Life is so hectic, I have not been doing very well in the last couple of weeks. I bought a new dance video that I was so excited about and then got frustrated because I wasn’t losing any more weight and stopped doing anything. Tomorrow I plan on getting back on track and get back to losing this weight. I’m sorry to all of my buddies for taking a break and ask that you all keep being as supportive as you have been. Thank you and wish me good luck and lots of willpower.
I have been working out and eating right since the 17th of June, in the last two weeks I have been walking for 2 hours a day and doing a sculpting video for 45 minutes. I eat 1500 calories and have cut sugar from my diet. I keep my fat intake under 40g and my carbs around 170g. I drink water like ther is no tomorrow. I know that you have to burn more calories than you take in to loose weight but does your basal count? Or do the only calories burned from exercise count ? WIth all the exercise I do everyday I burn around 1064 calories, I’ve read some magazines and stuff online and I am working out about an hour longer than what most of the articles say to. I feel really good after exerciseing and even feel like I could add more time but I am curious how to calculate how much exercise to do in order to burn enough calories. If anyone knows about the basal calorie burn and exercise calorie burn please respond.
Thanks
All right so last Tuesday when I started this site I weighed 214, Wednesday I weighed 213 and Thursday I weighed 211. Then on Friday low and behold what number do I see? 209 and I’m estatic, I am super careful over the weekend and work 10 times harder and longer in my workouts because I have the motivation I need to keep losing weight. Monday comes around and the scale says 211….Hmmm, I think “Well, I did weigh after breakfast.” So I still kick butt and eating is no longer an issue because I haven’t had any real temptation and I’ve been so busy that I have time for meals but no snacks which is actually working for me now. I have completely kicked soda now in favor of water and Unsweet tea which I love now. Tuesday 211, Wednesday 211, Thursday 211, ACK!!!! This morning while I’m doing my weigh in ritual I standing on the scale butt naked and it says 209…Then I realize that I am holding on to the doorframe. I weigh again and it says 211…sigh. So I am super disappointed but I know that it doesn’t matter because I kicked butt this week, I never do well past the first week of a diest and I did better this week than I did last week. So yes I weigh more than I thought and yes I am going to have to tell my husband that I’m a nerd and can’t weigh myself but I gave myself awesome motivation and drive to get me through week two and I am challenging myself physically in a way that I have never done even when I was skinny. I just wanted to let everyone know that my ticker my have gone up but I haven’t fallen off the proverbial wagon I just am a busy Momma and probably need to weigh in once a week instead of everyday.
I found a neat site called weightview.com, you upload your picture and in 48 hours or less you get it back in your e-mail digitally altered to look up to 50lbs lighter. Some people need a visual picture to look forward to, and I know it helped me get my butt in gear and do something about the way I look. BTW it’s free!
Hope it helps someone.
So I got up this morning thinking that everything would be fine, I was even a little excited because my mom was coming to pick up the kids for the night and it would just be me and m husband which doesn’thappen very often. I got the boys up and sent off to school, got my daughter around and dropped my husband off went through the bank and guess what? My car runs out of gas… in the driveway..sseconds after they hand me my money….sigh. I don’t have a gas tank in the car so I pick up my daughter and walk to a gas station where they only have a one gallon tank, buy one gallon of gas and carry my chunky 11 month old back down to the bank. By this time my heels are bleeding from walking in wrong shoes, I get back to the car, strap my kid in and empty the one gallon of gas in the tank and go to start the car and nothing. For some reason my battery is dead, I have to wait half an hour for my father in law to come up and jump the car which makes it half way home and then dies on the side of the highway. so I get my daughter out of the car and in his, run back for my bags and roll my ankle and take a tumble, cuttig open my knee as I lay bleeding on the side of the highway. My father in law thinks it I ran out of gas again so we run back to my house for a 5 gallon tank, fill it up put it in the car and nothing. We jump the car and it is running fine so I go to take off and it dies a few feet from were I was. so we run the battery up to walmart ( which by the way the battery is only 4 days old) the say that it is dead but it is probably my car doing it and I’m thinking ” Great, an alternator. That’ll be cheap” I go home get my boys off the bus and my father in law runs up to walmart to find out what is going on, a few minutes later. The verdict? The brand new battery was a dud…… so now everything is fine except for maybe my bleeding flesh wounds ;) I didn’t have a very good morning but I did get some extra walking in and some strength training from lugging the toddler around so I guess all in all everything worked out, kinda.
I was so nervous about walking today, the last two days I had my sister with me so I had someone to talk to and she went home yesterday. I knew I had to walk and hate working out by myself, but I got my daughter in her stroller and headed out the door. I loved walking! I realized, Hey I can do this. I had my MP3 player and a good walking track and my daughter loved being outside. I have never felt this confident about getting into shape before, I always go in to it thinking that my only option is failure and I know inside of myself that I have the power and ability to finally shed this weight. I have given myself a realistic time to do it in and I’m doing it healthy. I just need to get my husband in on it too and everything will be perfect!
Ack! I missed my snack today and completely overate at lunch. My mom came over to visit and I forgot about snack and went crazy at lunch, I am so upset with myself. I will have to be careful at dinner so I don’t have too many calories today. My body is so picky and if I don’t listen to it exactly I wind up over eating. I’m not going to get discouraged though, I have the next meal to ake a good decision! I feel so overwhelmed some times because I have so much to lose, I know it will take a slow and steady approach to ahieve my big goal but I am impatient and don’t want to quit like I do every other time.
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