My loss is my gain!

Hope everyone had a great Halloween! 

I just got back from the gym…did 46 mins on the treadmill and did some weights and situps after.  Ben and I talked alot and it was nice.  =) 

My food pretty much sucked today.  My father wanted to take me out today for my birthday.  We ended up deciding on mexican.  I ordered the chicken fajitas.  I ate like not even half and then my dad had some.  It was so yummy.  I did have about 5 chips but better than the whole bowl I used to consume!  =) 

After lunch we headed to the mall and he bought me a pretty silver necklace.  We walked around a bit and decided to go see a movie.  We saw Saw VI.  I love all the Saws.  My dad hasnt seen any of them but he wasnt too grossed out. 

So when I got home I ate my leftovers….so ALL Ive had today is chicken fajitas.  Opps.  Im hoping thats why suddenly the scale is up like freakin 5 pounds?!?!?!  WEIRD!  Considering yesterday I weighed 263 and today it’s almost on 268.  I dont know whats going on there but it must be the freakin mexican.  gerrrr.  It better be magically gone when I weigh in on Tuesday or I am going to be one UPSET chick! 

Ben did say he noticed that my thighs were smaller and he can tell Im losing weight!  WOHOO!  Its not just me and my mom that can tell!  haha.  He also mentioned that it looked like my boobs are getting bigger!!!  Uhhh, I didnt notice that but perhaps since Im losing around my waist it makes them look bigger?  It would be FANTASTIC if everything shrunk and my boobs got bigger.  IN MY DREAMS!  haha

Alrighty…I must go to sleep.  I need to wake up super early and study and do homework.  Boooo.  =( 

Have a great night!  =) 

*EDIT*  I just figured it out while typing in calories.  The chicken and everything was okay…its the sodium for the fajitas that killed my weight.  2080!!!!  WTH, thats so much.  My body doesnt do well with sodium…same thing happened a few weeks ago with a bag of popcorn at the movies.  The sodium was high and the next day I had a drastic weight jump.  Soooo cross your fingers that Tuesday will be okay!  Im drinking 5000 ounces of water tomorrow to flush it all out hopefully.  haha

Goodnight! 

Or dont…I just got done working out (twice!) and they probably smell awful.  hehe

So yesterday was my birthday!  24!  Eck!  I did REALLY good all day…I knew I was having atleast a couple glasses of wine later in the night and also knew I was going to have mexican with the family so I budgeted my calories quite well.  I had a chciken fajita salad with no guac and salsa for dressing.  Yum!  

So I got to the restaurant last night and my mom actually noticed that I had lost some weight.  She didnt know I was tyring to lose but she was like, “Oh look at you, someones slimming down”.  It felt good that someone besides me can tell!  haha  Anyways…after we all ate my mom gave me a gift bag.  Usually she just hands over some cash and a card so it was making me curious about the bag.  I opened it and low and behold….a gift bag FULL of twix, snickers, and starbursts…all my favs in one bag!  haha  THANKS MOM!  =P  She did apoligize right after I looked in it and said if she knew I was trying she wouldnt had tempted me!  So it was all fine and dandy and I passed out candy practically to the whole wait staff!  haha  I had a little left in the bottom of the bag that was brought home.  It sat on the dining table for a while.  Then my friend came over with wine and a movie and we chatted.  4 glasses and a drunk Veronica later there were 6 wrappers on the table.  haha  I felt SOOO bad…especially after I posted how “strong” I was being with the temptation.  I cried.  It was awful.  So all together for yesterday I had about 2000 cals.  Not horrid but oh the fat.  I said good riddance to the rest of the candy left and sent it to work with Benny today.  =P

SO after freaking out and working out TWICE today I weighed myself……yea, I lost another pound!!!!!!!!  WTF! WTF! WTF!  haha  My body likes to have these once a week binges apparently.  Geesh.  lol….it just doesnt like popcorn and shots (see post a couple weekends ago).  Ive upped my calories to 1500 this week too so that may be helping?

For my birthday I got money, money, candy, wine, a dvd rack, 3 old school nintendo games, The Firm, and a veggie steamer!  Woot.  I did pretty good minus the candy and wine.  lol  =)

I did The FIrm for the first time today and had a hard time.  She does alot of weird steps and by the time I *almost* have the hang of the footwork they throw in the arm stuff and the cam zooms into her upper body so then my feet get off step and I ended up just dancing around the apt really.  haha  It’ll be nice when I can add in my weights…which is why I wanted it to begin with.  3 lb weights would be more helpful than my 5 lbs for this dvd too.  Hmmm!

Well, thats about all I know!  I hope everyone had a great Halloween night! 

Ta Ta  =)~

Holy cow!  Its like 845 and Im wake.  Ive made and had breakfast, walked the dog, got dressed for the gym, and brushed my teeth!  This is rare for me….VERY RARE….and I LOVE IT! 

I really do love waking up in the morning and getting going.  Its so refreshing especially compared to yesterday.  Ben and I went to bed at like 4 and then I didnt fall asleep till 5AM and then of course I didnt wake up till 3 in the afternoon yesterday.  Im SOOOOOO not productive with my day on days like that.  I didnt do ANYTHING I needed to do yesterday including school, studying, or going to the gym.  Blah! 

Anyways, Today is a new day and Im going to the gym bright and early!  Speaking of gyms….I dragged myself off the couch last night and went to the fitness center while walking Harrison.  I jumped on the scale and low and behold I lost another pound.  I really have NO IDEA how after what I ate for dinner Tuesday night.  I made this homemade alfredo sauce using heavy whipping cream (50 cal per every tbsp!).  I had bought it before I starting “getting rid” of my weight so planned to go OP.  I figured I havnt decided completely on my own to “cheat” in 3 full weeks so it was my splurge.  I regretted it…and its all Ive been thinking about.  Losing another pound def eased my mind but Its ABSOLUTELY not going to become a habit.  Eck!  The only things I can come up with on why I might have still lost is the fact that I drank a crap load of water yesterday or that my body just needed that extra fat/cal  intake.  Bumping my calories up to 1500 is probably going to do my body good so lets just hope I can actually get up to 1500 again.  lol 

Okies, off to the gym!  I hope everyone has a fantastic day with good decisions!  =) 

Starting my 4th week today!!!!!  Woot.  I cant believe Im on my fourth week all ready! 

My weigh in this morning was at 265.3.  So I have 11.7 pounds down in the past 3 weeks!  Yay.   So about 3.9 pounds a week.  Almost on plan!  =)  I also took measurements and updated my log page.  Im down around 11 inches all over.  YAAAAY! 

I decided to go all out for dinner though.  Boo!  I made a homemade alfredo sauce with chicken.  To say the least I made it with heavy whipping cream.  Its my first intential off plan thing Ive ate in 3 weeks.  Ive been doing pretty well though and wanted to splurge just a bit.  I calculated all the ingredients down to the flour and teaspoon of butter and  it was about 825 cals and way too many grams of fat to speak of. 

I super sleepy suddenly.  Im blaming my poor choice for dinner BUT Im dragging Ben to the gym.  I worked out this morning for half a hour but def need another hour!  Eck! 

Today is also the first day I decided to up my calories to 1500.  Im going to try that for the week and see how I do since Ive been having a hard time getting 1200.  Im hoping it might give me some extra energy to burn some more pounds which doesnt make much sense but worth a shot.  I understand it I guess.  lol 

On that note I better get going before Bens the one dragging me to the gym!  =)

Hey There! 

I just got home from the fitness center!  I did a little over a hour on the treadmill.  I got up to a level 15 at 3 mph and then ran for slightly over a minute at the very end of my workout.  I did that yesterday too…I truely hope Im able to run like the wind 100 pounds from now.  I really think I would like it but its just a bit too hard on the knee right now. 

I havnt logged my food today but Im sure Im probably still under 1000.  Eck.  Im terrible.  But atleast I have like a natural calorie cycling thing going on.  I didnt do so great with water either but tomorrows another day I suppose!  I also weighed again tonight and Im down another pound…Im at 265.   8 more pounds till my 1st mini goal!  Im super excited!    I’ll be posting my official weigh in AND measurements tomorrow on my log page!  =)

So I came up with the business idea since I cant freakin find a job.  Im sure if I gave it a couple more weeks and put in a couple more apps I would find something seasonal but we’re broke RIGHT now.  Sooo dog walking popped in my head since Im pretty flexible and usually always home.  Its actually a great idea in theory because I live in a pretty big apartment complex with a ton of dogs!  Everyone is always coming home at night walking their dogs around.  I absolutely HATE to leave Harrison at home for 8-9 hours at a time which Im sure alot of people do to their animals because of work.  So I spent a couple hours today making flyers and coming up with a simple plan.  I advertised pretty much as having an option to do a 25 minute walk for 10 bucks or just doing a “pee and poop” walk for 5 bucks…I also threw in a weekly cost based on 5 days that would be a bit cheaper than paying daily.  If I can get enough dogs that would give us enough money to pay my bills and I will get exercise doing it!  I would feel MUCH better paying my car payments and other bills than Ben having to pay it all.   Sooo I hope its as great in practice as it seems in theory!  It sure would lower my stress!  I put out 8 flyers tonight in the mail box areas so wish me luck!!!! 

Hope everyone had a great day!  Stay Strong!  ONWARD!  =)

Howdy! 

I was so icky last night that I couldnt even think about which day I was on no less think of something to write.  Ben and I went grocery shopping and he was a bit grumpy because we’re broke and I wanted to buy water and jello and then I was grumpy because he was grumpy.  It was a great time, really. 

I need a job so badly…I dont understand why I havnt got any calls back for these seasonal jobs!  Maybe they dont like that I all my work history is out of state.  Who knows…but I def need to find something soon! 

I did ok with calories yesterday.  I slept all day again and its impossible to get all your calories when you wake up at 3 unless I eat once a hour which seems pointless because Im not hungry.  So my calories for yesterday were a little over 900.  I was only awake for like 12 hours though so compared to the amount of time I was up I ate really well.  Gerr.  Getting on schedule is another stress.   Its 5 pm and Im still in PJ’s.  Next week Im getting on schedule dangit.   

Yesterdays workout was really good.  Did a little over a hour on the treadmill.  I am going to give Jillian Michaels 30 day shred a go today.  I have level 2 online so since thats all I have thats what Im jumping into.  Im just excited about the jumping jacks and that I can use my weights!  =)  If im not completely dead afterwards Im going to walk over to the fitness center and walk for a little bit.  OR I might go walk and then come back and do the video. 

Oh oh oh, I joined a Valentines day challenge on the forum today!  Im super excited!  Ive been wanting to join one and this ones perfect.  If I stay on plan with my weighloss spreadsheet I’ll be pounds away from onederland by v-day if not already there!  Im stoked!  I was in junior high the last time I was under 200.  I CANT WAIT to see that 199.  You better bet Im going to sob like a baby!  Hope Im alone in the fitness center!  haha

Anyways, I hope everyone has a great day!!!  Stay strong!  =)

Howdy yall!

Dont mind that its just about 4 AM!  The BF and I just got home from a little over a hour at the gym and we’re taking showers before passing out.  Sooo it might be a quick post depending on the length of his shower.  I got in a good high incline workout on the treadmill, jumped on the elliptical for a bit, and then goofed off on a couple weight machines, and did some sit ups.  Im really going to have to start doing situps after my cardio.  I REALLY felt it and I liked it. 

I joined a water challenge on 3FC and oh my how I failed today!  lol.  I bought a bottle of water at school before class today and drank less than half…I still had it when the BF got home at 1230 AM.  Oopsy.  I did drink lots of tea and a slight bit more water.  I really REALLY REAAALLY need to get more water in me.  If it will help with preventing saggy skin thats motivation enough.  Tomorrow Im getting my water in dangit.  Uhh btw, does tea count?  I might have to ask on the forum.  I’ll drink gallons of tea a day.  Yummy and so refreshing!

Food today was great.  Just over 1200.  Its actually so much easier to do 1200 than I wouldve ever imagined.  I remember the 1 time in hs I tried counting calories and those cals were gone before I knew it.  It just proves to show how much Ive learned over the years about dieting and getting the right foods! 

Speaking of which, Im still at freakin 268.  I know I said I was going to wait but I just wanted to know darnit.  Hmph.  lol  I might try upping my cals to 1500 next week if I dont lose.  Maybe I am putting myself in starvation mode.  I’m just going to play it out and see. 

Well its most DEF bed time! 

=)   Have a great day tomorrow…(Today?) Stay strong! 

Just thought I would pop in before bed!  Its been a pretty long day full of homework, studying, and going to class!  Im pooped.  I have had a pretty productive day for which Im glad despite the rain and ickiness.  Days like this usually force me into naps or being a couch potato. 

Wednesdays however, have been declared my workout free day unless I get ants in my pants.  I did hit goal on calories today despite my near dinner binge of healthy food.  I didnt get a chance to eat before school (my bad planning) so by the time I got home I was starving.  I had dinner plus some stuff that couldve counted as 2 snacks/mini meals.  lol 

I was on the 3FC forums tonight and saw a thread about the amount of calories taken in.  Quite a few people were saying that 1200 is too low.  I mean, I aim to stay between 1200 and 1500 but many days I get under 1300.  A couple of days I have gotten less than 1000 just because I slept all through the afternoon or whatnot.  Am I in danger of going into starvation mode?  And how do I know if I am?  I really do feel like Im getting plenty.  Im not hungry all day, dizzy, or not losing weight.  Im having good portions and have enough calories for snacks and such.  So maybe I’ll have to do some more research.  I dont feel like Im the best at reading my body so thats why it concerns me so much.  I dont want to be counter productive.  I just know anything over 2000 is def going to make me gain weight because it was proven last Saturday!  lol

I absolutely CANT wait for tomorrow!  I hate having exams because Im so tense and feel so trapped and then after the exam Im free free free!  =)  Im going to get a good workout in tomorrow, clean the apt, give the puppy a bath, annnd do some laundry!  *Squee*

See ya tomorrow!  =)

My weigh in for week 2 is…..3 pounds down @ 268!  So on average I have lost 4.5 pounds per week which is right above my target weekly weight loss.  Wohoooo!  =)

Despite previous entries I am HAPPY with this!  I made a few bad choices over the weekend and worked hard to get back down to my 268 and Im more determined than ever! 

Today while on the treadmill, for my last chance workout (haha), I had the best workout I have had this far.  My shins didnt hurt, my blisters were well taken care of, and I just showed that treadmill who was boss.  I got to my last 20 mins on and got my speed to 3.0 and my incline to 10 and I told myself that I was going to get to 60 at those settings.  I thought about changing them halfway through…or stopping at 55 mins to cooldown and told myself NO.  I wanted to finish something for a change.  I wanted to beat that treadmill and I did and had a “yessss” moment. 

Workouts become more enjoyable everyday and Im lovin it! 

On another note, Biggest Loser just came on!  Wohoo!  I love this show.  lol  Its so encouraging and just seeing them working so hard and struggling hits home now. 

Food today has been great!  Im a little under calories but I should be able to get it up with dinner and snack.  Ive been having a hard time getting all my calories but Im starting to get the hang of it a bit better. 

=)

Just a short hello.  I did really good with food today and got a great workout in.  I DESPERATELY want to go do my *official* weigh in tomorrow and have like 5 or 6 pounds gone but I dont think thats going to happen.  My water weight has been going crazy.  So we shall see! 

Im waking up early in the morning to get a workout in and get the weigh in over with.   

Ehhh, thats all I know for the day.  I got home from working out earlier and Im ready for bed!  =)~

Stay Strong!