More to love…

This year, I do not resolve to lose weight: I resolve to be the healthiest I can be. This will include; making it to the gym 4-5 times a week, getting at least 7 hours of sleep a night, eating healthy whole foods, taking my vitamins, cuddling with my husband, and accepting that this is my only body, my only life. There is no point in obsessing over calories, or points, or grams. There is a point in obsessing over the people I love.

My very first saturday post! Well, with the holidays my gym workout schedule has been a little weird. I wanted to go today, for a pilates-yoga class, but yesterday and this morning i’ve been super stuffed up and my throat is on fire. So, while pilates/yoga isn’t jumping up and down and I could probably breathe through it. I don’t know if I can do positions that involve my head being lower than my heart (downward dog etc). So I might just bundle up and go for a walk. (Don’t believe that being outside will make this worse) and then I’ll do the strength moves in my body by glamour plan. I did those on tuesday and THEY KICKED MY BUTT.

If anyone is looking for a challenge, go to www.glamour.com and join body by glamour. The strength workouts are great..and you can do them at home!

Ok, i’ve decided..walk it is.

Thanks for listening to my internal debate!

aaaggh! So this morning, I was so excited to get on my new digital scale, at home, naked…finally knowing my true weight. So I step on. 242!! sweet, only two more pounds to mini goal.

I went to the gym, and at the last moment decided to weigh my self, to check my weight loss. 242 it said. my first thought….shit my scale at home is broken!! No, nope that isn’t it. someone FINALLY balanced the gym scale!

So, I didn’t lose any weight (darn) but it felt like it, since the scale no longer said 245. So I went back and changed my weight ticker, moved everything down 3 pounds, put in my new weight, and finally things are how they should be.

But..it’s nice to be closer to that mini goal!!!

Well, my last Christmas present arrived….and it’s a scale!!!!! hooray! no more dependency on the one at the gym. So, i’m changing it up, Thursday is going to become my weigh in day. I’m might play with my weight ticker, adjust it so it doesnt’ think i’ve lost 3 pounds in a week. (ha ha)

Also, I got my computer glasses. I’m sort of a dork. I’ve always wanted glasses, and i’ve never needed them until my computer started sucking out my brain (aka, got a desk job)so I’m going to post a picture!)

Well, today is supposed to be my weigh in day, but I didn’t go to the gym (obviously) and my mother-in-law’s scale said I was 242.6. Which, I actually think, means i didn’t lose anything, because the gym scale is heavy. But! it is nice to think that I am a LOT closer to 240 than I realize. I might by myself a scale..so I can take accurate weight.

well, I took a December picture. It’s hard to tell with differently angled pictures about weight loss. I tried to take a realistic one (aka..not the “myspace” pose).

I’ve lost 16.5 inches total..which averages out to about 2 inches every place that i measure.

It’s been a few days since I posted….

Workouts: Have been good, I skipped thursday again, due to not getting to sleep until 1:30am. Four hours of sleep was not going to do me, so I skipped the gym and went with five hours of sleep instead. Today I did what I like to call “cardio remix.” 20 minutes walking up hill on the treadmill, 10 minutes doing intervals on the elliptical (backwards hurts so much) and a 10 min hill climb program on the bike. Ouch…my legs were burning during that one! Mixing it up like that is the only thing that keeps me from gettin bored and quitting! I do want to be going five days a week, but on the weeks that I only make it four..I think that is still ok.

 Food/Nutrition: I’ve decided to ban the word Diet. acutally..i’ve never really used it. I’ve just decided that it is BS word.  You know, (this is a joke btw, don’t get offended) Eve might have been able to resist the snake and his temptations if the one rule God had given her wasn’t a diet! But, that speaks alot about diets, they don’t work. Making lifelong healthy changes work. That way you aren’t ever “on” or “off” your diet. You are living your life, the healthiest way possible. I’ve been really interested lately in nutrition, and i’ve been reading lots of different websites. (check out www.katheats.com) she eats healthily and realistically.  anyway…i’ve decided to cut out all processed forms of Corn Starch (HFCS, maltodextrin, dextrose, crystaline fructose). I think I might have blogged about this before. I’ve not gone 100 percent.  I still like to put 2 of those single servings of flavored creamer in my coffee. I figure it’s better than dumping an unrestriced amount of sugar into my coffee. I’ll give them up eventually. But honestly, i’ve felt more full in the past couple of days then anytime losing weight, and I still think i’m eating less.

And it’s almost Christmas, it doesn’t feel like Christmas yet, hopefully when I get off work (only 20 more minutes!!!) then It will.

Happy Holidays everyone!

245 again this morning. Solidly. Ok, maintaining I can deal with that.  But it shows me that if I had stayed on track, I would have lost.  You live and learn I guess.

Speaking of living and learning….I’ve had my new version of oatmeal the last two days. Wow…one serving is SO MUCH MORE than the prepackaged version, and less sugar and less additives. I am  FULL right now. Almost stuffed. Note to self….have less than a whole serving. Wow.

I just have to share this story with everyone, Yesterday I got home from work, and my husband met me outside and told me that he had started dinner. He was in charge of cooking dinner anyway, but he told me that he had also started broccoli, and was hoping that I would make sweet potato fries. I almost fell over. This is my husband, who a few short months ago had “started dinner” and I found bratwursts, potato chips and bloodymarys! There is hope afterall!

Quit eating all the crap in the break room will ya?

It’s going to ruin all the good work you have done!

Well, I bombed at eating well this weekend buddies. I really should know better than to drink, all it does is make me want to eat bread and melted cheese (read; pizza). So from Friday dinner to yesterday I just ate like crap. It wasn’t all bad, I got enough veggies, but I also got plenty of junk.

I know it’s the season and all, but man oh man, sweets are my down fall. I do just fine not buying them and not having them around, but when they are..sayanara health. so, it will be a battle these next couple of weeks. But I can do it, I alreayd eat better then I ever have.

Speaking of eating better, our grocery cart looked awesome this weekend when we went to the store, TONS of fruits and veggies (Fresh and frozen) healthy bread with out additives etc. I also reluctantly gave up my quaker instant weight control oatmeal. It was so good, and so sweet, but not so healthy. Yes lots of protein, but full of malitol and preservatives. So, Quaker quick oats here I come, Ingredients: oats. Ahh, one ingredient that I can pronounce!

We did some killer shoulder exercises in bodypump this morning, gonne be sore tomorrow!

Weigh in day is tomorrow…i’m hoping for maintaining!