Okay, so here goes.
These are my before shots:
Not pretty I know.
My goals are pretty simple. I want to lose two pounds a week, which is pretty doable. I am working on drinking more water and watching what I eat. Especially the mindless eating.
Talk to you soon
Heather
So I have had a rough couple of weeks with the diet. I was doing great getting up every morning and walking or riding my bike. Then my feet really started to hurt, and I got frustrated. I was working my but off and wasn’t really making any progress so I dialed it back for a week to let my feet rest and I am pumped and ready to start again on Monday. I am also going to be starting a new challenge to help me stay motivated. I found about about this just tonight and signed up right away so I wouldn’t back out in the morning. The challenge is called GAG and is for 16 weeks. It starts September 1st and goes until right before Christmas. I need to take before pictures of both me and my weight so I am going to get that done this weekend, no matter how painful it is. So here it goes. My goal is still the same I want to lose about 150 lbs. by Nov. of 2010 so I am hoping that this will be a great starting point for me.
Now I am going to bed.
Heather
Goals for the week of August 3rd:
1. Work out 5 out of 7 day (walk and EA Active) Done – I worked out Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I walked all of those days, a few days, Thursday and Friday I had to cut my walk short due to rain and some very frustrating socks. I was happy that I got up and got out the door all week, which is a huge accomplishment for me. I think I am going to try the walking, or dancing program on the WII fit on rainy days to get my exercise in without having to walk in the rain.
2. Only eat out for Friday night dinner, no lunch out. Pack lunch if we are going to be out of the house at lunch time. - During the week I did pretty good at this. I made sure we were home in time for lunch, which was actually pretty hard this week since Alex had VBS and we were out much later than usual in the mornings. This weekend we were out for lunch on Sunday and we had breakfast with friends on Saturday, but I was better than I normally would have been, so I didn’t do too bad.
3. Lose at least one pound. - Done. I have lost about 2 lbs. in total this week. I went up and down a little bit. I am not sure why, but overall I have lost, so that is good.
4. Drink at least 4-5 glasses of water a day instead of juice of lemonade. – I am drinking less lemonade, and I didn’t have any soda last week, so that is part one of the goal. In fact the last couple of days, since I ran out of lemonade I haven’t had any. My wonderful husband went searching for a glass pitcher to make sun tea in, so I have been drinking that instead. It doesn’t have any calories, but I think I still need to up my water intake.
Goals for the week of August 10th
1. Work out 5 out of 7 day (walk and EA Active)
2. Only eat out for Friday night dinner, no lunch out. Pack lunch if we are going to be out of the house at lunch time.
3. Lose at least one pound.
4. Drink at least 4-5 glasses of water a day
Long Term Goals
1. Be able to run instead of walk every day by next summer
2. Lose 100 lbs. by next June.
3. Lose 150 lbs. by November 2010
Yes I know the goals are the same this week as they were last week, but It isn’t yet a habit for me yet so I don’t want to set new goals until these have become a habit and I don’t have to think about it so much.
Have a great week.
Heather
About two months ago I began a new exercise routine. Since Lizzie turned two in March I have become more and more aware of my need to lose weight. I no longer had the excuse of having just had a baby. My “baby” was two years old. My other big excuses for not losing weight were also gone. While Lizzie was not yet sleeping through the night (yes at two years old!!) she was defiantly sleeping better and I was getting a decent amount of sleep at night most nights. So I was no longer a walking zombie. I had finally gotten the hang of cooking in a new healthier way, so I couldn’t use the excuse that I can only tackle one big change at a time. So two months ago I realized that I was out of excuses. About that same time I realized that I am just not happy with the way I look. I avoid pictures, I can only find a handful of pictures of me with the kids, and I can’t stand any of them.
Since I had already changed the way I cook for the family and as an extension how I eat most of the time, I figured it was time to start focusing on getting more active. I really wanted to get back in the pool. I have always loved swimming, ironic since I can’t stand the way I look in a bathing suit. I never knew quite why but I just love to swim, and when I am in shape I can swim for hours on end. When I decided that I wanted to get back in shape that was my first thought, swimming. Well getting in the pool and swimming lap after lap is not nearly as easy at 30 as it was at 15. My first major obstacle was the fact that I didn’t have a pool in which to swim. I started looking at gyms that had indoor pools. I finally found one that wasn’t too expensive and had child care. Another obstacle I didn’t have at 15, the need to find somebody to watch my kids while I swam. Well the kids were there for 2 days when they both got sick. In fact Lizzie got so sick that she ended up with a sinus infection and a uti. So I gave up on the idea of swimming, it just wasn’t working out. I needed to find something else to do.
After Lizzie was better we were doing our weekly shopping at Target when I saw the new WII game, EA Active. Now I have had the WII Fit for about a year and a half now. It is a great idea and I love that it has a built in scale so that I can keep track of my weight right on the WII. I was not a fan of the actual workout program. I never really worked up much of a sweat. None of the exercises ran long enough to really get going, and the one that did let you go for longer than 7 or 8 minutes was a bit of a pain to get to and get set up. I was a little leery about the EA Active at first. I was worried that it would end up being just another WII Fit. At this point however I felt I was out out of options so I went for it. I am actually pretty happy with the program. It gives me a good workout and I can chose from a lot of pre programed workouts anywhere from 15 min. to 45 min.
However I am still not losing weight. Why you ask, because I have been lazy and have had excuse after excuse not to get up in the mornings and work out. I have excuse after excuse for why I don’t eat well, why I still take the kids to Chick-Fil-A more that I should. It is no wonder I am not losing weight, I am not working at it hard enough. I am not trying to become the next big supermodel, and I certainly don’t want to be a size 2. I just want to be happy with me and healthy, and the only way that is going to happen is to get off my but and to stop making excuses.
In an effort to be more open I decided to post how I am doing. I figure if there are people out there who know that I am working on this, then they can help hold me accountable. Even if it is just so that I am aware that people are expecting to see a change in me. When I am the only one who knows why I am getting up at 5 in the morning, then it is much more tempting to stay in bed. If I know that possibly somebody is going to want to know how my walk went that morning than I am much more likely to get out of bed and go walking. Once I am up, half the battle is won. The other area I need to work on is what I eat. When I cook at home I do pretty good. I have had to change the way I cook and shop for the kids and that has carried through to me to a certain extent. The problem come in when we are out of the house. When I take the kids out for lunch I am much more likely to get something that I shouldn’t. I am setting weekly short term goals and a few long term goals to keep me going. I am going to post new weekly goals every Monday and update everybody on my previous weeks progress.
Goals for the week of August 3rd:
1. Work out 5 out of 7 day (walk and EA Active)
2. Only eat out for Friday night dinner, no lunch out. Pack lunch if we are going to be out of the house at lunch time.
3. Lose at least one pound.
4. Drink at least 4-5 glasses of water a day instead of juice of lemonade.
Long Term Goals
1. Be able to run instead of walk every day by next summer
2. Lose 100 lbs. by next June.
3. Lose 150 lbs. by November 2010
Hopefully by being doing all of this I will begin to see some actual pounds drop. It is looking like we may be going to Hershey Park again with my parents next summer and Disney the following November. I would love to be able to go on vacation and be happy with how I look and feel comfortable instead of big and yucky the whole time.
God Bless
Heather