Wednesday Weigh in Week 27

Oy. So this whole food allergy test really threw me last week. I had to eat the foods I've been avoiding for a while now. Basically a great excuse to binge right? Right. Thankfully I only gained two pounds. And I pray it comes off quickly. I was really liking that 4 pound loss that I had last week.

It was definitely an eye opening experience just letting go and eating all these foods that I haven't been. And just noticing the effects that they had on my body. And I am not impressed I have to say. I was actually quite ready to get back to my gluten free diet. Safe to say my love affair with bread has ended. I mean would I like a roll every now and then? Yeah. Will I have one? Probably. But to notice the difference of how my body feels when I am not eating it and when I am was pretty amazing. I'm ready for my energy to come back and to get my workouts started again. We are having some weird funky weather. Yesterday it was 58 and raining for most of the day. Where our 100 degree weather went I have no idea? Heck even the upper 80's or lower 90's. I guess I shouldn't complain ;) It's pretty nice weather. It's just hard to take a 5 year old with no body fat on him and throw him in the pool for swim lessons in 60 degree weather outside! He is a popsicle within 10 minutes. But toughs it out for the 30 minutes with teeth chattering. :)

So I get to go to the doctor on the 12th of July to find out the results of my allergy tests. And then the 13th I get my wisdom teeth out. July is gonna be a busy month for me financially LOL! Yikes. I gotta buckle down and get cracking on my finances. I have a lot that I am trying to do and save for! It's gonna be a crazy rest of the year.

Gosh I really need to go workout :0)

Wednesday Weigh in Week 26

Ok. So I amazingly pulled that one out of my hat? 4.4 pounds lost last week. I started back on my gluten free/sugar free/yeast free diet. I have kept mainly cheese in my diet just because I need some protein in my life. I went back to watching calories and I exercised every day....until Thursday.

Wednesday I did this new workout video that we have. Kettlebell training with Bob Harper. It was a half hour and you basically do squats moving the kettlebell around. I made it through--(I HATE squats). And the next day felt like I couldn't move. So I made it through Thursday. I went for a walk/run when my mom got home from work to try to loosen up. It kind of made me hurt more. I then proceeded to not work out Fri/Sat/Sun. I was getting ready to work out on Monday when I had this intense pain in my back. Like I was locked up, I could barely walk or sit and I didn't know if I was going to be able to take the boys to swim lessons. I spent most of Monday icing my back. Yesterday I felt a little better, and currently the ice pack is back on my lower back as I type.

I obviously need to work on strengthening my lower back. If I sit for too long it starts hurting. And since I need to be working out, I am gonna keep it low key for a while and stick to the Airofit and going for walks at night I think. Unless I can find some good back strengthening things I can do.

This is one of those things that would normally cause me to throw my hands up in the air and say I'm done. But I can't be! I'm halfway through the year, and nowhere near where I wanted to be. I spent 3 months cheating, and now I'm playing catch up. Week 1 of catch was great :0) Until I hurt my back :( Now I have to keep going.

I finally got an appointment made with a local doctor to figure out if I have food allergies/gluten allergies/candida. Well ok. I called yesterday and got bloodwork scheduled. But they are calling me back today to schedule the appointment. With just the perfect timing, it's hopefully going to be the day before I get my wisdom teeth out. Oh. Joy. This is going to be quite the summer. I just decided I needed to actually find out before I go still doing all of this on my own whether it's even a problem or not. So. That's my plan. I hate getting my blood drawn though :( So I'm not looking forward to that part of it.

4.4 pounds :0) That was a good week!

Wednesday Weigh in Week 25

So I'm pretty sure my scale hates me. LOL! Either that or I ate too much salt the last night. Which is quite possible. Note to self: Never eat at IHOP again. How 2 eggs, hash browns and toast can equal 1080 calories without the bacon beats me? Add an extra 80 for the bacon. But I skipped the toast. But it was still close to 1000 calorie meal. Gotta be the butter? I mean that's the first time I have eaten there in years! But I do like to get breakfast from Denny's. So it's probably the same thing. Sigh. Dang!

So I have done pretty good the last two days about being GF/sugar free/yeast free. I decided for the moment to keep at least the cheese right now simply because of protein. I know it adds some fat in my diet, but I have to get that protein in! I had some applesauce tonight. It's homemade and I was craving it. So I pulled it out of the freezer. When I make it this year I am going to try it with way less sugar and see how the difference is :) Or maybe none at all and just put the cinnamon in. Hmm. Choices :0)

Ok, so I had found a kettlebell workout that my sister had bought and I decided to do it tonight, since I didn't get a workout in before the boys woke up this morning. (Um yeah. these boys need to learn to sleep in pronto! 6:30 on summer break is just not OK!) Oh my gosh! For one thing. It's like all squats!

Have I mentioned I hate squats? Ok. Well I don't do them very well. Especially after a leg and a knee surgery. But I did the 30 minute workout the best I could. I then went to Sparkpeople to input my calories that I burned. (I also did 15 minutes each on the airofit and the bike.) Well when I searched for it I was very shocked to find out that a 30 minute kettlebell training burns 600 calories. Holy Crap! And then I ended up burning over 400 more on the bike and airofit! Um that was an unintentional 1000 calorie burn day. I had no idea that it burned that many calories LOL! I might have picked it up a long time ago if I had known that! I mean it's not something that I will do every day by any means, because like I said. I. Hate. Squats. 30 minutes and my legs were JELLO! But I will probably throw it in once a week, every once in a while or so ;) Just to throw off my body.

So I've gotten back to counting calories and working out. Bring it on Summer. I've got big plans for you :-) Except for the week I am getting my wisdom teeth out. :( Not looking forward to that. But at the same time I am ready to get it over with. So I'm just gonna go with it. And enjoy a week of soup, and pudding right? :0)

<3

29 weeks..

Um hello. Has this year flown by or what? Wednesday will mark 29 weeks UNTIL the end of December and I am supposed to have Finished what I started.

sigh.

This is where weight loss has become an all out mental war. I did so amazingly awesome for the first three months of the year, and then one cheat day turned into two months of cheating and here I am, gained almost 10 pounds back. My body feels horrible, I have rashes on my skin, I haven't run regularly since the beginning of May. Or exercised hardly at all for that matter. I have had a to hell with it attitude and eaten what I want because I can. Even though I know it's bad for my body.

*Snap me back in*

Oh yeah! 29 weeks. See this is where the rubber meets the road. I can just give up here. I can be unhappy and miserable. Or I can press in and press on. My goal is still feasible. My first goal would put me losing 2.8 pounds a week to make it to my 100 pound weight loss goal. My throw up weight loss goal of making it to 120 pounds this year would put me losing 3.5 pounds a week to make it. Borderline pushy. But nonetheless attainable.

So where does that leave me? I'm in a pretty big do or die situation right now. Go big or go home. I have to give it everything I have for the next 29 weeks. Without failing. Every week has to be consistent or it's not gonna happen. I still have kept off 20(ish) pounds this year. So now it's either 80 or 100 more.

And right now I have the summer to get a great head start. Monday marks the last day of school and I have the next 11 weeks off to be able to really focus on my weight loss. I will have to watch the boys in the mornings, but the afternoons I will have a good chunk of time to be working out. Because I have to lose 3-4 pounds a week to meet my goal.

So this has become my plan. And I need to be blogging a bit more too. But I will have more time in my 11 weeks to be doing that :0)

29 weeks. 3.5 pounds a week. Watch out.

Wednesday Weigh in week 24

What is it with not being able to get to the computer till late on Wednesday night. Geesh. Thanks Tricia :) I'm not giving up. It's just one of those seasons that I'm in. Come Monday I get some downtime for several weeks :) So I am hoping to get back into my routine and kick my butt into gear.

Literally.