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.