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October 16, 2009

So here's to the end of a short long week, and as promised here are my (yucky) before pictures. Man, my posture is terrible too, good grief!

Pudgy and lumpy at 189 lbs but hopefully i will be able to drop them and find that think girl inside that I'm usually trying to shut up with food! LOL!

This isn't quite the biggest I have ever been, at my absolute heaviest I was 206 lbs. But with Weight Watchers and my lovely gym membership I was able to get down to 186 and thankfully have only put three of those pounds back on. Go me!

Anyway this week has been a little hectic for me and I haven't quite found a good balance between work, school and getting to the gym but I have found a couple resources that help me to get in a decent work out at home.

The first is Women's Health magazine online it's got some great articles, printable workouts and videos.

The second, and definitely the best, is Goodlife Fitness at Home. Goodlife is one of the gyms here in Canada and their membership can be a little pricey but their website is entirely free to use. Again it's more videos, there's yoga, aerobics, dancing, fitness at work (stuff to do at your desk) so much more. Everyone should definitely check out this site, especially because it's free!! lol.

October 15, 2009

Ok so this week has been a little hodge podge at best but I'm getting through it. And I know that I said I would post some picture to accurately be able to track my progress but this is hard to motivate myself to do. BUT, seeing the Ex Hot Girl's before and after pictures have made me realize that it's a great way to mark how much has changed.....so I'm going to do it. Tonight even!

But it will be after a spree at Wal-mart for Halloween decorations, cutting the grass and decorating my house for a community contest. But I swear I will do it tonight, begrudgingly though.



mood: good
feeling: eager....for halloween!!
listening to: the radio
level of commitment: 7 :( [rough day]

October 14, 2009

Well, so far today has been pretty interesting. I could barely drag my butt out of bed this morning because class ran late last night. I had to run around like a crazy person this morning making lunch, finding keys, taking out the garbage and scraping the FROST of the car windows!

Get to work and there's an email from a lady I know about posting on her blog...no idea what she's talking about because I didn't even know she had a blog to begin with. I scroll further into the email chain and someone else has been using my email address to post comments on people's blogs. And oddly enough this person happened across the blog of someone I know - which is a little creepy.

Anyway, I've emailed back and forth with this person and come to the conclusion they are crazy and that I have to be more careful when using the computers on campus.

So all that to say: my day hasn't exactly taken off as I would have hoped. But things are looking up, I've gotten a couple things for work cleared away and I'm heading to the gym tonight to hopefully sweat away the stresses of today.

mood: good
feeling: frazzled
listening to: Take a Picture by Filter
snacking on: a green apple...yummers!
level of commitment: 8

October 13, 2009

Well I'm not going to say that I am happy to report this, because things definitely could have gone another way, but I'm still at 189.6lbs. Seeing as Thanksgiving revolves around food and family, I think I did pretty well and I didn't deprive myself of anything. I ate what I wanted whenever I was hungry because let's face it, it's not often I get to have my mum's cooking (we live four hours apart).

I think what may have helped this weekend is the water. I made sure that I was drinking a lot which might have had something to do with me not going overboard and stuffing myself stupid. Plus it's really hard to justify eating tons when you've been putting in the time at the gym.

Speaking of, my mum's trainer is pretty funny and she managed to survive us both! hahaha. She kept her focus on my mum because she's got problems with her joints but she gave me some killer exercises to try, most of which kept me on one foot with the other in the air doing curls. Who knew trying to balance was so hard hahaha!

Today is back to work. I'm tired mostly because I haven't really been sleeping but partly because I spent half the day yesterday driving.


mood: meh
feeling: tired
listening to: the rain
level of commitment: 8

October 8, 2009

I'm feeling a lot better this morning and I'm not sure why, it's not like I've taken anything for my cold...very suspect.

Onward.

Yesterday I joined the Bloggerhood of the Traveling Not So Fat Pants which is the brain child of the Ex Hot Girl and follows somewhat on the premise of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movies but in this case we'll be passing on a pair of jeans once we shrink out of them. I think this is fabulous, it turns the faceless blogsphere into a circle of real women supporting each other through the same weight loss journey.

The only downside I can see to this venture is that you need to post pictures of you in the pants when you get them and before you send them on their way. To this end I will have to come to terms with having my photo taken, ugh! Maybe I'll begin by posting a before photo (eight days in already but whatever) and post others when I hit little milestones like the first ten pounds or something.

Definitely going to think about it.

mood: happy
feeling: focused
listening to: Nirvana (radio)
level of commitment: 9

I am miserable and it's not because of a diet or exercise: I've got a cold. My head is pounding, I've got a sore throat, sneezing and my ears hurt (!?!?). Luckily it's a long weekend so I can get some rest, unluckily it's a holiday focused on food.

Not to worry, I've already made plans to hit the gym with my mum and her trainer...should be interesting to say the least. Mum and I crack jokes a lot and can be pretty sarcastic, here's hoping her trainer can survive the two of us! Hahahaha!

I'll weigh in again on Saturday and post my results but I'm not sure how accurate it will be since I will be using a different scale. But at this point a loss is a loss, so long as we're head down I'm going in the right direction.

Hope everyong has a yummy turkey day and a great long weekend!!

As I sit in class (during the lunch break) all my muscles are killing me!! Dragging myself out of bed this morning was as hard as trying to teach a polar bear to cha-cha!

But that's ok it's a good kind of hurt....I suppose.