So we did really well for just about three weeks, maybe 3 1/2 with the working out. Eating better was hit or miss but mostly better. Then we both stopped, can't remember why though. He worked out twice more so he's further along the list than I am so it'll be him getting to pick out the pizza.
My last day, not including Friday was back on February 12th. He did two more days after that date although not in a row. His last day was Feb. 18th. Then last Friday when he got home from work he made me get up. I said it didn't make sense to me since I knew neither of us would do anything over the weekend and I was right. But still I got up and we worked out.
Then today after he got home he got me up again. I really, really didn't want to get up but it's good that I did of course. I can't say I'm glad, as he asked me if I was, but I feel good that he did it. I'm a little sore but that's good as well.
Hopefully this means we'll get back in the swing of things again.
One thing I am glad about though is that I didn't gain any weight in the last month. I was fluctuating between 184 and 186 for all of those weeks of working out which was really frustrating. Then after we stopped I actually lost 2 pounds down to 182. Every time I weighed myself I was 182 until just over a week ago. When I got back on I was back at 184. On Friday I was at 184 too. Then this morning I was at 183 even. The others were point something but I can't remember what.
My jeans are fitting looser. The two I wear are both size 16. One is a skinny jean and low rise though and before I couldn't wear them without having a muffin top when standing. Now there's no muffin top and they don't hurt to sit in. My other pair is actually loose. I have to wash them more often than I normally would just to firm them back up. But I haven't lost enough to fit in my 14's yet. That's at least another 10 pounds or so I think. Maybe more.
Several years now into this blog and I haven't done at all what I wanted to. That saddens me sometimes. I was really hoping by having this I'd be more inclined to keep at it. But obviously I haven't given up or I wouldn't continue to post from time to time about my ups and downs. Or should I say post about the good, the bad and the ugly.
Right now I feel I'm in the good part. My weight is at the low 180's still but I'm still not giving up. I know I can do it. I lost weight before back in '09. I was down to 162 and still had more to go but I was looking pretty good and feeling even better. So I just have to keep that in mind and continue working at it.
Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
No pizza for us for awhile
So, we didn't do anything yesterday morning but we did this morning. Got on the elliptical again while he was on the treadmill.
HDT created a chart for us to keep track of what we're doing and our weight. We've agreed there won't be any pizza until it's completed. Pizza is his downfall, not so much mine, but it's an easy thing to have for dinner so we usually end up having at around twice a week. And if we order it out there's leftovers which means he's having it three times at least. I don't usually eat leftover pizza.
So yeah, he figured out if we just do it weekdays then it'll be just over 3 weeks before the chart is completed. That's a long time without pizza but I think we can do it.
HDT created a chart for us to keep track of what we're doing and our weight. We've agreed there won't be any pizza until it's completed. Pizza is his downfall, not so much mine, but it's an easy thing to have for dinner so we usually end up having at around twice a week. And if we order it out there's leftovers which means he's having it three times at least. I don't usually eat leftover pizza.
So yeah, he figured out if we just do it weekdays then it'll be just over 3 weeks before the chart is completed. That's a long time without pizza but I think we can do it.
Friday, January 17, 2014
Is this the beginning of something good? I'm hoping
So, I finally got on the elliptical and treadmill. Woot woot!
I did just under 18 minutes on the treadmill. It was 9pm on Thursday night so I figured I'd just take it easy but I wanted to do something to motivate myself. So I did 2.5 to 3.0 speed and started out right away with an incline of 2.5 then increased up to 5.5. I was doing it barefoot though and I don't know if I walk weird when barefoot or if it's the treadmill or what but my two middle toes on my right foot actually started to hurt and go tingly. Almost painfully numb really. So I stepped off and wiggled to stretch them for a little bit then got back on but it was too painful. So I just called it a night. Only worked off 80 calories but I knew I wouldn't do much anyway so I was ok with it. It wasn't about the calories anyway, more about the motivation as I mentioned.
This morning I finally did what I said I was going to do which is get up when HDiTty got home and we worked out together. I got on the elliptical and he did the treadmill. Did a full 35 minutes, 5 of them the cool down period. Burned approx 310 calories so that was nice. I kept changing the incline and resistance. Once I've gotten into exercising a bit more I'll use one of the programs instead of just doing it myself.
So yeah, finally did it. But it's Friday so who knows what will happen now. LOL I know myself, I'm going to have to force myself to do something over the weekend, even if it's just one of the days. Then Monday will be the real test. He doesn't work this weekend so we'll see if he stays up all night Sunday, enough to stay up to work out in the morning.
We shall see.
I did just under 18 minutes on the treadmill. It was 9pm on Thursday night so I figured I'd just take it easy but I wanted to do something to motivate myself. So I did 2.5 to 3.0 speed and started out right away with an incline of 2.5 then increased up to 5.5. I was doing it barefoot though and I don't know if I walk weird when barefoot or if it's the treadmill or what but my two middle toes on my right foot actually started to hurt and go tingly. Almost painfully numb really. So I stepped off and wiggled to stretch them for a little bit then got back on but it was too painful. So I just called it a night. Only worked off 80 calories but I knew I wouldn't do much anyway so I was ok with it. It wasn't about the calories anyway, more about the motivation as I mentioned.
This morning I finally did what I said I was going to do which is get up when HDiTty got home and we worked out together. I got on the elliptical and he did the treadmill. Did a full 35 minutes, 5 of them the cool down period. Burned approx 310 calories so that was nice. I kept changing the incline and resistance. Once I've gotten into exercising a bit more I'll use one of the programs instead of just doing it myself.
So yeah, finally did it. But it's Friday so who knows what will happen now. LOL I know myself, I'm going to have to force myself to do something over the weekend, even if it's just one of the days. Then Monday will be the real test. He doesn't work this weekend so we'll see if he stays up all night Sunday, enough to stay up to work out in the morning.
We shall see.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
It's about damn time!!
So yeah, I finally made myself get on the machines last night. It's about damn time!!
I made us, or I should say, we made us a good dinner last night. I cooked up some chicken breasts with Tony's cajun seasoning on them on the George Foreman Grill and heated up some green beans and HDiTty made us some garlic dill potatoes in the microwave steam bag. No bread which we normally do.
No dessert either.
I of course started to vegetate on the couch with the dog in my lap and Bander in my arms snuggled up to my shoulder as usual after dinner was done. I was warm and cozy, well except for my toes which were chilly. Heh
I kept telling myself to get up but I just couldn't do it. At one point shortly before 8:00 HDT went into the laundry room saying he was getting a pair of shorts. I asked him if he was getting ready to workout, actually kind of excited. But he said no that he just felt like wearing shorts rather than the sweats he had on. So I asked him to get me a pop and I sunk back into the couch. But shortly after that, maybe 5 minutes or so, I moved and that made Poydras go all bratty as he does and he grumbled and jumped off the couch. When he did that Bander then stirred and went up onto the back of the couch.
Since I didn't have any animals to hold me down and my toes were still cold I made myself get up and get on the treadmill. I didn't put on my shoes and was wearing fuzzy socks so I didn't want to go real fast. I only put it to 2.0. I decided once the show we were watching got to a commercial I'd go change my socks and put on shoes so I could go faster.
But I shamed HDT into joining me just by being on it and he kicked me off. I made him wait till I hit 40 calories which only took about 15 seconds or so since I was so close. So I went onto the elliptical and since I don't really need shoes on that one I just kicked off my fuzzy socks and went barefoot. Put in that I wanted to lose 260 calories so between the two it'd be 300 and with the cool down I lost an extra 41. So I feel like I did a good thing.
We both did some arm stuff as well. We have a couple medicine balls, one is 10 pounds the other is 5 I think, maybe 6. I used the lighter one starting on the treadmill doing different lifts with it and continued with it on the elliptical. At one point I got the 10 pounder from him and did a little with it but not for long. He used it and one of the stretch bands we have as well. So who knows how many extra calories were burned using those.
While we were going strong he asks me that we should be doing this every day, what's wrong with us. I told him that we're lazy, no other word for it. We're lazy and we enable each other to be lazy. But we agreed we'd be back doing some form of exercise every day that it's possible to do so.
He wants to go out to the garage tonight to do weight lifting. I don't desire doing weights, especially out in our very cold garage, but I always like how I feel afterward. So I won't protest too much. The problem is is that by the time he'll get home it'll be full dark and even colder and we have no lights in the garage let alone no heat. Sometime a few years ago our lights quit working, actually all electricity. We figure it has something to do with the lines going out to the garage from the house. We've never looked into it though. So unless we do it in the dark or bring candles out we won't have any light to work by. And we only have one little space heater, which as I'm writing this I realize we wouldn't be able to use anyway because of the whole no electricity thing. So we shall see how it goes, I have a feeling we'll have to do weights in the house without a bench.
Slowly but surely we're gonna be back on this damn exercise/healthy bandwagon dammit.
I made us, or I should say, we made us a good dinner last night. I cooked up some chicken breasts with Tony's cajun seasoning on them on the George Foreman Grill and heated up some green beans and HDiTty made us some garlic dill potatoes in the microwave steam bag. No bread which we normally do.
No dessert either.
I of course started to vegetate on the couch with the dog in my lap and Bander in my arms snuggled up to my shoulder as usual after dinner was done. I was warm and cozy, well except for my toes which were chilly. Heh
I kept telling myself to get up but I just couldn't do it. At one point shortly before 8:00 HDT went into the laundry room saying he was getting a pair of shorts. I asked him if he was getting ready to workout, actually kind of excited. But he said no that he just felt like wearing shorts rather than the sweats he had on. So I asked him to get me a pop and I sunk back into the couch. But shortly after that, maybe 5 minutes or so, I moved and that made Poydras go all bratty as he does and he grumbled and jumped off the couch. When he did that Bander then stirred and went up onto the back of the couch.
Since I didn't have any animals to hold me down and my toes were still cold I made myself get up and get on the treadmill. I didn't put on my shoes and was wearing fuzzy socks so I didn't want to go real fast. I only put it to 2.0. I decided once the show we were watching got to a commercial I'd go change my socks and put on shoes so I could go faster.
But I shamed HDT into joining me just by being on it and he kicked me off. I made him wait till I hit 40 calories which only took about 15 seconds or so since I was so close. So I went onto the elliptical and since I don't really need shoes on that one I just kicked off my fuzzy socks and went barefoot. Put in that I wanted to lose 260 calories so between the two it'd be 300 and with the cool down I lost an extra 41. So I feel like I did a good thing.
We both did some arm stuff as well. We have a couple medicine balls, one is 10 pounds the other is 5 I think, maybe 6. I used the lighter one starting on the treadmill doing different lifts with it and continued with it on the elliptical. At one point I got the 10 pounder from him and did a little with it but not for long. He used it and one of the stretch bands we have as well. So who knows how many extra calories were burned using those.
While we were going strong he asks me that we should be doing this every day, what's wrong with us. I told him that we're lazy, no other word for it. We're lazy and we enable each other to be lazy. But we agreed we'd be back doing some form of exercise every day that it's possible to do so.
He wants to go out to the garage tonight to do weight lifting. I don't desire doing weights, especially out in our very cold garage, but I always like how I feel afterward. So I won't protest too much. The problem is is that by the time he'll get home it'll be full dark and even colder and we have no lights in the garage let alone no heat. Sometime a few years ago our lights quit working, actually all electricity. We figure it has something to do with the lines going out to the garage from the house. We've never looked into it though. So unless we do it in the dark or bring candles out we won't have any light to work by. And we only have one little space heater, which as I'm writing this I realize we wouldn't be able to use anyway because of the whole no electricity thing. So we shall see how it goes, I have a feeling we'll have to do weights in the house without a bench.
Slowly but surely we're gonna be back on this damn exercise/healthy bandwagon dammit.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Working out is hard to do
Man oh man it's hard to make yourself start exercising and stick with it. I have the intention of doing it but then after I get home and feed the cats and dog and figure out what we're having and make it; or feed the cats and dog and sit around waiting for HDT to come home to figure out what I'll be making for dinner and then eating it; I just don't feel like getting on the treadmill or elliptical anymore. Especially because by the time we're done it's going on 8pm, or sometimes after, and I so don't want to do anything that late.
But I know it's better to do then than not at all. Especially since when we were doing so good last year that about the time we were getting it done and it didn't seem to affect our sleep in any way. In fact, I think I actually slept better despite finishing so late.
I haven't eaten anymore McD's but I'm still not eating the way I should be. And today is HDT's birthday and more than likely we're having people over and will be eating pizza and other bread/starchy/carby foods. We originally were supposed to be going out for chinese but then he started to change his mind as the night wore on. I didn't ask him about it when I went home at lunch so I have no idea if it's changed again or not. I guess I'll find out when I go home tonight.
Depending on if his one sister comes or not there may or may not be drinking involved. She's an alcoholic and is working through her recovery right now. She's still really new to the program so it's still a struggle for her.
UGH!
But I know it's better to do then than not at all. Especially since when we were doing so good last year that about the time we were getting it done and it didn't seem to affect our sleep in any way. In fact, I think I actually slept better despite finishing so late.
I haven't eaten anymore McD's but I'm still not eating the way I should be. And today is HDT's birthday and more than likely we're having people over and will be eating pizza and other bread/starchy/carby foods. We originally were supposed to be going out for chinese but then he started to change his mind as the night wore on. I didn't ask him about it when I went home at lunch so I have no idea if it's changed again or not. I guess I'll find out when I go home tonight.
Depending on if his one sister comes or not there may or may not be drinking involved. She's an alcoholic and is working through her recovery right now. She's still really new to the program so it's still a struggle for her.
UGH!
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