Molly's Tuesday

I drank almost 4 bottles of water yesterday and kept my eating pretty much in check (there were some M&Ms that somehow made it into my mouth - not sure what happened there...) So, I decided to go ahead and weigh myself again this morning: 168.8, down 1.4 from yesterday. It's nice to get some of that water weight off and not feel quite so bloaty.

I didn't exercise yesterday, but I did find my yoga mat out in the garage. I'm going to go do yard work now. Woo hoo! And then go to work.

Goals for today:
drink 4 bottles of water
track calories

Molly's Monday Weigh-In

170.2. Yep up 2.2 from last week. That's just sad. It could be worse though. If you had seen everything I ate over this past week, you'd probably be surprised it's not higher. Anyway, I'm glad I have plan. I woke up this morning with a renewed sense of purpose. I have things I want to do and thing I'm working toward - at least for the next 2 months.

So today I will drink my water, track my calories and do my exercise video. I also am going to Hobby Lobby to get some watercolors and paper. For the first time in my life I'm feeling a strong pull toward art. It's sort of scary and sort of exciting. Hard to explain. And I have my class today, so all in all it should be a good day! Hope you all have a good day, too!

I Have A Plan..... B

Plan A didn't really pan out. I just can't seem to get excited about the gym. So here's plan B:

1) Do my pilates/cardio exercise tape M/W/F while my dad is at Cardio rehab.

2) Track calories - for the next three weeks I will be keeping a strict 1300 calories per day diet.

3) drink 3-4 bottles of water every day. Three is the minimum, 4 is the goal, anything above is just a bonus.

4) T/TH I would like to start hiking up Mt. Garfield. Not all the way every day or anything crazy like that, but just as far as I feel I can go. Eventually I'll get to the top and not be worried about having a heart attack. :)

Now I have to go out to the garage and find my pilates tape in one of my boxes. I think I know where it is. My yoga mat is a whole different story...

I am back and ready to go

Wait, isn't this the same post from a week ago? Why yes, yes it is. *sigh*

Ok here it goes, I am weighing myself tomorrow am so I have a "bad weight" and then I am gonna do something. My most successful times have been when I really wanted to be on the plan and it seemed easy. Not sure how to get that back but I am going to think on it overnight.

Ok, seriously.

168.0 I am now getting on the horse or the wagon or what ever. I just need to do it. I just need to make myself go to the gym a few times in a row and I know it will get easier after that. Why is it so difficult to take those first few strides?? I'll tell you why: because staying the same, even if you're not happy, is easier. Ugh. I'm done staying the same. I want to change. I want to like what I see in the mirror!

Goals for today:
Drink 3 bottles of water

I Have A Plan

Here's my plan: tomorrow and next Saturday I'm going to do the body flow class at the gym at 9:35. I have to work at 10:30, so it'll work out quite well. The next two weeks I will do cardio Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the gym in the late mornings when it's not busy, but I still have time to go home and shower and eat before heading back for work. I know that if I can stick with this I can get my workouts back on track. I just need to get started again.

I haven't weighed myself this week because I forgot and then I decided I didn't give a crap (I love PMS, especially when I haven't taken my anti-depressants for a few days. So fun.) So tomorrow morning before I go to body flow I will weigh myself and post it here. Hope everyone has a lovely Friday!

I'm here too

I'm around too, just apparently too lazy to blog. I have been weighing myself this week though. Last week was really hard with Aaron being home, but I still wasn't eating whatever I want (which is EVERYTHING at this point) or sweets.... and I still gained a ton. Arg. According to my scale, I have gained 4 lbs in 4 weeks, which is so not good. I was hoping for half of that.  Even when we ate out, we had subway and sushi... and that night when Aaron brought home burger king :( oops.

My apt is tomorrow (WOOT! WOOT!) but unfortunately it's at 11:30 instead of in the early morning, which is normal, so my weight will be crazy up, I'm sure. Boo. Ah well.

I wasn't great on water last week, so I am really making/made a commitment this week to get all of it in (it's amazing how going in and having someone weigh you will motivate you) and from this Monday to today, I have "lost" 1.6 lbs. I'm sure it's not actually "lost" but just water weight. It does however make me feel a little better.

I'm trying to keep my eating/weight in check b/c my dr says that it's really hard for women with PCOS to not gain a ton of weight during pregnancy, so I have to be on top of it. Also, I think it'll be best for my back if I can keep my weight gain towards to low end of normal instead of the high end, lol.

Sorry, I know this post is kinda rambly. Ok, gotta go get ready for preschool again.

~Lori

Mallory's weigh in

So, yesterday not a very good day, I only tracked for part of the day. boo. but I drank a bunch of water. I weighed this morning 228.8. ug.

Goals for today:
Track
Drink water
stay within 2000mg of sodium

I am back and ready to go

So it was super hard to be motivated on the night shift. I don't know if anyone knows this but eating seems to keep you awake. so especially during the day, when I had to be awake eating was there. So I have been eating really bad foods for me and now I am ready to be back on the plan. Today my goal is to drink 100 oz of water, track and stay under 2000 mg of sodium. Then we will see about tomorrow's weight.

Weighing In

I will probably only be weighing in on Saturday or Sunday because of my work schedule and the fact that the only scale I have access to right now is in my mom's room and I can't really go in there at 2:45 in the morning when I get up. So, yesterday I weighed 141.6 which is great. I haven't been eating that good but I also haven't been over eating. I also haven't been exercising (except for last week) but I am on my feet for 8-10 hours a day and in constant motion. I did join the gym today!! (So now I really have no excuse not to exercise)

Molly's Monday weigh in

165.8, up 1.8 from the last time that I weighed. I'm not terribly surprised. I haven't been eating all that healthy. And while I the food I ate over the weekend was healthy and delicious, I ate entirely too much of it. So today I track. And drink at least 3 bottles of water.

Mallory's Monday Weigh In

This morning's weight was 227.8 up .6 pounds from yesterday. I am tracking today yesterday I did really good until Justin got home and he went and got chicken nuggets from mcdonald's which of course i ate. doh.

Mallory's Sunday Weigh in

This morning my weight was 227.2. Totally could have been better, but could have been worse too. My last weight on the blog was 222.4 so it could be worse. Considering I have pretty much eaten whatever I want and have not exercised I was positively pleased. I will be drinking water today and weigh in in the morning. I hope you all join me!!

Blogging to myself...

...It's like talking to yourself, only different. I've been kinda bummed that no one is on the blog lately, but I haven't been either. And I know Lori and Carrie are both pregnant and Mallory is working nights and Tammi works crazy hours and Peggy is probably getting ready for school to start. I'm busy, too, believe it or not... Anyway, I just definitely do better when I'm accountable to someone else. I suppose I should try to be accountable to myself and most of the time I guess I am. But days like today when I'm stressed and I've got a lot to do and I'm screwing around on Facebook and eating 1/3 of a box of graham crackers in about two minutes flat without really comprehending what I'm doing and then chewing my nails. These are the days I could use the support. So, I'm going to pretend that you're all out there reading this and you want to respond but you can't because terrorists have kidnapped you all and if you even touch a keyboard to type a response, the world will end. No, I don't like that idea - I don't want to think about terrorists holding my peeps hostage. It's just not a pleasant idea. I'm going to choose to believe that you all are with me in spirit. And I'm going to continue blogging just in case anyone wants to actually join me. And I just remembered I ate some cheese, too. Great. That puts me over a 1,000 calories for the day already and it's not quite noon. Awesome. and yes I tracked my calories. Go me.