slimmersoon

Tonight was weigh in and I lost 3 pounds! Finally! I am determined that May will be a good month for me and my weight loss. We scheduled a vacation for August, so I have 3 months to get it together. April was very lacking. I think my total weight loss for last month was 0.4 pounds. I have still been trying to jog/run. I’m hoping persistence pays off. I don’t seem to be increasing in speed or endurance but I guess I will get there. I am finally getting back to the place where I crave activity. I had missed that. My husband and I have been trying to do more active stuff. We have been riding bikes and last week we went to a state park hiking. And push mowing counts as exercise, I have been doing lots of that lately.

Okay so this week is the start of my first week of 7 weeks of training for a June 5K. So far so good. Yesterday I started with treadmill and bike intervals along with some weight training. Today was my first day to attempt running at a track. I went to the track at a local high school with a co-worker. We did our warm up and cool down with stretching and did 10 run/walk intervals. I was doing pretty good, I still just need to get the breathing technique down. When I left I felt pretty good about it. I had a 45 minute drive home and by the time I got home my muscles were screaming. My body is not happy with me and I know I will be feeling the pain tomorrow, but I plan to keep at it.

I have been doing well this week food wise. However, I did really bad this past weekend! I went out of town to a wedding and had too much. But I did get right back on track. Last night was weigh in at weight watchers and I gained 0.6 which I totally expected due to the weekend splurge. But this week I plan to lose that and much more!

Okay, so as I have said before I am currently going to weight watchers. Well, they want us to be active so they are encouraging us to participate in a 5K. This is always something I have wanted to do. I have done heart walks and things like this in past. The 5K will be in 7 1/2 weeks. Here is my situation. I can walk a 5K easily. I usually do at least that when I’m on my treadmill. I have just started running/jogging intervals on the treadmill when I’m walking. So I am trying to decide if I want to attempt to try to run this 5K instead of walk it. I know I need to challenge myself but, am I being too ambitious? Is that enough time to START running? I am just starting to try it. I have always wanted to be a runner, but have always been too out of shape to keep it up. I’m hoping this will help. I am still having trouble getting my breathing technique down. And as always I seem to do better on the treadmill. When outside I get really bad pain in my shins. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. Has anyone else ran a 5K, if so what did you do to train for it. I have a training schedule I got off line, but still open to other info. Thanks.

Today was weigh in day. I went to my weight watchers meeting and I am down one pound! I will take it. I think I actually probably lost more and it may have been a better weigh in had I not had 3 diet cokes at work today. Oh well. I got in a really good walk this morning at work, the weather here has been so beautiful. I am ready for the week. I already have 3 days worth of lunches packed up in the fridge for this week and lots of healthy food for dinners. I am going to try to do really well this week because I will be going out of town this weekend to visit family and attend a wedding about 3 hours away. I know my family and I am sure food options will not be very healthy and there will be drinks. So I have decided to stick strictly to my ww points all week and get in activity every day then I will enjoy myself Saturday- but not too much and be right back on track Sunday morning. I will be staying at a lodge by a lake and I think I will take my tennis shoes and hopefully get in a good walk or jog Sunday before driving back home. I weigh in again next Monday so that will be motivation not to stray far from plan.

I’m not sure what what is with me today. I’ve been somewhat of a hermit this weekend. I went into town yesterday for appointments and did my shopping and have not left the house since I got back yesterday afternoon. I have done well with my eating this weekend. I didn’t exercise yesterday because I decided I needed some recovery after hurting so bad Friday night. But I did get back on the treadmill today. I walked and alternated some running for about an hour. I have done a little cleaning here and there but I have so much to do and I just don’t feel like it. So now I’m watching Julie & Julia and am curled up on the couch. I’m trying to build up my motivation to get outside and go work in the garden when it is done, maybe even mow the back yard.

Tomorrow is weigh in day…..

Today has been a good day. I ate healthy food all day. Work went well. I came home after work and got on the treadmill and did my five miles. I have started alternating walking and running/jogging to keep my heart rate up. I was doing fine with no problems but after I got off the treadmill I started to feel it….. pain. My back popped several times and I was all hunched over. It eased up after a while, but it is starting to hurt again. And now when I stand up I just hurt all over. When did I get old? I used to be able to exercise for hours with no problem, no aches or pains. Maybe it’s not old, just out of shape? I hope if I can keep it up things will get better. I actually cooked supper tonight. I don’t like to cook full meals for just me but my husband is gone to work and I cannot eat another sandwich. I cooked some mahi mahi and asparagus and made a salad. It was really good and healthy. I still have points to spare. Tomorrow looks to be a busy day full of appointments and catching up on errands. I will have to make sure I get in my exercise tomorrow. I really hope that the weigh in on Monday is better than the last. Happy Weekend!

I had been doing pretty good the last few weeks but the last few days, I’m just not sure what is up. Sunday I made Easter dinner and I was careful to make everything very healthy and point friendly, I’m doing weight watchers. But even though that meal was great, I kept snacking all day- not good. I weighed in at Weight Watchers on Monday and had lost 0.4 pounds. I’m averaging a loss of just over 2 pounds per week, but it sure feels like things have slowed down lately. I have been having trouble getting my exercise in lately. I have a long commute and it is hard to get home early enough to get in my exercise. If I exercise too late then I can’t sleep. Then last night I had a game night thing with friends and ate too much. Today I’m meeting a friend for lunch that I haven’t seen in over a year and I’m hoping to keep it healthy but…. we will see. Its like I have been starving for the last few days. I cannot seem to get full, at least I’m eating healthy foods but too much is too much. I have a wedding to go to next weekend and would love to drop 5 pounds by then but I know I will have to get back on track and buckle down.

I had a very busy, but productive day today. My husband and I went into town and filed our taxes. Glad to be done with that! We had lunch at Applebees, did some shopping and back home. I did really well food-wise today. I’m still counting points (ww) and I think I have done well so far this week. I mowed my yard with a push mower and it took at least two hours so I am going to count that as my activity for the day. We also started our garden. I love when everything starts producing and we have all of the fresh veggies. I hope everyone has a great weekend. Happy Easter!!!

Today was my weigh in day and I lost 2.8 pounds this week! I have lost 13.2 pounds since starting back to Weight Watchers. I was worried that I wouldn’t lose this week (feeling bloated) but I am glad I did.

I have also been participating in a Biggest Loser Challenge at work for the past 4-5 weeks. Today was the final weigh in. There were 26 teams of four and our team came in third place. So, I have had a good Monday. I’m excited about the changes I’m making and I’m very excited to start seeing results. This just motivates me to keep going.

Hope you all have a healthy and happy week!

I got married last August and after several attempts to get back on track I ended up gaining a lot of weight, especially over the holidays. I actually gained almost 20 pounds and went up a pants size. I guess I just got too comfortable with the married life, but I knew things were getting out of control. My husband and I went on a vacation at the beginning of February to Tennessee and went hiking in the National Park. That was a wake up call for me. I way more trouble getting up the hikes that I did on our last trip and even though I thought I ate pretty healthy, or so I thought, I came back 5 to 8 pounds heavier.

So I made up my mind that things had gone too far, and enough was enough. I signed up for weight watchers in February. In the past when I did weight watchers I had lost 40 pounds, back in 2003. And even though I never gained back the entire 40 pounds I was getting really close. I started weight watchers and weighed in at 198.4 pounds and in the past 4 weeks I am down 10.4 pounds! I weigh in again tomorrow and I hope the scale continues to go down. I’ve been doing really well with the food but it has been hard getting back into exercising. I started off slow, just walking and I have been trying to slowly increase each week. So far I’ve gotten in 11 miles this week, my goal is 15. So I am planning to hit the treadmill soon. My husband has been very supportive and he is trying to be healthier too. Naturally he has already lost more weight than me, but I’m just glad we are able to do this together.