lose 65 pounds by February 25th 2009

3.4 more pounds gone. Lowest weight in a year. Since I began my measurements 2 years ago, my hips are tied with my lowest. My chest is about an inch away from my lowest and my waist is about an inch and a quarter from the lowest. I have lost a total of 4 inches from my hips, 2.75 inches from my waist and 2 inches from my chest.

I am pretty happy, but have realized my lack of exercise the past couple of weeks has really stunted my potential progress. Now for my excuse. I started summer school 3 weeks ago, which is 8 hours a day 4 days a week and I work 12 hours the other 3 days. I feel blessed that I am able to get up every morning and actually pack something somewhat healthy for my day, and find it damn near impossible to even think about anything else. My goal for my 3 remaining weeks of summer school is to workout at least 4 days a week. I would like to use sparkpeople’s strength training program 2 days a week and incorporate some type of cardio the other 2 days. I really need to buckle down because of my minimal 2 week weight losses and I feel that any type of exercise is really going to change my body. It is funny how inspired I can be sometimes the day of my weigh-in. I feel like I can almost do anything for 2 weeks. The 2 week period until I weigh again.

but not in the way you may think. I have been sneaking scale peeks. This week, I have, on 3 seperate occasions, been the lowest I have weighed in over a year and even then it only lasted for 1 day. Tomorrow is my official weigh-in and measure and I can’t wait.

57 pounds to go!!!!

As of today I have lost 8 pounds and 11 inches. Can you see the excitement on my face?? I am quite happy now. I lost more the past week and half than I did all last month. I plan on weighing myself every 2 weeks when I measure myself.

My bicycle has been an absolute pleasure and its nice to see that right after I got it I could only manage 5-10 minutes on the thing and I couldn’t get on it again for a couple of days while my butt healed. This week I went on a 30 minutes bike ride and went back out there the following day for 20 minutes with only mild soreness. I can see progress and thats what I like. I guess finally I am giving myself some time to see it, while before if it didn’t happen overnight I would get frustrated and quit. I am so pround of myself for sticking this thing through. I don’t know where the ability came from. Seriouly, it was like a switch, the switch didn’t really feel any different that any other time, but this one has stayed on the longest and I don’t think it will go out.

HAPPY DANCES!HAPPY DANCES!

My my, what an amazing site! Thank your to whoever posted a side comment about them in your post. I tend to check out places out of curiosity and this one blew me away. I bought a PC version of fitday a couple of years ago and have been using it to track my meals and excerise. Sparkpeople on the other hand, allows you to track the same things, but it has SOOOOO much more, like message boards, recipes etc. You can even set up a page kinda like myspace. I just finished some strength training exercises it had set up for me and I am loving it. I think it will definitely help me stay focused.

I am still doing good with exercise, but after yesterdays weigh in I did get frustrated a bit. As much as I tried to tell myself that I was fine with a 3.6 pound weight loss for the month, I think deep down I was kinda pissed. I splurged and ate a cheeseburger and fries, but I didn’t fly to far out of my calorie range though.

I have lost 3.6 pounds for the month. Not nearly as much as I had hoped, but at least it did go up. I know that I have lost inches and probably gained a lot of muscle because I have been so active lately. Rarely do I sit in front of the TV anymore. Okay okay so now I know, time to move on. I will probably wait another month before I weigh again.

61.4 to go

I have a doctors appoitment coming up in August and wanted to just wait until they weigh me there, but I have decided that I am going to weigh myself today. I don’t really know where it came from, it was kind of a sudden decision. I don’t know how it is going to make me feel, I am a little bit scared. I don’t want it to bring me down because I feel like I have been doing well, but I almost feel like I have to know at this point to know if what I am doing is working or if there is anything I should change before continuing on. Holding breath….to be continued!

Well, I have lost a total of 8 inches in the past 4 weeks. Not bad, not bad at all. I didn’t lose as many inches the last 2 weeks as I did the first 2 which makes me want to kick it up a bit and start aerobics or yoga or something like that.

Things are still going quite well. I haven’t gotten on the scale yet, although I was tempted after learning that my mother had lost 7 pounds this week. Congratulations, I am so inspired. I still think at this time that it would not be good for me. Like I said before, I feel completely different this time, and part of me belives that I am succeeding only because I don’t know how much I weigh or how much I have lost. I am not sabatoging myself or what I am doing based on the scale, I am just trotting along calmly. Almost in this completely tranquil oblivion. I am beginning to like it this way.

I do not measure myself again until tomorrow, but I have taken a few sneak peaks during the past week. I am not feeling like I am losing as many inches this time, but I will find out tomorrow. I tried on a pair of pants yesterday that are my token “too tight” jeans. I was able to get them on about a year ago, but was surprised when I could still zip them up. Still very tight for public viewing, but fine for me.

Eating is going well. I don’t cheat anymore, because I don’t consider anything I eat as cheating. I bought a hershey bar on Tuesday for dessert. I didn’t even eat it on Tuesday. I ate a few squares throughout the day yesterday and still have 3 more in the fridge. I have steak when I want it, I just don’t go overboard like I used to. I have been trying to eat something every couple of hours to prevent myself from binging. I mean, HELLO!, why was that so difficult for me to understand before.

I have begun exercising more and more frequently. I have a treadmill and an elliptical at home that I knew I would use. I bought my treadmill about 3 years ago and my elliptical about 1 year and half ago. I knew that if I had the elliptical I would most certainly lose weight. I am finding now, that I enjoy being outdoors more. The thought of working out the the equiptment I have bores me to tears. I bought a bicycle last week and have been enjoying getting my butt used to it. I have been doing a lot of yard work, I cleared out the garage, I refinished a desk that I had attempted last year with poor results all because I had no energy. I am just in complete shock! Everything has been falling into place at what seems to be overnight. I know, without a doubt, that I am going to lose weight this time.

Okay, okay! So yes, I am starting again. Dare I say it, but I feel like its different this time. I re-started May 4th. I weighed myself the first day, but vowed that I would not get on the scale again until….well, whenever I think its a good time, which may be never.
I am pretty happy with the results so far. I know that I have lost inches. I tried on 4 pairs of pants a couple of weeks ago, all of which were entirely too tight. I was upset. I remembered that I had actually tried on each pair of these pants BEFORE I bought them, and all of them fit. Well, since it had been about 2 weeks, I decided I would give those pants another try. They buttoned up, every single pair of them. Some were tighter than others, but they fit. I am very happy because I distinctly remember not being able to button a pair of those pants. I think it is working this time. My outlook is different, I am eating better, but don’t dwell on bad choices. I don’t allow myself to ruin a whole day or week because of a bad choice. I just start over during my next meal. At one point, I discovered that there was over 1100 calories and 100 grams of fat in the guacomole that I had eaten at lunch. I was floored, but I didn’t let it torture me, I moved on. I had a cheeseburger and cheese curds at a restaurant last week after spending about 3 hours doing yard work. It obviously wasn’t the best choice, but I felt okay with the decision because I hadn’t eaten much for the day and I had been sweating a lot. Moving on is the key difference this time, previously I would just screw up the entire day, or week or month. I am looking forward to measuring myself again in about 2 more weeks.