways, I haven't posted in a while, but it doesn't mean that I've fallen off the wagon completely. Weekends are still my utter nemesis. Bart and I went away last weekend and OMG, let me just say...*making huge bloated face* 'Nuff said...I walked in to the eating area telling Bart that I would just give him my rice if there was rice or carbs with my food and I turn around and come face to face with a bowl - a FREAKIN' BOWL for crying out loud - of dinner rolls. It was like...a MOUND of dinner rolls...all different colours...white, whole wheat, pumpernickel...just STARING at me. I could hear their little carby voices calling out to me, "Catherine! Catherine!" And I gravitated towards them thinking, "Yes my little darlings, I hear you!" Bart tried to be the buffer between the situation and he offered to half one with me. So a little compromise there...a little give and take action. Kind of like, okay, don't deprive yourself and be MISERABLE the whole weekend...but here, have a little. So I gratefully took him up on his offer and had my little half of the dinner roll with my dinner (which I haven't EVEN gotten started on!) So there I am with my little eeeeensy weeeeensy teeny tiny half of dinner roll, taking little teeeeeny tiny little bites to make it last longer and Bart pushes his chair back to excuse himself to the bathroom. I nod all politely and smile at him adoringly with my little piece of bread in my dainty little fingers. As soon as buddy rounded out the door, that insignificant piece of bread was shoved in my mouth and I swear I was outta my chair and over to that bread bowl in two seconds flat. Donovan Bailey has NOTHIN' on ME! He would have been a speck of DUST in my rearview mirror, that's how fast I was. From there, it was all just pretty much downhill my friends. I should have known it was coming too...
I should have KNOWN when I was sitting at work feeling all smug and proud of myself when my friend Tammy was complaining about how HUNGRY she was. I should have SEEN it coming when on the Friday before we left for the weekend, Tammy and I spent the WHOLE afternoon talking about different kinds of breads. Ugh. I didn't see it...not even when I was describing to her the bread from Del Dente's....the one's that come freshly baked into these cute little flower pots and the dough had risen over top of the pot so it looked like a delicious muffin with a soft, hot, fluffy centre. And I even described how they give you three different kinds of butter to put on the bread and that if you finish your little flower pot of bread, they'll only just bring you another one, ALSO fresh out of the oven. *sighs* I didn't see it coming...smug little me thought I had it aaall under control. You know, if it had been one measly dinner roll sitting there, I could have ignored it. It's carby voice wouldn't have called out so loudly, it's call wouldn't even have reached my ears. Damn that mound of delicious dinner rolls. Since I had already fallen off the wagon - I guess you could say I ran to the edge of the wagon and dove off head-first to more accurately describe it - I figured that the weekend was already done for and it was a free for all. Chocolate cake? Oh yeah, I ate it! Mashed potatoes, I poured gravy on it! I remember them having a salad bar....I wonder how that was......................
Oh....maybe I shouldn't exercise my skill at detail so much either....I'm having a moment.
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Okay, moment has passed. I've got control of myself again.
So needless to say, Sunday weigh-in was NOT good. Monday weigh-in was WORSE! I had gone into the weekend at a wonderful 166.8 pounds (okay, so it's really 167) and when I stood on that scale Monday morning, it was telling me such profane, disgusting numbers. Even stepping on and off the scale didn't help. Leaning sideways didn't help. Dropping the kids off didn't help. Pressing my palm down on the counter a little bit did, but who was I fooling? Not the FAT CELLS hanging out and throwing a weekend after party in my ass! It said *deep breath* 169.4. That's like, two pounds. Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Curse you wheat fairies! And you stupid cows too....for making milk than can turn into delicious butter.
*swallows*
Okay. So the weekend is over. What's done is done. What's eaten is eaten and what kids have been dropped off at the pool have been dropped off. Stressing about it, being mean to myself and doing balancing acts on the scale doesn't help. So as soon as the weekend was over (we left the evil place of delicious food at 3 pm) it was back.to.BUSINESS. Dinner that night was so unsatisfying.
Monday was HARD. My body felt heavy and I was dragging. I got up and dragged myself around, collecting all my work-out stuff and prepared to hate Shaun T. Once I started getting going it got a little bit easier, but jumping around still made me feel heavy. I did my regular walks during break time and went back to my usual breakfast, snack, lunch foods. Went online and double-checked my local gym schedule and found out there was a cardio kickboxing class that night and I forced myself to go.
Anywho, on Tuesday I finally figured out what the problem was with all the pain in my legs. I was doing some resistance training and my feet were killing me! I mean, resistance training? All I was doing was standing on a rubber band and pulling, my feet shouldn't be hurting! I took off my running shoes and finished the rest of the exercise and it was SO much better! So after work, off to SportChek for shoes! I think I irritated the living daylights out of the guy working because I was trying almost every single pair of shoes on except for the ones he was suggesting. If he was smart, he would have picked up on the fact that I was getting the pretty, pink coloured shoes instead of suggesting ugly black and gray ones! *LOL* All kidding aside, pretty shoes have now moved down my list of shoe priorities! I ended up getting a nice white and purple (still pretty though!) pair of Asics and hallelujah what. a. difference! As soon as I put them on, I knew they were already so much better than my cheap $30.00 Nike's from the kid's section! I guess my foot is a little bit flatter than the shoes that I was wearing were made, so I was getting a lot of tension in my arches and all along the bottoms of my feet and in turn, my legs were trying to compensate for that and in the end, my calves and my shins would be ACHING after a simple walk, let alone a workout! When I first started, I was just writing the pain off because I was just starting out, but the more that it lasted, the worse it was getting! So *thumbs up* for Asics, or whatever brand shoe that your feet feel good in, not just LOOK good in!
Oh! Speaking of things I've bought...*LOL* I got the Turbo Jam series the other day! I am *LOVING* workout DVDs! Who woulda thunk it, huh? After Hip Hop Abs have been sitting on my shelf gathering dust since my last "get fit" stage. But WOW! I've practically burned a hole in Hip Hop Abs and I've also acquired a belly dancing DVD (which is flippin' HARD! and I am SO not sexy looking in it at all) and for fun, Carmen Electra's aerobic striptease. I've upped my exercises to mornings AND afternoons. So in the morning, I'll do either the Wii Active or a cardio DVD and in the evenings I'll take a cardio class at the gym. I'm telling you, if I don't get into that dress next week, I have no idea what I'm going to do!
Okay, where was I? Oh right, Turbo Jam! I only did the introductory workout this morning and I was SWEATING! Plus I was a little uncoordinated so hopefully when I get the hang of the moves, I'll be able to burn more off...I ended up going out at lunch today to buy some weighted gloves to give my punches and jabs a little extra oomph! I think I should just call myself the Shopping Loser because all I seem to be doing is buying stuff! *LOL* But so far, everything I've gotten for the weight-loss movement I'm on has been AWESOME (okay, with the exception of the trampoline because I haven't been on it in a while!) but if you HAAAAVE to get something, my number one suggestion would DEFINITELY be a heart monitor! I have no idea how well I'd be doing on my diet without this, but WITH it, I feel like it really keeps me on track! I use it mainly for the calorie counter and I use it when I'm exercising. I don't like going on treadmills or ellipticals so I never get an exercise where a machine tells me how much I'm burning, so I use my Mio heart rate monitor instead. The big bonus of it is that it seems pretty accurate which is a good thing because I was overestimating the calories I was burning in Zumba and Kickboxing classes BIG TIME!
Alright, so I think I've crammed about two weeks worth of missed entries into this post. Besides that minor setback that weekend, I'm still pushing forward. I'm seeing the scale move up and then down and I think I'm seeing results with the tape measure (I say I think because I seem to never measure the same part of my waist twice because I have no idea exactly where it is!). As of today, I am ONE pound away from my FIRST TEN POUNDS lost and I am PUMPED!
I've got more to say and talk about with thoughts all over the place, but I think I'll probably stop right here. I need to save some of this energy for Zuuuuumbaaaa!!! I'll be there with my new shoes on ready to go!
Thanks for checking in with me!
A little background...my department at work was without a manager for about two and a half years which is almost pretty much the same amount of time that I've been working here. So when we got a new manager last week, well...adjustments are needing to be made on my part!!! *LOL* Unfortunately, I can't just get on and blog whenever I feel like it anymore because his office (and the WINDOW to his office) happens to be right BEHIND me. *wrinkle face* Ew. So Catherine is on her best behaviour health-wise and work-wise! Although if you ask me, I ALWAYS have all my work done no matter what else I'm doing! Hahahaha...anywho, ENOUGH OF THAT! Let's get to the healthy weight part!
So due to my slackerly ways, I haven't posted in a while, but it doesn't mean that I've fallen off the wagon completely. Weekends are still my utter nemesis. Bart and I went away last weekend and OMG, let me just say...*making huge bloated face* 'Nuff said...I walked in to the eating area telling Bart that I would just give him my rice if there was rice or carbs with my food and I turn around and come face to face with a bowl - a FREAKIN' BOWL for crying out loud - of dinner rolls. It was like...a MOUND of dinner rolls...all different colours...white, whole wheat, pumpernickel...just STARING at me. I could hear their little carby voices calling out to me, "Catherine! Catherine!" And I gravitated towards them thinking, "Yes my little darlings, I hear you!" Bart tried to be the buffer between the situation and he offered to half one with me. So a little compromise there...a little give and take action. Kind of like, okay, don't deprive yourself and be MISERABLE the whole weekend...but here, have a little. So I gratefully took him up on his offer and had my little half of the dinner roll with my dinner (which I haven't EVEN gotten started on!) So there I am with my little eeeeensy weeeeensy teeny tiny half of dinner roll, taking little teeeeeny tiny little bites to make it last longer and Bart pushes his chair back to excuse himself to the bathroom. I nod all politely and smile at him adoringly with my little piece of bread in my dainty little fingers. As soon as buddy rounded out the door, that insignificant piece of bread was shoved in my mouth and I swear I was outta my chair and over to that bread bowl in two seconds flat. Donovan Bailey has NOTHIN' on ME! He would have been a speck of DUST in my rearview mirror, that's how fast I was. From there, it was all just pretty much downhill my friends. I should have known it was coming too...
I should have KNOWN when I was sitting at work feeling all smug and proud of myself when my friend Tammy was complaining about how HUNGRY she was. I should have SEEN it coming when on the Friday before we left for the weekend, Tammy and I spent the WHOLE afternoon talking about different kinds of breads. Ugh. I didn't see it...not even when I was describing to her the bread from Del Dente's....the one's that come freshly baked into these cute little flower pots and the dough had risen over top of the pot so it looked like a delicious muffin with a soft, hot, fluffy centre. And I even described how they give you three different kinds of butter to put on the bread and that if you finish your little flower pot of bread, they'll only just bring you another one, ALSO fresh out of the oven. *sighs* I didn't see it coming...smug little me thought I had it aaall under control. You know, if it had been one measly dinner roll sitting there, I could have ignored it. It's carby voice wouldn't have called out so loudly, it's call wouldn't even have reached my ears. Damn that mound of delicious dinner rolls. Since I had already fallen off the wagon - I guess you could say I ran to the edge of the wagon and dove off head-first to more accurately describe it - I figured that the weekend was already done for and it was a free for all. Chocolate cake? Oh yeah, I ate it! Mashed potatoes, I poured gravy on it! I remember them having a salad bar....I wonder how that was......................
Oh....maybe I shouldn't exercise my skill at detail so much either....I'm having a moment.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Okay, moment has passed. I've got control of myself again.
So needless to say, Sunday weigh-in was NOT good. Monday weigh-in was WORSE! I had gone into the weekend at a wonderful 166.8 pounds (okay, so it's really 167) and when I stood on that scale Monday morning, it was telling me such profane, disgusting numbers. Even stepping on and off the scale didn't help. Leaning sideways didn't help. Dropping the kids off didn't help. Pressing my palm down on the counter a little bit did, but who was I fooling? Not the FAT CELLS hanging out and throwing a weekend after party in my ass! It said *deep breath* 169.4. That's like, two pounds. Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Curse you wheat fairies! And you stupid cows too....for making milk than can turn into delicious butter.
*swallows*
Okay. So the weekend is over. What's done is done. What's eaten is eaten and what kids have been dropped off at the pool have been dropped off. Stressing about it, being mean to myself and doing balancing acts on the scale doesn't help. So as soon as the weekend was over (we left the evil place of delicious food at 3 pm) it was back.to.BUSINESS. Dinner that night was so unsatisfying.
Monday was HARD. My body felt heavy and I was dragging. I got up and dragged myself around, collecting all my work-out stuff and prepared to hate Shaun T. Once I started getting going it got a little bit easier, but jumping around still made me feel heavy. I did my regular walks during break time and went back to my usual breakfast, snack, lunch foods. Went online and double-checked my local gym schedule and found out there was a cardio kickboxing class that night and I forced myself to go.
Anywho, on Tuesday I finally figured out what the problem was with all the pain in my legs. I was doing some resistance training and my feet were killing me! I mean, resistance training? All I was doing was standing on a rubber band and pulling, my feet shouldn't be hurting! I took off my running shoes and finished the rest of the exercise and it was SO much better! So after work, off to SportChek for shoes! I think I irritated the living daylights out of the guy working because I was trying almost every single pair of shoes on except for the ones he was suggesting. If he was smart, he would have picked up on the fact that I was getting the pretty, pink coloured shoes instead of suggesting ugly black and gray ones! *LOL* All kidding aside, pretty shoes have now moved down my list of shoe priorities! I ended up getting a nice white and purple (still pretty though!) pair of Asics and hallelujah what. a. difference! As soon as I put them on, I knew they were already so much better than my cheap $30.00 Nike's from the kid's section! I guess my foot is a little bit flatter than the shoes that I was wearing were made, so I was getting a lot of tension in my arches and all along the bottoms of my feet and in turn, my legs were trying to compensate for that and in the end, my calves and my shins would be ACHING after a simple walk, let alone a workout! When I first started, I was just writing the pain off because I was just starting out, but the more that it lasted, the worse it was getting! So *thumbs up* for Asics, or whatever brand shoe that your feet feel good in, not just LOOK good in!
Oh! Speaking of things I've bought...*LOL* I got the Turbo Jam series the other day! I am *LOVING* workout DVDs! Who woulda thunk it, huh? After Hip Hop Abs have been sitting on my shelf gathering dust since my last "get fit" stage. But WOW! I've practically burned a hole in Hip Hop Abs and I've also acquired a belly dancing DVD (which is flippin' HARD! and I am SO not sexy looking in it at all) and for fun, Carmen Electra's aerobic striptease. I've upped my exercises to mornings AND afternoons. So in the morning, I'll do either the Wii Active or a cardio DVD and in the evenings I'll take a cardio class at the gym. I'm telling you, if I don't get into that dress next week, I have no idea what I'm going to do!
Okay, where was I? Oh right, Turbo Jam! I only did the introductory workout this morning and I was SWEATING! Plus I was a little uncoordinated so hopefully when I get the hang of the moves, I'll be able to burn more off...I ended up going out at lunch today to buy some weighted gloves to give my punches and jabs a little extra oomph! I think I should just call myself the Shopping Loser because all I seem to be doing is buying stuff! *LOL* But so far, everything I've gotten for the weight-loss movement I'm on has been AWESOME (okay, with the exception of the trampoline because I haven't been on it in a while!) but if you HAAAAVE to get something, my number one suggestion would DEFINITELY be a heart monitor! I have no idea how well I'd be doing on my diet without this, but WITH it, I feel like it really keeps me on track! I use it mainly for the calorie counter and I use it when I'm exercising. I don't like going on treadmills or ellipticals so I never get an exercise where a machine tells me how much I'm burning, so I use my Mio heart rate monitor instead. The big bonus of it is that it seems pretty accurate which is a good thing because I was overestimating the calories I was burning in Zumba and Kickboxing classes BIG TIME!
Alright, so I think I've crammed about two weeks worth of missed entries into this post. Besides that minor setback that weekend, I'm still pushing forward. I'm seeing the scale move up and then down and I think I'm seeing results with the tape measure (I say I think because I seem to never measure the same part of my waist twice because I have no idea exactly where it is!). As of today, I am ONE pound away from my FIRST TEN POUNDS lost and I am PUMPED!
I've got more to say and talk about with thoughts all over the place, but I think I'll probably stop right here. I need to save some of this energy for Zuuuuumbaaaa!!! I'll be there with my new shoes on ready to go!
Thanks for checking in with me!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Day eleventy billion and I'm still here!
Hello, hello! I know it's been a couple days since I've updated, but rest assured that I have not completely fallen off the wagon. I haven't even fallen off at all really...the weekend, I was sort of hanging off the side of the wagon, but I haven't fallen off! Because...
CONFESSION: I've been having a love affair...*gasp* Yes! I am!
*deep breath* I've been having a not-so-secret-from-my-husband love affair with my scale.
It's been AWESOME! The less it gives me, the more I love it and I must be addicted or something because I keep coming back for more. In the mornings, before I do the morning biz-nas and even after! I go back for more after a workout and even before bed. I can't stop...
You know another thing that I can't curb? My whole needing more weight-loss tools/equipment addiction. I really can't...
Tilapi with garden salad and balsamic vinaigrette
CONFESSION: I've been having a love affair...*gasp* Yes! I am!
*deep breath* I've been having a not-so-secret-from-my-husband love affair with my scale.
It's been AWESOME! The less it gives me, the more I love it and I must be addicted or something because I keep coming back for more. In the mornings, before I do the morning biz-nas and even after! I go back for more after a workout and even before bed. I can't stop...
You know another thing that I can't curb? My whole needing more weight-loss tools/equipment addiction. I really can't...
YES, I totally caved and got a heart rate monitor even though I had previously told myself that I wasn't going to get one or even that I needed one. Of course I need it! How am I ever going to lose weight without it? Which is funny because I already was before I got it, but the good news is, it's actually REALLY helpful! Of course I had to get this one because it was PINK! It's so CUTE! Plus it tells me the time, the date, it records my weight (through manual input of course, I don't stand on my watch to get weighed), it records my calories in and also has a chronometer to time my workouts and to track the amount of calories burned. Of course it also has a heart rate monitor with an ECG something or other. All I know is that it keeps track of calories burned and that it's pink. 'Nuff said. Bonus, it was also featured on Dr. Phil, according to the box! I've been using it for over a week now and I was able to keep track of the calories I was burning during Zumba class, which is an AWESOME thing because I was totally over-estimating the amount of calories I was burning in that class, thereby throwing off my daily caloric intake blah blah blah. But anywho...
...the diet is still going as well. I'm trying to tell myself that I'm NOT getting tired of salad and balsamic vinaigrette, but I think the rest of me (especially my taste buds) knows I'm LYING! Every time I think of salad with balsamic, I just about gag. But mmmm...it's delicious, I love it. I'm trying different things to eat with it and so far I've been loving High Liner's Lemon and Herb Crusted Tilapia! Here's some eye candy!
Tilapi with garden salad and balsamic vinaigrette
Shrimp sauteed in pineapple juice and surprise, garden salad with balsamic vinaigrette
Chicken souvlaki with a garden salad and greek vinaigrette
The greek vinaigrette won't happen too often because I'm pretty sure it was baaaad for me!
Still going with Wii Active too! That was probably the best money I've spent throughout this whole month so far. I have been having an awesome time with it and it really gets me sweating - even though I look like a fool trying to jog on the spot and the stupid screen keeps telling me I'm going to slow even though I'm going as fast as I can! I hate to sound like an infomercial, but if you've been thinking about getting this, what're you waiting for?
Alright, gonna go see if the hubster wants to take the pooch out for a walk! And by pooch I mean the dog...not the stuff hanging over my pants...*LOL*
Things I've Learned...(Part I)
Some random facts and thoughts that I've learned on my journey to a healthier (and hopefully SKINNIER) me.
- You feel hungry the SECOND your mind thinks the word "diet"
- Using a tape measure and "creatively" measuring yourself doesn't make me any skinnier, so I shouldn't be surprised that my pants are STILL tight even though the tape "says" that my waist is 30
- Wearing a skirt is easier than having to unbutton and/or unbuckle a bajillion times a day because I'm trying to drink more water
- You can fool the scale by standing in different ways or putting more weight on certain parts of your feet. Doesn't stop my stomach from pushing my underwear down or folding it over.
- There is a difference in figures when weighing yourself before and after dropping the kids off at the school (yes, this is a personally tested fact). This fact leads to a conclusion that is yucky and interesting all at the same time...
- If you just DO it instead of jconstantly thinking that you can't, you'll find that you can.
- Confidence can come just from the mere knowledge that I'm taking better care of myself
- Women don't just glow, they can sweat. A lot. And it can feel good, except for when it gets in your eyes.
- Posting pictures of skinny girls in bikini's in bathing suits should not be your motivational tool. You should be working towards getting healthy for yourself - for your overall well-being and health and how being more energized and feeling better about yourself by doing good things for yourself can bring about some pretty good changes in your life. Being able to wear skimpier outfits and feel good in them should be a perk to the new you, not the only reason for doing it.
- I will bow down and kiss the feet of whoever it was that invented peanut butter.
Peanut butter....mmmmmmm.....
it's the missing half of the team!!!
the whiny half of the team too! GRRRR!!!! how many times do i start over before i give up??????? *sigh*
i am happy to report i have done some exercise today and i also think i am going to friggin DIE! the honeysuckle is in full bloom so i convinced pezzy to get in the stroller and let me push her super fast on the path around the back of our neighborhood to go see it. the additional advantage of doing heavy walking (yea folks i didn't even RUN) in 200% humidity is that i am now so thirsty i will have no problem drinking a bunch of water! i actually exercised 2 days in a row if i can count pushing two children trhough the zoo up hill in a double stroller combined with carrying/dragging a screaching 2 year old part of the time.........
i AM doing better with drinking water and eating less but not eating as well as i should be. however i just finished several weeks of WAY too much work for one person so maybe i can pull myself together a bit now............i am proud to report i BROUGHT our lunches to the zoo so i had a DEElish chicken salad wrap and fiber one yogurt as my lunch.........then caved later and ate part of pezzy's cup of ice cream.
hubby had a novel idea for me now that work has slowed down a bit and suggested i try getting a decent amount of sleep every night since i HAVE seen studies say that lack of sleep can contribute to weight gain. i get about 5 hours at best each night right now......i may have permanently lost some brain cells at this point since i have been doing that since the website opened 1 1/2 years ago! so last night i got EIGHT hours of sleep - EIGHT HOURS. i DO feel good today!
of course this doesn't mean i don't have ANYthing going on in the store - 11 new stamps will release in a couple weeks along with tripling the line of glittered skittles BUT all pre-orders are shipped from winter CHA and studio Gs will have a break until the holidays hit.
i can't find my scale so i don't know what i have lost or not lost so far but up until now i have pretty much stayed the same - nothing lost but i still have not re-gained what i lost just after christmas.
and now i am off to contemplate making the muffin recipe i found on weight watchers.com
hugs!!!
i am happy to report i have done some exercise today and i also think i am going to friggin DIE! the honeysuckle is in full bloom so i convinced pezzy to get in the stroller and let me push her super fast on the path around the back of our neighborhood to go see it. the additional advantage of doing heavy walking (yea folks i didn't even RUN) in 200% humidity is that i am now so thirsty i will have no problem drinking a bunch of water! i actually exercised 2 days in a row if i can count pushing two children trhough the zoo up hill in a double stroller combined with carrying/dragging a screaching 2 year old part of the time.........
i AM doing better with drinking water and eating less but not eating as well as i should be. however i just finished several weeks of WAY too much work for one person so maybe i can pull myself together a bit now............i am proud to report i BROUGHT our lunches to the zoo so i had a DEElish chicken salad wrap and fiber one yogurt as my lunch.........then caved later and ate part of pezzy's cup of ice cream.
hubby had a novel idea for me now that work has slowed down a bit and suggested i try getting a decent amount of sleep every night since i HAVE seen studies say that lack of sleep can contribute to weight gain. i get about 5 hours at best each night right now......i may have permanently lost some brain cells at this point since i have been doing that since the website opened 1 1/2 years ago! so last night i got EIGHT hours of sleep - EIGHT HOURS. i DO feel good today!
of course this doesn't mean i don't have ANYthing going on in the store - 11 new stamps will release in a couple weeks along with tripling the line of glittered skittles BUT all pre-orders are shipped from winter CHA and studio Gs will have a break until the holidays hit.
i can't find my scale so i don't know what i have lost or not lost so far but up until now i have pretty much stayed the same - nothing lost but i still have not re-gained what i lost just after christmas.
and now i am off to contemplate making the muffin recipe i found on weight watchers.com
hugs!!!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Day 21: 5...
...is my NEW FAVOURITE NUMBER!!!
I know I'm probably jumping the gun a little since I promised I would do my weigh-in on Sundays, but I got on the scale today and did a complete double-take! It said 269 *happy dance* (BWAHAHAHAHA, someone just told me that I had made a typo...omg, with that typo it would look like I was doing a happy dance because I GAINED over 100 pounds! So what I meant was ONE sixty-nine *whew* THANK YOU for pointing that out! *grins*) 21 days ago, my scale reading was 174! I even got on and off four times just to make sure, but each time I was getting the same reading - showing me I'm 5 lbs down from when I first started! I'm doing it, I'm REALLY doing it!!! *screech*
*breathes* Alright...I know I shouldn't get so excited as weight can fluctuate every day multiple times a day, but for the longest time, this has been the lowest weigh-in I've had, plus it's really showing a difference! I'm working hard at something I normally quit at before I barely even start and it actually looks like it's paying off! I'm eating right, working out and losing weight! Who woulda thunk it?! No crazy fad diets, diet pills, blah blah blah!
As the day isn't even halfway over yet, I know I'm a little bit early with this post, but I'll be back with the rest of Day 21 later! Today marks three weeks! It took me three weeks to lose 5 pounds - to me, that ain't bad! I have another three weeks to go until the upcoming wedding, so by that day, I could possibly be down a total of 10 pounds if I stay on track (not counting the 15 $0.40 chicken wings that I ate yesterday *winces*).
More updates later! Choir practice was cancelled for this evening so I'm hoping that I can get in another Zumba class later! Look at me being all excited for exercising!!!
I know I'm probably jumping the gun a little since I promised I would do my weigh-in on Sundays, but I got on the scale today and did a complete double-take! It said 269 *happy dance* (BWAHAHAHAHA, someone just told me that I had made a typo...omg, with that typo it would look like I was doing a happy dance because I GAINED over 100 pounds! So what I meant was ONE sixty-nine *whew* THANK YOU for pointing that out! *grins*) 21 days ago, my scale reading was 174! I even got on and off four times just to make sure, but each time I was getting the same reading - showing me I'm 5 lbs down from when I first started! I'm doing it, I'm REALLY doing it!!! *screech*
*breathes* Alright...I know I shouldn't get so excited as weight can fluctuate every day multiple times a day, but for the longest time, this has been the lowest weigh-in I've had, plus it's really showing a difference! I'm working hard at something I normally quit at before I barely even start and it actually looks like it's paying off! I'm eating right, working out and losing weight! Who woulda thunk it?! No crazy fad diets, diet pills, blah blah blah!
As the day isn't even halfway over yet, I know I'm a little bit early with this post, but I'll be back with the rest of Day 21 later! Today marks three weeks! It took me three weeks to lose 5 pounds - to me, that ain't bad! I have another three weeks to go until the upcoming wedding, so by that day, I could possibly be down a total of 10 pounds if I stay on track (not counting the 15 $0.40 chicken wings that I ate yesterday *winces*).
More updates later! Choir practice was cancelled for this evening so I'm hoping that I can get in another Zumba class later! Look at me being all excited for exercising!!!
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Day 20: Confession...
...went to cardio kickboxing...
...then I went and ate 15 chicken wings and had a strawberry dacquiri right after class.
I'm trying to feel sorry that I buckled, but they were so good, it was so worth it.
Plus they were only $0.40 per wing. I think it's common knowledge that when a delicious chicken wing is LESS than fifty cents, they're OBVIOUSLY diet chicken wings, therefore, they don't necessary count.
Hello, and welcome to my own little world right here by the river called De Nile. It's a nice little place, so happy and full of delicious food. Come on in and make yourself comfortable!
...then I went and ate 15 chicken wings and had a strawberry dacquiri right after class.
I'm trying to feel sorry that I buckled, but they were so good, it was so worth it.
Plus they were only $0.40 per wing. I think it's common knowledge that when a delicious chicken wing is LESS than fifty cents, they're OBVIOUSLY diet chicken wings, therefore, they don't necessary count.
Hello, and welcome to my own little world right here by the river called De Nile. It's a nice little place, so happy and full of delicious food. Come on in and make yourself comfortable!
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