Monthly Archive for January, 2007

Sun
Jan, 28
2007

Weigh-In: 185.2 lbs (..again)

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I’m beginning to wonder if I own a defective scale. Ok ok .. so I have a couple chocolate glazed munchkins here and there but how can I lose inches and still not lose weight? OH! I guess I should try to remember that I have my period now. BUT, if that were the reason for zero weight loss this week, then why the inches loss? Shouldn’t I be bloated enough to make me wider?

Anyways.. I’m still happy that I’m losing inches. And you know what? I’ve been thinking about using the tread all day. I’m actually wanting to do it. But it’s more because of the part of Dune I’m on than anything else. LOL! I’ve got about two days worth of dune left. After that, I have the complete first season of Star Trek: Enterprise. I’m a Star Trek junkie but I’ve never really watched Enterprise. That’s a great thing tho because now I have something for the tread.

My time on the treadmill has increased to the point that I did 50+ minutes last night. Awesome. I was actually getting bored walking too and thought about jogging. I didn’t. What I plan to do when I start with Enterprise is to walk until it’s finished (1 hour eps) and then jog when it’s finished until I can’t jog anymore which will probably only be a few seconds at first.

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Sat
Jan, 27
2007

Distracted

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I’ve been distracted from my blogs the last week or so after I noticed that I can’t really sync up my iPAQ to outlook exactly how I’d like. I’ve been testing every sync software out there. I think I’m going to just sync with exchange. I heard vista has its own sync suite. I may install it just to see.

But anyway, I have been keeping up with the treadmill although I did skip yesterday. I was just not feeling it and after the kids went to bed, I did nothing. I think I made up for it, tho, after my hubby came home and I attacked him. LOL! I think exercising is paying off in that department already.

I snuck a peek at the scale this morning and it’s not looking good. Could it be exercising makes you gain weight? I need to cut my food intake some more, maybe that will help. Oh! and I need to start logging my food again ALREADY.

I’m still happy I’m exercising! My stamina is getting better and better. Just thursday I walked for 42 minutes. the day before that it was 30 minutes. Once upon a time, I couldn’t stay on there longer than 10.

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Tue
Jan, 23
2007

Challenge questions: week #3

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1. How does this situation that you’re working to improve make you feel? Helpless? Out of my control? Depressed? Etc.

My being overweight feels like I’ve been irresponsible for a long time. Maybe a bit depressed and it makes me feel like I want to “hide out” a lot. Like from life, from friends, from events and gatherings, etc.

2. When looking at the situation objectively, does it remind you of another scenario from your past? How did you handle it then? How did you wish you had better handled it if it was also difficult at that time?

Maybe it compares to how I felt about my scoliosis when I was still in high school and college. I felt bad about it and almost powerless.

3. Now that you found information that may help you to address this area of concern, what steps are you going to take to make improvements/changes?

I am not so concerned with the specific steps I might take as much as I am concerned with taking any steps at all towards changing my body and my life. EI, walking on my treadmill for 20+ minutes every night and cutting out some junk foods may not have me losing weight very quickly but at least it doesn’t have me doing nothing. That’s what’s most important to me. That, and taking things slowly enough that I can turn them into lasting habits.

4. If it’s a habit that you’re struggling with or a relationship with another person that’s troubling you, how might your reaction to them or your perception of them (and their hold on you) affect your ability to make positive changes?

Thankfully, I don’t have any such conflicts right now. But when things do come up, I found that they zap me of all motivation to do anything good for myself. I have gotten better at brushing such things off.

5. What do you do to have FUN in your life?

This is going to sound boring but, atm, what I do on a daily basis for “fun” is to sit and watch star trek episodes while sipping latte and eating crackers with cheese and honey ham on them. This is my little nighly relaxation fun. Eventually I want us to go out on a weekly or bi-weekly basis on outings as a family but those are not always relaxing or fun. My kids are still a little young and we still have to deal with tantrums, dirty diapers, and whining.

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Tue
Jan, 23
2007

Weigh-In: 185 lbs (take two)

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Same number as last week. I almost forgot to do weigh in too. I did forget to take my measurements tho. :(

The good thing is that I’m still using my treadmill. I skipped the weekend but I did yesterday for 20 minutes. I really need to add some floor exercises, strength training, etc, but there is no place at my house to do it yet. We have hard tile everywhere and the only place I had exercised before was my baby’s room and we moved her in there ages ago already. I’d wake her up if I tried to in the mornings.

So I’m going to stick with the treadmill for now and continue working on the house. Eventually I’ll put an area rug in the family room.

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Thu
Jan, 18
2007

Baby steps… baby steps

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So after the kids were in bed and before I sat back down on the couch, the left side of my brain said “oooh yah! lets unfold this sucker and lets get walking!!” while the right side of my brain said “don’t you want to watch the rest of that star trek episode? What is Picard going to say to the new captain of the enterprise? hmm? OH! and how about a latte with one of those yummy new bagels. ” The left side of my brain won ..at first.

I started to attempt to unfold it, but since the button for unfolding it is in such an awkward position now that it’s against the wall, I gave up. But here’s the funny thing. I gave up, then thought to myself “it won’t get harder than this” and decided to unfold it anyway. I was sweating, it was hard. I had to grab a broom stick and press myself against the wall and it took about 20 tries but I got the damned thing unfolded. I really need to rig something up or move it to a new location because it’s just too hard to unfold this way.

So, I popped in a Dune dvd I got for xmas 2 years ago and started to walk as I watched the start of the movie. Had it not been for the dvd, I would probably have walked only 5 minutes. But I love dune. I walked for 16 minutes. At this rate I’ll watch the whole series in about 3 months. I stopped when my hips started to feel funny. That was the longest I had used the treadmill without stopping.

Should I be proud of myself?! :-D
I am but then when I finally sat down I had that bagel, and popcorn, and cookies. :(
One step at a time tho, I’m not going to feel terribly bad about the popcorn and cookies. As long as I keep up with exercise on the treadmill every day and then add on to this as time goes by, I will be happy. Exercise is really really hard for me to get to do. I just hate it.

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Wed
Jan, 17
2007

Lethargy of the ass

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My blog is completely depressing me. That orange/cream puke color is dragging down my frontal lobes. But that’s not my problem today.

I never used my tread like I said I would yesterday. There were times when I looked over at it, looked at the time on my laptop and thought “Just 10 minutes, eh? I could do that” .. but I didn’t. I kept thinking “I’ll do it right after I’m done starting my laundry to-do list on my pda. Well the more time passed, the less energy I had and the less liklihood I would ever get that damned to-do list done on my iPAQ.

My sleeping habits are atrocious. The new shower habit I had been working on keeping went down the tubes already.

I think what I need is to make a day by day to-do that includes exercise. Can I (Will I) do it?  Jesus.. I’m my worst enemy here. :(

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