The tenderness has almost totally disappeared and that impresses me because I'm just starting my T.O.M. and that usually means about a 5lb gain, sore body, really tired, want to eat chocolate/chips, and I only went up 0.4. I was tired, but I had a fair amount of energy compared to other months, didn't go for the junk food... YAY for me! I'm hoping my weight will go down a wee bit more as it's the official weigh in day tomorrow morning.
Still staying within my 25 food points and I've done so since Monday.... but the bigger challenge is coming and that would be the much anticipated, look forward too, but scale dreading weekend. :P
Time to hit the treadmill... talk to you later!
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Day 3 of the Shred-tastic journey
Things were even less "tender" today, barely felt my arms at all unless I stretched them out and my upper abs were barely a butterfly twinge. I'm really liking the short early morning workout... gets it out of the way and if I don't have time in the evening to do anything, at least I know I did something in the morning.
I really should do more in the evening, but I did groceries tonight, so there went at least 1.5 hours off my night. Plus I just got the latest WW magazine and the New complete WW cookbook... so I'm kinda like a crow in a jewelery store distracted by all the shiny stuff "CAW, CAW!"
Tomorrow John is going skiing after work, so I will treat myself to a run on the treadmill. It'll be short, but it will be fun to get back on my rubber highway.... besides, I've got to dust the poor girl off after one month plus of ignoring her!!! *gasp* That's the longest I've been away from running since I started... blows my mind. :)
My weight is coming down, not sure about inches, but I'll weigh in on Friday (as usual) and maybe there will be a good result after only 5 workouts completed. :)
I really should do more in the evening, but I did groceries tonight, so there went at least 1.5 hours off my night. Plus I just got the latest WW magazine and the New complete WW cookbook... so I'm kinda like a crow in a jewelery store distracted by all the shiny stuff "CAW, CAW!"
Tomorrow John is going skiing after work, so I will treat myself to a run on the treadmill. It'll be short, but it will be fun to get back on my rubber highway.... besides, I've got to dust the poor girl off after one month plus of ignoring her!!! *gasp* That's the longest I've been away from running since I started... blows my mind. :)
My weight is coming down, not sure about inches, but I'll weigh in on Friday (as usual) and maybe there will be a good result after only 5 workouts completed. :)
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Shredding with the oldie... (I'm the oldie)
Day 2 of the 30 day Shred challenge that I'm inflicting upon myself :) I was a bit tender today, mostly upper body because I'm a road warrior and my legs are in pretty good shape dragging this big carcass around. I was also a bit tender in my upper abs and obliques because my stomach "keg" is a slight indication that I have a mostly crappy core LOL Rotten to the core baby!
The tenderness is kind of welcome... it makes me feel like I'm doing something good for myself. We went to the movies after work and it helped me avoid the temptation of getting popcorn, or going out for dinner afterwards. The tenderness reminded me that "Hey, do you really want to keep feeling sore body parts? Because if you keep going out to eat or eating above your daily points, you're adding more day to the end of the hard part of working out... do you really want to do that????" So I skipped the popcorn, and we ate at home. Baby steps and yay for small victories.
I've read a lot of reviews online and looked at before & after results of the 30 day Shred and I hope that I don't lose momentum or get bored like several people mentioned online. I don't expect that I will see huge results, but I'm hoping that the Shred will help me in the long run because it has the strength training component that I hate to do in the gym. At least Jillian makes it more fun. Standing or sitting there and pumping iron while counting reps on a machine bores me to tears! She gets you to do bicep curls while you do lunges... multi-tasking! Love it! Plus you can't beat the 20 minutes. Fits in nicely in the morning before my morning shower.
We will have to see how I deal with it on the weekends...
Stay tuned!
The tenderness is kind of welcome... it makes me feel like I'm doing something good for myself. We went to the movies after work and it helped me avoid the temptation of getting popcorn, or going out for dinner afterwards. The tenderness reminded me that "Hey, do you really want to keep feeling sore body parts? Because if you keep going out to eat or eating above your daily points, you're adding more day to the end of the hard part of working out... do you really want to do that????" So I skipped the popcorn, and we ate at home. Baby steps and yay for small victories.
I've read a lot of reviews online and looked at before & after results of the 30 day Shred and I hope that I don't lose momentum or get bored like several people mentioned online. I don't expect that I will see huge results, but I'm hoping that the Shred will help me in the long run because it has the strength training component that I hate to do in the gym. At least Jillian makes it more fun. Standing or sitting there and pumping iron while counting reps on a machine bores me to tears! She gets you to do bicep curls while you do lunges... multi-tasking! Love it! Plus you can't beat the 20 minutes. Fits in nicely in the morning before my morning shower.
We will have to see how I deal with it on the weekends...
Stay tuned!
Monday, January 10, 2011
Day one... Check!
The spare room/craft room has been reorganized with a nice big piece of floor space for me to Shred it up!
Well day one of the 30 day Shred challenge can be scratched off the calendar :)
Right now I feel good, and happy i was able to accomplish the early morning workout. What worries me is the second day. Mondays are rough as a general rule because I always have a hard time falling asleep on Sunday night... so last night my light went out at 1am... BEEP BEEP the alarm went off at 5am and I got up right away without hitting snooze, however, tomorrow will be a different story, more of a challenge.
If I can hit the treadmill after work while supper is cooking I might be able to tire myself out early and get to bed super early.
On Sunday I cooked up a big batch of soup, some chicken breasts and some whole wheat pasta. I have the soup, chicken and post of the pasta portioned out for the week. The extra pasta is in a large container and I can measure some out for supper if I have points left :)
Stay tuned!
Well day one of the 30 day Shred challenge can be scratched off the calendar :)
Right now I feel good, and happy i was able to accomplish the early morning workout. What worries me is the second day. Mondays are rough as a general rule because I always have a hard time falling asleep on Sunday night... so last night my light went out at 1am... BEEP BEEP the alarm went off at 5am and I got up right away without hitting snooze, however, tomorrow will be a different story, more of a challenge.
If I can hit the treadmill after work while supper is cooking I might be able to tire myself out early and get to bed super early.
On Sunday I cooked up a big batch of soup, some chicken breasts and some whole wheat pasta. I have the soup, chicken and post of the pasta portioned out for the week. The extra pasta is in a large container and I can measure some out for supper if I have points left :)
Stay tuned!
Friday, January 7, 2011
Hey Everybody!!!!! Happy New Year and all that jazz :D
I feel like I've been away forever!
The holidays with my family were great. We had an awesome time, lots of laughs, lots of good food, lots of junk food, but somehow I still managed to go for a 5km walk almost everyday I was there. I think that the walking was the magic ingredient because I managed to loose over 3.5 pounds while I was away.... I weighed 243 on December 16th and and when I came back on December 30th I weighed 239.4. Unfortunately, the time between December 30th and today was filled with pretty much the same kind of eating, but no walking... up went the weight again to 243.6 by Jan 4th, but it's not like I don't know why :P In the end by the time this morning rolled around I had gone back down to 241.6. It's not where I want to be, but it's better than 243.6
I'm not the type of person that likes to make resolutions... in fact I always resolve to not make any... and I accomplish that every year hehehe What I do like about starting a new year is the feeling of renewal, second chances and a sort of renewed vigor when it comes to fitness and nutrition.
So I may not make resolutions, but I do make lots of plans. I was originally hoping to run the 10km in May, but I haven't trained well enough or lost any weight, so I'm going to switch that to the 5km race in May, AND I am aiming to beat my personal best time of 44 minutes and 44 seconds. I feel that goal is very achievable.
I also plan to take advantage of my gym membership and go to some Zumba classes or Cardio kick boxing with Alex.
I also plan to rearrange my workout areas (yes, i have more than one area LOL) to make my life a bit easier in the deep dark cold Canadian mornings. I want to try and do the 30 day Shred challenge with my Jillian Michaels DVD. I've done it twice, and was able to complete the workouts, which is sad. So I started thinking about what is stopping me from working out early in the morning... other than it being crazy early. I believe it's the fact that I was set up in the living room near my treadmill. I dislike the DVD setup that requires me to mess around with a switch box to go between TV, Cable Box and DVD. Dunno about you, but that early in the morning I'm not coordinated enough to be able to figure that out easily. So, in my craft room/spare room/junk room upstairs I have a tiny TV with a DVD player. It's closer to our bedroom, there will be more floor space once I do some re-arranging and the media setup is dead easy.
I'm hoping that along with the 30 days of Shred and the regular running 3 or 4 times a week that I will feel like I'm accomplishing some great new habits.
And the biggest plan of all is to go and join Weight Watchers, go to the weekly meetings and learn as much as possible about better eating habits. Doing weight watchers on my own has helped me change my eating habits a lot, but I think need to re-learn everything because of the new plan, and I'd rather do it through my local meetings. I don't regret doing the points program on my own because my body has definitely changed along with inches lost and a better eating plan, but I want to start out fresh and re-focus..
Keep yer fingers crossed for me!!!
The holidays with my family were great. We had an awesome time, lots of laughs, lots of good food, lots of junk food, but somehow I still managed to go for a 5km walk almost everyday I was there. I think that the walking was the magic ingredient because I managed to loose over 3.5 pounds while I was away.... I weighed 243 on December 16th and and when I came back on December 30th I weighed 239.4. Unfortunately, the time between December 30th and today was filled with pretty much the same kind of eating, but no walking... up went the weight again to 243.6 by Jan 4th, but it's not like I don't know why :P In the end by the time this morning rolled around I had gone back down to 241.6. It's not where I want to be, but it's better than 243.6
I'm not the type of person that likes to make resolutions... in fact I always resolve to not make any... and I accomplish that every year hehehe What I do like about starting a new year is the feeling of renewal, second chances and a sort of renewed vigor when it comes to fitness and nutrition.
So I may not make resolutions, but I do make lots of plans. I was originally hoping to run the 10km in May, but I haven't trained well enough or lost any weight, so I'm going to switch that to the 5km race in May, AND I am aiming to beat my personal best time of 44 minutes and 44 seconds. I feel that goal is very achievable.
I also plan to take advantage of my gym membership and go to some Zumba classes or Cardio kick boxing with Alex.
I also plan to rearrange my workout areas (yes, i have more than one area LOL) to make my life a bit easier in the deep dark cold Canadian mornings. I want to try and do the 30 day Shred challenge with my Jillian Michaels DVD. I've done it twice, and was able to complete the workouts, which is sad. So I started thinking about what is stopping me from working out early in the morning... other than it being crazy early. I believe it's the fact that I was set up in the living room near my treadmill. I dislike the DVD setup that requires me to mess around with a switch box to go between TV, Cable Box and DVD. Dunno about you, but that early in the morning I'm not coordinated enough to be able to figure that out easily. So, in my craft room/spare room/junk room upstairs I have a tiny TV with a DVD player. It's closer to our bedroom, there will be more floor space once I do some re-arranging and the media setup is dead easy.
I'm hoping that along with the 30 days of Shred and the regular running 3 or 4 times a week that I will feel like I'm accomplishing some great new habits.
And the biggest plan of all is to go and join Weight Watchers, go to the weekly meetings and learn as much as possible about better eating habits. Doing weight watchers on my own has helped me change my eating habits a lot, but I think need to re-learn everything because of the new plan, and I'd rather do it through my local meetings. I don't regret doing the points program on my own because my body has definitely changed along with inches lost and a better eating plan, but I want to start out fresh and re-focus..
Keep yer fingers crossed for me!!!
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Queen of maintenance
... that would be awesome if I was at my goal weight! I continue to forge onward and I'm thankful that I haven't gained so far during this holiday party season, cause i've had my fair share of parties so far.
This weekend is the long 12 hour drive out east, so I've been busy laundering, packing and sorting through all my clothes so that I can donate the stuff that is too big to family back home. It's like a second christmas, but with clothes. :)
I haven't been exercising, other than dragging large baskets of laundry around. I know i'm bad, but at this point, I'm too busy to care or beat myself up over it. I'm still watching what I eat and sticking to my points as much as humanly possible, which is probably the main reason I'm maintaining instead of gaining... all good in my book.
Ok, so people in the US in states like Florida are moaning that it's cold (30's/40's) well here it is a nice balmy 4 degrees... yup 4 degrees and in Sarnia Ontario (which is about 3 hours west of where I live) there were 240 people stuck in their cars on a snow plugged highway.
Now do you know why I don't run outside in the winter??? It's fricken crazy! And this isn't even the worst of it yet.. wait until January or Febrary when we get wayyyyy below sub zero temps... Awesome!
I want to move to Nevada...I don't want to wait 15 years until retirement... I need to win the lottery!
That's it for today, just wanted to poke my head in here for a quick update...prove that I'm still alive :)
This weekend is the long 12 hour drive out east, so I've been busy laundering, packing and sorting through all my clothes so that I can donate the stuff that is too big to family back home. It's like a second christmas, but with clothes. :)
I haven't been exercising, other than dragging large baskets of laundry around. I know i'm bad, but at this point, I'm too busy to care or beat myself up over it. I'm still watching what I eat and sticking to my points as much as humanly possible, which is probably the main reason I'm maintaining instead of gaining... all good in my book.
Ok, so people in the US in states like Florida are moaning that it's cold (30's/40's) well here it is a nice balmy 4 degrees... yup 4 degrees and in Sarnia Ontario (which is about 3 hours west of where I live) there were 240 people stuck in their cars on a snow plugged highway.
Now do you know why I don't run outside in the winter??? It's fricken crazy! And this isn't even the worst of it yet.. wait until January or Febrary when we get wayyyyy below sub zero temps... Awesome!
I want to move to Nevada...I don't want to wait 15 years until retirement... I need to win the lottery!
That's it for today, just wanted to poke my head in here for a quick update...prove that I'm still alive :)
Friday, December 3, 2010
YES! Bring on the magic!
Awesome! I have dropped 3 pounds from my 4 pounds and change gain from last weeks time warp /sick week. I didn't exercise this week due to being tired but I'm starting to feel totally like me again. I intend to add the exercise back beginning this weekend along with tons of Christmas decorating and gift wrapping :)
I got a comment last week on my blog from an Anonymous reader (Thanks for reading Anon!) Anon brought up a good point that I had already been thinking about and pondering how to implement. Simply put, Anon said "Eat less" and "use a smaller plate" both great tips to deal with the scale in general. I was interpreting it in a different way with this thought in my head "Maybe Weight Watchers points are set up for people in general and most overweight people are basically sedentary so a big reduction of calories in the beginning when they implement the points system they drop weight fairly consistently and mostly up until they get within 20lbs of their goal weight." Soooo my brain kept whirling and whirling... I've lost about 20 lbs since Alex and I started running ... my eating has slowly evolved to mostly non processed foods, lots of veg and fruit, lean meats and a fair amount of exercise. All good things to get into the habit of doing, great long term investments into a healthy lifestyle, but it felt like maintenance without any weight loss results.
In the summer when I did a big push to increase exercise it made a bit of a difference, but I couldn't keep up with that much exercise without giving up cleaning my house :P Tempting as that may be, I have to balance everything in my life, soooo back to the drawing board... or thinking board :D What if the points are too generous for me? What if I were to lower my daily points allowance by a smidgen to see if that would be enough to kick start the scale, yet not cause the body to get stingy and really lock down on the weight loss (aka starvation mode) or worse yet, cause my brain to flip out and cause a-fall-off-the-wagon-eating-festival? *shudder*
You see, currently per the WW system (Momentum Plan, not Points Plus) for my height, age, gender, type of job and being in the 230's, I should be using up 28 points per day (1400 calories) with an additional 35 flex points per week. I haven't used my activity points in several months and try to only use my flex points occasionally. I grabbed my WW documentation and went through it and recalculated the points total as if I weighed 200 (I WISH!) and it totaled up to 25 points (1250 calories) and since Monday I've been following the 25 points and so far 3 pounds down. It's only been 5 days, but so far it feels good.
It's too soon to tell if this is indeed a good course of action, but with time and some exercise added into the mix, maybe I'll find my recipe to make weight loss magic!
I got a comment last week on my blog from an Anonymous reader (Thanks for reading Anon!) Anon brought up a good point that I had already been thinking about and pondering how to implement. Simply put, Anon said "Eat less" and "use a smaller plate" both great tips to deal with the scale in general. I was interpreting it in a different way with this thought in my head "Maybe Weight Watchers points are set up for people in general and most overweight people are basically sedentary so a big reduction of calories in the beginning when they implement the points system they drop weight fairly consistently and mostly up until they get within 20lbs of their goal weight." Soooo my brain kept whirling and whirling... I've lost about 20 lbs since Alex and I started running ... my eating has slowly evolved to mostly non processed foods, lots of veg and fruit, lean meats and a fair amount of exercise. All good things to get into the habit of doing, great long term investments into a healthy lifestyle, but it felt like maintenance without any weight loss results.
In the summer when I did a big push to increase exercise it made a bit of a difference, but I couldn't keep up with that much exercise without giving up cleaning my house :P Tempting as that may be, I have to balance everything in my life, soooo back to the drawing board... or thinking board :D What if the points are too generous for me? What if I were to lower my daily points allowance by a smidgen to see if that would be enough to kick start the scale, yet not cause the body to get stingy and really lock down on the weight loss (aka starvation mode) or worse yet, cause my brain to flip out and cause a-fall-off-the-wagon-eating-festival? *shudder*
You see, currently per the WW system (Momentum Plan, not Points Plus) for my height, age, gender, type of job and being in the 230's, I should be using up 28 points per day (1400 calories) with an additional 35 flex points per week. I haven't used my activity points in several months and try to only use my flex points occasionally. I grabbed my WW documentation and went through it and recalculated the points total as if I weighed 200 (I WISH!) and it totaled up to 25 points (1250 calories) and since Monday I've been following the 25 points and so far 3 pounds down. It's only been 5 days, but so far it feels good.
It's too soon to tell if this is indeed a good course of action, but with time and some exercise added into the mix, maybe I'll find my recipe to make weight loss magic!
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