Wednesday Weigh in Week 44

My oh my. Are we getting closer to the end of the year or what? My calendar tells me I only have 10 more weigh ins to go until the end of the year. My new goal is simple. To be under 200 pounds by then. I mean as long as I can manage 2 pounds a week I am basically there. If I have two 3 pound weeks I am golden :) This is where my last minute-ness starts to kick in and tell me to get moving. But I am moving :)

See? I manged to lose another pound :) I really don't know how? I'm thinking the apple cider vinegar pills might be helping. But at any rate! I'm taking it. So I have 23 pounds to go before the end of the year. That's a good mini goal.

I'm pretty sure when I came up with this Bloomsday goal that I wasn't thinking I would get sick right away. But here I am still sick :( I stayed home from work again today since I woke up hacking up my lung :( Needless to say the couch and my bed have been my friend today. As well as my neti pot. I think this sickness is the first time that I've actually seen liquid snot coming out of my nose. I mean it's quite amazing! TMI I know. But I'm certain it has helped me avoid a full on sinus infection. I don't quite know what's up with this cough. But it's gonna have to go!

Yesterday I started my Couch to 5k over. I was so sure I was going to be running in full on rain but by the time school ended it had cleared up a bit. It was still cold!! But rain clouds on one side of me and sunshine on the other. I had some sprinkles going on but I finished Day one! I surprisingly don't feel as out of shape as I was expecting to be. I think I'm gonna pick up pretty easily on it again. And hopefully fall into a good rhythm. I am however going to have to seriously be looking at ways to strengthen my knee. I never did do a good job at my physical therapy after my surgery when I tore my ACL/Meniscus. I don't have my full range of motion back. I don't know if it's possible. But I want to try. I need to feel like I can trust my knee and not think it's going to give out on me at any given time during my run. Any suggestions would be welcomed :0)

Today I cheated just a little in my workout. I know 3 days in and I think I'm cheating. I totally counted walking around Walmart doing my grocery shopping as my cardio for the day. But hey. I'm sick. And that was an outing! I walked around the store for almost an hour and had to put things in and take things out of the cart and car. Good grief! And then I did an arm workout video that I found on Sparkpeople's youtube page. I like that I can find a short (9 minutes!) video to watch to help me start toning up my arms. I'm not very consistent at strength training like I should. But that is one of the goals for this training plan is to add in strength. And it will probably increase as I go. I am actually weirdly looking forward to doing some yoga as one of my training days. I think it's going to help me gain some flexibility and take away some stress. And I know I'm not going to be able to do everything right away, but it will increase. And I'm only going to be doing it once a week anyway. So I am gonna start with a 20 minute thing I found on youtube. I'm impressed that Youtube has all these videos! Haha..it makes it easier to try things before purchasing them for sure!

But I have worked out for 3 days in a row! And that is helping me get back into the routine of things!!

Wednesday weigh in week 32

                                                       

It might seem gross. But sometimes I just need a reminder. So I only lost 1 pound this week. But looking at that picture, it makes me grateful for my one pound :0)

So today I became one of "those" people. That decide to just go out and do a 5k without any sort of training. I had signed up on Sparkpeople to do a virtual 5k this week and I was trying to decide the best time to do it. Well the week doesn't really have any morning that I could go do it, and it's been hot around here, so I knew I would have to do it at night. I got to the track right as the sun was setting around 8:30 and proceeded to run/walk for the next hour. I was happy that my first official 5k time was 59:29. I was just excited that it was under an hour. Only 30 seconds shy...but still. Under an hour.

I haven't been running most of the summer. My wisdom teeth have gotten the best of me and I just have a hard time running in the heat. So yeah. I've used it as an excuse. I think the longest I've run recently is about 2 miles. Several. Weeks. Ago. So I lost track of how many times I actually ran around the track tonight. But I think I ran about 2 miles without stopping and then walked the rest. I always start out with a warm up lap, but I think I walked 3 laps at the end? So yeah. Still. I did it and that's all that matters. No matter how sore I will be tomorrow haha! I am supposed to go walking with a friend, so we will work out those sore muscles tomorrow :0)

This year and this summer have just downright escaped me. It's just gone by so so fast. I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I wont be losing 100 pounds this year like my goal states. I mean if I got severely hardcore about this I could probably still swing it. But I absolutely don't want to set myself up to crash and burn. I have about 76 more pounds to go before I hit the 100 mark. I mean if I made about 3.5 pounds a week I could do it. I have basically lost all the weight that I regained after the wedding I was in. So I took a little detour I guess. I wasn't expecting to have to get my teeth out this year either. :( That was another detour. And this whole allergy thing has really thrown me for a loop. But I guess I can't really complain about losing 5 pounds in two weeks because of it right?

And so now we are gearing up to start school again at the end of the month. And getting ready for my mom to have another surgery. She's gonna be out 4-6 weeks. But I'm not gonna let it set me back like it did last time. I need to come up with a better plan of attack and get some workouts in still. Because really if I start working out, I will start losing weight. It's just what my body does. Oddly enough ;)

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)

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