Weight loss

Well, the weight loss challenge at work is over.
Beginning weight, 127.5 (shut up, that's heavy for 4'10"). I don't remember the beginning date.
Final weigh in, 119.
Total loss of 8.5 pounds in a, what, 8 week period. Not as much as I would've liked to have lost, but it's pretty good!

And to make this even sweeter, I won the pot! A whole 83 whopping dollars in my pocket! Several people just stopped checking in or gave up. Ryan and I kept at it.

So, I took my money to the cafeteria and paid off my lunch tab. The leftover money will go towards savings for a house. It isn't much, but it certainly helps!

2 pounds down?

I haven't really been trying with the fitness stuff until recently. There's a fitness challenge at work. The person who loses the most percentage of body weight wins money. People who gain, add a dollar per pound to the winning pot. Good news is that I've fluctuated between maintaining and dropping. Ideally, I'd like to lose 20 pounds. People who know me ask where that 20 is. I hide it well. Baggy clothes and hoodies do the trick I'm tellin' ya. Then they complain that I'm so little. Here's the catch... I am stupid-short and am too bootyliscious for my height. Then it boils down to feeling better.

We've gotten some workout dvds and have been doing pretty good with working out. I've decided to step it up though. Workout every night. Or at least try to. I walk/jogged about 2 miles around my apartment complex tonight. Then we're doing P90X carb fitness video.

I don't drink sodas much anymore. I need to quit the Koolaid thought. That'd help for sure. I know it would help out even more if I added fruit to my diet. And vegetables. Okay. Fine. It'd help if I added protein too. Yes, I'm a carb whore.

Here's to TWO POUNDS DOWN!

Menu Planning

Husband and I signed up for a fitness contest at work. The person who loses the highest percentage of body weight wins the money (sign up money and 1$ per pound for each person who gains weight). This has been a motivator for both of us to get more active.


I made fried catfish last night. I love to fry foods. It's such a rare occasion and a nice treat. And honestly, I'm good at frying stuff. It was Ivy's first taste of fish and of course didn't like it at first. But she finished her meal. We're trying to have her eat table food but we eat later than she does and what we have is usually not something you'd feed a toddler. And we don't purchase foods that a toddler would normally eat.


The status of our bank account has given me more motivation to reign it in when it comes to eating out. This past week has been so hectic. Food was the last thing on my mind.

This week... some changes.

Here is my Menu Plan Monday. Totally don't want to plan what goes where. Just that we know these are our options.
1. Sandwiches - Been watching a lot of the Cosby Show and Doc Hux eats a lot of hoagies. Was inspired.
2. Hot links - on bread with chips
3. Pizza
4. Chicken - apparently we aren't being specific with how we're making it; but I want to do something with the crock pot.
5. Nachos
Days 6 & 7 are leftovers

Ten Reasons

I'd like to lose the baby weight. I'm inspired by another blog, saw this and want to emulate it.

1. I want to feel healthy. Which I currently, obviously, do not.
2. I used to have a lot of energy. I'm tired all the time now. If given the chance, I'd probably sleep for 24 hours straight.
3. Being healthy benefits me psychologically. Not only did I have energy when I was working out, I was happy.
4. Body aches suck. I know that these aches and pains I'm now dealing with is because I'm not active and not eating right.
5. Confidence in myself has plummeted. Not just my confidence with my physical being, but emotionally as well. It's all "lazy, can't do it, don't want to..." all the time.
6. I used to dance. I used to run. I want who I used to be back.
7. I know what I need to do. I need to do it.
8. Feeling better about my body wouldn't hurt.
9. Ryan.
10. IVY.

The plan...
Cut out the sodas. Increase the H2O.
Up the protein and fresh fiber (fruit and veggies).
Decrease junk food and unhealthy snacking and processed foods.
Start off with 20 minutes of physical activity per day then work up to 30+ minutes of heart pumping physical activity.

This has worked before. At that time, I was participating in a job-sponsored "boot-camp" exercise program. I wish it were available to me now. And I know this isn't much of a plan right now, but it is a work in progress and will likely change as time goes on.

To date, I haven't had much soda at all (but I have had one yesterday and today). I've been trying to exercise, but it snowed recently and we aren't used to those kind of temperatures so I wasn't able to walk/jog. However, here is where my lazyness picks up... We have Wii-fit and Just Dance 2 so I know I can be inside and doing active things.

The real problem here is my lack of motivation. I don't really have anyone to keep me in line and to check in with.