Ouch! Ouch! Owie! Owie! Ouch

My body hurts!!!  Yesterday was balance day at boot camp.  I am not a very-well balanced person (take that however you want) as it is, but trying to exercise while balancing on ball, versa, or bosu is very difficult.  I pretty much felt like I wasn't get much of a workout, because I wasn't really doing the excersises, for sake of just trying to keep balanced and not bust my ass.  Apparently, that was a workout in itself, because today I can barely move!!  My calves, my back, my arms, and even my armpits ache!!  My abs should probably ache, but I never feel them.  I wonder if it's because there is so much belly fat cushioning them?  This is my toughest area.  I see very little results in the belly.  It is frustrating.  Anyboday have any tips? 

Diet Coke update:  I made it through day one of being clean of Diet Coke.  I didn't get a caffeine headache until about 7:00pm, but I was pretty irritable yesterday morning.  They may have been because it was Monday and there is always so much to do.  I was also so tired that I was sleeping by 9:00 and completely missed the Real Houswives of NJ reunion.  I am sure Bravo will replay it all weekend, but I don't want to wait that long.

Celebrate with ice cream

I lost weight and what did I do?  Celebrated with ice cream.  Gotta enjoy something. 

It's a loss!!! Yeah!!

Ok, this is good.  I have lost 4.2 lbs from last weeks fatness and 3lbs overall.  I'll take it.  This weekend I ran out of Diet Coke.  Instead of buying more I am going to try to stop drinking it.  This is something I have tried many many times with much difficulty.  So beware, I may be crabby because of a caffeine headache.  Now, off to boot camp!!

They are finally here!!!

Pretzel M&Ms are finally here!!  I tried some while in Michigan this summer and have been waiting for them to get here.  Today was the first I have seen them in the store. They are delicious!!!!!

It's been a couple days

It has been a couple days since I posted.  I did a pretty good job yesterday until I decided to have a beer with friends.  One beer turned into about six.  Oops.  This morning at bootcamp, I pushed it pretty hard, so that was good.  But it is, after all, Friday, so happy hour was definitely on the agenda.  I am going to be great this weekend.  My weight will not be higher on Monday!!!

Funky Cold Medina

I woke up in a total funk today.  I have no idea why.  I got plenty of sleep so I wasn't tired and I am not mad or upset about anything, but I just wasn't feeling it today.  I went to bootcamp this morning which was good, and although it was hard, I can honestly say I did not put forth my best and I should have.  I don't know what the problem was.  It was like I couldn't get moving.  I have felt like I was in slow motion all day long.  I was also starving today.  I broke down and got chips to go with my lunch, but at least they were baked.  I sure hope tomorrow is a better day.

Hiding out to avoid beer

I intended on running early this morning before Kevin left for work at 5:30am, but I was just too scared.  When I started running last fall, I would get up every morning and go about 5:00, but then there were two cars that would drive the neighborhood really fast.  I think they were looking for each other to race, but it got sort of scary, because they it was dark and they would slow down at me.  I even called the police on them one day.  I am probably being paranoid, but I am just too scared to go that early.  I can go in the morning if it is slightly light out.  Anyways...this isn't an excuse because I did get my run in this evening, so good for me.

So tonight, Kevin had some friends over for burgers.  I have been hiding out in the house not only to give them guy time, but so that I am not tempted to have beer.  I know if I just had one, I wouldn't be able to stop, so I am just avoiding it. 

Bootcamp in the morning!!! 

I feel like Pizza the Hut!!!

I am disappointed in myself!!  My goal was to lose 2lbs and a fricken gained 2.2lbs.  I was a total slug who ate like crap all weekend.  It just goes to show that 2 days of crap has a greater effect than 5 days of working hard and being good.  I am pissed at myself and frustrated.  Don't talk to me today!!!  Just kidding.  I am irritated, but I now I know that there is no room for any indulgence.  I have included a picture of Pizza the Hut from Spaceballs. I feel like him!!

2lbs in the WRONG direction...Sh&%!!!!!!

A Weekend of Bad Choices

On Friday I chose to indulge myself and I promised myself that I would be good the rest of the weekend.  Well I totally lied to myself.  Yesterday, I did no physical activity.  I laid on the couch and watched Housewives of New Jersey for three hours while my daughter napped.  I also snacked all day.  For dinner I went to a friend's.  It was delicious.  The grilled veggies were great, but so were the brats, cheese curd, kettle chips, lemon muffin cookies, and of course the Bud Light.  At least it was light!  I love my weekends and definitely need them, but it is so hard to stay on track with my diet plan.  I need some damn willpower.  My goal was to lose 2lbs this week, how the heck am I going to make that happen by tomorrow? 

I am stuffed!!!

I was pretty good most of the day, knowing that I was going to a friend's house for pizza and beer tonight.  The pizza was great, but what was even better was the dessert!!!  Brownies with mint chocolate chip ice cream and hot fudge.  I am so stuffed.  I don't feel bad about it at all, because I have been pretty good all week.  I will probably have to eat chicken broth every meal this weekend to make up for my binge tonight.  Oh well, life wouldn't be worth living if you couldn't enjoy food once in a while.  Do people honestly enjoy healthy food or do they just tell themselves they do?

Damn Dove Promises

I was so pooped last night that I went to bed early and slept in all the way until 5:30 this morning, so I didn't run, but I did it this evening, so I am all good in the way of exercise. 

Every morning when I walk through the workroom at school it is a challenge.  There is so much stuff layed out for the eating and I just close my eyes as I walk by. Today, we had a grade-level meeting, and somebody...yes, you Deb, if you're reading this, brought in chocolate.  Now it was dark chocolate which is supposed to be good for you, right?  Well, those little Dove Promises chocolates, as you may know, have messages in them.  I thought the first two messages were a little boring, so I absolutely had to eat a third piece.  And yes, that is a completely valid reason. 

I was faced with a tough choice at dinner.  Kevin wanted to have pizza.  I know that I am having pizza tomorrow evening.  Although, I could easily eat pizza every night of the week, I decided to pass and have a lean cuisine.  He still opted for the pizza and I can smell it cooking right now, but I will be strong!!!  Tomorrow I will enjoy some pizza and probably even a beer or two.

Tired and Sore

I love bootcamp, but it has kicked my butt!!  I am tired and sore.  No additional working out for me today.  I am in my pjs and hitting the hay soon.  I know it's only 7:10.  I don't care.

Never Surrender

I pushed it today.  Woo Hoo!!  Started back to bootcamp this morning.  It felt so good to be back.  What is bootcamp you say?  It's a hard core workout at 5:45 am.  I am going three days a week for the next four weeks. If it worked out with Kevin's work schedule, I would go five days because I absolutely love it!!  So I got my butt kicked big time.  It wasn't as hot as it has been, but I was sweatin' like a whore in church.  I sweated so much my hands wrinkled like they do when you stay in the bathtub too long.  Then later today, I took my little nugget on a 2 mile bike ride.  I ended the day with a 1.5 mile run.  When I finished a mile, I was just about to give up, but Corey Hart's Never Surrender (best 80s song ever) came on my ipod and I knew I needed to keep going, so I pushed it just a little further.  Yay me, good day!

Back in a Routine...Hopefully this Helps.

Today, the school year officially started.  As much as LOVE summer, I am excited to get back into a regular routine.  One that doesn't include going to the fridge every thirty minutes.  This morning I got up and weighed myself.  The number went down a little.  I didn't go for a run this morning because it was storming out.
When I got to work, I walked through the mailroom and right past the big ass muffins that were out for the taking.  I wasn't going to give in that early.  I also packed a healthy lunch, well what I consider healthy (chickpeas, brussel sprouts, and a peach).  I did get my run in this evening and it was great because it started raining.  It was very refreshing.  I went a little further than a mile.  I think I will try to increase it every few days or every week. 
Bootcamp starts in the morning.  5:45 baby, so I am off to bed.

Had to Poop so I Weighed Again

Good morning, Big Yawn!!  Well, it has been a week!!  I was anxious to step on the Wii Fit scale this morning.  I knew I had did fair this past week as far as physical activity.  I did something everyday.  I didn't exactly push it everyday, but I at least moved.  I did not make very good food choices, so this week it is my goal to do better. 

I weighed myself this morning, and was down .9lbs.  I sat down to post it and felt a little rumbly in my tumbly.  I took care of business I decided to weigh myself again and went down another .2lbs.  Hey, I will take it.  I am not expecting huge Biggest Loser type weight loss here.  Yes, I would have liked for a little more, but I am please the number went down.  My goal for this week is 2lbs.  I think I can do that.

Lazy Rainy Sunday

It's rainy and all I want to do is lay around, watch tv, and pig out.   I have yet to do any physical activity today.  Hoping to get some motivation real soon.  You'd think weighing myself in the morning would be enough motivation.  Not so much!! 

Day 6

I knew today was going to be a challenge when it comes to physical activity, but I did it.  I couldn't get up early to run this morning because Kevin had to work, so I knew if I was going to run it would have to be this evening when he was home and it cooled off a little.  I wasn't sure I could keep motivated to do so, but I did, so I am pretty awesome. 

Today while getting a pedicure, I was reading a local magazine.  The editor talked about how her doctor wants her to lose weight and told her to just eat lean meat, green veggies, and berries.  Nothing else.  I think I can handle that diet.  It is pretty specific and has easy rules.  I just wish I had read about it before I did my grocery shopping for the week.  Oh well, I think I will give it a try, but just modify it this week, because I am not wasting these groceries.  So tonight for dinner I had some brussel sprouts.  Don't be too impressed they were in a butter sauce.  I also had a bratwurst.  Not exactly a lean meat, but I did avoid the bun.

I am nervous to weigh in on Monday morning.  I know I haven't worked nearly as hard as I should have this week.  Big Sigh.

A day of bad choices!!

I knew today would be tough.  I went to Squat and Gobble for lunch and pigged the hell out.  Eggs Benedict with home fries and a side of bacon.  Right now I am eating Taco Bell as I post this.  I have a lot of work to do this weekend if I want that scale to have a lower number than last week.  I did make one good choice today.  As I was grocery shopping, I really wanted some Moosetracks ice cream.  That's the ice cream in my profile pic.  It is my absolute favorite. Vanilla with fudge swirls and peanut butter cups.  My mouth is watering.  I put it in my cart and continued to shop, but ended up putting it back.  Also I DIDN'T drink any beer today.  Usually Friday is my happy hour day, but not today. 

The Secret to Running Fast

I think I did my morning mile in record time this morning.  It was because I was racing to get home and go to the bathroom!!!  Shouldn't have had that greasy burger yesterday. 

Today was ok.  I didn't eat great, but didn't eat terribly. I did stick to just one Diet Coke, which is one of the hardest things for me to do. 

I am really looking forward to the Monday, when we the students come, so I can get back into a good routine of not eating junk.  Tomorrow my team is going to have lunch at Squat and Gobble.  Hopefully I will be strong and make good choices.  EEK. 

One of my biggest struggles is finding a meal that is healthy that Kevin will eat.  He always wants meat and potatoes, which I love of course, but I need to eat some fish and veggies.  He will suck it up once in awhile.  He tries to be encouraging, by saying, "Eat whatever you want, I'll figure something out."  But seriously, it's ridiculous to cook two meals. 

Ohhhhh...Bad Bad Day!!

Well, today was not so good.  I started out on the right foot, went on a run, did some exercises, drank water...then all hell broke loose.  This week at work it's just teachers, so we can leave and get lunch if we choose.  Sometimes it's really nice to take advantage of that because we feel like real people.  When we have students, we have about 15 minutes to eat.  So today for lunch, we went to Five Guys Burgers and Fries, since it was close to the dollar store (one place a lot of teachers go on their lunch break at the beginning of the year).  If it's any consolation, I got the junior bacon cheeseburger instead of the regular one and my friend and I shared the fries.  Although I drank waaaaaaaaay too much diet coke.  Tonight, I have so much flippin' work to do that I will not have time to work it off...better go pop a few laxatives...Just kidding.

Day 2: I don't know why they call this stuff Hamburger Helper...It's fine by itself.

Ok, today I met two goals!!!  Yeah.  So far I have had 100 oz of water and there is still time left in the day. I am hoping if I drink enough, I will piss all my fat off.  Fortunately I don't have students yet, so I am able to go to the bathroom.  I also only had one Diet Coke.  I drink that in the morning instead of coffee or tea, because I can't stand either of those.  I don't like hot drinks and the only brewed drinks I like is beer.  I really like beer. 

I think dieting is extremely hard for teachers.  Today, the school provided Jersey Mikes subs, which of course I ate.  It looked a lot better than the lame sandwich I took.  I try to avoid any snacks and desserts that people bring in and leave in the office for people, but it's really hard.  Luckily this year, my classroom is pretty darn far from the office, so I am less tempted to go there and if I do, I am sure I burn calories on that walk.  I am dreading when the students come and bring birthday treats.  I love cupcakes (well, those from safe houses).  That will be hard.  I will probably take the cupcake so they don't feel bad, but then pawn it off on somebody else when the kids are gone. 

For dinner, I had Hamburger Helper.  I know, not a good choice, but I am poor and it's in my budget.  I did however, opt for the Cheddar Cheese Melt instead of the Four Cheese because it was 20 calories less.  So that is good right?  No, probably not. 

Day 2: I didn't die

I ran a whole mile without walking and didn't die.  It's going to be a great day!!!  My goals for to day are to only drink one Diet Coke (the Devil), and drink at least 80oz of water.  According to Laura, my bootcamp instructor, I should be drinking my weight in oz of water everyday.  So I should be drinking twice this amount, but I think I need to build to that, especially when I have a lot of meetings today, and can't keep running to the bathroom. 

Day 1: It fricken started with bagels!!!

I was all gung ho to make healthy choices today and only lasted until about 8:30am. I woke up early and attempted to run a mile.  It's been awhile, so I did have to walk some of it.  I then did 100 bicycles and 20 push ups.  Then I sit down to facebook and get a message from Nilla stating she was bringing bagels to work.  Ugh!!!  I was planning on eating bran or some other shit that tastes like cardboard, but I couldn't be rude.  So I enjoyed a bagel with some veggie cream cheese.  I also planned to drink a lot of water today, but that didn't really work out.  I left my water bottle in the car when I got to work.  The rest of the day was ok, I didn't binge or totally pig out, and I packed my lunch for work to avoid the temptation of going out to eat. Right now,  I am really craving some of those pretzel M&Ms I had this summer and keep seeing a commercial for. 

Let's Get Started

Today is the day!!!  Time to work hard, drink water, and eat well!!

Being held accountable

Ok, so I am starting this blog mainly to keep myself accountable for my weight loss goals.  I have decided to write about everything I do whether it helps me or hurts me in reaching the goals.  So if I binge on a bag of oreos, you will hear about it.  If I run a marathon (yeah right), you will hear about it.  Embarrasing as it may be, I will post my weight each week.  I feel like if I do this and it is public I will be more likely to stay on track.