Fell off the wagon

I've fallen off the wagon so hard. I've not been exercising or doing Weight Watchers for almost 3 weeks now. Sept 16th was the last day I wrote in my journal. I've been SO stressed out that it's not even funny. Really too much and too personal to go on my blog, butt's just been more than I can handle.
I'm now not only homeschooling my oldest but I'm now homeschooling my second oldest. I'm having a hard time adjusting my schedule. Yesterday was the first day I've excersised in I don't know how long. I did 1.6 miles and 25 squats.
One challenge I've decided to do for myself is 25 squats a day until the New Year! I'm going to try my hardest to get back to the gym and get to walking/biking again. I need to add more though. I want to get this weight off.
I have to remind myself all the time that I didn't put it on overnight and it's not going to come off overnight. I know that I'm doing good when I eat right and excerise, but it's so hard for me. I'm having a really hard time balancing everything.
I really need a workout buddy!

New Goals

I’ve rewritten my goals after talking to my trainer.

July 5^th starting weight 228

August 7^th Goal 220 August 7th weight 221.2

September 4 Goal 212 September 4th weight 211.6 (YES)

October 9^th Goal 204

November 6^th Goal 196

December 4^th Goal 188

January 8^th Goal 180

February 5^th Goal 172

March 4^th Goal 164

April 8^th Goal 156

May 6^th Goal 148

June 3^rd Goal 140

Here’s the thing though. I keep finding different “healthy” weight ranges for my height. Web MD says 115-154 (115 I’d be sick looking). Weight Watchers says 124-155. They aren’t too different. I’m thinking of going with Weight Watchers since that’s the program I’m actually doing. The day I went into labor with my first daughter I was 156. The day I went home from having my daughter I was 135. I’m having a really hard time setting a goal weight.

September challenge

I've decided that each month I should set up some sort of a challenge for myself. Just for the heck of it. I saw that one of my friends was doing a 100 mile challenge, so I thought that sounds like a good challenge. So for this month I'm going to try walking/biking 100 miles for the month of September.

So far this month (yes, I know it's only the 2nd) I've done 2 miles. 98 miles to go:)

I have another friend that is doing 100 squats per day for 100 days. I tried, I really did, I'm just not there yet. I tried breaking it down and doing 25 here and 25 there, just didn't work. I've tried doing 50 at a time and that didn't work for me either. Maybe I'll start off slow and do 50 a day and then work my way up.

Next month is going to start the really hard months. We've got two birthday's in my family next month. Halloween, Thanksgiving, 2 more birthdays, Christmas, New Years, 2 more birthdays, Valentine's day, and then 2 more birthday's, Memorial Day, and then I'll hit summer again and get a break for the month of June! I love cake! I love Thanksgiving and Christmas and all the yummy goodies that come along with those holidays! It's going to be rough!

Workouts this week!

For some reason it seems like the past two weeks I've had a hard time working out on Monday's. Here is what I did this week.

Tuesday~walked 1.33 miles (then came home and we had an earthquake)

Wednesday~walked 1.60 miles, biked 3.11

Thursday~ walked 1.61 miles, biked 3.16 miles

Friday~walked 1.78 miles, biked 3.5 miles, 100 squats

I joined a challenge to do 100 squats a day for 100 days. We shall see how this goes. I'm going to give it my best though. Gotta get my booty and legs in shape:)

This week as been a really stressful, heartbreaking week. Today I decided that I was going to go to the gym and try to work out some stress. It helped for the most part. I'm sure my weight will probably show my stress this week. Although I'm really proud of myself for not stress eating. Instead I tried to sweat out my stress! I hope the scale shows a move down this week, but we shall see on Sunday morning!

13.8 pounds GONE!

I've decided to add updated pictures for every 10 pounds I lose. Last week I hadn't lost 10 pounds now I've lost 13.8 pounds. I'm thrilled almost 14 pounds gone! Here are some before and after pictures.

Me 228.2

Me at 214.2

My daughter took some close up pictures this time around. I don't know if I can tell a difference in the pictures but I can tell a difference in my clothes! Looking forward to doing measurements next month and the next set of pictures!

Rocking the workout this week!

I'm am rocking it on my workouts this week! I knew I'd be able to get some good workouts in once school started.

Tuesday~I walked 1.2 miles
Wednesday~ walked 1.38 miles, biked 1 mile
Thursday~walked 1.26 miles, biked 2 miles
Friday~walked 1.6 miles and biked 3 miles

Grand total for the week of 11 miles:) My grand total since starting to work out is 26.38 miles! I'm going to do an update on my "Walking around the U.S.A." sometime this weekend!  I'm just thrilled with my work this week! I think tomorrow I'm going to do an exercise DVD, maybe go for a walk.

Wow 6 weeks!

I just went back and looked at my calendar to find out I've been doing WW for 6 weeks today! I feel good and bad! I feel good that it's been 6 weeks and I'm still doing well. Although I did take a little over 2 weeks off. I got sick & had VBS, then vacation, and then I just didn't get right back on track after vacation! I've lost 8 inches off my body and I'm lost 9.8 pounds (also 10 pounds). I haven't been craving chocolate everyday! Don't get me wrong I did crave it from time to time and still eat it, but I count it in my points. Oh and I haven't taken a day "off" since getting back on track after vacation!

Now why do I feel bad? I haven't been walking every day like I've been wanting to walk. I wanted to walk a mile every day. It seems like at most I'm getting about 3 miles a week at the moment. I really am going to try to work harder at getting at least 5 miles in a week. I did however get in a lower body workout one day last week. I've got some DVD's sitting at the library for me that I need to go pick up.

School starts for some of my kids tomorrow. I think I'm going to start going to the gym during nap time, or walking during nap time. I really need to get to moving on my "around the U.S.A." challenge that I'm doing also. I've walked a little over 16 miles so far! If I could get to the gym then I can ride on the bike also, really rack up those miles.

Just got to keep going!

Struggling

I'm struggling! I'm having a really hard time getting workouts in. My daily schedule is just nuts right now. I've had to miss walking twice this week due to grocery shopping. This morning I woke up and got out of the house right thing in the morning so that I could get my walk in. I knew if I didn't I wouldn't get my walk in today. I've really got to save up for a treadmill.
The gym I belong to has odd childcare hours and I also can't bring the kids I watch there. So during the days I watch kids I'm pretty much stuck here. Can't go walking because I don't have a big enough stroller. I have a double. I need at least 3 seats. I'm thinking I might have to work something out once school starts.
Even having gotten my walk in today I still want to do a DVD. I don't think my just walking a mile (or a little over) is going to be enough here in the near future to lose the weight I want to lose. I'm going to have to crank it up. I really want to do the couch to 5k program but can't do the running in the shoes I have right now. Gotta wait til next month to get me some running shoes. Regardless my favorite tennis shoes have done their duty and should be put to rest!
I'm really trying not to stress too much about the lack of workout sessions I have gotten in. I'm losing weight, just not as quickly as I would like. I know it takes time. It goes on fast, but sure doesn't come off very fast.
I figure once school starts I'll be able to set up a much better workout schedule, but for now I'd like to have some sort of idea of things to do.

Thrilled!

I woke up this morning with a little bit of excitement! Today is the day (actually yesterday was) that I take the measurements to see how many inches I'd lost. I knew I'd lost some I could feel it in my middle! I took all my measurements and I've lost a total of 8 inches. I weighed again this morning just for the heck of it also and I've lost 9 pounds! Not bad for one month:) One month with a vacation in there also!

Back from vacation!

August 7, 2011 Sunday Day 1 (since vacation) Weight 221.2

Ok, so vacation is over. Actually it’s been over. We have been home almost a week now.

I came home with a weight gain of 2 pounds in which I turned around and lost this past week. Honestly I was amazed I hadn’t gain more weight.

I think it helped that I walked and the trip to the zoo we walked A LOT!

I just had a hard time getting back on track once we got home. Having a week of not worrying about measuring, weighing, and writing down everything was wonderful. I know that if I want this weight off though I’m going to have to do these things.

I’m thinking of cancelling the Y membership and saving up for another treadmill (as mine is trashed from use and flood), elliptical, and a bike. I think we should turn one of the rooms in the basement into a workout room. Granted it will be close to what we pay at the Y per year. I think having it here leaves no room for us to say “I didn’t have time to get to the gym”.

I figure if we stick to the budget we can have all 3 bought by Christmas. I can work out by walking outside and doing other things at home. I have a ball and other things to get started with. I also have some of the Biggest Loser DVDs also.

I’m just so tired of being fat!

Heading to week 3

I'm heading into week 3 starting today! I weighed in this morning for a 1 pound loss. At first I was disappointed, but then I said to myself "It's better than a 1 pound gain". I also had to remember that I only walked twice this week and I had Chick-fil-a a LOT this week. Due to lots of freebie because of a one year anniversary.
This week I hope to get more exercise in. As the following week we will be on vacation and I plan to enjoy my vacation and not worry too much about what I'm eating. I do plan on walking a lot on vacation though.
I also must remember that I've lost a total of 7.2 pounds and the first 6.2 was the first week I did Weight Watchers which isn't that normal:)
Week 3 is off to a good start though!

Goals

During a weight loss journey I've been told it's good to write out goals. This morning after stepping on the scale and finding that I've lost 6.2 pounds this week (go me!) I was pumped to write out my goals. In the past I've written down goals and rewards. Today though I've just written down my goals. Here they are:

16lbs gone by Sept 2nd (206)

24lbs gone by Oct 1st (198..wonderland..can't wait)

32lbs gone by Nov. 1st (190)

40lbs gone by Dec. 1st (182)

50lbs gone by Jan 1st (172 this was me before having Addison, my 4th)

58lbs gone by Feb 1st (164)

64lbs gone by March 1st (156)

74lbs gone by April 1st (146) May stop here

82lbs gone by May 1st (138)

I've looked at different charts to see what is a healthy weight for my height but I'm getting different numbers! I think the lowest I've ever weighed was 135 (in my adult life). I might be wrong though. That's what I have for now though. I don't think it's too unrealistic seeing how I've read to expect to lose 1-2 pounds a week. I've scaled it at 2 pounds a week. I know I might have week that I only lose 1 or weeks that I'll lose more than 2, but at least I've got my goals written down now:)

Day 6!

I know that I'm not suppose to really weigh until the day of the week I actually started WW, but I think I'm going to change my day to Sunday. Reason being (depending on how you see it) it's the end of the week or the beginning of the week. I figure its a good day to weigh.

It was a very good morning for me. I stepped on the scale to see 223.2. Which means I've lost 5 pounds this week:) I know that I'm not going to lose 5 pounds every week, and might even have weeks that I gain weight. I was just so excited when I saw that this morning.

Another thing I'm totally loving is my 7 year old asking me every night if we can go on a walk again tomorrow night. That's totally awesome to me! I love it!

I've walked 6.17 miles this week! I didn't even get to walk every day due to rain and time. I've got to get to the gym on the days it rains. I've just got to figure out when I can do that.

Another problem I'm having is not eating enough points during the day, then (like last night) I get to dinner with 20 points left to eat! I need to balance my points a little better. That and try to eat dinner earlier. Last night I didn't eat dinner unitl 8 because I wanted to go walking before dinner. Threw everything off.

Day 5

I've got most of my states filled up for my "walk around the US". I think the rest I'll just have the kids pick at random.
I'm starting with Iowa (which was the first state picked by friends). I'm walking the length of Iowa towards Florida (second state picked). The length of Iowa is 199 miles. Iowa is 199 miles in length and 310 miles in width. Iowa became the 29th state December 28, 1846, the state bird is an Eastern Goldenfinch, state flower is a Wild Rose, state tree is Oak, it's nickname is The Hawkeye State, and the capital is Des Moines!

Since I haven't "walked" too far into the state that's all I'll give you for now:)

I took yesterday off. I had made plans to meet a friend for ice cream with the kids and decided that I'm going to need a day off every once in awhile. I know myself and if I don't take a day off once in awhile I'm going to fail at this. I also know that the next day I've got to get right back on the wagon or this isn't going to work. Staying off the wagon is how I got into this shape.

Did a bunch of errands and running around yesterday. Didn't keep track of any of the walking though. The little girls have already asked me if they can go walking with me today. This makes me happy and pushes me to keep going. They are part of the reason I'm doing this in the first place!

Right now I'm walking a little over a mile each night. Although today I've got a lot of cleaning and gardening to do, so I'm going to be counting the walking I do in doing those things on my miles today. I figure I'm burning calories while doing these things so why not count the miles I'm putting in.

Fun with Fitness

I've come up with a plan! I'm going to walk/bike ride the United States! Yup, you read that correctly. I've decided that I'm going to walk/bike ride off this weight. I mean I'll do other things as well, but those two are easy to track the miles on. While "walking/biking" each state my oldest daughter Bella (who is homeschooled) will look up facts about each state, as well as things to see in each state. I figure what an awesome way for her to learn more about the United States. Not to mention I'll learn things along the way as well.

I've asked my Facebook friends to please pick states so I have a starting point. I'm going to either walk the states length wise or width wise, depending on which state I will be "visiting" next.

So starting tonight I will begin a journey from Iowa (length wise) to Florida! So I have 199 miles to complete the state of Iowa. Funny that was the state that was picked first because that's where I was born. A journey begins were my journey of life began with my birth! The person who picked Iowa has no idea that's where I was born.

I will of course post updates as to how far I've walked/biked, and interesting things I've learned along the way.

The Before Picture

Well here are the two before pictures. Not pretty and feeling pretty crappy about them, but I figure since I'm being honest with myself I should put them on my blog. I want to take pictures of every 10 pounds I lose. Here goes nothing! Me at 228.2 pounds!

While I'm being honest I also broke out the measuring tape today. It was a dreaded moment for me. I hate measuring myself because I'm scared of not doing it right. I used body land marks so to speak. I've decided to only measure myself once a month. Seems like before when I was working with a trainer that is how we did it. Here are my measurements.

Bust=43 inches (which is where I'm sure I'll lose it first)

Chest-38

Waist=44 (one of the last places it will leave)

Hips=52 1/2 (Not sure if I measured right there. Also one of the last places it will leave)

Thighs= R=26 L=25

Calves=R=18 L=17

Upper arm= R=15 L=15 1/4

Last night I went to Walmart and found a GREAT deal on some exercise stuff. I wanted an exercise ball because before I used that for wall squats and ab work. Anyway, I found a fix that had the exercise ball, hand pump, light resistance band, medium resistance band, 2 2lb soft weight balls, workout guide and DVD. It was marked down to $17 but rang up for $7. Sweet the ball alone was $8.97. I got an awesome deal! I'm all about some deals!

I also got some fruit (yay fruit), Smart One's meals (for lunch & 2 breakfast ones), WW ice cream, 2% cheese, WW cheese sticks, and some flat bread things.

Today is going well so far, but I just had 3 dozen Krispy Kreme donuts brought to the house. WHY??? You ask. Before I decided to do WW I ordered them to support a friends youth group. I'm not going to be able to pass on these. I already know seeing how they are one of favorite, but rare treats! It's so bad that the points are not anywhere in the WW books. I've looked to be good and check the points to count them.

It's slow going, but I figure Rome wasn't built in a day, and I didn't put this weight on in a day. It took awhile to put the weight on, and it's going to take even longer to take it off.

Well

Well that didn't go as planned! I planned to start walking everyday. That didn't happen and I'm back here restarting. Not only am I starting over, but I'm starting over 2 pounds heavier than before:(

This time I spent the money on the new Weight Watchers program. Now I'll feel really awful if I don't do it, because I spent money on it.

Today is day one of me on the new Weight Watchers program! Finding out my everyday cup of coffee is 4 points was not a good way to start off my day. Of course neither was stepping on the scale to find out I've gained 2 pounds.

I've got to start finding the time to get exercise into each day! Being this over weight is driving me nuts!

Welcome

Welcome to my new blog, Mommy of 6 Getting Fit!

Yesterday I finally decided that enough is enough. I have to get this weight off. Not trying to blame the weight on my kids, but having my babies was a major part of my weight gain. My first I only gained 4 pounds, second & third I gained 16 pounds with each baby. My fourth I had gone a little crazy before having her and was walking like a mad woman along with doing Weight Watchers and had lost some weight. Well when I got pregnant with my fourth I gained 50 pounds:( After having her I decided that it was time to hit the gym again. I had a awesome trainer who I took a class with 2 days a week and I also worked out here and there through out the week. My weight was going up and down all the time. Everything checked out ok so I just kept working out. While working out trying to get this baby weight off I ended up getting pregnant 3 times and losing all three babies. When I finally got pregnant again my Dr said "No, more gym". I was allowed to walk, but couldn't over to it. Then about 3/4 of the way through my pregnancy I wasn't allowed to even walk anymore. I gained 25 pounds with her. She was about 6 months old when I got pregnant with my 6th. My son is now 6 months old and I'm back up to what I weighed when I had not only him but my 4th child.
Yesterday mid morning I stepped on the scale to see the numbers 226 pop up. I just cried! I knew I was over 200 pounds, but this just pissed me off. How could I let myself get to this point? Then I dried my tears and said to myself "This is crazy, it's time to get this weight off NOW".
Yesterday I decided that I'm going to cut back on the amount of the food I eat everyday, and start exercising. I decided not to start doing Weight Watchers or any other diet at the moment, until I get somewhat of a schedule worked out. I want to walk every day. I want to walk at least a mile every day, and I'd like to get back to weights again. I'm only worried about my left wrist. I found out a week ago that I have carpal tunnel. Anyway, I figure starting out working out first until I get some sort of schedule down is a start. I've got 6 kids and I watch kids also. So I'm pretty busy, especially with it being summer time. Add the kids and a husband who has a crazy work schedule and you will see my problem as to when to fit this in.
Yesterday before dinner I went and walked a 20 minute mile and got a nice big blister on my right heel. Grr, today I will use different shoes.
I'm hoping that by keeping a blog I will somewhat stay sane on this journey! This is a journey to get back the "old" me, and a journey to find a new me!