challenge

while starting to do my aerobics on the wiifit - nathan issued me a challenge. 
who can lose the most weight before next fridays office christmas party.

he has giving himself a 1 lb. handicap, because he says i can work out anytime, since i dont work.

sometimes he forgets taking care of baby and house is a real job.  but whatevs. i got this in the bag!

ps he left for his haircut saying, "i hope you werent planning on eating today! im shakin it up." apparently we are going back to shakes. fine by me. with wiifit and shakes, im going to totally win this competition.

pps i love to compete. mostly because i love winning. and so i always win.

a new day

my sister and i have decided to blog together on our weight loss/getting in shape journey.

it will help us keep motivated and watch each other and keep us accountable.

so im going first.  monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday i worked out on my wii fit. one day for over an hour. its going well. i think. im about to work out now. it should be prit fabulous.

i weighed 183 at the beginning of the week. ill reweigh myself next week and give an update.

heres my longterm goal:  we are going to idaho on a huge family trip on june 10th. i want to lose 40lbs by then. i plan to hire a professional photographer and have family pics of me nathan and lbj taken while we are there, and i dont want to hate the pics. 

short term goals: lose 10 lbs by jan 7th.  we'll see how it goes.

over and out.
-n

just a note

its really important to me that i get skinny and hot ... soon

seriously important

i dont want to be a fat lady forever.

three days in a row, ive had just my shakes and then dinner. im not going to say my dinners were all that healthly and fabulous. but i feel ok.

plus - i didnt want to tell you this - but i gained back some weight last week. so im pretty happy to say that i lost 2 pounds in the last 3 days. and back to where i was ... still 2 pounds away from my prepreg weight. but im getting there peeps.

im getting there.

so even though i said i was serious, it took me a few days to really gget on it.

i have a goal to weigh 175 on july 24. i am not sure i can do it, since i was slacking for a week. but, i am going to try hard.

today i started my shake diet. and i worked out on the elliptical. i burned 504 calories.

so i feel good. the end.

again

haha this is even worse than last time ....

but im (really) serious this time.

seriously.

so i went and had a baby. i gained 23 pounds while pregnant. so .... i was fat.

are you seriously wanting me to post my weight, blog?? FINE! i'll do it. but only because i know it makes me (or at least it should make me) more motivated.

so. before i got pregnant, i weighed 183 (way too much). the day i went in to have LBJ i weighed 206 big ones

yesterday, i weighed 185. so 2 pounds to go to prepreg weight. but i have a goal to weigh 175 by mid july or something (the goal is listed on my wii fit)

speaking of wii fit. that is my main source of exercise now that i am home bound. you know ... cause i had a baby.

ive been doing that - and taking LBJ on walks, if we get up early. its too hot to go after 9 am, in my opinion.

so ... thats it ... just a quick little update. so you can see i am serious.

seriously.


(ps you can check out my adventures in mommyhood here)

remember that one time when i was serious?
so maybe i wasnt serious for long enough.
im back on the train now. las vegas boot camp train.

HOLY CRAP.

its week two, and it was much easier this week than last. not because Jeff was easier on us, but i really am building up muscles and endurance.

my legs are actually still shaking from class tonite. so no worries. this is serious.

so i had the weigh in and i am still at 177.
but ann reminded me that there may be a reason for no weight loss this week.
i mean in addition to the fact that i only worked out today and wednesday.
it was my worse work out week since the new years resolution began, and im a little disappointed in myself. but i am going to get back on track.
so no worries, blog. no worries.

sorry ive been slacking on the blogging.
i weighed myself last thursday - and lost another pound.
i had to work th 6-3 on friday, so i knew i was going to be too tired to even think about weighing myself. then we went to the AZ for the weekend, where i stuffed my face. and only worked out one day. so its probably not going to be a great weigh in on friday. but im still working at it.
we went to the gym this morning, and tomorrow its on. i can do this!!

i was way sick yesterday,
so i didnt go to the gym.
i wasnt feeling hot this morning so i skipped again.

BUT....

tonight, nathan signed up for a 4 year membership at 24 and we worked out
just 30 minutes cardio. but at least i got there.
i burned 370 calories, and then i did some abs.
so hopefully, come weigh in, ill have lost something.

its weigh in time.
and the results are
178

so only one pound. im pretty upset with myself. im really going to have to make up for it next week ... but none the less im off to the gym now

this morning i headed to gym at 6. and burned 400 calories ;o)

i have the day off, so i didnt need to be there early,but i thought better to just go and get it done.
i went yesterday.
but i am really worried that my lack of gym-ing on monday and tuesday is really going to effect my weigh in tomorrow.
im worried. but thats what i get for slacking.

this is really bad blog.

i did not work out on monday or tuesday. i have to work out the rest of the week, or im screwed for weigh in.

i must stay motivated. i must i must i must.

p.s. blog annie banani started a blog

you can read all about it here

she is pretty much amazing. she really is keeping me in this thing. its so much easier to do it with a partner. we were at the gym almost every day this week. we even went this morning - she woke up early for me ;o) its just good to have a friend to push you a little harder, and to be able to talk to and laugh with. i really appreciate her. so you should read her blog.
the end.

o whatta night

alrite blog im back.

i did 45 minutes cardio on the elliptical, and that burned a massive 400 calories. i love that part :o) getting to see that fatty number on the machine just screaming "YOU ARE DOING AWESOME" - and that is what its basically saying, so dont try and tell me its not.

it was great tonite, because there was almost no one there. when i got there, there a few people in front of me, and a couple of guys doing weights, and a guy doing a treadmill down the ways to my left. pretty good. i took nathans nano with me - but MADtv was on, so i plugged my headphones into the thing-a-ma-bob that lets me hear the teles and watched that for 45 minutes. anjelah johnson is a new cast member, and shes really funny. i was introduced to her standup last summer, by my sister. she found her on you tube. look her up. shes freaking funny.

so funny, i actually snorted out loud in the gym. no im not lying. luckily at this point everyone had left except one creepy dude walking around - not doing anything. no, he wasnt, like, taking a break between abs and cardio. no he wasnt just running to get a drink. he just was walking aimlessly. he heard me snort. and out of the corner of my eye ( i refused to make it possible for him to make eye contact with me) i saw him laugh at me! argh! blast that snort. the rest of the night, i knew he wanted to talk to me. i could just tell. or im just full of myself.

a little after the snorting incident, i see creepy dude get on his cell phone, and walk around the gym, talking to someone. and in my mind im trying to imagine the conversation that was happening. does he actually say to that other person, "yeah, man, im at the gym. just, you know, working out."? 'cause if so, then isnt the other person saying, " so, how is it that you are speaking to me, i mean without being out of breath? or without dropping your weights? ... o wait. you must just be walking in circles around that huge mirrored area, checking yourself out!" and, yes, that is what he was doing.

after the cardio, i did some abs, and lost track of creepy dude. i thought maybe he left. but i was wrong. i headed over to the mirrored area, to do some leg machines - and there he is. so let me try and paint this picture. i sit on my machine, to work my outter thighs. this machine faces the mirror. in front of me a little ways and to the right are some free weights. im sure you can see where this is going. luckily, i had put on the nano, and i again, refused to make eye contact. and then out of the corner of my eye (it got a good work out tonite too) i see him start lifting those massive free weights. not the kind where you have one in each hand, but the big long ones you pick up with both hands - and he's all lifting it over his head and what not. and again, i think o no hes, what?, showing off for me? i know, i know, im conceited, its all about me. but seriously? you walk around in circles for at least a half hour, and now suddenly you want to show off you muscles. please.

but then the thought occurs to me - we are the only two people in this joint. he better not drop that on himself. because, i have a serious fear of people. and, in addition, hes the creepy dude, and that makes it way worse. and i just dont know if i can get over that fear and anxiety of having to make eye contact with him to be able to help. so this is what my answer to that problem was. i close my eyes. no, that does not stop me from being responsible to help someone in need. but it gives me an excuse if i get to the scene a little later than someone who didnt have on her nano really loud, and worked out with her eyes closed.

i moved around to some different machines, and he finally moved to a machine too - where, i kid you not, while he worked his arms he watched himself in the mirrors. and i mean, we all look at ourselves when we pass a mirror (most of us), and its hard not to look if you are on a machine that faces a mirror. but he was standing facing a set of machines and the mirrors were to his left. so while he pulled the handles from behind him and forward, he turned his head to his left and watched as his muscles flexed. i just thought this was so goofy. this was also witnessed from the corner of my eye.

then another man came and started doing weights around me. i made eye contact with him, and we gave each other the half smile/half nod greeting. creepy dude exits stage right at this moment - broken hearted that after an hour of his longing for me, he did not even get that much from me, and the new guy did. by new guy wasnt creepy. so there.

and blog, that was my night at the gym. im so serious this time.

i cant sleep. so i think im going to the gym.

thats it.

the end.

weigh in week one

alrite heres the update, blog.

i just weighed myself and the results are:

179 lbs

so four pounds. thats pretty good. better than nothing. less than i wanted. but the slow and steady win the race right?

and im off to the gym.

just so we are all aware, blog, i am not weighing in til friday.
friday is a good day to weigh in because it gives me the week to reverse all the crap i did over the weekend. the weekend is always so hard.
so thats it.
im going to bed now so i can be up and at em early early early at the gym.

so yesterday, after i blogged, i realized i had a lot of errands to do, and 10 am was too late to start my day. so i called anni and asked her to meet me ASAP. we worked out 30 minutes cardio and 30 minutes weights - all arms and abs.
and today my arms KILL.

today, i did 30 minutes cardio and some abs at my mums house while they are out of town.

so since the day i started my resolution, ive worked out every day but one. pretty freaking good ;O)

so i have a cold. and i was really congested yesterday. turns out nathan got it too. i had come home at 3, and started marinating some salmon for dinner - VERRY healthy, i know!! and then i went to bed, because i was just that sick. when nathan came home, he says - i cant eat salmon, im too sick for salmon.
so he proceeds to offer me mcdonalds or pizza. well, i said im not getting out of bed. so he orders pizza. that is not particularly helpful to my end goal. but one day, one thing - im not going to worry about it.
today at 10 am i have an hour long turbo kick boxing class to attend with annie banani. this will be good. and so good to work out on a saturday, i never do that.

im starting to believe that i really am serious this time :o)

ok well ... im being serious so far.

i was at the gym at 615 on wednesday morning.
then today i had to work 6-330, so at 4 headed to the gym with rachel for some really intense racquetball. rachel actually bled on the hard wood floors - thats how serious we were.

so good for me ... yay!!!