I've finally given up the scale....well not permanently, but I'm not jumping on it five times a day anymore. My husband has kindly agreed to hide the darned thing from me all but once a week. Same with the tape measure.
This actually freeing and quite motivating somehow. All during my workout I'm like 'hmm, I wonder how much I weigh. I don't know, so I'd better work twice as hard so I don't disappoint myself the one time I get to step on the scale this week.' Its almost become a treat to step on the scale so I have to make it count so much more than if I could just jump on whenever I want. The whole idea sounds stupid to me, yet it works.
So, I'm not going to give my weekly weigh in for my first week of shakeology because I haven't been able to check the scale (or measure), but I'll give an update on Wednesday, my current weekly weigh day. Cross your fingers for me!
Friday, July 26, 2013
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
So I had a really good start to my day. First I jump on the scale (because I'm a scale whore and I can't help it) and i'm down 1.4 lbs from yesterday morning!! Then I measure my waist and i'm down another 3/4 inch from about 4 days ago! I don't know if the shakeology really works that well or what but I'll absolutely take these results and run with them. I just hope I can keep up something like this in a few weeks when I start getting bored with my workouts. My father in law and his friend have decided to do a marine daily workout (cause they were BORED...psychos) so they're dragging me along to that a few times a week and maybe a weight night thrown in just for more FUN so they are my accountability for the moment. I hope they can give me momentum when mine runs out.
ttfn
P.s. Add a little banana and coconut milk to chocolate shakeology and it tastes slightly less like butt. Definitely a good morning. Off to push play now and get my Slim in 6: Ramp it up done.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Starting over....no, for real this time. Seriously...
Hmmmmm, any point in actually writing this, seeing as how I leave it for over a year? We'll see.
Today I'm starting shakeology in another desperate attempt to lose weight. I have a serious focus now so I'm willing to spend hundreds of dollars on some shakes that taste like butt.....this had so better be worth it.
I'm hoping the shakeology will jump start the actual weight loss because I need to lose lbs. I know people say that the tape measure is all the matters, but unfortunately for me the lbs matter more. My goal is to join the air force by spring of next year and for my height (they claim I'm 5'3" even though every doctor I've been to says 5'4") I need to be 155. So I'm giving myself until the end of the year to complete my goal. That's putting me at losing .53 lbs per week. Doable right? (if i calculated correctly, feel free to correct my if I'm wrong, lol).
The exercise program that I'm using is Slim In 6 for the moment. I've been doing it for around 12 days so far, and I've actually lost 3/4 inch off my waste and 1/2 inch off my arms but no weight loss so far. I just bounce between 199 and 201.
I started my morning with a glass of lemon water followed by the foulest tasting chocolate flavored thingy I've ever had. I used water and vanilla activia because I don't have a blender for anything else (believe me that's going to be the next thing I'm buying). The scale read 199.8 when I got on it first thing this morning and my goal is to be down 10 lbs this month (because the first bit of weight is usually the easiest if you start hard and fast). A lot a of first time shakeology users say they lost upwards of 5 lbs their first week on this stuff, so I might even be able to beat my goal.
So, here I go. I'm going to try to update at least twice a week including a weekly weight in and measure, but I might mange every day because I'm going to use this as sort of a food journal as well to keep me some what accountable.
Please feel free to comment. I don't bit and I would definitely appreciate support or words or wisdom or constructive criticism.
~Randi
Today I'm starting shakeology in another desperate attempt to lose weight. I have a serious focus now so I'm willing to spend hundreds of dollars on some shakes that taste like butt.....this had so better be worth it.
I'm hoping the shakeology will jump start the actual weight loss because I need to lose lbs. I know people say that the tape measure is all the matters, but unfortunately for me the lbs matter more. My goal is to join the air force by spring of next year and for my height (they claim I'm 5'3" even though every doctor I've been to says 5'4") I need to be 155. So I'm giving myself until the end of the year to complete my goal. That's putting me at losing .53 lbs per week. Doable right? (if i calculated correctly, feel free to correct my if I'm wrong, lol).
The exercise program that I'm using is Slim In 6 for the moment. I've been doing it for around 12 days so far, and I've actually lost 3/4 inch off my waste and 1/2 inch off my arms but no weight loss so far. I just bounce between 199 and 201.
I started my morning with a glass of lemon water followed by the foulest tasting chocolate flavored thingy I've ever had. I used water and vanilla activia because I don't have a blender for anything else (believe me that's going to be the next thing I'm buying). The scale read 199.8 when I got on it first thing this morning and my goal is to be down 10 lbs this month (because the first bit of weight is usually the easiest if you start hard and fast). A lot a of first time shakeology users say they lost upwards of 5 lbs their first week on this stuff, so I might even be able to beat my goal.
So, here I go. I'm going to try to update at least twice a week including a weekly weight in and measure, but I might mange every day because I'm going to use this as sort of a food journal as well to keep me some what accountable.
Please feel free to comment. I don't bit and I would definitely appreciate support or words or wisdom or constructive criticism.
~Randi
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Soooooooo lazy...
So the last post, which I published mere seconds ago, was from approximately three weeks ago. I got a promotion at work, then it was taken away so I pretty much didn't care for a while. But now I've got it again, and hopefully I'll keep it (it's not actually a promotion, just a department transfer, but it involves a pay raise and a job I don't hate quite as much, so it's a freakin promotion to me!!).
Anyways, now that my mood has improved a bit, I have started working out, and I have a great workout routine that I do with weights. Light weights of course, but I hope to start advancing in those.
I weighed myself for the first time a couple days ago, and discovered I lost three lbs!! Yay! Of course, it's probably just water weight, but that has to happen in the beginning anyways so it's a start. I can't wait to start feeling my clothes loosen. I've started doing a lot of dancing each week on top of the weights, so hopefully the two together will start burning the inches.
Feel free to leave ideas and suggestions for diet and exercise secrets that you might have. At this point I'm desperate and will try anything (within reason) and I could use all the help I can get.
Anyways, now that my mood has improved a bit, I have started working out, and I have a great workout routine that I do with weights. Light weights of course, but I hope to start advancing in those.
I weighed myself for the first time a couple days ago, and discovered I lost three lbs!! Yay! Of course, it's probably just water weight, but that has to happen in the beginning anyways so it's a start. I can't wait to start feeling my clothes loosen. I've started doing a lot of dancing each week on top of the weights, so hopefully the two together will start burning the inches.
Feel free to leave ideas and suggestions for diet and exercise secrets that you might have. At this point I'm desperate and will try anything (within reason) and I could use all the help I can get.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Can I Actually Do It?
I don't know. So far the only goal I've actually managed to achieve is to drink more water. I didn't even manage to stop drinking soda. I did drink coke zero, so that's a step in the right direction, but seeing as how I never even drank soda at all before I started my job, that's not really such a great improvement. I literally didnt drink soda, other than stealing the very occasional sip from a friend, for two+ years. I'm determined to get back to that.
As for exercise, not gonna happen. I went for a long walk with my roommate, and I managed to somehow strain my shoulder during it. How, I have no idea, but ever since then, breathing hasn't been the most fun, let alone exercising. I'm going to pretend its not there though, and start exercising anyways hopefully. Not today though, because I have to take my son to the doctor. Again. For like the third time this month.
On a good note, I found some great 15-20 min exercise routines that I can start doing. Normally I would work put on my wii, but the batteries are dead in my board and I haven't had the chance to buy more. Ill get them eventually, but for now I needed a new workout, and luckily I got one delivered to me in my email.
My goal for exercise is to eventually get into a kickboxing class. I found an excellent class that gives two full free classes....but it's got a $100 sign up fee and costs $40 a month. With that $40 you get two days a week, but you can take as many classes in that day as you want...so cool.
But that's a long term thing. On my crappy salary from my soul sucking job, it's not going to happen for a while. So I'm going to do what I can to get somewhat fit before my camping trip this summer. I refuse to look as fat as I did last year. It's so humiliating looking back at videos from my friends wedding during our last camping trip and seeing just how awful I looked, when I originally thought I didn't look so bad :( Not again.
As for exercise, not gonna happen. I went for a long walk with my roommate, and I managed to somehow strain my shoulder during it. How, I have no idea, but ever since then, breathing hasn't been the most fun, let alone exercising. I'm going to pretend its not there though, and start exercising anyways hopefully. Not today though, because I have to take my son to the doctor. Again. For like the third time this month.
On a good note, I found some great 15-20 min exercise routines that I can start doing. Normally I would work put on my wii, but the batteries are dead in my board and I haven't had the chance to buy more. Ill get them eventually, but for now I needed a new workout, and luckily I got one delivered to me in my email.
My goal for exercise is to eventually get into a kickboxing class. I found an excellent class that gives two full free classes....but it's got a $100 sign up fee and costs $40 a month. With that $40 you get two days a week, but you can take as many classes in that day as you want...so cool.
But that's a long term thing. On my crappy salary from my soul sucking job, it's not going to happen for a while. So I'm going to do what I can to get somewhat fit before my camping trip this summer. I refuse to look as fat as I did last year. It's so humiliating looking back at videos from my friends wedding during our last camping trip and seeing just how awful I looked, when I originally thought I didn't look so bad :( Not again.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Entry 1.....of what I hope to be many
I'm going to lose weight.
I'm not sure how I'm going to do it, but I don't want to be sick of looking at myself in the mirror. I'm not obese, but I might as well be. And I'm not one of those people who wants to be so skinny that you can see bones poking out. I actually enjoy having curves. Just not so damn many of them. I like curves, not rolls.
So, I'm going to put this online. Chances are nobody will ever read it, or if they do I'll never know because no one will be interested enough to care. But maybe just having the possibility of somebody find it will be enough motivation to make it work. The gods know I don't have the will-power to do it just for myself anymore.
So on the off-chance that someone will actually read this, I'll write a bit about myself.
I am a single mother of a two and a half year old boy. I adopted him, he was my nephew. We lived in California til the adoption was complete and now we live in New Mexico with my sons grandparents. I work at Walmart (though I'm desperately trying to find someplace else to work, because I'm convinced that half of my current problem is that I HATE my job and its depressing). My goal is to be a journalist, or possibly do something in computer science.
And the most important bits: I'm 5'4" and 196 lbs. People don't believe I weigh that much when they see me (unless they're just trying to be nice, which annoys me cause I know how big I am and I don't want people lying to me). My goal is to be between 130 lbs and 140 lbs. I think that would look best on me, but its not a fixed goal. My biggest goal is mostly to be fit.
I've made a list of a few things I'm going to start doing to hopefully get in better shape.
1. Track Calorie and food.
2. Exercise. A LOT!
3. Drink plenty of water.
4. STOP DRINKING SODA!
5. Go to bed early, get up early.
Some of these things seem unbearably obvious, but its so easy to just not bother, especially with working at Walmart. Especially on those days where I just can't stand my boss, its so easy to go on my break and walk up to the check-out line where every possible soda that exists is just waiting to be picked up to make to day seem bearable. And its almost impossible after a long, awful day of cleaning up after others peoples messes to just go to the deli and grab a big thing of their awful/delicious mac and cheese and a fork and mow down. And the early to bed, early to rise thing. Doesn't sound complicated right? Wrong. I'm a night owl, so I'll sit up crazy late reading a book, or watching videos on youtube, or in general doing anything but going to bed, til I realize its 1 am and I have to work the next day. So I think writing these things down and pinning them up will help......at least, I hope they will. If the constant reminder isn't enough then I don't know what will be.
I hate that one of my biggest problems is that I don't even eat all that much. I have maybe one big meal a day, and then just a couple of snacks. Unfortunately, those snacks are never the best possible options. Its unbelievably convienant to have a Sonic right on the road I take to get home from work every night (at 10 pm, which is to late to make a decent meal, so I might as well just grab a burger from Sonic, right? See my problem? Sigh). So on top of learning which foods to eat, I actually need to eat more. While a Sonic burger does have several hundred calories, its not actually enough to make up the number of calories one is supposed to have, especially not for someone who spends all day walking back and forth across a quarter mile wide store and lifting heavy boxes.
In conclusion, I want to lose weight and maybe this will do the trick. If you enjoy my crazy ramblings, feel free to comment anytime. I would love to hear from you. I'll probably only post once a week, even if its just to say I don't have anything to say because I completely blew the week. Meh.
Current weight: 196
Goal weight: 130
Lbs to goal: 66
Weekly goal: 1-2 lbs
I'm not sure how I'm going to do it, but I don't want to be sick of looking at myself in the mirror. I'm not obese, but I might as well be. And I'm not one of those people who wants to be so skinny that you can see bones poking out. I actually enjoy having curves. Just not so damn many of them. I like curves, not rolls.
So, I'm going to put this online. Chances are nobody will ever read it, or if they do I'll never know because no one will be interested enough to care. But maybe just having the possibility of somebody find it will be enough motivation to make it work. The gods know I don't have the will-power to do it just for myself anymore.
So on the off-chance that someone will actually read this, I'll write a bit about myself.
I am a single mother of a two and a half year old boy. I adopted him, he was my nephew. We lived in California til the adoption was complete and now we live in New Mexico with my sons grandparents. I work at Walmart (though I'm desperately trying to find someplace else to work, because I'm convinced that half of my current problem is that I HATE my job and its depressing). My goal is to be a journalist, or possibly do something in computer science.
And the most important bits: I'm 5'4" and 196 lbs. People don't believe I weigh that much when they see me (unless they're just trying to be nice, which annoys me cause I know how big I am and I don't want people lying to me). My goal is to be between 130 lbs and 140 lbs. I think that would look best on me, but its not a fixed goal. My biggest goal is mostly to be fit.
I've made a list of a few things I'm going to start doing to hopefully get in better shape.
1. Track Calorie and food.
2. Exercise. A LOT!
3. Drink plenty of water.
4. STOP DRINKING SODA!
5. Go to bed early, get up early.
Some of these things seem unbearably obvious, but its so easy to just not bother, especially with working at Walmart. Especially on those days where I just can't stand my boss, its so easy to go on my break and walk up to the check-out line where every possible soda that exists is just waiting to be picked up to make to day seem bearable. And its almost impossible after a long, awful day of cleaning up after others peoples messes to just go to the deli and grab a big thing of their awful/delicious mac and cheese and a fork and mow down. And the early to bed, early to rise thing. Doesn't sound complicated right? Wrong. I'm a night owl, so I'll sit up crazy late reading a book, or watching videos on youtube, or in general doing anything but going to bed, til I realize its 1 am and I have to work the next day. So I think writing these things down and pinning them up will help......at least, I hope they will. If the constant reminder isn't enough then I don't know what will be.
I hate that one of my biggest problems is that I don't even eat all that much. I have maybe one big meal a day, and then just a couple of snacks. Unfortunately, those snacks are never the best possible options. Its unbelievably convienant to have a Sonic right on the road I take to get home from work every night (at 10 pm, which is to late to make a decent meal, so I might as well just grab a burger from Sonic, right? See my problem? Sigh). So on top of learning which foods to eat, I actually need to eat more. While a Sonic burger does have several hundred calories, its not actually enough to make up the number of calories one is supposed to have, especially not for someone who spends all day walking back and forth across a quarter mile wide store and lifting heavy boxes.
In conclusion, I want to lose weight and maybe this will do the trick. If you enjoy my crazy ramblings, feel free to comment anytime. I would love to hear from you. I'll probably only post once a week, even if its just to say I don't have anything to say because I completely blew the week. Meh.
Current weight: 196
Goal weight: 130
Lbs to goal: 66
Weekly goal: 1-2 lbs
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