I am down ONE WHOLE POUND!
Is it because of the amazing-but-knee-killing-BL workouts I've been doing?
No.
Or the salad only diet I've been trying to stick to?
Nope.
I got the Flu. Folks, it was mean and nasty, came out of no where and knocked all 210--now 209 lbs, of me on my larger than life sized ass! I'm now on day 6 of it and while I have been able to return to work, I still have a 2 pack-a-day cough going on and get winded just trying to put on the exercise gear, let alone keeping up with the avatar-ed Jillian Michaels. I know not to exercise when I'm this sick, so I haven't, but I feel like I'm letting myself down.
Also, I ate 5 oreo's yesterday. Double stuffed. Spring Yellow. Now, let me say that I have a problem with the yellow coloring of the icing inbetween the cookies. Clearly, not enough of a problem to not eat an Oreo (or Five of them) but still, in the back of my mind, the Yellow # 4 is eating away at my psyche....and my arteries.
I am giving myself this weekend to fully recover and should be back on the wagon come Monday. This weekend is grocery shopping so hopefully I will stock the house with healthy foods. Any suggestions?
Friday, February 18, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Day Two
Epic. Fail.
I didn't think that yesterday's BL workout was that intense. As a matter of fact, I liked it and was excited to really work it into my dail routine.
My knees however had a different thought.
Kids, I woke up this morning with knees of a 90 year old. It hurts to go up or down stairs. I'm not sure if its because there isn't a whole lot (if any) of padding underneath our carpet or if I just wrecked my knee trying to hard on the first go around. Either way, I opted to not try today. I am going to get some ibuprofen in me and put some bio-freeze on my knee and hope for the best.
After all, the great Scarlett O'Hara Butler did say....Tomorrow is another day.
I didn't think that yesterday's BL workout was that intense. As a matter of fact, I liked it and was excited to really work it into my dail routine.
My knees however had a different thought.
Kids, I woke up this morning with knees of a 90 year old. It hurts to go up or down stairs. I'm not sure if its because there isn't a whole lot (if any) of padding underneath our carpet or if I just wrecked my knee trying to hard on the first go around. Either way, I opted to not try today. I am going to get some ibuprofen in me and put some bio-freeze on my knee and hope for the best.
After all, the great Scarlett O'Hara Butler did say....Tomorrow is another day.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Day one
Welcome. This is my journey. This is probably your journey too. The weight loss journey that, seeing as the majority of the American public is over-weight or obese, you have probably done a thousand times. Me too.
I've done all the diets too. Atkins, Weight Watchers, Calorie Counting, Carb Denying, Fat checking, Shake drinking... yup, done them. The only thing I haven't tried yet is diet pills (but I do have Alli information on my desk, staring at me with mocking indifference). I am going to try and keep up this blog to keep me honest, accountable, and sane when the sugar crash eventually happens.
There may be times that I'm brutally honest about myself, my day, my life and those that know me, know that my honest is well...brutal. On those days, I'm not looking for placating comments or ego stroking. I give you the gift of my honesty and thats all I ask in return.
So, let the honesty begin. Today, on day one I weigh 210 lbs.
Holy crap.
Now it's out there in the blogosphere. There aren't too many women out there who would admit their number. Matter of fact, I know a few women who'd gladly give up their "other" number before ever admitting their weight.
10 weeks ago, I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy and while I did gain weight during my pregnancy, it wasn't a huge amount. I believe it was right around 38lbs. Now, before you ladies who've never been pregnant before gawk at that number, the average weight gain is between 25-45lbs. So...suck it.
Before I got pregnant, my weight was really bothering me, so I had decided to really buckle down and loose weight...well, obviously that plan didn't pan out for me.
My first day, a thursday (because every Monday that rolled around never did end up as the day I kick started my diet) I think I did fairly well in the eating department. I will be counting calories and exercising with the Biggest Loser Game for Kinect!
Let me just say that while it may be a "game", it is no way something that you can just idly do. It is a WORKOUT. After doing a full body scan, imputting my weight, my target weight, how many times I want to work out during a week and how long I want my exercise plan to be, I got started! I chose Jillian Michaels as my trainer but it was Bob that was the voice over telling me what to do.
Over all, I really enjoyed it. I burned 100 calories.
So this is our little family at Christmas.....once you stop gushing over my cute lil peanut, you will see plainly that I still look 4 months pregnant. And the double...o hell, who am I kidding....triple chins do have names.....but my hair looks great!
So I've got 12 weeks to make my target weight of 165lbs. Think I can do it?
I've done all the diets too. Atkins, Weight Watchers, Calorie Counting, Carb Denying, Fat checking, Shake drinking... yup, done them. The only thing I haven't tried yet is diet pills (but I do have Alli information on my desk, staring at me with mocking indifference). I am going to try and keep up this blog to keep me honest, accountable, and sane when the sugar crash eventually happens.
There may be times that I'm brutally honest about myself, my day, my life and those that know me, know that my honest is well...brutal. On those days, I'm not looking for placating comments or ego stroking. I give you the gift of my honesty and thats all I ask in return.
So, let the honesty begin. Today, on day one I weigh 210 lbs.
Holy crap.
Now it's out there in the blogosphere. There aren't too many women out there who would admit their number. Matter of fact, I know a few women who'd gladly give up their "other" number before ever admitting their weight.
10 weeks ago, I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy and while I did gain weight during my pregnancy, it wasn't a huge amount. I believe it was right around 38lbs. Now, before you ladies who've never been pregnant before gawk at that number, the average weight gain is between 25-45lbs. So...suck it.
Before I got pregnant, my weight was really bothering me, so I had decided to really buckle down and loose weight...well, obviously that plan didn't pan out for me.
My first day, a thursday (because every Monday that rolled around never did end up as the day I kick started my diet) I think I did fairly well in the eating department. I will be counting calories and exercising with the Biggest Loser Game for Kinect!
Let me just say that while it may be a "game", it is no way something that you can just idly do. It is a WORKOUT. After doing a full body scan, imputting my weight, my target weight, how many times I want to work out during a week and how long I want my exercise plan to be, I got started! I chose Jillian Michaels as my trainer but it was Bob that was the voice over telling me what to do.
Over all, I really enjoyed it. I burned 100 calories.
So I've got 12 weeks to make my target weight of 165lbs. Think I can do it?
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