SHRINKVIVOR Challenge, Week One

Today starts the latest challenge over at the Sisterhood. I have been blessed with a wonderful team of ladies who will be helping me on this journey and we are known as Tribe ORANGE this works for me since orange is one of my favorite colors. I am struggling with saying out loud just how much I weigh so I'll just put the picture up I took... upside I was glad to see that my picture of my scale includes a date.

 on top of being fat, I am in serious need of a pedicure!!! lol

Here's to an awesome week for everyone!!! I'll post my goals for the week later...

WTF?!?!

yep... that's what I said when I stepped on the scale today. How in the heck does a person gain 9.3 pounds in a day!!!! Yep that's right, you read that properly... Yesterday when I stepped on the scale for my other weight loss challenge the scale read 239.5 and I was totally excited since that was 5.9 lbs down from my previous week's weigh... I was so happy to not only say good by to the 250's during this challenge but also the 240's and now to learn today that it was all for nothing...

Honestly though this puts me at a 3.4 lb gain from last week's Shrinking Jeans weigh in, but I am more confused about that 9.3 lbs in a day... I am hoping that maybe it has something to do with weighing at a different time, after 2 meals (breakfast and lunch) and consuming 70+ ozs of water for the day... but still I was feeling so good about this.

Even though this is the last weigh in for this current challenge at the Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans, I am hoping to continue on with this journey... and even more I am hoping that my dear friend Mae will continue on the journey with me as well...

Here are my goals for this coming week:
Walk outside at least 3 times -- weather is getting nice again
Follow my diet ... NO CHEATING
Journal all my food eating
Drink my water
Take time for me.

Happy Shrinking Everyone!!!

YES!!!

This week has gone really well for me and it showed on the scale... I am down again! I am starting to feel like I actually have gotten a handle on this whole weight loss thing and I hope to continue on with this trend.

Goals for this week:
Water
Eat more veggies
Exercise
No snacking

nah nah nah hey hey hey ( Week 4)

GOOD BYE!!!!! to the 250's that is. I was so excited to see a big change in the scale for once. It is amazing what the numbers do when you actually follow the goals that you have set for yourself :) This new weight has me down 3.2 lbs for this week :)

I wasn't able to get as much exercise in this week as I would have liked, but I got some. But I think the BIG thing was watching my diet as closely as I have been. I have been staying firmly within my points allowance even with the indulgences of a few beers/drinks etc.
Here are my goals and a recap of whether I did them or not from last week:

• follow my diet. This means reporting EVERY SINGLE THING that goes into my mouth. 
• stay within point range, and not use any "activity" points that I earn
• drink my water
• at least 30 minutes of cardio 3 times this week - didn't get it in :(
• Try to attend Muscle work class at the Y at least once this coming week. - this either
• get 5 servings of fruits/vegetables
• Drink my water
• take some time to reflect on my life and try to stay positive
• Did I mention drinking my water?

not bad if I do say so myself. I could have done better but honestly with the way my 'emotions' have been lately I could have done a whole hell of a lot worse too, but I am trying to stay positive about it.

This week my goals are similar as to what they were last week, in fact my weight loss/health goals are the same, but I am adding the goal of focusing more on school and less on 'social'. So here are my goals for this coming week:

Here are my goals for the week:

• drink my water
• follow my diet. This means reporting EVERY SINGLE THING that goes into my mouth. 
• stay within point range, and not use any "activity" points that I earn
• drink my water
• at least 30 minutes of cardio 3 times this week
• Try to attend Muscle work class at the Y at least once this coming week.
• get 5 servings of fruits/vegetables
• Drink my water
• take some time to reflect on my life and try to stay positive
• Did I mention drinking my water?
• focus more on school and less on 'social'.  

Good luck everyone!!!

well that sucks

is exactly what I thought when I saw this on my scale today... two weeks ago when I blogged I was so close to saying good bye to the 250s... and because of my poor choices and lack of working out I am back in them. Its frustrating... but I need this kick in the pants to remotivate myself.

I was getting excited that spring was coming... I was looking forward to getting to go for my walks outside and enjoying that 'me' time that I only can fully get in the spring/summer. Its easy to convince my family to 'let' me go do these walks because I take the dogs with me and just walk, jog, run... whatever I want to do at the moment.

Not to make excuses, but I had a feeling that the scale wasn't going to show the 'best' numbers this week strictly because of the amount of salt I have been craving (and indulging in) and the number of zits on my face strictly could almost promise a small gain. Hopefully since part of the gain is strictly because I am a girl it will come off easy this week with some refocusing and real determination.

Here are my goals for the week:

• drink my water
• follow my diet. This means reporting EVERY SINGLE THING that goes into my mouth. 
• stay within point range, and not use any "activity" points that I earn
• drink my water
• at least 30 minutes of cardio 3 times this week
• Try to attend Muscle work class at the Y at least once this coming week.
• get 5 servings of fruits/vegetables
• Drink my water
• take some time to reflect on my life and try to stay positive
• Did I mention drinking my water?

Here is to a better week for everyone participating in this current challenge

SUCCESS...

This is what I saw when I looked down on the scale this morning... this number puts me at a 2.2 lbs loss for the week. I wish I could say that I 'rocked' this week.. because I didn't. Wednesday I did ok on my eating... although I did have 2 pieces of taco pizza at darts (DAMN YOU SHAWN!!!!) and more beer than I should have, but Thursday I did really good.. and then came Friday... again not to so good choices... Indian Tacos (DAMN YOU MAE) and more beer... but come Saturday I knew I needed to kick it up... I could FEEL tha I gained weight which lead me to stepping on the scale Sunday morning... it actually read 257.2. I flipped out. How does someone gain 5 lbs in 4 days.... hmm let me think, salt, salt, salt. So while I was drinking my water (150 ozs/day) I am fairly certainly I was holding onto pretty much all of it... So I got my head out of my butt and into the game and I ended up with a 2.2 lb loss for the week... I'll take it.

I do with I had this scale reading today rather than yesterday thought...you see Tuesdays is weigh in day for my Biggest Loser challenge... and on that challenge I had to report a gain still... yesterday my weight was 254.2, which was a 2 lb gain... But I'm not gonna beat myself anymore about it. I will just show a 'bigger' loss next week.

This week's goals are the same:
Follow diet, VEGGIES BABY
Drink my water
Stay out of the "poor mes'... I'm beginning to believe that it's OTHER people who suck at life and not me.
Exercise
and one for added fun (more of a mental challenge).... try to be positive.

Good luck everyone!!!
Kristin

Welcome

Welcome to the nut house!!

In the fall of 2007 two women met. They met through a common bond... they were moms, and not just 'any' moms but moms who have twins and in one of the mom's cases two sets of twins. Both of these mom had four children (well at the time one mom was pregnant with #4) and were busy ladies.

Over time these two moms have gotten closer and have decided that they are going to band together for the latest challenge at The Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans which has been named "Spring in 2 Action". They don't have a lot of details for the challenge yet, but they do know that it starts on Wednesday, March 2nd.

Thankfully Kristin and Mae are both committed to this challenge and to helping each other on this journey to lose the pounds.

Hope to see you there!

-Kristin