MISSDEEHERE'S ONE WEEK CHALLENGE~FOR SHORT TERM GOALS

Report Day 5 It's 8:30 PM and this is the first chance I've had to sit down for more than 5 minutes since 4AM! (advance warning in case I stop making sense!)

1. Go to bed by 10pm every night. On my way very very soon!

2. Go to gym 3 days this week. ugh! let's not discuss this!

3. Try out a different home workout program each day.Refer to #2

4. Walk 1/4 mile further each day from the day before. (this is not "exercise walking" I wear a pedometer all day to judge how much moving I'm actually doing.) I hit 5.08 miles today. And I'm supposed go another quarter mile tomorrow??? Wish I was including exercise in this!!

Hey all!! Sounds like it's been a wild day!!
I am 4 for 4 on the am workouts I almost didn't get to it this morning but I knew I wouldnt make my goal. So I did it. I dragged my tired self out of bed.
Tomorrow I have to take the husband to the train again. He catches a 6:30 train in order to get me hour long work out in and get ready I'd have to get up about 4:00. Not likely. So tomorrow first thing after work I'm going to get my work out in.
I pinky swear it!!

Still good on water intake. I think sometimes I under estimate how much water I drink in a day.

Off to bed for me! Have a wonderful evening everyone. Keep reaching for your mini goals!

Why is my scale moving UP instead of DOWN... I have been committed in the gym this week (just the treadmill and the bike) so I've done way more exercise than I was doing the 2 weeks previously.... could I be retaining water? I'm also not eating the best things (I had take out breakfast and McDonald's lunch - even if it was a "salad" and some fries - the other day) so maybe that also has something to do with it. But I've stayed under calories everyday even when making poor choices. So what gives?!

Sue have you ever read this?


Robin Landis, author of "Body Fueling," compares fat and muscles to feathers and gold. One pound of fat is like a big fluffy, lumpy bunch of feathers, and one pound of muscle is small and valuable like a piece of gold. Obviously, you want to lose the dumpy, bulky feathers and keep the sleek beautiful gold. The problem with the scale is that it doesn't differentiate between the two. It can't tell you how much of your total body weight is lean tissue and how much is fat. There are several other measuring techniques that can accomplish this, although they vary in convenience, accuracy, and cost. Skin-fold calipers pinch and measure fat folds at various locations on the body, hydrostatic (or underwater) weighing involves exhaling all of the air from your lungs before being lowered into a tank of water, and bioelectrical impedance measures the degree to which your body fat impedes a mild electrical current. If the thought of being pinched, dunked, or gently zapped just doesn't appeal to you, don't worry. The best measurement tool of all turns out to be your very own eyes. How do you look? How do you feel? How do your clothes fit? Are your rings looser? Do your muscles feel firmer? These are the true measurements of success. If you are exercising and eating right, don't be discouraged by a small gain on the scale. Fluctuations are perfectly normal. Expect them to happen and take them in stride. It's a matter of mind over scale.


website for entire story: I LOVE THIS!!

http://www.healthdiscovery.net/articles/scale_lies.htm

Awesome!!!

Absolutely! As long as I'm still trying, I'm not giving up! I just finished reading a blog where she said she felt like all this wasn't working for her because she wasn't losing weight. The she realized it IS working for her because she's not gaining weight and she's staying strong and getting stronger! I feel the same. Just because things don't work they way we plan it, doesn't mean it's not working!!! I'm so glad I read that...just what I needed at just the right time!

So today.... OOOOHHHH today (Whoa is me right. ... I'm such a drama queen LOL!) No AM workout, but that's ok, I did get it in after work. So after work I got home and popped in my DVD and started to work out. The workout is about an hour, a few minutes less then an hour, and then there is a 15 min ab workout. I had to pick the husband up at 5:30... so getting both in would be a stretch, but I was going to try my best. About 20 minutes in, Life Source called, time to donate. Then my dad called to talk about dinner. A bit after that my neighboor stopped by to see if I could help her get her power washer working. And finally my husband called to let me know he was taking an earlier train so I had to leave earlier then I had planned to pick him up. My less then an hour workout quickly turned into an hour plus work out, and I had to ditch the ab workout to go and get the husband on time from the train (by the way ended up running late... go figure)

Today was an odd eating day for me. I was SUPER hungry when I got up this morning, my break fast was 405 calories... EEEEKKKK! For lunch a couple of coworkers and I went to a Mexican joint. I got pork loin simmered in green chili sauce (SO GOOD), I got a half order, and didn't eat the full portion, I went easy on the rice and beans, and managed to rein in the chips and guac. Lunch... 708 calories... double EEEEEEKKKKK!!!!. At this point I hadn't worked out, so I had no workout calories, which meant if I didn't work out, I had 147 calories for dinner... triple EEEEEKKKKK! So I got my workout in, and got myself a nice 500 calorie burn. Dinner, grilled bratwurst, some kraut, mustard, a few slices of tomato, some broccoli, and a pickle. Looking at about 379 calories for dinner. (usually my calorie intake is higer at dinner and lower at lunch).

Ok so this is getting a little long winded (if you are still reading, thank you SO MUCH!) and you might be wondering why I'm going on and on... I was techinally under for today, but I feel fuller and (I know this sounds odd) but I feel heavier after today. I've been hovering so close to being under 170 for a while now, and this morning on my weigh in day I was finally down to 169.5. Mini goal #3 so close, and I feel like today I just went right back up. I looked over my day and my sodium was through the roof!!! Maybe that's it who knows. All I know is mini goal #3 (be under 170) and mini goal #4 (hit my half way point loss of 50 pounds) are so close and I want to achive them, not pop back up to the 170's and keep going but I've been hovering around 175-172 for a while and I'm getting a little down on myself.

Thank you again for reading this! :flowerforyou: I love the fact that I have a place where I can let out all my woe's and I have this amazing support system that will listen to me :happy:

I made my goal, 2 days early:happy: I lost 2.8 pounds this week:blushing: So happy to finally see the scale getting down again! Great job to everyone this week:drinker:

Awesome!!! It's so frustrating when it just sits there, doesn't change, teasing and taunting! Sometimes I think mine does it on purpose!! But you beat it!! Great Job!!!

Report Day 6

Admission of guilt:
Didn't do a darn thing today! I played with the kids but nothing super active since their both sick. I've just been a lazy bum today. According to pedometer I barely made over 1 mile! Ugh! Well, I'll be more than making up for it tomorrow!