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!
Sunday, June 6, 2010
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.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Initial Move complete!
So after several days of craziness, my move is complete. We're not in Arizona. Wednesday I did a ton of running around, shutting off the electricity, talking to the landlord, getting some records together and so forth and so on. Thursday I had lunch one final time with my boss and the workers at work. Free food, so I couldn't complain. Then we got the truck and started hard core packing. We loaded some of the big pieces, like the couch, dresser ect into the truck to make it easier the next day, since it was after dark and much cooler when we were loading it. Then after it got too late to be tromping up and down the stairs D's parents went home and we continued to pack for about an hour before we were just too tired. 6am the next morning the two of us were back up packing again, and his parents showed up at about 8am and we finished packing, loading the truck and cleaning the apartment. Took us about 7 hours but the truck was completely packed. Stayed at D's parents that night and slept like a log, until the damn rooster woke us up at 4am rofl. Zoned residential yet someone buys a rooster, dumbasses seriously. Anyway.
So Saturday morning we hit the road at 7am and drove all day to get here, and got here at like 4 local time (5 mountain time where we were before). And SOMEHOW I managed to get severely sunburned by DRIVING A CAR! Jesus. I drove with the window down but I didn't have my arm in the window or anything, and when I got to AZ my arm was like a lobster. Still hurts like a bitch let me tell you. Sunday was spent unloading the car and having a good dinner with my cousin and her husband. Then today we're resting and taking the truck back to Budget to turn it in. Mom leaves on Friday to go to IL to visit family and that gives us her house to be in for 2 months before she gets back. D and I aren't unpacking anything really. The hope is that both of us find work within a couple of weeks and will be able to get our own place and therefore we don't want to unpack much of anything so that way we don't have to PACK much of anything when we go to move again. lol.
Anyway so that's that. I have no idea where my scale is so no weight probably this week until I can find it. I know where it is but I don't know where that bin went to right off hand so until I find it (which I will soon because there's a couple of other things I need to look through specific boxes for) I will post a weight.
My mom is also my new best friend, she's got a treadmill in the house. Can we say weight loss?! XD
Anyway I'm off.
Until next time.
So Saturday morning we hit the road at 7am and drove all day to get here, and got here at like 4 local time (5 mountain time where we were before). And SOMEHOW I managed to get severely sunburned by DRIVING A CAR! Jesus. I drove with the window down but I didn't have my arm in the window or anything, and when I got to AZ my arm was like a lobster. Still hurts like a bitch let me tell you. Sunday was spent unloading the car and having a good dinner with my cousin and her husband. Then today we're resting and taking the truck back to Budget to turn it in. Mom leaves on Friday to go to IL to visit family and that gives us her house to be in for 2 months before she gets back. D and I aren't unpacking anything really. The hope is that both of us find work within a couple of weeks and will be able to get our own place and therefore we don't want to unpack much of anything so that way we don't have to PACK much of anything when we go to move again. lol.
Anyway so that's that. I have no idea where my scale is so no weight probably this week until I can find it. I know where it is but I don't know where that bin went to right off hand so until I find it (which I will soon because there's a couple of other things I need to look through specific boxes for) I will post a weight.
My mom is also my new best friend, she's got a treadmill in the house. Can we say weight loss?! XD
Anyway I'm off.
Until next time.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Let the Craziness begin!
So I posted a quick blurb that some major shit was going down on Monday and then disappeared on everyone Tuesday. I apologize. I shall be disappearing again here in about an hour and won't be back for a few days at the least. I told my boss yesterday morning that I was unable to work part time and would that it would need to be my last day yesterday and the look on his face was priceless. I think it may have hit him out stupid his idea was and now he's out an extremely good employee that was crucial to his switching to fully electronic records. His loss I guess.
I think what frustrated me was, you know I worked really hard to keep them in touch with what was going on. They knew I was looking for another job because 1) I needed something that would give me the experience I need in order to get an administrative job and 2) I wanted to move out by my mom. And yes they were nice enough to offer me to split my full time job with Anne the part time receptionist they hired so I wouldn't be completely without a job, but I would get like just about 20 hours a week, maybe even less than that, and we pay too much to live up here as it is. So I made the decision to move to Arizona because my mom's gone so we can stay at her place for 2 months give or take a little while she's visiting family in Illinois, and just really look for something out there. I have a possibility or two through a temporary and temp to hire place that I'd talked to prior to all this. Perhaps, if nothing else, I can land some temp jobs out there that'll help to offset all the spending vs the no income thing. So today I'm going to get to packing, here when I wake up a little more and after my shower. Fun fun. Have I mentioned I hate moving? lol.
Anyway, so I should jet. Just one more quick thing though. I'd forgotten to weigh in on Monday, and thought I'd do it Tuesday instead but because of all the shit hitting the fan I didn't get a chance. So I did this morning. I'm at 271.0. I have a feeling that by Monday I'll be in the 260's from all the running around, packing, lifting, hauling and so forth that I'll be doing. Here's to hoping at least something good comes out of all this bullshit.
Until next time.
I think what frustrated me was, you know I worked really hard to keep them in touch with what was going on. They knew I was looking for another job because 1) I needed something that would give me the experience I need in order to get an administrative job and 2) I wanted to move out by my mom. And yes they were nice enough to offer me to split my full time job with Anne the part time receptionist they hired so I wouldn't be completely without a job, but I would get like just about 20 hours a week, maybe even less than that, and we pay too much to live up here as it is. So I made the decision to move to Arizona because my mom's gone so we can stay at her place for 2 months give or take a little while she's visiting family in Illinois, and just really look for something out there. I have a possibility or two through a temporary and temp to hire place that I'd talked to prior to all this. Perhaps, if nothing else, I can land some temp jobs out there that'll help to offset all the spending vs the no income thing. So today I'm going to get to packing, here when I wake up a little more and after my shower. Fun fun. Have I mentioned I hate moving? lol.
Anyway, so I should jet. Just one more quick thing though. I'd forgotten to weigh in on Monday, and thought I'd do it Tuesday instead but because of all the shit hitting the fan I didn't get a chance. So I did this morning. I'm at 271.0. I have a feeling that by Monday I'll be in the 260's from all the running around, packing, lifting, hauling and so forth that I'll be doing. Here's to hoping at least something good comes out of all this bullshit.
Until next time.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Frustration.
So. My life has drastically changed in the blink of an eye. I got called into the bosses office today to be told I was going to be moved to part time June 1. That's it. Part time, less than 20 hours per week. So. I'm leaving. D and I are packing up this week moving to Arizona this weekend. I'm excited but scared shitless.
Wish me luck.
Wish me luck.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Some notes from the weekend
So first of all, I'd committed to participating in the 5k from the Anti-Jared blog. Happy to announce that I walked it this morning, real early. So that's a big checkmark for me today!
Second, some general notes of things I noticed this weekend.
1) When the boyfriend buys you a bag of your favorite chips, don't feel you have to eat them. I ate an entire bag of Sour Cream and Onion Lays over the course of the weekend. Not happy. His heart was in the right place, but when I said "Hon, get me some snack popcorn" somehow he twisted that into "Get me some chips!" >.> Anyway....
2) When you decide to go on an impromptu walk. Check to make sure you have tennis shoes on. I decided that beyond my 5k this morning, when I went to go do the laundry I would try to make up for the whole bag of chips fiasco. So I put my clothes in the washer at the laundry mat and walked to the store to get something to drink rather than buy a soda there or drive. Yeah, great idea, until I got about half way there and wondered why my feet hurt. Realized I had flip flops on. Ugh.
3) Vitamin Water which is supposedly "good for you" flavored water....yeah it's got 150 total calories in it if you drink the whole thing. So guess what, that walk I did to the store? Yeah taken up by that stupid water. Lesson learned.
4) Moving mounds of stuff around in your closet and walking up and down the stairs multiple times to take trash out IS exercise when you're 273 pounds. I don't care what anyone says, I was not only out of breath, but I was sweating profusely by the time I got my closet cleaned out. Kthxbai!
5) I'm ready for a nap after all this weekend excitement and next weekend will be even more jampacked!
That's it, no more notes. I'm actually really excited about this work week, not because I have to go back to work tomorrow, but because I'm hoping to get that phone call that says "We want you to move to AZ and work for us". If I didn't mention it, and I do sometimes forget to, I had a job interview on Tuesday of last week, and the lady I talked to sounded really enthused. I took some test that she sent as the next step of the interview and she said she was forwarding me on to the doctor. So I'm really hopeful that they'll hire me so I can move out that way. If by some miracle that does happen, this weekend will get a whole lot busier because I'll have to work on packing some stuff up to take with us to my mom's since we're supposed to be going to visit this weekend. I'm also hoping to find something while my mom's gone from June 4th to the end of July. Because then I can move into her place and stay there for free while she's gone and house sit for her, and that gives me extra time to get a place. Not that I couldn't move out there when she's there, but moving into her 3 bedroom place when there's already 3 people there makes it a little ... cramped...
Anyway, so I'm off. I have a couple things to get done before bed tonight, and I am tired enough that going to bed early may not be a bad idea.
Until next time!
Second, some general notes of things I noticed this weekend.
1) When the boyfriend buys you a bag of your favorite chips, don't feel you have to eat them. I ate an entire bag of Sour Cream and Onion Lays over the course of the weekend. Not happy. His heart was in the right place, but when I said "Hon, get me some snack popcorn" somehow he twisted that into "Get me some chips!" >.> Anyway....
2) When you decide to go on an impromptu walk. Check to make sure you have tennis shoes on. I decided that beyond my 5k this morning, when I went to go do the laundry I would try to make up for the whole bag of chips fiasco. So I put my clothes in the washer at the laundry mat and walked to the store to get something to drink rather than buy a soda there or drive. Yeah, great idea, until I got about half way there and wondered why my feet hurt. Realized I had flip flops on. Ugh.
3) Vitamin Water which is supposedly "good for you" flavored water....yeah it's got 150 total calories in it if you drink the whole thing. So guess what, that walk I did to the store? Yeah taken up by that stupid water. Lesson learned.
4) Moving mounds of stuff around in your closet and walking up and down the stairs multiple times to take trash out IS exercise when you're 273 pounds. I don't care what anyone says, I was not only out of breath, but I was sweating profusely by the time I got my closet cleaned out. Kthxbai!
5) I'm ready for a nap after all this weekend excitement and next weekend will be even more jampacked!
That's it, no more notes. I'm actually really excited about this work week, not because I have to go back to work tomorrow, but because I'm hoping to get that phone call that says "We want you to move to AZ and work for us". If I didn't mention it, and I do sometimes forget to, I had a job interview on Tuesday of last week, and the lady I talked to sounded really enthused. I took some test that she sent as the next step of the interview and she said she was forwarding me on to the doctor. So I'm really hopeful that they'll hire me so I can move out that way. If by some miracle that does happen, this weekend will get a whole lot busier because I'll have to work on packing some stuff up to take with us to my mom's since we're supposed to be going to visit this weekend. I'm also hoping to find something while my mom's gone from June 4th to the end of July. Because then I can move into her place and stay there for free while she's gone and house sit for her, and that gives me extra time to get a place. Not that I couldn't move out there when she's there, but moving into her 3 bedroom place when there's already 3 people there makes it a little ... cramped...
Anyway, so I'm off. I have a couple things to get done before bed tonight, and I am tired enough that going to bed early may not be a bad idea.
Until next time!
Monday, May 17, 2010
Small weight loss is still weight loss!
So I had a small loss. Half a pound. But that's half a pound more than I've lost from before. And honestly, considering my weight had gone up after last week to 276, technically I lost more than half a pound, but it's half a pound lower than the first week. Regardless, I posted a slightly lower loss earlier this week but we went to a friend's house this weekend. I didn't eat too bad, we had home made Santa Fe Chicken and in the morning we had home made biscuits and gravy and I tried not to zomg eat too much or anything. But I think I gained some water weight, I had 2 margaretas while I was there, however you spell it, with salt. rofl. Regardless a loss is a loss and this week I'm going to try to tackle getting out of the 270's.
I have a job phone interview on Tuesday, so here's to hoping it gets me a job that will take me to Arizona! XD
But for now it's back to work, switching over to electronic charting is intense!
Until later.
I have a job phone interview on Tuesday, so here's to hoping it gets me a job that will take me to Arizona! XD
But for now it's back to work, switching over to electronic charting is intense!
Until later.
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