Biggest Loser

I have tentatively decided not to watch The Biggest Loser this season for a very specific reason that has nothing to do with the show or with me or weight loss or anything like that, it's an outside influence that's not even really worth going into.  I don't know how long it'll last, I've watched every episode of every season, except one and that was only because my DVR messed up, my resolve may waver sooner or later.  To my credit, I didn't even know until after 9 pm last night that the season premier was on.

So, last night for the first time since the show started airing...I didn't sit in front of the tv for 2 hours watching the show.  Instead I worked out and then went upstairs to read before going to bed.  Maybe that says something good about where I'm currently heading.  Or maybe it was just that I hadn't worked out in several days and my kids have been driving me crazy and I NEEDED to sweat last night!

Last week in review

First...I am really loving the Body Bugg!  I notice that I am more active just because I know I have it on.  I have had a couple of low energy days when I didn't quite reach calorie burn goal of 3000 per day, but all the other days I have exceeded it, so I suppose it all evens out.  Now I need to start keeping track of my calories.  I'm so bad at that, I can start out the day doing it, but by the afternoon I completely forget.

I also got a new scale last week.  It's one of the types that tells you your entire body composition.  I have gotten so frustrated with doing more exercise and losing inches in my waist but no weight I thought it might be nice to look at other factors.  And I think it will help give me a realistic goal weight based on how much my muscle and bone weighs, instead of picking a random number on some scale that somebody has decided is a healthy weight for my height.

Had a hard time getting in workouts last week.  I started doing daycare for a friend's baby and am finding it exceedingly difficult to get anything done!

Body Bugg!

I got my Body Bugg yesterday and charged it up so I could wear it for the first time today!  The calorie burn goal it set for me is 3,000 calories.  The day isn't quite over yet and I still have 29 calories to burn...I think I'll make it!  It was a busy day, but not overly so.  I didn't get an actual workout in, just did a lot of walking with the dogs and at the grocery store...although it says I was only at 7600 steps and my goal is 10,000.  I suppose if I had done a workout that would have been a lot more.

I think for the next several days to a week I'll just try to get a baseline of what my activity is.  Then once I see where I'm at, then I'll try to make some changes.  It is cool to see just how many calories I really burn in a day.  The Gruve thing I used to use was nice, but just not accuate enough for me.  If I can just get used to the feeling of the Body Bugg on my arm, I'll be all set!

So.....

I haven't seemed to be able to get back into the mindset of not eating sugar.  Not that I'm going overboard, well, not everyday anyway...yesterday was an especially bad chocolate day and I really have no idea why.  I am feeling more awake and having an easier time wanting to exercise.  My skin thing has almost completely resolved as well.

In the past 5 weeks I have lost 2 inches from my waist.  And zero pounds.  So I'm guessing the 2 inches is a result of toning/strengthening my ab muscles and not fat loss.  Trying not to be frustrated, but it's hard.

I have some extra money recently and decided to order myself a Body Bugg.  I'm hoping that if I can figure out just how many calories I burn in a day and how many I *really* should be eating every day that results will follow.

I hate making goals, because it seems as soon as I do that I totally screw myself with the self-sabotage.  But, I'm gonna step out on a limb here and say that I'd like to be at 250 lbs by the end of the year, so that would mean a loss of 22 lbs.  That comes out to be about 1 1/3 lbs a week, and for most people that is a completely reasonable and attainable goal.  My body doesn't seem to resond like "most people" a lot of the time though, so we'll see what happens.

A success!

So y'all remember my hip pain keeping me from doing practically anything for a couple months, right?  I had finally asked my chiro and he had me do a couple more of the bio-cranial treatments that I had done at the end of last year that have helped WONDERS for my lower back pain.  The past couple weeks it was getting gradually better, and today....well today I just did 20 mins on my elliptical and it didn't hurt AT ALL!!!  I didn't want to push my luck and go any longer (plus I had just taken a 30 min walk with the dogs), but not only did I not have any pain, but I was surprised to find that I could still do 20 mins without feeling like I would have a heart attack.

I don't think it's quite completely healed yet, but I'm hoping with things being worked out from the chiro treatments and finally being able to exercise again that it won't take long until my hip is pain free all the time!

Sleeeeeepy

I am STILL feeling super tired all the time, so maybe it wasn't the sugar OD afterall.  I've been having a weird skin pain thing too across my chest and under my arms.  It hurts to touch or have any pressure on it.  So, haven't had any desire to workout due to barely being able to stay awake and wanting to avoid causing myself even more pain.

Forced myself to workout today though, but now I can barely move, just want to go to sleep.  *sigh*