Well, I couldn't wait.

You know how in my last post I said I wasn't going to weigh myself again until Halloween?  Like the END of next month?  Well, I lied.  I had a bad week of dieting, and unfortunate circumstances that made it nearly impossible to work out all week.  So I figured if I stepped on the scale I would see no weigh loss, and that would encourage me to work harder in the coming weeks.  I weighed 190!!!!!  That is like a 4-5lbs loss in 2.5 weeks or so!!!  Way better than I expected.  I am still smiling when I think of it.  Lol  I guess I should hit my goal of being in the 180's by Halloween!  I think I may have my goal be 184 by Halloween.  Let's see if I can do it!  If I keep at this pace, then it should be no problem.

In sadder news though, Nan passed away last night. She is my great-grandma, and she lived a long wonderful 95 years.  We all knew it was coming, but it doesn't make it any less sad.  For the past year and a half (since the weekend after N was born) she has been on hospice, being cared for mostly by Nanny.  Two and a half weeks ago she had another stroke, and has just gone downhill since then.  I am so glad that I was able to make it out to see her 2 weekends ago with Natalie.  I had a chance to say good-bye.  The funeral is this Tuesday, and we will all be going out of town for it.  I will miss you Nan.  Love you lots.

It's been a while

It's been a while since I posted any updates.  I've been so busy since starting back at work!  I think I am still doing well though.  :)  About a week and a half I decided not to weigh myself again until Halloween.  I need to see the scale make a big move instead of all these tiny 1-2 pound fluctuations.  That will give me a month and a half, and by then I am hoping to be in the 180's somewhere.  I know I must still be losing weight because I feel like my clothes are fitting looser and I feel better about myself!  So only time will tell.  :)

I have still been working out 3-4 days a week.  I wish it could be more, but there is just no time!  As it is, if I don't workout in the morning before work I still have to get up 5:30.  So if I DO want to workout, I need to be up by 4am!  I have only done that twice so far, but hope to make it at least 1-2 times a week habit.  I know I can do it, it's just rolling out of bed that is the hardest!  Yesterday morning I got up and went one hour on the treadmill.  I went 4.5 miles!  I am pretty sure I will be doing a 5k the weekend of October 22nd.  My first running 5k, right after my 25th birthday!  How fitting.  :)

I am doing well on my calories most days.  If anything I might go over by 100 or so.  But even with that, I should still be losing weight.  I'm not going to lie, I will be really disappointed if I don't make my goal of being in the 180's by end of October.  All this work better be for something!  That's it for now - I will try and post more often though.  I need to take progress pics soon!

25 minutes!!

For the past 2 weeks or so all of my running as been with using the Jeff Galloway (JG) running plans.  I do run 2 minutes, walk one.  My running has been anywhere between 5mph and 5.6mph, then my walking speed is anywhere from 3.2 if  am really tired up to 4.0.  Today I decided to do a straight run instead of intervals.  In the past the farthest I have ever run straight was one mile in 12:20.  Today I up and ran for 25 minutes straight!!  I am so freaking proud of myself!  I ran at a nice slow pace of 5.0, but didn't stop or slow down at all.  I went over 2 miles!  This makes me think I could go on and do a 5k running right now.  This means my interval training is paying off!  I was so impressed that I could run for that long.  And truth be told, I could have kept going for a little while, but I was tired and happy with my workout.  This week I think during the week I will stick with intervals, and then next weekend try and run a straight 5k.  I am so confident now that I can do this!  It was really fun too.  :)

NSV's

On the myfitnesspal website that I log all of my food I eat on they have message boards.  One of the topics often on the boards are NSV's.  Non-Scale Victory's.  That is anything good relating to your weight loss that isn't only defined by the # on the scale.  Here are some of my NSV's so far.

- At my highest weight size 18 pants were too tight.  I pretty much only wore sweat pants/yoga pants because all my jeans were too tight.  Now size 18 falls off and size 16 fits comfortably.

- My family has noticed my weight loss, and Lenny said I am getting more "hippy".  :)

- I couldn't run for even 2 minutes before.  Now I can run for 10!

- I feel better in my body.  I don't feel great, but now that I am currently losing weight, I feel so much more at home in my skin!

- I've been hit on a few times by some pretty good looking guys!  Not that I can or would do anything about that, but it does feel nice!

- I can stick to my calorie goal and not feel starved.  1240 calories a day is enough for me!

Finally!

The gym scale finally registered me below 200lbs!!  Nothing could beat the high I felt when I stepped on the scale there yesterday and I weighed 199.6 on it.  That has been my goal for so long now, and I finally reached it!  I only have another 50lbs to go before I am at my pre-pregnancy goal weight!  I think my ultimate goal weight is more like 140 though.  But either way - I did this, and I can do that!!

Speaking of the gym - I finally ended up going yesterday.  Though Lenny wasn't too happy that I missed the first part of his family dinner.  Oh well, I got my workout in and was able to eat when I got to his grandparents house.  Something I wouldn't have been able to do if I hadn't worked out.  I even had enough calories to drink some wine!  3 glasses to be exact!  :)  If I were to say I was tipsy, that would be an understatement.  haha  That homemade wine is some strong stuff!

Good and Bad Days

I've been having mixed days lately!  I'll do good with exercise, but then over on calories.  Yesterday I slightly stretched the truth so that I wouldn't go over in my calories too much.  I consider that a bad day pretty much.  We went to Seabreeze with my family - that was a lot of fun!  But after dinner I ordered an ice cream cone, for 500 calories!  So I counted the walking around we did in the park as exercise for the day so that I wouldn't go over.  I put 120 minutes of walking at 2.0 mph.  I'm sure it was more than 2 hours of walking, but it wasn't straight walking the whole time.  Either way though, that got me almost 500 calories of exercise.  So I cheated, but only sort of.

I am trying so hard to get to the gym today, but all of these circumstances are making it practically impossible!  I find out last minute that we have to be at Lenny's dads at 2:30 for dinner.  If I don't make it to the gym before that I won't be able to make it at all, since I am sure we will be there for a long time.  The gym closes at 7 on Sundays.  It's noon already and Lenny is out buying a part to fix his car.  I have Nat down for a nap so hopefully when he gets back I will be able to go.  I have a feeling that it won't work out though.  I really wanna skip going to his dad's, but I think that won't go over very well.  If I do go, and don't exercise, I'm sure that will put me over in calories for today, and I can't afford to do that.  :-/  Stuff like this stresses me out way more than it should.

Just Do It!

Last night before going to bed I told myself I was going to "Just do it" in the morning when my alarm went off, and that is what I did.  It still took me 1/2 an hour to get out of the house, but I headed for the gym at 5:30.  I was back by 6:45 to shower and get ready for the kids to come over.  I'm really liking the new treadmills at the gym.  They feel smoother than the old ones.  I did 41 minutes on the treadmill, doing intervals of 2 minutes running (at 5.5) and 1 minutes walking (at 3.5).  In the 41 minutes (that included a warm up and cool down) I did 3.1 miles.  I think my average pace was about 4.8 or so, but I could be wrong.  I used the Jeff Galloway method that I have read a little about.  I really liked it!  I think I will stick with doing that for now, because it worked really well!  I was happy with my time.

They still don't have a scale at the gym - but the one here at home has me weighing in at 196 now!  I think I am finally on the bandwagon of losing again!  I really want a digital home scale, because I really hate not being able to tell the exact number.  That will be one of my first purchases with my paycheck when I go back to work in a couple weeks.

I got the Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred video from my mom last week.  I haven't started it yet, but hopefully I will by the end of the week.  I know it isn't something I will be doing everyday, but it will be a nice good workout for when I can't get out of the house.  The dvd player we have is daunting to me right now.  I can't quite figure out how to turn it on.  L has showed me, but I am pretty electronic illiterate.  That is one of my goals for the week, figure out how to start the damn dvd player.  Once I do that though, I will have no excuses not to do the 30ds!

To do:
Take measurements
Figure out dvd player
Start 30DS
Lose more weight and inches!  :)