Busted a Move

I really kicked it today in the workout.

3 min warm up at 0.0 and 3.0mph

3 min at 10.0 and 3.0 mph

3 min at 2.0 and 5.0 mph

3 min at 10.0 and 3.0

3 min at 2.0 and 5.0

I did it that way for 30 mins.

Then I walked at 2.0 and 2.0 mph and did the arm weights. They are 5 lbs.

I did all kinds of arm workouts just as if I was standing still and doing them.

Then I ran at 5.5 for .25 miles. And cooled down for 2 mins.

Treadmill time was a total of 50 min.

Then it was situps. I did 120 total. Some facing up, some going sideways, some as crunches.

I did leg lifts also. 24 each leg and 10 secs holding them up and pulsing. Ouch!!

Yesterdays snack was some cheese, cut from a block of cheddar, probably an inch thick total, topped with some peanut butter. Delish!!

Dinner was homemade taco soup. I served mine ontop of arugula instead of chips.

We are heading to Daytona next week to camp for a week. I need to think of some healthy snacks and healthy meals to prepare. Its hard when you are cooking over a camp fire, or on a little propane stove. Its so easy to make hamburgers and hot dogs. Maybe I should premake some turkey burgers, freeze them, and then I will have some better for us burgers. I might even be able to premake black bean burgers, freeze them, and cook em.

I do not eat things like chips, but maybe I will make some trail mix and bring my own.

Breakfasts... hmm. I will get the egg beaters or egg whites in a carton. I wont have to worry about breaking eggs. I love chorizo and eggs at the track. I suppose one day of it will be good. What a bacon and sausage? aaahh!! Hubby and kids love those on chilly mornings.

Oh well, I will figure it out.

We will do lots of walking around the track, so I am not to worried about not getting my exercise.

Have a great Friday!!

They're Baggy!

Today I put on a pair of pants that had always fit well, and sometimes a bit snug, but still ok.

Well they are baggy!!! By 2 inches!!!! Holy cow!!!

Yay!

Yesterday I didn't exercise because the program I am following has Weds off. However, today I went to the dr and got botox. (yes, I get it, yes I love it) Well she told me that I can not exercise for 24 hours! Dammit! I would of worked out yesterday and taken today off.

I do think I will get on my treadmill and just walk for a mile or two while I watch Days.

Im so happy with how loose my jeans are, I don't want to miss exercising!

Another day

I didn't exercise on Sunday, but I was busy doing stuff around the house, so I didn't really sit much.

I did exercise yesterday. An hour on the treadmill.

It feels so good when I am done. Like I accomplished something.

The scale said 147 this morning. Still don't get it.

I eat so healthy. No snack chips, or cookies. No fried foods.

I just have to keep remembering its not the number.

But damn! I want that number to go down!!!!!!!!! Far down!!!!!!!!

Lets go already!

Maybe I am gaining muscle. I can see a difference in my arms. They are starting to define a little bit.

Well, its 10am and time to get on the treadmill. I feel so lazy tho right now.

I will finish my tea, then exercise.

Day 24

I don't get it really.

Yesterday I ran, actually ran for me, at a 5.0 - 5.3 for 1.5 miles!! I also did part of it on an incline. I worked my way up to 2. Thats suppose to simulate running outside, which is actually a bit harder than on an incline 0 on a treadmill.

I did 100 situps and just a few reps on my arms.

For food I ate a half cup of left over ginger chicken in a lettuce wrap, 2 ww toast with a cut up plum tomato and 1 heaping tb of blue cheese and fresh basil. a plum, a pear, a palmful of peanuts and raisins, and again some ginger chicken in a lettuce wrap.

I gained 3 lbs.

What the hell?

I guess I need to realize that its not really about the scale numbers, but rather the fact that I know I am getting healthier by working out?

But I really want those numbers to drop!!!

Maybe I am eating too much fruit?

The point of my diet is that I don't want it to be so much as a diet, but rather a lifestyle change. I know portion sizes. Deck of cards, palmful, softball size, etc. I love fruits. But I heard they have too much sugar if you want to lose.

Im trying to eat an all natural diet. I do not want processed food. I know Bread is. I have a bread maker, I should make my own.

I am trying to eat meats and veggies and no boxed anything.

3 pounds tho!!!!!??????

How is that possible.

Ok, I need to just concentrate on the exercises and not the scale.

Right?

Day 23

Yesterday was great! I ate well, and exercised. Not only did I exercise, but I got up to 5.0 on the treadmill and ran for one mile. Yay! I did a total of just over 2 miles, but the other mile was slower and on an incline. of 10. Plus I slow it way down and walk sideways and backwards. Worked my arms and chest again.

Food was

Pear and plum for breakfast

Toast (100% whole wheat and grains of course. White bread tastes like paste. blech)

topped with one whole sliced plum tomato topped with about 1 Tb blue cheese crumbles and slightly melted in micro.

topped with fresh basil. mmmmm!!

Dinner was Ginger Chicken in a lettuce wrap and a pork meatball with bok choy and whole wheat noodles. All home made so I know everything was good, fresh, and healthy. The meatball was ground pork, not sausage.

I also had rice pudding that I made with non fat milk and lite coconut milk, instead of whole milk and heavy cream, so it was not too fattening. I used just over 1/3 cup of sugar instead of the 1/2 cup called for. With added vanilla and cinnamon, it was delicious! The kids loved it.

So not a bad day at all!!

Now, as soon as my hubby wakes up, I'll go in the bedroom and get on the treadmill, and start my morning right!

Today

Today the scale said 145!! Yay!! And boy am I sore. I really worked out my arms and chest. It hurts to even lift my cup of tea! But thats good! Its good kind of sore. But I think today I will do my treadmill, and then do leg lifts. Im giving my arms a day off!

Or should I? Hmm. Not sure. I think they need a day off tho don't they? To heal?

I will LOSE it!

Meet me. I have a weight problem. However! I am going to conquer it!

At my heaviest, in 2009 when these pictures were taken, I was approx. 170 lbs. I am 5'2".

Thats alot of weight on my small frame.

At my thinnest, I was 108. Actually thats close to what I was for most of my young adult life until I married my hubby. Why is it that the cliche Fat and Happy true? When I met my hubby I was 113. (he was 195. Now he is 245.) After 13 years, we are still very happy. But fat. I want to be happy and not fat! So I have been on a mission. Since Sept 2009 I started trying to eat healthy foods and slowly started exercising. I would walk the neighborhood. At first it was a slow walk, then as the months progressed I found I could walk faster and longer.

Initially I started losing right away. Not much, but a little. I didn't weigh myself for a long time, I just judged my weight loss by how my clothes fit.

I have had a few ups and downs. During the summer it is way too hot to walk outside, and we went on several vacations. Even tho I ate pretty healthy, I didn't try hard enough to keep up the exercising. By the end of the summer of 2010 I had put on several pounds and could hardly fit in my pants.

In August I bought a treadmill from craigslist, put it in our bedroom and started walking again.

Then came the holidays. I stopped exercising, (no reason, just got lazy I guess). By the time January 2011 rolled around I was rolling fat around my pants again.

New Years Resolution time! Well, it was more like January 11th resolution. I finally put batteries in my scale and saw that I weighed 153. Better than the 170 I started at, but still not my goal of 125. I do not want to get as skinny as I was before, because I really think I look best with some curves. I tend to get bigger boobs, and I like that (so does hubby!) so I think 125 is my ideal weight.

Starting the 11 of January I started exercising again. My eating habits are still good. I homemake every thing, and rarely eat out. I eat lots of fruits and veggies. I do not like chips and cookies, so that is one good thing I have going for myself.

I made my hubby (he wants to lose weight too, yay!) and I a calendar and every day I mark what kind of exercise I do. If I do not exercise I have to put a big SAD face on it. :( When I look at it (its hanging in my closet) I do not like the sad faces and it makes me realize that I need to exercise. Even if its just 30 min on the treadmill while I watch my fav soap opera on dvr.
Today the scale said 146. yay!

This is me today at 146. I am 21 pounds from my goal and have lost 24 so far. I am half way there!

I am hoping that along with my calendar, this blog will help me as well. I am hoping that if I have a place to post my pics that it will continue to inspire me to lose the weight.

Today I used the treadmill for 40 minutes and went 2.25 miles. I don't just walk on it. I set the incline at 10 and walk about 3.0 - 3.5 for about 5 min. Then I lower the incline to 0 and up the speed to 4.5 - 5.0 and run (for my short legs it is running!) for 5 min. I also go really slow 1.5 on an incline of 10 and I do lunges or sort of lunges. I also walk side ways, and backwards. I am totally sweating when I am done.

After I get off the treadmill I have hand weights that I use to work out my arms. I do triceps and biceps and chest moves. I try to do 4 sets of 12 reps with each exercise. Although I alternate them and don't do them all at once.

Then I do 100 sit ups. or versions of the situp.

It feels good to have this goal, and I really want to stick to it!

Hopefully this will help me.