Beach Bound Baby!

 

 

 

   It’s important to have a goal….a reward….something to work for.  I love the beach.  I love to sit out on the sand and watch the waves roll in.  I love to feel the sand between my toes and the sun on my face.  I love the quiet tranquility of the early morning, when the sun just begins to rise and the world still looks untouched.  I could live happily for the rest of my life just sitting out by the ocean in quiet serenity and solitude.

The only problem is that when you’re overweight, fat, pleasently plump, or as my sister says “fluffy”, the thought of anyone seeing me in a bathing suit is frightening enough to keep me away from the place I love most in the world.  I haven’t been to the beach since 2009, when I lost all of the weight before.  That was my gift to myself….my reward.

So, I’ve decided to let that be my reward again.  I’ve decided to work toward the goal of being on the beach for a solid week, every day — if I can lose the weight. 

I’ve set my plan in motion and developed a workout schedule.  I’m working on my menu and avoiding the foods I need to avoid.  I just have a few things to fine tune, then I should be able to get back on track.  I’m keeping up with my workouts and food intake on dailyburn tracker.  It helps keep me accountable for eating right every day.

I’m also going to keep blogging on here, at least once or twice a week.  I don’t know why that helped so much before, but i t did.  I found that the more I wrote about it and the more I logged online, the better I did with my weight loss.  So, if it worked before, surely it’ll work again.

I’ll be back in a few days to ramble on again about how things are going.  Right now, I’m headed to sleep to dream about the beautiful Gulf of Mexico and the white sand beaches that wait for the healthier, slimmer me.

28 Sticks Later

  There it is.  28 sticks of butter.  28 sticks of fat.  Total weight – 7 pounds.  That’s how much I’ve lost this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was totally psyched when I got on the scales today.  I didn’t expect to see that much of a weight loss.  Thirteen more pounds until I’m back to where I was 4 months ago.  Then it’s downhill from there. 

I’m working updating my blog.  I left the weight progress chart up from last year, just so I can look back on it.  I have a new one for 2010.  So far I only have weight on it, but I’ve taken measurements and I’ll add that in later.  I think I’ll start the progress pictures again once I’m back down to 219.

I’m also adding a page with my favorite motivational quotes … coming soon.

I think I need a change as far as eating goes.  I’m looking into a Ketogenic diet.  Once I get all the details, I’ll update my diet page.

Thanks to those who dropped in here from time to time to check on me.  It’s been kind of a crazy couple of months.  I’ve gone on and on and on and on about the whole foot drama, which is still going on.  I went back to doing cardio again and started running because my foot isn’t hurting at all.  I really miss running.  That’s so crazy to me because I never would have thought that I would like something like that.  It just goes to show that you can’t be afraid of trying something new.  You never know when you’ll come across something that can change your entire perspective.  But I have to give it up for now.  I had another x-ray and my foot actually looks worse than it did when I first broke it!  BLAH!!!!

But back to the whole – drama in my life – story –

About a month or so ago, I found a really large, hard lump in my left breast.  I had an ultrasound, fully expecting to hear that it was just a cyst.  But it was inconclusive – some kind of nodule or mass that wasn’t cystic at all.  I kinda fell apart for a while, going crazy, worrying about what it could be.  I really don’t know why I was so worried, now that I look back on it.  I always tell people that you shouldn’t worry about something until there’s reason to worry, but there I sat, in utter anguish over the unknown.  So I went to a surgeon, who suggested a lumpectomy.  I had the procedure, had to go 2 weeks without lifting weights and ate everything in sight.  The biopsy report came back negative and I decided that I really needed to get going again.

I joined a weight loss challenge with our local hospital.  A group of 4 of us are competing to be the “Biggest Loser” and have a chance to win a thousand bucks.  In the spirit of the competition, I’ve been running around, jokingly trash talking the other teams in our office and now have absolutely no other option than to stay 100% on track!  Plus, I was contacted a few months ago to be in a magazine for women to talk about weight loss and it came out last week.  Just one more reason to keep it up!

At any rate….hopefully things are settled enough for me to be back in this wholeheartedly!

I could sleep in these shoes!

My new shoes came in today.  Funny thing…I HAD been wearing the wrong size.  No wonder my toes kept getting numb…lol  At any rate, I ordered these UA crosstrainers online and they came in and they are amazing!  My feet didn’t hurt at all tonight.  Now, the rest of my body…that’s a different story.

Workout went well tonight.  I did 20 minutes of cardio followed by a strength training circuit.  Managed to get out of the gym in an hour and a half.    I definitely prefer going at night, even if I don’t get home till almost midnight.  There are fewer people there and I don’t have to fight for my machines. 

There’s not much to report on today, other than the workout.  My eating stayed under control.  I had cheerios and skim milk for breakfast, lean ham on whole wheat for lunch with yogurt, then 93/7 lean taco salad for dinner.  I also had a banana before going to the gym.  I’m keeping everything pretty plain and simple.  I think that when I don’t have much of a variety, I’m less likely to over eat.  If they would just move the chinese restaurant that’s beside the gym I go to, everything would be a-ok.