New Years Resolutions SUCK

Seriously. I manage to drag myself outside in the negative 25 degree weather to go to the gym. PAT ON THE BACK for that. So what do I find when I get there, but a bajillion people. I expected this, after all its January 2nd. And people made the resolution to get to the gym, yesterday they were probably too hung over to start, but today, they go. Heres the problem. This if Faribault. I should NOT have to wait in line for a treadmill in Faribault. In LA maybe. But not Faribault. I will not do it. Not when I have workouts I can do at home, and new ones at that! Biggest Loser DVD's and the Wii game here I come. And those of you who KNOW your not going to last past January 31st with your resolutions, STOP making them.

Reached my goal again!

I DID IT!

I'm back, and it only took a week, not bad. Whew.

So now, what next. I'm happy with the number on the scale. I love that I can say I lost 40lbs. I have found that when I DONT take care of myself (i.e. eating like crap and not working out) my body pays for it and I feel it. I DONT like how it makes me feel and therefore I will continue to try to keep up the good habits I have, and try and improve on others (water consumption and breakfast!)

Someone asked me if I was done losing weight now. Honestly, I dont know. I still look in the mirror and see a lot of the same stuff that bugged me. So I deffinately want to work on toning. But like I said, I dont care about the number on the scale. So from not on, its working on the image and making sure I KEEP feeling good and healthy.....this could be the trickiest step yet!!!!!

40lbs lost.....and then a few gained back!

I reached my goal!!!!! I did it I did it! Merry Christmas to me!

Christmas Eve morning I hit my goal!

why then does my ticker NOT reflect that. Well because Christmas eve morning i started eating christmas foods. So back on it came! LOL

But I know i can do it now. Almost there

Hmph

Last month, I managed to work out 26 of 30 days. Thats pretty awesome for me if I do say so myself. This month.....hmmm.....so far 6 times. UGGGG. NOT GOOD.

Thanks to the stomach flu I lost another 2 lbs (initially I lost 5, but 3 of that came back when I got dehydrated).

I have been behaving on the diet though and that helps at least, but I'm running out of time to GET FIT for Jamaica.

I have 2 training sessions left with the trainer. Lets hope I make the most of them! They kick my butt and I love it!

From Skeptic to Believer

So, I've always been a skeptic of trainers.

They cost a fortune and really, if I can get the "workout" plan from someone isn't that good enough. Womens health offers GREAT workout plans, and they vary. Ideally, this should be enough. For some people it might be.

But recently I obtained 5 sessions for almost free. I've had my first two and I am a true believer that they are worth thier weight in gold. I could have done the first workout alone (if someone gave me the instructions) but there is NO way I would have pushed myself to do it in the time she did, nor would my last rep (till failure) have lasted until actual failure. I cheat myself. I can't cheat someone else.

My second workout was something I could never do alone. It was a medicine ball work out that involved catching and such. And it was great.

I was at a plateau for a very long time and since my first session 3 days ago, I am down 3 lbs already....and I FEEL stronger. AMAZING.

Now if I could just find the money to keep going when these 5 are over.....

8 for 8

As of yesterday my streak was 8 for 8.

Today I'm running out of time, if I can find something to constitute a work out while I watch Biggest Loser it will be 9 for 9.

If not, I broke my streak and I'm blaming it on the husband.

Metabolism Mayhem!

I LOVE using formula's and logic to lose weight, cause thats me. A pound is 3500 calories, so if I cut 3500 calories a week from what my body needs to maintain, then I lose that much. LOGIC. LOVE IT. But sometimes people do that and lose even MORE, why....because of their metabolism. So I'm BIG into reading on metabolisms. I know that my yo-yo dieting during college probably really messed it up big time....so I like learning how to fix it.

These are things I KNOW can fix your metabolism:

• Frequent small meals
• ALWAYS eat breakfast
• Work out in the morning
• add a second smaller workout or walk mid day to re-rev it
• Intervals when working out are HUGE (confusing your body)
• Get 8 hours of sleep

Along with loving my logic and my math, I'm a reader, and I know you shouldn't believe everything you read, but I overheard a trainer telling one of his clients to read the new posting on the wall. So of course I did. And I believed it!

It listed some of the above ways to boost your metabolism. BUT it had a number one I had not read before:

When we drop our calories to a certain number and eat that each day, our body gets used to that, and SLOWS its metabolic burn rate (adjusted on what we are eating). To prevent this from happening you should find your "maintain" number of calories (which I've done with my formula) On 3 days a week, eat that amount of calories, and on the OTHER days, drop your calories by 20-30% of that number. The thing is you can't do it every other day, or anything your body can get "used" to, predict or adjust to. It needs to be random. (They suggested flipping a coin in the morning and heads is maintain, tails is lower)

That made a TON of sense to me. I am definitely going to try this.