Weekly weigh in

So I weighed in today after doing a week of no carbs and what a difference it made. I weighed 253 last Saturday and this morning I weighed 247. I'm so close to a new HY Button and meeting my first 10% goal! Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Come Join me on the YMCA Trail ~

So I just discovered the most awesomest thing....I know awesomest isn't a word....but I bought a pedometer yesterday and I was looking for some information on it and I found this website called America on the Move, at www.americaonthemove.org. This website is totally free and what you do is put in your information, height weight and then you sign up for a six week challenge. It lets you pick a trail, based on the number of steps you plan on walking and every day, you log in the number of steps you walked that day and it takes you further down the trail. There's a bunch of guides I just printed and you can do a paper guide if you don't want to do it online. I'm so excited and up for the challenge! So please join me and let me know you're doing it because you can have challenge buddies!

I am bad ass!!!

So today I recruited a friend and we went and walked on a new linear trail...we walked 3 miles!!! And then we went to Ruby Tuesday's and I got the salad bar and brocoli cheddar soup...I gave my bread away and I ate the salad with no croutons or anything....I rock!!

Met one goal!

So I met my exercise goal for the week...I spent an hour swimming yesterday and even went into the sauna to sweat. It felt great!! But I think I'm going to surpass my exercise goal for the week...I want to. And I went out and bought a calendar and really cute stickers, and yesterday I got to use all of them!!! I stepped on the scale this morning and it was down half a pound and my rings are falling off today...and I didn't have any stomach problems this morning like I usually do. I wonder if carbs are the culprit? Not eating carbs is giving me a headache though, so I definately won't be completely giving them up. I'm feeling good and feeling inspired to keep this up! And I'm so excited for next week that I've already set my goals!

Disappointed

So I weighed in this morning. I'm not quite sure what I expected....but I'm up 4 pounds....I'm not entirely sure why because I'm feeling like I'm getting more invested...the goals for next week will definately be helpful and if I start seeing losses again, that's where I'm heading. So I'm throwing out this there - what do you do when you're stuck and you feel like you're never going to be successful at this again?

Goals

So yesterday I was going to post all these goals I'd like to achieve in the near future - Mind you I have so many that I need to achieve. And I was looking at other people's blogs and they wrote down all these goals they want to achieve...and I thought - it's too much and it sets me up for failure. Now this is just me, and I know I have a bunch of goals but if I threw them all into this one post and then didn't achieve just one of them, I'd feel like a failure. So I've made a plan for myself. I'm going to add another side bar and write one goal for the week. My goal, starting Monday 4/7/08- 4/13/08 is going to be to eat no carbs - by this I mean, no bread, no pasta, no rice, no potatoes, no corn. I will still be eating fruit and I know this counts as a carb too, but it's a different kind. I don't know if I'll be able to do this but I want to try. I'm also planning on setting a fitness goal to. Next weeks goal is going to be to go to the gym once. I have a free membership to the YMCA but for some reason, I don't want to go! I also have a huge desk calendar that we haven't been using so I'm going to go to the craft store today and use a gift card that I got for Christmas and buy a ton of stickers....I'm going to get one for drinking over 8 glasses of water a day, one for meeting my food goal for the week and one for me exercise goal for the week and maybe some cute stickers for the weight I lose...but I've been stuck for the last month, losing and gaining the same 5 pounds, and surprisingly I haven't given up yet, and what I'm doing feels comfortable. I also think that if I don't lose at least 15 pounds between now and June 1st, I'm going to try WW because maybe I need a change of scenery. So here's to one new goal a week and adding a new goal each week to build upon the last!! Anyone out there who wants to set a goal with me is more than welcome. When I started, I had an email buddy where we emailed what we ate each day and it helped keep me accountable - I'm up for more buddies too!

When a habit becomes permanent

I think my brain is starting to think skinny. I had an attrocious week last week and even yesterday. I hadn't gone shopping and I couldn't fathom dragging myself into the kitchen to cool or prepare meals for the day - I couldn't. I know that that's a lousy excuse and exactly how I got here and why I look the way I do. But on my way to work, I had a mini-epiphany. All last week, I still drank over 100 ozs of water. The fat me wouldn't drink all that water, why bother. But the new me is very interested in making these changes permanent. Also, I ate fast food, pizza, garbage all last week and now I'm looking forward to grocery shopping because that fast food doesn't appeal to me. I don't want it anymore. It tastes like crap. Part of me is sad to say that because it's been a part of my life for so long, but part of me thinks I've turned the corner. I'm going to be posting a bit more today - I seem to have a lot on my mind...