It’s been a couple about a month since I’ve blogged and I thought it was way beyond time.
I just started working, well technically, I’m actually student teaching. It’s been a month now and I’m so exahuasted already from it. I teach band in grades 6-12 which, yes, includes marching band. I have 12 hour days Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays and football games Fridays so I don’t get home until around midnight. Thursday is the only day that I’m done at 4:00 p.m. I haven’t exercised in about a month and I’m totally disgusted with myself for it but I’m just so TIRED when I get home all I want to do is eat dinner, shower and go to bed. On the weekends I usually do housework or go visit my mother out of town. I was so used to being a college student and having a lot of free time. I could work out everyday before and now I can’t muster up the energy to do anything. :/ I haven’t gained any weight so I’m happy about that but I also haven’t lost any. I still have about 60 pounds to lose so I can’t let myself give up! Ugh…I need to motivate myself just to run at least one mile three times a week. I keep telling myself that I need to do something to keep myself active but I just can’t get out of this rut. I ask myself how people that work full time have the time much less energy to workout. Whatever their secret is I need to find out and pronto!
Posted on September 7th, 2009 by ronica62
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I weighed in yesterday morning at 228.8! Finally I’m in the 220s after over a month of being in the 230s! I must admit though. I haven’t worked out in about four days. Thurs & Fri I was pretty sick and Sat & Sun I went to visit my family out of town. Now that I’ve gone four days without working out I’m sort of in the mood to continue to not. But…I know that finally stepping on that scale and seeing the number flash up 228 made me feel GREAT!! Therefore, I’m gonna make myself workout! lol I hate going more than 2 days without working out because it starts to make me not want to work out anymore. It’s so much more easier to lie on the sofa! But I, as well as anyone else in the battle against the bulge, know that you have to decrease your calorie intake as well increase your calorie burning workouts! ugh…I guess I’m just having a case of the Mondays but I’ll shake myself out of it by 4:00. 4:00 o’clock is when I jump on my tread. Hopefully you’re having a better Monday than me. 
Posted on July 27th, 2009 by ronica62
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I stepped onto the scale this morning and was 231.6! Yesterday I was 233.0 but I blame TOM! The water retention always gets a little crazy around this time. lol
I did my usual 2 mile jog and 30 minute resistance workout today. My Brother-in-Law is on the track team at his university and told me that little spurts of sprinting in between jogging will help expedite the weight loss. I had heard that before but had never really tried it until about a week ago. Geez, talk about being sore the next morning. My body was used to running my nice, slow pace but throw in about ten reps of 20 second sprints and I was ready to call it a day after a mile. lol
I’m feeling really good lately about my willpower. My fiancee and I ordered Chili’s to go for dinner and I had my usual Guiltless Grilled salmon while he had the sampler with all the fried goodies like the Southwestern eggrolls, Buffalo bites and Boneless Buffalo wings. I didn’t even think about sneaking a wing off of his plate. lol He’s never had a problem with weight so he eats pretty much anything he wants. Now let me tell you, it wasn’t easy at first trying to get used to the fact that while I was eating salads with a light vingerette dressing he was eating brisket smothered in BBQ sauce. But, as the months have gone by, it’s gotten easier and easier. I’ll look over to what he is eating, and I’m not going to lie and say I don’t think about having a nibble off of his plate, but I know that that nibble will turn into a week or longer of binging and I won’t allow myself to do that. Therefore, I know I have awesome willpower as compared to two months ago when I would have allowed myself that nibble.
Posted on July 22nd, 2009 by ronica62
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Today was a good day. Just relaxed at home after I cleaned and washed some laundry. I finished reading the sixth Harry Potter book today and picked up the seventh immediately after. I’ve read the series once but I wanted to re-read it because it was just so entertaining the first time around and it still is the second time. 
As for my weight loss progress the past couple of days, it’s been going pretty well. I haven’t been waking up early enough for breakfast (I’m enjoying my last week of getting to sleep in) so I just wait about an hour and then have a Lean Cuisine for lunch. I LOVE Lean Cuisine. I tried out Healthy Choice, Slim Fast, Nutri System and a few other meal or meal replacements over the past five or six months but I gave Lean Cuisine a try about a month ago and I’m hooked! Then I usually have an apple or one of the 100 calorie snacks as an inbetween snack. My dinner is usually pretty healthy too. It ranges from: Extra Lean Turkey burgers, broiled fish, baked chicken and a few other main courses. I try to change it up everynow and then just so that I don’t drive myself crazy eating the same thing over and over again. I’ve been really good about eating healthy for the past couple of months. Every now and then I let myself indulge with a sinfully delicious dessert or with a margarita but I make sure to increase my running distance or speed on the next day’s workout. I can’t be too strict with myself. I know that it is a new lifestyle change but I kind of still look at it as a diet for now. Just because I am a little more strict with what I eat while I’m trying to lose weight now. After I get to my goal weight of 170 lbs. I can be a little bit more relaxed but not too much. I definitely can’t go back to eating the way that I used to seven or eight month ago but I can indulge here and there.
Posted on July 21st, 2009 by ronica62
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I’m pretty sure that I won’t be blogging everyday but for now I will while I have time.
I weighed myself this morning and was 233 lbs. I have been in the 230s for a LONG time now. I just can’t seem to get lower then 231. I get soooo close and then I gain two or three pounds. And for some reason when I up my running to faster or longer I tend to gain weight the next day. Idk…it’s weird and now it’s like I’m afraid to keep exercising because my weight goes up instead of down. I know that sounds really dumb but it’s true. I need to get myself out of this “I’m afraid I’ll gain weight if I run” rut. I’ll do my best to snap myself out of it tonight and lace up my Nikes for a jog. I’m not going to let my “fear” overcome me because it’s just dumb to think that I’ll gain weight by running. It’s a weird thing that I can’t quite explain, it’s like my mind knows that that’s impossible but yet I still want to think it. Maybe because in some sort of way I just don’t want to exercise and with the scale showing me in the past numbers going up instead of down it adds the fuel to the fire of my belief that I’ll gain weight.
Anywho, some info on my last weight loss endeavor: I lost about 60 lbs. eight years ago by running. I ran about 2-3 miles a day seven days a week then and dropped all of my weight rather quickly. However, I did not do it healthy. I was only 17 and going through a lot since my parents were getting divorced. I lost 60 lbs. in 7 weeks! I practically didn’t eat anything and was always tired. My hair was thinning and falling out and I started to look sick after losing about 30 lbs. But back then, I didn’t really realize what I was doing to myself and just wanted to drown out the emotional pain with pain I could physically feel instead. I really wish my 17 year old self would have gotten help but it’s all in the past now. I managed to regain all 60 pounds plus about 35 lbs. more over the past five years or so. I’m so embarrassed that I let myself regain 90ish lbs. back but what can I do about the past now huh? All I can do is move forward. It’s taken me about 5 months to lose the 37 lbs that I have now but I want to make sure that I’m doing this the right way this time.
Posted on July 19th, 2009 by ronica62
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Ok so this is my first blog on 3FC. I joined the site a long time ago but I just recently stumbled upon it again and read through the forum. I remember how helpful all of the wonderful people on this site were then and still are. I never really posted anything back when I first became a member, I usually just roamed around the site and read everybody elses’ posts. Now I came back and I am going to become an active member.
I started off February 15, 2009 at 270 lbs. and am now 234 lbs. as of July 18, 2009. It definitely hasn’t been easy the past few months. There have been ups and downs but I know that I can reach my goal of losing 100 lbs. and getting to 170 lbs. I weighed 170 lbs. my freshman year of college and was 100% happy with my figure so I figured that I would make 170 my goal.
I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one going through the struggles that weight loss can present. On this site there are many men and women that are going through the exact same thing and many of them are truly inspirational to me. I hope that one day I can be inspirational to someone else.
Posted on July 18th, 2009 by ronica62
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