spring break kills me.

-1.1 pounds!

I will not lie to you.  I thought I was going to gain weight this week.  As you may have noticed, I didn't weigh in last Friday.  2 reasons--first, there is not a scale in Justin's parents house, which is where I was last Friday.  But, when we got home on Sunday, I couldn't stand to get on the scale.  I was too ashamed of what the numbers would tell me.

Pretty much, I fell off my eating healthy bandwagon when I went home.  I bought frozen meals to eat at Justin's parents house and some non-fat milk, but those 2 days in Vancouver were horrible.
Fun fact about my family: We bond over food. 
Its true, and its been true most of my life.  (which could most definitely be a factor in my fat!)  I ate out 4 times in 2 days.  Ouch.  Golden China, Olive Garden, Teriyaki at the mall, and Sushi Hana.  While I made an attempt to make "good choices" at those restaurants, it didn't matter, because nothing at Golden China is healthy.  Haha.
But its okay now, and maybe I needed that little splurge to get me back on track again.  They say its okay to treat yourself, but I'll admit I went overboard.  Eating out once would've been sufficient, and I probably wouldn't have felt nearly as guilty.

But anyways, no more of that.  I came back to school, ate my healthy foods, did water aerobics, and worked out yesterday, and now we're back on track!  The green tea pills were working, but now I've run into that whole problem I have of REMEMBERING to take the stupid things.  Haha, I'm working on it.

I'm SO close to being overweight.  If I really work my ass off this next week, I can hit it next week.  That would be amazing!  :)

Current weight: 176.4 lbs
Weight to lose in order to be 'overweight' and not 'obese':  1.4 lbs

I'm soooo close to just being 'overweight.' Is it weird that I'm excited for that? lol.

-1.1 pounds!  woot woot!

Let me tell you...this was a big working out week.  Or rather, just a working out DAY.  On Sunday, Justin and I walked 4 miles in the beautiful sun.  ON MONDAY, we did water aerobics.  Then in my PE class we had to do the Fitness gram (Pacer, situps, pushups, ect.).  Then, in the afternoon, I went and worked out with Evan, Butters' old roommate.  Now I've heard from other people that if you work out with him, he WILL kill you.  And he did.

An hour of running, lunges, step-type aerobics, pull ups, chins ups, push ups, and doing various things with weights left me feeling like I was going to die.  I'm still sore today!  But today, its finally the "good" sore.    I would definitely do it again, but now that we're moving into spring break and such, we probably won't have a chance to work out again until after break, which means its going to kill me all over again.  But overall, despite that fact that I had a hard time getting in and out of the sitting position all week, it was good.

I'm encouraged by the fact that my weight is decreasing again.  The green tea pills help (they're not a miracle pill, or anything like that.  They just curb my appetite a little bit more than normal.)  I'm ready to push myself in the working out department.  I want to be a size 12 when we go to Kauai!  :)

We're heading to Burien on Sunday, and will be either there or Vancouver for the whole week.   I don't want being on break to derail me!  I need to stay with it!  (I need to not eat at Smokey's with Justin and Tony...lol.)

Best part of the week for me?  We were discussing weight loss and exercise at work on Wednesday night, and Michael, a guy I work with, said he probably weighed twice as much as me.  I laughed, and asked him how much he thought I weighed....120 pounds he said.  I laughed so hard.  But its also nice to see that mean are naive to numbers...lol.  He didn't believe me when I said I weighed 178 pounds.  Than Renee and I tried to explain to him that the female body stores fat everywhere...haha.  Oh boys...it reminds me of the time Justin said I was a size 10 or 12 when I was 18.  They're so cute.  :)

Current weight: 177.5
Weight to lose in order to be 'overweight' and not 'obese':  2.5 lbs

An excellent tool!

I found this online today, and its extremely helpful!

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/

It uses google maps and allows you draw your walking (or running or cycling) path and tells you how far you went! 

Justin and I walked 4 miles today.  That was awesome.  It hurt so good.  lol.  But it sure was nice to be out in the sun in shorts!  :)

a plan, and a little progress

-0.9 pounds.  It's a negative number!  yay!

I e-mailed my doctor last week after I spazzed about not losing weight for nearly a month.  Here was his advice:

-Start adding lifting into my work out routines.  He said the more muscle you have, the harder your body has to work to maintain the muscle, and that is a good way to continue to increase my resting metabolism and burn more calories.

-Also, taking green tea supplements before eating meals can speed up my metabolism and curb my appetite.

Surprising, the green tea pills have worked.  I don't get nearly as many munchy cravings and can go longer without getting ravenously hungry, which is nice since my morning classes are LONG.
I haven't had a chance to lift--I actually didn't make it into the gym all week.  This has been hell week for me regarding classes.  I even missing water aerobics on Monday because I've been so insanely tired.

I think this week would've been better if I could've worked out as much as I normally do, but that's okay.  I'm happy I got a result, and hopefully it will continue as long as I can get my muscle building in.  Butter's old roomie Evan even offered to take me to the gym and work me out.  We had planned to do it this past week, but I just had too much homework each night he called me.  Next week hopefully!

Hopefully next Friday will be great too!   :)

Current weight: 178.6
Weight to lose in order to be 'overweight' and not 'obese':  3.6 lbs