Sunday, September 9, 2012

Weight Loss Update

I posted on 9/8/12 about my new weight loss goals.  That morning, I rode my recumbent bike for thirty-five minutes.  I'm very proud of the fact I rode another thirty-five minutes later that evening.  That mad a total of seventy minutes I spent working out on Saturday!

This morning, after my usual breakfast of an egg mcmuffin without Canadian bacon from McDonald's, I rode for forty minutes.  I'm on a roll!  It seems to be getting easier each time.

I don't know if Justin knows this, but I may have to treat myself to new clothes once I lose my first ten pounds.  At this rate, that could be achieved in a couple of weeks.  (I'm doing the "happy dance" while I'm typing this.)

Saturday, September 8, 2012

"I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike...

...I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride it where I like!"

I'm going to be honest.  I've gotten fat.  I'm certainly not the largest person in the world, but I'm definitely the largest I've ever been.  I'm about forty pounds heavier than I was when I graduated from high school.  I want to be that size again.  Do I think that's a realistic goal?  Absolutely.  Will it be easy to attain?  Not even close!

My office building has a gym that's pretty decent.  I've worked out there a few times, but it's so hard to make myself workout after a long day at work.  We have a treadmill at home, but I just don't use it.  I need to and I used to, but I haven't been on it since we left Tifton.

The gym at work has a few recumbent bikes that I really enjoy using.  For my birthday, I asked Justin for a recumbent bike.  He delivered!


My birthday was a couple of months ago, but I've been too lazy to actually ride it.

Earlier this year, our office had a "Biggest Loser" contest.  I participated, but basically just made a $50 donation to the cause.  I was really into it initially, but I just got busy and was under a lot of stress.  I'm a stress eater and walked around the office with a bag of chocolate covered raisins for about two months.  My desk had about four bags of the faux Raisinettes at any given time.  I didn't want to run out!

I recently had an epiphany.  I am obese.  I passed overweight  a while ago.  My fat clothes no longer fit.  I had no energy.  I know my health was in jeopardy.  I love shopping at The Limited and I was about to get too big to fit in their clothes.  I was about to have to start shopping at their "big girl" store, Eloqui.

Starting Tuesday, I got back on Weight Watchers.  I want to eat all the time, but I'm resisting.  A coworker gave me a cupcake on Wednesday, but I gave it away.  Hardest thing I've ever done.  Yesterday, a coworker brought a box of Munchkins from Dunkin Donuts.  I wanted just one, but resisted.  Last night, we picked up food from Crawfish Shack Seafood.  I would normally have ordered the fried shrimp with fries and potato salad.  I got the boiled shrimp with corn on the cob and potato salad.  I know the potato salad wasn't the best thing and I probably won't order it next time.  Shrimp are pretty low in calories and fat, but they are high in cholesterol.  I think I'll be fine as long as I don't eat a lot of other high fat foods in addition to the shrimp.

I've also been using my recumbent bike.  I started out riding twenty-five minutes and rode for thirty-five earlier this morning.  My goal is to eventually start riding twice a day.  I think thirty to forty minutes each session will be good.

I don't know how much weight I've lost because the batteries in our scale need to be replaced, but I suspect I've lost five or so pounds.  I can tell a difference in my jeans and other clothes.  It's amazing what four days of proper eating and exercising can do!  The exercising was initially a chore, but it's very slowly becoming easier.

Slow and easy wins the race.