Ok, so I'm so excited I had to post it, it probably sounds pathetic but I'm really psyched!
I JOGGED FOR THREE MINUTES!
That's right, my fat ass bounced on the treadmill at a measly 2.5 speed jogging for 3 full minutes!
*celebrate!*
This is also the second time I've been on the treadmill this week. Now tomorrow Imma do it again, you watch and see, this weight is going down!
Until next time!
Monday, June 14, 2010
And so it comes to this...
Ok, first of all. I don't know how many people actually read my blog, if you do, great if not, that's fine. This is my weight loss journey, and I babble on here about anything and everything.
I didn't have it set to where I needed to moderate comments being left until I had several comments left by Kanji written names that were redirecting people to porn websites. So I started moderating it because I do not condone comments left like that. If you want to go to porn that's fine, but I am not going to allow such posts, kids may read these posts, including cousins of my own and that is not ok to me.
Now I'm getting spam commented to go to weight loss sights offering me the secrets to weight loss through Acai Berries and other crap.
Let me say this here and now:
IF YOU ARE JUST POSTING A COMMENT FOR THE ABOVE REASONS SHOVE OFF!
I get excited when I get a comment. Almost no one ever does comment, and that's fine. I know some people prefer to read not post. I'm also one of those. But if you're going to leave a comment don't waste my time by offering me the secrets to fast weight loss or some porn shop. I know the secrets to weight loss, I've just been too lazy all my damn life to do it! And if I want porn I'm sure my boyfriend's computer has some layin' around and if I asked we could watch it together though I prefer the real thing. >.>
So, that being said, if you read this to enjoy it, I thank you. Carry on with your day :)
Oh and one little tidbit of information I found exciting today. I inched every closer to that 270 mark. I'm down to 270.2 today XD SO CLOSE! :)
Until next time.
I didn't have it set to where I needed to moderate comments being left until I had several comments left by Kanji written names that were redirecting people to porn websites. So I started moderating it because I do not condone comments left like that. If you want to go to porn that's fine, but I am not going to allow such posts, kids may read these posts, including cousins of my own and that is not ok to me.
Now I'm getting spam commented to go to weight loss sights offering me the secrets to weight loss through Acai Berries and other crap.
Let me say this here and now:
IF YOU ARE JUST POSTING A COMMENT FOR THE ABOVE REASONS SHOVE OFF!
I get excited when I get a comment. Almost no one ever does comment, and that's fine. I know some people prefer to read not post. I'm also one of those. But if you're going to leave a comment don't waste my time by offering me the secrets to fast weight loss or some porn shop. I know the secrets to weight loss, I've just been too lazy all my damn life to do it! And if I want porn I'm sure my boyfriend's computer has some layin' around and if I asked we could watch it together though I prefer the real thing. >.>
So, that being said, if you read this to enjoy it, I thank you. Carry on with your day :)
Oh and one little tidbit of information I found exciting today. I inched every closer to that 270 mark. I'm down to 270.2 today XD SO CLOSE! :)
Until next time.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
A little late in the posting, but an excellent weight loss week none the less.
I got busy yesterday. I generally seem to when I need to relax the most, but that's life for you. Between grocery shopping, changing my airline tickets, doing some online job hunting, and getting the house picked up it was a bit busy. So I forgot, until well after noon to get on the scale. I don't weigh myself unless it's first thing in the morning and I haven't eaten or drank anything and I've done my business. Just the way I've always done it. And there are days when it keeps me from getting on the scale, if I'm too much in a hurry or something I won't. But anyway. I hopped on it this morning and I'm at (officially) 270.6. That's damn near 7 pounds this week. Huzzah!
I posted last time that my back had really been giving me some grief, but I think it's finally simmered down. Dunno what I did to it but it's decided to be a good back now lol. I can actually sit in this chair without feeling like I'm doing the ouchie dance back and forth trying to find a good position to sit in. So that means it's time to get moving again! So, I'm off to go exercise, toodaloo! :)
Until next time!
I posted last time that my back had really been giving me some grief, but I think it's finally simmered down. Dunno what I did to it but it's decided to be a good back now lol. I can actually sit in this chair without feeling like I'm doing the ouchie dance back and forth trying to find a good position to sit in. So that means it's time to get moving again! So, I'm off to go exercise, toodaloo! :)
Until next time!
Friday, June 11, 2010
Interesting
So I hadn't really hopped on a scale much in the past couple of days, since my last posting of what I weighed really. Life has been a little hectic, I've been keeping the house clean, driving all over the Eastern Phoenix Metro area looking for work, going to interviews, so on and so forth, and really watching what I eat. I've worked out 2 times this week (today will be the third) by walking on the treadmill, and I did a couple of stretching/weight lift days with 3 pound weights because my back has been really stiff. It's not too bad when walking around after my initial get out of bed, but man if I sit down for any extended period of time my back is like WTF ARE YOU DOING?! >.< So annoying.
Most of my interviews have involved being out and about most of the day, mostly because it's like a 20 minute drive there, a 30 to 40 minute interview and then I usually find a couple of places nearby before I go that I can go put an application in. So I'm generally gone from 10am to about 3pm each day, over lunch joy right? I try to combat the whole not able to eat lunch at lunch time problem by taking some snacks with me. A large banana, a stick of string cheese, maybe a little thing of yogurt, even some low fat crackers once. About 300 to 400 calories worth of snacks that are good for me and provide me with protein, fruit portions for the day nothing that will throw me off my weight loss. Yesterday I ran out of these good for me snacks and had an interview that took me over lunch and omg I was starving when I got home. Instead of having like 400 calories worth of food to munch on throughout the time period I had only a banana which I promptly scarfed at noon after my interview. So by the time I got home it was 3pm and my stomach hurt so bad I thought I was going to throw up. And I knew that the only stuff I had at home to eat was stuff that would take 20 or 30 minutes to cook so I stopped and got a Teriyaki Bowl from Jack in the Box. A bit heavy on the carbs side but calories and fat wise acceptable. So my new note to self is don't run out of the snack stuff! lol.
I digress. I saw a number today that I haven't seen in a good year or so. 270. Woah, say what? 270 you say? And this wasn't on my scale folks, this was on my mom's scale which told me I was at 277 when I started earlier this week. Huzzah! Yes, 7 pound loss seems a little extreme but honestly I can see it happening. Some of it is water weight I'm sure. The week prior to starting over my food intake was pretty much just fast food. From moving there's no time or real ability to cook food. You're so tired from packing boxes and loading the truck that someone says cooking and you say fuck you man! Then when you're on the road you don't exactly have the ability to pull over and cook a good for you meal, nor really pick and choose where you eat as you drive through a town. You find a place and you eat there. That's all there is to it. Then when I got here it was pretty much the same, we're unloading boxes and unloading the truck and getting things we need before my mom leaves and so on. So I can imagine that my salt intake for the week prior was through the roof causing me weight gain because of water retention.
Fast forward to this past week. I've worked out, I've stayed within 1600 to 1800 calories on all days but one, and I've drank a TON of water, more than I have in quite a long time. Still drinking soda but I only drink one or two cans per day and the rest of my fluid intake, especially while on the road has been water. This is anywhere from 2 to 4 bottles a day average. So I'm flushing all that salt out of my system, plus I'm working out and eating better. I gave myself a range of calories for a reason. I know some people are like 1700 and that's it! Well, I like a range better. Looking at my fit day, which is where I put all my information food wise in, every day except Saturday I have eaten anywhere from 1600 to 1700 naturally, generally right around 1650. That extra 1 to 200 calories I use as my "snack calories". You know, that time of night at like 8pm when you're roaming the cupboards looking for something because you have the munchies? I generally don't give in, but I have that choice without feeling depressed that I decided to have a cup of popcorn or a frozen treat. It's hot here. It's 110 during the day and like upper 80's lower 90's at night. Being overweight in such heat sucks balls but until I get my weight down, all I can do is suffer through it and who doesn't like a nice frozen treat? I found my favorite frozen treat, even better than Weight Watchers ice cream: Frozen fruit bars. 100% fruit in a frozen treat form. LOVE IT. It's ice cold, and very few calories, 80 in the strawberry ones. And fat free to boot. Much better choice than Dairy Queen Ice Cream. That's what my life is about right now, moving more and making better choices. I'm not going to deny myself something in my life just because I'm supposed to be losing weight. I'm not going to say "sorry chubby you're losing weight, no frozen treat for you!", I'm going to have a frozen treat, just choose one that's better for me than some 500 calorie blizzard.
So I must say, this week was a winner in the weight loss. Tomorrow is the official weigh in. Maybe I'll see a 269 instead of 270 eh? :) So...
Until next time!
Most of my interviews have involved being out and about most of the day, mostly because it's like a 20 minute drive there, a 30 to 40 minute interview and then I usually find a couple of places nearby before I go that I can go put an application in. So I'm generally gone from 10am to about 3pm each day, over lunch joy right? I try to combat the whole not able to eat lunch at lunch time problem by taking some snacks with me. A large banana, a stick of string cheese, maybe a little thing of yogurt, even some low fat crackers once. About 300 to 400 calories worth of snacks that are good for me and provide me with protein, fruit portions for the day nothing that will throw me off my weight loss. Yesterday I ran out of these good for me snacks and had an interview that took me over lunch and omg I was starving when I got home. Instead of having like 400 calories worth of food to munch on throughout the time period I had only a banana which I promptly scarfed at noon after my interview. So by the time I got home it was 3pm and my stomach hurt so bad I thought I was going to throw up. And I knew that the only stuff I had at home to eat was stuff that would take 20 or 30 minutes to cook so I stopped and got a Teriyaki Bowl from Jack in the Box. A bit heavy on the carbs side but calories and fat wise acceptable. So my new note to self is don't run out of the snack stuff! lol.
I digress. I saw a number today that I haven't seen in a good year or so. 270. Woah, say what? 270 you say? And this wasn't on my scale folks, this was on my mom's scale which told me I was at 277 when I started earlier this week. Huzzah! Yes, 7 pound loss seems a little extreme but honestly I can see it happening. Some of it is water weight I'm sure. The week prior to starting over my food intake was pretty much just fast food. From moving there's no time or real ability to cook food. You're so tired from packing boxes and loading the truck that someone says cooking and you say fuck you man! Then when you're on the road you don't exactly have the ability to pull over and cook a good for you meal, nor really pick and choose where you eat as you drive through a town. You find a place and you eat there. That's all there is to it. Then when I got here it was pretty much the same, we're unloading boxes and unloading the truck and getting things we need before my mom leaves and so on. So I can imagine that my salt intake for the week prior was through the roof causing me weight gain because of water retention.
Fast forward to this past week. I've worked out, I've stayed within 1600 to 1800 calories on all days but one, and I've drank a TON of water, more than I have in quite a long time. Still drinking soda but I only drink one or two cans per day and the rest of my fluid intake, especially while on the road has been water. This is anywhere from 2 to 4 bottles a day average. So I'm flushing all that salt out of my system, plus I'm working out and eating better. I gave myself a range of calories for a reason. I know some people are like 1700 and that's it! Well, I like a range better. Looking at my fit day, which is where I put all my information food wise in, every day except Saturday I have eaten anywhere from 1600 to 1700 naturally, generally right around 1650. That extra 1 to 200 calories I use as my "snack calories". You know, that time of night at like 8pm when you're roaming the cupboards looking for something because you have the munchies? I generally don't give in, but I have that choice without feeling depressed that I decided to have a cup of popcorn or a frozen treat. It's hot here. It's 110 during the day and like upper 80's lower 90's at night. Being overweight in such heat sucks balls but until I get my weight down, all I can do is suffer through it and who doesn't like a nice frozen treat? I found my favorite frozen treat, even better than Weight Watchers ice cream: Frozen fruit bars. 100% fruit in a frozen treat form. LOVE IT. It's ice cold, and very few calories, 80 in the strawberry ones. And fat free to boot. Much better choice than Dairy Queen Ice Cream. That's what my life is about right now, moving more and making better choices. I'm not going to deny myself something in my life just because I'm supposed to be losing weight. I'm not going to say "sorry chubby you're losing weight, no frozen treat for you!", I'm going to have a frozen treat, just choose one that's better for me than some 500 calorie blizzard.
So I must say, this week was a winner in the weight loss. Tomorrow is the official weigh in. Maybe I'll see a 269 instead of 270 eh? :) So...
Until next time!
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Just a quickie. I don't have much time, I'm running out the door to go to an interview in a few minutes. I just wanted to post that I am still doing well and for the most part on target with my eating. I've found that having just one brat doesn't work for me. I managed to somehow say I'm only going to eat one....and have two. Ugh, I went way over calories too, by about 300. But such is life, and I didn't let it detour me the following day. I did manage to find something on the menu of Jack in the Box that I found to be "acceptable" in fast food eating, their Teriyaki bowl isn't *too* bad, just full of salt. But compared to a burger and fries or something along those lines I'll take it. I'd planned on making food at home but realized after my interview yesterday that when I got home at 5pm I hadn't taken the hamburger or any chicken or really anything frozen out of the freezer. Sigh! So we went out to eat and I chose the lesser of the evils. One step at a time...
I keep forgetting to get on the scale before I eat, so my weight is probably off but I came in at 273.4 this morning. That was after breakfast (oatmeal and a banana!) and a full bottle of water so who knows. I'll endeavor to get on the scale BEFORE I eat tomorrow to hopefully have a real weight. >.< Or maybe I'll wait until Monday. I use Mondays as my traditional weigh in days because I'm less likely to go overboard on the weekends eating if I know that I have to weigh in on Monday mornings.
Anyway I'm off, until next time!
I keep forgetting to get on the scale before I eat, so my weight is probably off but I came in at 273.4 this morning. That was after breakfast (oatmeal and a banana!) and a full bottle of water so who knows. I'll endeavor to get on the scale BEFORE I eat tomorrow to hopefully have a real weight. >.< Or maybe I'll wait until Monday. I use Mondays as my traditional weigh in days because I'm less likely to go overboard on the weekends eating if I know that I have to weigh in on Monday mornings.
Anyway I'm off, until next time!
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Day 2!
Still going strong! I made it to the store today and got some good food. Only "splurge" purchase I made was some weight watchers ice cream. Sorry when it's 108 degrees outside sometimes you just NEED some cold ice cream so I may as well make it as not evil as possible right? Weight Watchers Ice Cream Bar > Large Dairy Queen Blizzard in the calories department. >.> I got some more breakfast stuff, another case of water, the makings of spaghetti, lasagna, Chicken Kabobs, as well as some fresh corn on the cob, fruit, veggies you name it! Some good food right der!
And for the second day in a row, I walked on the treadmill. I think it kicked my ass more today than yesterday but that's probably due to being so sore from yesterday. I'm sure each day will get easier. I just need to keep at it! Yesterday I came in at 1653 calories which isn't half bad. I do need to drink more water though. :) Today I'm at 1185 calories as of 4pm, so dinner may push me to 1700 or so. But that's fine. As long as I'm under 1800 I'm happy. I want to do a couple of weeks at 1600-1800 just to see how much weight I lose. I wasn't hungry yesterday...today I feel a little hungrier but I did 26 minutes at 2.5 speed instead of 20, and I was outside for a while this morning as well as this afternoon when I went to the store and walked around the store for almost 2 hours. So I think between reducing my intake and the increase in general movement this weekend I'm feeling more hungry. Or maybe I'm just thirsty and don't know the difference. We'll see. But regardless, my goal is below 1800, increase veggies and fruit intake and drink more water. I DID buy soda today but I've restricted myself to one can in the AM and one can at dinner time. The rest of the day I drink water, mostly because I don't want to get dehydrated from not being used to the heat here.
But anyway, I'm off to go watch a movie, I deserve some down time now that I've done so much working out today and walking around. Oh! I also found my scale today! I'll give you an update tomorrow!
Until next time!
And for the second day in a row, I walked on the treadmill. I think it kicked my ass more today than yesterday but that's probably due to being so sore from yesterday. I'm sure each day will get easier. I just need to keep at it! Yesterday I came in at 1653 calories which isn't half bad. I do need to drink more water though. :) Today I'm at 1185 calories as of 4pm, so dinner may push me to 1700 or so. But that's fine. As long as I'm under 1800 I'm happy. I want to do a couple of weeks at 1600-1800 just to see how much weight I lose. I wasn't hungry yesterday...today I feel a little hungrier but I did 26 minutes at 2.5 speed instead of 20, and I was outside for a while this morning as well as this afternoon when I went to the store and walked around the store for almost 2 hours. So I think between reducing my intake and the increase in general movement this weekend I'm feeling more hungry. Or maybe I'm just thirsty and don't know the difference. We'll see. But regardless, my goal is below 1800, increase veggies and fruit intake and drink more water. I DID buy soda today but I've restricted myself to one can in the AM and one can at dinner time. The rest of the day I drink water, mostly because I don't want to get dehydrated from not being used to the heat here.
But anyway, I'm off to go watch a movie, I deserve some down time now that I've done so much working out today and walking around. Oh! I also found my scale today! I'll give you an update tomorrow!
Until next time!
Do you hear that?
No? Neither do I! What do you mean, you ask? I mean, mom's gone with the kids and it's...quiet... LOVE IT! lol. Mom left yesterday late evening for the airport to go to IL so it's just me and D again. Nice and quiet. I mentioned mom had a treadmill, I started using it today. I told myself I wouldn't mess with it until mom left. I'm too much of a pansy ass. I don't like anyone, not even D watching me work out, or being awake when I do so. I guess it's the way I make my excuse to not do it. But regardless, yesterday I'd bought a mat for the floor cuz mom has tile flooring to do stretches on before walking on the treadmill as a warm up. I also bought some free weights but I'm going to take them back, mom has the same ones so no need for 2 pairs for now. I am on a budget afterall, no job kinda does that to you.
So this morning I woke up, drank a diet dew and hopped on the treadmill after stretching. 5 minutes at 1.5 as a warm up walk, 20 minutes at 2.5 and 5 minutes again at 1.5 to cool down. I'm telling you what, that kicked my ass from here to Australia! Not like omg I'm going to die, but I probably could have quit after 15 minutes at 2.5 but I wanted a flat 30 minute work out. Mom also has a stair stepper thing, I may try that too as something different, along with some weight lifting stuff.
So day 1. Fresh start, and a serious one at that. I was ready when I restarted posting but with some stuff that got thrown in my way I wasn't really able to put my heart into it. But now I have time (ain't that a joke, not like I have anything else to do atm!), and the want to lose some weight. Mom's going to be gone, I'm going to try to find a job, and exercise will do me good. I want, hopefully, to get down into the 250's by the time I go to IL (provided I can go), or by the time she gets back if I don't go to IL because of a new job. Shouldn't be completely undoable. Mom wanted me to try to get down to like 230 but I think that's unrealistic. That'd be like 20 pounds a month, it'd be nice, but I don't think it's realistic.
Anyway. So here's what happened today for me.
9am Awoke
9:40am: Breakfast (2 packages of maple and brown sugar oatmeal)
10 to 11am worked out. 30 minutes of treadmill with some good 10 to 15 minutes of stretching before and after.
11 to 12 played a new video game I bought yesterday real cheap. Enjoying it :)
12 to 3 cleaned house and lunch was in there somewhere. The house was clean when mom left, but not "clean" to my specs. I swept, mopped, did dishes from the night before's dinner, wiped down a bunch of stuff, vacuumed, really scrubbed down the bathrooms, and so on. My lunch consisted of a low fat frozen dinner I found tucked away in mom's freezer. Beef and Broccoli with rice. Wasn't half bad.
4 to 7 I continued my cleaning and about 5 or so I rearranged the bedroom we're staying in. (I did say I was busy all day today right?). I moved the bed, the desk, went out to the shed and got an old side table for next to the bed, put the 27 inch tv up on the desk so we can watch tv, hung up ALL the clothes, rearranged everything in the closet so it wasn't just thrown in there out of the way and so on. So much done!
7pm I realized what time it was and made dinner. We had well trimmed steak with some mashed potatoes, a little gravy (well, little for me, D had however much he wanted), and I had some more broccoli with mine.
And now it's 11:23pm and I'm tired.
I plan on tomorrow getting up and walking again, and umm...going shopping I guess. We have some food in the house, but not really. The only meat here is pork for some reason lol. So I need to get some chicken and some beef and such. Veggies, fruit as a snack and some low fat popcorn stuff. I love snacking. I also need more water (I'm drinking it like crazy!) and a case of soda for dinner meals would be nice.
So that's that. Not a bad day for my day 1. I still can't find my scale :( I'm still looking though! :)
Until next time.
So this morning I woke up, drank a diet dew and hopped on the treadmill after stretching. 5 minutes at 1.5 as a warm up walk, 20 minutes at 2.5 and 5 minutes again at 1.5 to cool down. I'm telling you what, that kicked my ass from here to Australia! Not like omg I'm going to die, but I probably could have quit after 15 minutes at 2.5 but I wanted a flat 30 minute work out. Mom also has a stair stepper thing, I may try that too as something different, along with some weight lifting stuff.
So day 1. Fresh start, and a serious one at that. I was ready when I restarted posting but with some stuff that got thrown in my way I wasn't really able to put my heart into it. But now I have time (ain't that a joke, not like I have anything else to do atm!), and the want to lose some weight. Mom's going to be gone, I'm going to try to find a job, and exercise will do me good. I want, hopefully, to get down into the 250's by the time I go to IL (provided I can go), or by the time she gets back if I don't go to IL because of a new job. Shouldn't be completely undoable. Mom wanted me to try to get down to like 230 but I think that's unrealistic. That'd be like 20 pounds a month, it'd be nice, but I don't think it's realistic.
Anyway. So here's what happened today for me.
9am Awoke
9:40am: Breakfast (2 packages of maple and brown sugar oatmeal)
10 to 11am worked out. 30 minutes of treadmill with some good 10 to 15 minutes of stretching before and after.
11 to 12 played a new video game I bought yesterday real cheap. Enjoying it :)
12 to 3 cleaned house and lunch was in there somewhere. The house was clean when mom left, but not "clean" to my specs. I swept, mopped, did dishes from the night before's dinner, wiped down a bunch of stuff, vacuumed, really scrubbed down the bathrooms, and so on. My lunch consisted of a low fat frozen dinner I found tucked away in mom's freezer. Beef and Broccoli with rice. Wasn't half bad.
4 to 7 I continued my cleaning and about 5 or so I rearranged the bedroom we're staying in. (I did say I was busy all day today right?). I moved the bed, the desk, went out to the shed and got an old side table for next to the bed, put the 27 inch tv up on the desk so we can watch tv, hung up ALL the clothes, rearranged everything in the closet so it wasn't just thrown in there out of the way and so on. So much done!
7pm I realized what time it was and made dinner. We had well trimmed steak with some mashed potatoes, a little gravy (well, little for me, D had however much he wanted), and I had some more broccoli with mine.
And now it's 11:23pm and I'm tired.
I plan on tomorrow getting up and walking again, and umm...going shopping I guess. We have some food in the house, but not really. The only meat here is pork for some reason lol. So I need to get some chicken and some beef and such. Veggies, fruit as a snack and some low fat popcorn stuff. I love snacking. I also need more water (I'm drinking it like crazy!) and a case of soda for dinner meals would be nice.
So that's that. Not a bad day for my day 1. I still can't find my scale :( I'm still looking though! :)
Until next time.
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