New Year New "Insert Cliche Here"

OK, so this is the year I'm losing 100lbs by New Years Eve 2010. Now, since I didn't actualy weigh myself until 1/2/2010, I lost a few days that might have contained a few pounds that I could add to the list, but that's OK! The starting weight, according my Wii Fit was:

290.3

Making my goal: 190.3 by 12/31/2010. (About 1.9lbs per week)

I'm judging my success by Saturday weigh-ins on the Wii Fit.

As of 1/9:

287.3

That's -3lbs!

Good start! Especially since I'm working mainly on eating less and not really starting excercising for a few weeks, then I'll move to excercising 10-15 minutes 3 times a week and increasing that until I'm up to 30 mins 6 times per week. :)

Starting out with "cardio x2 and strength x1 with Balance on all three days" the goal would be cardio x4, strength 2x, balance x6.

So yeah.... long time, no blog.... oh well. I've gained a ton of weight since last bloggin. My Wii Fit on Friday night said.......

284?? I think... yikes!

So, the point of posting is... Got a Wii fit! It's hard and fun. Apparently my center of balance was WAAAAAY off...

My Wii Fit Age was........ 47!!!!!
(Of course, did it today again, my Weight went up .7lbs and my Wii fit age dropped to 28... go figure...)

Anyway, my ankles hurt, which is weird... but I've excercised 45 mins today. I'd like to get in another 15 mins.... that'd be cool... but probably only on weekends.... unless I get up early or something, which is possible - I could do 15 mins or so.... Wednesdays are the only days I couldn't do some training after work, if I can leave work on time on Mondays and Fridays...

So anyway, my goal is to lose 22 lbs in 3 months (that's the most it would let me do as a goal...)

off to do some more hula hooping!!!

I'm baaaaackkkkkk

OK.

Goals, Ideas, Dreams and a Plan

The Plan is thusly: Eat when hungry, stop when full

So far this week... a few slip ups, mostly last night.

Starting Weight Sunday 8/17: 280. (OMG!!!!!)

Goals:

8/24 - 270

Then there's one that involved 260 sometime in September and 250 sometime in October. I'll update correctly once we get there. :)

A New Starting Point

OK, here, finally, are my measurements. I don't have an accurate picture of how much weight I had regained since 4/28 and starting my new job and so forth and basically falling off the McKenna bandwagon, but I started on listening to the mind programming CD and reading the book and trying to follow the four golden rules (not always successfully). Still, I am doing much better.

Here are my new measurements. I think I have lost weight in the last few weeks, because I know I was up over 270 again and I also know that my pants are starting to fit better again, which is a huge thing. So here is a starting point. I'm going to try and keep at least two weeks between measurements and weighing... it might be more.

Weight - 268.4
Waist - 44"
Belly - 45 3/4"
Hips - 53"
% Body Fat - 29.6%

Since 4/28: Weight +2.8lbs; Waist +1", Belly +1 3/4", Hips +1 1/2", % body fat (4/20) .8%

Over all, not that bad. I'll have to modify some of my goals, but seriously here's where I'm at:

July 1 - 255
August 8- 245
September 15 - 235
October 22 - 225
November 29 - 215
January 1, 2009 - 200lbs

Three things I struggle with:
1. Eating due to stress/boredom. Skinny people do not eat due to emotional responses.
2. Eating when truly hungry. I know when I'm hungry. I can eat when I'm hungry. What do I do when I'm hungry and it's not time to eat? (I.e. meeting someone for dinner). Learning how to eat a little so as not to get full but also not be hungry so I don't shut down my metabolism
3. Drinking pop. I know I shouldn't drink non-diet pop. It's full of empty calories. It's now a choice, though,and I notice I tend to reach for non-diet pop instead of water. So the goal is to drink more water and less pop in general. Also the goal of the program is thusly: to control what you put into your body calorie wise. So Control.

Three things I'm good at:
1. Eating slowly. I don't always do it, but I can do it and it does make the food taste better.
2. Throwing food away. If I am eating slowly, I can stop when I am full and throw away the food on the plate. Just the other day I went to KFC and ate about half a chicken breast and a few bites of corn and a few bites of mac and cheese and a few bites of biscut and I was done. A little distressing to throw away all that food, especially the chicken for some reason, but I did it. I'm pretty good about throwing away extra fries at fast food restaurants. And just the other day I ordered a combo from Taco Hut that came with breadsticks and I threw almost the entire order of breadsticks away. Lesson to learn - maybe don't need combos.
3. I am very good at eating what I want and not what I think I should. :)

Thing to work on this week:
Excercise. I need to start walking again and taking more steps in general.

Another Monday

So, here are my measurements for this week.

Weight - 265.5

Waist - 43"
Belly - 44"
Hips - 51 1/2"

From last week that's a loss of 2lbs, and 3". Total 11.8lbs and 10.5" on those three measurements since 3/25.

Goals for this week: Follow 4 Golden Rules everytime I'm hungry. To not eat when I'm not hungry. To eat whatever I want. To eat conciously and to stop when I am full. To cut back on regular soda. To drink more water. To walk at least 3 times this week, prefer 5. To not step on the scale until next Monday.

Weight Loss....but

Eh. I'm not happy with myself. I messed up big time this weekend. Totally binged on popcorn and other stuff when I wasn't even hungry. Well, I don't have much time today, but next time I'm hungry, I'm back to it....

Weight - 266.8

Waist - 43"
Belly - 46 1/4"
Hips - 52 1/2"

Total loss of 1.4lbs, 2 1/4" this week. Though I might attribute a little of this week's non-weight loss with muscle gain. I've been walking. I walked 4 times last week 15-25 min walks. This week, I'm hoping for 5 times, plus I'm going to a convention on Saturday, which will involve a bit of walking around. I'm still trying to get my pedometer working correctly.

Total loss since 3/24 - 10.6lbs, 7 1/4" (I think).

Goal: 260lb by 5/5/08. That's s 3 weeks to lose 6.8lbs. I think I can do that. Hopefully this week I'll be back on track and lose around 3lbs. I'm not totally concerned with the inches. I'm just using them as an alternate tracking method. This way, if I have a week where I am not losing weight, but I still lose inches I am not completely disheartened. :)

Monday, Monday....

Well, I'm trying something new. I'm not really keeping track of what I'm eating, exactly. I'm trying not to eat when I'm not hungry and to stop eating when I'm full. Not exactly working, but it'll take some time, i think. I feel this way, that my body, with this plus walking everyday and toning (abs, arms, chin and chest, mostly) I'll get down to my ideal body weight and size. It's the only thing i think that's going to work for me, because counting calories, WW points, etc are too much work and I'm not a "diet" food person, since I don't like a lot of fruit and veggies and the ones I do like are the starchy ones that aren't "good" for you.

Anyway:

Weight: 277.4. (ARGH!)

Waist - 46" (natural)
Belly - 48" (at bellybutton)
Hips - 55"


My goals over the next month - to lose enough inches and weight to fit into my jeans and shorts comfortably; to try not to eat when I'm bored, to try to eat less at night and to try and know when I'm hungry and when I'm satisfied.

Starting Over

OK, so last week kinda was full of fail. I'm going to start over again, because that's what you do. You fall off the wagon and you get back on.

I don't know if I can do the calorie count thing. I part wish i was still with weight watchers, because the point system was easy to follow. I can still kinda do that here, but the problem is, I don't have a point calculator. I'll see what I can do.

I know when I left WW I was at 31 points, and I think it goes down by a point for every 25lbs you lose or something like that. It goes up points to maintain weight, but since I won't be there for a while, it's a good enough system to start with. So, it's 31 points per day plus an extra 35 points per week, with 20 mins of good excercise offsetting 1 point.

So my goal is to do 1 point per day of excercise and work up from there.
Also, I know I need to drink more water, so I'm going to start at 16oz per day at least, more is great.
Mutli-vitamin equal good so one per day - I take flintstones... I'm such a 3 year old. :)
Other goal is to eat at least 2 fruits and veggies of different kinds per day. That's actually a lot for me. I'm not going to let potatoes count as veggies. But corn and peas will count. Cuz that's all the veggies I eat. I do better with fruits, though I did eat one banana...last week the other is icky now.
Stick with the no mindless snacking bit. I'm really doing a lot better on that part.

I'll add weight and measurements for this week. I'm still going to stick to my goals set before in terms of weight.

Day 5

So First, since this is a Monday on to the measurements:

Weight: 269.8

Bust: 50"
Waist: 44"
Hips: 54"
Right Arm: 15"
Left Arm: 16"
Right Thigh: 28"
Left Thigh: 28"

My overall goal is to get my weight to between 150-160 depending on where it wants to be. As for measurements themselves.... I'd like to be around a dress size 12 which means I need to lose about 12" or so in my waist, roughly. We won't really worry about that for now, per my estimates I've got about 2 years to get to my ultimate goals. For now I'll just settle for losing inches.

As for this weekend, eating was bad.... Friday we had a party to celebrate a friend's pregnancy, so I overate there, Saturday we were in Indy, so I overate there and Sunday was the superbowl and I probably overate then too.

Friday: Double Quarter Pounder and Medium Fries from McD's plus HI-C orange non-diet pop; 1/3rd of Digornio Garlic Bread Pizza; 3 Reeses Cups, Potatoe Chips, Licorice, Cheetos, Mozarella Stix and Popcorn Chicken.

Saturday: Arby's Med Roast Beef, Curly Fries, a side of Cheddar; Original Auntie Anne's Pretzel; Two bags of Chewy Sprees; 9oz Sirloin, Baked Potatoe w/butter, a few bites of a ceasar salad, three potatoe skins, one roll at Damon's for Dinner; pretzels and root beer w/amaretto and a pomegrante martini.
*We did do some walking on Saturday, so a few excercise points for that

Sunday: 24 Sweet BBQ wings from BW3s and a basket of buffalo chips with cheese, some pretzels with mustard and most of a bag of PopSecret Extra Butter popcorn.


Goals for this Week:

1. Lose 1.5lbs at least
2. Keep Food Log
3. Excercise Cardio 20mins 3x
4. Excercise Weights 3 reps of 12 for biceps, triceps, ab crunches and pecs; x2

Day 2

So, here we are again... yippie. As for my Day 1 goals, they were half met. I said no mindless snacking, which was half accurate - I did pop a bag of microwave popcorn last night to eat with my husband while we watched TV. Here's my food log from yesterday:

About 70 tiny pretzel sticks with mustard
1/2 bag of Homestyle Pop secret popcorn
A large plateful of egg noodles
4 very small pieces of chicken - probably about 6oz total in apple vinegar/cider sauce

I ate a large dinner because I didn't eat breakfast or lunch. Bad on me.

As for goal number two from yesterday - I ended up doing laundry and walking up and down my stairs with a full laundry basket 6 times at least. It wasn't constant excercise, but it was something I wouldn't normally do and therefore counts for something.... and my legs are feeling a little pain from it this morning.

Goals for Day 2

1. Excercise - going to do a little weight training
2. Keep writing down everything I eat


My goals for Week 1 (This is week 0. Week one will be Day 5-Day11)

1. Lose 2lbs by Day 12 based on offical weight on day 5
2. Excercise Cardio 3 times at least 20 minutes and do some weight training
3. Keep Food Log, try cutting back on amount of food eaten
4. Eat only when hungry

Day 1

So here is day 1 Goals:

1. No "mindless" snacking
2. Excercise 20 minutes

I think we all want to lose weight with no effort. I want to be healthy, but the eating part is hard for me, as I don't really like "diet" foods - no salads, no tons of veggies, etc. I also have trouble with meals besides dinner. I like fast and easy and I also want it to taste good. Not an easy combo for the diet world. I'm going to try not "dieting" becacuse I've heard that you can't keep it off for five years - starvation doesn't work - it only leads to binging and gaining the weight back.

What I want to work up to is 45mins to 1 hour of excercise every day, at least 30 of that being cardio/type workouts or walking. I'd like to work on strength and muscle tone 3-5 days per week. Besides excercises I want to only eat when I'm hungry, drink more water and eat more fruits and veggies in general. I also want to cut down on "fat" only foods like potato chips and cheesy poofs. I don't plan to cut all the fat out of my diet, but pretzels and popcorn make more filling snacks anyway. I'd also like to start limiting my non-diet pop intake, i.e. set a limit of 1 non-diet pop type drink per week and move that to every two weeks, then once a month. I'd like to lose an average of 1.5lbs per week, but there will probably be more in the beginnings and less as the days go by, so my first goal is a little more than my additional goals for 2008.

Current Weight - 271.4lbs
Goal 4/1/08 - 252lbs
Goal 7/1/08 - 235lbs
Goal 10/1/08 - 220lbs
Goal 1/1/09 - 200lbs

So that's a total of 70 lbs for the "year" which is pretty close to 1.5lbs per week for the next 47 weeks. I'll update goals and list my weight every week as well as measurements each Monday. Should be fun.