Oh hey, looks it's WEDNESDAY and I am posting! Haha. I will have to set a reminder or something for the summer to remember to post, since I'm not weighing in.
I guess I don't really have too much to report since I only posted on Monday. I'm still plugging away with my squat challenge. I'm getting super excited about almost finishing this. Haha. And today ended up being a rest day, so I didn't have to wake up to do any squats. Tomorrow, however, I have to do 175. And really that's technically over 200 because of the double squatting! LOL! And I really prefer just to do them in the morning and my yoga, simply so they are out of the way. I had waiting on Monday to do them when we got back from the beach and it was almost 10 at night before I finished with everything. Geesh. I'm not planning on doing that again. Done, out of the way and showered. That's how I prefer to do them!
I think I'm getting antsy about not weighing in however. I reallly wanted to weigh in this morning, and that's kind of weird. Haha. I guess cheating at the beach was a bad thing. Although with the way I've been eating, I don't really want to know the last couple of days. But then again, I kind of do.
I went shopping for some shirts yesterday and came home empty handed. I didn't want to spend the money if I wasn't completely in love with the shirt. Which I suppose is good for me? I mean yeah, I'm trying to watch my money, but it's so dang hot right now, that I am looking for some more tanks and I'm not finding them. And I fall back into the mentality of 'but I am going to lose weight and I won't even be using this shirt next year.' So I walked away. I wasn't entirely happy with the shirts that I could have gotten and I didn't want to go up any bigger in size. I ended up getting some bras that were the same size even though I should have gone up a band size, but they didn't have any. So um any waist whittling exercises that work quickly anyone? Haha.
I'm thinking for August that I'm going to come up with my own challenge. I really liked the idea of having a workout set up and just doing it. And that the squat thing was so simple. So I'm gonna go explore pinterest a bit and see if I can come up with something to do. Something that incorporates more working out, and not just squats ;) Although I am surprised that I don't actually mind them. Of course the ones with the kicks I kind of mind haha. But only cause I have to do more. And I will see what comes of 200 squats every time would do. I mean it takes me about 20 minutes to do them without an additional workout. Oy. I can see how people easily can do 2 hour workouts LOL. I just have to find a way to do it and do it in the heat. Maybe I will have to do an am/pm kind of thing. I will have to see.
So I guess I'm off to figure something out :0)
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Friday, February 17, 2012
67 to go
Sometimes looking at the long term picture can be really hard don't you think? It just gets me thinking sometimes about how we fear things and don't do them. Sometimes it's because you think the effort to put into it is too great. That has so much to do with weight loss.
Like here's the deal. I am only 5'1. And at my highest I weighed 250 pounds. Making me severely obese. And to get to just an overweight BMI I would have to weigh 158 pounds. That's an almost 100 pound weight loss right there! And then to keep going to a healthy BMI I would have to get down to 132 pounds to be considered a "normal" BMI.
A 92 pound weight loss to still be considered overweight is kind of a daunting task. To do all that hard work and still be overweight. That's why it is so hard to look at the big picture sometimes. I mean it can make a task seem almost impossible. I know when I restarted this journey I was at 240, giving me a 10 pound advantage already ;) But to think right now I still have 26 pounds to go before I am under 200 pounds is kind of a challenging thought. That is most definitely my first goal.
Right now I'm just spouting out thoughts. I'm not really discouraged too much by all of this. I firmly believe that this is my year and I will be meeting my goals. I just need to make sure I am keeping some small goals in mind so the task doesn't seem so daunting to me. I know that if I average 10 pounds a month that I will lose the 120 pounds that I want to. I mean technically as long as I keep losing I am happy, and I believe that by the end of December this year that I will have lost at least 100 pounds.
And I greatly look forward to that day :)
Like here's the deal. I am only 5'1. And at my highest I weighed 250 pounds. Making me severely obese. And to get to just an overweight BMI I would have to weigh 158 pounds. That's an almost 100 pound weight loss right there! And then to keep going to a healthy BMI I would have to get down to 132 pounds to be considered a "normal" BMI.
A 92 pound weight loss to still be considered overweight is kind of a daunting task. To do all that hard work and still be overweight. That's why it is so hard to look at the big picture sometimes. I mean it can make a task seem almost impossible. I know when I restarted this journey I was at 240, giving me a 10 pound advantage already ;) But to think right now I still have 26 pounds to go before I am under 200 pounds is kind of a challenging thought. That is most definitely my first goal.
Right now I'm just spouting out thoughts. I'm not really discouraged too much by all of this. I firmly believe that this is my year and I will be meeting my goals. I just need to make sure I am keeping some small goals in mind so the task doesn't seem so daunting to me. I know that if I average 10 pounds a month that I will lose the 120 pounds that I want to. I mean technically as long as I keep losing I am happy, and I believe that by the end of December this year that I will have lost at least 100 pounds.
And I greatly look forward to that day :)
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