Traveling & Such

What a few crazy weeks it has been. I went down in weight & now I am back up. For the last two weeks I have put over 3000 miles on my car. Which means a lot of sitting down, convenience stores & poor food choices. However we are back, and I am hitting it hard again. This week weigh-in isn't going to look to hot, but next week watch out. For my plan: I OFFICIALLY & FINALLY started my Jillian's Micheals 30 day shred. When I complete it I am making myself a cute spring skirt. I haven't had a workout plan so I have been doing whatever I please. (Which included not working out some days) The new plan is: 1. Back to blogging 2. Making a workout plan (30 day shred & 2 days of night workouts) and 3. eating every 2 to 3 hours, (some of which include protein shakes. ) So there you have it that is the plan. By April 25th I will be weighing in at 175. That is the goals. So I better get off the computer & back to work.

Todays CW: Day #1 of the 30 day shred. It felt good, surprisingly.

Just finished breakfast & my workout for the day. I ran 62 minutes (well Jog/walk) on the treadmill this morning. It felt hard but it felt good at the same time. I think my second workout tonight will be The Shred or maybe my Yoga for weight loss video. We will see . . . . now to keep my points in track. I did good yesterday tracking my food. . . . I got hungry & muchy when we were watching a movie last night. That is when I went over a little. Off to hit the shower.

So yesterday . . .I was feeling pretty good after that post. Then my friend called and wanted to know if I would go out to lunch with her. So we headed down to the local restaurant. Now keep in mind I live in a small town in the middle of nowhere the closest subway is probably two hours away. So in my mind I am trying to figure out how to make it work, when I see a chicken fillet on the menu. Now in my mind I think that is would be a grilled, because when I worked in a restaurant in my high school days in a different small town that is exactly what is was. So instead of checking I order it. Nope. . . out comes a fried chicken fillet. Aaaahhh!! To top my not great lunch out we ate cookies . . .sad to say I didn't each just one . . . try like 6 or 7. Honestly I don't know I didn't' keep track. It was probably more than that.

So we came home . . . dinner was a grilled pork chop with plenty of veggies. Then I decided after my boys went to bed I better hit the treadmill again so at 8:30 I hopped on for another round. It actually was a great run/jog/walk. Since it was my 5th run/walk of the week, I wasn't sure how I would feel but it felt good and strong. Yeah me!!

So my CW for today was back on my treadmill for another 30 minutes on jogging/walking intervals. My legs hurt . . . but it actually feels good to be running again. It made me remember last summer when I could actually run/walk 8-10 miles on a weekend. . . . Then it got me thinking maybe I should reconsider never running a half again. So who knows . . . as for weigh in today the great number that appeared was : 179.2 Which means my extra days of doing doubles paid off. I am down from 180.8 of last week, which makes this weeks weight loss of 1.6 lbs. I will take that!!! So I am happy I reached my goals. I am a little nervous next week will be tough. Tuesday we are headed on a road trip which means 24 hours total in a car. . . some meals eaten fast food. . . . days at different families houses with who knows what we will be eating, and some how I have to fit at least one workout a day in. I don't know about you but one of my many faults is I hate working out in front of other people. So going to my in-laws house where the whole family is SKINNY and asking to use their treadmill & have other people see me workout make me so not excited. Usually I don't do it, because I am so embarrassed & hate it so bad. We will see . . .. I need to figure out something & make a plan before than. It also means that in order to lose this next week I need to watch my food intake & be next to perfect. Which is oh so tough for me. SO this next week goals is I would like to weigh in at 178.0. Which only makes me down 1.2 lbs. . . but if I can just lose that much next week it will be a huge success. . . . so now off to take the rest of my life.

Oh yeah . . . a reason for doing all this: I haven't posted a reason in a long time . . . .1. next trip home, the one in July, I want people to be able to tell I am losing weight . . . .I want to start looking good. . . .The other reason is in the last week though it has been hard to have to determination to stick with it & do two workouts some days. I forgot how it feels to feel your body getting stronger. It feels good!!!!!!!! I want to keep it that way.

Today's completed workout was the Shred Video. Still level One. It felt really good today. I am kind of proud of myself I have so far worked out every day this week. Yeah me. . . . Talked to my sister about the Low Glycemic Foods . . . kind of interesting . I am definitely going to check it out. My big belly says it all . . .that is where I store my food. I am curious to see if this would work for me. I wish I would find a book store close so I could check this out & get more information on it. I find it interesting . . . and still need something that will work a little better for me. Weigh-in is tomorrow I am really hoping I am reaching my goal for the week. I am not sure if I will do it, but I am crossing my fingers & watching my foods today.

This week . . .

This week has been better when it comes to my working out. Three days into the week & I have worked out every single day. In fact tonight I did an extra workout. So my CW was 31 minutes on a treadmill walking for 90 seconds & then jogging for 30. (I did this twice). My calves & feet are currently killing me . . . but I am really trying to reach my weight loss goal for this week. This morning I was down, but not quite where i need to be, and since I didn't watch my food intake perfectly this week, I need to get my workouts in.

I did a second one tonight, because I realized I could sit on my couch & watch a t.v or I could just even walk on my treadmill & watch the exact same TV show but at least this way I could get more calories burnt. So that is was I did, but once i hoped on I realized I could run some of the way too. So yeah me . . . I could workout week so far. I just have to keep it up for the next few days & then I will let you know how weigh in goes on Friday.

Where have I been . . . .

So I have gone a few weeks without Internet & I am finally back on. So there was quite the gap between posts & unfortunately there was quite a gap between workouts. So here we are back on it. A few new things . . . I met up with an old friend over face book & I am not sure if I mentioned this yet or not, but we have started weekly weigh-ins with each other & I am oh so excited. It has helped me stay focused and though I haven't had weight loss in the last few weeks it has at least kept me honest, about the weight i did gain.

Tonight I made myself some paper chains. You know those things you made for Christmas countdowns back in grade school. Well I made one for my countdown for weight loss. 52 chains later it is now hanging on my wall. As I have lost or lose pounds each week . . . I will break a chain. I am hoping this physical action will help me realize that I also am breaking that cycle or habit.

One thing my darling friend (we will call her Sally, for the sake of this blog) is each week Sally & I are setting a goal. Somewhere we want to weigh in at. So you know as well my goal for weigh in next week is to be at 179.5. That would be down 1.3 lbs. I'll get back on track of blog post. So my CW workout was running on the treadmill in intervals of walking for 90 seconds & running for a minute, for 30 minutes total. Now my knee is killing me. My reason: Today I just want it.

Now off to clean house . . . because a clean house though I hate to clean it . . . a clean house is so much better to wake up to than a dirty one.