Going to Lose: My Weightloss Journey!

WOW! the summer is totally flying by! it’s kind of shocking.

too late and tired to blog thoroughly now.

food was more or less on track. no gym today because my right calf still hurts a tad, and because i planned out my week and i know i have 4-5 gym days left, so missing today wont hurt.

tomorrow will be a real challenge day. the only food i am preparing for myself is breakfast and my snacks. I have both a lunch and dinner meeting where the meals will be served. and i still want to stay within my 1400 MAX range. wow, this will be a challenge, but I’m REALLY going to try/ DO IT! also, as long as my evening meeting gets out by 8:15/30, which it should because it starts at 4:15 (but sometimes these things can run super long), I am going to quickly bike home, pop on my gym clothes, and get to the gym by 9pm so I can do week5 day2 of c25k!

so goals for tomorrow (i hope to come back tomorrow and check them off successfully):

Goal 1: Eat on track and make the most controlled and smart choices I possibly can. Try to estimate that the lunch and portion I choose to eat is about 500 calories and that the dinner I eat is about 500 calories. (obviously this is estimation, but estimate on the safe side)

Goal 2: If my meeting ends sometime by 8:45, bike home as fast as possible, put on my gym clothes and get to the gym by 9:00 to do day 2 of W5 c25k.

Wish me luck on these two goals! and on controlled and smart eating tomorrow! Thursday is my weigh in day! I really don’t want to mess that up!!! I hope for something below 189, but we’ll see! a lot could rest on tomorrow’s eating, so i really need to be careful!

Night all!

after my c25k workout yesterday, my right calf really hurt, so i decided to use one of those sticky heating pads and wear it to bed to see if that would help my muscle.

i woke up and my muscle wasnt sore anymore–> YAY

but, now i have an odd reaction/irritation/rash on my leg EXACTLY where the heating pad was. –>BOO

at least I can work out this afternoon! YAY! but I hope this weirdo reaction goes away soon.

also, m3at49 suggested that in order to help my endurance more on my next run, to lower the speed on my runs a bit. i think I’m greatly consideringt his, and might move down from 4.8 mph to 4.5/4.6 for now to see if that allows me to complete day 2 week 5 successfully! thanks for the suggestion! sometimes, I get caught up in the fact that I like my speed so much, that it’s hard for me to realize that at this point in my running journey, i cant sustain 5+ minute runs on that speed, so I think I’ll try that tomorrow for my next run workout. YAY

Happy Tuesday!

I want to REALLY get into the 180s this week, so I’m sticking to my food and exercise plan AS MUCH AS HUMANLY possible!! I’m blogging quickly before I run off to do week 5 of the c25k!

Today I stuck to my food really well:
Breakfast: 1 yogurt (60), 1 tbsp of flaxseed (30), ½ banana (55), and ¼ cup of cereal (35), cup of iced tea (0)- 170

Lunch: 1 chicken apple sausage (110), baby bell cheese (50) carrots and celery (45), plum (30), nectarine (70) -305

Snack: ½ blueberry whole grain muffin (100) and small piece of cakeish bread (65) - 165

Dinner: chicken fajitas, with some rice and corn tortillas (630), two jolly ranchers (47)- 677

After gym snack: kombucha (35) and something else, but i’m not quite sure what, yet.

Total so far: 1347, amount left: 53 (plan: 40 fudgesicle)

C25k update: well, i’m not going to lie. c25k was DEFINITELY a challenge tonight. getting through those 3 5 minute runs was semi painful, but i did do about an extra 3 min or so of running in the end. i also had some technical troubles, in that i went to the gym with about 40 min before it was closing and determined to do my run. so, i took a treadmill that i hadnt used before because the rest were full. not only did I have shoe lace trouble, and have to bend over and fix them without pausing the treadmill (i couldnt find the stupid button), for some reason the treadmill just stopped my run early, and I dont know why. (I WAS SO ANNOYED!) so, i quickly switched over to the treadmill next to me which is the kind I usually use, and I finished my c25k week 5 day 1, with a little extra running at the end. so, all in all, i completed it. but it wasnt without obstacles. so, on wednesday im going to move onto day 2. but, if once i try day 3, i cant do it (WILL I BE ABLE TO? HELP! ADVICE!?) i will just do day 2 again until i CAN do day 3. hmm, any advice from any c25k-ers who have successfully made the jump from day 2 to day 3 of week 5? if so help!
if so help! thanks! overall, not a bad day! 

Well, I think overall I did pretty well this weekend. Sundays are always hard for me because the farmer’s market is SO good, and then I bake some stuff with my friend, etc, so it’s always a very filling day. But I think I did okay today. Hopefully I will yield some good results this week. Also, I’ve decided to low carb it this week and not do sandwiches, and instead just do a protein and fruit etc, because I think the carbs may be holding me back. So, we’ll see! But I’d really like to be well into the 180s on Thursday, not just barely there.Well, here i go! Wish me luck! Back tomorrow!

Also! Side note! I began drinking Kombucha flavored teas that you can find at whole foods! apparently it’s supposed to help with various things like digestion, metabolism etc. i figure that trying it cant hurt! wikipedia it if you’re curious about it, because i only know about it, because my friend suggested it to me, and it pretty yummy!
i’m just trying to get healthier!

Well, Friday came and went and I more or less stayed on plan all day.  The biggest coup was that I went to cheescake factory (apparently the entrees are all 1000 calories +) and I got the Weight Management Asian Chicken Salad which is 590 calories, which I was happy to eat for dinner.  So, that itself was such a huge accomplishment for me.  I avoided what truly could have been almost a 1/2 lb + meal.  Afterwords I went with some guys to get some frozen yogurt and I may have munched on some doritos in some kid’s room, but truly nothing horrendous and overall a VERY controlled Friday.  Today looks like it will also very much be a day of control.  I am eating dinner out with some friends, but we are going to a salad place that I know and I can get a small salad and be totally happy, on plan and content.  So, after all that, tomorrow will be the final day of weekend control challenge. But, I’m gonna think about it and plan it out tonight, so that I can stay in control.  I’ve been asking myself a question that M3@49 told me to ask, when I’m about to eat something that is questionable, which is “Will eating this help me get to 185?” and that’s really been so helpful to me.  I will make it to 185 and soon!

Ok, food so far today:

Pre-gym food: yogurt (60), 1 tbsp of flaxseed (30), 1/2 banana (55), 1/4 cup of cereal (35), 1/2 cup of blueberries (42): total- 222

Post gym food: egg white scramble with spinach and mushrooms (150), cottage cheese (80) and berries (50) and a green apple (70)-350

Total food so far today: 572, amount left: 828 

plan for the day: 600 cals for dinner and 200 cals for frozen yogurt after.

Workout: 34 min on treadmill (day 3 week 4 of c25k complete), 26 min ellipitcal, 1 hr plus of weights and abs. 

just for the record, i did day 2 week 4 yesterday, completed it fine, but it definitely was really hard.  doing day 3 tomorrow (saturday), im thinking it’s going to be really hard to move past the 5 min runs. but im going to do it.

but just barely. I’m really going to have to get my act together and have an entirely on plan weekend and week so that I can actually start losing 2lbs per week and not just playing catch up during the week.

BLAH

I am happy but tired. Just need to keep myself together this week!

AHHHHHHHH! I HATE COMPUTERS!I WAS TRYING TO UPDATE MY WEIGHT LOSS PAGE, BECAUSE I LOST A BIT THIS WEEK, AND MY ENTIRE PAG F*CKED UP HUGELY! IF YOU LOOK AT THE PAGE, IT’S ONE BIG BLOG OF TEXT, AND EVEN WHEN I TRY TO INDENT IT, IT ENDS UP FORMATTING BACK TO THIS STUPID F-ING PARAGRAPH BLOB FORMAT.  I’VE BEEN WORKING FOR IT ON 20 STUPID F-ING MINUTES AND I CANT FIX IT. ANYWAYS, I DONT EVEN CARE THAT I LOST WEIGHT THIS WEEK. I’M SO PISSED ABOUT THIS PAGE AND DONT KNOW HOW TO FIX IT. IF ANYONE KNOWS, HOW PLEASE DROP ME A COMMENT. I SWEAR I’LL LOVE YOU FOREVER.UGH FOR THE RECORD, I HIT THE 189.2 TODAY. BLAH (AND FOR THE RECORD, ITS DOING THE SAME THING TO THIS PAGE, AND WONT LET ME INDENT, OR MAKE SPACES, ETC.) HELP! 

WoohoO! tomorrow’s thursdaY! yay! Did quite well on food and workout today. hope it yields good results!

Breakfast: 1 yogurt (50), 1 tbsp of flaxseed (30), ½ banana (55), and ¼ cup of cereal (35), milk (23) if I need it- 193

Lunch: 1 slice of pizza (400) and some salad (100)-500

 snack: muffin (95), nectarine (70), nf iced latte (110)-275

 pre-gym snack:2 tbsp of pb2-54

 Dinner: 2 turkey burgers (200), ketchup (50), salad (130)-380

 total: 1402–>doneWorkout: 30 min of Squash, 33 min treadmill, 1 hr of weights and abs (slightly hurt my shoulder, im icing it in hopes that it will help) hopefully i will get to day 2 week 4 of c25k tomorrow!! 

Ahh, tuesday. So far today, I’ve stuck on plan quite well. Now im about to go to the gym to do Week 4 Day 1 of C25k and also do some weights etc.

Food so far today:
Breakfast: 1 yogurt (50), 1 tbsp of flaxseed (30), ½ banana (55), and ¼ cup of cereal (35), milk (23) if I need it- 193

Lunch: sandwich (240), 20 grapes (68), carrots and celery (45), strawberries (50) -403

Snack: muffin (95), plum (30), jelly beans (75) total: 200

Pre-gym snack: ¼ cup of cottage cheese (45) with ½ cup of berries (40)-85

Dinner: stiryfry with brown rice, egg whites, veggies and tofu (243), salad (140)- 383

Total so far today: 1264

Workout: Week 4 Day 1 of C25k walking speed was 3.4/3.5 and jogging speed was 4.8.  The 5 min run was definitely hard, but absolutely do-able.  I’m thinking of running a 5k in the Fall.  Like, a real one, outside.  Which means, at some point, I’m going to have to start running outside. But, i think that will be once I finish c25k.

So, 33 min treadmill, 15 min elliptical, 35 min weights and abs.  really excited about “becoming a runner” haha. !