Fitness Friday

Weight: down another 2.7 lbs for the week. This makes for a total lost of 16.5 lbs since October.

Exercise: I managed to workout 4 of 5 days this week. I am having a hard time finding my motivation lately. Maybe with the weather changing my motivation will improve.

Eating: doing better with the eating. I have managed to avoid a few temptations but I did get a large Campfire Mocha cooler at knitting the other night.

All in all not to bad for this week. Until next time ....

Fitness Friday - Catching Up Again

Weight: I am down an amazing 3.8 lbs for the last 2 weeks. I have no idea how this happened but I will not complain.

Exercise: last week was really bad. I only worked out 1 day. I smashed the big toe of my left foot with the vacuum cleaner two weeks ago and it was very painful to walk on. This week was better and I managed to workout 3 out of 5 days.

Food: I have been doing pretty well here too. Of course being totally broke helps because I do not have the money to by junk food. I did have 2 cookies at work the other day but otherwise I have been avoiding sweets as much as possible.

Fitness Friday on Saturday

I totally forgot to do this yesterday. Last week I skipped because there was not much fitness to be had around these parts. So without further ado here is this week's check in.

Weight: I am down 1.9 pounds in the last 2 weeks. I am pleasantly surprised by this.
the loss.

Exercise: this past week I did manage to workout 4 out of 5 days. The week before I did not workout at all so that is why I am pleasantly surprised by the loss.

Food: things have bee a little better here. I do really well during the day but then eat way to much at night after Clark goes to bed. I need to cut back on this night time eating.

Until next time ....

Fitness Friday - The Catchup Edition

I missed last week's check in because we were getting ready to move. This week will be a bit of a catch up.

Weight: I am up 2.4 lbs for the last 2 weeks. Not really surprised with all the stress I have been under.

Exercise: I worked out exactly 2 times in the last 2 weeks. Although with packing, cleaning and moving I did get some other physical activity in.

Food: not even going here. I will just say that major stress + PMS = eating really poorly.

I really need to get back on track this week. I am so tired and have no energy and I know it is because of the way the last 2 weeks have gone. Until next time ....

Fitness Friday

I need to come up with a button or something for these updates. Time to check in.

Weight: I was up .01 lbs for the week. This is only proving that the exercise is working now I just need to get the eating down.

Exercise: I am doing 25 minutes everyday. However, I feel the need to push myself harder. It seems sometimes like I am hardly breaking a sweat so I need to push it into another gear.

Food: again this week has not been so good food wise. There has been major stress eating this week.

Again not the worst week but not the best either. Until next time ....

Fitness Friday

Time to check in.

Weight: I was up 0.6 lbs this week. Considering how bad my eating was I am happy with this. I still have not taken my measurements.

Exercise: This week I managed 25 minutes Monday-Wednesday and 20 minutes Thursday and Friday.

Food: things have been better this week. I only had one bad day where there were some cookies involved.

All in all I am pretty happy with this week. Until next time ....

Fitness Friday

Another Friday is upon so it is time to check in.

Weight: according to the scale I am down 5.8 lbs for the week. This puts me down 8.7 lbs since I started tracking on 10/24/2011. Still have not taken my measurements. I need to do that this weekend if at all possible.

Exercise: I managed to complete a 25 minute walking work out everyday except Tuesday. When I woke up on Tuesday morning I felt like complete crap (runny nose, sore throat, etc) so I only managed 15 minutes but at least it was something. I am doing some research on toning exercises so I may begin incorporating those into my workout in the next week or so.

Food: the eating has not been the best this week. I managed to ignore the cake in the kitchen at work on Monday but after that things went downhill. Cookies, chips, McDonalds for breakfast, seconds at dinner. Not good but I am trying to work on it. I am a stress eater and this week has been pretty stressful (Clark has been running a fever on and off since Monday night) so I went to my old fall back of food.

All in all not the best week but not the worst either. I am getting better at not going off the rails if I have a bad day. Now I just need to cut back on the number of bad days and I will be all set. Until next time ....

Fitness Friday

This has been a rough week. Clark is having asthma issues so sleep has been coming in fits and starts. Today was the first day in quite awhile that I did not get up and do my work out. I had to go in early so I got home earlier and did my workout when I got home. I am still at 20 minutes but will try again next week to move up to 25. I can tell that this working out thing is becoming a habit because I felt off all day today.

Weight wise according to the scale I normally weigh in on I am up 1.1 lbs but the scale at the doctor's office I am down 2.5 lbs. I think I like the doctor's scale better. Overall I am down 2.9 lbs using the weight from the scale I normally weigh in on. I know that I have lost inches because my pants are a little looser. I need to take my measurements so I know where I am.

Overall I am pretty happy with the way things are going. Slow and steady will win the race. Until next time ....

Fitness Friday

I am planning on using Fridays as my day to keep myself accountable for my fitness and health goals. For my first entry I want to give you a little background on my struggles with my weight.

Since I hit puberty I have always had issues with my weight. Looking back now I would kill to be the weight I was back in high school when I thought I was the fattest person on the planet. I have never been big into exercise even though I ran track all 4 years of high school. What saved me during my late teens and early 20s was the fact that my friends and I would go out dancing almost every Friday and Saturday night. After being on the floor for 4 hours or more I worked up quite a sweat and managed to burn enough calories that I maintained a pretty decent weight (about 15 lbs over the “ideal” for my height). I am also very lucky that I am pretty tall at 5’`11” so I can carry a little extra weight.

Then I met my DH and things changed. Suddenly I was not going out to dance as much but of course I did not change my eating habits. However, things did not get really bad until I started my last job in the summer of 2003. It was very stressful and I am a major stress eater. In the first year I worked there I managed to eat my way to a 40 lbs weight gain.

I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes (probably brought on by this huge weight gain) in June 2007. I was immediately placed on Metformin and managed to lose 30 lbs without having to try. Then I got pregnant with Clark and even though I managed to only gain 20 lbs during my pregnancy my body changed and the Metformin did not work the same anymore.

This year I finally decided that something needed to change. After a few false starts and stops I have managed to work out 5 days a week almost every week for 3 months. I started out with 15 minutes and am now working at 20. I think next week I will go to 25 minutes. I am trying to remember that slow and steady win the race. The weight did not go on overnight so it will not go away overnight either. I have always been an all or nothing person but I have learned that something is better than nothing. For me this is more about health than looks. I mean I would not mind wearing a size that is a single digit but that is not my main goal. I want to be healthy for me, my husband and my son. I want to live a long life so I can hold my grandbabies one day. It should be an interesting journey. Until next time ....