Weigh In Wednesday.......Catch-Up...& owning it...

Hello everyone,

I am back after what seems like a long time to me.  I don't know what has happened to my motivation really.  I did decide to get back to working out for like a week and a half.  During that time I actually gained weight which did not help me get back my motivation at all.  I know it was probably water weight and/or gaining of muscle weight but still not motivating to someone like me. 

Anyway, my last post was July 8th and since then I have been on a week vacation to the beach where I did not even think about my diet. (Bad idea!)  To see my weight stats just click on the "My Progress" Tab at the top of my blog.  Not much to see but at gradual upward trend. 

For those who have not read my blog before, I weigh in on Saturday mornings b/c that just seems to work better for me and sometimes I post my stats on Saturday, but sometimes I post them on Wednesday it just depends on how my week is going. 

Last Saturday I weighed in at 153.8 pounds.  That is up 4.7 pounds from my lowest point back in June.  :(  This makes me very sad that I would let myself get back to this point especially when I am off work all summer and had plenty of time to workout and eat right. 

At this point, I just need to own my mistakes and do better! I am trying to get back to tracking with Weight Watchers daily not just here and there and I really need to get back to working out even if I do gain a few pounds to begin with.  In the back of my mind I know that this is just something that happens when I start back working out but I let my lack of motivation use it as an excuse to start to give up again. You know what they say...if you are looking for an excuse you can always find one.  I WILL NOT give up on myself again.  I have come too far to go back now. 

Side note:  I tried to post pics from my vacation but my computer will not cooperate right now.  Hopefully I can do that later.


I hope everyone has had a great week,

Becky

 

Catch Up on Weigh-In Wednesday....

Just a reminder that I weigh-in on Saturday's and I am one Weigh-In Wednesday Link Up behind and since it is almost Wednesday again, I am going to go ahead and post my weigh-in for last Saturday too!  (confusing??? sorry)  Anyway I seem to have hit some type of plateau.  Saturday June 29th I was up .9 pounds (I think I owe some of this to TOM)  and this past Saturday, July 6th I was up .6 more pounds.  So that is a total of  1.5 pounds :(. This is the same 1.5 pounds up or down for 3 or 4 weeks now.

 I had no activity for a month exactly as of July 1st so I decided to start back with the 30 day shred and I decided to not use as many bonus points as usual and I try not to ever use my activity points.  It just hasn't worked yet.  I was soooo mad at myself on Saturday morning that I decided to put myself into over drive.  I did level 2 of 30 Day Shred and KILLER Buns and Thighs Level 2.  Let's just say that the title of Jillian's DVD is not wrong or exaggerating! lol  My thighs and buns are still hurting.  Like I couldn't hardly walk yesterday.  I did go to the gym and got in some cardio for an hour which I was hoping would help with the soreness but I think I made it worse.  I am hoping that tomorrow I won't be as sore and plan on going to my first spinning class in like three years.  We shall see.  I am also starting to feel like the 30 Day Shred is just not what I need since I completed Body Revolution which had a lot of the same moves just at a much faster pace.  I think I will do the Extreme Shred and Shed next.  I only have 12 days until I go to the beach and I must kick it into my highest gear if I want to get over this plateau by then. 

Anyone have any other ideas of what I could do to help me get over this plateau and back in the losing weight game?

Hope everyone is doing well!  Remember to stay determined!

TTYL,
Becky

Weigh-In Wednesday

It is Weigh-In Wednesday again!  I weigh in on Saturday's b/c it works better for me, but I was down 1.8 pounds this week.  I am struggling this week to get in any physical activity.  I have been telling myself ever since I finished Jillian Michaels Body Revolution at the end of May that I was going to start Insanity or something....anything at this point but nothing so far.  Each night I go to bed saying tomorrow I am going to start...but so far I have done nothing and I can't figure out how to get my motivation back.  Hopefully I can get back to working out next week.  My birthday is coming up, not to mention my vacation at the end of July and I really want to be well on my way to the 130's by my vacation at least.  The funny thing is I did better during the school year when I was working and now that I am off for summer break I am absolutely unmotivated and have tons more time. Not sure what is wrong with me but I need to figure it out and quick. 

I am doing good with my eating so far this week and haven't gone over into my Weight Watchers Bonus Points nearly as much as I did last week or the week before.  We shall see what happens on Saturday if I can continue to stay away from the rest of those bonus points. 

Hope everyone is having a great week!  Remember to stay determined.  (Even I am struggling with that right now. lol)

See ya later,
Becky

Father's Day and recap of the last week and a half

Hello Fellow Bloggers!  All I can say is I am sorry that I have not be able to do a better job over the last week and a half of keeping my blog current.  I thought that since I was out of work for the summer I would do better but it seems like I have as much to do at home as I did at work. I will try to do better this week.  I missed Weigh in Wednesday and everything!  Geez! 

Let me start with a Happy Father's Day to my Daddy and my Hubby! Two of the greatest men I know!

This was my dad and me shortly after my parents adopted me! Yep, I am a Daddy's Girl!

My Daddy is my biggest supporter!  Dad and me at my Undergraduate Graduation. I didn't go through the formal graduation when I got my Masters Degree or he would have been there for that as well.

My hubby and my kiddos!  I couldn't ask for a better Father for my children.  They absolutely adore him and think that he hung the moon and stars.

 

Now for Weigh-In recaps:

Weigh In last Saturday 6/8/13....Not so good but then again as I said in my last post I was expecting a gain.  I ended up gainning .8 pounds.  I guess that is okay since I was expecting it to be soooo much worse since I went over by way too many points. I was so disappointed in myself that I didn't even measure.

Weigh In Yesterday 6/15/13....I was able to pick myself back up out of my slothfulness and do better this week.  I still went over a few points but I ended up losing the .8 pounds that I lost gained back last week plus another pound which totals 1.8 pounds lost. That is a total of 15.6 pounds from my highest weight. I did take measurements this week and and lost another 1.5 inches in just my hips, belly button and waist.  Altogether in all areas I am down a total of 30.75 inches since March 4th!  I was happy with all of this progress considering I have been very lazy and unmotivated when it comes to working out.  I really must get back on my workout schedule and just do something.....anything to get moving.

Non Scale Victory: 
I was in a department store and have been wanting this dress for about a month.  I tried it on a month ago and could not get it zipped all the way up.  I went back a couple of weeks ago and could not find it in my size any where.  I was back there this weekend to shop for Father's Day gifts and happened to walk by it.  I decided to try it on again and low and behold I got it zipped all the way up with room to breathe even!  Yay!  Needless to say I bought it!

I hope every one is having a great weekend.  Remember to stay determined! 

Fell off the Wagon!

Ummmm.....did I say fell off the wagon?  Oh yes, I definitely fell off the wagon but then it ran right over me too!!!!!  Let me think back to where I have went wrong this week and yes I know it is only Tuesday! 

Saturday was my weigh in day and I always over eat on Saturday's b/c weigh in is another week away. I use some of my bonus point from Weight Watchers during the weekend and try to do good through the week, but not this week apparently! 

Sunday was Homecoming at our church and we have a dinner afterwards and lets just say I had not will power at all.  I then took an unexpected trip out of town and yet again no will power when my hubby suggested that we eat at a Japaneese Steak House. (Man that yum yum sauce is a lot of points!  I had no idea!) 

Anyway then yesterday morning our principal took our staff out for breakfast to celebrate the end of the school year.  I ate and ate and ate!  Like all but 5 of my 26 points for the entire day were gone by the time I left the restaurant!  YIKES!!!  Like I said I have fell off the wagon and then I let it run right over me!  It has flattened me.  I have actually used ALL of my bonus points and have went over like 27 points from that!!!! What the heck!!! I really have to be good for the rest of the week and then maybe I won't have gained like 5 pounds back.  I know I am going to have a gain but I just want it to be as little as possible.  Shew.....I am glad I don't have this much temptation every week or I wouldn't ever lose weight! 

On the bright side,  I have done better today and actually came in under my point goal for the day! 

Hope everyone is still doing great or at least better than me! Hahaha!

And that's a WRAP!!!!

I did it!  I mean I actually completed the Jillian Michael's Body Revolution Program!  I simply can't believe it!  I usually never finish any fitness program that I start, but not this time and I owe it all to my friends at My Fitness Pal and all of the Weightloss Bloggers that I follow who have encouraged me every step of the way.  Most of them will never know how sharing their stories and challenges with weightloss has inspired me to not give up!  Just a recap on the program:  it is a 90 day program 30 minutes a day 6 days a week.  You do two sets of workouts for two weeks at a time and then move on to another set of workouts for another two weeks and so on and so forth until you reach weeks 11 and 12 which are meant to be done for three weeks to make it a complete 90 days. I owe my ability to complete the program to the fact that it is a short workout each day and not the same workouts for too long at a time. I get bored easily with the same workout each day! 

RESULTS for this past week:

Weight: down 2.4lbs this week.

Measurements in waist, belly button, and hips:  down 1 inch

Measurements in waist, belly button, hips, arms, legs, and bust:  down 4.25 inches

 

RESULTS for the whole Body Revolution Program since March 4, 2013:

Weight: down 10.6 lbs (A total of 14.6 from my highest weight this time last year!)

Measurements in waist, belly button, and hips:  down 18.5 inches

Measurements in waist, belly button, hips, arms, legs, and bust: 28.5 inches  (didn't start measuring my arms, legs, and bust until the beginning of Phase 2 so I probably lost more than this but this is what I was able to measure since then.)

BODY Mass Index went from 29.4 to 26.8.  (Definitely a step in the right direction!)

I have went from a size 14 to a very loose 12 and can even fit in some 10's.  I haven't been in a size 10 in at least 3 years! 


WEIGHT WATCHERS:
By April 20th I was just not losing as much weight as I wanted.  I was losing inches but the scale was just not moving that much at all.  So I started Weight Watchers on April 20th and have lost 9 of those 10.6 pounds since then.  I tried tracking calories but like I have said before I don't think I was paying enough attention to the sugar and sodium calories as I should have been.  Weight Watchers takes all of those important things into account for you so you do not have to worry about it.  I like anything that is easy!  I did meet my 5% goal today!  So that was super exciting!

WHAT TO DO NEXT?????

I am not really sure what I am going to start next.  I am a teacher so I am out of school with my kids this summer starting Wednesday.  So I am hoping to have more time to workout.  I am thinking about starting Insanity!  I did it for about 6 weeks last summer but didn't finish it.  I think that doing it during the summer would be easier than trying to do it during the school year.  Just seems like there is never enough time in the afternoons to do it especially when it moves up to an hour in the second month.  Anyway I think I will start Insanity either this week or the next and then go back to Body Revolution in August.  I would also like to start some classess at the gym in the afternoons.  I think there are a couple of spin classes during the week that I used to enjoy taking a few years ago.  Not sure what all I will get into this summer but I am not going to stop my weightloss journey just because I finished one program.

I hope everyone is having a great weekend!  Good luck in the week ahead and remember to stay determined!

Results for last week:
My weigh-in day is Saturday so here is the result from that.  I am down 1.4 lbs. That makes for a total of 8.2 lbs since starting Body Revolution and a total of 12.2 lbs from my highest weight.  Yay! I will take it!  I am down 2 more inches in my waist, hips, and belly button and 4.5 inches in my legs, arms, and bust.  So this makes me happy!

This week I was supposed to be doing workouts 11 and 12 and finish on Saturday, but it may be Sunday since I have been a little stressed out this week with work.  I have been watching my eating though.  I am not over on my bonus points on Weight watchers for the week so that is a plus as well.

Hopefully I will be able to post more often this next week after all of the stress is gone.  See you then!





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