I'll take a gym challenge with a side of vitamins and measurements please?

Wow.... I am sore I haven't worked out that hard in a long time. It felt so good though to really push myself, when I first got off work I had the ughhh maybe I don't want to go but I was like just go and atleast start it and after I did that I ended up finishing strong, I worked out all my groups and did 30 minutes on the Eliptical which I haven't done in who knows how long. I can definitely feel that I will be sore tomorrow,  not to mention I felt like my calves were going to explode when I was doing calf raises with 90lb weights on and then doing the eliptical...I don't think I overdid it today but I guess tomorrow will tell after my day of rest and  then back at the gym on Wednesday! So in regards to my 3/30 day gym challenge this was day 1 of 3 this week and then 30 days of going to the gym (it's not a good idea to go to the gym everyday and since I do get some cardio at work cleaning beds and constanstly moving around I can skip Tuesdays and Thursdays or cardio days as they would be, not to mention I do both cardio and weights at the gym on Monday/Wednesday/Friday (well I did and  that is still the plan)
 I still feel funny when i'm at the gym like everyone is staring at me  because i'm overweight lol (I realize this isn't true because it's better that i'm in the gym trying to lose the weight then not but still I guess i'm self conscious (lol) I seriously doubt people are staring at me unless its because they are admiring my workout gear haha. Okay so anyways i've done away with calorie counting, honestly it was just too hard and not too mention some things weren't listed and it's just not as easy, I am going to be conscious of portion sizes and calories that I am putting in my mouth but i'm just not going to be strictly counting them, especially since I am back in the gym and am going to be burning an average of 300-500 calories each gym session. Last time I had my 40lb weight loss I wasn't counting calories I was just going to the gym 3-4x a week and I still pretty much ate what I wanted (well on occasion)  I think i'm just gonna do what I did last time, it worked once and it will work again. Plus I am also going to make sure I take my vitamins every morning because I can really tell a difference when I forget to take them for a day or two even.

Current Vitamin List:

Fish Oil 1240mg (2 tab)

Biotin 1000mg

Vitamin D 1000mg (2 tab)

Evening Primrose Oil 1000mg

B-12 1000mcg

B-6 100mg

Multivitamin

Vitamin C 500mg

 

Brian Likes to make fun of the fact that he keeps me medicated (lol ) he was actually the person who turned me onto taking B-6 and B-12 because I suffered from really bad emotional spurts and mood swings and I couldn't figure out why btw in case you were wondering here are the facts on B-12 (B12 helps create a stable balance of mental and emotional happiness by facilitating neurotransmitters, which the brain uses to signal mood and emotion regulators) anyways that along with B-6 really helped me kind of stable out and needless to say when I forget to take them for a couple days you can definitely tell...I just sometimes hate taking 10 vitamins a day (not to mention my bc that I also have to take.) So yeah a total of 11 pills a day I take, i'm getting better at taking them with water but before I would only take them with juice or milk but unfortunately i've had some bad experiences with milk and it ends up going all over myself and my bed because a pill gets stuck and then decides it wants to go up not down!!

So i've also decided to start recording my measurements every week so that I can really see the difference on paper and not just on the scale so for Week 1 here are my measurements and weight:

Chest 39"

Rt Arm 12 1/4"

Left Arm 12 1/4"

Rt Leg 23"

Lt Leg 23"

Stomach 40"

Hips 44"

Rt Calf 16 1/2"

Lt Calf 16"

Weight 176.6

 

 

I find myself toggling between 175 and 177 granted each day is totally different but now that I have my schedule somewhat steadied this means I can have my eating habits and gym workouts steady too!!! Ha ha I do regret saying I want to feel sore because now I do and i'm like ugh I have to work tomorrow?? LOL oh well stay tuned~!

Hmmm maybe I should try this a different way....

So this weekend I've been bad, Friday night was tenderloin steaks with Brian, yesterday it was sandwiches at Great Harvest (I did get a healthy one though but still you never know) followed by grande nachos and chocolate cake at the Winterhawks game, thankfully I did stick to water even though I was seriously tempted to have a soda when I saw them coming to the room but I stuck to my guns on that part, wish I could be that like when it came to chocolate or nachos or anything from the bad foods group. But I'm not perfect and I've still got a ways to go. My size 10 jeans finally had it yesterday and Brian took me to buy a new pair I fell in love with a pair of silvers jeans that were just tight enough that I could still lose weight but lose enough that I didn't have a ginormous muffin top, sadly they were $88 and Brian didnt want to spend that on something I was just going to shrink out of, so in the end we bought a cheap pair of old navy jeans and as soon as we got back to hit house he proceeded to rip the shreds out of my jeans lol (I think he enjoyed it entirely too much) the worst part about jean shopping is finding jeans that fit me in the waist and in the hips it's not easy oh yeah I forgot then their is the length as well but that's a whole nother issue. So anyways back to my story the point is when I was eating the cake and the nachos I had a thought, why is that I feel one slice or one bowl of nachos won't set me back when it clearly does? I end up somehow eating a weeks worth of calories (ok not that much but it feels like it) in one sitting and I feel all fine and dandy but then I wake up in the morning and step on the scale then realize my mistake where has my thinking on the subject gone wrong?? I wonder if perhaps counting calories is not the way for me because what happens is I see that oh I have 500 calories left what can I eat and I may not even be hungry at the time! It worked great for the first couple weeks but now not so much, I think I need to do some more research and come up with a better plan because so far my results aren't matching up at all. And yes I know I need to get my butt back into the gym, my schedule was supposed to be fixed this week but sadly it isn't and I am stuck closing 3X this week again which as I said before just throws off my entire body/ life and schedule so hopefully it can be fixed because the clock is ticking down yet I'm not moving anywhere..... But today is a new day and so is tomorrow so change is still possible and I'm still optimistic

I'll start it on Monday......

Okay well I have some good news and some not so good news, the not so good news first....I totally broke my challenge and ended up eating those little cookie/brownie things that I kept fighting off and fighting off and fighting off.....I had 6 of them (at a whopping 130 calories each) and now of course I feel disgustingly gross for eating 6 of them, trying to get off chocolate completely was a mistake because I have now binged on them. So i'm not sure how I can re-approach this situation......Thankfully cutting out soda hasn't been as hard as chocolate is and I don't know why, I can seriously envision the calories stacking up on my thighs, arms and stomach....Okay anyways onto the good news my old trainer Jeff is getting back into the game and starting in May he will be training me again which I am soooooo completely stoked about~! Not to mention at only $30 a session I can afford to do more sessions and lets just say by July I will be looking amazing!!!! So i've got to get my pre-training on as he says it so that we don't have to start all over again, I really think...wait scratch that...I know that with my new work/school schedule during workouts will be a ton easier, since I will be working only morning shifts I can get up before work and get almost 2 hours at the gym if I need to without worrying about all the traffic because I know there is not a TON of people working out so early in the morning as there is later in the day....It's now April and i've only made a slight dent in my weightloss so it's time to step it up, obviously it just proves that calorie cutting alone does not work and while muscle weighs more than fat we all know that I am not making muscle by cutting calories... I have to start my gym challenge on monday and keep going.....If I can stop drinking pop cold turkey after having 2 (12oz) soda's a day or more I can go to the gym and work out...plus i'm so stoked now that it's getting to be better weather because that means that I can go running at the CCC track before/after work...I need to find some track buddies...anyone interested?? i'm thinking Tue/Thur depending on my work schedules so if you are interested in doing that let me know!!! Maybe I should start a group on facebook lol......what do you think??? Would you join???

 

Weight: 175.8lbs

Days to Go: 111



Easter, Truffle Cake, Naps and 30 Day Ab's Challenge.....

Alright people we are now onto week 3 of calorie counting and being at 1250 calories, unfortunately I haven't gotten below 175, i'm still trying to adjust to make sure that I don't eat after 8pm which I think is a big downfall, I don't get off until 9:30-10 some nights and I don't get home til 10 or later and it's when I stop that I figure out that i'm starving and even though I only eat healthy things the weight doesn't exactly slide off, now I realize that i'm not going to just shed the weight that easily so i'm not discouraged, as as much as i've wanted to sit with a box of cookies or chinese food I haven't, I did allow myself a madeline brownie today ( a whopping 130 calories for one!) I've been fighting the urge to have one for awhile now (this btw was the girl who would eat like 10 in a sitting, they are that good) but since I had only had a banana since breakfast (late night / early morning) I decided it would okay to splurge on one, I also had some jimmy johns but of course I skipped the soda that usually comes with it and just got a bottle of water :) so just an update for you guys I did really well over Easter, I was invited over to Brian's family's house which was awesome, I always love spending time with them and the fact that I helped make the dessert with his mom the night before was just the icing on the cake ha ha well the truffle cake that is! It was a really nice bonding moment. So anyways I got very small portions and had a tiny tiny tiny sliver of the truffle cake ( I had to try it!) Colleen tried to offer me more later but I politely declined and poor jason just had so much in his bowl between the truffle cake and the mini banana cheesecakes ha ha. I must have been in a food coma because the next thing I knew I woke up when Brian was carrying me to his bed to try and finish out my nap which of course didn't happen. Because I realized what time it was and had to head home....I'm hoping my new schedule will be implemented next week and i'll be able to start going to the gym again I know it's not a good excuse but the whole open close close close schedule just throws me off and when I get home late I just wanna sleep and then by the time i'm ready to go to the gym it's time to head back into work! I'm in a funk!!! but i'm gonna atleast start the 30 days Ab's Challenge so we will see how that goes, I didn't finish it last time but I wanna finish it this time!!!

Down She Goes.......

Alright so last night was a late night and a busy night at work I was literally dripping sweat cleaning the beds and I had 3 people in a row in the mystic so you know I was hustling!! Anyways I think I burned more calories than I accounted for because I got home and late last night I was hungry, but I only ate a 10 calorie pickle and downed a lot of water which probably wasn't the best idea since I had to get up and pee almost every couple hours since I had already downed a bottle and a half just at work alone. Anyways I decided to weigh myself this morning since I've now been on the 1250 calories diet for 11 days now and have lost a total of 4lbs, I think I would be down more but since I gained a little over a lb over the weekend I had to re-lose that as well. I'm now on day 2 of no chocolate and so far it's okay I'm sure it's going to get a lot tougher, im not sure what the next thing I will elminate from my diet but I'm thinking pasta maybe, well actually I shouldn't say the word elminate because I will still have the stuff in the future just in smaller portions of them, I'm almost thinking that when I go out to eat I will ask for half of the food boxed up so I only eat half of it but I don't want to piss off the server or chef so I guess I'll just have to watch my portions and only eat half of what's on my plate. So anyways besides that I'm just constantly on Pinterest looking for interesting recipes that will expand my diet and leave me full without busting my calories, tough this is I'm not into vegan food or things like that I like my pasta, my creamy milky sauce, my meat and I'm not talking chicken give me a medium rare steak anyday!! Lol well back to Pinterest since its my day off I fully intend to just be lazy and pin away the day on Pinterest :)

Done With Soda...Onto Chocolate!! ARGHHH

So i've officially finished my soda challenge and I definitely don't crave soda anymore, i'm still struggling a little bit with chocolate, not in a bad way but I mean last night I was starving when I got home (really small lunch!) so I ate my entire dinner and then later I had a piece of chocolate and then after that I had an icecream sandwhich, thankfully I stopped there because I was still hungry but I just watched a movie and went to bed. I went over my calories slightly yesterday but I was pretty busy at work so I went over by 226, I need to remember not to just have a small lunch like PB&J because it just basically got burned off and then I was starving and I overeat, I mean since my calories are only set at 1,250 each day so even if I do go over by a couple hundred calories it's not going to make that huge of a difference,  I am going to miss my hot chocolate's on Sunday mornings but oh well, i'll just switch to my tea I guess or figure something else out! I just gotta keep my eye on the prize,so far this week i'm already lost the 1lb I gained over the weekend and i've lost .4 lbs as well, I need to figure out something for the weekend so I watch what I eat if I happen to be over at Brian's or elsewhere... Oh well i'll get it figured out...

Late Night Shopping Trips....

Well I got off work late again last night and I really HAD to go, I was down to like nothing in the fridge minus frozen chicken nuggets, cake, and a bunch of random things (all not mine!!!) I ended up splurging some of my calories on mac salad and white rice at hawaiian time because I just felt really low and irritated ( I know it was from low blood sugar) I even shared it with my co-worker so I didn't over eat and all in all I only used about 300 calories, I ended the night still having 170 calories that I could still eat but didn't, It really helps that I am active at my job cleaning beds, constantly walking around and never really sitting so I do get some exercise which is nice. Anyways so I went to Safeway and managed to avoid the hunger pitfalls that were on my mind, I did not get to finish even a 1/4 of my lunch because I had so many visitors he he, Brian included :) he stopped by to see me even as he was trying to beat the rain home so that definitely brightened my day up. Anyways! So for dinner I had or attempted to have a small salad with boiled egg and snap peas, a pickle and carrots ( didn't get to finish the carrots but I ate my pickle in the car on the way home lol) what I did have was yummy and I defintitely wanna start mixing up my boring old salads, so my shopping trip to safeway consisted of picking up bread, eggs, cottage cheese, cereal, oatmeal, salad mix, rice and some huberts lemonade in cherry limeade and rasberry lemonade (my little guilty pleasure and it's only 80 calories a serving!!!) And now I have officially ended my habit with soda I have hit the 21 day mark, now does that mean that I won't ever have a soda again? Nope I may have one every once in a while but it means that the hold that soda had over me is now pretty much over. my totaly cost for everything at Safeway was only $22.47, i'm really starting to use my Safeway app and load all of the deals onto my card so that I don't just randomly spend $60+ and half the food goes to waste, just wish they would have a deal on malt-o-meal sometime! I just can't justify spending $5+ on a box right now, maybe once i'm making more money sure especially sincev it will get eaten since both Brian & I enjoy it. So needless to say today is another new day, I think I just really need to focus on not overeating on the weekends because when i'm out around or over at Brian's house even though I take smaller portions the calorie concentration is still higher than what I would eat during the week. Hmmm.....guess we will just have to approach it differently, although I still turned down the strawberry pie Margret made and that I REALLY wanted...ha ha small steps I wish I could banish all sugar and bad stuff but i'm just not that motivated, I am consuming smaller amounts of chocolate I haven't had a candy bar in a week? maybe a little more or less? I haven't really tried to think about it. Well until last night when all the easter candy was screaming at me ha ha I almost wanted to just ran past the aisle with my eyes closed but I figured that would cause a scene.. Still really considering getting hypnotized but since I overcame Soda on my own I think that I can do the rest on my own, afterall no one is putting the bad food in my hand if anyone is doing anything Brian is slapping bad things out of my hand and always making me really think about what i'm eating,. But let's face it he's not with me 24/7 so at the end it's just me, If I look fat in Hawaii it's not because of him or anyone else it's because of me.....I think I am doing good but there is always room for better.....