Yup, I am!  I lost another 1.5lbs this week and I am very glad for it!  I really hope for that 1.5 every week because 6lbs a month will get me to my birthday goal of being under 200lbs. 

I’m getting ready for the gym but wanted to quick jot down my loss.  Patti and I are doing our lower body workout today and I think some cardio.  We’ll see!

This week I have tried 3 new recipes from our WW cook book and they have all been GREAT! First I made Porkchops with Apricots and they were delicious. It took about 1/3 the time to make as the only other porkchop recipe I know. Very easy and very cheap, my two favorite things when cooking. I also made an Apple and Cheddar Grilled Cheese sandwhich, the ingredients are something I never would have put together on my own but it was SO good! For a new side dish I made zucchini chips - zucc slices dipped in egg white and italian season bread crumbs and baked, also very good. I love adding new dishes especially when I am getting bored of my usual things. Last week Patti made Heather and I chicken with salsa verde, I bought some salsa verde the next time I went to the store! It spices up boring chicken. I’m actually making it tonight for dinner.

Tomorrow is weigh in and I think I did almost everything possible this week. Worked out everyday and stayed in my points for the most part. We’ll see if the Wendie Plan helped again this week.

I didn’t feel like going to the gym today.  I did, however, feel like working out.  I found my old Yoga video and put it in.  What a difference 70lbs makes!  I used to be in major pain or completely unable to do and poses that put pressure on my knees. (warrior, chair and such)  This time I did the whole video and while it wasn’t easy, it was challenging in the way it’s suppose to be not because my knees couldn’t take it.  I really want to take a yoga class and I think I’m on my way to feeling comfortable with the idea.  I might do yoga on Sundays since I never feel like leaving the house to go to the gym on my 1 day off.

Food yesterday was better than I expected because we canceled our game night. 1 of my friends got the flu and we got about 6 inches of snow so we decided to have it in March.  I did meet 1 friend for dinner - french onion soup, chicken quesadilla and a long beach to drink, and ice cream when I got home.  Better than it would have been!

Yeah, Yeah…… I can’t believe that I have lost 70lbs in 166 days! (or 5 and a half months, for those who don’t want to figure it out)

We had a great workout last night. I did my c25k run and it went great. For the first 5 days I did my 60sec jog anywhere from 4.8 to 5.2 but last night I stepped it up and jogged at 5.5 the majority of the time. I did 1 block at 5.8! Damn….that’s awesome. In my 25 mins, I did 1.56 miles. About half of an actual 5k but I’m getting there. Then we did chest/triceps/abs. I did SO much better on the ab workout. I think I’m going to work on my abs 3 times a week because I need it and it only takes about 10-15 mins.

….. this hasn’t been my best week ever. I ate more than I wished over the weekend and that followed me, so I ate a little more than I needed the next couple days. Eck… today is the day before weigh in and I am hitting the gym hard tonight. We are doing the c25k run and chest/triceps/abs. That should take about 90 mins. I feel like I am still in this though. I haven’t lost my passion for healthy living or weight loss. Actually this just shows me I’m not ready to stop journaling my food, so I’m back to my little yellow notebook.

I decided to do the Wendie Plan again this coming week. (our weeks are Friday to Thursday) I know I will not be able to count points on Saturday night as I am going out to a friends for a game night. Our game nights are a blast, we have a food theme and there are about 8 of us that get together every few months to catch up, play games and laugh. (which is actually a great ab workout!) This time our food is going to be Greek Cuisine. Yummy but who knows how many points they will be. My plan is to eat what I want but not go overboard. The point of our night barely focuses on the food and is more about hanging out, which is great. With doing the WP, I can over eat and make up for it by stagering my points the rest of the week. It makes me feel a little better anyway and I will work out as many days as possible too!

I’ll let ya know how weigh in goes tomorrow - keep your fingers crossed, all I want is for the scale to go down, 5 or .5 doesn’t matter!

All I did this weekend was sit on my ASS and EAT!!! Why, why, why….. because I’m lazy. period. I wasn’t sick, I wasn’t depress, I wasn’t mad, I wasn’t bored….and none of those are even good excuses either. I was just LAZY! I need groceries, didn’t want to go. I needed to do laundry, didn’t want to go. I needed to go to the gym, didn’t want to go….. see a pattern here? Uuggh. Time to push past the weekend, right? Today is a new day and I still have 4 days until weigh in on Friday. I have time to spend at the gym and I can make good food choices the rest of the week. I have to stop being lazy on my day off. It’s probably my biggest struggle right now. I need to just get up, get in the shower and go do what I need to in the morning so that I can relax in the afternoon. Enough already!

Ok, done with that. Today, my plan is to work, go work out, grocery shop and then do laundry. Jam it all in this afternoon and then be done. I also really need to get an eye doctor appt. and get my hair cut/eyebrows waxed, and I still need to go to the dentist for my damn tooth. Apparently I have more to do than can be done today.

Who knew my triceps could hurt this bad?! Man, oh Man… Feels great though! Patti and I did our lower body workout yesterday and I feel good this morning! Not much pain, nothing compared to last week. That’s good and bad because now I have to add more weights or more sets to the workout next week. Today we are going to the gym and I’m going to do my c25k training and do the ab portion of our chest/triceps/abs workout. Paula said we could do abs a couple times a week (yuck) and I OBVIOUSLY need to work on that.

I think Heather, Patti and I are going to go out to dinner and a movie tonight. Should be FuUun… ( sarcastically said ) I hate Valentine’s Day.. not because I’m single because even when I had a relationship on V Day, I still thought it was stupid. Why are you waiting til February 14 to show me you love me? What significance does that day have for me? NOTHING… Take me on a date because you want to, not because you have to. Anywho… enough about that. I guess I do sound a little bitter but what can you do?

I weighed in this morning at 259!! 250’s….wooooo hoooo!! I am 68lbs down and am exactly 100lbs away from goal! Feels Good…

Training yesterday was chest/triceps/abs. My arms are killing me but still not as bad as after the lower body workout.

Here’s what we did:

3 sets of 12 - Chest Press w/ 20, 25, 30lbs
3 sets of 10 - Dumb Bell Press on 30degree Incline w/ 12lb weight
3 sets of 8 - DB Press on Flat Bench w/ 15lb weight
3 sets of 12 - Overhead Tricep Extensions w/ 10lbs
3 sets of 12 - Tricep Pushdowns w/ 30lbs
3 sets of 12 - Kickbacks w/ 5lb weights
3 sets of as many as we could do (which was not a lot) - Abs on flat bench, lifting legs and lower back off bench
3 sets of as many as we could do (even less than leg lifts) - Abs on flat bench, starting sitting up and doing reverse crunches *hardest one for me*
3 sets of 12 - 6lb ball passed between us - back to back and twisting while squeezing our abs

I knew I had little to NO ab muscles but HOLY CRAP. When we did the leg lifts, I did 10 the first set, then 7 and then I could only do 4! When we switched to regular crunches I was ready. I knew it would suck but everyone can do a regular crunch. Then Paula said ok, now sit all the way up and start from there. HA! No way could I do a FULL sit-up. Patti and I both said, “can we use our hands to get up?” Which we did, then we had to go back as far as we could and then back up to sitting straight. I tried 1 and fell all the way down because I couldn’t stop half way and come all the way back up. It was aweful. Paula let me hold her arm for a couple on the next set and the last set, she was behind me to help on the upside if needed. OF COURSE IT WAS NEEDED! I think in 3 sets I did 7 crunches! Something to work on I guess….

My stomach has been a bottomless pit yesterday and this morning. I feel like I could eat and eat and eat…. Last night at work I ate everything in my lunch box by 4:30pm, I had to work til 8! This morning, it’s only 8:40 and I have eaten 2/3rds of my food already! I have to work until 1 and then have to go straight to my training session. That means I have to leave the little bit I have left until noon or so, so that I have energy to workout! Oye… I need more filling foods or I need something so I’m not bored at work! That really is my problem, boredom.

Today we meet with Paula for our 3rd training session. I’m also planning on doing Day 5 of C25k. Hopefully she won’t kill us and I’ll be able to get on the treadmill afterwards. I got up and hit the gym yesterday morning and did 35mins on the elliptical. I sweat more than ever, probably because it was actually warm outside too.

My weeks just keep running together. I’m so bored! I need something to work for and look forward to. I think we are going to have a girl’s weekend this summer again but I really need a date, something I can see and plan for. My Aunt and I are also thinking about going on a backpacking trip. There is a 42 mile trail in the UP called Pictured Rocks. I think it would be an amazing trip. I’ve never hiked before but really want to. While these are great ideas, nothing is set and that means it might not happen. Does anyone else every get like this? Where you feel like you sleep, work, workout and eat just to do the same thing tomorrow and the next day and the next day…..

We have our 3rd training day tomorrow and it’s focusing on ABS. (maybe something else too, but when she said Abs first I blacked out the rest… lol) Not gonna lie, a little nervous about this one. I’ll do it….just nervous to see what she has in store for us.