Weigh-in

It's weigh-in day agin. Luckily everyone started off in a good mood today. I hate being woke up by cranky kids, it just makes me cranky.

Anyway, back to weigh-in. Today I'm back down to 174.6. Which is good considering I only made it to the gym once. And that one time was for 15 minutes. Alex had a meltdown at the Kids Club so we had to cut our trip short.  I was just getting really good & sweaty on the elliptical.

An update on my goals.

1. Get to work at 7 am - only managed once this week. I'm not sleeping well so it makes getting up difficult.
2. Watch what I eat - I did fairly well on this one. I kept track for about half the week & only ate what I brought for breakfast/lunch/snack
3. Workout 3 times - So far I've been once. Hopefullu headed out as soon as the kids have breakfast. PLUS we are headed to the pool today.
4. Workout for an hour each time - didn't happen
5. Cook Sun-Thurs - I made it all the way to Thursday. We ended up at DQ because I REALLY wanted steak fingers.

Next week will probably be a not so great weigh-in since we are headed to visit family. The plus side is my family is doing the same things we are, actually more because they really do watch what they eat. But with a holiday & a birthday to celebrate I may just skip weigh-in.

Weekend Fun & Goals for the week

So this weekend I finally (yep finally) got to spend some time in the pool. Usually I drop the girls off with my mom for a few hours and go run errands that I can't with them there or just enjoy the quiet while Alex naps. This weekend I had nothing that I needed to do, so we made plans to swim.

Saturday we got up, grocery shopped early (rare occasion that I take 3 kids with me); Alex took his afternoon nap & we hit the pool around 3 pm. We same for 2 hours! Danika is getting so good at swimming, she no longer has to wear floaties or her vest. She is jumping off the diving board (we taught her how to do a cannonball!) and going down the slide. Such a little fish!

That night was Nerd Night with a group Robert & I are part of. We play games & they collect donations for various charities. We later went to see the new Man of Steel movie. Sunday we got up and cleaned out our garage.

Serioulsy if you looked at that one room, it looked like we could be on an episode of hoarders. We finally got everything separted for donation to Goodwill, bulk trash & things put up that we planned to keep; then we went & dropped off the Goodwill donation. I'll be glad when next Monday get's here because it's bulk trash day and my garage will be almost completely empty!

Around 3 pm we went swimming again. Boy was it nice! The girls wore themselves out swimming for a little over 2 hours. Seriously, it took them 10 minutes to fall asleep last night.

After all the swimming & the clearing of the garage I didn't feel bad for not making it to the gym this weekend. My food choices on the other hand weren't so great :p But it was date night & I wanted a good burger; so we hit up Twisted Root. I did skip popcorn at the movie theater. For the most part Sunday my eating wasn't bad, except the burger I had for lunch; but I got the junior burger so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. I cooked dinner for what seems like the first time in forever.

This week I need to make sure I get to the gym at least 3 times AND workout for at least 1 hour each time. I have been pretty lax in my working out lately & it's showing. The scale isn't moving. One thing I know I need to do is do some of the classes. I'm doing the same stuff each week so my body is getting used to it. I have been wanting to try a Spin class, maybe I'll try to do that this week (and hope I don't die!).

I also need to watch what I'm eating. When I'm not getting that movement at the gym my metabolism isn't moving as fast, but you can't tell my stomach it's not hungry.

Goals for this week
1. Get to work at 7 am (this makes working out easier)
2. Watch what I eat
3. Workout 3 times minimum
4. Workout for an hour minimum
5. Cook (Sun-Thurs) - Fridays & Saturdays don't count in our house

Stay tuned & I will have an update on whether I accomplished my goals when I weigh-in Saturday.

A minor set back

Today is weigh-in day. I hadn't really expected a loss this week, but I didnt expect a gain. Up 1.4 lbs this morning. Obviously my waiting to eat dinner until Robert got home & then also having a piece of the yummy cheesecake he made was not the best idea.

Hoping this will give me the kick in the butt I need to get motivated at the gym again. Everytime we go I just want to finish up within 20-30 min & get out of there. Obviously that's not going to help me move forward.

Now I must go grocery shop & hopefully we can squeeze in some swimming this afternoon before date night!

Weigh-in time

Short & sweet this week as I have a busy day of grocery shopping, cleaning, a birthday party & a small wedding. 

The scale didn't move much this week, only 0.8 lbs. But that can be attributed to my lack of working out. I caught a small cold this week and have had zero energy.  Finally feeling better which means in between all of those thinga I have planned for today I need to squeeze in a workout.

Official weight this week 174 lbs

Have a great weekend!

Weigh-in Saturday!

So today is my first weigh-in....and I lost 2 lbs! Woohoo! I didn't think it would happen considering I didn't make it to gym as much as I would like and I didn't eat like I should have. Nonetheless I am thrilled!

Official weight today....174.8

Weigh-in day

So I decided weigh-in day will be Saturday. I typically don't work out on Fridays, so it makes sense. I have found that doing a work out the say before weigh-in makes me retain fluid, because I will rest on weigh-in day and usually be down up to a pound the next day.

I am still trying to get back on track eating wise from being on vacation.  But we ate so much delicious food that my body is still craving it. Needless to say we had Twisted Root Burger twice in a row this week.

With all that being said, my official weight this morning was 176.8. I would like to be down to 135. Who knows if that will ever happen, but to be a good weight for my very short 5ft2in body it's where I need to be. So that's approximately 42 lbs I need to lose. I've already lost 37...yep that's right...I used to weigh OVER 200lbs. Not something I am proud of but it is what it is.

Thank you for reading my rambling & following me on this journey. Maybe I can get Robert to do a little blogging about his journey as well. Without his support I don't think I would be as far as I am today. Now if we can just get the eating part down & not give in to ALL of our cravings I think we will be good to go.