Weigh in Wednesday

Today starts a new challenge over at the sisterhood... I don't have time to do a bit post (I'll do it later today)... but I wanted to report my weight for this week so that I don't forget it. 252.2 lbs. I am up .6 from last week.

Weigh in Wednesday

While there is technically no challenge currently going on at the Sisterhood, I wanted to still keep on track with my weigh ins etc. This week my weight is 251.6, that means that I have lost one pound since last week at this time, and honestly... I'll take it :) Its not much but I haven't had any exercise at all so I will definately take it.

I heard a 'rumor' that a new challenge will be starting over at the sisterhood next week, so pop in and check it out.

Weekly Shrinking Jeans Check-In and FINAL shrinkvivor

Today is the final weigh in for the Shrinkvivor challenge over at the Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans. The winners of both the Entire Challenge as well as the exile island will be announced tomorrow, but in my book... WE ARE ALL WINNERS. We have won our HEALTH!!! We have won the ability to learn to track calories, exercise and in some cases we have been lucky enough to develop a new habit because of the challenges that we were issued during this event. I know I for one now get my 5 servings of fruits and vegetables when I didn't use to, and water really is my best friend. I wish I could say that I NEVER hit the drive thru, but I can tell you that since starting this challenge I have made MUCH BETTER CHOICES. Subway has become a family favorite...even for me and I HATE sandwiches. Its just as quick and easy as those other fast food places, but it is so much more healthy.

My weight today is 252.6lbs. that means that for this whole challenge I have lost 7.4lbs. I'll take it :) Especially since when my tribe was sent to Exile, I had a hard time getting back on the program... but I have a renewed faith in myself and my abilities to lose weight. I know that I will succeed in this journey... Heck I've lost 2 lbs since Monday when I got back on board (probably all water weight from my gallons of water each day).

Yesterday I did the 'butt buster' hill with a close friend of mine. I have talked myself out of doing that hill numerous times with her... but honestly, it wasn't that bad... I survived... and you why... because I am a survivor :)

Happy Journey everyone!!!

I turned 30 yesterday...

Yesterday was the day that I joked about for years. My 30th birthday. I often joked that for my 30th birthday I would be getting myself a tummy tuck and a breast reduction... well because I am still way to big to even think about contemplating those things I am using my 30th birthday as a starting off point (again). I have decided that I am going to really do this...getting healthy thing. I need to do it, not only for my own health but for the health of my children.

I will still be participating in the different challenges that are going on through the amazing folks at Shrinkings Jeans, tracking my points using the Weight Watchers Online Tools, as well as tracking my Exercise using DailyMile.

Awhile back there was a day in which alot of people posted pictures of themselves in just their undergarments, and well I'm not quite there yet, so these pictures are as close as you are gonna get :) These pictures were taken this morning (November 1st, 2010). My weight this morning was 254.6 lbs 

Wish me luck folks....

Struggling

Boy am I really struggling this week. I just can not get my poop in a group. I spent pretty much all day Saturday eating crap ( and I do mean crap, candy coated pretzels, candy, cup cakes and don't forget the alcohol consumption), I can tell you that my eating was MUCH better yesterday... but mostly because my head, stomach and liver hurt far too much to even want to consume anything.

I have GOT to get back on track... especially now more than ever. Pretty soon it is going to get cold outside and I am going to be able to talk myselt out of walks and exercise but I have a HUGE motivator going on right now... my little brother (technically my cousin) got engaged over the weekend, and well let's be honest.... no one wants to be the fat girl in the wedding pictures... So here is to a renewed challenge for myself.

Oh.. but I have been praciticing my 'fastest' mile-- right now I am WALKING it at 14 minutes, getting my 5 servings of fruits and vegs, drinking my water, etc.

Shrinkvivor Challenge Weigh-in #3

Well I survived last week, but not sure I will again this week. Today's weight is 253 lbs which gives me a loss of only 2.4 lbs for this, with a total loss for the challenge so far of 7 pounds for the challenge, which I am certainly happy with.

As for the other challenges this week I think I did ok. I did falter the first day out of the gate on the 'no drive thru" because I had purchased a brewed coffee from a local coffee store. But honestly I'm not even sure that is a mess up lol, but if it is it is and I did not meet the challenge, but I did not do it again... in fact I think I will celebrate by buying myself  a latte later *I kid*

The other part of the challenge for this week was to track your minutes of exercise. I was able to log over 450 minutes of exercise this past week.... I was VERY impressed with myself. This was one of the few times that me being slow worked to my benefit :)

Here are my personal goals for this week, I will add the challenge goals once they are announced:

• no late night snacking, except for Thursdays which seems to be my 'night out'
• limit the crap I eat
• Journal my food using Weight Watchers e-tools
• Follow my Weight Watcher's Plan
• Take a few minutes every day for myself
• Drink at least 130 ozs of water each day 

I do have the added challenge that it is a friend's wedding party this weekend (they were married over Labor Day weekend in a destination wedding and are now celebrating locally with friends and family here), so I know that is gonna be a doozy for me to handle, but I know that I can do this. It's all worth it in the end. I mean really... even if I get sent to Exile, or voted off completely, or don't win this game... I will be a winner anyways strictly in the fact that I will be healthier than when I started and to me... that means WAY MORE than any prizes, buttons or bragging rights.

Have a good week everyone!

GO TRIBE PUT THE "LIME" IN THE COCONUT!!!!

Shrinkvivor Challenge Weigh-in #2

 

I wish I could tell you if I was safe this week... but I can't. That information will be posted tomorrow * I believe*, but I can tell you that I worked my ass off, literally. Part of the Shrinkvivor Challenge is that each week we receive 2 challenges, 1 is a physical challenge and the 2nd is a non-physical challenge. The challenges for last week was to *physical* Log miles... and the second *non physical* was to drink 1/2 your weight in oz of water each day. I accomplished both of these challenges and actually shocked myself with the amount of miles that I logged.... you see I logged 17.5 miles in the 5 days that the challenge ran, I was pretty impressed.... tired but impressed. I also was able to drink my 130oz of water each day and on a few days drank even more than that.... and you know what IT PAID OFF!!! How do I know that you ask? Because you see I lost 4.6 lbs this week because my scale told me this morning that I now weight 255.4 lbs. I am pretty impressed with that number... granted it is still 100 lbs from where I want to be, but each step will get me one step closer to my ultimate goal... and that isn't a size, or a weight... it is being healthy. 

I was almost giddy this morning when I reported my weight via the link, I was even more giddy when I logged in my miles and in my water consumption :) I was so proud of myself. 

My goals for this week are basically the same as last week, but I have added in the challenges for this week as well so here are my goals for the next week:

• no late night snacking, except for Thursdays which seems to be my 'night out'
• limit the crap I eat
• Journal my food using Weight Watchers e-tools
• Follow my Weight Watcher's Plan
• Take a few minutes every day for myself
• Drink at least 130 ozs of water each day
• keep track of the MINUTES that I exercise... must be active exercise *this is the physical challenge for this week*
• NO DRIVE THRU... no fast food. NONE. *this is the non physical challenge*.

And because Ryan @No More Bacon, loves it so much*hee hee* here is my shout out to my girls

GO TRIBE PUT THE LIME IN THE COCONUT!!!!!