Friday Weigh In on Saturday

I've been taking a few days off from the gym to try and let my ankle heal so I didn't do my weigh in yesterday and I hadn't weighed myself all week so I was a little nervous if I had made any progress at all. I decided to go to body sculpt today since I decided I could probably lift weights without hurting my ankle and it was an ok workout, but the good news is I did lose my 2 pounds. I have been going for 7 weeks now and have lost a total of 14 pounds. Only 3 more pounds to go to reach my goal weight for Cancun in two weeks!

Motivation

I've been doing pretty good at the "lifestyle change" that I want to create for myself. But with not being able to exercise somehow that makes it harder to stay motivated at eating healthy also. I should be eating extra healthy since I can't exercise, but somehow that doesn't seem to happen. It seems like the two of them go together. I have still been doing pretty good, and I haven't been snacking on the twinkies that got leftover in my pantry from activity days, but I haven't been quite as strict as I want to be. Hopefully this ankle will heal quickly so I can kick my motivation up a notch on the eating as well.

Ankle still hurts

I've been trying to take it easy, but my ankle still really hurts. I've been able to exercise on my elliptical at home which doesn't seem to hurt it too much. I watched someone running down the street yesterday and actually wished it was me! Who knew I would actually crave exercising when I couldn't do it?

Friday Weigh In

It's Friday, but I didn't go to the gym today due to the ankle, and baby's diaper rash, and oldest's bike crash injury that he claimed caused a headache. I did however go yesterday and I had met my goal of another 2 pounds then! So that's a total of 12. Two pounds per week for 6 weeks. I'm feeling a bit of a slump right now and I want to eat lots of chocolate, but I'm being good and making myself a salad right now for lunch. Yesterday I tried to run through the ankle pain, but I think I probably just injured it more. After 2 miles I had to stop and my whole leg has been aching since then. So I guess I'll have to take it easy for a couple of days, but that means I better be even more careful about what I eat.

Injury

About 7 1/2 years ago I was playing softball and somehow thought I should slide into third. Not a great idea. I sprained my ankle and it has never been the same since. Yesterday my oldest was running by me in his wheely shoes and ran right into my ankle. It is swollen and bruised and hurts to walk on. So I stayed home from the gym today, but I did clean out the boy's room and the play room so hopefully cleaning really does burn calories. I know it's not the same as the gym, but at least I didn't just sit around doing nothing like I wanted to!

Skiing

I spent the day yesterday skiing with oldest. You might think I had to take it easy and go slow with a six year old, but he is really fast so I still got a great workout. We did take quite a few breaks, but we went skiing from 9 am to 3:30 pm. It was a full day and lots of fun. It's a good thing skiing burns a lot of calories because we went out to our favorite restaurant Taggart's Grill and even though I thought I should only eat 1/2 my french dip it was too good and I guess skiing made me extra hungry because I ate the whole thing plus we got a pink sugar cookie and shared that. MMMM! Let's hope the skiing outweighed the dinner.

Friday Weigh In

Today was weigh in day. I did it! I lost my two pounds during my birthday week. Of course my birthday was only yesterday and I'm still going to dinner on Saturday also so maybe next week will be the hard week? My weight loss has been kind of strange. Even though I only post results on Friday I have to admit I'm not patient enough to only weigh myself once I week. Most of my weight I lose by Tuesday. After that it's pretty steady. I have now lost a total of ten pounds. I think that's a pretty significant amount! And people are starting to comment that I look skinnier and that feels good also. When you work so hard it's nice to see results.

Birthday Week

It's the beginning of my birthday week. Birthday traditions usually include food. Garret and I went out tonight to celebrate (we like to celebrate for a couple of weeks!) I couldn't help but get the free dessert, but I only had 3 bites of the ice cream. We brought it home to share with the kids and it was delicious, but I'm going to have to be careful this week!

Friday Weigh In

So I've been "gettin' skinny" for 4 weeks now and I've lost 8 pounds. I'm right on my goal and I think it's actually getting easier. I'm not craving sugar as much and I'm feeling stronger and actually enjoying exercising. I jogged 3 miles today in about 30 minutes so I'm also getting faster! I haven't dropped a pant size yet, but I did go one hole in on my belt so that's some success. Only 5 more weeks until Cancun!

Not Feeling Well

I have not been been feeling well for the past 3 days. Kind of nauseous and headaches. Tuesday I still had a pretty good workout, but felt pretty awful for the rest of the day. Yesterday I didn't exercise at all and felt ok. Today I went to the gym and did all my weights and walked for 20 minutes. I feel very lazy and want to feel better and get back to my full exercising. Tomorrow.