Fat Girl's Guide to Triathalons

Tuesday Check in

Spring break is quickly slipping away!  Here are the latest stats!

Day 69

Weekly total goal - 3

Total lost this week- -3

Total lost - 28

Pounds to go in this 100 day challenge: 12

What is your Happy Weight? and Tuesday Weigh-In news

Day 62

Weekly total goal - 5

Total lost this week- -5

Total lost - back to 25!!!

1.  You may ask yourself how can one person gain 6 pounds in 5 days...because I am a hippo.

2.  But on Saturday we went to the gym and I stopped sneaking food.

3.  Today I realized I have another 96 pounds to go...just another couple of months ;)

Leave me what your happy weight is!

My happy weight!

Well Self Magazine has a weight calculator that predicts my "Happy Weight."

here it is:

What's your Happy Weight?

139.0

NOT FOR USE BY PREGNANT WOMEN

Height:  feet  inches

Frame:  Small  Medium  Large

Do you have an obese sibling or parent?
 Yes  No

Age: 

Do you have children?  Yes  No

How often do you exercise and weight train? 
 Once a week. 
 Three times a week.
 Five or more times a week.

Recently quit smoking?  Yes  No

Do you allow yourself a treat now and then?
 Yes  No

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Tuesday Check-in...a little late

Ok...the deal is that I have been delaying posting because I am so embarrassed!  This Fat Ass has gained serious weight!  I am back on track now and we have a challenge to see who can lose the most weight this week to get ourselves with the program!  The winner takes $25...what can I say?  I am motivated by cold hard cash!

DAY 55

Weekly total goal - 2.5

Total lost this week- +5

Total lost - 20  :(

Things that contributed to weight gaine:

Going to a cabin for the weekend and eating:

cookies, friend chicken, mashed potatoes, donuts, hot chocolate,

Then we have been considering buying another house so we ate:

ice cream, italian food (while we were supposed to be at the gym) and Burger King

Then it was Austin's birthday so I ate:

bagels and cream cheese, fried shrimp scampi pasta, ice cream, cake, a lot of chocolate candy, some chips and I am sure I am forgetting something!

YIKES...I had better go workout again!

Tuesday Weigh-In

DAY 48

Weekly total goal - 2.5

Total lost this week- 2.5

Total lost - 25

I got my first "notices" that I was losing weight.  I saw a picture though and thought I still looked ginormous.  I am such a huge negative talker to myself when I am losing weight.  I am not sure how this all started but I often call myself a fat-ass.  Somehow it sounds kinder in my head than it does when I say it outloud. 

Effects of working out:

1.  I am more tired which causes me to lose patience with my family.  I become much more irritated when I have to make sweet snacks for boys in the house or when I feel like I have to prepare the food AND clean it up...these things don't usually bother me.

2.  I am catching up on some recorded tv because I am using the home gym more often.

3.  Some hilarity while RIck tries to use the workout ball...let's just say when he fell of the ball I almost fell of the treadmill.

4.  I lose time to do other things I like to do...read, sew, scrapbook, play with my kids, etc...

5.  The Biggest Loser (which I love) actually makes me feel bad about myself because I weigh in Tuesday mornings and they weigh in on Tuesday nights...they lose 5-15 pounds and I am supposed to be excited about 2.5 UGHHH...maybe this is when the negative self-talk came into play.

6.  I love having supportive girlfriends who are more excited about 2.5 than I am.

7.  Rick is very understanding of me being away from home for very little (because he loves spending time with me, not because he is controling), but for working out he is super supportive.

8.  Owen and Austin are really excited about working out, but Austin always looks like he going to fly off the treadmill, it is not good for my nerves, so he isn't allowed to do it!

9.  Water Aerobics is a huge waste of time and I feel like the hippo in Madagascar 2 "Girl you huuuge"  I always think of us splashing around like big fat-ass hippos.  I am swearing it off for good!

10.  I sleep better after I work out.

Weigh-in Tuesday!

DAY 41

Weekly total goal - 2.5

Total lost this week- 3.5

Total lost - 22.5

Got new shoes, they sucked!  Got another pair of shoes, they ROCK!  I am really sore from long stints on the treadmill and last night I yelled at my family because they were all eating ice cream and I wasn't then I had to clean up the ice cream and put it all away...if they could have felt the temptation they would have yelled too!  I had to apologize.  I felt like ice cream was a drug and all my friends were using it around me and I had to say no!  It was the worst...I would have eaten it if it wasn't the night before weigh in.

Since I made it to the 50% mark of my goal, I got to order the following items!  I love Super Saver Shipping from Amazon!  This is a CRUCIAL component to my weight loss.  I like to have something to work for!  Since I don't pay for WW, I don't feel too bad about dipping into our budget for rewards...they really work for me I guess!

 

 

Tuesday weigh-in

DAY 34

Weekly total goal - 4

Total lost this week- 3

Total lost - 19

Well, I didn't meet my weekly goal, but I am happy with the number.  I got a couple of questions this week:

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Are you on weight watchers?

No.  I love weight watchers and have been successful using it in the past, but I stop going if I think I have gained any weight because it is too embarrassing for me to go if I gained.  I do use their water cup religiously.

Recently I hit a plateau, what did you do to get over it?

Recently I heard an interview with Oprah and her doctor told her, "Embrace the feeling of hungry."  I did that some because adjusting to not eating a bazillion calories a day is hard and sometimes I honestly do feel hungry.  I also worked out varyingly for 5 days.  I work out for atleast 80 minutes on a cardio machine, hard enough to keep my heart rate near the cardio level.

I don't want you to think I am hungry all the time, but I do use that hungry to help me plan the next day..."ok, I was hungry at 10:00, I should eat a little later breakfast, or pack a fruit snack, or perhaps just suck it up and wait until lunch.  Sometimes I think of my body as a 5 year old having a tantrum because it can't have a donut!  It is easier for me to say no to a tantrum than anything else in the world!

 

Weigh-In Tuesdays...and other struggles

Well...I think the plateau is over. 

DAY 27

Weekly total goal - 2.5

Total lost this week- 2.5

Total lost - 16

Ok...that is 40% of my weight goal completed.  I am going to set a 4 lb. goal for next week to hopefully get to 50%...it is lofty, so I won't be jumping off the gym roof if I don't make it.

This week has been a major struggle.  The time that it takes to complete the workouts and how tired I am after the workouts.  I think that it is a little hard on my family for me to be away or disengaged while I work out for so long...but that is what it takes and it will be worth it...

Weigh in Tuesday!

The sad fact of this Tuesday is...

Weekly total goal - 2.5

Total lost this week- 0 (yes that is a zero)

Total lost - 13.5

I didn't lose a single ounce this week.  I am trying to be positive especially considering that I practically starved (or felt like it) and worked out a ton.  It wasn't a surprise since I have an addiction to the scale and weigh myself anytime I am naked...Rick scolds me about this all the time, but I can't help it!

Here is what is keeping me sane...

1.  I am 20% done with the challenge

2.  I have lost 33.75% of my goal so far!

3.  I have 11.5/80 days weeks to lose 26.5 pounds...I feel like that is still very doable.

Weigh-in day success--but scared for future

Today's weigh in RESULTS

Day 13

Weekly total goal - 4 lbs

Total lost this week- 8.5

Total lost - 13.5

It was a great week and the large number is probably due to the fact that I had a fever from Friday evening to Sunday morning.  Here is why I am scared.

Last week, I calendared, I scheduled, and I conquered!  This week we practically have to quarantine our house due to illness.  The hacking, shivers, sweating and yucky medicine you have to drink is ubiquitous...so there goes my calendar, my schedule and my control.  This lack of control is what got me back to the weight in the first place.  I keep telling myself that being a mom does not mean that I can never spend time helping myself, but it is not even 2:00 and I am already tired.

I am just scared that this bump in the road will de-rail the whole journey.