A Long Week

Well, it has been a long week.  We sold our house, and we close tomorrow and so over the last week we spend all of our time preparing for that event.  I didn't workout one bit, but I did make sure to count everything I ate up until Thursday night and then Friday night.  However I did track both days.  My mom gave me words of encouragement last Monday because I didn't lose anything, but I did break even and she challenged me to figure out what went wrong and fix it.  Well, well what went wrong is that I didn't write down anything I ate all week.  When I do that I don't get anywhere because I am always overeating, and over portioning everything.  Also, I missed the weeks meeting two weeks ago because we went to look at the house we put an offer on.  So, I didn't get my words of encouragement.  But doing this with my mom has really been helpful and really given me pushed me to really try to make this a change in my life, I think doing this by myself by now would have killed me and I never would have made it this far, but having my mom right by me helps me out.

This week I started doing P90X.  My wife and I have a strange living arrangement, so I have nothing but time after work.  I decided to make the most of it and start doing something that will help me while we are apart on the weekdays and then during the weekends we can do other things.  It wasn't too bad tonight, but I know what is coming tomorrow, so I am not super excited.  I want to do this a couple of times before I start my running routines.  I just felt like my body isn't accepting the fact that I want to run, but still have a lot of weight on my body, so I am going to try this twice, which would put me at 6 months.  I feel that then my body will be more accepting of my running goal.  So check back often because I am going to try and post every night after my workout!

Energized!!

So this week I feel totally energized!  I went to WW last night and lost 2.2 lbs.  Not to bad.  I think it would be more, but I have been lifting weights pretty heavily trying to build up my shoulders and everything else.  I have been also working out super hard lately.  Last week I didn't do much working out because I had a sinus infection and really didn't feel like doing it, but I did stay within my points for the biggest portion of the week.  Friday, and Saturday were a little shaky, but all in all I was able to lose weight and start the week on a high. 

This week at work we started our version of "The Biggest Loser" at work, but we are calling it the Pound Plunge.  There are four of us on a team and there are several teams, all vying for couple of prizes at the end of eight weeks.  I don't necessarily care if we win.  I am ultimately just excited to see the outcome after eight weeks.  If I keep it up and lose 2 pounds a week then I will be able to have lost 20 lbs all together by the end of April.  But, if I am strict with my diet and exercise, and can maybe pull out three pounds a week, the I could end up having lost all together 30 pounds by the end.  Thirty pounds is nothing to shake a stick at.  Though it is only a quarter of my ultimate goal, it is still a quarter of it!

I know that I have only been posting once a week, but I am going to start trying to post more so I can keep track of how I feel during the week and how my workout are going.

Being Sick

This week was a rather crappy one.  It started out ok, but I knew over the weekend the inevitable was going to happen.  Everyone at work has been sick with sinus infections and the sort and I was hoping that I was going to avoid getting it, but I should have known better, things like that just don't skip over me, especially when you work in an office and there are three people within 10 feet of you and two of them are sick.  Dang.  I was hoping that all my working out last week and taking my vitamins was going to help me stay immune to it, but it didn't. 

Monday was my weight in again, I was up, .4 lbs.  With all the crappy eating I did the week before, I will settle for .4 pounds.  I haven't worked out much at all this week.  With the way I have been feeling, I just cut my loses and stuck to my eating.  My nose has been so clogged, it's hard enough for me to breath regularly, I don't want to know what it would be like when I exercise.  So, Monday I will get back into the workout and see what my weigh-in brings. 

I need to clarify something from one of my previous posts.  I said in there that I didn't need a PT to help me lose weight, I needed to have someone help me eat something.  My PT was/is awesome!  I have never had a PT and working with her I DID lose weight when I was eating right...but I don't have a hard time exercising, except when she had me do some of the exercises I did, and I felt like I wasn't attacking my problem like I should be, and that is my eating habits.  For me it was about addressing the darker of two habits and that is definitely my eating.