Category Archive

Is it irony that while watching Biggest Loser I was eating a bowl of ice cream. Yesterday could be classified as a binging snack day. NOT GOOD!

Biggest Loser totally rocked…I loved it that Bernie took the at-home prize and Ali won the overall! That girl is one hot chick. She is totally my inspiration. I am going to print out a photo of here before and after pics and post them by my elliptical.

I am finally feeling better after my “little” tumble. I have some very nasty bruises but the all-the-time pain is subsiding. Definitely getting on the elliptical tonight.

So this weekend I couldn’t get into my blog…we got a new computer recently and I couldn’t remember my password. So here is a collection of things I thought about this weekend.

Saturday’s Workout

So I am on my elliptical doing 33 minutes on the Random setting. Totally rockin’ it and I am sweating. Then I notice wow, I stink! Which translates the workout clothes need to go in the wash. Then I realize since I started working out regularly this is the first time I have needed to throw the workout clothes in the was because they stink. I must have really worked it this week. Which I did–I am following this 6 week workout plan which is really pushing me to the next level. Then as my mind starts to wander I start to think about how much I hate the feeling of sweating. Which is why I loved to be a swimmer–you sweat but you can’t tell. But I wanted to change my negative thoughts about sweating to something positive so I am telling myself that each sweat drop represents one fat molecule. I was thinking “bring on the sweat” by the end of my workout.

Great Book

I have to recommend a book–Mindless Eating by Brian Wasinik (http://www.mindlesseating.org/index2.htm)

This book will definitely be one of my rotating regular reads.  It talks about what the author calls the Mindless Margin–the 100-200 calories that we each day that we could cut out without being hungry. It chronicles the authors and others research and then puts together practical suggestions.  Check it out.

Biffing it on the Stairs

So I am on my way downstairs to check on the laundry…and I lose my footing. Well you know the rest of the story…luckily nothing broken. Just a lot of soreness and bruising. Which meant no workout. Hopefully tonight I will feel good enough to work out.

T-Minus 7 days…

Til I am back on plan. My “break” probably lasted one week to long but I am fired up to get started again and knock out my next 30 lbs.

I can hardly believe it has been over a month since I last blogged. Work and life have been CRAZY.

So crazy in fact that mid-March I decided to take a “break” from my program. My goal was to maintain until my break was over. To maintain I knew I had to watch my portion sizes, my food mix (veggies, fruits, protein, carbs, etc), keep drinking water, and exercise. The good news that this has worked and I am anticipating when I start back on plan I will be lower than when I went on my break. My “official” weight is 213 but my weight at home this morning was 207. I resart my program the end of next week. I can already tell I am in a better place mentally…and totally pumped to knock out the next 30 pounds.

In fact I am doing a six week exercise program that was in a Prevention magazine….basically it is 3 day of interval training mixed with 3 day of endurance + strength training. I really needed it to give my exercise some focus…I crave that structure because of when I was a swimmer. I am also pondering signing up for the Prevention-sponsored half-marathon in October. There is a walkers division and the walkers get an early start. In addition they provide some guidance on how to train. Again this structure along with an end goal I think would have a positive impact on me. I just need to make sure my DH will support my training–as each week I will have one day when I will need to walk a longer distance.

My goal is to get back into the groove of blogging. It really helps me keep me focused plus reading everyone elses entries gives me great ideas and perspective.

So I officially broke into the 2+teens…219. Also reached 25 lbs.

The weekend was a bit of a bust as the plague had settled on our house earlier in the week. Luckily I did a lot Saturday–errands and clothes shopping because Saturday night I had a fever and the chills. Food wise–I strayed a bit off plan but I kept it reasonable so I don’t think that I will see a negative impact on the scale.

Going to start doing Cardio workouts on my elliptical tonight. Up until now I have been focusing on fat burn workouts but it is time to step it up a notch.

Happy Monday!

I applaud every single parent out there. I don’t know how you do it–day in and day out, except that you really have no choice.

This weekend I am single parenting. DH is gone for the weekend so it is just me and the kiddos. Work has been insane so the last thing I wanted to do was cook after I picked up the kids so I took them out to Chuck E Cheese. I know you are thinking…danger will rogers, danger. But not really…have you ever eaten Chuck E Cheese pizza??? One word–GROSS. But the kids like it (so do other people, so no offense). So I got the kids a pizza and headed to the salad bar. We had a good time…they both won enough tickets to choose a small piece of crap that will be around my house for months…possibly years.

So the plan today is to take them swimming. Then a nice long nap for them (LOL).

I get so stressed on these weekends because they are completely focused on me…constantly. In fact they are more needy than when they have both parents. I know they are only kids but they drive me CRAZY. We will all make it…the question on whether I will hit a breaking point and eat everything in the house. I WILL be strong. I will keep foucsed.

In other news..I was down another pound at weigh in yesterday. Guess all that grapefruit was worth it.

Toodles!

I am reading a book called Body Clutter (written by the “Fly Lady”–Marla Cilley and the “Dinner Diva”–Leanne Ely)

Here is an excerpt on questions we can ask ourselves before we put food in our mouths:

Are you going to bless my body?

With the first question we are looking for good nutrition: vitamins, minerals, fiber, and protein.
Do you fit into my healthy way of eating?
This one is a simple Yes or No.
Is your taste worthy enough to go into my body?
If something has no taste, why would you want to put it in your body?
Why do I want to eat you?
Am I really hungry or do I just need a drink of water? Am I angry and want to eat to stuff my feelings? Am I lonely and feeling sorry for myself, or am I just tired and really need to go to bed? Is this mindless eating? HALT and think about it for a second. HALT stands for Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired.

Yesterday and the start of today were not my shining moments. I have tripped and fallen (proverbally). It is my ToM (time of month) and well that week has always been a struggle for me emotionally which usually affects my food choices. And last night things came to a head. I ate a bag of microwave popcorn…I wasn’t hungry and I was consciously eating it…at one point I thought…you could stop right now…but I chose not to. Then this morning I didn’t get up to work out….I just didn’t feel like it. Now I am trying to get off the floor, brush myself and move forward. It is so hard not to beat myself up over my slip ups…but I am human and I am eating healthier than ever before. One day at a time.

I have a food plan for today and I will stick to it. And tonight after the kiddos head to bed, I will head downstairs to workout.

Last night on Biggest Loser Jillian had her mom the psychotherapist and talk with the members of her team. Now normally I am not one for the “events in my past made me fat” way of thinking. Probably because I had a very normal childhood and so I couldn’t understand some of the trauma that others experienced in childhood. But last night something clicked with me. It is true that I have never been super skinny and I never will…my body just isn’t made that way. Growing up my parents did a great job controlling portions and making sure we got a relatively balanced diet. So when did I start to pack on the pounds…when I started putting everybody and everything but myself first. When I started dating my first real boyfriend (now my DH) I stopped swimming competitively. Then we headed off to college where the weight certainly started to grow…no one was regulating what I ate (can you say Mountain Dew for breakfast) and I worked and went to school non-stop. Luckily I was still a lifeguard/swim teacher so I still had a bit of activity in my life. Then I graduated from college and got my first “real” job. I worked an insane amount of hours–never taking the time to care about what food I put in my body or whether I got any exercise in. Finally, I had kiddos and not only did I gain a ton of weight while pregnant with each one but now I had someone else demanding my time. Now that is not to say that I didn’t try at various times to do better with my eating and exercise but other demands always took precedence.

Now I have to stop the viscous cycle. And it is a great time to do so. I am starting my busy time at work, the kids always need something, and of course there is my DH needs. But I need to remember to put myself first…and if I do everyone else will benefit too.

I have nothing against vegetables but I just don’t crave them or desire them like I do other food groups. Never have.

At work we often have meetings where lunch is brought in. Most of the time it is your typical box lunch…sandwich, chips, cookie and maybe some anemic carrots. Today, however they brought the sandwiches in platter style and the veggie sandwich actually looked good–the veggies were fresh, it had hard boiled egg and cheese. So that is what I took.

In other news…I managed no naps this weekend. Sunday was hard because I was out late Saturday night. But I made it.

Work is crazy, busy and probably will be from now til July. That is the way it is every year. So back to work I go.