Brrrrr...It's cold

Yesterday my day at the gym went well. I did 40 minutes on the stationary bike, random hill program set at level 9 out of 20. I decided to do the bike for twice as long and refrain from the treadmill so that I can read my book. It's quite difficult to read while you're walking fast on a treadmill.

The book that I'm reading right now is called "You Are Not What You Weigh" by Lisa Bevere. It's mainly about a spiritual way to be happy with your body image. The last chapter that I was reading was quite interesting. She said that when we look at today's society's view on the perfect woman, the image of this woman is an idol that we worship. We hold ourselves to her standards, so we want to be like her which is...idolizing. Hello!! It made perfect sense to me, but that's all I'm going to say about that.

Back to the workout. After the bike I did leg weight machines, and abs. And then, just for funsies, I did the elliptical for 5 minutes straight without stopping. FIVE minutes! That's like a new record for me! I was so proud of myself. I had planned on doing 10 but I started burning bad and got winded, so 5 was long enough. Also last night I talked to the front desk at my gym about setting up a free training session. You get 6, I think, free sessions when you sign up. I wanted to have a female trainer to work out with but all of them work in the morning. The latest one that stays leaves at 1 in the afternoon! So I had to schedule a dude. I hope he doesn't mind training fat chicks. My first appointment is tomorrow at 4. I'm a little nervous. I hope he doesn't push me too hard. Or let me rephrase that, I hope I don't push myself too hard in an attempt to impress the trainer or because I'm stubborn and won't stop or because I want to seem in better shape than I am. Wish me good luck!

Today I've eatten:
Breakfast - Half a bottle of orange juice, scrambled eggs, single serving size of raisin bran, half carton of 2% milk (9 1/2 pts.)

Mid-day snack - Large-ish Banana (3 pts.)

Lunch - Cup of cheddar broccoli soup from McAlister's (I know I know), Grilled Chicken Caesar salad with ranch, and unsweet tea with sweet 'n' low (Don't know, I'd guess 10-12 maybe)

Mid-evening snack - Frito Lays Ranch sunflower seeds (1/3 of a small bag, say 1 1/2 pts.)

Dinner - Two chicken breast sandwiches on honey wheat bread, with lettuce, 2% milk cheese, and FF mayo (To be added later)

Eh kinda day...

Yesterday I did end up going to the gym. My husband asked me if I felt okay and I felt great so he said he wouldn't mind. He's sick right now so I think he really didn't care. I did 20 minutes on the stationary bike and tried to do 20 minutes on the treadmill but I got winded so I stopped after 10. I did some leg weight machines and worked on my abs. I was so tired and hungry after that I didn't even bother to take a shower before I went home. I went by Wendy's and got a cup of chili to snack on before I made dinner. Last night it was the Zucchini noodle lasagna. It wasn't done baking until around 9. I weighed 309.2 last night. :-| I think I'm starting to put on water weight for that time of the month....joy.

Tonight I plan on taking my monthly measurements. I've been nervous about this since I thought up doing it. I mean day to day weight fluctuations I can blame on water weight or having a heavy meal or something....but if I don't see results in my measurements I'm going to be so down trodden. Wish me luck!

*Yawns*

I am so tired this morning. It feels like I can barely keep my eyes open. I only stayed up til 10:30 last night! I feel like such an old lady now. To bed at 10 and up at 6. My hubby and I did mostly good this weekend. We worked out on both Saturday and Sunday. Yesterday he had me do my arms...bleh. I haven't been working them since I don't care to have big arms and MAN am I weak! I could only do like 20-35 pounds on most of the stuff. I'm a little stiff today but nothing seriously bad. We were bad for lunch on Sunday though. We went to Chili's. I got the Chili's classic sirloin. 8oz. with an herb butter sauce, broccoli and sauteed mushrooms to go with it. I feel remorseful for my strayed ways. Guess I'm going to have to be even more strict with myself now. For dinner we were good. We made turkey meatloaf. Added some shredded carrot and celery for filler....it tasted goooood. I opened a can of sweet peas and sliced new potatoes for sides. Not sure how many points that is but I can probably look it up...not sure I want to though. Well I'm off to get breakfast...my stomach is starting to growl at me.

Weight Update

Yes that's right. That weight up there on that ticker has been updated. It says 311. THREE ELEVEN!!! I can't believe it. 17 pounds down. But I won't get a big head...I still have a long way to go. And I will stay at it with an increased vigor.

Last night my husband and I tried a new recipe from a different website than Gina's. It was....different. Beefy noodles in sour cream sauce. I'm not used to V-8 juice or I think I would've enjoyed it more. It wasn't bad, just different. I think tonight I might make spaghetti squash. Mmmmm.

Last night at the gym I did 20 minutes on the bike at level 8 out of 20 and I did 20 minutes on the treadmill at an incline of 4.5 and a speed of 2.3 to 2.5. I was a little more tired on the treadmill since I did it last. After cardio I did weights. I'm rather proud of myself. I did two sets on each machine and then did another rotation on the machines with one to two more sets. And I'm not even sore. W00t!

Blah

Yesterday I did absolutely nothing. I mean...NOTHING. I sat around the house all day long and watched tv. This is the first day I've had off though since I started seriously dieting and trying to lose weight. Today I'm going to make up for it though. I have a chiropractor's appointment around 5 and then I'll be going to the gym after that around 6:30-ish to work my butt of on a treadmill or bike. I may even try the dreaded elliptical machine again! I will master you...oh yes I will elliptical.

Sounds of Queen playing in my head

Bum bum bum...another pound bites the dust...bada bum bum bum....another pound bites the dust! AND another pound down, another pound down, another pound bites the dust!!! Heh.

Today was a very fruitful day. My hubby and I went to look at the perspective gyms. He was rather impressed with them both but it was the indoor heated swimming pool that clenched it. We started our one week trial membership today. First we went in and talked to a trainer who gave him the tour. After that we went and walked at the medical mall. I walked a 1 and 1/3 miles. Then we went to go shopping and get some workout apparel for both of us. He got two pairs of sweats and I got two pairs of velvet jogging pants. * After that we went to pizza hut to try that new all organic pizza. Oh my GOSH it was delicious!!! I figured it up on a nifty gadget that Gina the WW recipe lady had that each slice was 11 pts. W00t! After that we drove back home and that's when I realized that tomorrow I had planned on doing my 24 hour urine collection so I asked hubby if he would mind if we went to do some cardio today. He said no so off we went in our new gear. I tried the elliptical machine and I almost died. I really couldn't go longer than 5 minutes on it without stopping. Sooo I went and walked on the treadmill for awhile, then I rode on the bike for a good bit. Bad me I ate two slices of pizza when we got home. 22 pts.

* So what the hell is up with Wal-Mart? Why are they carrying all of this exercise apparel for the skinnies when they know it's the fatties that need to workout? I mean really...why would someone who can already wear a size small want to go workout? GAH!

Bad Day yesterday

For some reason yesterday it felt like Friday and on Friday you don't feel like doing anything but celebrating. I did walk at the medical mall with my husband but I didn't feel like doing any of my exercises at home. And then for dinner we had wing stop. Not the healthiest of choices... It is chicken, but the way they prepare it is full of grease. I got the garlic parmesan though all the grease at the bottom of the container made me feel kinda sick. I started to go into a guilt spiral after that so I did 2 sets of 20 crunches on my balls with the 6lb. medicine ball and then went into my room to do some resistance training. I ended up doing flanks on the bed instead of the floor. And I did some fire hydrants on the bed for good measure. Trying to tone that hiney you know! I just messed around with my band I didn't really do any defined exercises. I started getting depressed thinking about how I've lost 10 pounds but 6 of those were gone before I even noticed or started trying. But then, this morning...I got on that scale and it said I was another pound lighter! That lifted my spirits for sure. I won't update anything until I weigh tonight to keep the scale right. Feeling a bit...chipper now.

Iron...

So today at work they had the lifeshare blood bus come. I tried to donate but when they checked my iron from a finger prick my count was a 37...ONE point too low for them. Then when I was walking out the nurse at the front of the bus was telling me to eat more beans or raisins. And I'm thinking to myself, I do eat raisins...I eat them every morning when I eat my raisin bran! Oh well, I'll try going to the blood center tomorrow.

Expenses

So I've been thinking about joining a gym or something. I just need access to some gym equipment for more than 5 minutes that I'm on the bike at the chiropractors. My husband wants us to buy an elliptical machine, but with us still sharing a home with my parents I doubt we have room. I wanted to wait until we were settled and had our own apartment or home. So a gym membership seems to be the easiest solution, but when you think about it the cost of a gym membership for one year could PAY for a home machine. Dilemmas, dilemmas.

Pondering

I wonder when everybody else weighs themselves. I mean I usually weigh myself at night because I am NOT a morning person. But lately here this past weekend and the last couple of days I've checked in the morning. There is about a three to four pound difference. I know that it's fluid that my body is holding onto from my activities during the day, but which one is considered more accurate? If I could be the weight that I am in the morning then WOOOO! But that wouldn't be accurate compared to my beginning weight. I don't know what I weighed that morning that I went to the doctor, so perhaps I'll stick with the evening weigh.

50millionpounds

About a week ago I joined this new effort by Dr. Ian from Celebrity Fit Club and State Farm to get Americans to lose 50 million pounds. It's a pretty good website. You keep track of all of your meals so there's accountability, you can also keep track of your activity. There's this kit that you can pick up that has a pedometer so you can enter your amount of steps for an equivalent time.

Grand Opening for "My Rough Road"

Hello everyone, and welcome to watching me be in misery. Not that I want to be out of misery because I'm doing this to myself. The time had finally come in my life where I could no longer put it off. I'm fat and I can't live like this anymore.... Wow that felt really liberating. This most recent bought of healthy conscience was brought on by the talk of my husband and I having children. I do want to have babies, but I am so terrified at the thought that I won't be able to care for them because I'm too out of shape. My husband is even more worse off than me, he's put his body through years of torment as a firefighter, an EMT, and working at the race track. With his shoulder, neck, back, and knee injuries I just know he wouldn't have been able to keep up with a two year old. And God forbid that our child would have to lose one, or both, of their parents. That would be something that I could never forgive myself for. And who wants a tormented soul lingering about?! Nobody that's who.

My weight loss journey actually began before I had even noticed. I started going to the chiropractor last December. My chiropractor is different from most because they also do physical therapy to help build your muscle in a way that will hold the new adjustments like they're meant to be held. Now even with drinking Dr. Pepper non-stop and eatting pretty much whatever I wanted to I still managed to lose weight! Around the new year we went to visit my husband's mother and that's when the major baby talk started. Hence, the beginning of my effort on my journey.


First-ish December 328 lbs.

First-ish January 322 lbs.