4:57am is normally the time I'm walking into the gym to get in my daily workout.
Today 4:57am was the time I stumbled out of bed to go use the restroom then headed straight back to bed.
My progress has stopped. Actually it's heading in the opposite direction. I have been sick with an awful head cold off and on this whole 8 weeks of my journey.
Besides a very slow 25 min walk on my treadmill Monday I've done no other workouts since last Thursday. My eating has been off and this morning the scale showed it.
I've been feeling gasy, bloated and overall yucky. (that's just from my eating). To top it off I'm still congested, my head still hurts and I get out of breath walking up the stairs like I did back in December.
I'm not coughing or blowing any green stuff, I have no fever so I'm assuming it's still just viral. I need it to go away. I want to feel better. 100% would be great but I'd even take 90 or 80.
I want 4:57am to be a time that I'm upright, walking in to get the burn on. Someday......Hopefully, someday soon
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
I'm BACK...Again!
Here I am, back again blogging about my weight loss journey! It's been almost 2.5 yrs since my last entry here. During that time I put back the weight lost plus some.
In 2011 I was determined to start again. Beginning weight was 325. I was motivated, doing it, working my plan and seeing results. I lost 30lbs by June then allowed the summer craziness get me off track. My excuse was there is NO time to exercise. Having 7 kids and 3 daycare kids makes my daily schedule crazy. Once the summer came I had kids staying up late, who I had to wait up for or pick up from friends' houses, and I just couldn't fathom getting up early to workout before my 7:30am daycare arrivals.
In the Fall of 2011 I started thinking about getting healthy but openly told my exercising sister, "I have no desire. Don't even ask me to participate with you" Then after a family reunion for Thanksgiving, seeing all my wonderfully fit family and in-laws the desire to be like them increased but not the desire to do what it takes.
At the end of 2011, when everyone in the world is thinking of New Year Resolutions, I too was thinking, once again, of the weight I needed to lose. I realized, after searching out on the internet, that I was MORBIDLY Obese (according to my BMI number). It hit me then, I'm not getting any younger and each year I put this off I can actually feel the deterioration of my body. I'm not getting any younger!
January 3rd I started back up using the resources at Spark People. Logging my food and exercising. Reading inspiration blogs and joining some motivational teams and challenges. As of today it's been 8 weeks. I'm still here and going strong. So I've lost 25lbs.
In January I started off walking in front of my tv. I tried to last 15minutes at a time and did it 2 to 3 times a day. After a week I started back on my treadmill. Couldn't go fast, about 2.7 mph, but I was doing it! After 3 weeks I went back to my gym and tried the elliptical (Ugh, only 10 min) and did a bit of ST.
Now I'm able to walk on my treadmill for up to 60min and do my own 5k at least once a week. I've been able to increase my level on the elliptical and can last 30min!
This past week my exercise has been non-existent. I have a bad headcold. ARGH! Today I strapped on my pedometer trying to get up and moving but my breathing, chest and head are not ready for strenuous cardio. I'm hoping to be back to normal soon. I do not like getting out of my routine.
I normally wake up at 4:30 to get my workout in at the gym so I can be home by 6:15 to get my family going. It was a hard habit to form and now that I haven't done it for a week I'm hoping it won't be too hard to get back into once I get started again.
I find so many wonderful blogs that I use as motivation and inspiration. I'm thankful for their availability and have decided to blog my own journey.
In 2011 I was determined to start again. Beginning weight was 325. I was motivated, doing it, working my plan and seeing results. I lost 30lbs by June then allowed the summer craziness get me off track. My excuse was there is NO time to exercise. Having 7 kids and 3 daycare kids makes my daily schedule crazy. Once the summer came I had kids staying up late, who I had to wait up for or pick up from friends' houses, and I just couldn't fathom getting up early to workout before my 7:30am daycare arrivals.
In the Fall of 2011 I started thinking about getting healthy but openly told my exercising sister, "I have no desire. Don't even ask me to participate with you" Then after a family reunion for Thanksgiving, seeing all my wonderfully fit family and in-laws the desire to be like them increased but not the desire to do what it takes.
At the end of 2011, when everyone in the world is thinking of New Year Resolutions, I too was thinking, once again, of the weight I needed to lose. I realized, after searching out on the internet, that I was MORBIDLY Obese (according to my BMI number). It hit me then, I'm not getting any younger and each year I put this off I can actually feel the deterioration of my body. I'm not getting any younger!
January 3rd I started back up using the resources at Spark People. Logging my food and exercising. Reading inspiration blogs and joining some motivational teams and challenges. As of today it's been 8 weeks. I'm still here and going strong. So I've lost 25lbs.
In January I started off walking in front of my tv. I tried to last 15minutes at a time and did it 2 to 3 times a day. After a week I started back on my treadmill. Couldn't go fast, about 2.7 mph, but I was doing it! After 3 weeks I went back to my gym and tried the elliptical (Ugh, only 10 min) and did a bit of ST.
Now I'm able to walk on my treadmill for up to 60min and do my own 5k at least once a week. I've been able to increase my level on the elliptical and can last 30min!
This past week my exercise has been non-existent. I have a bad headcold. ARGH! Today I strapped on my pedometer trying to get up and moving but my breathing, chest and head are not ready for strenuous cardio. I'm hoping to be back to normal soon. I do not like getting out of my routine.
I normally wake up at 4:30 to get my workout in at the gym so I can be home by 6:15 to get my family going. It was a hard habit to form and now that I haven't done it for a week I'm hoping it won't be too hard to get back into once I get started again.
I find so many wonderful blogs that I use as motivation and inspiration. I'm thankful for their availability and have decided to blog my own journey.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Happy Halloween and the Crud!
I haven't posted much and to be completely honest haven't stayed on task this week.
Last Saturday we had a church Luau. It was a lot of fun with great food and wonderful entertainment. Come Sunday night I had a child throwing up, at midnight two more began to vomit. I was up until 4:30 a.m. caring for three vomiting kids.
When the day started to progress on Monday I found out over 38 families had been hit by the same thing. Many thought food poisoning from the Luau but new outbreaks let us know it was just a bad bug, someone came sick, that got to many. I've been spending my week caring for kids. A fourth came down with pneumonia. One of my vomiting girls threw up more than 50 times. With nothing in her tummy she started vomiting up a little blood. She missed the whole week of school, not good when it's your senior year. To top it all off I got sick last night.
This Halloween day wasn't what we planned but so far it's been a success. Daddy took the three youngest out while the older four were at parties at their friends' houses.
I'm giving myself one more day to sleep, recuperate and then Monday I'll be hitting my plan again!
Last Saturday we had a church Luau. It was a lot of fun with great food and wonderful entertainment. Come Sunday night I had a child throwing up, at midnight two more began to vomit. I was up until 4:30 a.m. caring for three vomiting kids.
When the day started to progress on Monday I found out over 38 families had been hit by the same thing. Many thought food poisoning from the Luau but new outbreaks let us know it was just a bad bug, someone came sick, that got to many. I've been spending my week caring for kids. A fourth came down with pneumonia. One of my vomiting girls threw up more than 50 times. With nothing in her tummy she started vomiting up a little blood. She missed the whole week of school, not good when it's your senior year. To top it all off I got sick last night.
This Halloween day wasn't what we planned but so far it's been a success. Daddy took the three youngest out while the older four were at parties at their friends' houses.
I'm giving myself one more day to sleep, recuperate and then Monday I'll be hitting my plan again!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Checking In
All right, it's almost 11:00 p.m. but I want to check in before heading to bed! I really want to stay accountable and I LOVE the support I get from reading others blog so it's keeping me motivated to maintain one for myself.
It's been a crazy day. Even though the fever seems to be gone at our home it's left my kids CRANKY! My one-year-old wanted to constantly be held. My routine ended up being cleaning for 7-10 minutes (if I was lucky) and then sit and cuddle for awhile. I DO love a cuddle from my little ones (hey, even my big kids!!!, and I mean BIG. My 15 year old is 6 foot 6. Love it when they come cozzy up with me on the couch.)
I just have so much on my plate a lot of times I don't stop to enjoy things. Today my mom and her husband came to town. I wanted to get my home cleaned up before they arrived but it didn't happen. I think they'll love me anyway. My mom lives two hours away and in January will be leaving to live in Johannesburg, South Africa to do missionary work for our church. She's trying to catch up on all the grandkid stuff she can before she leaves. Today was a football game (we won) and my oldest's orchestra concert (she plays the viola). Tomorrow is another football game, free day on Friday, Pumpkin patch on Saturday, a niece's baptism on Sunday and then my daughter's last cross country meet on Monday. My mom has 15 grandkids in town so she'll be spread thin trying to get in all the activities but we're glad they made the time to come!!!
Okay, so I'm trying to get really committed to this. I've gone back and forth not really knowing which way I want to go about losing the weight. In 2005 I lost 70 lbs in 3.5 months on a high protein low carb diet. It came off and it came off fast but it obviously didn't stay off. I want a little bit more freedom to eat whatever I want but at the same time don't want too much freedom. There are some things that one little taste will throw me off the deep end. Chocolate is one!!! I'm going to count calories fluctuating between 1500 and 1750, to keep my body guessing. As the weight comes off I'll lower the numbers a bit.
The big key for me is keeping a journal of everything I eat. I went and bought a cute one today but I might start another blog that keeps track of my eating. I made a yummy recipe, first time to try it. I even took the time to sit down and figure out the calorie content for the whole meal and then divided it by 12 servings. Each serving came out to be 350 calories. Not bad with a huge side of green salad. As the nights get colder one of my weaknesses is to enjoy a cup of HOT chocolate once my kiddos go to bed and I have a chance to unwind. I usually have a large mug but tonight I made do with a regular one serving size and it was just fine. I might change my cocoa to the diet kind to give me more wiggle room in the calorie counting.
I sat down to tally my calories for the day and I came up with 1560! Not bad!!! I was worried about making a normal casserole for my family and me eating some and having the hot cocoa but it all worked out. It's a good thing I didn't cave and have seconds on the yummy dinner!! I almost did but...NO SECONDS.
I did have a failure today, no exercise. I really have to make the time to do it first thing in the morning. My day, afternoon, and evenings get so CRAZY that if I don't get it done first thing it's not going to get done. This is a huge deal because I know the weight will NOT come off unless I get this body moving.
So some of my goals:
Exercise a minimum of 30min six days a week (I'll add strength training soon)
Drink 8 glasses of water. I usually do five.
Log every bite taken and stick to between 1500 and 1750 calories a day.
I'm heading off to bed. 5:30 comes way too early. Good night!
It's been a crazy day. Even though the fever seems to be gone at our home it's left my kids CRANKY! My one-year-old wanted to constantly be held. My routine ended up being cleaning for 7-10 minutes (if I was lucky) and then sit and cuddle for awhile. I DO love a cuddle from my little ones (hey, even my big kids!!!, and I mean BIG. My 15 year old is 6 foot 6. Love it when they come cozzy up with me on the couch.)
I just have so much on my plate a lot of times I don't stop to enjoy things. Today my mom and her husband came to town. I wanted to get my home cleaned up before they arrived but it didn't happen. I think they'll love me anyway. My mom lives two hours away and in January will be leaving to live in Johannesburg, South Africa to do missionary work for our church. She's trying to catch up on all the grandkid stuff she can before she leaves. Today was a football game (we won) and my oldest's orchestra concert (she plays the viola). Tomorrow is another football game, free day on Friday, Pumpkin patch on Saturday, a niece's baptism on Sunday and then my daughter's last cross country meet on Monday. My mom has 15 grandkids in town so she'll be spread thin trying to get in all the activities but we're glad they made the time to come!!!
Okay, so I'm trying to get really committed to this. I've gone back and forth not really knowing which way I want to go about losing the weight. In 2005 I lost 70 lbs in 3.5 months on a high protein low carb diet. It came off and it came off fast but it obviously didn't stay off. I want a little bit more freedom to eat whatever I want but at the same time don't want too much freedom. There are some things that one little taste will throw me off the deep end. Chocolate is one!!! I'm going to count calories fluctuating between 1500 and 1750, to keep my body guessing. As the weight comes off I'll lower the numbers a bit.
The big key for me is keeping a journal of everything I eat. I went and bought a cute one today but I might start another blog that keeps track of my eating. I made a yummy recipe, first time to try it. I even took the time to sit down and figure out the calorie content for the whole meal and then divided it by 12 servings. Each serving came out to be 350 calories. Not bad with a huge side of green salad. As the nights get colder one of my weaknesses is to enjoy a cup of HOT chocolate once my kiddos go to bed and I have a chance to unwind. I usually have a large mug but tonight I made do with a regular one serving size and it was just fine. I might change my cocoa to the diet kind to give me more wiggle room in the calorie counting.
I sat down to tally my calories for the day and I came up with 1560! Not bad!!! I was worried about making a normal casserole for my family and me eating some and having the hot cocoa but it all worked out. It's a good thing I didn't cave and have seconds on the yummy dinner!! I almost did but...NO SECONDS.
I did have a failure today, no exercise. I really have to make the time to do it first thing in the morning. My day, afternoon, and evenings get so CRAZY that if I don't get it done first thing it's not going to get done. This is a huge deal because I know the weight will NOT come off unless I get this body moving.
So some of my goals:
Exercise a minimum of 30min six days a week (I'll add strength training soon)
Drink 8 glasses of water. I usually do five.
Log every bite taken and stick to between 1500 and 1750 calories a day.
I'm heading off to bed. 5:30 comes way too early. Good night!
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
First Week Complete
I made it, I got through my first week of changing the way I eat and take care of my body. There were ups and downs, I wasn't perfect in my plan but I kept plugging away. I weighed 317.4 which gives me a loss of 4.2 lbs!!! I'll take it. My goal now is to NOT see those same four pounds again.
Tomorrow will be the first day in 2.5 weeks that I'll have all of my school-aged kids at school. I'm looking forward to it!!! Taking care of sick kids can be very taxing and definitely threw me off of my game plan once or twice.
Yesterday, with three kids sick, I knew it was going to be a crazy day and if I didn't get my exercise in first thing that it wouldn't get done. At 8:45 when my healthy 4th grader was heading off to school I decided to leave my sick five-year-old with his sick 13 and 15 year old brothers and go for a walk. I loaded my 21-month-old into her stroller, walked to the school giving my 9-year-old a kiss good-bye and off we went. We did a nice 1.5 mile walk. We walked past a fun park and my little one let out screeches wanting to play. I told her no, today we're out to walk. On the way home we had to pass by the same way. Again I heard screams of delight coming from the stroller as the slides came in view. I started saying No, we need to get home but then stopped myself. I'm trying to change my bad habits, live healthier and teach that to my kids. We pulled off the trail and hit the play-structure. We had a blast!
My first week I walked 1.25 miles each day since that's what my 11-year-old runs for her cross country meets. Well, this week I'm upping it to 1.5. I think I'll add a little bit each week until I get up to a 5k then I can work on cutting down my time.
One of my favorite shows on TV is The Biggest Loser. I always record it while I'm helping kids with homework and getting little ones to bed then when things calm down I'm able to sit down with a cup of Diet Hot Cocoa and enjoy their struggles and successes and gain inspiration. Today had been a very tiring day and I was so looking forward to the show. I forgot to set the record button but quickly got it going 15 minutes into the show. Finally at 9:40 I was able to stop what I was doing and enjoy my ME-time! I grabbed my hot cocoa, sat in the recliner, put it in the recline position, grabbed the remote control, turned on my dvr and clicked on The Biggest Loser. Ahhhh, this is the life, I thought, as I felt myself relax releasing the stress of the day. The stress quickly resurfaced when not Biggest Loser came on but the Baseball game. WHAT?!?!?! Somehow the game got recorded even though it showed the title Biggest Loser and it was NBC. ARGHHH. I needed some inspiration for the contestants. I'll have to look forward to watching it later this week on reruns.
Well, it's late now, I need to get to bed so I'll be able to get my kids up early for school. It's been a great week, I've met some great new friends and HUGE examples out in the blogging world. 4.2 lbs and counting...WooHoo!
Tomorrow will be the first day in 2.5 weeks that I'll have all of my school-aged kids at school. I'm looking forward to it!!! Taking care of sick kids can be very taxing and definitely threw me off of my game plan once or twice.
Yesterday, with three kids sick, I knew it was going to be a crazy day and if I didn't get my exercise in first thing that it wouldn't get done. At 8:45 when my healthy 4th grader was heading off to school I decided to leave my sick five-year-old with his sick 13 and 15 year old brothers and go for a walk. I loaded my 21-month-old into her stroller, walked to the school giving my 9-year-old a kiss good-bye and off we went. We did a nice 1.5 mile walk. We walked past a fun park and my little one let out screeches wanting to play. I told her no, today we're out to walk. On the way home we had to pass by the same way. Again I heard screams of delight coming from the stroller as the slides came in view. I started saying No, we need to get home but then stopped myself. I'm trying to change my bad habits, live healthier and teach that to my kids. We pulled off the trail and hit the play-structure. We had a blast!
My first week I walked 1.25 miles each day since that's what my 11-year-old runs for her cross country meets. Well, this week I'm upping it to 1.5. I think I'll add a little bit each week until I get up to a 5k then I can work on cutting down my time.
One of my favorite shows on TV is The Biggest Loser. I always record it while I'm helping kids with homework and getting little ones to bed then when things calm down I'm able to sit down with a cup of Diet Hot Cocoa and enjoy their struggles and successes and gain inspiration. Today had been a very tiring day and I was so looking forward to the show. I forgot to set the record button but quickly got it going 15 minutes into the show. Finally at 9:40 I was able to stop what I was doing and enjoy my ME-time! I grabbed my hot cocoa, sat in the recliner, put it in the recline position, grabbed the remote control, turned on my dvr and clicked on The Biggest Loser. Ahhhh, this is the life, I thought, as I felt myself relax releasing the stress of the day. The stress quickly resurfaced when not Biggest Loser came on but the Baseball game. WHAT?!?!?! Somehow the game got recorded even though it showed the title Biggest Loser and it was NBC. ARGHHH. I needed some inspiration for the contestants. I'll have to look forward to watching it later this week on reruns.
Well, it's late now, I need to get to bed so I'll be able to get my kids up early for school. It's been a great week, I've met some great new friends and HUGE examples out in the blogging world. 4.2 lbs and counting...WooHoo!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Today was a wonderful Sunday but as the day progressed I've felt myself bracing for a difficult week.
My one year old has a 103 fever, it's now 10:30 at night and she's still up crying.
My five year old who had his tonsils and adenoids removed two weeks ago (he's missed school for that long as well) came down today with a 104.5 fever. He's very disappointed because he was looking forward to finally going back to school tomorrow.
My just turned 15 year old might have pneumonia, we'll find out tomorrow when we go to the doctor.
My 13 year old came down with the stomach flu tonight, he's not able to keep anything down.
It seems like this is what happens, anytime I try to get started something gets thrown in my way to slow me down. I AM staying committed. It will make it tougher to get my exercise in as I care for all the sickies but NOT impossible. I am telling myself there will ALWAYS be something to use as an excuse but that's why I am where I am, I've used all the excuses...No longer!
I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hands washed hoping we can keep these germs from spreading to the rest of the family. I don't even want to think how long our home could be sick with 9 family members and two different germs going around.
My one year old has a 103 fever, it's now 10:30 at night and she's still up crying.
My five year old who had his tonsils and adenoids removed two weeks ago (he's missed school for that long as well) came down today with a 104.5 fever. He's very disappointed because he was looking forward to finally going back to school tomorrow.
My just turned 15 year old might have pneumonia, we'll find out tomorrow when we go to the doctor.
My 13 year old came down with the stomach flu tonight, he's not able to keep anything down.
It seems like this is what happens, anytime I try to get started something gets thrown in my way to slow me down. I AM staying committed. It will make it tougher to get my exercise in as I care for all the sickies but NOT impossible. I am telling myself there will ALWAYS be something to use as an excuse but that's why I am where I am, I've used all the excuses...No longer!
I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hands washed hoping we can keep these germs from spreading to the rest of the family. I don't even want to think how long our home could be sick with 9 family members and two different germs going around.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Determined but shaky!
I'm still plugging away. My older kids didn't have school yesterday so my cross country runner and I went to the high school track, along with my one-year-old, and exercised. While she got her running in I was able to walk my goal of 1.25 miles. She finished sooner than me and took her little sister out of the jogging stroller and watched her while I finished. It was fun to watch them "run" the track together.
Today is my 2nd child's 15th b-day. He had some friends spend the night so it was a crazy night at our house. This morning my daughter followed through with our commitment to go walk again. This time we did it in our neighborhood. We did 1.5 miles today, it felt great, but tiring!!!
I'm committed to my workouts, it's something I can do, check off my list and go on with my day. The eating portion is a different story! I'm a stress-eater!!! Almost any fluctuation in emotion can set me off on a craving. The hardest part is I constantly have to focus on it, be aware of it, monitor it and then try to talk myself down when it seems I can't resist the HIGH CARB, Sugary foods calling my name.
When I've had success with weight loss it's like a switch went on that kept me focused on the goal and nothing could get in my way. The switch hasn't gone on yet, it's something I'm trying to force because I know it's needed for my health and well-being. There may be, I take that back, there WILL be slip ups along the way but I'm hoping the more I fake the right moves the more they'll become a natural part of my routine and lifestyle.
Today is my 2nd child's 15th b-day. He had some friends spend the night so it was a crazy night at our house. This morning my daughter followed through with our commitment to go walk again. This time we did it in our neighborhood. We did 1.5 miles today, it felt great, but tiring!!!
I'm committed to my workouts, it's something I can do, check off my list and go on with my day. The eating portion is a different story! I'm a stress-eater!!! Almost any fluctuation in emotion can set me off on a craving. The hardest part is I constantly have to focus on it, be aware of it, monitor it and then try to talk myself down when it seems I can't resist the HIGH CARB, Sugary foods calling my name.
When I've had success with weight loss it's like a switch went on that kept me focused on the goal and nothing could get in my way. The switch hasn't gone on yet, it's something I'm trying to force because I know it's needed for my health and well-being. There may be, I take that back, there WILL be slip ups along the way but I'm hoping the more I fake the right moves the more they'll become a natural part of my routine and lifestyle.
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