Wednesday, October 13, 2010

My goals.

OK, since I posted here this week and hope to keep posting regularly, I want to put my goals here.

My goal by Christmas is to be down 14 more pounds ~ for a total of 45.



Christmas Goal Progress

My goal is to be down 57 pounds by Valentine's Day ~ that's 26 to go!


Valentine's Goal Progress

I have lost 6 pounds in the last 3 weeks, which is a great rate of loss, especially considering the fact that I am not on a "diet plan"...just watching portions and adding lots of exercise.

Til next week. :)

Sunday, October 10, 2010

I'm still around! :)

I knew it had been a while since I updated my blog, but didn't realize how long til someone asked me whether or not I did the 5k in Cave Spring back in JUNE, LOL! (Thanks Barb! haha)

So no, I did not do the 5k. My best friend got married that day and I was honored to stand beside her. Priorities, ya know. :)

I am happy to report, though, that I am doing better than I have in a long time. Instead of jumping from WW to Thrive and various other things, I tried something new. It's really a genius idea and I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier ~ I started EXERCISING! *gasp* Seriously, for the first time in my entire life (I was going to say my ADULT life, but no, it's my entire life), I am exercising regularly! I joined the YMCA about 2 years ago, but never went. It took a while for me to realize that just cause the cash is coming out of the paycheck, it doesn't mean the fat is coming off the booty, ya know? LOL...

It took sooo much for me to get up the nerve to show up to work out, but my mother decided to join as well, and she helped me walk up the steps the first day to my first Zumba class. Boy oh boy it kicked my butt! I am always self conscious, cause I am usually the biggest person in any given place, but this class was so fast paced that I didn't have time to worry that other people were looking at me ~ they didn't have time to! It wasn't til after class that I realized that I was not, in fact, the biggest person, and then I realized that it didn't matter at all!

That Zumba class led to a Movin and Groovin dance/aerobic class on another morning, which then led to doing weights on Tue and Thur and treadmill on Wednesday. So yes, I am going to the Y 5 mornings a week. My Mon and Fri classes generate about 6000 steps, and I am doing about 3.3 miles on the treadmill on Wednesday (the approximate equivalent to a 5k). And I've never felt better...physically or mentally.

The first month or so, I was gaining on my scale every week. After a month, though, I suddenly dropped 4.6 pounds. My fingers are crossed for my WI on Wednesday...if my scale goes like it is right now, I will weigh the lightest I have weighed since the week I stopped doing Thrive.

Food wise, I am just watching my portions and trying to eat more sensibly. I am cutting out NOTHING, and I even have junk food in the house. I have had the same sweets in the cabinet for over two months, and I haven't even been tempted by then. Occasionally I'll have something sweet, but it's in moderation, which is a new concept for me. :) I've figured out that once you work out and burn a ton of calories, the last thing you want to do is go home from the gym and gorge yourself and completely un-do what you just did!

So...as of my last weigh in, I am actually 30 pounds down from my highest weight, which was what I weighed the last time I joined WW about a year and a half ago. I'm super proud of that! I have 5 pounds to go to be at my lowest since I had my daughter nearly 4 years ago. (Yes, since I had her ~ my body is crazy and loses weight when I'm pregnant.)

I am finally where I am satisfied. Am I still fat? Well, yes. But I am starting to see "pieces" of what I can be. I'll take a self portrait with my cell phone and see the hint of an actual shape to my face instead of just fat...or I'll catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror as I'm heading to the Y and realize that my thighs aren't as big as they were...and just recently I went to pick something up and saw my muscle move in my arm...a muscle that I would have been hard pressed to show you even existed a few short weeks ago.

I guess I'm just a work in progress...it's slow progress, but I guess that's the kind you learn the most from.