Day 109

Yes, I can hardly believe I have kept with something for over 100 days!  100 days!  It has been an interesting journey.  This morning, I weighed in at 130.  Technically it was 129.8 but then it flipped to 130.  I’ll take it. 

To be very honest, I”m not eating the cookies at all anymore.  So why do I still blog about them?  They completely changed my life.  Seriously.  I feel like a new person.  I feel like I’m waking up after about 10 years of just existing.  I have more spring in my step, have a different outlook on life, etc. 

People ask me how much I’ve lost.  I tell them I haven’t LOST anything.    I have REMOVED about 35 lbs. since 7/7/2008 and a total of   48 lbs. from my highest on 1/1/2007.   I hope to never find those ugly pounds again.

Being of average size, people treat you different.  I have started noticing.  It’s weird, I’ll have to explain more another post.  Or it could be that I’m more aware of things now that I am actually living and not existing. 

I wore a size 6p jeans last night to the hockey game.   6 petite!  Now granted part of the reason I purchased those jeans is because I was able to get into that particular pair in a size 6.  Tee hee. 

I just wanted to update everyone on my progress.  Please stay with it, you can do this.

Day 29

150.2 this morning.  So that means I’m .2 lbs away from hitting my goal for the first month.  Last night I was trying to figure out the last time I was under 150.  I think it was over 5 years ago, during my divorce.  That seems like so long ago.   So 14.8 lbs down this month and 27.8 down since the heighest weight.  30lbs (ish) to go!

The other day I saw a woman at the gym and I really liked the way she looked, toned but not too skinny.  She was about my height and age.  As we were leaving I saw her and her husband and I stopped her and asked her if I could ask her a personal question. She was very nice and said ’sure’.  So I exlpained that I thought we were about the same height and told her about my weight loss and how I have a goal but I have no idea what the number even looks like.  She told me she weighted about 115.  I was thinking more like 120 because she definitely had quite a bit of muscle.  She was VERY nice about it…I told her that she had inspired me to keep working out.  It’s true..she had.  I can now visualize what I might look like in a few months. 

Hopefully one day, somoene will stop me and ask me how I did it or something similar. 

Day 21

Yep..made it 21 days so far and going strong.  I have to admit this diet is EASY now.  I’m feeling better than I have in about 5 years.  Although my scale is still broken, I feel as though I’m down about 10 lbs so far. 

Yesterday (Sunday) when I woke up…I felt like getting out and rollerblading.  Can you believe it?  On a Sunday…in the morning.  So I went.  It was nice, it’s so very hot here but the am is pretty decent.  I went for about 45 minutes and according to my heart rate monitor I burned approx 345 calories. 

New Lifestyle for the whole family

Both of my kids are home now (yeah!!!) and life is returning to normal but life as we once knew it is a thing of the past.  My son (12) is a true athlete.  He plays travel hockey, skateboards, snowboards and now even surfs.  He’s always on the go.  He noticed that I have been more active lately and asked if he could start working out with me.  So now that he is 12, he can come upstairs at the gym and start learning about weights and all the cardio machines.  We will start him off very slowly with the weights because I feel that his body is in a transitional period (pre-puberty) and he’s not quite ready for ‘real’ weight workouts.  Andy (my man) knows quite a bit about strength training and took him on Saturday and showed him the ropes.  I was on the elliptical machine the entire time and then they both joined me.

Of course my son did the cardio with no problem.  I had him start out at only 20 minutes and he laughed when he was done…’That’s it?’ he asked.   Little brat…lol.   Yeah, that’s it for today.   Again, wanted him to ease into it. 

Now here’s the best news.  My daughter (10) came home on Saturday night.  We hugged when we say each other and she immediately pulls away and said “Mommy…you are so tiny!”.  I thought that was so sweet.  She could tell I have lost weight. 

She’s very tall for her age and will most likely be around 5′9 or taller as she takes after her Dad (6′6″).  I’m only 5′2″ .  When she was younger and a bit more active in gymnastics she was a normal weight for a tall girl.  Over the past year, she hasn’t really been very active and is probably  5-10 lbs overweight.  I would never tell her this because I don’t want her to start having ‘issues’.  But this past year was a bit of a struggle for her.  She’s very, very pretty….long dark hair and big brown eyes but most girls in her class are stick skinny.  She started having issues about the clothes she would wear to school and although she never mentioned the weight I knew that it bothered her. 

I blame myself.  We ate way too much fast food (chicken strips from McDonalds with ranch is one of the worst things a kid could eat).  She wasn’t in gymnastics any longer, etc. 

Well the best thing happened.  Once she saw me at the airport and found out we have been excersicing she ASKED to go to gym with us.  She and I went shopping at the grocery store for her schoo lunches (school starts today) and she picked out ALL healthy foods, fruits, low fat yogurt, lean turkey, etc.  I didn’t say a word.  It seems I might have inspired her a bit to be healthier. 

Then as a family we ALL went to the gym.  It was fantastic, my son jumped on the ellipical machine and he was off and running.  I help my daughter learn about the machine and showed her how to go easy on it.  I set a goal of 20 minutes for us.  When she got to 20, she wanted to go another 5 ..kids.

Then we went to the tread mill and she started walking briskley on that and did a mile!  It was so nice, she and I were just hanging out talking..getting caught up on life while we walked on the treadmill.  It was awesome. 

The true test is when we got home.  She said she was hungry and went straight to the fridge.  I didn’t say a word and just watched.  She grabbed grapes and some strawberries.  I then made both of us a nice little pre-made chicken breast thing and we had a wonderful healthy dinner. 

She wanted to know when we can go back to the gym.  As much as I am excited for her, I know this is a very delicate subject.  I have to be soooo careful that she does not put herself on a diet but sees this as healthy lifestyle.  Girls at this age are so very impressionable.  I really do want to seek professional advice on how to handle this.  I honestly could care less if she lost the weight or not, as long as she feels good about herself and is HEALTHY.  That’s the biggest thing for me. 

So we will all be going together on M/W/F..the days my son is not at hockey practice.  She has also asked to play soccer this year which is awesome!  I love her so much.