Ooh, good news everyone! The scale showed 210 this morning, meaning I have met my 4th of July Challenge goal! Yay!
While I'd like to lose 2 more pounds by the 4th, I'm going to set my goal for the rest of the challenge as working out 5 days each week. Exercising has been the hardest part for me for months now, but I'm finally starting to get back into it. I just have to do it, and do it, and do it, until it's natural.
Here I go to walk/job my hill, making 4 days of exercise this week. Hope everyone has a great day!
~Elisha
Hi everyone! Just poppin in for a quick look! Havent got anything done for today so far, but I am about to get my day going in a few minutes! The kids are hogging the TV, so instead of making excuses, I am going to go in my room and exercise!! Time to wake up the lil' sis and make her help me out! Well hope everyone has a good day.
Elisha - on your goal!! WTG
Lucia - on your goals!
Hikein - and on them jeans chickie!
Lucy - Must be still celebrating your b-day!! Have fun!
Anyone else, if i missed you! but don't have long today! Have a good day everyone!!
ok, chickies been absent for awhile, my excuses are: have had company out the kazoo, and doctors and dental appointments out the kazoo for myself and hubby and the teenager and been just worn out from it all. I have stayed to my diet and my exercising but still hit a plateau.
I have been here 10 days or two weeks, and finally yesterday dropped a half pound, then this morning it was back. I had already check my food diary and recalculated to see if I was goofing up anywhere but it is right on target (I am eating at 1300 calories a day plus exercising everyday). Very depressing but I know it is the plateau and holding water, so I guess I'm going to just have to grin and bear it. I am still hoping it will do a big drop and I still have time to meet my 4th of July goal of 152 so I have my fingers crossed.
Anybody got any advice on how to break a plateau. I am pumping water and have upped my exercise so what next?
Past 2-3 weeks have been kinda crazy. School is a no-go for financial aid right now, as I knew it would be (kind of pissed off that the school was pressuring me so much when I TOLD THEM I did not have the funds and I didn't qualify, and they made me go through all the crap anyway... btu at least I know for sure, right?). Had my birthday (which was awesome), been working out like mad.
My legs are looking kinda cute, somehow. I've -never- thought my legs looked good AT ALL. My abs are KILLING me right now. I've done 300 uber-intense situps for 2 days straight, and it hurts to breathe or walk or exist BUT I LOVE IT! 300 of these are basically equivalent to about 1500 of my normal ones, so it's really hardcore stuff I'm doing.
Workouts are good, it's hot as **** here in WA.
Got an interview on Thursday for a job as a clerk at the bon, which is what I want to do. Customer service + no office + decent wage + full time + fashion industry = perfect job. I really hope I get it!!
Food today -
B - pasta w/ pesto (little bit, leftovers)
L - salad
D - hamburger helper (for the hubby)
Workout today -
21 min ellipitical
300 uber-intense situps
5 min upper body workout
50 squats
And I'm already done with ALL of this by 10am! YAY!
Anyway, yeah. Lots has been going on here, but nothing really important. Kinda funny how that works, huh?
The rest of today is super-duper cleaning day, because our apartment looks like crap and the carpets need to be vacuumed and washed in the living room & bedroom. I wish my hubby didn't spill Coke everywhere when he drinks it!!
Also going to go on a .75 mile walk tonight with the hubby & dog, after it cools down in the evening. Other than that, I hope you guys are all doing awesome and I SWEAR I'll actually come back more than once a week, now.
60 minutes ~ Denise Austin 120 minutes ~ Swimming/floating 6,392 steps ~ on Pedometer (took it off after 3 p.m.)
Goals ~
Calories ~ Good Water ~ Great Attitude ~ Good
Goals for Tomorrow
Calories ~Stay under 1200 Water ~Drink at least 36 oz Exercise ~At least 60 minutes, but aim for 120 Attitude ~Improve it by 20%
Boy am I tired!! Well I had a pretty busy day! I'm sitting here trying to post, although it's already late as heck!! My hubby let my daughter take a long, long nap, so she will be up FOREVER! Oh well, she never sleeps anyway so what's new!!! ....
When I got home from Walmart me and lil sis went into the pool, it was so relaxing! It somehow washes all of my anger away....for the moment anyway!! It's something about that water that just calms me down...even though I'm terrified of it!....but it also makes me hungry!!! I wish I could do some exercise right now, but i dont feel like getting too hyped up. It's past midnight, If I dont get to bed, I can forget about waking up early for my exercises. My daughter keep waking up everytime I get up, If I get up early, or late!! So hopefully she'll stay sleep tomorrow! Well I hope everyone has a good night! I hope I didnt forget anyone again!! Bye All!!!
Hi chickies! Miss you all! I just can't wait for this month to end, already! Know what I mean?
The good news- I've managed somehow to get 23 files closed so far this month, so I've met the ridiculous deadline, and now have the next 6 months to worry about. At least there's some semblance of job security there.
The lot/house...I swear, when we close on the lot, I'll be able to breathe a huge sigh of relief, and maybe get back to a normal schedule. Up until 1:45 last night, restless.
The mind just doesn't shut down. I'm ready to find my plug & pull it, already! Or just take out the batteries & put them back in the next morning
Hubby swears that if there's a problem that could happen, it has. From surveys to encroachments to the sellers from Hades selling the "Taj Majal of dirt" to a mortgage lender who is really a broker & can't seem to get me a "real" commitment letter from the bank, but is happy to draft up their own version for me. Last minute change in lender, HELOC fiasco with my employee lending- we got a MUCH better rate at a competing bank- way to s**** over your employees.
<rant>
And here's the part that pisses me off the most- I started this with plenty of time & everything laid out the way it was supposed to happen, and every fricking step of the way, someone else has messed things up. I hate it when other people who don't have the same work ethic/ attention to detail / capacity to follow up / need for accuracy get involved, and when I'm not the one in control of what happens to us. I am sooo tired of incompetence. This is already costing me more time, money, and brain cells than I bargained for. Grrrrr. </rant>
So Jennifer, that's where you've been! I say that's a pretty lame excuse to desert your comrades!!! Just kidding! I hope that Julyis a better month for you all around! You'll be back on plan in no time, I'm sure! I'm also happy to hear you still have your job! Talk about stress, huh?
Anyway...welcome back and we hope to hear from you daily from here on!
Things are winding down....we're almost ready to close on our lot, provided we clear some last minute stuff up with the seller. It's been a wild ride, for sure. I swear, things are just nutso right now.
Managed to get to the journals today, and I've made myself several promises. July 1 is the start of the 2nd half of the year...I had 4.5 good months in the first half....now I just have to get back to that point. I've let everything go to poop with all the stress, aggravation, chaos, and uncertainty. My "scientific" methodology (throwing it all up in the air & waiting for crap to happen) to getting things back in order is this...
I will journal daily, even if it is 3 sentences
I will log all my food
I will get my 96oz of water in
I will exercise 5 days a week
I will get my head & butt back in gear
I will not let other things become more important than my health, and making these changes.
I'm going to take the next few days, get our lot closed, and then do what I can to prep for the second half of this year.
Exercise for 60 more minutes (pref weights) Dont' go over calories Drink 47.1 more ounces Get A 4 Pt'er!!
I barely have any time!!! Where does it go?? But most of it goes waiting for this slow a*s computer to change pages!!! That's why I might only be on for a few minutes worth of typing, but it takes like 45 minutes in between typing, trying to save it and paste it on microsoft word, aol cutting off 3 or times... by the end of that I may have did one post!! Stupid computer and AOL!!
Tonight so far all I have done is clean, and clean and it doenst look like I did Jack squat!! But I have like 5 garbage bags! I havent counted my steps yet either, nor have I exercised again. But I plan on doing it later still! So I gotta get to doing something! I will update later tonight. Quick Comments and I gotta run!!
Jennifer *~* Welcome Back!! I'm glad to see you are finally getting a little rest on your brain!! I miss you! Hurry back so I give that tazar back to ya!!
Lucy*~* What the h*ll is a uber intense crunch!! Nah, really, what is the difference?
Hikein, Elisha, Maggi, & anyone else *~* I hope you all are having a good day and are doing good on the challenge!!!
Ok, I just typed a long post, but then my computer decided to freeze. Here's the gist of it:
Exercise was good today. No actual aerobics, but I mowed the lawn for 35 minutes, and spent 30 minutes washing my car, and I cleaned my entire house. Calories were high--about 2063--because my DietPower software recalculated my calorie budget and gave me calories back for exercising, and I only paid attention to "Remaining Calories" rather than "Calories Consumed." It's my own fault. But it's ok, because I'm still within my calorie budget to reach 199 by September 1. I'll reach that, then focus on my next goal (whatever I set it at).
Anyway, I have lost all train of thought, so I guess that's it for tonight. Have a lovely evening everyone.
~Elisha
I GOT THE NEW JOB!!! AND i got suggested (nominated, whatever) for a SPECIALIST position, which makes me SO HAPPY!!! You don't usually get those positions w/o years of experience or the college degree I am =trying= to get!! WOOHOO!!
Other than that, I've identified something that I totally haven't seen until now. And I've figured out why I'm not losing!!
I work out religiously, right? (Jay, the uber-intense crunch is when you put your knees into a tabletop and do hardcore crunches like that -- WAY harder).
I eat pretty good, right? WRONG. Turns out I've been eating a bunch after dinner (Which I have not noticed 'cause I've been sitting in front of the tv and I literally HAVE NOT seen it at all... not good!)...
Turns out that I've also been getting up in the middle of the night to drink a coke (Which is not that bad -- I do this when I can't sleep, it puts me back to sleep), but hubby has gotten up while I've been in the kitchen drinking the coke, and i guess i've been eating then, too!! WITHOUT SEEING IT!!! Oh, no! I'm crazy!
So from this day forth, I'm going to have to make a conscious effort and my hubby is watching me too, because I've been doing so much and then blowing it all at night w/ extra crap I don't relaly need OR want. Yet somehow have it anyway? *shrug* Who knows.
So today... here's my food:
B - 3/4 cup leftover macaroni (i didn't feel good from a migraine last night and it was the only thing in the fridge haha)
S - a few pieces of chocolate strip (i make these, they're cake decoration. they're very thin -- 1/18 inch or so -- and pure chocolate, so not high in calories really) because I'm PMSing and I needed some chocolate NOW NOW NOW
L - soup (30 calories per 1 cup serving!! WOOHOO!! plus loaded with egg protein)
D - fast food probably
Other - probably gonna grab a drink or something at the club tonight at the concert.
Workout -
20 min ellipitical
50 squats
10 butt squeezes
300 hardcore situps
5 min upper body workout
So... I've decided to make myself a few things and put them in pre-packed bags in the kitchen, so if I DO end up grabbing stuff after dinner, it's low-cal and good for me. For instance -- crystal light freezer pops (5 cal per pop!), fruit bars (1 fruit serving, all fruit juice, frozen on a stick. VERY good!), no-butter popcorn, just lightly salted w/ seasoning salt for extra flavor, rice cakes (pack of 2), etc. I think this might help? *Shrug*
I know i'll lose a bunch of weight once I get to working in retail, because I'll be on my feet for 9 hrs, 5 days a week, and I'll be running my butt off the whole time. Good comfy shoes, I'ma lookin for ya!
Anyway, other than that, things here are okay. House = no go. Not allowed to give it back, no offers have been put down. That sucks a lot. Meaning no homeownership for at least 12 years *Sigh* Oh well. We're going to look at renting either a house or an apartment with a couple friends next March. At least 1 for sure, we know that much. Actually the one we're hoping to rent is at "breshadowbrook.com" and it's the 3bed townhouse.
Anyhoo... off to the KMFDM concert tonight, for which I am quite excited. YAY!.
Off I go to get rid of the sweat and have a great weekend!
Hey ya chickies,
Last post before we leave in the morning! On our way up north for a week of the great outdoors, R&R and lots of one on one with family!
Today was a write off for me! It started out with good intentions but by the time the afternoon rolled around and the I was eating whatever I wanted and hadn’t exercised, I just realized that some days are…stone!!
Our freezer (which had a ˝ cow in last fall) took a dump and we had to give away half the meat we had in it! Some was salvageable and we transferred it to our freezer upstairs. Good thing we discovered it today before we left for vacation or it would have been a real mess! Yikes. So we dealt with that for about 2 hours tonight amidst packing and all the stuff you have to do before camping for a week!
Anyway…wish me luck with camping and staying on program! I am looking forward to a week of getting away!
Elisha on reaching your July 4 goal weight!
Have fun! 
but don't have long today! Have a good day everyone!!
Hope everybody else is happy and healthy and whatnot, too!! 
BUT I LOVE IT! 300 of these are basically equivalent to about 1500 of my normal ones, so it's really hardcore stuff I'm doing.
Calories ~ Good
Calories ~ Stay under 1200
Water ~ Drink at least 36 oz 
Love you chickies!!!!! 
Jennifer *~* 
Nah, really, what is the difference? 
