Winter Blues are getting better :)

I have been fighting the winter blues pretty bad. I've tended to turn on the tv to a movie or pbs and park the kids in front of it while I nap or crochet or just poke my nose into a book. I really do enjoy a good book, but not at the cost of my health and my kids health. I decided last Monday that we needed to just get out of the house and move! So I bundled the kids up and took them for a 60 min walk around the neighborhood in the snow and ice! It was so much fun for them that we did it again the next 3 days. Of course this made sure that we all got sick for the weekend and are finally well enough to go back outside today so we went out (fresh snow again, about 6-8 inches) and didn't make it very far but came back and played in the snow in the yard building a snowman and whatnot. It was very refreshing and a good workout. We put our things in the dryer so we can go out again after nap time and jump in the untouched snow of the backyard this time. Since I started this pregnancy ahead of the curve on the weight side of things, I wouldn't mind keeping the weight off as much as possible. Besides, staying fit and trying to be healthy is not going to hurt the baby! :) I'm just not going to overdo it but am trying to make a conscious effort to stay active at home, watch minimal tv and be productive. We'll see :) Monday's check in weight at the dr: 180. Better than I thought, but still a lot...

Sorry for the novel Mary and Sarah. I hope y'all are having good luck with staying healthy and losing weight.

Challenge YOU!

Sarah, I challenge YOU to see which of us can do best about exercising and eating right until I get to Virginia. We've got 9 days, who can do the best?

Everyday we need to log what we did for exercise, and how many eating mistakes we had. By that I mean, like senseless eating, snacking on something we shouldn't've snacked on (fruits and veggies don't really count so much here), or eating something at too late of an hour. No food diaries, but just any mistakes we made according to our gut feeling of what was a good choice and what was a bad choice.

Are you ready? I'm ready!

It's been a long time...

...and I need to lose weight again. I still fit into my size 12's, but the size 10's that I bought are a wee bit too tight and the 12's fit good again. GAH! >.<

My eating is TERRIBLE, it's SO HARD to keep from eating while here at college. I need to not count calories necessarily, but just eat SLOW and eat LESS and STOP myself after 9:00!!!

So, my goal is to eat slower and eat less and be active and exercise everyday.

Controlled, again.

My eating has been very good. I've been doing pretty dang well, not really snacking (although since this isn't my house, I have had snacking urges but I have no food source), and eating slowly and not a whole lot at meal times.

I've even resisted overeating my beef jerky and pretzel sticks that are stowed in my car.

Really, if you have a snacking or "I just really want to eat something" issue, get fat free wal-mart brand pretzel sticks. Eat one at a time, munch 'em with your front teeth because its fun, and make sure you stop yourself after a bit. A serving size is 39 sticks (takes a LONG time to get there if you eat them one by one and slowly), and that's 100 calories. Awesome deal, huh?!

Sarah, you NEED to post. Although I don't think you have internet so that could explain...

Success!

Yesterday was a true SUCCESS (except for the fact I didn't exercise) I ate so WELL! Mostly because I was busy all day, staying out of the house and avoiding food. But I didn't really even think about food all day which was good. I need to keep that in mind when I return to my apartment... Keep yourself busy = no mind for food. :)

This morning I forced myself out of bed at 7:15am (I went to bed at 11pm), although I think my prayer to Heavenly Father to "help me please be motivated to get up and exercise in the morning" what mostly what did it :-P. So I got out of bed, dressed myself in my new pants-and-jacket-exercise-outift from walmart and went to Porter Park. My plan had been to walk a lap, then jog one, walk one, jog one, walk one, jog one, walk one, then walk another one, but... I jogged a whole lap (I think it's about 1/3 mile or more around the park's track) just about died but finished, then my EARS started to THROB! It was an aching throb inside, like an ear ache. I walked for the next 20 mins, it hurt SO bad. Maybe it had something to do with the air pressure?

I think I remember something about allowing your body to adjust to different air pressures before you hard-core exercise? Am I right or making that up? Dunno... it just hurt. >.< Then I came back to the house, stretched and did my abs, then ate a bowl of cereal and four pb-filled pretzels. I am going to be a success!!!

It's Gonna Happen!

So I wrote my food planner for today and I'm gonna STICK TO IT! I only have 945 calories of meals combined (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner) so that leaves 500 available to snack with. I'm not going to allow myself to snack past what I allocated, but since I've been having so much extra junk/crap I have to have extra available calories.

I woke up this morning to exercise however... and I didn't. >.< I'm gonna go after Career Exploration, however, when I'm more awake and determined. :)

And even though it's only 8:34am, I was up at 7:45am and I already ate breakfast but I've stuck to my meal plan! I'm gonna eat lunch around 12:15 so I'm not eating from 12:45 to 4:15 so my stomach'll be nice and empty for exercising after class.

Discouraging but encouraging.

Well some days the daily weighing just backfires on me. This morning I weighed 164.4 and yesterday morning I was 163.2. I can't figure out where I went wrong. Bah. So anyway since I was feeling so blue I decided to go measure my waist. On Tuesday, June 24 I measured my waist and it was 35.5, well today I measured my waist and it was 32"!!! So I've lost 3.5 inches on my waist in less than a month! WOOT!

I tell you what though, I am REALLY READY to see the 150's.