frustrated

I'm so annoyed. I never eat 3500 calories in a day...EVER. but every time I have ice cream I gain weight. I guess I just have to cut it out of the my diet. It's just so frustrating that I was 182 last weekend and now I'm at 185...it doesn't make any sense because I'm not eating that much! I can't wait to see the nutritionist.

so tired

Today I had a really great day. There was a health fair at work so I got a massage and a flu shot. On the bus ride home I decided that I was going to run/walk for an hour. I got home around 7.35 and began running at 7.45. I ran for about 40 minutes and then walked for the other 20 minutes. I did 2 sprints and at the end I ran for 2 minutes. I burned about 806 calories. When I weighed myself on the scale I was 184.5lbs. Hopefully this weight will stay off. I really want to get to 175...hopefully 170. I know I can do this.

It's good that there are a lot of sweets that I don't like...like Entenmann's donuts...otherwise I would have been very tempted by the box that was sitting next to my desk all day. The thing is that I don't eat things that are very unhealthy...I don't eat candy that much...I can't remember the last time I ate french fries...I guess I just eat too much of healthy food. While it's not as bad as eating too much of unhealthy food...it's still a problem.

I ran last night after dinner. When I got home I saw that dad had made pasta and at first I was a little sad because I didn't feel like I could eat it. But then I thought to myself...well, if I eat the pasta and wait half an hour before running, I should have digested a good amount of it so I'll have glycogen in my blood and be able to use that to work out. So that's what I did. I got two cramps while I was running, one minor, one major. But I was able to pull through the work out. Then I did some abs. I was also good and didn't have ice cream. I had some raisin bran crunch before bed just to refill my glycogen stores for the morning.

I made myself get up with my alarm this morning and walked for half an hour...alternating in a few speed walking sessions and carrying the five pound weights. It was pretty good. Today when I get home from work I'm going to go lift at the gym. I'm going to try working my muscles to failure because I don't normally do that and I think that it will help with building muscle and therefore decreasing fat. I'm excited for the Biggest Loser tonight. It helps motivate me each week. I only wish I had the time to work out as much as they did. Then maybe I'd get the amazing results they get! Oh, well...this is my life and if I want to see a change, I'm the only one that I can make it happen.

goal

So, I've decided that I'm going to lose 10 lbs. by November 16. Hopefully I can lose more, but that is my goal. I have to be really conscious of what I put into my body. I have to be conscious of how much I'm working out. I need to do sprints. I want to look better. I don't know what the outcome will be of my looking better, but I have to look better to see what could happen.
If I could get to 170 by then...I would ecstatic. But 175 would be great too.

frustration

I woke up this morning and I was 188 again. It's so frustrating...I just can't seem to keep the weight off. I seem to be on a plateau. I have to break through it. I don't think I can do the limited cardio thing. Tonight when I get back from work I have to just do cardio. I'm not sure if I'm building muscle...I have to be. But I don't understand how I'm not getting rid of fat at the same time. I don't know...it's annoying though.

I have to just stay focused and push through this. This gain is most likely because it's that time of the month for me. I have to just push myself more to compensate. I can do this.

I didn't run this morning. It's probably a good thing though because we lost power and I would have been showering in the dark. I went to the gym after work and lifted. It was pretty good. I did a sprint afterwards. My weight has gone up to 187 though so I need to focus on getting it down. I want to get it down to 180 by this weekend. If not this weekend, next weekend. I just need to focus. I'm going to keep off the ice cream. I'll treat myself with some Claire's when I get to New Haven. I have to bring some of the carb blockers with me.

Tomorrow I have to run in the morning. Hopefully I can do some HIIT again. Then I'll walk at the end so that I can decrease my sweating. Or perhaps I'll do some abs. Then at night I'll do some more cardio. I really liked sprinting today. I just need to stay focused on my goal.

yay

I didn't run this morning, but I decided to do some field hockey training in the form of HIIT. I did 5 sprint-runs around the end line and side line. Then I did 2 suicides and 2 full field sprints. I originally wanted to do 4 suicides, but it was getting dark so I just did the full fielders. I had a little more time left in the song so I did a sprint from the 50 yard line like I was doing a corner. It felt really good to do sprints like that again. It made me realize that I still have it :-)

I'm also a little sore from the sprints on Saturday and the lifting on Sunday. Sprints are so good for you though. I can feel it in my hamstrings and my poochie.

I decided that sleep was more important than working out this morning. I'm going to do some HIIT when I get back from work...and hopefully there's an indoor track that I can do sprints on in the winter at the Y. I don't think I'm going to do this Waterbury method. At least not for now. Maybe when I need to mix things up a bit.

I think I'm starting to see results physically though. A little on the scale, but more so when I look in the mirror. Hopefully it's not just my mind playing tricks on me. I do like that the HIIT takes up less time and is more effective though. I can't wait to run tonight.

Day 4

I woke up this morning around 8 and daydreamed a little about someone. Then I went to the track at the high school and did 10x 100m sprints. Then I did one final lap of a run/sprint.
I got home and weighed myself. I'm down to 185! I'm so happy. I just have to keep it up. Ideally I'd like to get down to 180 by next weekend. We'll see if I can do it. I'm going to go to the gym after my brother's soccer game and bike for a while. We're going to Olive Garden for my sister's birthday so I have to make sure I have my fat/carb blockers with me.

All I have to say for myself is good job D.

Day 3

I just got back from the Y. I was being kind of lazy at first...I didn't want to go lift, but once I got there it got kicked into gear. I even got asked for lifting advice by this woman named Gwen. She's going to come back Tuesdays and Thursdays when I lift. This morning I didn't want to run, but I find that I can say to myself 'just do it'. And I do!

Tomorrow is Friday so last day of work for the week. Saturday I get my baby painted :-D

I was supposed to be on a conference call from 5 to 6 today...I ended up calling in from my cell phone and listening for 45 minutes before hanging up. I didn't want to use up all of my minutes. When I got back home, I was going to go to the gym, but it was pretty light out and I felt like running so I went for a run outside. It was the first time I've run outside in a long time...probably since the beginning of the summer. I felt so good during the run. My legs were getting tired, but my breathing was fine. Usually it's the other way around. I ended up running at an average of 6.15 mph...and the route I went was 1.9 miles according to Streets and Trips. Not bad. It was just getting dark enough that it was hard to see when I got home. I had some yogurt, cereal, apple and peanut butter...and some popcorn when I got home.

It was really cool because I found a program on Google called Google 15 that helps you track your weight loss by showing a trendline.

On a side note...I'm kind of annoyed that a certain person isn't returning my texts/phone calls. He would be so good in a relationship...except for this lapse in communication skills. Oh well...he's with someone else now.

Day 2

I really didn't want to get up and run today...but I said to myself, "Just do it." And I did. I did a little interval training because my legs were a little tired from the sprints last night. Also probably because I was really good and didn't eat a full dinner. Just a whey protein shake and an apple with peanut butter. I'm feeling myself get tired already...but there's always sleeping on the bus! :-)

A Fresh Start

This is the start of my new blog. I'm going to post my goals and my successes in my quest to lose weight.
I know I can do this:

~ My first goal is to lose 10 lbs.
~ I'm going to lift 3 days a week and do cardio the other 3.
~ I'll have one cheat day, on the weekend so that I can work out to make up for it.
~ Eat lots of fruits and veggies
~ Low carb

Day 1 - 187 lbs.