Monday, June 28, 2010

I'm back... again...

So I got a little discouraged with my weigh in two weeks ago when I gained 5 pounds. This past Friday I maintained - which is a heck of a lot better than gaining more - so now I need to focus on going back down and reaching those goals! I've decided to go back to logging my food (for real this time) and emailing them to Barbara daily - and including the good and the bad - not lying to myself - or Barbara for that matter.

Summer has brought with it a lot of obstacles: too hot to do activities outside (most of the time), having trouble motivating myself to take on the gym (and I'm REALLY sick of the machines in the cardio room), and lots of celebrations where there are a lot of food and drink temptations... so I'm going to take baby steps - and any tips anyone has are welcomed! I have 3 weddings coming up - back to back - starting this coming weekend. The first one is a party weekend and the wedding is going to be a blast - it's in Nashville :) But each night is going to be a drinking and eating Calorie NIGHTMARE. So once again - tips are welcomed!! I'm going to take work out clothes and try to get people to walk with me - I'll have a lot of supportive friends there who will hopefully want to be active with me... but I'm worried this is all going to have me going in the wrong direction, scale-wise... I do have self control - I promise - BUT I don't want to be the fuddy dud while everyone is having an awesome time! I've been looking forward to this wedding for quite a while!!

So I guess I need to bust my butt this week in preparation and then try to make the best food decisions possible - and then stick to wine and liquor? I don't know...

I'm back and trying to get the numbers to go down... so sorry for my tardiness in writing, but I guess it's just hard to take the bad news and keep on going - so thank you for your support and encouragement to keep on writing!

Friday, June 18, 2010

Oopsies.

Well, there's a distinct possibility that the amount of beer that I consumed last weekend - well really, from Friday THROUGH Monday evening may have a direct correlation to the poundage gained when I weighed in today. The amount of weight gained is both shocking and unbelievable (to me). So I will be starting that food journal back PRONTO. I will not be disclosing what I gained quite yet because I am still in disbelief. Looks like a slight glass of wine tonight will be it! I wouldn't have any at all except that I'm going to dinner with my sister who is in town and my parents - we're headed to Lana's = Italian food... I've never been drawn towards pasta - but if that arises, I certainly will not get any!

I'll write more later - it took me all day to put this on here - I weighed in this morning...
I just can't believe it :(

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Weigh in last friday

I lost 1 pound last week for a total of 23 pounds!! Stay tuned for my progress when I weigh myself on Friday! :) And I'm 2 pounds away from my next goal!! :) :) :)

New designs :)

So, in an attempt to keep things lively 'around here' - I am going to periodically change my background on my post to fit my 'mood'. The theme this week is books and music. I would like to invite you to 1) suggest books to add to my reading list and 2) make a CD for me that has your favorite work out tunes on it - in return you will get my unending gratitude AND a CD from me and of course your books on my reading list! :) I can give out some book suggestions as well.

Summer Reading List (who suggested it...):
1 - Gone with the Wind (Momma :) )
2 - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Barb)

Clearly, I need more suggestions - and one little known fact - I read fast and when I read, I don't eat... so you see, this could help my diet - or at least the urge to eat in between meals... ;)

Also, I need some more tunes - some new ones at least - and I am confident that one gets you moving will get me moving - it doesn't take much!!

My work out plan(s) this week: Yesterday (Monday), I walked the dog that I'm house sitting for twice - but the first one was the doozy - I am only allowed to walk him for one block because of his hip - so he got dropped off at the house - and since I was already so sweaty, I borrowed a bike at their house and rode all over the neighborhood - and I really preferred the extra energy that led to the extra breeze... it was HOT yesterday - and it is clearly going to be hot today.

Today I will be heading to the gym after an afternoon meeting - before eating out tonight at Magnolia's (!!) where I am being treated by a dear lady from our church who wants to celebrate my friend Christy's engagement! I'm excited for my fish and salad options!! :)

Wednesday = spinning with Catherine at 9am, Thursday = yoga & an additional work out with weights, Friday = spinning at 6 or 9... depends on amount of sleep, Saturday = ride in morning, followed by beach day with Louisa and friends!! :) and Sunday = ride? not sure yet what will happen on Sunday.



Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Tuesday...

Yesterday (Tuesday) I went on a nice bike ride... I rode from my house down 17 (17 south) to Wappoo Road and then from Wappoo Road - if you take a right, you can start the West Ashley Bikeway that is paved - however the state of the path isn't always the best - but it's an easy loop that I can accomplish without trying to figure out where to go next... it crosses Magnolia Road and then I can just bike home!

I had the morning off to work on applications and go to the gym and I thought that a work out close to home would = more time to work on applications, and I think I was right!!

Today, I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do - it may have to be an unintended day off... I'm at work now and will work until 4, and then I have appointments and then a spoleto event with my parents - I won't get home until 9pm - so today is not a good day for working out (I would have gone this morning, but I had other appointments). I suppose everyday is not always realistic - however, I am bringing my bike with me to Athens and Athens is SUPER bike friendly, so I'm hoping to get in some riding on both Saturday and Sunday, so that will help me work towards my exercising 6 out of 7 days!

I will check in tomorrow - I hope everyone is having a great day!!
:)

Monday, June 7, 2010

Bright & Early

Last night I thought ahead and 1) made and packed a lunch, 2) made and packed breakfast for after work out, and 3) packed a bag for showering at the gym and getting to work... This week I'm working for my Dad's office which is a block away from the Wellness Center (gym). My hours are 8-4 except for this morning, which is 7:30-4 to get reacclimated to the office and what I need to do.

I went to bed last night too late and regretted that this morning! Bedtime of midnight is a BAD IDEA when you get up 5am to eat and workout! And after seeing a massive roach before going to bed, I didn't sleep that well either...

BUT I DID get up at 5:45am, ate breakfast, and got to the gym at 6:15 - and did the elliptical from 6:20-6:50 and then did 10 minutes of weights and 5 minutes of stretching - then blasted through a shower and got to work on time - but still sweating... ugh.

SO in order to not sweat at work and to feel like I can look at a hairdryer without grimacing, I'm clearly going to need to not only go to bed earlier, but get up earlier so that I have longer to cool off before hitting the showers! I'm thinking that that = working out from 6-7 and getting to work at 8 - which leaves me 45 minutes to get ready vs. the 25 I left myself this morning.

Tuesday - I'm going to have to think of something creative to do at the gym because there are no classes at 6am - and I can't do the same elliptical machine again - so either a different elliptical machine or ?? row machine? bike?? I'm not sure yet.

Happy Monday!! :)

Friday, June 4, 2010

Post Additions

I've added some fun stuff to the blog - not only to keep you interested - I'm sure this blog must be boring some times - but to keep me interested in 1) making the goals and getting that 'carrot', 2) getting new pix put up at each 10 lbs increment, and 3) staying on track!

The HCC talks about setting goals and giving rewards so that you can stay on track and keep up the interest and excitement... and I need a little excitement! Shout out to the HCC'ers who put goals/rewards on their pages and got me interested!!

At the end of HCC, I had lost 22 lbs even - last week I weighed in with them (and at home) and gained 1.6 lbs... so I am at a total loss of 20.4 lbs. At home, I had different numbers - and though I gained, I'm going to stick with these numbers since I'll continue weighing in at home. I had gained 2 lbs at home - so I have a total loss of 20 lbs.

I'm going to try to weigh myself more regularly and then I'll go back to posting once a week my weigh-in progress. I'm going to change the day to Friday since I just weighed myself for the first time in a week. I'd like to weigh myself first thing in the morning - so that's what you'll be getting!

"FIRST" weigh-in with new regimen:
I LOST 2 lbs - for a total of 22 lbs - I'm back on track and have 3 left until my first goal is met!!

It would probably be easier to follow if I just put exact numbers up here - but this blog is available for all to see and I'm not quite ready to post my weight for everyone in the world to see... so we'll stick with the abstract numbers of total weight lost. :)

Explosions mid week.

I have been reading my friend's blog daily and thinking each time, I need to get on mine and write some, but do I? No.... so here I am now, writing for the past couple of days...

Tuesday I hung out with someone's dog and apparently my couch has either dog hairs on it or something else that I'm allergic to, and I got a little sniffly after being on my own couch, which stinks... all day Wednesday I was sneezing and my head exploded (sinus), and I didn't leave my room, much less go to the gym. Thursday = a little better - by this time I've loaded on the decongestants and antihistamines and am feeling a little better for it - but I still felt like my head was in a serious fog... no gym on THursday.

Friday = today and I had a great night's sleep! (I didn't sleep well while on the drugs) and I feel a lot better today!! So I'll either head to the gym or I'll take a nice long ride before the heat settles in for the day :)

[Normally I take meds when I know there will be dogs involved and I'm just fine - the couch took me by surprise and that was compounded by dog exposure later]

I'm going to start taking allergy shots as soon as I get a real job and can pay for them :) then no more of these explosions in the middle of nowhere!

Tomorrow I think I'll ride my bike to the farmer's market... or if I'm feeling really gung-ho, I'll ride my bike to a 9:30 spin class, then the farmer's market, then home :) we'll see - I've not attempted that yet - but I feel like I need to get lots of riding in this week because next weekend I'm going to Athens to see my sister and we're going to ride there - and Athens, though bike friendly, is all about some hills that my legs aren't used to!! So long rides this week = short rides with hills next weekend? We'll see...


Tuesday, June 1, 2010

M.D. Weekend

Well, I have not been exercising at the gym - but I have had thorough walks, runs with dogs, runs for children falling, and have eaten healthy! I had my fair share of wine on both Friday and Saturday evenings - with weddings, girl friend gatherings, etc. And though I didn't head to the gym right away, I made sure to eat well so as not to completely un-balance the scales...

I went on a long bike ride today and cleared my mind for the week ahead - and half-way through the ride remembered some calls I needed to make so I raced myself home and got a harder work out in :)

I also made fresh basil pesto today - from all the basil in Momma's garden ( I spent a good part of the past two days with Momma :) ). And I made the dough for home-made bread! I won't bake it until tomorrow - but I made a bunch and it's definitely doubled... I even put the air conditioning on in our house JUST for the rising process - the recipe said to let it rise in a cool location - well, before using the AC, our house was at the balmy temperature of 87 degrees... hard to find a cool place in my house... so the AC is on for just a little while longer... then back to the tropics!

[Normally, with the AC off, it is only 80 degrees, but I've been at M&D's house, so the windows were shut with the fans off when I got home, and this seemed the way to go this time...]

Tonight, I'm making Turnip & Roasted Garlic soup! It calls for heavy cream, but I am leaving out all cream together and planning on topping my bowl with 1 TBS of goat cheese... I tend to weave in and out of recipes with my own variations... I've never been one for staying within the lines...

I hope everyone had a GREAT weekend :)