Okay, so today is Day One of the Back 2 Basics Challenge and I'm excited to get back to the gym :) There's not too much more to say about that right now, but I do have something to note for anyone who actually keeps up with reading my blog:
Today I finally started acknowledging the decimal part of my scale when I weigh in. It will help me be more accountable, as well as keep better track of my loss. So, today it doesn't look like I lost much weight, but hopefully it'll melt off throughout this competition.
But anyway! The disclaimer I wanted to mention was that on my "Stats & Weigh ins" section, as of today there will be decimals included in my weight. I'll be weighing in every Monday for the next 6 weeks (until the end of July), and I can't wait to see how much I lose! I also might take another set of pictures to compare if I get up to 20 lbs lost. :)
OH! And I'm super excited to share that I only have to lose 5.5 lbs to finally be out of the "Obese" category for my height! I know that BMI isn't everything, but for me right now, it is very important.
Monday, June 18, 2012
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Back 2 Basics Challenge
I feel so lazy sitting on my butt all day and not doing anything.
Screw this knee problem.
I'm over it.
Another one of my reasons for not pushing myself to get back to the gym is that I'm saving money by not paying for another month at the gym. BUT! I know that once I pay for that month, I'm going to get the most for my money.
A friend of mine on MFP posted about a Back 2 Basics Challenge that she's doing and as the description says, it's a "a swift kick to get back on track" which, in my opinion, is what I need, as well as some nice strong pain meds for my knee (LOL!). It starts on Monday and runs until the end of July. Not only will it motivate me to keep working, but I am the type of person to work really hard to complete a goal/challenge, which is what this is!
There are four challenges:
Screw this knee problem.
I'm over it.
Another one of my reasons for not pushing myself to get back to the gym is that I'm saving money by not paying for another month at the gym. BUT! I know that once I pay for that month, I'm going to get the most for my money.
A friend of mine on MFP posted about a Back 2 Basics Challenge that she's doing and as the description says, it's a "a swift kick to get back on track" which, in my opinion, is what I need, as well as some nice strong pain meds for my knee (LOL!). It starts on Monday and runs until the end of July. Not only will it motivate me to keep working, but I am the type of person to work really hard to complete a goal/challenge, which is what this is!
There are four challenges:
- Weight loss: 5% of body weight
- Miles: 90 (walk, run, jog, etc)
- Calories burned: 18,000
- Minutes exercised: 900
I'm going to try to complete all four of them!
Saturday, June 9, 2012
SALAD!
I'll go ahead and say it right now. I do not like salads, at all. I prefer warm food over cold, I suppose, so the whole cold pieces of lettuce and various other things is just.. not appealing, at all! Yes, I know that vegetables are good for us and all of their nutritional benefits, and I LOVE veggies, but salads are a big NO for me.
I'm writing this to say that I've not eaten a single salad yet into this weight loss journey of mine and I've lost 14 lbs already. There's no need to necessarily eat more salads, it's to eat less junk. Salads can be healthy, with little dressing, but too much dressing and BAM it's right back to being an unhealthy meal.
The key to weight loss is LIFESTYLE CHANGE. I'm not going to eat salads to lose weight, because if I had to eat a salad everyday of the rest of my life, kill me now. I eat my veggies happily, but not in a salad. However, tonight's dinner was veggie cakes and oh my goodness they were sooo yummy and sooo healthy!! One day I'll post the recipe to them on here, but for now you can just wonder what they're like. ;)
I'm writing this to say that I've not eaten a single salad yet into this weight loss journey of mine and I've lost 14 lbs already. There's no need to necessarily eat more salads, it's to eat less junk. Salads can be healthy, with little dressing, but too much dressing and BAM it's right back to being an unhealthy meal.
The key to weight loss is LIFESTYLE CHANGE. I'm not going to eat salads to lose weight, because if I had to eat a salad everyday of the rest of my life, kill me now. I eat my veggies happily, but not in a salad. However, tonight's dinner was veggie cakes and oh my goodness they were sooo yummy and sooo healthy!! One day I'll post the recipe to them on here, but for now you can just wonder what they're like. ;)
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Diet really DOES matter!
Who would've thunk it? haha.
Since I've had those troubles with my knee, I really haven't gone to the gym at all. At all, at all. I pretty much end up doing nothing but sitting around all day because my knee hurts so much, but I kept eating what I'm supposed to and stayed under my calorie intake (a bit harder for some of the other things I monitor on MFP, but that's another story) and tried to rest my knee as much as possible.
I weighed myself almost two weeks ago, and it was before Memorial Day and before my knee started to give me hell, and then both of those things happened and I was afraid to weigh myself for fear of what it might say. I put it off until this morning, but I figured that it's been a while and I guess curiosity got the best of me and thankfully it did because I finally saw a number in the 170's!! It's been probably over a year since I saw a number like that and I'm so excited about it! I'm going out of town this weekend (well, early weekend haha) I'd like to be able to maintain what I've got going for the 2 days I'll be out, and I probably will considering how psyched I am about this!!
Just let this be yet another reminder as to how important what you eat is to weight-loss. Yes, exercise is important to tone your body and make it look even better, but it definitely goes hand-in-hand with what you eat. So don't let not being able to go to the gym put you down! Keep up the great work and you will reap the benefits!!
:D
Since I've had those troubles with my knee, I really haven't gone to the gym at all. At all, at all. I pretty much end up doing nothing but sitting around all day because my knee hurts so much, but I kept eating what I'm supposed to and stayed under my calorie intake (a bit harder for some of the other things I monitor on MFP, but that's another story) and tried to rest my knee as much as possible.
I weighed myself almost two weeks ago, and it was before Memorial Day and before my knee started to give me hell, and then both of those things happened and I was afraid to weigh myself for fear of what it might say. I put it off until this morning, but I figured that it's been a while and I guess curiosity got the best of me and thankfully it did because I finally saw a number in the 170's!! It's been probably over a year since I saw a number like that and I'm so excited about it! I'm going out of town this weekend (well, early weekend haha) I'd like to be able to maintain what I've got going for the 2 days I'll be out, and I probably will considering how psyched I am about this!!
Just let this be yet another reminder as to how important what you eat is to weight-loss. Yes, exercise is important to tone your body and make it look even better, but it definitely goes hand-in-hand with what you eat. So don't let not being able to go to the gym put you down! Keep up the great work and you will reap the benefits!!
:D
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Here's to catching up!
SO.
I've been totally MIA on here for quite a while it feels and I'm still not totally sure as to why. However, quite a few things have happened to me in the time that I've been away.
I snuck in a weigh in last Saturday morning (the day after I weighed in and saw no change on the scale) and I saw that I had, in fact, lost one more pound, putting me at an official 10 lbs lost. :)
I experienced my first NSV (Non Scale Victory) Saturday night when I was out with friends and one of them asked me if I had lost any weight. It was a great feeling to say "YES, YES I HAVE AND THANK YOU FOR NOTICING!!" Needless to say, I was excited.
Then, this past week, I wanted to really work my butt off at the gym and keep up the progress I was making, and do some damage control for the prior weekend, since I ended up guessing on a lot of my food and wasn't really able to exercise at all. HOWEVER, the knee issue that I've had for the past 2 years crept back up on me and I was struck with an almost unimaginable amount of pain my right knee. So I've been barely going to the gym this week since my knee has been killing me, but I've at least been trying to eat properly so that I don't go over my calories since I'm not really able to do anything.
Tomorrow I'm making an effort to make an appointment with a doctor because I can almost not drive or walk because it hurts so bad at some points. It's worse now than it ever has been and the knee brace that used to help and offer some pain relief does next to nothing now.
It's time to see a doctor, even though I'm afraid of what will come from it.
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Also, I haven't weighed myself since that last sneaky weigh-in. I'm going to wait until next Friday; I'm trying to be healthier and if the scale reflects that awesome, but I want to be able to look in the mirror and see a difference and not let the scale consume how I feel about myself. I'm hoping that by distancing myself from the scale, I'll have a bit better of a relationship with it.
Hopefully that makes sense. haha
I've been totally MIA on here for quite a while it feels and I'm still not totally sure as to why. However, quite a few things have happened to me in the time that I've been away.
I snuck in a weigh in last Saturday morning (the day after I weighed in and saw no change on the scale) and I saw that I had, in fact, lost one more pound, putting me at an official 10 lbs lost. :)
I experienced my first NSV (Non Scale Victory) Saturday night when I was out with friends and one of them asked me if I had lost any weight. It was a great feeling to say "YES, YES I HAVE AND THANK YOU FOR NOTICING!!" Needless to say, I was excited.
Then, this past week, I wanted to really work my butt off at the gym and keep up the progress I was making, and do some damage control for the prior weekend, since I ended up guessing on a lot of my food and wasn't really able to exercise at all. HOWEVER, the knee issue that I've had for the past 2 years crept back up on me and I was struck with an almost unimaginable amount of pain my right knee. So I've been barely going to the gym this week since my knee has been killing me, but I've at least been trying to eat properly so that I don't go over my calories since I'm not really able to do anything.
Tomorrow I'm making an effort to make an appointment with a doctor because I can almost not drive or walk because it hurts so bad at some points. It's worse now than it ever has been and the knee brace that used to help and offer some pain relief does next to nothing now.
It's time to see a doctor, even though I'm afraid of what will come from it.
______________________________
Also, I haven't weighed myself since that last sneaky weigh-in. I'm going to wait until next Friday; I'm trying to be healthier and if the scale reflects that awesome, but I want to be able to look in the mirror and see a difference and not let the scale consume how I feel about myself. I'm hoping that by distancing myself from the scale, I'll have a bit better of a relationship with it.
Hopefully that makes sense. haha
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