Leeda: Running in a Fat Suit

I want to be 177 lbs by Christmas. That’s a loss of 25 lbs. I can do it!

Yesterday I upped my calorie range on the Daily Plate to “moderately active”. I think that was a mistake. Maybe if I had gone for that walk I planned, but I was just too busy getting ready for this party. I was up to 202. 6 on the scale. Now that could’ve been water weight or something, but I’m going to take it as a sign that, until I’m back running or exercising regularly, I need to stick to “light activity” caloric intake.

Today is going to be  busy, busy. I have to finish cleaning parts of the house, make food, and decorate a bit. Oh, and the shopping And of course since I’ve switch to cloth diapers and we only have enough for one day, I have to do laundry.

I may be MIA tomorrow so I hope you ladies have a great weekend!

“Let’s Go Walkin, Mississippi” is the state’s plan to get people to stop being so overweight. I think Mississippi has the most obese people of any state. Pretty sad. In case you didn’t know, I live there lol. Can I blame my obesity on that?

Speaking of obesity, I have just 8 pounds to lose until I won’t be obese anymore. Seems like so much, but I will make it there eventually. My weight is down again to 202.0 this morning. that’s down .4 since yesterday, down 1.2 lbs since monday. Pretty neat! Let’s hope it keeps it up for awhile. It makes me so glad that I didn’t give in to my hunger pangs last night and eat a snack.

I upped my calorie count on The Daily Plate to “moderately active” that includes my childcare and housework, so I hope I live up to the calories. I may go walking today as well, we will wait and see. I have a lot to do today to prepare for DS’s bday party and I need to plan that day carefully so I don’t eat myself twice my size.

I went to a running shoe store and gosh those things are expensive! But I’ve decided not to run again until I get new shoes. I really think I could run again by next week, but I don’t want to do it in the shoes i have. I put them on yesterday and almost twisted my ankle again. I have a tendency to walk on the outside of my feet and that causes problems during running. I really need some shoes that correct that. Also the shoes I currently have are very warn and now lean to the outside, hence me almost breaking my neck yesterday, having not worn shoes in a couple of days. How could I not have noticed it before? i’m starting to wonder if that was the reason I hurt myself and not the rock.  Anyway, DH and I are discussing it. Hopefully I can get them soon (unless one of ya’ll will send me 120 dollars! )

I was reading a post on the boards and someone was describing how they regained all the weight they’d lost and how horrible they felt. This was me a few months ago. Here I had a beautiful new baby and was ashamed to be photographed with him. Ashamed to leave the house because my clothes didn’t fit or I was still wearing maternity clothes. I didn’t bother to do my hair or wear makeup…why bother? I was fat! Not comfortable in my own skin, binging on food and then beating myself up and feeling terrible and bloated.

I am so happy that I put one foot infront of the other and slowly, the weight is coming off. I am still heavy, but I feel so much better about myself. And I know it will only get better.

Yesterday I wore a size 11/12 pants. Now before anyone gets excited: They were stretch, and low rise, which for me means they didn’t have to fit over my huge belly. But I wore them and they fit. Granted, I can’t fit any other size 12 pants just yet (it’s close), but it’s a definite start. Thanks for listening.

Weight today is 202.6. Wow…Will write more later.

My foot/ankle feel much better today. I can walk on it with no pain, but I’m still going to use my crutch and keep it wrapped up today, just to be safe. Maybe Friday I will try to go for a 20 minute walk and then take things from there. Until I can run again, I’m going to up my weightlifting everyother day.  Here’s my routine, I won’t bore you with repetitions:

Core:

Crunches  (on the ball)X 50

Dumbbell Stiff Leg DeadliftsSide Turns w/ dumbbells

Upper Body:

Shoulder Press

Tricep Kickbacks

Bicep Curls

Overhead Tricep Extensions

Chest fly on the ball

Push ups on the ball (from the thighs)

Reverse Flys

Side Raises

Lower body (I’m afraid to do too much with this):

Squats

Pile Squats

Lying Butt Bridge

This is a really good site that has lots of exercises and an animated demonstration of how they should be preformed:

http://www.shapefit.com/training.html

Over how sweet you ladies are! I would never in my life have thought this blog would be so important to me. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

My injury feels a little better. I’ve still got it wrapped and am limping around on crutches, but the pain is definitely less. I’m still not tryig to put any pressure on it, I’m treating it like my new baby. I want it strong so I can run again. DH stayed up all last night trying to do some work (he works from home a lot) and I let him sleep in, trying my best to get the baby to follow me around. At one point, I even got a rolling chair and that’s how we got from room to room lol.

I hadn’t weighed myself in a couple of days, but did this morning. I was 203.2! that’s almost a pound loss and I bet it will be tomorrow. I really think it’s thanks to the Daily Plate. Yesterday I lowered my activity level on there to “sedentary” since I’m spending a lot more time sitting down and that lowered my calories as well. I don’t think I would’ve done that on my own.

Argh! Yes, it’s sprained. It’s minor but I spent yesterday in agony, unable to take care of my baby. It feels better this morning and the swelling is gone down, but I’m still on crutches and my foot/ankle is wrapped. I’m pretty bummed right now. I was finally running full speed and enjoying it, and this happens. Well I’m not going to be running (or any exercise really) for awhile. To be honest this scares me…that I won’t get back into an active lifestyle, which I feel is so crucial to my weight loss. I just have to remember this feeling that being active gives me. It seems like something like this always happens to throw me off track. I guess that’s just life though, right?

J/K

DH was up early this morning and watched the baby for me. Taking advantage of this opportunity,  I decided to go running and do 25 minutes, or day 3 of week 6. It went SO well. I LOVE jogging without a stroller. I felt so free. I was a little unprepared, I had no pockets to put my keys in and nothing to hold my ipod. I just stood there for a minute with both in hand, wondering what to do, and then I stuffed them both in my bra lol. It’s SO much easier without the stroller.

I reached 20 minutes when I hit a rock in the road and fell on my foot the wrong way. It didn’t really hurt, but I figured I’d better stop. But I could’ve easily gone the next 5 minutes.  It’s a good thing I did stop because my foot is sore now. No more running for at least the next 2 days. I think I will do a little yoga. I’ve got my foot in some ice right now…there’s no swelling yet, just soreness.

Stupid rock.

I am loving the daily plate…I have bailysmomma to thank for letting me know about it on her blog (thanks, girl!)… Hopefully this will make the numbers on the scale go down.

Still looks pretty much the same as last month, but I promised I would do it every month. Don’t mind the lumpiness of my shirt, my nursing bra went a little askew. I wanted to use the same outfit, but unfortunately, our washing machine is broken and those clothes are dirty. I will try to replace it when the machine is fixed.