Resolute with the Resolutions

Well, I've been doing pretty well with the "well it's Monday, so I will work out" approach to the weekly workouts. I'm actually kind of surprised.. hehe. But yesterday, since I was off work and didn't feel like going downtown to visit my gym, I jumped rope at home for roughly 30 mins and played with hand-weights for a little bit while watching the second episode of the second season of 24 (yay for commercial-less tv on DVD!) TV actually has proven to be a really big help with my actually doing my home workouts (yay for distracting the brain while beating the body!) I am still sore today. Sucess!

Today I'll go outside for a walk over lunch and tomorrow I'll hit the gym again, 'cuz afterall, it'll be Wednesday!

I haven't weighed myself recently, so I'm not exactly sure where I am with all that with the holidays and stuff..... though, the other week I risked stepping on the scale at home (first time since getting married) and it told me I'd lost 5 lbs. While I do like that report, I'm not sure whether I believe it or if I think the scale got confused in the move from my old apartment to this new one. Since I know the numbers have always been off on my home scale (and i only ever weigh myself first thing in the moring and without clothing) I'm a little afraid to get a second opinion from the scale at my gym..

More Regrouping

Well, I gained back at Christmas all the weight that I'd lost at Thanksgiving. So I'm also regrouping and trying again. I think the best definition of success was a Japanese(?) Proverb I read a little while ago:

"Fall down six times.
Get up seven."

So, here I am getting up another time.

I got back on the exercise this morning, and I'm working on the water. The water has been a huge struggle for me as Monkey's gotten more active. I've always been a sedentary water drinker, and my life is not very sedentary right now! So if anyone's got suggestions for how to remember to drag my water around with me so it gets in my body, I'm listening! It'd be great to hear how the rest of you girls are doing!

Time to regroup and start again.

Good morning ladies,

How are all of you doing? I hope better than me!! :)

I have a couple of goals that hopefully will help that.

1. I need to sleep 7 hours every night. Before you give me too much grief, recognize that is a significant improvement!! That means being in bed by 10:15!! That is early!!! :)

2. Walk every day either on the tread mill or an outdoor walk depending on the weather. If I just do it after getting the kids off to seminary, I will have time for this.

3. Go back to Sparkpeople and keep track of my food so that I eat healthier.

If I am serious about losing weight, and feeling better, and being able to have fun with my children and grandchildren, I have to have a healthier life style. I am not doing a very good job of that lately.

So, help please, I need a cheering section!! I love you all. I hope that you are having wonderful days.

Love,

Mom

Trying a New Angle

Well, I FINALLY went to the gym today. Sadly, it's been quite some time since I've gone.. we're not even going to list how many times I've gone since I got married.. hehe. We'll just say I've started up again.

Now that the wedding is done and past, this time around I don't have such a pressing motivator to get me to go up there during my lunch hour. It hasn't been working to tell myself that "it would be good" to go.. and thinking "I'm being good" when I do go isn't motivator enough in and of itself either. So, now I am trying a new angle of psychology to get myself up to the gym more frequently. The current idea is to just look at it as a part of my routine. For now I'm going to shoot for three times a week, so now I tell myself "I go to the gym because it's Monday" (or Wednesday or Friday). Hopefully if I don't make a big deal out of it and make it just part of a lifestyle, it'll will stick with me better. So, so far, today I went to the gym because it was Monday.
I'd say it's a promising beginning :)

It's Working!

I lost another pound! I don't think that I'm going to exercise today... I've got a nasty cold & I don't think it would be wise. But I was down another pound today. I think I'm going to go get myself one of those non-food rewards!

Well....... It's Not All Bad

Heh.. so, exercise once married is harder than I anticipated. I mean, I knew that it was more than likely that once my main motivation was gone (fitting into that pretty pretty dress), I'd struggle with continuing with my routine of regular exercise, but I had hoped that I might do better than I have. My routine even at work has been thrown off quite drastically in the last few weeks. I have been working through lunch more. And when I'm not working through lunch, I've been running around the city trying to update my forms of legal identification so that my name is my name all over. Yes.. excuses excuses excuses. Today I'm working through lunch yet again, however, TOMORROW I will go to the gym.

I hereby resolve that tomorrow, Tuesday December 2nd, is the day I will return to the treadmill.

It's not all bad though, now that I'm living closer to pretty much everything, I tend to use public transportation to get around. Public transit is good for a couple things: Saving me $$ on gas, and forcing me to walk more. So, I've been walking further to get to the train and up two flights of stairs to get to my platform. Plus, I live in 3rd floor walk up, so I'm taking stairs bunches more than I did before I moved. Bottom line is that I have gained a couple pounds (well, three in the last 5weeks) but really, that's all.

So, while it's not as good as it could be, it's not all bad.

Movement

I remember now why it is that I like calorie counting! I'm already down 1 pound. I did a run this morning as well. Feeling more upbeat about loosing weight than I have in a very long time.

Weight: 201 (-1)
Over Bust:38 1/2"
Bust:42"
Waist:36"
Hips:46"

Run: 1.87 miles/34:25
20 Crunches on the balance ball