Commit to Be Fit

(I better do something before I represent the "After-After" pic )


We've been talking about marriage commitments lately that it inspired me to come up with a new exercise slogan "Commit To Be Fit"

That's really what it is right? A commitment that you make to yourself.

I'm also inspired by the following quote which has more impact on those of us turning 50 this year and that would be ME:

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. ~Edward Stanley

I came home early today (Flex day) and jumped on the treadmill. I forgot how hard my treadmill was compared to the Planet's equipment. It felt good to work up a real sweat again; really soak my TShirt.


Since yesterday, I'm already down two pounds. I know , I know "Water Weight" - but it's a start.

Signed,
YoYo Mama

I Think I Can

I'm at work - so this has to be short. Whitney, I love the pictures of the bell peppers they made me hungry all over again. OK I will run with you Saturday but we have to get up early to register - OK?????

Unfortunately I don't have time to add all my cute pics so here's just the summary of this week

Still influenced by Grnadma and your Dad - but it's my own fault. I did write down everything I'm eating so that helped when we went to Cheddars last night - I ordered a Salad while your Dad had Fried Chicken Tenders and Shrimp , Baked Potato and you Grandma had Pasta and cream sauce. UGH

I have so much additional weight to lose - accumulated since Jan this year. Just call me Yoyo Mama.

Thanks for the blogs - now that I can read them at work - I'll use my lunch hour to update. I believe it's all in an effort to stay healthy so the bank would have to support that - right?

Later,
I'll add cute pics tonight

Yummy Diet Food - Bring on the Weekend!

Tuesday night's diet food was de-lish. Lean beef stuffed bell peppers with fat free cheese and cucumber salad with Italian dressing. Yum. My work out was odd but still satisfying, not like Jillian but it did make me sweat and cuss. Then I took the dogs on a little jog. I found out yesterday that Brian had already taken Cap once, so he got two workouts. It's cool though because he needs to shed some lbs too.

Last night I ran with Cap and Emma for about 3.5 miles in our neighborhood and then did like 5 minutes of arm workouts. I should have done a full video but I needed to shower really bad and wanted to go to Mom's and work on the wedding timeline/music. I weighed 144 yesterday which felt great. I can sort of tell on my body. My legs don't rub together at the tops as bad. I'll be so glad when I can start to see differences in my upper body because it is where I am most insecure. I told Leah last night that I MUST tone my arms and upper back before July. I should have done it before this Sunday, but that was my bad life choice/procrastination. As long as I work out very, very hard Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning, I'll be okay for the pix. More importantly, I must remember my diet.

I ate at the Brick Oven yesterday for Administrative Professionals Day. It was hard not to order pasta with tons of cheese, but I was strong. I ordered a Turkey sandwich and asked for the dressing on the side. I ordered the half sandwich and a salad with cucumber and balsamic vinaigrette dressing on the side. My "half" sandwich was huge and they put dressing on it so I was a little discouraged. I must admit it made the lunch very very tasty. I felt so guilty for eating the whole thing (with dressing) that I didn't have a huge meal for dinner. I did snack out too much though. I had: 2 100 calorie snacks, some mini pickles, 1/2 a piece of sugar free candy, 2 turkey and cheese roll ups and a strawberry fruit bar. Yikes, seeing it all typed out makes it look like even more. Not good. I guess it amounts to about 450 calories.

This morning I had a piece of reduced-fat peanut butter on whole wheat toast. I packed a whole wheat pita with turkey, lettuce and cheese with grapes for lunch. I think I'll go tanning on my lunch break. A good tan really does make me look thinner and more healthy. Any time I pay attention to my body in some way I feel more healthy. I work at CL tonight so I made sure to bring my gum to fight off terrible croutons/ice cream. I did well last week. I plan to eat turkey and salad again. Wish me luck!

And this weekend, I'm going to do my first 5K in a while. It's the MADD walk. I hope I don't have to go alone but I'm pumped about getting back into the public exercise scene. It's exciting watching other people get out in the sun and run with you. I don't know if I'll bring the kids this time though because I'm getting my hair colored at 10 am and may not have time to drop them off. Hmmm.

Sorry I missed the jog tonight!

My new challenge (not excuse) is the crazy hours I keep for my job. I've got to find a way to get home earlier. I'm going to try and go in earlier and leave by 5:30 - (at my manager's suggestion) Maybe then I'll get home before the sun goes down and can do some wogging.

Ok, I'm inspired.

Short post - it's 2 AM - how am I going to change my internal clock - I'm a nightowl trying to become a morning bird- HA

Call me if you want to try and work out again;-)

And Whitney - Congratulations on hitting the 140's - your off to a good start again and the right mentality.

Feelin Good (ish)

The diet went well today. I made a beautiful concoction of broccoli, jalapeno pickles, turkey and torn up wheat wrap with Greek dressing and low fat cheese. I cooked it up in a pan and yum O it was good. Broccoli is really filling, too.

I avoided the Ice Cream Social at work today because I knew it was real ice cream and not frozen yogurt. It was hard seeing everyone walking around with sundaes, whip cream and strawberry sauce and all. But I held fast and ate my whole wheat pita with turkey and lettuce.

My workout tonight was fab. I went to Mom's house and ran to the Bluffs and back with the dogs. Then I did No More Trouble Zones. Dad called me out on not having good form (cheating) on some of the moves. I admit my form needs work and it will be better when I get stronger.
Grandma, on the other hand, was super encouraging and said I did great and should feel proud of myself for finishing the whole video. I was proud and happy that someone else could appreciate how much pain I was in. That was the beauty of doing the workouts with Leah last year, misery loves company you know.

I weighed 146 when I got home. Only 6 more lbs to go before I reach my next goal.

I'm a little irked by a guy who was very rude to me tonight on facebook, which is why I am up so late on a weeknight. I'm so mad I needed to vent.

No Self Regret Here!

That's right. I am at 147 today. This is great news because I was at 152 only a week ago. I knew my body was suffocating under that fat. Yuck. All I had to do was give it a break and some air for a week. Unbelievable. Results really can spring you forward faster.

This morning (before weighing and getting a boost in confidence) I cooked Brian and I some egg white breakfast tacos with bell pepper, reduced fat cheese, and mushrooms. I served them with strawberries and manderine orange slices. I added salsa to Brian's and gave him orange juice. On mine, I didn't put salsa and I had skim milk. Then I had some chopped cucumbers with greek dressing for lunch, very satisfying.

I'm more of a milk fan because I read in Women's Health this month that skim milk after a workout helped women to lose three pounds more than drinking sports drinks. Well I knew sports drinks weren't the best for you but the article also said that people who drank them actually gained weight. And since I'm a milk lover already I'll be happy to drink a bit of milk after my run tonight.

Women's Health had Jillian on the cover this week so I had to buy it. I found out so many neat statistics. I was reading it with Lindsey and Summer at work who are also Jillian fans. Lindsey is on Day 6 now I think and I was proud last night when she didn't drink any alcohol at the get together. She did drink some red bull though, which I was skeptical about. I looked at the nutrition contents though and was surprised to find that it was almost no calories and only 110 mg of sodium. Could have been a lot worse (like my moscatto for example).

I'm pumped to do my run and video and Emma is even more excited about our run than me right now so I better go.

Why am I still the only one blogging?

Just Say No Thank You

Just Say NO THANK YOU

Mom - You are NOT alone. Imagine it, you are surrounded by homemade bread, homemade ice cream, catering cobler, baked potatoes, chicken strips and sausage - worst, macoroni and cheese two nights per week! I feel your pain with the man not feeling "full" off of decent sized meals without grease. I face the same temptations as you. Granmda will understand and support you if you say, "No, thank you, I'll have the salad." You could also say, "Yes, I'd love to join you to talk and hang out. But although that tart looks yummy, no thank you, I must watch my diet." You don't have to eat the tart. You don't have to eat the lemon chicken!

By the way: Pie? Damn Dad. How much more obvious can you be? Rude!

Tell yourself, I don't eat like that. They can. But I don't. I watched girls eating bad foods last night and though hmmm, I used to be like that but I'm not like that anymore. I JUST DON'T EAT THOSE KINDS OF FOODS. I remember that's how I used to feel when I was emmersed in my health state. I didn't even feel tempted by the bad foods because they were just not things I put in my mouth, it is a way of life. Live it! And remember how wonderful everything else feels as it falls into place : clear skin, CONFIDENCE, pride, shopping, pictures worth framing, health, setting an example for others, attention, respect, energy, discipline, muslce, etc. You know the list goes on.

Please let's be proud and confident at the wedding. When you feel beautiful, things tend to fall into place and you'll have a marvelous time. I want everyone to look great, feel great and have fun. I promise you can eat all the strawberry cake, cheese and pestachio crusted chicken your heart desires on the wedding night. But let's cool it until then. Look better than the people who couldn't keep their mouths from chewing all the time like cows.

Today I had some whole grain cheerios with splenda and skim milk for breakfast. Then I had a whole wheat sandwich with turky, provolone and lettuce (no condiments). My snack was a 70 calorie package of sliced apples with caramel. Probably could have eaten less bread, no caramel and no cheese and would have lost more weight. I'm getting much better though. At least I didn't eat the cafeteria chicken strips with mashed potatoes and gravy. Yuck. Even the thought of gorging like that makes me sick.

Jaenette and Lindsey are a huge motivator for me. Last night, Jnet told me that they were sticking to it and on day four. She was eating a grilled chicken kbob with no butter (although it looked greasey). Hearing that people who have given me a hard time for my diet in the past are now on a roll with my choice diet and excersize plan was very stimulating. It helped me to pop a piece of gum and not eat a morsile all night long. Jnett said that she agreed, nobody understands the Jillian lifestyle until they have put it to the test. I must stick with it to show them that the challange can be met like I did before.

We must work out after the dinner party tonight. I have the Jillian video that I love - No More Trouble Zones. After only two workouts and some regular jogging, I can already hang in with the bicycle crunches a little longer.

HELP - I've lost control

That's how I'm summing up the last few months of my life; not to mention the scale. But enough excuses, right? I've resigned my hopes of being at goal by August - HA HA HA Now my new goal is just to lose the weight I've gained on this roller coaster called life.

My challenge, and again this is an excuse, is to overcome the temptations to eat when I come home and Steve and Mom are anxiously waiting to go out or they've ordered in Chinese or Tony comes over with pie or a strawberry tart. It seems now that Mom is our new roommate, that we eat VERY well ALL the time. I need to be selfish and just say NO or "please eat without me" but then I feel like I'm being anti-social.

I need Jillian right now to psycho-analyze my pre-disposition to gain weight; slap me around a little, make me cry and then magically, I'm cured!

I'm still able to wog 3 miles but its so much harder than it was 4 months ago.

Ok, now the whining is over and I'll jump back on the wagon or "dive back in" (love the pic whitney) Mom's calling me to watch Survivor and Steve ran out to get pie. HELP!!!!!!!!

Diving In... again.

This is How I feel :(

Diving in again. Desperate this time to get back to feeling the way I was. It has been miserable doing this alone. I know everything was a personal choice the last time but it helped having the two most important women in my life going through the same thing I was going through.

Excuses aside, after ALL the outragous eating I have been doing, last night I hopped back on the skinny girl bandwagon. I'm happy to be here. I have had enough gorging and fatty foods. Yesterday I ate a salad and tortilla soup from the cafeteria, a piece of low fat peanut butter on whole wheat toast, and a lean cuisine panini. I do need to cut out the lean cuisines because of their major high salt content. I need to eat more veggies for sure.



In order to work the kinks out of my diet and put in real foods - not processed, boxed ones, I will have to start getting up early in the morning. That's the plan. Wake up at 6:30, quick run, shower, then scramble some eggs and bell pepper with salt free seasonings, then work. I can do it! Then at night I'll do another quick run with the dogs and follow it with No More Trouble Zones. Before long I'll have a "rockin' body" like Jillian says.

I should have started this lifestyle much earlier considering our wedding is in less than four months and our portraits are in two weeks. I'm so disappointed to weigh over 150 lbs again. Height and weight charts say I should weigh between 121-135. I have a long way to go again. It's really depressing. But I'll imagine all the things I want for myself and number one right now is mainly to not feel the fat around my arms and the tops of my legs. I just want to feel better for a while, then I'll really start caring about muscle definition and photo quality. I should start feeling better in a couple of weeks, in time to look beautiful with my hubby in the pix.

Brian has been a kick start to my diet for a new reason this time, he orderd a veggie wrap at lunch the other day and a soup for lunch yesterday. He's really not messing around on his weight loss. And he has a friend at work who wants to start working out with him. Another kick start was looking at the pix of Leah and I on her B-Day. I looked chunky. Not huge, but not like a girl should at my age. It was super sad because at that exact same time one year ago, I was in the best shape of my life. All the picture comments from Leah's birthday last year were how thin and great we looked. I promised myself I wouldn't let it get back to this!

Off to my morning meeting - (I had wheat toast for breakfast and brough lo fat veggie soup for lunch) CL shift tonight means turkey and salad with lots of gum to avoid snacking.