Last of The Biggest Loser 3

Well, this biggest loser year has not been my best weight lose year. I finished up the summer with a loss so at least that is good! I had my final weigh in at 155.2 lbs. Starting at 164.8 lbs that is some loss.

Life has found me and working out hasn't. One of these days I will get back into jogging and maybe a little Zumba. I hope winter doesn't take it's toll on my body too much. I still need to get down to 150 lbs for life insurance purposes. 5.2lbs to go, I'll be able to do it, it may just take me a little bit. Slowly but surely!!

Best. Compliment. Ever!!

I had an allergy appointment yesterday and the dr said he wanted to check my pulse so he did. When he finished... HOLD ON... you need some background.

I hate getting my pulse taken! Why, you ask? I have always had a high pulse. Multiple drs have told me this. One even went so far as to run tests on my thyroid because of it. (which turned out fine) So now I get all freaked out when they take my pulse cuz I don't want them to make a big deal.

[Back to yesterday]

After he finished his count he said, "wow! (oh no, here it comes!), are you a jogger?"

What, are you kidding me? Where did that come from? I told him I just finished my fourth week of couch 2 5K, so yes, I was trying to be one.

Then he said, "Your pulse is nice and slow and steady, like you jog. I'm trying to get my pulse lower."

So I told him I really liked the couch 2 5K program.

I was so shocked and pleasantly surprised. I've never been told that and it affirmed to me that what I'm doing is helping my body and making me a healthier person!! Thank you Dr for making my day!

Biggest Loser Week 2 & 3

Week 2 surprised me because I didn't gain back anything from week one. In fact I lost 1 lb exactly!

Week 3 I kind of fell off the band wagon a little but again surprisingly I didn't gain. I lost another pound exactly.

So far I'm down 7.2 pounds!! 7.6 to go to reach my goal, with just over two months to go. 150, here I come, watch out!!!

Biggest Loser #3 Week 1

I was going to wait until this coming Monday to post but I feel like talking so... here I am. I weighed in on Monday for my first week of Biggest Loser (Nyssa style). I started at 164.8 lbs and I was surprised to see the number on the scale when it read 159.6 lbs. I even stepped off and got back one because I didn't believe it. Well it was the same the second time also so here we are. Down 5.2 pounds so far. I wasn't going to say anything until Monday when I weighed in again because I'm expecting to gain it back but I sure hope I don't.

I've been doing the daily goals that they have for us. It will stay the same until July and then it will get a little harder. For my exercising I've been doing the Couch 2 5K (C25K) three times a week. Then trying to walk or bike the other days (if I feel like it). I don't know how much weight I will loss but I feel like I'm losing inches and I feel better about myself. I think that is the key to "loosing weight".

You change what you eat (no junk), how much of it you eat, increase your water intake and exercise. By doing those simple things you may not loose tons of weight but you will feel better about yourself and you will be healthy. Will it matter if you die skinny if you die because you fad dieted so much you hurt your kidneys or liver or...? No, we just need to get ourselves healthy and HAPPY. Our nation has an obesity problem especially among the children... if you can form good habits in your life your children will follow in your footsteps. National problem solved. I'm not perfect nor do I claim to be but I hope I can finish this game called life trucking up the will trying to make myself better!!

Here's to another week of health!


In case you missed the last post here are the daily goals in June.

• Drink 6 cups of water
• Exercise for 15 minutes
• Eat 2 Fruit
• Eat 2 cups of vegetables
• No soda
• No eating after 8:00 pm
• No fried foods or cooked in oil: Bake or Grill it instead.
• Journal Entry, either food journal or gratitude journal
• Eat breakfast
• Then set a personal goal you want to do every day. Mine is to go to bed by 11:00 pm.

SOMETHING NEW... AGAIN!!

I've been continuing my running although not every day like I was. I still will continue but I'm starting something new on top of it. When am I not starting something new??? If you've read my personal blog the last two years you'll know that I have participated in The Biggest Loser competition in Nyssa the last two summers. The first summer I was most successful with losing almost 14 pounds. Then I got pregnant with Tanner the last month of it so my weight loss didn't continue. The second year (last summer) I only lost 4 pounds but I think a lot had to do with the birth control I was on so I was lucky to even loose that much. This year is a new start!!! Already I have a head start on the last two years where I weighed in at 171 lbs. This afternoon when I weighed in I was at 164.8 lbs. I put my goal weight as 150 lbs. That is about 15 pounds in 12 weeks. Doable for me but I'll have to work at it. My mom is doing it with me again so that will give me even more accountability.

Every month they have you work on new things, so by August you are able to do everything you should be doing. We get a chart that we check off daily throughout the week. The daily tasks during June are :

• Drink 6 cups of water
• Exercise for 15 minutes
• Eat 2 Fruit
• Eat 2 cups of vegetables
• No soda
• No eating after 8:00 pm
• No fried foods or cooked in oil: Bake or Grill it instead.
• Journal Entry, either food journal or gratitude journal
• Eat breakfast
• Then set a personal goal you want to do every day. Mine is to go to bed by 11:00 pm.

Sunday is a free day. Where you don't have keep track of your points.

So here's to The Biggest Loser (again)!! Three's a charm right? This will be my year!!!! If you want to join me. Just do those things each day throughout June and weigh in weekly. You may gain some you may loose some but by the end you will be healthier!! Good luck to you and to me cause we all know I'll need it!!

What the HECK!!!

This happens to me every time I start working out heavily. Last week I worked out 5 days, running for 3 days and biking of 2. I woke up this morning feeling really good about myself so I decided that I would weigh myself. That was my mistake... I hadn't even eaten breakfast or drank anything. I gained almost 2 pounds in 9 days. What the HECK!!!!! I know that weight isn't what I need to be concerned about it's the way I look and feel. I feel great and I think I'm looking a little better but that does not help my life insurance premium goal. In order to lower  my life insurance premium I need to be at 150 lbs. I was 158 now I'm up to 161. Really??? When will this gaining stop and I'll start creeping back down the scale? I'm not going to stop working out but I would love to see results on the scale not just my waist line (although that is nice!!).

Moving on

Jillian and I are not friends. I don't care if she tells me that she has 400 lb people who can do jumping jacks my body doesn't like them. When I get electric shocks in my shoulder blade every time I do the Shred it's not worth it. Sooo... I'm moving on to a new experiment. Running! That's right you heard me correctly, running.

The one time in my life that I considered myself a runner was in middle school. Even then I wasn't very good at it and was like the slowest person ever. I was on the cross country team 6th, 7th and 8th grade but when it came time to going into high school and increasing that running distance to 3.1 miles I dropped out. Call me chicken, fat, lazy, a loser, quitter, undedicated, undetermined, etc, etc, etc.... But I wasn't good at it so I didn't want to kill myself to just be embarrassed at the end of the race by quite possibly coming dead last two hours later.

So why start running now you might ask? Well it's just something that gets my heart pumping, so why not give it a whirl!?! I found and liked the program Couch to 5K (C25K). It is a 9 week program that should get me running 5K (3.1 miles, the same distance I didn't want to run in high school) by the end of it. It alternates intervals of running and walking, it builds up the running time slowly over time.

I'm feeling pretty confident with it! I started this week. I downloaded an app to my phone that tells me out loud exactly when the run and walk so I don't have to keep track. It's wonderful!!! (RunDouble)

I did it three times this week (Mon, Wed, Sat) while pushing the kids along in the stroller with me. One of these days when I get to do it without them I will feel like I'm flying! ;) They get a short afternoon nap and I get to exercise plus it's free, what more could you ask for? The only problem (besides the heat) is that every time I step with my right leg my knee pops really loud, it doesn't hurt just pops.

I think I'll keep it up because I really would like to be able to run a 5K sometime. So here's to 8 more weeks of jogging and I fitter me!!

Junk Food

Do you ever feel like this?? I think this ALL THE TIME!! Too bad candy and other junk just keeps magically popping up in our house. ;)

A loss is a loss!

Well, the last month has been a pretty lazy one for me. I have been exercising but not "officially". I have been going for walks and bike rides. I also participated in a 5K (ran about a third, maybe a titch more, and walked the rest). None of this was for the purpose of breaking a sweat though. It was all recreational. That is why I exercised but didn't "officially" exercise.

I finally, after a month of putting it off, decided it was time to get on the dreaded scale. I was pleasantly surprised, I lost 3 lbs. Yeah me!!

I also have come to the realization that I am NEVER going to weigh 135 lbs. Even if I was anorexic so as much as I would love to be in the "normal" range on the BMI I think I'm going to shoot for 140 at the lightest. First I just need to get to 150 for life insurance premium reasons. Soooo... that is my new goal, a solid 150! I will be looking dang sexy if I get to that! ;)

9 lbs down, 8 to go!!!

Gaining and Loosing Weight Mentally

When I got pregnant with Tanner it was a shock to my husband and me. We were expecting to have to use fertility again, so Tanner came as a welcome surprise. I was participating in the last month of our towns Biggest Loser Competition (and doing really well!!) when I had gotten pregnant. I found out after the competition was over that I was expecting. For any of you who have ever been pregnant, know someone who has been pregnant or know anything about growing babies at all, know that you gain weight and are supposed to gain weight throughout your pregnancy. It was a really hard transition for me to go from weight loss mode to weight gain mode. I had worked so hard to lose that weight and it didn’t seem right to just start letting myself purposely gain it back, and then some. That was a very hard hurdle to get over and so I didn’t end up gaining weight until about 6 months into the pregnancy.

After Tanner came I chose to nurse him and you can’t just jump right into weight loss mode again. In order to keep your milk coming in you need to make sure you are eating more, I think around 300, calories. (There are some who lose weight easily while breastfeeding, unfortunately I was not blessed with that gift. I think it was my birth control though.) It was a really hard transition again for me to go from “You Must Gain Weight!!!” to “You Must Lose Weight!!”

After about 6 good months of needing to gain weight and eating almost whatever, whenever it was hard to then change my mentality back. It has come down to, besides my health, wanting to look decent in the sizes that I used to wear and not look like I’m still pregnant, a year later. It is mostly for vain reasons, yes, but I figure whatever will get me motivated to begin with I’ll take it!!

When we decide to have another child it will be hard again to “gain weight” but hopefully with a different lifestyle at the beginning of the pregnancy (and throughout) it will be easier to lose it. I wish any of you luck that have also struggled or are struggling with these feelings, I completely understand you!

Well...

I have kind of fallen of the band wagon. I have lost my motivation. I haven't officially "worked out" in weeks. I was having the electric shock in my back/shoulder blade pretty bad. I thought that by going to the chiropractor it would make everything better and be my magic feel better switch. Well, I was wrong. Although it has been somewhat better it's not gone by any means. It makes me not want to do the Shred very much. That and the lack of floor space and time during the day where I have energy. Excuses Excuses Excuses!! Yes, and I could probably think of some more if you gave me a minute.

Those are all the things that make me lack my motivation. I keep saying, "one of these days..." well those days keep on passing and nothing has been done so... One of these days I will get back into it and start working out again!

I need to find my motivation, maybe start going back to Zumba just to get me excited about working out again. I need to do something because what I'm doing (or lack of) is not working for me. Wish me luck I'm going to need it to!!!

You win some, you lose some!

The winning part for me is that I only worked out 2 times in the last 15 days and I was able to lose weight! 1.5 pounds to be exact (I was shocked)!!

Even though I lost weight I feel like I cheated myself. I have only done 5 days of the 30 Day Shred and the month is almost over. I think I will either start the count over or just not worry about it and start with day 6?!

I have plenty of excuses if you care to know why I fell short of my 6 day a week workout goal. Besides being busy beyond busy getting ready for a craft show I have a bad back.

In the Shred there is a lot of "jumping" and everytime I would do these exercises I would get an electric shock in my back around my left shoulder blade. As fun as that sounds it gets old fast. I've been counting down the days to get to go to the chiropractor. Today was the day!! I went and it was wonderful so here's to starting a fresh, hopefully pain (in the back) free workout again!!

6 lbs down, 26 to go!

The Shred

I did my first day of the shred on Saturday. Oh my goodness... I woke up Sunday morning and told Brian that I had muscles hurting that I didn't even know I had.

I took yesterday (Sunday/Day of rest) off and begrudgingly did it again today. To my surprise it wasn't even as bad as it was Saturday. I don't know if it was because I took a day off or what but it was better nonetheless. I am actually excited to do it again tomorrow!

Drum roll please...

My month of Zumba is done. I went 4 days a week through out the month. I LOVED IT!!! It's a workout without feeling like a workout.

I took my weight and measurements [up. arm, bust, waist, tummy, hips and up. thigh] before starting and.......

I'm down 4 pounds (163)!!!! AND lost 3.5 inches!!!

I know it doesn't sound like a lot but it's a healthy lose so I'm happy with it!

What is my next plan of attack you ask?? Are you ready for this...

Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred!

I'm excited and nervous, I'll keep you updated.

4 lbs down, 28 to go!

Think Smaller, Eat Smaller

"Do you want to SUPER size that?"

"Yes please!"

It's the way our society thinks now a days. The sad thing is is that we don't even have to ask for it most places. It's called getting your moneys worth right!? If I don't get a ton of food I think I'm being ripped off. Then I feel I have to eat it all since: #1) I paid for it #2) it won't taste as good later (in a lot of cases) and #3) what if, heaven forbid, someone eats my leftovers or I have to share them later?  (super selfish... I know) #2 and #3 also apply when I'm at home.

When I make food at home and it says it serves 2 or even 3 I think I better at least double that.  Why do we need to have 6-8 servings to feed myself, my husband, our 2 year old and 9 month old? Although I do like having leftovers for lunch the next day, there is no reason for me to eat that much.

Right now you may be thinking the same as me. "Holy Crapoly, I would starve!"  Luckily stomachs can be shrunk back down.

• I've just slowly started eating a little less at each meal every day.

• Rather than stuffing myself to the point of popping each night I eat slower and stop when I'm just full (not hurting).

• I have also started eating off a smaller plate. I can eat the same amount of food only it makes me feel like I'm eating more. With a bigger plate I want to fill er up!

I have found a few charts/pictures that show how much a serving really is. It doesn't look like a lot but in time it will fill us right up. I've been experiencing this already. As my dad used to say (from his mom), "Your eyes are bigger than your stomach." Luckily I'm learning this can be a true statement. Hopefully you'll experience that with me!!

3 lbs down, 29 to go!

Plan of Attack!

I do have a plan of how I am going to go about loosing weight. Normally I try mapping out every single day and that gets me all flustered and overwhelmed. This go around I'm just doing it by month. So the month of January is Zumba. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. So far so good. I love love love it. I am a happy mom/wife after I come home from doing it. I know it's a workout but it sure doesn't feel like it when I'm doing it.

Give it a try sometime, you may be pleasantly surprised. (And don't worry, no one will see your bad dancing because everyone else is just trying to catch on also! ;) )

Starting a new... Year?

No, I'm starting a new life! In a little bit longer I will have a one year old AND a two year old. I said when I had Tanner, "I took 9 months to put this weight on and I'm going to take 9 months to take it off!" Well... Tanner will be 9 months old in 8 DAYS!! and I still have 11 pounds hanging (literally) around. You can do that math.

Here are my stats and goals.
• Got pregnant with Molly at a  (pretty) fit: 147 lbs
• 10 months later I got pregnant with Tanner at a (not feeling terrible): 156 lbs
• Now almost 9 months after Tanner I'm stuck at: 167 lbs

According to the BMI chart (which I understand isn't the best guide) I should be, at my towering  5' 4"  frame, between 110-140 lbs. I would be extremely happy if I could get to 140 but I'm going to try and push myself and get down to 135 lbs.

Can it be done?? I don't know but I'm willing to find out!

0 down 32 to go!