I am a slacker. Weighed in this week at 234. 26 pounds down… that equals 10% right? I started at 260…. percentages are my math weakness.
My Sister and I aren’t doing too well. We still have the drive to lose weight but the whole motivation and everything has worn off. It’s not new and exciting anymore for sure.
I haven’t been drinking nearly enough water. I have stayed under calories most days, but exercise has been non-existant. Too cold to walk. Work out tapes are boring. Not sure what we are gonna do….
Edit: I quit shortly after this.
Weighed in a day early at 240… no loss last week. I don’t know what that is all about. I mean it was rainy and cold all week but jeeze, I didn’t eat that much, I shoulda lost something. Oh well… it helps kick my butt in gear. And in all honesty I did not put forth my best effort at all. Hindsight-20/20. Yeah.
My Sister, Dad, Husband, Mother in law, and I are having a “family biggest loser” challenge this month. $20 in a pot each and we weigh in today and then again December 1st. Biggest % lost wins.
I am also going to drink more water starting today. In the past I was really strict about the amount of water I drank and the last 6 weeks I haven’t really kept track or drank much. So I have a big cup to keep track and I will drink at least 64 oz a day.
Weigh in day! I am at 240, which means I have lost 20 pounds since September 21st. Wooot! Very excited.
Things are going okay. I still have issues with having absolutely no willpower, but as long as I keep things out of the house then I am fine. Walking has been good, my sister and I have picked up the pace a little and have been walking a lot farther as well.
We have a winter storm warning for tomorrow, so it isn’t looking good for walking. I have exercisetv on demand though, and we should be getting a used elliptical machine soonish too. I will probably keep it at my house since I have more room, so that is good. Something to do while I watch The Biggest Loser instead of laying on the couch like I tend to do.
I tried on my old size 22 jeans I haven’t worn since before I had my son yesterday. They fit! One pair that I have give a little more muffin top than I am willing to show off LOL so I will wait a while for them, but one pair fit perfectly. It is nice to have new options without shopping.
The downside of the whole size 22 thing is that my 24s don’t fit so well. I love some of my jeans and I am gonna hate to see them go, but I refuse to keep them. If I get rid of everything too big then I will have nothing to wear if I slip and gain a few pounds, and hopefully kick my ass back into gear. I don’t intend to slip, (who does?!) but I am trying to learn from the past and getting rid of this is the best plan I think…
…which also bummed me out a little when I was thinking about it. Here I have alllll sorts of 24 size stuff, and I was talking to my sister-who is size 20 now btw- about getting rid of some clothes and we could only thing of 1 person who would be able to wear this stuff and she is so short that I don’t think she would be able to without altering them a LOT. How sad is that? I am the fattest person I know. Not for long, but right now… yep I am. *sigh* I guess I can find someone who needs it, woman’s shelters, or ask my neighbor to bring them to her church or something.
Anyhoo… WOO 20 pounds gone! /dance
Actually 25 off my highest recorded weight!
7.69% Smaller!
This week the scale said 243! That’s a 5 pound loss from last week. I rechecked 5 times to see if it was really true and I suppose when it says the same weight 5 times it must be.
Last week wasn’t even that great. We walked 5 days, I wasn’t feeling well one day and Sunday…well, I just didn’t feel like it. I honestly didn’t feel like it today either, but I did anyway.
I learned that my sister and I have NO willpower whatsoever. We took the kids to the open house at the fire department, got the kids pizza and then we had to get some too. Then my nephew wanted to get cookies from the bake sale so I gave him a few dollars to do that and what does he get?! Snickerdoodles. I am not much of a cookie eater, don’t think I really ever have been, but I <3 snickerdoooooodles. So I ate one. Stupid snickerdoodles. We counted everything we had and it wasn’t horrific, I think I was at like 1750 calories for the whole day, but knowing that I can’t control myself is scary. Need to work on that or something, I don’t know.
We did go grocery shopping last week though, got enough food for 10 meals. We looked for healthy recipes that looked good and made a huge list. The only non-healthy thing on it is knoephla soup, but that’s for the kids. I’ll probably make it tomorrow and add up the calories just in case someone else wants some. But with dough and whipping cream it probably isn’t very calorie friendly.
Another Monday, another weigh in… this week I am down 3 pounds to 248. Woot. I am not entirely sure of my height. I need to really check it, but I am between 5′6″ and 5′7″ and this weight has me riiiiight on the edge of no longer being morbidly obese. Oh I am still obese and will be for a while, but that whole morbid thing is scary and I am glad that it doesn’t technically describe me, or my BMI anymore.
I planned on writing here a lot more, but I honestly don’t have much to say. I walk still, and it still hurts more than I expect it to. I think it is getting better though. It is getting colder fast and I really don’t know what we will do about walking in the snow. It’s one thing for us grown ups to do it, but we have 2 year olds and I don’t want my baby to be cold and miserable, plus the playground and the snow don’t mix, and I don’t know how I will explain that to someone who is 2.
My sister is losing faster than I am. While I am happy for her, and happy I am losing steadily I wish she would let me catch up! LOL I think it helps to stay on plan when I’m trying to keep up with her. This week is TOM anyway, so maybe I am retaining water or something, seeing that my TOM is more like TOYear. Not so fun.
Went to my sister’s house to weigh in this morning. Down 3.2 lbs to 251.2. Not too shabby considering last week, it rained, snowed and was just horrid. My daughter had Thursday and Friday off of school so we didn’t walk that much. My daughter had a hole in her heart repaired in May, and she clutches her chest when she gets tired, so I don’t want her to walk with me until we get it rechecked. Which reminds me that I need to make that appointment.
I went to my sister’s today to weigh myself before we went for a walk and I am now 254 lbs. That is 6 pounds in the first week. Woohoo, nothing like a nice big jump start hehe. My sister lost 8. She is 27 lbs lighter than me. I was hoping to catch up to her, but that is a big difference. At least it gives me something to work towards.
We walked this morning, I forgot the stroller and had to go back home to get it. I had a really hard time even making my mile, my lungs hurt, my feet hurt and my shins…omg the pain. I think it might be because I am still not feeling well, and I need new shoes. Or that I am extremely out of shape… that could be the reason too I suppose.
I have a wicked head cold, doesn’t that just freakin’ figure? Haven’t been sick in months and then BAM when I start walking and stuff it hits me. This week we walked Monday through Friday. None Saturday and I don’t see me going anywhere today at all. I hope I feel better tomorrow, but even if I don’t I will walk a mile.
I will weigh in tomorrow. I have my fancy schmancy tanita scale stashed at my sister’s house because I become a bit obsessive about weighing. I think once a week will be better for me than every morning.
So even though it feels like I have a zillion pounds to lose I am afraid of maintenance. Really afraid. In the past I had been down to 207 or so and when I stopped “dieting” I gained it back and an alarming rate. It’s terrifying to think I have to lose the weight again. It is almost as terrifying to think I will alllllways have to worry about it. I know that’s just the way it is, but I hope that during this journey I pick up habits that will help me so that I won’t have to be so meticulous. It is exhausting.
So anyway… when I get to my goal…not sure what it is yet, but I think around 140 or so I am gonna get a pair of jeans custom made. You choose everything about the jeans, from color to leg style, coin pocket or no, pocket shape, everything. Then you enter your height, weight, measurements, how your current jeans fit and all that. Then for about $150.00 you get your jeans made. I think that if I do that for my final goal reward-spend more money than I have ever dreamed of spending on jeans on custom made ones then when/if they get snug I will know that I am slacking off and to kick it up a notch.
Anyway, that is my brilliant plan that I have. Now to remember it when it is actually an issue.
Oh, edited to add http://www.indidenim.com/oo/navigation/landing is the site I am gonna get them from.
So far so good, I suppose… I am staying within my calorie limits every day with no problem. I am eating too much processed and frozen foods, but that will change once I get some recipes and can really go grocery shopping. I am making a “white lasagna” for my Dad for his birthday. It consists of cheese, noodles, hamburger, cheese, mushrooms, cheese, and olives. And more cheese, I’m not even kidding, it has cottage cheese, mozzarella cheese, cream cheese, whipping cream. I will add up the calories, juuuuust in case I try some, but I am looking for a recipe for lasagna florentine. One that tastes like the Smart Ones meal, but homemade and better. If anyone happens to read this and knows of a good one let me know… or let me know where to look.
My sister and I walk every day. With company even, friends, family, everyone comes with. It is nice to have people come along, but if it was just my sister and me I think it would be easier and less of such a production. I would love to just get up and go, but there’s so much waiting for this person and all of that. We were walking at a park with a 1 mile path around it, oh.em.gee. it is so boring. My son gets nearly bored to tears, I think if he didn’t know that he could play at the park after he would throw a fit, but he does know we are gonna play so he puts up with it.
Today instead of boring ol’ walking park we walked from my house to a different park. It is farther and has a lot of little hills. There are ducks and a better playground there so the kids have a blast and I was sweating after. The boring park never makes me sweat. I think since it’s farther we will do it 2 times a week and go to boring park 3 times from now on. Now I just gotta keep up with my skinnier sister and her amazon legs. Soon.
