Today I went to the doc. I am down five pounds in the last three weeks or so! This is good news! The bad news about today was that I had two handfuls of fiddle faddle and a little chips ahoy cookie. It was super lame of me. I just hadn't had any breakfast or lunch and there was SO much junk food at the meeting.
At any rate, I haven't missed an exercise day since I started, despite not feeling well. Okay, my baby's crying and needs is mom. Gotta run!
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
January 19, 2010 - Still on track
So I weighed myself last Friday. 3 pounds down last week! I think it's finally starting to come off again. What's been the secret? It's the same way I lost it the firt time: I gave up sugar and exercised daily. So far, so good. Nick and I have agreed to have only one treat a week, and we've stuck to it. I ate a piece of birthday cake on Saturday at my niece's one-year-old birthday party. It wasn't as awesome as I remember sugar being.
Scale victories this past week: 3 pound loss
Non-scale victories: Turned down banana splits, chocolate chip cookies, a rootbear float, and wedding shower goodies!
Nick has proposed that we train for an upcoming triathlon this June. He wants to do an Olympic tri. I've done Olympic and it's pretty hard, but not impossible. For me, I think a Sprint is a little more doable right now. When I was originally training for an Olympic, I was exercising 1-2 hours a day and 3 on Saturdays. Now that I have a baby that's going to be nearly impossible, so for now I'm sticking with a half-hour daily. I think I can hack a sprint tri on a half-hour exercise every day. I just take my little babe to the empty gym at my work and he lays in his carseat quietly while I exercise. It's great!
I'm in the business of creating websites for a living and, in the past, I've bartered quite a bit for web services. I've bartered for a reception center, a wedding dress, a wedding cake and cupcakes for showers, hair salon services, beauty spa services, male dress clothing, custom tailoring, and even liposuction. I think my next bartering endeavor is going to be for personal training! Oh yes. That's how I'm going to afford it.
I'll have to report after I've gotten on the scale for this afternoon's workout.
Scale victories this past week: 3 pound loss
Non-scale victories: Turned down banana splits, chocolate chip cookies, a rootbear float, and wedding shower goodies!
Nick has proposed that we train for an upcoming triathlon this June. He wants to do an Olympic tri. I've done Olympic and it's pretty hard, but not impossible. For me, I think a Sprint is a little more doable right now. When I was originally training for an Olympic, I was exercising 1-2 hours a day and 3 on Saturdays. Now that I have a baby that's going to be nearly impossible, so for now I'm sticking with a half-hour daily. I think I can hack a sprint tri on a half-hour exercise every day. I just take my little babe to the empty gym at my work and he lays in his carseat quietly while I exercise. It's great!
I'm in the business of creating websites for a living and, in the past, I've bartered quite a bit for web services. I've bartered for a reception center, a wedding dress, a wedding cake and cupcakes for showers, hair salon services, beauty spa services, male dress clothing, custom tailoring, and even liposuction. I think my next bartering endeavor is going to be for personal training! Oh yes. That's how I'm going to afford it.
I'll have to report after I've gotten on the scale for this afternoon's workout.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Today's pretty much the worst day of this week to chart my food and exercise. Why? I've been sick all day, home, not eating much, but what I have been eating hasn't been exactly healthy food.
Food:
Breakfast: none
Lunch: none
Snack: Four graham crackers and 2 cups of 1% milk
Snack: About 10 Dorito chips
Dinner: Slice of pizza my parents brought me
Exercise:
None
How bout I recap yesterday:
Food
Breakfast: 3 cheese crackers with peanut butter
Snack: 2 squares graham crackers
Lunch: Lean Cuisine spaghetti with meat sauce
Snack: 2 graham crackers with peanut butter and 1 cup milk
Dinner: 4 oz cranberry chicken with 1/2 cup sweet potatoes
Total calories consumed: 1,392 calories
Exercise
1/2 hour on Elliptical Trainer
Total calories burned: 2,350
Total calorie deficit: 958
So my plan for tomorrow is to exercise 40 minutes: 10 jogging, 15 elliptical and 15 on the arc trainer. I plan to also walk for 15 minutes in the morning with my awesome husband.
Tomorrow's breakfast will consist of a protein shake, lunch will be a Lean Cuisine, snack will be a yogurt and some cheese/peanut butter crackers, dinner will be a homemade salisbury steak. I'd like to eat a graham cracker or possibly some peaches and cottage cheese for my "sugar-free" dessert.
Food:
Breakfast: none
Lunch: none
Snack: Four graham crackers and 2 cups of 1% milk
Snack: About 10 Dorito chips
Dinner: Slice of pizza my parents brought me
Exercise:
None
How bout I recap yesterday:
Food
Breakfast: 3 cheese crackers with peanut butter
Snack: 2 squares graham crackers
Lunch: Lean Cuisine spaghetti with meat sauce
Snack: 2 graham crackers with peanut butter and 1 cup milk
Dinner: 4 oz cranberry chicken with 1/2 cup sweet potatoes
Total calories consumed: 1,392 calories
Exercise
1/2 hour on Elliptical Trainer
Total calories burned: 2,350
Total calorie deficit: 958
So my plan for tomorrow is to exercise 40 minutes: 10 jogging, 15 elliptical and 15 on the arc trainer. I plan to also walk for 15 minutes in the morning with my awesome husband.
Tomorrow's breakfast will consist of a protein shake, lunch will be a Lean Cuisine, snack will be a yogurt and some cheese/peanut butter crackers, dinner will be a homemade salisbury steak. I'd like to eat a graham cracker or possibly some peaches and cottage cheese for my "sugar-free" dessert.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
My first post
At the beginning of my weight loss journey I decided to start a blog to track my progress. It was a huge part of my success. Since the blog turned into more of a journal than a progress blog, I decided to start a new one!
Here I will set goals and report on them. I'll track my food and progress, then observe and make changes! Let the fun begin.
I have a reason for my newfound motivation: my son. Yes, I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy eleven weeks ago and he, and my husband, are the lights of life. And though he was totally worth it, my little bundle of joy cost me about 35 pounds. I was totally unfilled for the pregnancy and gained about 50 pounds total. My breastmilk never really came in, so it's up to me and my good friends food and exercise to lose the rest.
I'm not exactly sure why I feel SOOOO much heavier this time around than I did when I was this weight before. I'm a size 13 and feel pretty huge. It's silly, isn't it? Before I met my husband I was a size 6, a few months after I got married I was about 155 pounds and a size 8, which I had pretty much settled in and was happy with.
As of a few days ago, I was 191 pounds! I felt so hopeless standing on that scale because I'd been exercising since a few weeks after having the baby and had seen only a one-pound loss. After crying in the car to my sweet husband, he came up with a plan: We both give up sugar. If we can make it to the end of February, we're going on a cruise! I'm going on about a week now and feeling great. I've been wearing the bodybugg again, and trying to net a 750 calorie deficit for a 1.5 pound loss every week.
The only leeway I get each week is a treat on Sunday nights. Grandpa Ferguson's cookie night. Who can say no to that?
So, I think this is enough of an intro to this blog. Wish me luck!
Here I will set goals and report on them. I'll track my food and progress, then observe and make changes! Let the fun begin.
I have a reason for my newfound motivation: my son. Yes, I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy eleven weeks ago and he, and my husband, are the lights of life. And though he was totally worth it, my little bundle of joy cost me about 35 pounds. I was totally unfilled for the pregnancy and gained about 50 pounds total. My breastmilk never really came in, so it's up to me and my good friends food and exercise to lose the rest.
I'm not exactly sure why I feel SOOOO much heavier this time around than I did when I was this weight before. I'm a size 13 and feel pretty huge. It's silly, isn't it? Before I met my husband I was a size 6, a few months after I got married I was about 155 pounds and a size 8, which I had pretty much settled in and was happy with.
As of a few days ago, I was 191 pounds! I felt so hopeless standing on that scale because I'd been exercising since a few weeks after having the baby and had seen only a one-pound loss. After crying in the car to my sweet husband, he came up with a plan: We both give up sugar. If we can make it to the end of February, we're going on a cruise! I'm going on about a week now and feeling great. I've been wearing the bodybugg again, and trying to net a 750 calorie deficit for a 1.5 pound loss every week.
The only leeway I get each week is a treat on Sunday nights. Grandpa Ferguson's cookie night. Who can say no to that?
So, I think this is enough of an intro to this blog. Wish me luck!
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