by the skin of my teeth!! I weighed myself this morning…..230! Close girlies….close i tell ya…so the goals are being written for this month and i”ll post them soon…have a great weekend friends…I am off to help a friend pack up her house!
I am SO CLOSE! I realized earlier last week that I was not eating enough calories and so I was stalling out. Now I am one pound away from my April goal!!! wow….I can’t believe I have lost 37 pounds already!! I am SO excited to be under 200. And I am going to get there by the end of summer!! The last time I was under 200 was when my hubby was out to sea for six months and I was hitting 24hour fitness a LOT! I even had a personal trainer. I got down to about 192 and then he came home and that weight was thrown out the proverbial window. I gained, and gained, and then got pregnant and gained some more. This was about 6 years ago. And the lowest since then was 212. I am less than ten pounds away from my pre-baby weight this last time around. I am seeing more and more differences in my body and I am really happy with the way things are going. I think I am achieving a good balance between what I should eat and what I want. I eat ice cream. I eat cookies. I am even having bbq ribs on the grill for dinner tonight. And I am STILL losing weight. I do NOT have to deprive myself, just manage it a bit more. I am really proud of myself and am happy with this medium I have found. Don’t get me wrong tho…there are days where I want to eat myself into oblivion….it’s then that I realized I NEEd to get outside for a while. Take a break and get my mind off of food…and then and only then if I still want it, I will indulge. But the break tends to work.
ANyway, I have blabbered on enough. I will post a pic here in a bit. My son is hungry so I gotta go. Thanks everyone! Your support and encouraging words have helped me tremendously!!
My life has certainly taken a turn for the busy! Work has picked up–I work from home as a Virtual Assistant and have taken on a client who wants 15 hours a week for an undetermined amount of time. But try to fit that into my three children, housework, AND exercising really makes for a full day…not to mention the stuff like dinner out, horseback riding, and other family activities.
However, I seem to be pushing through the end of my circle and getting close to going under 230!! I realized today (after weighing in at 232) that I am less than ten pounds away from my pre-baby # 3 weight. Yep…I found out I was preggers and weighed in at about 225. I am pretty excited to get past that number! Over the last five years or so I have been down to about 212. That number started to increase during Christmas 07 I gained about ten pound by the first of the year and then found out I was pregnant. However, I digress…my point was that I am getting there!! And I am super excited. I have also found out that the more I work, the less I think about food and the less I eat. go figure.
My son is beating on the keyboard and it’s driving me nuts so I am going to log off. Have a great night friends and keep on keeping on!
Yes, I have one…that pertains to weight loss. I haven’t lost anything this week (or gained). But at least I KNOW that I do not have to be a slave to the scale to keep myself on track. However, this has happened at every 10 lb change. I hover at (using this months example) 233 for about a week and a half (and up/down a little when I weighed every day….) and then BAM! Within a week I will drop to below 230 and it keeps on going down until I hit 223 or so….then I stall a little and then BAM! I will go down again….so, it’s a cycle…and I am not upset about it. I think I start to let go a little and then I stall so I pick back up. Whatever the reason, it works for me. I may or may not hit my April goal…but at least I made them and am consistently working toward them.
kids are up now…gotta run!!
It got up to 80 today. How awesome is that! It was a good day. I squeezed in a work out video (30 minutes cardio) and was glad I did cause we left shortly after that to head out to the equestrian center on the campus to watch the “finals”. A friend of our riding instructor has a daughter who is a junior and we were watching the results of her training a green horse for the last six months. It was pretty cool. Then we stopped at the Cracker Barrel for lunch…it was good…I had a chef salad and dressing (yummo) it was LOADED! I love eating there tho it’s much harder now that I am becoming health conscious. Anyway, we had some strawberry shortcake w/ ice cream for dessert….so we got home and went out for a quick mile and a half and a stop at the park to let the kids play. We are now doing showers and going to have some dinner then downstairs to watch a movie. Tomorrow we are going to the farm to have a riding lesson and then home to get ready for the week. I also need to clean my van…it’s over due! Anyway…I have to get dinner going, its after 6 and I don’t remember what’s on the menu for today so hopefully it wont require defrosting anything!
Yeah it’s been a few days….quite a few. sorry about that (for my dedicated readers). Life has been a bit hectic. Hubby, work, kiddo’s, FOOD…lol. I hope you all are doing well. I have been a little off track lately. Pizza. Mexican. Ice cream. You name it, I probably ate it. The GOOD thing is that it’s not been too much. Yeah it’s been a lot, but quantity (except for the pizza) has been within limits. I’m a bit scared of the scale tho. I haven’t been working out as much….I have been working more so my time management is a little off. And when I DO get the time, the weather works against me so walking is out….(somewhere past the falling snow). I’ll get better.
I watched the Biggest Loser finale….it’s motivating to watch…to SEE that it is possible. It makes me want to work harder. Plus the fact that I am putting on pants that I haven’t fit into in over a year….plus that I purchased tshirts in a NORMAL size!!!
Anyway, I am trying to weigh myself once a week…on Monday’s. I am at 234 as of this last Monday. I have two more Monday weigh in’s to lose my last four pounds to meet my April goal. The other one, the push ups, yeah…not going so well. I can do the girly ones easier but the “boy” style really kick my ass! BUT I can feel a difference so there IS progress!
That is about it…I need to get some work in before I go to bed, or my son wakes up…whichever comes first!!
Stay strong ladies!
I have been working, around my daily life, which means I am crazy busy!! And w/ my hubby home, we are trying to squeeze in family time too! It’s been a great couple of days. Grandpa came and we went out for breakfast, horseback riding, shopping together, watching movies. Fun times, gals, fun times. After our five hours on the farm riding horses, we came home STARVING and I “okay-ed” the splurge for pizza. What I did NOT okay was me eating an entire one by myself!!! ARGH! but, we splurged, and now we are back on track. My eldest even asked why we were eating that “bad” stuff…I told her it was ok once in a while…just not all the time. So I am very confident that I am teaching them good habits and not bad ones. (like complete and total deprivation). We are being good and healthy, and we splurge once in a while. We have been doing quite a bit of eating out though…and I have been really good about researching where we are going and choosing before hand what I will eat. So I have not gained any weight in the last few days even tho I haven’t been exercising. I am going to do some quick abs/pushups while my son is taking five and before dinner but tomorrow is definitely a walking work out-ing kinda day. I hope you all are well. I will do some catch up reading as soon as I get this project finished and before my next one comes. HOpe you all are well and keep up the good work!
S-N-O-W
Yep, I said snow…it’s snowing. It started yesterday as a HUGE downpouring rain and then last night it turned to snow and is supposed to snow all day long. sigh. we were going to walk down to get haircuts today. Maybe tomorrow. Here is what it looks like in my back yard right now:
It’s a winter wonderland, in April.
Anyway, I have been doing well, eating fine, and trying not to indulge in what has almost become a bad habit….nighttime ice cream. Yep…had to have my hubby tell me no, like I was a five year old asking for more….but, we have been eating too much…well, not too much, just too often. I need to get away from that habit.
That’s all….I am a little sore today from the weights yesterday. I will do some stretching and I think some yoga. I have been neglecting my stretching…so I am getting healthier, but not any more limber.
That’s all folks! Have a good one!
yep….boy does it smell delish! I made some yesterday and they turned out really crusty (hard) so I gave those to hubby, and YES I ate ONE!!! And I am okay w/ it. I am making a new batch right now. And I *gasp* licked the spoon with my youngest daugher. mmmmmmmmmmmmm…..it was tasty. but then I put the bowl in the sink and that was that. I hope these turn out better…they are for my daughter’s riding coach who broke her ankle. I made lasagna for her yesterday, brownies and homemade mac and cheese w/ ham today and we are taking it over tonight. It’s dinner for at least two nights plus leftovers so I hope it helps! I actually make a bit too much of the lasagna stuff so we had a small dish that I made and cooked yesterday. It was a decent size helping with about 360 calories in it. I added some salad and mixed fruits and we had a nice dinner.
I walked yesterday and this morning decided to stay in and do some light weights. I have some laundry in now and after blogging I am going to head down, let the middlest watch Spongebob, and I’ll do some weights and then fold my laundry. It’s going to be an easy day.
I have been eating a bit too much ice cream lately. Thank goodness the ice cream birthday cake is gone! BUT even though I have been splurging, my calorie count has been ok and I am down to 234!! I am four pounds away from my April goal of 10 pounds!!! And I even have 20 more days left in the month!! I am really proud of myself. And last night my hubby told me that he could really see that I have lost weight. I love hearing that!
I am finding it easier to eat what I like and then stop. I, like Roni, have been getting accustomed to that before bedtime snack and that needs to stop. My water intake has been on the low side so maybe that’s it.
I am also falling behind on my April Challenge w/ Ronji….I’ll work on that too…some pushups today! (Ronji–do you remember in boot camp when you dropped how many times? I couldn’t do ONE at the beginning and after doing about ten thousand a day, I finally was able to do fifty–so give yourself a break!)
Ok friends…have a good day and tt you all tomorrow!
It was a long weekend. My two youngest and I went for a walk this morning. I had forgotten something at the store so we walked to get it, went to the Vitamin Cottage and then to Denny’s for a light breakfast. I was REALLY dragging my heels on the way home. I just couldn’t get up the gusto to go very fast. So, it turned out to be a stroll instead! But the funny thing is that as I was viewing my “runs” on nike+, I realized that my strolling now was my walking fast last month. I am improving!!
But today for some reason I am really tired. I think it had to do w/ not getting enough calories yesterday. Including dinner I had about 900. And I am breastfeeding mind you. So that might have something to do w/ it. I am doing better today. I was just so dern busy yesterday I couldn’t seem to fit in more than a yogurt and a banana.
So, I am going to make up some food for a friend who broke her ankle and then take a nap before we head out. I might stay in tomorrow and just do some light stuff like abs and push ups. Take care all and be good!!