Bounce bounce bounce February 16, 2008
So the scale is playing tricks on me. Damn evil gray box. I weighed in this morning at 188. All week I’ve been weighing in anywhere between 186 and 190. What the heck? So now I don’t know what I really weigh. I’m going to go ahead and go with 188, just because it’s in the middle of the range I’m bouncing around in. This is, naturally, infuriating and maddening.
I HAVE to exercise. It just isn’t working without it. And, I need to step it up. Walking Sierra is great, but it isn’t enough. It isn’t enough to really help my weightloss efforts, and it definitely isn’t enough to help me out with my 500 miles in a year goal. So, time to get down to it. It looks like I’m probably going to join a different gym. The whole hours thing at the college just isn’t working for me. The rec center at Kahle (about a ten minute drive) is reasonably priced (200 a year. Seriously) and, from what I hear, is really nice. As a bonus, DH takes his boys there to workout each night when he’s on shift. (DH works for a boys’ group home and works Sunday-Wednesday) So, I’s get to go workout with him and his guys (they’re all great guys who were just never given the right chances, and ended up making stupid choices) Granted, they’ll all be playing basketball and lifting my body weight above their heads, while I’ll be chugging away on the elliptical, but, if they’re going (and they pass by our house on their way there) I have a little bit of “I have to go” going on. Hopefully, I’ll go check it out tomorrow with the hubs. (I’m being a chicken and not wanting to go for my first time by myself)
I did get in a nice workout today, took Sierra out for a two hour hike with a coworker and her dog. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t completely exhausted from it all. And, I give myself a mile for each 15 minutes, so 8 miles. Woot! The cool thing is that I feel it all over- even my abs. Which is cool. Sierra is happy too. I am looking forward to the day that I don’t feel like a heiffer drudging to slaughter for the whole hike.
Food? Hm. Yeah, not great. I’ve been pretty much in calories the whole week, or atleast close to. Today was a 1000 calorie ish day. I’m not going to fight it- my weekends are usually pretty low.
Overall, my mood is tanking. I’m low on patience, motivation, and willpower. Bad, bad combo. Unfortunately, I think poor Sierra is getting the brunt of it too. Ugh. What in the world is wrong with me? I’m not even hormonal!! I’m guessing it’s one of a few things: a) my lack of exercise over the course of the week b) my weight bouncing c) not taking time for me d) not spending enough time with hubby e) my food choices being less than stellar or f) life just goes that way. So, I’m stepping up my exercise. And, big fear here, I’m going ot make DH hide the scale from me for a week. I’m going to go back to makign myself do the bubble bath thign every night, and I signed up for a magazine subscription (Fitness, love it. I’ll probably sign up for Shape and Self as well. Need to find one more, so that I’ll have one per week. Any recs?) Time with hubby is hard to come by these days, so the gym should help, and I’ll have to make sure that we spend time doing stuff other than just watchign tv together at night when he’s home) I went grocery shopping at Trader Joe’s today, so food choices should be better for the week, consideirng I put more thought into it that “oh yeah, I should eat”. What to do about life? Just keep living it I guess!
Today’s reason for working hard: Because I want to be hot for DH!
Mizu: Grab a pole and do si do? I’m laughing my ass off right now. I almost have my redneck routine choreographed- a couple fake horse rides, some butt slapping, kicking off my cowboy boots and square dancing with the pole in my blue jean chaps. It’s going to be HAWT.
kendralynn- You are going to fall in love with Trader Joes! And, they’re really pretty cheap. Love their stuff. The gnocchi is the gnocchi sorentia or soemthign like that. It’s in the freezer section and has red sauce. As for my TJ must haves? Let’s see… in the freezer section I usually stock up on the gnocchi, their sweet and sour shrimp stir-fry, and the chicken gyoza potstickers. If you want a nice little chinese food fix, their orange chicken is very tasty. It’s not AS diet friendly as the other things I stock up on, but definitely not bad. I also LOVE their meat section. The ricotta stuffed chicekn breasts with marinara, the BBQ tri-tp, the bacon wrapped pork chops, and the cabernet pot roast are probably my favs. Also, their organic yogurt is super super yummy. The vanilla with some banana and their pecan praline granola is like heaven, great bfast or dessert. Also a huge fan of their minestrone soup, the French truffles (a little heavy on the calories at 50 a pop, but they’re decadent and truly satisfying for a treat), their strawberry fruit leathers (way yum), their fat free balsamic vinaigrettes is probably one of the best out there, and their champagne pear gorgonzola dressing is super yummy. Pretty much everything is good there.
leanmoomercows: I hope 20 pounds gone feels good! Ugh. It seems so far away! And, yes, pants do get in the way. Though the last time I shook my thing around with no pants on, well… it wasn’t pretty. That’s for sure!
Thanks for the TJ’s recommendations! I can’t wait to go shop. As for your magazine question, why not make the fourth something like US Weekly or Cosmo or some other guilty pleasure? They usually have a fitness section anyway. And good going on the two-hour hike.