The klutz here

Grrrrr! and Grrrrrr! again. I hurt my foot today so there will be a slight lull in my walking. Just when I was getting to going good and actually looking forward to it. Instead I'll be sitting around with my foot propped up on cushions and ice on it. Blah!

One bright spot, it will be so much harder to walk into the kitchen to get food. But I still hope that this forced non-walking routine doesn't last long.

Week 1

When I got on the scale this morning for my weekly weigh-in, I honestly expected to be at the same weight if I was lucky. I was pleasantly surprised to be down five pounds!! I know I could have done better with my eating, and I didn't exercise at all with my schedule, but this gives me hope that with a bit more effort on my part I can really succeed.

My goal for this week will be to exercise 4 out of 7 days with an exercise tape or something. I also want to try to go walking at the mall with my husband, Mike another 2 days. I hope that will keep us all moving.

I want to wish all my teammates the best in the coming week; keep up all the great work. If any of my friends have any other great suggestions on what they do to stay active or eat right, please let me know. I am always in need of support.

Way To GO!

It's great to hear that so many of you did well the first week. I did good until the weekend hit. Then I crashed and burned in the form of Pizza, Popcorn, Nachos, etc... ! SO not good and I really felt sick after putting all of that crap in my stomach. It really didn't even taste that good anyway! But I will not give up so back on the plan I go! I know week 2 will be great! I have my food planned for the week (Jenny Craig) and I am going to start the Jillian Michaels Shred after work. Keep up all of the good work ladies!

Colissa

Week 2

So, here it is week 2. I did my weigh in this morning.

Drum Roll please.......217! Down 3 pounds. I don't have measurements from last week to compare against, so I will post those next week.

I am baffled because I had 2 late night munchies!! But, I did my late night eating after 4 hours of country dancing on Monday night and my 3.5 hours of volleyball Thursday night. But that was really my only form of exercise for the week. Unless you count the endless times of running up and down the stairs to get to my laundry room and all the housework I did during the week.

So, goal for this week is to actively exercise this week, keep up with my diet and shred more pounds and hopefully some inches also!!!

Keep it up everyone!!!

Shelly

Week 1: Angie's Measurements

Here it is.  The moment I've been dreading all week... measurement day.


Hips- 44 1/2

Waist- 37 (-1/2)
Arms- 14 1/4
Thighs- 25 1/4
Weight- 177 (-3lb)

I'm super happy I lost 1/2 an inch on my waist!  I'm down 3lbs as well.  I haven't lost anything anywhere else, which I find crazy with the exercises I've been doing (I thought I'd lose 1/4" in my arms and thighs), but I'm going to guess that a loss on my hips will come next week.  It seems like that's usually how it goes, one week waist, one week hips.  I'm half an inch into my 6 inch goal!!!  Happy day!  Now to just keep it up! :)

Weekend

Saturday walking - 45 minutes. Sunday walking - 25 minutes. I'm satisfied with that. I want to thank you all for being my motivation for walking every day since Wednesday.

Food wasn't bad for the weekend. We'll see if that translates to pounds lost when I weigh myself Wednesday. Who me, weigh on Monday? Surely you jest. I'm going to start keeping track of what and how much I eat this week. I usually do better when I do that. Besides it gives me an excuse to have another notebook piled up on my desk and use my collection of various colored pens.

Now for the best news of the week. My sugar level is going down. Yes! It still isn't where I - or the doc - want it to be but it is getting there. I have this great fear of having to give myself insulin shots like my grand-ma did. No thanks, I don't want that. At least not for a long, long, long time.

Day 7: woo-hoo

I finished day 7 of that blasted 30 day shred!  *panting*  My goal is to do level 1 for 30 days, level 2 for 30 days and level 3 for 30 days... If I don't die first LOL  After the 90 days on the shred I'll decide what to do.  If I make it 90 days on this I will be amazed!

I put my week's worth of food into a food tracker at FatSecret.com just out of curiosity and saw that my calories have stayed between 1100 and 1400 each day and my fat grams between 32 and 50 each day.  I haven't bought any "diet" foods and all I've done is eat healthy.  I haven't starved myself in anyway and I've been eating a nice big meal three times a day.  These are lifestyle changes, not fads.  I can do this!

Today for breakfast I had 2 eggs, 2 slices of 100% whole wheat bread, a couple tablespoons of shredded cheddar and two mushrooms sliced up and water to drink.  For dinner I had meatloaf made with 1.5g fat per serving turkey burger, a huge helping of squash and half a can of peas with water.  I ate at weird hours since I had church from 11-2pm and then a meeting at 3.  I'm eating a lot of filling food for keeping it in a healthy calorie range.  Cutting out sweets and drinks other than water REALLY makes a difference.  That's how I lost weight last time and I'm hoping it's a winning combination again!

I'm really nervous for my measurement taking in the morning!  I'll let you know how it goes!