Yay, made it to the lower decile! Down .8 this week. I'm retaining water from sodium intake last night--soup salad and breadsticks with hubs and the in laws at Olive Garden. I plan to weigh in on Friday so I know where exactly I am at before we go on vacation. Was not so pleased with myself when I hopped on the scale today, but I'm sure it'll work itself out by the end of the week.
I had tweaked my knee a bit AND I had a crazy back of heel/Achilles issue over the weekend, and was finally able to return to Zumba today. I was bummed to miss Sunday and yesterday, especially since neither class usually works with my schedule.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
zumba badass
I'm down 4.4 this week. Woohooo!
Yesterday I had a really proud moment. The Zumba instructor I love teaches at another gym location about 20 minutes away from here on Monday mornings. I love her class and I haven't been to it in over 2 months because it doesn't always work with my schedule (Saturday afternoons at my gym) and she had a sub for 3 weeks.
Anyway, so I drove all the way out there to take her class.
About halfway through the class she told us that she wasn't feeling 100% and to bear with her. 3rd to last song, she looks at me, pulls me out of the line and says, "Can you lead this song? You know this song, right? I have to run outside for a minute, it's an emergency, you can totally do this!" I had told her a couple months ago that I was thinking of doing the instructor training.
So I get up in the front of the class, freeze, internally freak out, and apologize to the class. hahahaha. Then I realized that I just had to suck it up and make it work somehow. I haven't done this song in over 2 months, so I just start making crap up and it suuuuuuuucks. Then, I suddenly remember how it goes! Yahoooooo! I was able to do a halfway decent job on the back half of the song. When I was done, the class applauded and several people gave me high fives. One lady told me, "From now on I'm going to follow you!"
It made me feel pretty badass. Totally motivated me.
Then today when I went to WW I lost 4.4. I was up .8 last week, but I was wearing jeans, and had drank some water right before I went, so I don't really think my loss this week was that huge, but whatever, I'll take it! I definitely notice a difference in my stomach chub. Hooray!
I'm only .4 away from being in a lower decile, and that was my little goal to get down to before Mexico. Only 8 lbs away from my wedding weight! Only 16.6 lbs away from my lowest, and from what I lost the first time I was on WW. Let's do this! I'm pumped!
So all in all it's a pretty good week!
Yesterday I had a really proud moment. The Zumba instructor I love teaches at another gym location about 20 minutes away from here on Monday mornings. I love her class and I haven't been to it in over 2 months because it doesn't always work with my schedule (Saturday afternoons at my gym) and she had a sub for 3 weeks.
Anyway, so I drove all the way out there to take her class.
About halfway through the class she told us that she wasn't feeling 100% and to bear with her. 3rd to last song, she looks at me, pulls me out of the line and says, "Can you lead this song? You know this song, right? I have to run outside for a minute, it's an emergency, you can totally do this!" I had told her a couple months ago that I was thinking of doing the instructor training.
So I get up in the front of the class, freeze, internally freak out, and apologize to the class. hahahaha. Then I realized that I just had to suck it up and make it work somehow. I haven't done this song in over 2 months, so I just start making crap up and it suuuuuuuucks. Then, I suddenly remember how it goes! Yahoooooo! I was able to do a halfway decent job on the back half of the song. When I was done, the class applauded and several people gave me high fives. One lady told me, "From now on I'm going to follow you!"
It made me feel pretty badass. Totally motivated me.
Then today when I went to WW I lost 4.4. I was up .8 last week, but I was wearing jeans, and had drank some water right before I went, so I don't really think my loss this week was that huge, but whatever, I'll take it! I definitely notice a difference in my stomach chub. Hooray!
I'm only .4 away from being in a lower decile, and that was my little goal to get down to before Mexico. Only 8 lbs away from my wedding weight! Only 16.6 lbs away from my lowest, and from what I lost the first time I was on WW. Let's do this! I'm pumped!
So all in all it's a pretty good week!
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Activity points
Just wanted to note that I earned 63 activity points last week. My weigh in is tonight; we'll see how I did this first real week back on plan!
Friday, April 26, 2013
back on the wagon
Alright, it's time to get back on track.
I started out the year really great then fell off the wagon. I've really struggled with motivation, which is what I was afraid of. I don't know why it gets so hard to stay motivated and want to stick with the program, but it does. Every day I was mad at myself for not sticking with it, and I would get really motivated by looking at fitness pins, and recipes, and workouts, etc late at night but then the next day when I woke up I still didn't correct it.
Whatever, I'm letting all of that go.
This is another fresh start. I've tracked everything I've eaten for the last 3 days. It's a start.
I've decided that I want to become a Zumba instructor and that thought is really motivating me as I do not want to be a heavy Zumba instructor. Let's face it--I totally judge if I walk into the gym and the instructors are heavy--like, how can they possibly help me lose weight when they are heavy themselves? Perfect example is a personal trainer at my gym who is overweight and has the biggest beer belly. Seriously, the dude's beer belly could rival my dad's. I would never make an appointment with him because I feel like he lacks credibility to help me achieve my fitness goals considering that he doesn't look the slightest bit fit himself. /straighttalkexpress
There is a Zumba instructor training on September 19th and I think I'm going to do it.
Also our Mexico trip is coming up in less than 2 months and I don't fit into any of my capris from last year! I have to get back to a place where I can squeeze into them.
Some positives: I'm pretty active. I'm on my feet moving around all day when I work, and then I do Zumba a few times a week besides that. I'm really looking forward to vacation because I've already tracked down Zumba classes to attend (which was a feat in itself; there was very little info posted anywhere--archived threads on a message board from 2 years ago. I ended up searching on the Zumba website for the instructor and then emailing him--all in Spanish. Using my skillz, aww yeah!)
My friend and I are going to do Zumba a few times (I'm going to try my hardest to con the hubs into coming with me to one session) and we are also going to do yoga. I've never tried a yoga class before and I'm looking forward to it--for some reason I've been intimidated by it.
I've also created a little countdown to cross off my losses pound by pound. I think having a visual will really help me. Who doesn't like crossing things off of lists? Same concept.
There's a girl on my facebook who I met once who constantly posts about her weight loss journey. It's motivating me because she is only 6 pounds more than me and I like seeing her progress. Also I'm in a secret race to beat her. muhahahaha
I really need a buddy to keep me accountable. Even if she doesn't know it, she's my buddy!
BACK ON THE WAGON, FOR REAL, FOOL! GET OUTTA MY WAY
(that was the coffee talking, whooo wheeeeee)
I started out the year really great then fell off the wagon. I've really struggled with motivation, which is what I was afraid of. I don't know why it gets so hard to stay motivated and want to stick with the program, but it does. Every day I was mad at myself for not sticking with it, and I would get really motivated by looking at fitness pins, and recipes, and workouts, etc late at night but then the next day when I woke up I still didn't correct it.
Whatever, I'm letting all of that go.
This is another fresh start. I've tracked everything I've eaten for the last 3 days. It's a start.
I've decided that I want to become a Zumba instructor and that thought is really motivating me as I do not want to be a heavy Zumba instructor. Let's face it--I totally judge if I walk into the gym and the instructors are heavy--like, how can they possibly help me lose weight when they are heavy themselves? Perfect example is a personal trainer at my gym who is overweight and has the biggest beer belly. Seriously, the dude's beer belly could rival my dad's. I would never make an appointment with him because I feel like he lacks credibility to help me achieve my fitness goals considering that he doesn't look the slightest bit fit himself. /straighttalkexpress
There is a Zumba instructor training on September 19th and I think I'm going to do it.
Also our Mexico trip is coming up in less than 2 months and I don't fit into any of my capris from last year! I have to get back to a place where I can squeeze into them.
Some positives: I'm pretty active. I'm on my feet moving around all day when I work, and then I do Zumba a few times a week besides that. I'm really looking forward to vacation because I've already tracked down Zumba classes to attend (which was a feat in itself; there was very little info posted anywhere--archived threads on a message board from 2 years ago. I ended up searching on the Zumba website for the instructor and then emailing him--all in Spanish. Using my skillz, aww yeah!)
My friend and I are going to do Zumba a few times (I'm going to try my hardest to con the hubs into coming with me to one session) and we are also going to do yoga. I've never tried a yoga class before and I'm looking forward to it--for some reason I've been intimidated by it.
I've also created a little countdown to cross off my losses pound by pound. I think having a visual will really help me. Who doesn't like crossing things off of lists? Same concept.
There's a girl on my facebook who I met once who constantly posts about her weight loss journey. It's motivating me because she is only 6 pounds more than me and I like seeing her progress. Also I'm in a secret race to beat her. muhahahaha
I really need a buddy to keep me accountable. Even if she doesn't know it, she's my buddy!
BACK ON THE WAGON, FOR REAL, FOOL! GET OUTTA MY WAY
(that was the coffee talking, whooo wheeeeee)
Saturday, January 5, 2013
reflections
Woooo!
So Christmas and New Year's came and went. As did my good tracking habits and watching what I was eating!
That's alright, I'll get back on track I hope. I have a 6pm Tuesday class this semester which unfortunately means that I will not be able to go to my normal meeting. Hopefully I can at least catch her Sunday morning meetings every so often because, well, I have realized that I need the meetings to be successful. And after trying out other leader's meetings, I've also realized that it's not worth going to a meeting unless it is Tracy.
I went to a memorial service today for one of my clients. While there I saw one of my WW friends. She was there with her best childhood friend and she told me that her friend lost 120 lbs on Weight Watchers--TWICE.
That really struck a chord with me. I realized how hard it must have been to have lost all that weight, gained it back, then lose it again. I originally lost 43 pounds on WW but then gained about 20 of it back. I keep harping on the fact that I gained a bunch of it back and have to get back to where I was. I just realized that you know what? It doesn't matter what I've already lost or gained or whatever. It's just what I have to get to. I just need to keep plugging along and lose it again.
I decided that I'm going to treat this as a new attempt at WW. I'm going to let go of any accomplishments that I had achieved before, and re-earn them! Maybe setting a 5% and 10% goal will help keep me focused as I will have a smaller goal to work toward. 60 pounds is just such a huge number and it's daunting and I think that's why I am having trouble working towards it... I feel like I am making little progress and have so much left to go.
I guess I've just gotta do this in baby steps after all. One day at a time.
So Christmas and New Year's came and went. As did my good tracking habits and watching what I was eating!
That's alright, I'll get back on track I hope. I have a 6pm Tuesday class this semester which unfortunately means that I will not be able to go to my normal meeting. Hopefully I can at least catch her Sunday morning meetings every so often because, well, I have realized that I need the meetings to be successful. And after trying out other leader's meetings, I've also realized that it's not worth going to a meeting unless it is Tracy.
I went to a memorial service today for one of my clients. While there I saw one of my WW friends. She was there with her best childhood friend and she told me that her friend lost 120 lbs on Weight Watchers--TWICE.
That really struck a chord with me. I realized how hard it must have been to have lost all that weight, gained it back, then lose it again. I originally lost 43 pounds on WW but then gained about 20 of it back. I keep harping on the fact that I gained a bunch of it back and have to get back to where I was. I just realized that you know what? It doesn't matter what I've already lost or gained or whatever. It's just what I have to get to. I just need to keep plugging along and lose it again.
I decided that I'm going to treat this as a new attempt at WW. I'm going to let go of any accomplishments that I had achieved before, and re-earn them! Maybe setting a 5% and 10% goal will help keep me focused as I will have a smaller goal to work toward. 60 pounds is just such a huge number and it's daunting and I think that's why I am having trouble working towards it... I feel like I am making little progress and have so much left to go.
I guess I've just gotta do this in baby steps after all. One day at a time.
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