Focus

It's sad the number of bloggers who make posts declaring "THIS IS IT". Sigh, I won't do  that now but I am ready to make serious progress. I dipped under 190 for a brief second but I'm back at my new "comfy" weight - 193-195.

I have a wedding in roughly 7 weeks and I want to weigh 175 (plus fit into my bm dress). I weighed 193.4 this morning so that means losing 18.4 lbs in 57 days. I started out at 196.4 on July 1st so I've lost 3lbs so far....

I'm going to call this 21.4 in 63 days.... Hmm maybe 22 in 2 (months) is catchier :) Will create a progress bar on the side to track.

I will post some pictures of the dress in a new post. The only good think is I am still in size 12s (although some of the smaller cut ones are a bit small).

So many of my friends are getting married and having babies... I want to be uber-sexy at least once before i get to that stage dammit!

Anyway, if anyone is still reading, I will try to be more frequent!

3 Week Challenge

Like I mentioned in my last post, I'm away from home for  3 weeks.

I decided that by the time I return, I want to lose 15lbs. That will bring me down to 202 (well I guess I want to lose 15.2 lbs). I'm aware that's a big number but I find that when I'm away and forced into a routine, I can stay focused. So I'm looking at this like a jump start.

I'm already on a roll. I found this aerobic boot camp class and it's kicking my ass! I'm serious. Today was the 2nd day and I had to peel myself off the floor. It's basically high impact cardio and resistance but without any weights.  Lots of squats, planks and basically it's an hour of the 30 day shred! I hope to see awesome results even if it's just in inches lost.

I've been pretty good about eating too. Sticking to around 1500-1700 calories a day. I could do with a little more fruit in my diet but I'm finding it easier to stick to my calorie goals.

I'm not sure why but I'm suddenly overcome with a feeling of wanting to be the best me I can. Maybe it's because I'm single and it's really hitting me that I'm generally not attracted to unfit men and then I think to myself, well people probably think the same about you.

I like that i don't have a scale here so I won't weigh myself every day. The plan is to go to boot camp everyday except Sunday.

Wish me luck!

First day of challenge

Well, yesterday went pretty smoothly. I didn't have any issues drinking water at work. After work I had a really bad headache and after driving with it in traffic for close to 2 hours I really didn't want to go to the gym. But I did. One because, it was Day ONE and I promised you guys and two because priorfatgirl is always saying that you have to go even if you don't want to.

I didn't have the best workout. 20 mins on the elliptical. I wanted to do 40 but the machine kept going off, so I did it while it was off. Somehow not seeing how many calories I was burning and not being able to change the resistance made it really boring. I'm glad I went though. My headache went away after that brief stint.

I noticed something weird. When I got home, I had some m&m's (instead of real food!) and once I did, I wanted some soda. I didn't have it but I think it was interesting that I didn't think of soda until I had junk food. Something to think about.

Anyone joining me in this challenge?

June Challenge

Weighed in yesterday. 226. I hadn't started focusing yet so I'm not surprised.

My challenge for June is to only drink water. I'm going to give up alcohol too. The only other thing I'm allowed besides water is milk in my cereal. I don't usually drink a lot of soda but I tend to drink a decent amount of juice. The other part of the challenge is to make it to the gym 15 times this month.

I think that's doable so let's see what impact it will have on my weightloss. Still need more ideas for challenges so if you have any, be sure to let me know!

Challenges

To make this blog a little more interesting and to borrow an idea from Steve pavlina, I'm going to do little challenges throughout the year to keep things dynamic.

I think I'll try both short and long (max 1 month) trials. Ideas currently floating in my head include:

• 30 straight days of bikram yoga
• 30 day shred
• 30 days of being vegetarian
• 30 days on the atkins diet? (not sure about this one, my heart!)
• weeklong raw food (don't think i could/want to do this more than that)
• 1 week on just fruit? (would too much citrus present a problem?)

If you have any other suggestions on things I could try, let me know.