Friday, November 19, 2010

Maybe I should start watching what I eat...

...At least on the days before I plan to weigh in. This morning I was back to 263! :( But I also had chinese take-out for dinner (salt city!)

Friday, November 12, 2010

One Week complete

So I actually worked out every morning this week! And I weighed myself this morning and I am down 1 pound. I would have liked to see more progress after 5 days in the gym....but I did enjoy my Chinese Take-out for dinner last night and my huge calzone I had for lunch.....we will work on diet in a few weeks.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Sticker Please

So Monday I did 20 min of Cardio. Then yesterday I showed up for my regular session with my trainer and he said "Come here, I have something for you." And he put a smiley face sticker on my water bottle and said it was for showing up Monday. Then I did cardio again for 20 min this morning (3 days in a row had not happened for a long time!) and he came and put another sticker on my water bottle. (I have been peeling them off once I get to my desk and putting them on a piece of paper.) and it is silly, but these little stickers are kinda motivating.

And!!! Yesterday was my daughters Pasta Dinner fundraiser at school. So I had a small plate of spaghetti and meatballs (very small portion, I thought I'd stop on the way home and pick up some Taco Bell or something, plus the hubby needed dinner too since he didn't go to the fundraiser). And there was a bake sale there and I bought 6 brownies, intending to eat a few now and then the rest with some milk once I got home. I ate one after dinner and my daughter had one...and I took the rest home. After the fundraiser we had to stop at a store, and then I went right home (no takeout!) And the hubby and daughter finished off the brownies while I did some housework. Then the hubby made himself some dinner while I took a shower and then went to bed. So NO night time snacking!!!! Pretty proud right now!

Monday, November 8, 2010

Say it aint so!

This weekend we did the 'fall clean-up' yard-work. This included my hubby blowing and mowing the entire back yard while I raked in the front. After I was about 75% done, and he was 100% done, he came to the front to help. He finished the raking while I mowed the front. Then my hip was killing me so I rested. Then I went grocery shopping and my hip hurt so bad I had to lean on the cart to make it around the store. This (coupled with other complications of a more personal nature, including barely being able to clip my toe nails) has spurred me to....once again....start working on loosing weight. (also all my pants are incredibly tight!) So I worked out this morning, Monday with no trainer and weighed myself to see where I am........263! Seriously! I haven't been this fat for a long time.....I was 256 when I started with the trainer 2 years ago. In the past few months I have been barley making it to the gym 2 mornings a week, and I've been eating whatever I want, including cake, cookies, and candy at night with a glass of milk. Also my water intake has gone from 5-6 bottles a day down to 1-2.

The new plan is to try to do some cardio most mornings. And up my water intake. We'll see how this goes for a couple weeks and then work on adding more diet restrictions.

Also, on my last trip to the endocrinologist...she was feeling my thyroid and said "Did you know you have alot of facial hair?" No I hadn't noticed....except for the constant plucking I need to do to keep away the uni brow and Italian grandmother beard! And she said maybe I have PCOS? I know I have PCOS! I knew that 7 years ago. So she sent me to have a bunch of blood-work, to check kidney and liver functions and glucose, and whatever else....And she wants to put me on metformin (which I was on so that I could ovulate to get pregnant). But I guess it helps regulate glucose and helps you lose weight.....so maybe this is what I need. I go back to see her, get all the blood results, and hopefully a magic prescription, in a few weeks. I'm not going to hold my breath though, I thought the thyroid meds were going to help with my weight but that didn't happen at all. I'm just going to try to make it to the gym each morning and see where it goes from there.