Fast forward 4 years

Wow! I can't believe it has been 4 years since I last wrote a blog. Not much has changed I'm still trying to take off weight and become a healthier me. I have probably put on a good 20 pounds in the last 4 years. so it's time to take those off and then some. I'm trying a new diet through title boxing. It is a body transformation challenge. It is the Paleo diet which I lovingly call the caveman diet. However I read an article today that is not what it should be called. so far I haven't been that bad. I do miss my sugar in my coffee and I miss cheese. I am told after the first week or two it'll be so much easier. Hopefully after the next couple of weeks it will be my life style and not just a diet. It is it good detoxing for me because I love to eat and not all the good stuff. Yesterday I decided to workout twice. I had not been to my 11:30 am Sunday boxing class in a long time and I wanted to go back. Dave, the trainer, warned me that my challenge workout might be a little brutal and I should take it easy at boxing. He was not lying. I was running out of gas at my next workout. My body is not happy with me today. However, it did not stop me from working out tonight. So far so good after 2 days. Let's see what the next couple of weeks hold for me. Blog out!

Still here

I am still here chugging a long. I have lost a little steam. I haven't been to the gym or worked out on my Wii. I have walked though but that just isn't enough. I am tired of my clothes being tight. I am tired of breathing hard. I need to really put my mind to it again. My sister has come to town two weekends in a row and I used that as an excuse to do what I want. I think I need another challenge or something. I went to my doctor and she put me back on an appetite suppressant. I will see how that goes. And see if it helps jump start me again. I am still wearing my body monitor arm band. I should use that as my incentive. Challenge myself. As I get older it is getting harder and harder to take the weight off but getting easier and easier to put it on. Hopefully tomorrow morning I can get my big butt out of bed early and I can at least do my Wii Fit or Zumba. I know I can do it. I know I can. I know this week I am going to check out jazzersize with my friend Jeanne. Another person I know said it burns 600/hour. I can handle that. This is a short blog. Nothing much to say since I am disappointed in myself. Blog out!

It has been a week

Yep Yep Yep I know it has been a week since I last blogged. I was getting a little discouraged since I didn't feel like I was seeing any results. I had to remember some things. One, my friend Patty posted on my Facebook page with a quote: "It takes 4 weeks for you to notice a difference, 8 weeks for friends to notice a difference and 12 weeks for the world to notice the difference." (or something like that). Well I have 2 more weeks to see if I notice a difference if that is true. I am going to wait it out. Also, with all this working out I have a huge appetite. I feel like I have been eating a lot more. I am heading to my doctor on Friday to get a little help. I know some of you will not approve but I am going to get a prescription for an appetite suppressant. I know I know I know it is not the answer but I need something to help me curb my appetite for just a short while. Willpower is not working right now. So hopefully that will help me jump start my eating habits. It is not a permanent solution but a temporary help. Tonight when I was logging in my food on my nutrition website I noticed something. To back track, I have been wearing a body monitor (like they do on Biggest Loser). The body monitor tracks my calories burned, steps taken, type of activity and sleep duration. Yesterday I went to the gym in the morning: 30 minutes on the elliptical machine and 15 minutes toning on the weight machines. After my lunch and nail appointment I decided to go for a walk at Al Lopez park. I walked 2 miles. My total calories burned for yesterday was 3086 and walked 8756 steps after an hour and a half of exercising. Today I just did my usual walking around campus. I stopped to pick up something to eat and bought Wii Zumba. I hadn't decided if I was going to give it try tonight but I did. I danced for a good 20 minutes. That is it 20 minutes. By midnight I will have burned 3171 calories and walked 3500 steps. So I worked out less and walked less but burned more calories. I have been going about this all wrong. I need to work smarter not harder. I am glad I bought that Wii Zumba. Most of my activity yesterday was moderate and very little vigorous. Today it was half and half moderate and vigorous. Zumba is going to be my new exercise at least twice a week. I think THEN I will see a difference! Happy Hump Day! Blog out!

Moderately successful weekend

I think this weekend was a success. I didn't go crazy with what I ate. I didn't go too crazy with what I drank. I made sure I got some exercise in. Friday night I had my date. We were supposed to go to the circus. We started out at dinner at Channelside. Well that is all she wrote. We never made it out of Channelside. We started out at Hooters for a couple of beers and an appetizer. Then we went to Splitsville for more drinks and dinner. Afterwards we checked out Stumps and then ended out reign of Channelside at Howl at the Moon. It was a great night but the whole place was dead. I was quite surprised because when I used to go there when it was hoppin'. On our way back to my car we made one last stop at a little bar by his house. I kind of let myself go that night. I drank some heavy beers and ate some not so good foods. I think probably the worse was buffalo shrimp at Hooters. That wasn't so bad it was the dunking (not dipping) them in blue cheese. I did start my day exercising on my Wii Fit in anticipation of the evening. I ate healthy the whole day too. Also on Friday morning I was down another 2.5 pounds since my last weigh in. So I was feeling good about everything. I knew I could celebrate some but not go crazy. I tried and did better than I expected. Saturday was a day of getting back on track. I ate well and kept well under my calories for the day. I worked and kept moving as much as possible. I contemplated going out to watch some football in the evening. I even exercised a little on my Wii to burn more calories just in case. But I didn't feel like adding on empty alcohol calories to my day. I just went got some pizza and came home to watch the Saints game (GEAUX SAINTS!!!). Today I got some real rest and was up early enough to go to the gym. I worked out for an hour and a half. 45 minutes of cardio and 45 minutes of strengthening. I got lunch at Pollo Tropical. I love their tropichop. It is so good and not a lot of calories. It is awesome. I probably could eat that every day. I get it with brown rice and grilled chicken. It comes out to be 460 calories which is good for an early meal. My body is aching but it is a good ache. Since tomorrow morning is my early day at school I will be working out on my Wii. Hope everyone else had a great weekend! Blog out!

Day Four Down

It is day four and I am surprising myself by hitting the gym this morning. Actually, I am not because this is the life I used to lead until my schedule changed. I just have to tell myself no more excuses. So far so good. But the scary part is the weekend is coming. Yikes! And I have a date tomorrow night. We are going to the circus. Yippee!!! I have a plan. I am going to get up early tomorrow (even though once again I have to be at work early *sigh*) and workout on Wii Fit. That will be a good start. I will make sure I eat healthy for breakfast and lunch. I may or may not splurge tomorrow night with something fun. I will keep it under control tho. Saturday I don't have to be to work until noon so I have time to work out if I splurge too much Friday night. Saturday I will make sure I move a lot at work and eat right since I want to go watch football that night. Geaux Saints!!! Sunday is a whole day of doing whatever I want so I think I will make this my day of rest.....probably not. I will do some kind of exercise before I take my mother for a pedicure. I am feeling better every day. I am hoping I get to see the results in the scale and in my clothes soon. I won't be impatient because I know it will come in time. Happy Weekend everyone! Blog out!

Day three down

How long do you have to do something before it becomes a habit? I can't wait until that happens. :) I did get up early again to work out on my Wii Fit since I had to be to work early again. Lots of stepping. My hips are hurting right now. I can't believe I rolled myself out of a warm bed to the cold air to work out. But I did it!! I ate lots of good healthy food today. I did splurge just a little this morning. I had a chicken sandwich on an English muffin. It was better than the biscuit. Tonight I made a great dinner that was quite healthy. I didn't get all my steps in today so I decided to walk in place after dinner to burn more calories and get the steps in. After walking in place for 10 minutes, I sat down and ate a handfull of M&Ms. Is that bad????I did well the rest of the day. So far the new year is starting off great. I got on the Wii Fit scale and I am down a pound already. Not so bad. My goal is 2 pounds in two weeks. I think I am well on my way. It is another tiring day. Tomorrow is gym day. So this is going to be a short blog. Blog out!

Another day

Last night I was sitting on my comfy chair falling asleep. I kept trying to keep myself awake until I thought it was time to go to bed. Well, I realized my body was telling me different. It was telling me it was time for bed then. I don't know why I feel like I have to stay awake until 11:00. It kind of reminds me of my parents. They would sleep in the living room until 11:00 p.m. then go to bed. Not me, I went to bed at 9:00 just like my body wanted me to.

I know I am not going to miss anything. My shows are being recorded. I caught up on my other shows over the holiday break. So, I don't know why I feel the need to stay up until 11:00 like my parents. I am going to listen to my body and when it falls asleep then I go with it.

This morning was an early wake up time. I had to be to work early so I had to get up extra early to make sure I got my exercise in. There wasn't enough time to hit the gym so I worked out on my Wii Fit. It kicks my ass and I sweat up a damn storm. What I don't like is that little guy in the program say "oh" when I step on the balance board. One day it will say "are you on yet because I can't feel you." lol

Today I tried to keep my eating in check because I knew I was meeting my friend Todd for a burger at Bar Louie ($1 burgers with the purchase of a drink). I got the mall early so I decided to get some extra walking in waiting for my friend. I put in some serious exercise today overall. I know this because my Bodymedia told me so. :)

I will say when I got on the Wii Fit it didn't have nice numbers. We will see what happens in a week when I lose all this water weight....ladies (and some gentlemen) know what water weight I am talking about.

Happy Hump Day!

Blog out!