Screw the Scale!

Starting Weight: 192 lbsGoal Weight: 132 lbsLast Time’s Weight: 173 lbsThis Time’s Weight: 169 lbsThis Time’s Loss: 4 lbsTotal Loss: 22 lbsThis Week’s Hours of Zumba: 0.0Last Week’s Hours of Zumba: 1.0Total Hours of Zumba: 7 I seriously mean that title. The scale is an object of torture and injustice. I am living proof of that. As can be read in last week’s post I lost barely 2 pounds last week....

Nothing to see here....

I am slacking this week and taking the week off from posting. I am pretty much where I was last week and I am blaming it on not eating regularly (I almost forgot entirely yesterday) and lack of sleep. sigh. So instead of me waxing on about stuff... you get a bit of funny....

This diet is...

I swear I am not making excuses. Okay. Maybe just a teeny tiny one. See, I have had repetitive strain in my right wrist since college. It comes and goes, mostly not bothering me; but with all of the writing and blogging I am doing it has flared up again. This time it decided to knot my back up to the point I couldn't even walk without excruciating pain. Fortunately I had already scheduled a doctor's...

Ooops, I did it again.

You know, I don't really have much to say this week. Not because I don't have much to say, but because I'm tired. I waited too late to do this post. I would love to talk about Bodypump, which I did for the first time. I did it on Saturday and my legs are just now starting to feel normal again. And did I mention that I did it with MINIMAL weight? 4lbs? Something like that. But damn, those...

Day 57: Never Surrender

In my mind this morning, I had it that I was going to talk about how I'm an almost forty-year-old woman (yes, it's not for a couple more years yet, but it's killing me – in my mind I'm still 22) with two kids and how could I still expect to have the same body I had when I was twenty and in the Army. I was forming the words in my head. Then, I came to work and jumped on the scale. And . . . I lost...

Efforts…meet Sabotage

Starting Weight: 192 lbsGoal Weight: 132 lbsLast Time’s Weight: 175 lbsThis Time’s Weight: 173 lbsThis Time’s Loss: 2 lbsTotal Loss: 19 lbsThis Week’s Hours of Zumba: 1.0Last Week’s Hours of Zumba: 1.5Total Hours of Zumba: 7 As you can see in the stats above, again “only” a 2 lbs loss in 2 weeks. Last time it was 3 lbs so the numbers are going down and I didn’t even have the pleasure of binging...

Let's talk rewards....

First, my weekly stats are blah. I am up about 0.4 lbs this week... but I am also pretty sure I am about to start a certain monthly tradition so I am going with that as the cause. I did get to body pump, tho I missed my cardio. I will do better next week! My plan: Body Pump: Tuesday & Friday Cardio: Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday I need to meal plan still, but thats my goal for tomorrow...

Another Secret...

It's Wednesday! Oh you know that...hhhmmmm. Let's try another secret then...FatSecret! This is a website (new to me if not actually new LOL!) that I found because of my totally disastrous weekend. What? Oh yes. I managed to not stress eat, mostly cause I was flipping out. I bricked my Blackberry Storm. It was a useless, overpriced paperweight for 24 hours this weekend.I was trying to fix my memory...

"I said to the man are you trying to tempt me?"

I actually heard this song on the way to work this morning so I'm taking that as a sign! It talks about food. We have a go!Greetings! This week was....um....well....it wasn't bad. I had a huge piece of choclate cake, but I ate half of it Saturday and the other half on Sunday. As good as having none at all? Not hardly. But it was good. I looked for a picture to show you, but came up empty. No food...

Day 50: Hitting a Wall

Usually, I post my progress at the end of a post. Today I'm doing it at the beginning. Last Monday, I weighed myself in at 150.7 pounds. This morning I weighed in at 150.2. Sigh. I feel like I've hit a wall that I can't climb over and it's frustrating. I suppose I should be happy that I haven't blown up. This weekend my local RWA Chapter had our annual Retreat. I love our Retreat. It's so different...

Too Late, Bad Blogger and temptations...

This week no weight update as I weigh bi-weekly so that's next week. Also I am writing this blog post way (!!!) too late because Friday was such a busy day, in fact this whole weekend is crazy with 2 birthdays and guests today for a dinner party, I forgot to write my weekly #twitloss post. So sorry for that and I hope I can make it up with this quickie post just before the guests arrive. As said,...

Get your squat on.

Yeah, I don't have anything super funny or inspiring today. Good news? I am down 1 pound this week. That seems about typical with my body... big loss one week, tiny the next. I got to body pump and zumba this week, even if I didn't really track my eating. Created by MyFitnessPal - Free Calorie Counter Anyway, instead of rambling on for you today, I will share with you some of my own personal torture....

My New Secret Weapon....

Image via WikipediaI am happy to say that last week was good. The weekend, well...we won't talk about the gooey goodness of the Brie cheeseburger I ate this weekend. It was divine. But food is still the topic of the day. In specific I am talking about my new secret weapon for eating breakfast and keeping with the Twitloss program.I am calling it a breakfast bake. I love this because I can make it...

Cheater!

Yes, I'm cheating by using a commercial song, but I couldn't think of a song about food this week. And, cheating seems to be the overall theme of my week so it all works.The food: So, my daily calorie count is between 1200-1500. For five of the last seven days, I was OVER calorie count. Oh yeah, you read that right. FIVE of the last seven days. Over. Between 200 and 400 calories over. That isn't horrible....

Day 43: Back In the Saddle Again

I feel great. It's very weird. This morning, I'm doing what I hate most in the day job (transcribing interviews), yet I'm sitting at my desk, chair swinging back and forth, with my headphones on jamming as if I'm listening to the radio. What's up with that? LOL. Also, when I got to work this morning I had to go upstairs for something. I actually jogged up the stairs!. That is so not me. Since the...

UP and DOWN

Starting Weight: 192 lbsGoal Weight: 132 lbsLast Time’s Weight: 178 lbsThis Time’s Weight: 175 lbsThis Time’s Loss: 3 lbsTotal Loss: 17 lbsThis Week’s Hours of Zumba: 1.5Last Week’s Hours of Zumba: 2.0Total Hours of Zumba: 6 So last week there was no post for me because I was sick. This week I had my weigh-in yesterday morning and I “only” lost 3 lbs. It may seem cruel to say ONLY 3 lbs but considering...

Get on the smoothie train...

I have that train song stuck in my head, the one that goes "Come on, ride the train, hey, ride it, woo woo". No particular reason, but it's the reason for the smoothie train title. I like smoothies.... convenient and easy, not to mention a yummy way to sneak in the green stuff I don't like to eat. Especially when you have a personal blender like this one (Tribest Personal Blender)... no extra dishes,...

Weekly Update...Nothing New to Report

Well, I don't really have anything to report. I gained back the 2lbs I lost and I am desperately trying not to stress eat. Here is kind of how I am feeling:Yeah....that says it all. Talk to you next we...

I'm Late, I'm Late

I'm a day late and a dollar short. I've been in North Carolina for the last several days visiting my sister-in-law and her family. They have a gorgeous house on the lake and we had a ball. My brother-in-law is in the Special Forces. Have you ever seen that show The Unit. Well, that's what he does. Since my sister-in-law and her husband are super fit they don't have a scale so I have no idea...

Pour some SUGAR on me.....

Honestly, trust me to go looking for baseball pics and find the ONE that has to do with food! This is the tailgate party outside US Cellular Field yesterday on White Sox Opening Day.This week caught me slacking off. I'm not sure if it was the weather (it was nice) or if my natural laziness just kicked in, but I didn't do all that I was supposed to do. I didn't post my stats to my page. I didn't...

Pearl is Sick Today...

so she can't come to the blog right now. Just leave her a message and she'll get back to you real so...

Let's start again shall we....

I had a post I was working on earlier but I wasn't paying attention to my battery level and the laptop ran out of juice, thereby losing most of my stuff.... it had been a long day so I swore at it (like all good ladies do) and walked away. So now that I have a few minutes, lets try again.... Really, the let's try again applies both to this post and to my twitloss efforts. This endeavor has been much harder than I expected, and I am no wuss. Well maybe sometimes.... but this month has been an emotional...