Want to Change

Figured it Out

Posted aubrey on August 9th, 2008 | Filed under Daily Blog | Comment now »

So I figured it out… I eat when I’m bored. I’ve been home alone all day long, my boy worked a double today, so he worked from noon and he doesn’t get out till midnight, I’ve been in a munchie mood all day. Even right now, I’m not hungry but I want to snack on something, but nothing sounds good. EEEHHHHHHH I’m annoyed, but still happy that I figured things out I guess.

It’s A Grr kind of a day

Posted aubrey on August 8th, 2008 | Filed under Daily Blog | Comment now »

Okay so I knew yesterday was going to hurt me, but I didn’t think it would be this bad…. So yesterday I had Wendy’s, (a single with cheese and a medium fry and a diet coke) then I had a king size bag of m&m’s THEN went to the movie theater and had a large cherry coke and shared a large tub of popcorn. After all of this, my weight went from 211 to 214. So depressing, part of me doesn’t even want to workout. I will probably sooner or later, but I don’t want to. I think I’m going to try to do the 1st segment of Jillian Michael’s 30 day shred.

I’m gonna give that a try, then hopefully walk down to the fitness center again and do 30 minutes on the treadmill… scratch that I’m gonna do walk away the pounds 3 miles then do 30 minutes on the treadmill. Whew.. there we go.

Long Time no Blog

Posted aubrey on August 7th, 2008 | Filed under Daily Blog | 1 Comment »

Whew, its been a little bit, hasn’t it.. whoops. Okay news from my front… 1st, the youngin is back at her mom’s so I have a bit more time to myself now. Its quite weird, but I’ll adjust. Also, school is starting soon, and I’m going to start substitute teaching, AND I’m starting at American Eagle on Monday with that part time job. I’m nervous that while working 2 jobs I’m not going to have much time to work out. =(

On the cool front, I developed a sweet looking excel spreadsheet to track how long I workout every day on each machine, how many miles I walk/bike/etc. and how many calories I burn on each machine. I put some formulas in there to add up my totals for the day, as well as a running monthly total. Quite exciting, and its nice to sit and look at everything laid out in front of me. Pretty soon I’m going to try to start counting calories again, it may be somewhat hard, but I’ll do it darn it.

I’m going back home for Christmas, we bought our plane tickets, we leave December 23rd to fly back up north. My goal is to be 30 pounds lighter when I get on that airplane. I was down to 211 today, I’m quite excited about that. I went out and got Wendy’s for lunch (not so excited about that). At the same time though, this summer I have completely cut back how much I’m eating at fast food restaurants, and usually if I do, its subway. So anyway, I hit the treadmill today for 30 minutes burning 127 calories. Not a ton, but I look at it this way, I burnt more there than I would have just sitting around at home like I would normally be doing.

Plus I”m going to break down and do the Turbo Jam with weights too. As soon as I end this post actually…. lol

Which is now… Peace out!!!

Yesterday

Posted aubrey on July 30th, 2008 | Filed under Daily Blog | 3 Comments »

So I got in a good workout yesterday. When I got to the fitness center there was someone on the treadmill, so I did 30 minutes on the bike and then another 10 on the treadmill. I felt good about myself and about working out. Then I wake up this morning and weigh myself… and ding ding ding… I’ve gained like 2 lbs. I’m 214 right now. I haven’t weighed myself in a few days, so I’m quite dissapointed. I feel like everything I do, and it all just goes bye bye. I mean true, I did have 2 helpings of spaghetti 2 days ago, and yes, I did eat at Taco Cabana last night and had a margarita, but still, come on. LOL

Today I’m gonna put the youngin in the bedroom to watch Disney I think and I’m going to do the Turbo Jam with the weights. I don’t remember what one it is. Oh well.

Here’s to someday losing all of this weight that’s on me.

Let me just say right now how supportive G is. I whine and complain all the time about my weight and he always tells me that he fell in love with me looking like this, and he will always love me and any extra weight I may have on my body, but he understands and supports me in what I want to do because he knows I’m not happy with it.

Another day, another day

Posted aubrey on July 26th, 2008 | Filed under Daily Blog | Comment now »

So today I was doing pretty good until dinnertime. I want to start the couch 25K workout, and I attempted to start today. I made it about 13 minutes doing the intervals on the treadmill, then the youngin distracted me when I was taking a sip of water and was paused, and then all of the info got erased from the treadmill…. grrr… So I just walked another 15 minutes on the treadmill and did 5 on the elliptical then got in the pool. I guess its better than nothing, right? LOL I was doing good for my meals as well, but then we decided to get pizza for dinner.

Yeah, like 5 peices later, plus some breadsticks, here I am…. feeling like a stuffed pig, and all I can think of is hmmm I want more. G is at work, and I told him I want a shake, so more than likely I’ll get a strawberry shake when I get him at 1am tonight. (He works at sonic)…. That’ll be bad too, but hey, I haven’t had one in awhile, and it is a treat. Today I guess is going to be my cheat day. I am offically making Saturday’s my cheat day. LOL

Doing Okay… I think

Posted aubrey on July 25th, 2008 | Filed under Daily Blog | Comment now »

So I think we’re doing okay right now. I weighed myself this morning and I weighed 212 lbs. I’m guessing that it is pretty accurate. I did not work out at all yesterday or the day before. Or at least I don’t think I worked out the day before. Lol. I am going to work out today though. YAY. I’m also going to stop and pick up some 3 lb weights today as well. I had some when I lived in Michigan, but I did’t bring them with me in the move. I want to buy a new stability ball as well, but the weights are going to have to work for now.

Also, I picked up a job until I can start substitute teaching, I’m going to be working at McDonalds. I hope I do okay with all of that temptation. You get free food for your lunch, and I’m going to try my hardest to eat salads, or parfaits. I might treat myself once a week with a burger and fries, but that is about it.

We’ve so far completed two days of writing all of our food intake down on the notepad. I think its helping to make us more aware of what we are eating. It is at least making me more aware, I can actually see how many times a day I reach for cheetoes for a snack instead of the apples/grapes/bananas that we have.

Whew… that was a pretty long post for an update this morning, I’ll add more later

Want to Change Day ?

Posted aubrey on July 24th, 2008 | Filed under Daily Blog | 2 Comments »

Okay so I’m giving up on the whole day thing, because I don’t post every day. Since the last time I posted, I haven’t lost any weight. Booo… but I”m still working out, walking my 30-40 minutes on the treadmil everyday, then also swimming in the pool. The water park was amazingly fun.

My boyfriend and I have put up a clipboard in the kitchen where we are making ourselves write down everything we eat in a day. I think it will make things a bit better because we can actually see what we’re eating and we can see where we need to make better choices. We’ll see how that goes. Only 1 more week or so until we take his daughter home, I’m sad but excited at the same time. (is that bad??)

Okay time for some fruit and cereal for breakfast!

Want to Change Day 3

Posted aubrey on July 21st, 2008 | Filed under Daily Blog | 1 Comment »

Well, didn’t do SOOO hot today. Today I didn’t do the treadmill like I had planned. I got to the workout facility and had forgotton my water, and their water jug was out of water, so I decided not to work too hard. I hit the weight area for 15 minutes or so and then opted for the pool. I woke up this morning and still was at 211.5, so that is always positive.

Tomorrow, we are going to take the little one to a water park so it will be a day full of running around and up and down stairs and all of that fun stuff. Whoo hoo. Okay, off to get some things accomplished tonight before a day at the park tomorrow.

Aubrey

Want to Change - Day 2

Posted aubrey on July 19th, 2008 | Filed under Daily Blog | Comment now »

Whew… here’s to Day 2. Whoo hoo. So I woke up this morning and weighed myself and it said 211.5, w hich would have meant that I lost 1.5 lbs overnight. I know better than that. I’m going to weigh myself on Sunday mornings and log it. Today I pretty much laid around the house most of the day, then this afternoon I went to the gym again and did 30 minutes on the treadmill. Here is what I did:

2 min - 2.5 mph
3 min - 3 mph
5 min - 3.3 mph
10 min - 3.4 mph
5 min - 3.3 mph
3 min - 3 mph
2 min - 2.5 mph

I’m going to keep doing it at this pace until the end of next week, and then I’m going to up it. Except I am going to try this week to do the elveation at 1 for the 10 minute hike in the middle. I am determined to do it this time. I’m sick of starting over. This is going to be the LAST time that I start over. End of story.

After the 30 minutes we got in the pool for about a half hour again. Now its time for dinner.

Yay!

Aubrey

Want to Change Day 1 Part 2

Posted aubrey on July 18th, 2008 | Filed under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Well, I sucked it up and worked out today even with my bum knee. I walked on the treadmil for 30 minutes. Here was the breakdown:

2 min - 2.5 mph
3 min - 3.0 mph
5 min - 3.3 mph
10 min - 3.4 mph
5 min - 3.3 mph
3 min -3.0 mph
2 min - 2.5 mph

I plan on upping the mph every few days. I didn’t do elliptical tonight because I didn’t know how my knee would take it, plus the little one was getting ansy. We’ll see about tomorrow. After the workout we got in the pool and played for about 30 minutes. So there we go… good jobb me. YAY workout.. Haha