Well, this.
15th January 2012
Christmas Vacation!!! Hooray! (Taken with instagram)
In case you didn’t know, here’s what happens when you completely go off of plan and lose your damn mind for 6 months.
You get to post that you have gained 36.6 pounds.
I should not be surprised. I should, however, be very disappointed in myself. I am.
But you know what they say (though who “they” are or why we should believe them, I don’t know, but anyway…) today’s the first day of the yadda yadda…
So I’m starting over. Today. Now. That means that tomorrow is day one, since it’s bedtime here now.
Here’s a photo to document the occasion:
*okay, pretend that there’s a shitty photo here, I will try again tomorrow*
Here are the stats.
Weight: 284.4
Total lost: 0
Change since last week: n/a
Thoughts: Gah!
Tonight was weigh-in night at Weight Watchers.
Thankfully, for the first time in ages, I did pretty well.
Here are the stats for this week:
Weight: 247.8
Change this week:…
I’m baaaaack!!!
While I’m sure that you probably didn’t miss me, I know for a fact that I definitely missed making these Wednesday night posts.
So, ahem, with no further ado, here’s the hard data that you’ve been missing.
Weight: 251
Total Lost: 42.2lbs
Change from last post: +.4 lbs (change from last week: +2.6)
Thoughts:
Well, I can’t be too surprised by this, as I’ve been completely checked out of the program for the last two months (as evidenced by my slacking in the updating department.)
As to what I plan to do about it?
Well, I figure that I will set a goal for each 24 hour period and do my best to fulfill that goal.
Tomorrow’s goal? Track every damn thing that I put in my mouth. Also? Go to spin class with the “drill seargant” Walter. (Who, as it turns out, is one of the nicest guys, but he’s a beast in spin class.)
Hopefully once I lather/rinse/repeat this goal (with workout variations) for a week, I will have something encouraging to post next week.
Also, I’m thinking about the Couch to 5k program, I mean, why not? I can bike, I can swim, what’s left? Running. Right?
So I will try to start that as soon as it stops raining long enough for me to do the first day without getting washed away.
Deal?
Deal.
- Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XS
- Aperture: f/4
- Exposure: 1/60th
- Focal Length: 28mm
Spin bike. Gym. Bored.
I went out for a bike ride this morning, and it was super chilly. (Yay, fall! Boo, cold weather coming!)
Everything was going great, until I made it to the northern half of the greenway. Based on my scientific study of greenway behavior (read: science? whut?) I have reached the conclusion that children along the northern half of the greenway would not survive if they had to depend on themselves.
Not once, not twice, but three different times did I almost run over an oblivious kid on a bike. (Now, I know that this is actually a parent problem, not a kid problem, really.) One of these times the mom just sat there and watched. I had to actually swerve off the path and lift my right foot up and into the frame of my bike to keep from hitting this kid.
Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking that this is because I ride too fast on the greenway. Perhaps, but I was only going about 11 mph when each of these incidents occurred, as I could see that there was going to be a problem long before it happened. (So there! :P)
I suppose that I need to figure out when the n00bs are out using the path and schedule around that. (I’m guessing that the middle of the afternoon on the weekends is a good time to avoid some of this.)
Weight: 250.6
Total Lost: 42.6lbs
Change from last week: +1.2 lbs
Thoughts:
Okay.
I’ve not been good about the blogging. Really I haven’t.
I think that it’s because I have been feeling a lack of commitment to the process. I’ve not been working out as much as I should or tracking my food.
I’m making a commitment to get to -50 lbs by the 20th of October.
So essentially, I’m not going to have any thing that will push me over my daily points each day, and I am going to commit to working out 5 days a week. I also commit to trying new foods when the opportunity presents itself. (Example: tonight, I tried olives, spinach, baby carrots, hummus, garbanzo beans and broccoli. Result: olives = ick. spinach = not too bad, baby carrots = eh. hummus = pretty good, garbanzo beans = eh. broccoli = okay.)
I think that my picky eating habits are about to seriously impact my ability to continue to lose weight. I need to stop looking at food as something I can have for fun, and instead treat it as it should be treated, as fuel for my body. That doesn’t mean that I am not allowed to enjoy my food, but rather that I absolutely MUST make better choices.
I’m frustrated by the lack of commitment and progress I’ve been feeling and I am going to really try to do a better job of making decisions that support my goal.
In the non-scale victory department though, I was able to buy pants 5 sizes smaller than I wore in January. So there’s that.
- Camera: Canon PowerShot SD1000
- Aperture: f/2.8
- Exposure: 1/60th
- Focal Length: 5mm
I’ve been having a hard time lately. Not with the weight loss, that’s still happening. I’m struggling with motivation. I’m kind of on auto pilot now, I’m making okay choices, and I’m exercising, but I have such a feeling ennui about it all right now. I missed my weigh in last night, I wasn’t feeling well, and I’m just going to wait for next week.
I wonder if this is normal? I’m just so damn bored with the process now.
Does anyone have suggestions to make it fun again?
Being productive in my spaceship.
- Camera: HTC ADR6300
- Focal Length: 4mm
