Chasing Pavements

Yesterday went well. I stayed within my points once I used my activity points. I also did day 2 of C25k, which was a struggle to get started. We didn’t get home until late, but I got on the treadmill. After about 10 minutes I’m cool. Start to sweat and it just felt good. I also got in 2.25 miles for the challenge this week. When I got off, my 2 year old son was standing there. He started clapping and said,”Good job, mommy!” I mean how flipping cute is that???

Here is a bit of viewing pleasure for you….I saw this in a magazine awhile ago and actually saw it again in I think Parenting this month. It’s www.weightview.com. You upload  a picture of yourself and choose how much weight you want to lose. I think they give you the option of 5lbs to 50lbs. I of course chose 50, lol. It takes them a few days to email it back to you, but it’s still pretty cool to see. This pic was taken of me in September I think??? I’ve pretty much stayed the same since then. This pic is also a reminder for me to never wear ruffled sleeves with fat arms. ( The pic quality isn’t so good here for some reason.) (Also..THIS IS NOT ME AFTER. I AM NOT THERE YET! Lol)

The good news is I exercised yesterday and got in 6 miles on the bike for the Slump Busters challenge. Only 4 miles to go before the end of Friday. I’ve also stayed within my points range the past 2 days, which is very exciting to me!!!

Bad news is I didn’t get day 2 in of the 30DS. About 2 weeks ago I tripped over my son’s little chair and catapulted myself across the living room landing on said chair. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry and ended up doing a little of both, lol. I think I bruised my knee because I couldn’t put any pressure on it until recently without feeling like I was going to jump outta my skin. I did ok during day 1 of the dvd, but yesterday it was hurting with every step. I decided to give it a few days cause I don’t want to make it worse.

I brought my stuff to exercise during my lunch break in the little gym they have in my office building. A friend that works in our building  is going to meet me. Yay for a workout buddy!!! I’m hoping to get in 3 miles on the elliptical and do upper body strength training tonight.

So, some real quick comments on the Biggest Loser….did Felipe really sit there and blame Jillian for his Kobe beef sliders, drinking and chicken tenders and fries??? Really??? I don’t know what happened with the whole her not working him out thing, but when you signed up for the show did they promise you you’d be with Bob the whole time??? I think not. Adjust and move on. You want to pick your trainer, win the challenge. It just urked me cause he said nothing(at least what they showed, I know it’s TV, lol) about he shouldn ‘t have binged like he did and maybe he would have done better. What are you learning if you are still making excuses blaming other people??? Now, he said he shouldn’t have let her affect him so maybe that’s how he dealt with it, but still….Also, Bob so should have sent them back to work out there issues with Jillian. Not just let them avoid them all together. Not doing them any favors Bob. Ok, I’m done

Update-

I did 3 miles on the elliptical today and only have 1 more mile to go to make this week’s challenge! I also did awesome eating again and stayed within my points(with eating my ap’s). Yeah!!!! I’m feeling good. Now off to bed to actually get more than 5 hours of sleep tonight!

Yesterday was going pretty well…until after work. I made the mistake of picking up the kids and going to Target before going home. I got them something to eat at the food place(Mom of the Year, I know!) and decided I would wait until I got home. BIG MISTAKE!

By the time we made it to the snack aisles, I was way too hungry. I got some of the Hershy chocolate covered pretzel 100 cal packs. So yummy, too yummy. We get in the car and I’m like,” Eh I’ll have a pack of my pretzels.” 1 pack turned into 2, which turned into 3. Then I’m mad at myself because I just ate 300 calories on chocolate pretzels, so I didn’t even enjoy them.

Why do I do this? I’m sure many others do as well, but do you find yourself eating something kinda fast so you can have another cookie, or another bite of something? I catch myself doing it a lot. Why not slow down and enjoy it and then maybe you won’t want another or anymore?

I’ve always been the one that since I’m going on a diet starting on such and such date, I better eat the things I won’t be able to have once I start. So, I’ll have some fast food, make some brownies and then start my diet. Well, what do you know…get a craving and I’ll eat something that supposedly wasn’t going to be “allowed”. I realize banning foods from your diet doesn’t work(at least not for me), but I do feel I shouldn’t have to have something sweet or some kind of junk everyday, or after lunch and dinner for that matter.I mean I act like they’re suddenly going to stop making oreos after 97 years(yes, I looked it up, lol). I mean is  McDonalds suddenly going to decide not to make french fries???  Seriously, even if they did, there will always be something.

I am really going to focus on enjoying what I’m eating when I eat it. I have to stop this guilt because it just leads to more crappy eating. It’s time to truly appreciate my body and treat it like it deserves to be treated!

I became pretty cool with my realtor from when I bought my house last summer. We still were keeping in touch and he was talking about how he was going to start a diet. Claims he lost 12 lbs the first week so I’m like sign me up. What’s a girl have to do??? Basically it’s 50% carbs, 30% protein and 20% fat. To determine how many calories I need, he told me I needed to have my body fat analysis done.

I called around to a couple of trainers and found out a local college offers the Bod Pod. The lady is explaining it to me and says, ” Now here’s the fun part.” You know that’s just not going to be good. You can wear a speed bathing suit or tight shorts and a sports bra. Oh and a speedo swimming cap. Are you serious??? Maybe I should just go on Biggest Loser for crying out loud. She swore the room is dimmly lit(lady not helping!) and it would only be me and her.

I show up and she is this super cute, super thin lady. Figures right? I’m wearing my sexy black bike shorts, pink sports bra and the best part - a RED swim cap. How this lady kept a straight face I just don’t know. Then I got to get into the giant spaceship looking egg..if I can figure out how to put pics on here, I’ll show you.

They do 2 readings and it tells you exactly what you are made up of. My results? Oh not pretty friend. I’m pretty sure it was 47% body fat and 53% lean muscle. Wow, oh wow. It told me that just to exsist, my body uses 1490 calories. Even though it was slightly humiliarting it was pretty cool to see exactly what you are made up of. Plus to know exactly how many calories you use is helpful. It only cost $25 bucks, so I think it’s worth doing. I plan on going back in a few months and checking my progress.

Ok, so I’m starting to think I’m slow and can’t figure out how to put in pics. I’m going to play around with it and I’ll add one later. Errrrrrr….