Standing Still

Well, I'm still at 127.4. It's not bad. I haven't been drinking much water, so I think that plays into it. Leif and Eliana are both sick, and I'm not feeling so hot myself. Yesterday I slept from about 1-5, then went to bed around 9 and slept until 6, so I'm guessing I'm fighting off something, too. Thankfully, though, I'm not puking, like they are. But I'm taking it easy. I may not make it to that 10 lbs by Sept 1 after all, but we'll see what the scale says when I weigh in on Tuesday. In the meantime, I'm just trying to stay hydrated and eat responsibly. =D Let's hope that does it!

Lunch

I am having baked zucchini parmesan and some tomatoes for lunch with carbonated water. Yum!! (and healthy, too!)

Healthy Weight!!

See that ticker?

The one at the top of the page?

It says that my BMI is now 24.9.

Do you know what that means??

It means that I am officially within the HEALTHY WEIGHT RANGE for my height and frame!!

HOORAY!!!

Down to 127.4 today. 1.4 lbs to go to reach 10 lbs, but this was my first goal and I've met it!!

Almost palindromatic

8.2 22.8 =D

8.2 lbs down, 22.8 lbs to go... I weighed in at 127.8 today! If I can make it down another 1.8 lbs in the next 5 days, I'll be down 10 lbs in the first month! Hooray!

Weigh in for Biggest Loser

Weighed in at 128.4 this morning, which means I'm down 7.6 lbs in 3.5 weeks, or 5% of my body weight. That's about 2 lbs a week, which is a healthy rate of loss. So we have 12 weeks to the middle of November, and a little over 14 weeks to December 4th, when the contest ends. That puts me right on target if I keep losing at the rate I'm going, even a smidge ahead for the contest. I need to lose 23.4 lbs more.

Moderation.

Water.

Walking.

I really want to be down another 2 lbs by the end of the week. That would bring me to just about 10 lbs.

I've also considered running a 5K next month, and if I'm going to do that (which I'm not completely decided on) I need to start running again!

7 lbs down

Yesterday I had a garage sale (and today, too) and I decided to drink water and stand during the 3 hours of the sale, just to keep from being too lazy. =D And today I'm down in weight again! Hooray! I know they say just to weigh once a week, but weighing daily is so much more encouraging for me! I can see what's happening right away instead of wondering what I did over the course of a week to lose the weight. Right now drinking water and not spending oodles of time sitting on my bum seem to be key! So today I've passed the 7 lb weight loss mark and am at 128.8! I would be STOKED to lose 10 lbs by the end of the month! That would be 1/3 of the weight I need to lose.

Of course, I'm sitting down right now as I type, so I suppose it's time to get up and move!

That's more like it!

I weighed in on Tuesday when we got back from hiking.... and sure enough, I was up a pound! 131.6. Then I weighed in on Wednesday and I was up another pound! 132.6. Aaaack! So yesterday I didn't weigh and I just drank a lot of water, thinking that maybe that was part of the problem. 3 liters of water, to be exact. Sure enough, I weighed this morning and I'm back on track! Guess I was a bit dehydrated after walking 9 miles in 2 days earlier in the week!

So today's official weight is....

129.6!

I'm into the 120's!! WOOOHOOO! AND today is my MK anniversary AND exactly one month before my 30th birthday! I'm looking forward to looking better by my birthday and then continuing to look better in the months beyond!

Garage sale today and tomorrow... getting rid of a bunch of craft stuff and organizational stuff and household stuff. So hopefully my afternoon will not be sitting much!

Also, I bought 3 new shirts at Ross the other day - cute ones that are flattering to my figure. It seems that most of the shirts I've bought in the last year have been to hide the rolls in my midsection, but they apparently look like maternity clothes! So I got some better fitting ones that won't lead people to ask me if I'm pregnant. =D I'm wearing the first one today and another on Sunday. I'm excited! I'll have to take a picture. =D

Backpacking in the Crazies!

In just a couple hours, we will leave for a trip to go backpacking in the Crazy Mountains! It won't be the longest backpacking trip ever, since Ellie will be walking it herself, but i will have a pack on, and we will hike 3 miles in. =D Originally we were going to hike in yesterday and stay two nights, but the weather was supposed to be miserable. Of course, it wasn't, but we'd already changed our plans.

So... today we're hiking! Tomorrow we'll hike down. I'll weigh in again on Tuesday and I'm hoping to be under 130!

On a side note, I set up Wii Fit yesterday and played on it for the first time! It told me my Wii Age was 32. Considering I'll be 30 on September 21, I guess that's not too bad. But when I entered my height and weight, it made my Mii short and gave it a gut and told me I was overweight.  Waaaah! It said my target BMI ought to be 22. That's basically 18 lbs from where I am. So, it looks like....

healthy BMI upper limit = 127. That's 3 lbs from here.
Wii Fit target BMI = 22. That's 113 lbs.
Personal target weight = 105. That brings me to a BMI of 20.5.

So those are my goals. First is to get down to a healthy weight range. We'll see where I am when I come back from backpacking in the Crazies!!

130.4

How's that for a good number! I'm officially down 5 and a half pounds so far!

Working on updating the numbers in my weight loss journal today. I need to print out some pictures (namely a "before" picture - I was planning to use the Seminar Awards Night picture Susan Beth took of me) and actually get the book under way (weigh? ha ha - okay, bad joke), but I'm excited about the progress so far!

Moving Down...

Scale says 131.8 today. Hooray!

We ate at McDonald's last night for dinner (since I'd finally gotten the kitchen and upstairs cleaned and I didn't want to have more dishes!) so my eating wasn't the best, but I ate pretty well the rest of the day, so I think it was okay. And if the scale is any indication, it was!

My mom got us a Wii Fit for (early) Christmas, so I'm hoping to pull that out this week and start using it! Thanks, MOM!

Speaking of Mom... she leaves today to head back to Texas. =( We got a lot done while she was here, though, including cleaning, sorting, preparing for a garage sale (next weekend), and I lost over 4 lbs! I think it's great. =D

Today's weight...

Today I'm down to 132.4, which is great! I changed my ticker to reflect the loss, which is 3.6 lbs since I got back from Texas. Woohoo!

Sunday Weigh In

I weighed in the other day at 133.4 (I think), but accidentally posted it to the family blog (EEEK!) and in my haste to get it off there before the entire world knew my weight I deleted the post and was too shaken up to rewrite it. Ack!

So today I weighed and I'm at 132.8. Hooray!! I am trying to be moderate at Sweet Pea and it appears to be working! I started at 136, so I'm down 3.2 lbs in the last week and a half!

I walked to church this morning (had to be there early because I was playing keyboard for the worship team - another Ack! as it's been 6 years since I've played with a worship team and I was the sole instrument - no drums or guitars this week! Thankfully it went well and I didn't hinder people's worship with my playing!) and we just had pizza for lunch. Not the best health wise, but I opted for (aspartame) diet soda so at least I don't have those calories in there. 

So.... so far so good! Off to update my ticker!

Day 2

Stayed within my calorie zone AND I exercised yesterday. A short little walk with my mom and then a 30 minute bike ride with Leif. I think we're going to stroll around downtown today, so I will get some walking in then, which will be fun and good.

I'm still working on paring down my schedule for the Fall, and so far we're not doing Kindermusik and I'm not going to do our women's Bible Study at church. (Well, I'm still doing the Friday morning one, just not the other one, since I'm doing BSF, too.) I need to stop being so busy so that I am not stress / comfort eating all the time. Plus, I just need to be able to do my priorites well, instead of just doing a mediocre job at lots of things.

I weighed myself this morning and I'm at 134.4, so I'm down 1.5 lbs so far!