Weekend success!

So this weekend has continuted to be pretty good! Yesterday I got up and went to my work out class, which kicked my butt for the second week in a row! Then I went to work for two hours, then right over to Josh's house for family time. I did not eat good food, but I am proud of myself for not stuffing myself full. I had one small piece of lasagna, a couple pieces of bread, and one small piece of cake for dessert. The nice thing is that we ate around 2:30 so I wasn't hungry for dinner. That made it easier to justify eating all those points, in reality I was eating two meals. We went to a movie later and I had popcorn with no butter or salt and a diet 7 up to drink.

Today I was planning on just laying around so that I wouldn't be tempted to eat bad, but then Becky asked if I wanted olive garden for lunch. I decided I would because I would just have something that I know isn't too bad for me (and only eat half) and then I can have my left over mexican chicken for dinner.

Oh, and I got up and worked out first thing this morning so I couldn't avoid it the rest of the day!

All in all it's been a pretty good weekened!

Good day

So it ended up being a good night. I had a half a california club for dinner (with no bacon, mayo, or cheese) and nic's tomato salad (basically 6 cherry tomatos). I even had enough points to have two beers at the vad. It was a good day. Stayed right on track with points, just didnt have many veggies or dairy.

Well gotta get to bed, 9:30 weight training tomorrow!

The good and the bad

Well today is a good day and a bad day all wrapped up in one.

It's shitty because of the fact that it's September 12...two years ago today my life changed forever when my dad had a brain bleed that put him in the hospital. Two years ago today my care-free life came to an end. So it's just overall a shitty day...but I don't like to dwell and I know that everything happens for a reason and I know that my dad is still very much with me. It still blows.

Anyways, I've also been very proud of myself this week when it comes to the weight watchers issue. I have stayed on track all week and fought off many temptations today alone. I was planning on going to subway for lunch today and when ang wanted to go somewhere else I held strong and said no, I'm going to subway. So that was good. Then when we were out running errands after lunch she went to culver's to get a lemon ice but I declined. Yay for me again! Tonight we're meeting Jana, Art, Beck, and Jay at TGI Friday's for dinner, I have some healthy-ish options that I've planned for an can have, so that will be fun (I think beer is a no no tonight though, which might be kind of hard, but easier when Jana is there, because I feel bad when everyone gets to enjoy but her).

Tomorrow is going to be the bad day...but hopefully not TOO bad. I start with weight training class at 9:30 (interested to see how this goes with the real teacher), then to work for a couple of hours. Then we're going to Josh's house for Lasagna (made my nic's mom...not going to be low fat what-so-ever) and cake...again, no low fat here. The only plus side to this is that it's going to serve as lunch AND dinner, so hopefully the points wont completely be shot.

Good Day!

Today was a great day.  I went to yogalates and it went really well.  We went to Panera for lunch and I had the pick two with low fat chicken noodle soup (2 points) 1/2 a mediteranian sandwich (6 points) and an apple (1 point) then we walked around the mall for the rest of the lunch break (ok not an intense work out, but better than sitting on my ass right?).  

Then Derek brought chips and guac over from chipotle and I wasn't even tempted to have any.

I went to Turn Style tonight to try and find one or two more pairs of "fat pants" no luck.. did reward myself with a work shirt and a comfy shirt for my loss this week.  I still haven't decided how I'm going to work this rewards system.  I definitely think I want to keep up with the Turn style thing, because I know I'm not spending much money.  I think I'm either going to shoot for every other week of a loss (so approximately every two weeks) or every two or three pounds.  I also don't know what I'm going to do as far as like a dollar amount to spend or number of pieces to buy.  We'll see.

Moment of truth

Well it's Wednesday morning which means two things:

1) I'm up WAY earlier than I'm used to (yogalates starts at 6:30)

and 

2)Weigh in day....

So, on weight watchers I set my original weight as 190 because that's what I weighed last week, before I started paying attention.   I also weighed myself on Sunday (right before I started) and I was at 191.8.  So this week I didn't know what to expect because:

1) I have only been doing this for two days

and

2) It's "that" time of month...so I'm feeling rather bloated.

So I figured that any loss would be great.  I got on the scale and I was 189.6.  So officially on weight watchers I only lost .4 pounds (a loss none the less) but since Sunday I've lost about 1.2 pounds.  Either way I think that's pretty good for only being back on track for 2 days.  I'm pretty encouraged.  

On another note...I want to set up some sort of rewards system for myself to keep me motivated.  I've recently discovered the beauty of Turn Style consignment store.  I took some stuff there towards the beginning of the summer and ended up making about $30 on the stuff I brought in.  At first I was planning on just picking up checks from them and thought I'd never actually buy anything there, but then I realized that they usually have some pretty nice stuff and pretty good deals, deals made even better by the fact that they occasionally send out coupons and the fact that I can use the credit on my account towards clothes (so far I've gotten a skirt, a pair of Gap pants, and a pair of nine west shoes and have paid a total of $5.55 for all of it).  I need some fall clothes to get me through the next couple of months until my clothes from last year start to fit me better again, so I figured it won't be too expensive to reward myself with a trip to the store with every loss I see on the scale!

Gotta run, yogalates starts soon!

So far...

So good!  I guess I'll find out tomorrow morning for sure (since that's when I step on the scale) but I feel like I've been doing good the last two days.  Yesterday I felt better than I did today, less hungry that is.  But I also just realized that  I worked out this morning and I didn't do that yesterday morning.  So I went to the gym and did a half hour of the eliptical today and tomorrow I have yogalates in the morning!  Went shopping for food last night and got all sorts of yummy healthier snacks!  I'm hoping this will not only help me lose pounds, but save some money as well.  The only thing that sucks about eating lunch at work is that it cuts my lunch break way down, I don't have anything to do besides eat so I just start working again.  Also, it is kind of nice to get out of the office in the middle of the day.  Oh well, it's worth it!  

Heading to Turn Style again towards the end of this week to turn in some more clothes that I don't wear and hopefully find another pair of "fat pants" to tide me over until my pants fit me better (and a couple of fall/winter shirts since apparently fall has decided to make an entrance early this year...)

I will for sure check in tomorrow after the weigh in!

Yo yo

The yo yo has once again gotten the better of me. So here I am again, back on the wagon....

Tomorrow starts day one of weight watchers...again...

I'm trying not to beat myself up about it too much, I let it happen, I knew what I was doing to myself. It just really sucks realizing that I'm ALWAYS going to have to watch what I eat.

This time around I'm getting more serious about working out. I've been REALLY lazy the last couple of months about going to the gym...I go to get the discount, but I don't really do anything when I'm there. This fall Tovah convinced me to sign up for some group classes, which is something that I've always wanted to do, just never had the guts to do it. So this last week was the "free week" of classes before they actually start. Wednesday we had Yogalates which is a combination of yoga and pilates. I have never attempted either form of exercise before and it was actually really not that hard, but definitely worked my body! I liked it, it's at 6:30 in the morning and it's really a nice way to start the day. So the other class that I signed up for was called Power Pump and I really had no idea what it was all about (I figured maybe a cardio class with a little lifting mixed in). Usually the class meets at 9:30 on Saturday mornings but for the free week it met at 9:30 on Thursday morning. Yep, that's right, Thursday morning, as in the morning after I did yogalates for the first time. So I was already sore from Yogalates and after about 10 minutes of power pump (which I found out is just a new name for their weight lifting class) I felt like I was going to die. I kept up with it even though I felt like a moron and was really proud of myself for getting through an hour of this.

So it's now Sunday afternoon and I can still barely walk down the stairs or itch my nose due to the intense soreness of my quads and triceps. I have definitely thought of dropping the power pump class for this reason, however, I realize that this is the exact reason I NEED this class. I could go to the gym every day and do cardio, I don't mind it at all, it's the weight training that I hate, and left to my own free will I don't do it, and when I do I don't put hardly any effort towards it.

So, tomorrow starts weight watchers, and a more serious work out routine. My main goal this time around is not the number on the scale, I don't want that to be my main focus. I want to feel better in the clothes I wear and I want to fit into THE dress by the time we go to Vegas in February (not an unreasonable goal considering February is still 6 months away and I should only need to lose about 10 pounds to fit in the dress). I also realized that I would like to lose about 15 pounds and the classes at the gym run for 15 weeks so I think it would be neat to do a 15 pounds in 15 weeks goal, but again I don't want to focus on the numbers so we'll see...

I'll check in tomorrow!