Day 35 & 36 - February 16-17, 2011

I decided that I have fallen too far behind in my postings, so I am going to do a couple of days together.

This week I have been really careful about what I eat, and I make sure to write it down in my book, that way I can track my eating patterns. I wish sometimes that I would track my emotional eating as well. I know that I have reached for food out of boredom, sympathy, and anger, but also just because it is sunny, cloudy, Wednesday....whatever excuse I can come up with.  It doesn't take much sometimes for me to pitter pat my way into the kitchen to graze through the cupboards. The good news is that we don't have a lot of food that is bad for us any longer, so a snack usually ends up being cereal of some sort, usually dry. The bad news is that I am not too ashamed to admit that I will eat brown sugar right out of the bag. If I REALLY try hard, I can find the little hard bits in the sugar, that take awhile to melt in the mouth. If I have a quarter in my pocket while at work, I have very little resistance to the "gumball" machines in the back part of the store. Naturally my machines are filled with some of my favorite things like, Hot Tamales, Runts, Sweet Tarts, and M & M Peanut candies! They are quite generous with the amount you get too, usually a nice handful. My problem with sweets in general is that I can't just eat one of anything. I really love Red Hots and will eat them until the flesh is hanging off the inside of my mouth. I also REALLY love Sour Patch Kids...yummmmm.....but there again, I have to have the entire bag of them, not just a few. This has been a very difficult thing for me to overcome, and everyday is a choice. I am hoping that at some point I can enjoy a few of my favorite things, but for now...there is no way.

Wednesday the workout was extremely challenging. Two of my teammates, and two mentors were there so we got some equipment and went to the crows nest in the Wellness Center. We each picked up a bar and I made sure to grab a blue one, since I have graduated from the pink one since it was too light, and the yellow one is still too heavy. The truth is that I should move up in weight on the bar because things are becoming easy, and I plan to do just that...next week....for sure....probably. We did the usual squats, lunges, chest press, triceps extensions, and a few others using the bar. It was a good work out, but then the Mentor-trainer said we were going to the stairs...man...not the stairs...I really don't like the stairs. Where in the world is the praying lady when you need her? We went to the habitrail track, and the instruction was to do a flight of stairs, up & down, 20 high knees in place, then go to the track and do lunges on each end, walking the straight stretches. Huh? Did we do something wrong maybe to make Ron mad? Of course not, but we had to really push ourselves, so we got started.  It was brutal, and the sweat was pouring off me in no time. I had to hold on to the wall a few times just to keep from falling over. We did one lap of front lunges, then the stairs, knees, then BACKWARD lunges, then stairs, knees, and side lunges. There were a couple of times we stopped to shake out our legs and hips, because they got to burning so bad. Next we had to do stairs, then a skater move, you use an ice skating motion, kicking your heel back and swinging your arms, side to side, then jog the track one lap, then start over! GAAAA!!!!!!!! Horrible!!!! We did this three times! It took nearly an hour and half to do this work out, and when we were done, it was all I could do to walk. Driving home I was really glad that I was able to complete the work out. Yeah me!

Thursday I was home with Landree so she and I went on a walk around the 3 1/2 mile loop. It was real nice out, and about half way through the walk she fell asleep. As much as I enjoy the gym, it was so nice to be out breathing the air, and enjoying the day. Today was my weigh in, and I felt like I did alright, but still I was unsure. Well, it was a good week and I lost 3 lbs!!! That makes a total of 14 lbs, and I weighed 209.8 today. I am so glad that I did well this week since I tried so hard. My team mates did well also, the guys lost 4.4 & 4 lbs, and the other gal lost 3 lbs also. The two other ladies didn't show up, again. Our team is back in 5th place, but what is frustrating is that the guys are #'s 1 and 2 in weight loss for the men, and the gal is # 4 for the women. We should be higher in the ranks then we are, but we get marked down when the others don't come. Ron came in to see how we did and was pretty pleased. He high fived us, and said he was going to push us harder this next week. Then he did that evil smile. Scary.  As a group we have lost nearly 1000 lbs! How crazy is that??? 

All in all I am very pleased. My clothes are loose, and I can tell that my chins are fewer. I still don't like being in pictures, but soon, maybe, sometime...now I'm stressed out...where's my brown sugar....

Workout tomorrow at 6:00...hooray!

Kelly