200+ (Week 15)

Today's weigh-in: 209.0, -1.6 from last week! *twirls*

Actually, I hit 209 mid-last week, but then bounced up a bit before weigh-in, but I'm perfectly fine with staying right around there for this week's weigh-in. Hopefully will drop some next week.

Pinbot, you are all sorts of amazing this challenge. 1 pound away from your 10lb goal early?? What have you been doing this challenge?

I was thinking... don't know your thoughts on this, but even though it's a v-day challenge, I know I'll be out of town that weekend, i was thinking our weigh-in could be that friday the 12th. That would make it 6 weeks from the beginning of the challenge and we can keep our weigh-ins on Fridays. Thoughts??

Today should be nice I think. The study I'm working on is finally getting rolling and I'm feeling a bit more settled even though I'm all over town it seems like over the week at multiple locations.

I might be a bit over my calories today as I won't have time to work out probably and treated myself to a mocha coffee this morning (one packet of hot chocolate mix, pour in coffee.. yum!), as well as a couple other more caloric things planned leaves me with 250 calories for dinner. I doubt that will happen!

Debra, we often don't make the 10 pound goal (pinbot, is an overacheiver!).. it's just a nice easy goal to have, but the point is that you're losing, and gaining muscle and losing fat. Stick with it!

I ran last night... SO much easier to be back on the treadmill. I'm still having the same problem in that when I go slower, my legs.. especially my calves hurt... I think because I'm not hitting the treadmill well and I'm sort of half shuffling/jogging. They don't hurt really when I go up to 5.0. Then it's the issue of just getting tired and out of breath. But I was at 5.0 for longer yesterday than I was earlier in the week and powered through. Next week will be interesting. The beginning two days don't look bad, but that 20 min run is looming next Thursday and can i just say, eep?

So even though they are still a little snug, I was able to wear a pair of pants today that I bought a couple of years ago, but wouldn't button up. It's super frustrating when you own several items all in the same size, but some fit great, some are tight, some are loose. These pissed me off when I bought them because they were a size 20, which a wear, but they just were not zipping (they are a bit lower on the waist/hips), but I pulled them out this morning on a whim and I'm wearing them today! Woo! Great feeling! Though, it is still frustrating that even after 21 pounds, I'm still in the same size, though things are obviously looser. I was wondering how everyone else was doing in terms of how clothes were fitting.

no cardio today, but I stayed within my calorie limits. because i sleep in so late on the weekends, i really only eat two meals, which saved me up enough calories to drink a couple glasses of wine that i got for christmas from the parents. mmm.

day 1 of week 5 of c25k tomorrow! let's hope that the people coming to the rec center continue to drop off, cause the weekend parking situation can be ugly. probably part of the reason why I haven't been going the past 2 saturdays as well.

Way to go with the running pinbot!!

I'll let y'all know how it goes today. I'm actually not terribly worried about the first 2 days... just the 20 min run on Thursday. I do know it's mental. I can do it. It just seems a bit daunting.

I weighed in twice yesterday morning and twice this morning and the scale dropped like whoa (206.8, 207.4 on sat., 205.8, 206.0 this morning-remember I was 209 on fri). This can often happen on the weekends (later weigh-in?), so I'll be THRILLED if I even maintain something around there for the week. I'll check-in at the highest one cause I don't want to get my hopes up. haha.

Happy Monday all!

Prd2bema2- like pinbot wrote, it's just one day going over. Just don't make it a habit. It's sometimes good to shake up the metabolism a bit, plus that excess would not be hard to work most/all off this week in exercise. The important thing is that you still owned up to it and logged it. I think all of us have had at least one day here when we went over our calories by a lot!

pinbot- I've never grown my own sprouts before, but I love putting them on sandwiches and salads. When I get my own place, I hope to have a little herb/sprout garden. Would be nice! As for ellipticals, I've never purchased one, so I don't have much advice on what to buy. I know at the gym, they have different models of lifefitness, but I don't know the numbers. They are pretty bulky. One model doesn't have much of an incline and really mimics running without the impact, another has arms that go back and forth and a moderate incline that's stationary, and the other model has stationary arms, but a adjustable incline that gets pretty steep. When it's high up, I feel like I'm stair climbing sort of. I don't know if this helps at all. I hope you feel better and your day gets better as it goes along! We all have those days!

How's everyone else doing?

Running went well yesterday. I wasn't terribly worried about it, as I'd run 5min before, and the 3 min walking was plenty of time to recover. I am slowly getting faster. I start at 4.5, which makes my shuffling not too bad, so my legs aren't hurting as much, and I kicked it up to 5.0 with 2ish minutes left in each run. I was pretty proud of myself. I'm not super worried about Tuesday, where it goes up to 8 minutes... it's just 3 minutes more. I can do it!! After the running, I did a pretty intensive 35 min on the elliptical (w/ a steep incline). I felt it in my bum.

Tonight I'm doing pub trivia again. As of now, if I don't exercise and I eat what I've planned I'll be over 500 calories over for the day. Not the end of the world, but it's not pretty. I originally thought of taking a break between yesterday's hard workout and tomorrow's run, but I might try and put in some time at the rec center this afternoon to help mitigate some of the caloric damage of this evening.