Well I wanted to be really good and do a double workout today, but after I got home I was waiting for Dave to finish eating, and then he didn't even want to work out in the end... Although his sister worked out with me instead, by the time we were done with just the weight lifting it was midnight, and I didn't wanna do an hour of cardio after that, it would keep me up all night... So instead I'm going to do 2 workouts tomorrow, 1 in the morning and 1 in the evening with dave's sis again so she can see the other power 90 work out.

I feel a little better today, hopefully tomorrow with a double workout I'll feel even better about myself, and hopefully I get my scale soon so I can find out what I weigh finally, fingers crossed for under 145!

Wish me luck!

ugh...

So this new job is killing my healthy eating habits! I can make myself 1 meal per day for free, and I'm trying to keep it healthy, like today I had a 1/2 turkey sandwich with egg and cheese, which is relatively healthy, but then I had to try making a crape, since I'd never made them before, so i had 1 filled with strawberries and bananas and topped with cinnamon and vanilla glaze, not to healthy... Although it was either that or stuffed with banana and nutella... which woulda been way worse... I'm trying though, I really am and after putting it into the daily plate, I'm right on target, technically i have another 40 calories left for me today, but I'm not going to use them. Still have to workout tonight, I'm doing double duty, both an hour of cardio and a 30 minute weight lifting... It will be my first full day in a long time, but it is definitely needed. I still don't have a scale to see where I'm at, but I ordered one for super cheap on amazon.com, and i should have it tomorrow or tuesday, my fingers are crossed. Either way, I'll keep you posted - for those of you if there are any, who want to check out where I work, go to www.thecheekymonk.com

Wish me luck

Super sore today...

So yesterday I did the biggest loser Cardio Max workout. I did a warm up, level 3, level 2, level 3 and then a cool down. And it kicked my ass beyond belief!!! I hurt so bad this morning. Kinda felt like I got hit by a truck or something... I didn't let that stop me though! I did the power 90 sweat workout this morning with dave, and kicked my butt again. I didn't slow down during the whole thing, I'm proud of myself for doing now 4 days in a row... Looks like it will be 9 days in a row before I get a day off, since Dave insists on taking Sunday's off, and I didn't quite feel like taking Sunday off, so that means 9 straight days for me. That means I'll be kickin my butt!

Wish me luck!

2 days

In a row, still don't know what I weigh. Yesterday was a cheat day for me, It was dave's nephew's birthday, so I made him a cake, and it turned out tasty, but that was the only way I cheated, it brought me above my calorie count, and although not too bad, after working out it still put me about 200 calories over my allotted calorie count... But 1 day out of a week, is not bad, and only 200 calories isn't as bad as it could be. Over all I'm still determined, I will work out today even though dave refuses to work out with me. And hopefully I can get ahold of a scale within the next few days to see where I'm at, I think I'm back down to my 10 lb goal, but I now have another 7 lb goal... So hopefully I am maybe down a pound in that too so that I only have 6 to go, I know I'm being overly optimistic here but sometimes ya just gotta be, right?

Wish me luck!

Finally

Today was the 2nd day I finally felt better, and you know what that means... I worked out for the first time in a LONG time, and it felt great! Aside from the slightly wheezed feeling I had thanks to my asthma that kicks in when I'm sick. Aside from that I feel great that I worked out, and I made Dave work out too. He is apparently really out of shape when it comes to cardio, we will see tomorrow how he does with weight lifting.

I have no idea what I weigh as of right now because I don't have a scale down in the basement where I'm staying, although Dave says his sister does have a scale, hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to weigh myself and see where I'm standing vs 2 weeks ago before the wedding. My fingers are crossed that I'm still around the same spot.

Wish me luck!

Still Sick...

went to the doc yesterday, got a virus, just gotta tough it out, and hopefully I'll be better in a few days. My fingers are crossed.

Sick Days...

Kinda fell off the barrel a little bit I guess... On vacation, didn't do a whole lot of working out, haven't done any since I got back... Driving to Colorado didn't help either, being in the car and stopping at triple D restaurants. They were good, and REALLY unhealthy. Luckily we split everything. Anyways, now I'm sick and I really don't feel well enough to work out, i'm back to eating healthy and making sure my calorie count is in check. Which is better than nothing while I'm sick so.

Wish me luck...

Well, I fell off the wagon, kinda... I was on vacation for my best friends wedding this week and I didn't do as good as I hoped to. For the most part I wasn't bad, but I wasn't good either. I wasn't eating balanced meals like I should have, I drank water and only water until the night of the wedding, so that was good. But I ate a lot of sweets... And last night Dave and I spent the night in Boston. We ate at a place called "finale" which was effing delicious, but I ate probably my entire day's worth of calories in 1 sitting... we had both dinner and dessert cause of their $30 special. Which was so good, but it was so bad for me. I barely slept last night because of 2 reasons- 1, my stomach was KILLING me!!! It hurt so bad, I can't even tell you, I was bloated and crampy, it was terrible, but then there was the fact that I just felt guilty for eating so poorly... Earlier that day we ate at Cheers in boston as well, and i had their petite cheeseburger, again, not healthy, but at least it was only a 1/4 lb rather than the 1/3 lb the rest of their burgers were. It was just a bad day overall for food yesterday... I was disappointed in myself. The day of the wedding I was good except for the 2.5 glasses of champagne and the 1 glass of beer... aside from that though the dinner was a caprese salad, grilled salmon on top of garlic mashed potatoes and spinach with mushrooms, and dessert was the cake, a white cake with a light strawberry filling and buttercream icing. It was pretty tastey, but overall when all i had was that, a few pieces of fruit and cheese and a small piece of coffee cake for breakfast it wasn't too bad.

Hopefully I didn't gain too much, I'm hoping only a pound or 2. I did work out 2 days while I was there, I wish I would have more... but what can ya do, you're on vacation... Tonight I plan on doing an hour+ workout, to help me out, days on flights are never easy cause you just munch on flight food all day long... And being stuck here in salt lake city for 3 hours doesn't help either... I only have 1 hour left till my flight takes off, so about 30 mins till boarding, I hope, I dunno, I'm on one of those tiny planes, the ones that are only 4 seats across and only like 15 rows... So I'm not sure when they attempt to board... Either way, If I could workout right now I totally would, but I think that would look a little odd in the middle of Concorse E...

Well I'll let you know tomorrow what the damage is of the trip... Tomorrow I drive to colorado, but we are stopping in sante fe, nm, and my mom is all for working out, so we can just workout while we are there in the hotel, and I'm ok with that. But it will be a long couple days before things are back to normal, or as much as I can consider back to normal living with my future sister-in-law and her family...

Wish me luck!

Almost There...

Things seem to be continuing to go well, I've lost another pound which means I'm only 1 pound away from the original goal, and tomorrow I'll be weighting again (a little early, but I was hoping to hit the 10 pound mark by the time i go to Maine). Hopefully I hit it! I've been really good these last few days, eating really healthy and drinking tons of water, and working out every day.

After I hit this goal, my next goal with be 7 more pounds, which will put me at 140 pounds when I'm done, after that I have 2 more goals at least, 5 pounds each, putting me over all at 130 pounds, a very muscular 130 pounds, hopefully around a size 3/4ish! I feel like for the first time I can do this on my own, no gimmicks no nothing, just eating healthy, and eating what I want within reason, and working out on a regular basis, with tons of cardio... 6 days a week cardio, 2 days a week strength training.

And I found pictures of what I would like to look like when I'm done

body 1
body 2

I'm bound and determined! I can't wait!

Wish me luck!

A few little tweaks...

I'm still goin strong with the healthy eating and the fitness. I've had some ups and downs, and it hasn't been easy but I have made a couple of changes. Instead of my calorie goal being at 2 lbs a week weightloss, I lowered it to 1.5 lbs a week, which allowed me an extra 200 calories if necessary. Some days they aren't, like today, but other days they are. I started with the Power 90 dvds, which again I already had on hand, and they actually seemed too easy for me, which was surprising, but kind of nice. So I adjusted it... Last time we noticed that we were bulking up too much with them, so I lowered the sculpt to only 2 days a week instead of 3, and on the days I do sculpt I'm also doing sweat, which brings it on an hour workout. The 4 days a week I'm supposed to be doing sweat, I added one of the biggest loser mini sessions, 20-25 minutes. I figure I'll do this for about 2-3 weeks and then I'll jump to sculpt/sweat 3-4. And hopefully that will be a little more of a challenge. All in all so far I am pleased with the results, I haven't weighed myself since I the last time, which I think is a good thing, usually I have a hard time doing that lately, but on sunday or monday I will update my weight again and hopefully it will be down some more =].

I was stressed out the other day because we were going out to breakfast, and out to dinner, so I wasn't planning on having much for lunch other than a fruit salad, and my mom started lecturing me about how I need to have cheat days every once in a while... But i don't really feel the need to have cheat days, for the most part I allow myself to have the things I want within reason and therefore don't really need to cheat. I understand it was a rough day, early breakfast, late dinner, very light lunch, and I was cranky in the first place (stupid womanly issues), so it was just annoying. I didn't feel I needed to cheat, and it bothered me that I was being pressured into it. I mean my cheating is still healthy like only 8 frozen yogurt, or coldstone tart and tangy yogurt, or having a sub sandwich for lunch instead of just some lunchmeat or something like that. I don't feel the need to have massing cheating or to over eat calorie wise. If I have to I will, but I would really rather not... Which I think is an ok thing. Right? That is all for now...

Wish me luck!