Bridesmaid dress

Umm, so I picked up mine and my sister's bridesmaids dresses Saturday night; she stopped by yesterday in order to pick her's up and she tried it on...

***NOTE: If you recall, she and I both got dresses a couple of sizes smaller than what actually fit as motivation...

Her's 'fit' at least... as did mine to an extent. The worst fitting area on the dress was the bust area- OH MY! I mean, it was like there was no place for my humungous boobs to go... so that is definitely going to be a challenge. BUT, it is not just losing the weight from my chest, so to speak, it's also those pockets under my arms, like where the band of bra goes, it is my back, which is fat and has those awful back rolls, and it also that fat right under my shoulders but not my under arms... ahh, not sure if that last one made sense or not but anyone who has carried weight around probably knows what I am talking about, that roll of flab that if you're wearing anything with straps seems to pop out on the side when your arms are at your sides. I am hoping that the weight training I have been doing will help to combat some of this...

I am also enjoying SparkPeople a lot more... really getting into it and there is so much fun information on there plus I am proud of myself for sticking with my workouts and calorie tracking- although I do have to get more precise with that- and then reading the articles and such. I will admit, I love working out just so I can go onto SP to log my workout and get my points, the same with drinking water... I have drank at least eight glasses of water a day!!!

Update for the day

Here is what I emailed my sister today as we are checking in with each other, buddying up if you will, to get in shape and lose weight:

Okay, so I did workout today and so far I did my strength training (cause I didn't do it yesterday) and even though I am scheduled to do it tomorrow I will do it on Saturday again which will get me back on track. And then I did 40 minutes on my Gazelle, totally rocking it out,I must say... I plan on doing my 20 minutes of Pilates when I get done putting the monster down for his nap...

I have drank 9 glasses of water so far and will probably have quite a bit more as I will drink before and after Pilates, with dinner and then at bedtime (at least). I had two scrambled eggs for breakfast and two pieces of toast, even though we are having breakfast for dinner. I should be able to enjoy dinner as I haven't used that many calories today.

Loss!!!!

Happy belated Valentine's Day!!! I didn't have a chance to get on the computer yesterday but I did spend the day pretty lazy and not doing too much, although I did make sure I drank my water. Anyhoo, I weighed in at 251!!! Woohoo. So that makes a four pound loss... now, hopefully I can go below that and maybe next week's weigh-in will be under 250... finally. I have doing pretty good with working out and have been proud of myself about it. I will probably check back in later today as I can't think of too much to say right now.

Thoughts

I weighed in this morning, I am not considering it an official weigh in or anything but I weighed in at 252, nonetheless... that's 3 pounds lower. I wonder what it will look like come Wednesday...

I also was messing around earlier because I am home all day and so I put in my weightloss goals on the sidebar. I realize my first goal is to be 240 by the end of this month, a bit enthusiastic to say the least and I know it is not the most realistic goal- I mean, seriously, it would at least 12 pouns in 18 days- but the number fit in nicely on my timeline so I left it there. As each goal is reached, and they will be, I will write in the date that I accomplished them (a la so many other weight losing bloggers, but like I said, I actually took the time to do it today).

I have a lot of things on my mind right now having not so much to do with weight loss, okay well one thing does but moreso on our finances. I am praying that I have a job within the next couple of weeks so I can finally get a handle on our bills... it is killing me. I wish I had the right contacts to get some kind of job where someone would be willing to pay me under the table... or that I had the smarts to go work some temporary job for the last month just to have that extra moola.. hindsight being 20/20 and all that.

Aside from that, I am getting more acquainted with SparkPeople which is a lot of fun; I also had to clean the basement- darn puppy- and am hoping to get down there some time today in order to get some time in on the Gazelle...

Star For The Day!

I was thisclose to putting my Gazelle workout off til later... which would probably have meant that I would not have gotten to it at all... BUT- woohoo, I just did it... and even though my goal was to do it for 15 minutes, I did it for 20! So combine that with the strength training I did today and I should be just bursting with energy.
On the agenda for tomorrow- those damn pilates, remember, the 20-minute workout that is kicking my ass and will probably continue to do so, at least for the near future anyways. And then some time on the treadmill, I am saying 10 minutes cause that thing, for some reason in Tiff's world, kicks my ass more than anything... yikes! but whatever, you put them both together and it gives me a nice half-hour workout =)

Oh, and I forgot to mention, for Valentine's Day, the hubby is taking us on a nice, day-long hike... I think it sounds like it is going to be romantic so that will be my workout for Wednesday!!!

Now, off to pick up my monster!

I Love Spark People!

So, I have finally just gotten into SparkPeople and I honestly love it. I knew I needed to start tracking my foods and calorie intake as that is what kept me on track before... well, that's all good but there is so much more to it. I have my goals and so on in there and today, I am to strength train and it even told me so but the best part was it already had some exercises all lined up for me to do... No thinking necessary!!! Woohoo.

Here is what I wrote in my SP journal:

SO today I didn't eat as well as I intended but I did go to my fitness page and saw I was to strength train today... it was no big deal because I just did the workouts SP had listed there... I felt like my old self with the dumb bells and felt stronger even as I was doing them. I am going to keep them in my dining room so that I can just pick them up when I want them instead of keeping them in my basement...
I also asked my girlfriend if she had any pictures from the summer after I graduated college- the time I was at my smallest since I can't even remember- because I have no pics... I haven't decided if it will be motivational or depressing but all the same, I want to see them. She already told me she would for me... I was about 180 then... good grief!

Weigh-in... Ideas Wanted!!!

Um, so I weighed in this morning at 254... but I am not sad. Like I said before, I know my body and when it is that time of the month I am easily four pounds heavier, so, in my book, when my period is over, I should be weighing in around 250 or less... so bring on next week!!! I ain't scerrred!!!! I will keep on working out- doing something- everyday and really concentrate on my eating.
I am feeling really good, along with the energy is just the way I feel- I am proud of myself for working out and making that effort; I can feel the changes in my body and I am confident that this time will be THE time. I would be too disappointed in myself to fail...

And moving on, I need ideas for breakfast, preferably low carb breakfasts- although my problem is more portion size than anything. I am at a complete loss but I know I need to start my day off better... ugh. So, any suggestions would be great since I don't think I can make myself egg and ham and cheese omelets all of the time!!!

I feel good and I am going to do this... I am either going to be in the low 200s or 190s (gawd, could you imagine?) by the wedding!!! Yee haw!

One. More. Day.

I am sooo looking forward to tomorrow's weigh-in even it is officially that time of the month, blegh. I have been fairly good, wasn't the best on Superbowl Sunday, but aside from that I am pretty proud of myself. Today I worked out to The Goddess Workout; my sister lent it to me and it is a belly dancing workout. I didn't expect that much from it but after a half hour I was feeling pretty good about myself. I was definitely feeling it in my arms and shoulders- oddly enough- and it felt like it was working and stretching a lot of places that may not get the attention they deserve. So all in all, I liked it... I didn't finish the whole tape which is about an hour but I did the 5 minute warm-up and then the half hour of basics. Next time I will do the second half of the tape which is incorporating everything you have learned... should be interesting for sure.

Okay, so the next time I write, it should be with my weigh-in numbers and heaven help me if they are higher...

Today, Monday, February 5th

So today is the day... I now have 180 days until the wedding... a pound every three days... yikes!

I will be honest, I have been active and/or working out every day but yesterday, which wasn't the best day for me but not nearly as bad as it could have been. I wanted to weigh in this morning 1) because I am losing patience waiting for Wednesday and 2) it is seeming like that time of the month is upon me and I always weigh in at least 3 or 4 pounds heavier... so I wanted to get a true weight. Anyways, I did NOT weigh in and am still waiting for Wednesday... I am feeling really good and really do have lots more energy. Last Friday I cleaned my house from top to bottom which was a huge workout all in itself, especially considering that it took most of the day.

Also, I don't think I mentioned it but if I did, I am mentioning it again; my sister took my measurements for me Thursday night and she is going to track inches lossed/gained through August for me. She wasn't even going to let me see but I saw a few as she wrote them down... I was embarassed for myself to say the least. I can't believe I have let myself get so out of hand... I guess this whole time I haven't paid that much attention to it because even though I knew I was fat and uncomfortable, no one else really seemed to notice just how fat I am... so somewhere in my head that must have made it okay. Well it's not.. blegh.

I guess now I am going to go and read some success stories as that always gets me motivated...