slendertone

cleaning out the closet, came across an old slendertone i bought years ago, thinking it would help me loose weight... ah hahaha!  funny right?  well i've decided to give it a whirl in toning my abs.  i've lost all this weight, now i need the abs to show for it.  i am going to give it 4 weeks, and see if I see results.  i'll take before pictures and after pictures, and measurements.  going to try 40 minutes every other day at level 50.  it might not do anything, but it can't hurt to try it out!?!

it's still a loss

today was 112.9 lbs... not much of a loss... but thats ok, it's still a loss... and it's ahead of where i need to be, 0.6 lbs to be exact.  so...


i had an awesome day at the gym, i thought.  i ran 1 mile in 9:36!   thats like 6.25mph! woohoo.  then i brisk walked for 20 minutes.  did the elliptical for 15 minutes, and swam laps for 20 minutes.  oh and even did some reps on the assisted pull up machine.  not to shabby, MFP said I burned 435 calories!

intake has been so so. a little more than I would like, but still decent.  

Breakfast - fiber one brownie (90cal)

Lunch - EAS chocolate shake (110cal), 1/5 cup mixed nuts (130cal), blueberry snack pack (25cal)

Snack - Chips & Salsa (140cal), 3 baby carrots (10 cal)

That's 505 calories.    so net intake 70 calories.   surely this will give me some results in the morning...

family matters

so today i weighed in at 113.0 lbs even.   after binging all day at work yesterday, i'll take it.  why are they still bringing us junk food?!  the holidays are over.   grrrr.

today i got my family, well 7 of 8 adults to agree to a 4 week weight loss challenge.  i thought it would be a good idea, since they all wanted to loose weight this year.  so everyone put in  $5, and at the end of 4 weeks, who ever has the greatest % loss wins the pot ($35).  not a whole lot, but a lil friendly competition always makes people more accountable.   so we will see how things go, weigh in is every sunday afternoon.

tonight i took my husband to the gym with me.  it was so nice to have him there with me.  i have one more guest pass and i am hoping to get 4 more passes this week before we commit to his membership.  we walked 1.5 miles around the indoor track together.  then did 5 miles on the bikes.  well i did 5 miles, he did about 3.  thats how much faster i was than him!  and then we swam for about 20 minutes before retiring to the segregated sauna areas.  i hope i can continue to get him to go with me.  its nice to spend the time with him.

total binge...

so yesterday after a good day at the gym swimming and walking i totally ruined it....   on a 1570 calorie binge fest... eek!!!   so today i weighed in at 113.4 lbs, but that's ok, i am still ahead of where i need to be to get to 110 by my deadline.   so i am not going to panic just yet.

today however, was good at the gym, i ran a mile in 10:09 today!  i was a lil excited. that's a pretty good improvement from Tuesday.  woo hoo.  i'll take what i can get.  

and as far as food, i am staying on track, had a fiber one brownie (90cal) 1/4cup of grapefruit (20cal) for breakfast... then ate lunch out with my parents, had a side salad with fat free ranch (50cal) and one beer battered onion ring (50cal?) that puts me at 210 calories so far.  tonight we are going to our with some friends for dinner at an Italian restaurant, I am planning on a mixed green salad with white balsamic dressing on the side (50cal) i barely use any dressing, and then a bowl of minestrone soup (100cal).  hopefully i can stick to that plan and then i will have 360 calories for the day, and its a 400 cal day.  :D

112.6

so weigh in this morning was excellent, almost couldn't believe it.  112.6 lbs!  another 1 lb!  so that small binge yesterday didn't set me back like I expected.  

today i have planned to go to gym swim 200yds or 8 lengths of the pool, and walk my 1 mile.  (i think i am going to increase this by 0.5 mi each week, and see how it goes.  

and then its a 300 cal day.... so i am thinking a EAS low carb chocolate protein shake once i get back from gym, (110 cal), and then for lunch a cottage cheese snack cup (90 cal) and for dinner a snack pack of ham (50 cal) and a spring mix salad with a tsp of fat free ranch (35 cal).  and that should only be 285 cal.  and lots of protein! 

well i am off to the gym... wish me luck at sticking to my calorie goal!

an okay start

yesterday i did great. under 500 cal,  313 to be exact! :-)  and i went to the gym to run.

today not i did not so great with the calories, intake 1050?!  eeek,  but i did make it to the gym, cycled 5 miles, i averaged about 15mph, which i thought was pretty good... and walked 1 mile.  then sat in the steam room for about 10 minutes.  hopefully it doesn't ruin my weigh in tomorrow...

but on the up side, when i weighed this morning i was down 1 lb!!  113.6 lbs.   yah!  so i think between it all, i can call it a wash? hah

and maybe someday, eventually i'll look like this...

 

2013 = Weightlessness

So here it is 2013!  And it's time to start all over.  I have updated my blog for the year to track this years progress.   I've set two long term goals for the NEW year.

1. Reach my UGW of 102 lbs!
2. Exercise at least 3 days/week

and then here is a short term goal

1. Reach my GW of 110 lbs by Jan. 28th.  (for my 2nd Annual Bahama Birthday Cruise!)

which means I have 4 weeks to lose 4.6 lbs... that's about 1.2 lbs/week... so here is where I should be, as a weekly target.

Mon. Jan. 7 - 113.5 lbs

Mon. Jan. 14 - 112.4 lbs

Mon. Jan. 21 - 111.2 lbs

Mon. Jan. 28 - 110 lbs

I am starting the ABC diet today, I know I won't make it through the 50 days, b/c I never do... but I still think it is a good tool for keeping me on track towards my GW.

I have also started a Sprint Triathlon 11 week training program.  Not sure if I will actually do a Sprint Triathlon, but it looked like a good beginning workout regimen.  Check it out here. (page 5 gives an overview)  So today I started with Running for 15 minutes.  I couldn't run the whole 15 minutes, and my time for 1 mile was 12:54.... not great at all, but hey gotta start somewhere.  So in this training program there is Swimming, Running and Cycling, I think I would get too bored just running all the time.  But while I was at the gym today I checked out the pool facilities, and I didn't realize how nice it was, and what I've been missing out on!  It has a heated therapy pool, a 10 lane lap pool, sauna/steam room and hot tub.  WHAT?!  So I will be totally taking advantage of that this year.  So I ordered a one-piece swimsuit today, b/c there is a dress code for the pool areas, and who owns a one piece swimsuit these days?!  and last week when I was at a sporting good store I picked up some goggles.  I really hope I can keep motivated this year.  

Also to keep me more accountable, at least for 12 weeks, I joined a group at work for a minutes logged per week exercising competition.  I don't want to let my team down. 

So here is to 2013!  Let's hope it equals weightlessness!  

in conclusion... 2012

so i went back and reviewed by blogging over the past year.  and i must say, its been quite the journey.  i started the year weighing in a 140.6 lbs.  eek!  and at the beginning of the year i set my GW at 125 lbs, on the up side i not only reached this original GW but I surpassed it.   but somewhere throughout the year it just wasn't enough and I changed my GW to 110 lbs (which was my original UGW)... then changing my UGW to 102 lbs.  well i didn't quite make it to my GW of 110 lbs, but i did get close at the beginning of December, weighing in at 111 lbs!   unfortunately the holidays spoiled my weight loss intentions. :-(  but all is good.  I am still optimistic.  today for the end of the year I weighed in at 114.6 lbs, which means I lost a total of 26 lbs over the course of 2012!  yah!  and if i were to count my 111 lbs weigh in, i would've lost 29.6 lbs over the year, almost 30 lbs!!  but i am not 111 lbs now, so i am not counting it. :-(

here was my progress for the year
* LW: 111 lbs (12/3/12)
(X) SW: 140.6 lbs (1/2/12)
(X) MG1: 138.5 lbs (1/9/12)
(X) MG2: 136.5 lbs (1/16/12)
(X) MG3: 134.5 lbs (1/19/12)
(X) MG4: 132 lbs (1/26/12)
(X) MG5: 130 lbs (2/15/12)
(X) MG6: 128 lbs (7/3/12)
(X) MG7: 125 lbs (7/14/12)
(X) MG8: 120 lbs (8/1/12)
(X) MG9: 116 lbs (10/20/12)
(X) MG10: 113 lbs (11/24/12) 

so here are some before and after pics....  maybe someone will find them thinspirational. 

background

for thinspo for the upcoming new year i created a background for my desktop.  thought i'd share it. :D

determined

i am sooo mad at myself, i just let go the past few weeks.... i was sooo close.... soo damn close.   now i am up to 115.2 lbs...  i just want to cry.   i was only 1 pound away from my GW, and i went and screwed it all up.  but am i determined now... i will fast until New Years Eve, and then only have a glass or two of champagne.  hopefully this will get me back on track and closer to my goal.   so here's to coffee, tea and water! bottoms up ;-)