Happy New Year!

Well, it's a new year. And time for thinking about my goals for this year... weight wise and life wise I want to make a few changes. I of course still have a bit left to lose, about 60 pounds. I also need to decide at what point I want to change up my wardrobe. Or if I want to have to change it up twice or more times. Or I can just keep going how I am, buying a new piece here and there, and getting rid of things a little at a time. The only problem with that last option is that I may not get coordinating stuff. Not that everything has to match, it's just easier that way.

Resolutions for 2010:

1. Get to marathon level running.
2. Lose another 60 pounds.
3. Move to a place that has a washer/dryer hookup.
4. Get my wisdom teeth out.
5. Get a new car.
6. Finish dealing with my bankruptcy.
7. Save money, for emergencies, and tummy tuck.


I may add more resolutions when I think of them, but this is enough for now. Well, thanks for reading. Happy New Year everybody!!


Current weight: 195? lbs.

Good weekend...

There was a going away party on Friday night. Went to my brother-in-law's house and said goodbye to Angel. She's going into the military. Played pool, drank 2 TGIF's Pina Colada's, the first one another shot or two of Coconut Malibu Rum was added. The second one didn't get anything extra. I also had a butter baby shot. Overall it was a good night. I got really drunk, and flirted with people. That was fun. :)

Saturday we went jogging, and I repeated day 1 of the Couch to 5k, later we watched Harry Potter 4, as we wanted to watch them all before going to see the new one on Tuesday. While watching the movie I ate some more of my leftover birthday cake, and a few bits of popcorn. I also did 3 sets of ten situps on this day too. After the jog.

Sunday I weighed myself and I was up .4 lbs. Not enough to be really concerned about though.

This morning I weight myself, and I'd lost the .4 and then some. I was down to 226 lbs!! I can't wait till tomorrow! I'm hoping to see 225. That will be awesome. I'm doing really well!

Later today, about 10:30 I'll be going jogging again. Gonna repeat the first day of couch to 5k, again. Because I still can't do all the run segments. When we did it on Saturday, I was able to kick out 6 sets, without my asthma meds!! Yay! And of course, I did walk the remaining time, so I wasn't just skipping out on the whole thing, just the running part. Wish me luck that I'll be able to kick out 7-8 of the 9 segments today. If I can do that, it'll be the last day I repeat day one, and I'll move on to day 2 on Wednesday.


Current weight: 226lbs.

Free Day

Today is my free day. I'm going to have half a donut (if I am able) and am not doing any exercise today. I might walk some, but not unless I'm really antsy. Tomorrow is my next Couch to 5k day. It should have been today, but I'm holding out till tomorrow so I can run with my BF. He better not make me look bad. lol

I have a party to go to tonight. There will be drinking, but I'm not feeling well, so I don't know if I'm going to partake.

I lost enough weight to get to 227lbs. So I'm well on my way to my boob-job goal! Yay me!


Current weight:227 lbs.

Weekends are bad for me.

I am beginning to hate weekends. I have no will power.

Did I make my goals this last week? No. Well, some, but mostly, no.

1. French, 20 mins per day. I got this in on two days last week.


2. Work out in the gym at least 2 times this week. Yes. This goal was met.


3. Walk 30 minutes each day I'm not in the gym. All but Saturday. But to make up for it I walked 1.5 hours yesterday.


4. Get to 235 lbs. by Sunday. Stuck at 238 because of some bad food choices.

I had ice cream over the weekend, Chinese food, and I was drinking with a couple of my meals. I'm going to stick to some better food choices the rest of this week. No more ice cream, and I will pay close attention to the drinking thing. That was mostly because it's been so hot, so I've been extra thirsty. It's hard not to drink when you're really thirsty.

I'm excited because I'm getting free movie tickets later this week, hopefully Saturday we will go see the new Harry Potter movie.

Here are my new goals for this week:

1. French, 20 mins per day.


2. Work out in the gym at least 2 times this week.


3. Walk 30 minutes each day I'm not in the gym.


4. No drinking with meals/make sure I'm getting enough water between meals.
   



Current weight: 238lbs.

Elliptical-tiptical

I am the master of the elliptical! Woo!

25 minutes! And still enough time left to shower and grab a snack.

I'm not having lunch right now, maybe on my last break, but not at lunch time anymore. I have found over the last few days that I'm less snacky after work if I eat lunch later in the day. So I just had a 70 calorie rice pudding cup. Man are they yummy. I could eat two or three of these things!! I only brought one though, thankfully. I then ate my two gummy multivitamins. And in a few minutes I'll take my b12 and my fiber. That should fill me up till break time and maybe longer. We'll see how it goes.

I have lemon pepper chicken for lunch. I brought 2 breasts, as I was going to have one for breakfast, but I had that donut, as you know, and I didn't want to add even more calories to that mistake.

I'm so excited that I was able to do that 25 minutes!! I just can't get over it. Boy was it hard though, and the gym is downstairs, so climbing up the stairs again was wretched. OMG. I'm going to stick to the 25 for the next 2-3 sessions at the gym, once that's comfortable I'll bump it to 30. If I want to get any higher than that, I'll have to do it after work instead of at lunch.


Current weight: 238 lbs.

Can't..resist.....must.have...treats...

Weigh in this morning sucked. I'm up .7 lbs. Luckily still holding steady in the 239, but if I keep eating like I did yesterday, I'm gonna have problems.

I know I haven't gotten my first fill yet, but any gain feels like failure. Especially after eating everything I could get my hands on yesterday. I know, it's NOTHING like how I ate before. All those bites that I took would have been whole items instead of just bites. I would have eaten the whole salad, and gotten myself a whole dessert. Actually, I probably wouldn't have gotten a salad. I would have gotten an appetizer, and a big burger or steak, and eaten it all. I have nothing to be ashamed of for eating what I ate yesterday. It was bad, but still, just a drop in the bucket comparatively.

I did get in my exercise yesterday. I did 15 minutes on the elliptical at the gym. I'm walking today. Tomorrow I'll get back on the elliptical and do 20 minutes instead. The 15 was just because I was chicken. I wasn't sure I could do it, so I set it low. I was fine, and probably could have gone another 5-10 minutes. My legs would have been rubber, but I could have done it. Hopefully by Thursday I'll be over my monthly issues too, which makes the whole shower/change thing easier too.

So today I'm trying to switch up my eating a little. I didn't eat on my first break like I usually do. I'm drinking water instead, trying to get down about 20+ ounces before I eat. I snacked on 3 radishes while I was drinking water to keep the hunger down a bit. I figure they have almost no calories, so it doesn't hurt me to eat them and drink at the same time. I just looked it up, and a whole cup of radish slices is only 19-23 calories, depending on what site you look at. Nothing. lol

I'm trying to push back when I eat, so that I'm not so hungry after work. That's when I get the most trouble. I get home, start snacking, and it turns into what you saw yesterday. I need to be full when I get home so I don't feel the need to graze. I sure can't wait for my fill. I would love to feel as full as I did the weekend after surgery. Yeesh.

Here is the list of what I'm eating today:

For breakfast I'm having a can of tuna (80 cals) with 1/2 a tomato (15 cals) chopped in, and about 1 1/2 tablespoons of miracle whip (55 cals). For lunch I brought a can of cream of celery soup. I know, no protein, but an easy way to fill my belly with low calories. It's only 90 calories per serving, so even if I eat the whole can I'll only get about 225 calories.

Total for breakfast and lunch: 375 cals.


For dinner I have planned to make baked lemon chicken with mushroom sauce. I'm going to try my hand at wild rice on the side, and probably a salad. I'm not very good at making rice though, so wish me luck.

So if I eat a chicken breast with some rice, the lemon chicken is about 392 calories, and the rice is about 82 calories for a half cup.

Total for dinner: 474 cals. (if I eat the whole chicken breast)

Total for the day: 849 cals.

Assuming that I don't snack. Wish me luck.


Current weight: 239 lbs.

Official Weigh In Day

Weighed in this morning. 2 weeks from the day after surgery, my official weigh in day, till I make it something different. Should I make it Monday? So it's exactly from when I got banded? Or leave it Tuesday, so it's from the first time I weighed myself after banding? It should probably be Sunday, the day before banding, but I didn't weigh myself that day, and they didn't weigh me the day of surgery.

Conundrum.

So Tuesday it is. For now. And back to my weight... I was down .2 of the pounds that I was up yesterday, so I'm almost back to 238. I've heard from other people that most go up a bit and then drop dramatically. I hope that's me! lol. The .2 brought me to exactly 239 lbs. Had I lost just .1 more pounds I would have been back at 238. That would have been good. I like that number. I would like 237 even better!

I was really good eating wise yesterday. I had 1/2 chicken breast for breakfast, with a couple bites of applesauce, and the same for lunch. For dinner I had about 1 1/2 cups of Turkey Pumpkin Chili, and a teaspoon of light sour cream to top part of it. Other than that it's been water, or decaf tea with Splenda, which I don't drink after meals. Oh, and my vitamins. Yum yum.

I need new goals for this week, which I should have set Monday, but I couldn't think of what I wanted them to be. I have now though, so here they are:

1. French, 20 mins per day.


2. Work out in the gym at least 2 times this week.


3. Walk 30 minutes each day I'm not in the gym.


4. Get to 235 lbs. by Sunday.

I think these are do-able. So wish me luck!

Current weight: 239 lbs.