ending weight

the contest is over. My final weight 230.2 lbs.

I am a bit disappointed that this is all I have lost. However, I have not tried very hard. I am looking forward to graduating and hoping that after that I will have more time to work out. we have a gym membership, that I have only used once. maybe then it will be easier.

I am still looking for a job for after graduation. I am very much enjoying my internship, and hoping that they will offer me a regular job. but then I will only be working. not school, work, internship.

not quite

this week I weighed in at 227.2. thats the smallest gain I have had. Hopefully next week it will be a loss. I am finding that at this point I am trying to work on portions and when I think I am hungry I have a big glass of water. I have not been going to work out as I am struggling in a couple of my classes. So during what was my work out time, I am trying to focus on accounting.

I filled out my 'request to graduate' this week and it was a very exciting thing to realize I am this close to graduating.

ups and downs

so last week was the true beginning of my internship I feel like I have no time for me. (It is 11:30 p.m. as I write this) when I weighed in I was up again to 228.7. kinda disappointing. but then I have not made the time for working out for a while. ( I don't even remember when I last did (maybe saturday Feb. 13). HMMMM).

this week I kept my weight in mind - all right the verry verry verry back of my mind as I went through my days. and chose not to treat. chose cheese sticks and water as snacks and wonder of wonder I weighed in at 227.0. I think I have been here before, but not below it. maybe next week.

After this bad weekend....

When I went to weigh in I told Kris (who is in charge of the scale and the recording of our weight, that I was scared to get on the scale because I had had a bad weekend. (We wrecked 2 of our 3 cars in one accident. rolling one onto its top)(everyone walked away and is fine) When I stepped on. It said 227.4. Wow that is down almost 3 lbs from last week. Kris told me she wished she could have a bad week like that, but then she agreed with me that it would be better if we could have bad weeks with out wrecking cars it would be better.

oops

at the weigh in, I was back up to 230.0. Gee whiz its hard to lose weight during superbowl.

I am enjoying swimming at the rec. and on thursday, I went in and "played" racquetball. I have not actually played since highschool, but I had fun bouncing the ball and trying to keep it in action.

On saturday, this week I went to the Emery Gym and worked out with Carie for 40 min. it felt good.

Weigh In Week 5

I weighed in yesterday at
228.4 lbs.
yay,
this is about a pound a week. I am proud of myself, but have decided that while this is a healthy weight loss, I think I would like to lose it a little bit faster,

To do this I am going to have to get better at daily work outs and intensifying those work outs that I do.

On Monday since I have a two hour break I met a friend at the pool, and we swam for 25 min. If you want to work out different muscles, try swimming, it is way different. I very much enjoyed the change. but I am hurting a bit. I did not do my regular workout on Tuesday, but on weds. I went to the pool again. this time I did not text my friend, thinking she would be there because I had told her that I would be. She was not there. At work when I told her I had missed her, she said you didn't text me. So next monday I will text her.

I only get a membership to the rec center through my school, I plan on swimming every mon wed, between now and graduation. I think the cardio aspect of the swim will be a good trade off from my reg. workout.

Also today I will be going to town to buy a workout ball for my daughter Carie so we can work out together. It will be good for her to get physical. she mentioned yesterday that she is happy that with just eating more salad (and she is about the only one of mykids who enjoys a salad), her pants are not as tight, but she would like to work out.

Weigh ins.

Last week I weighed in at 231.4

I think. I was not happy with myself for this (slight ) gain and did not get around to entering it here. which is not fair to meself. it was a small gain. I had had a couple of snow days at home with my kids and it is so easy to munch and snack, when you are snowed in with 7 kids. That really I am glad it was so slight a gain. I had to go to the bathroom pretty badly and went straight from weigh in to the bathroom. Afterwards I wondered what I would have weighed in at if I had visited the little girls room first. Oh well something to remember for the future.

This week I was actually able to weigh in on an official weigh in day (Tues and Weds are the days we are supposed to get weighed at work.) I also went to the bathroom before weighing in.

I was down to 229.6. YAY!

I have done better at working out. I feel good after a workout a bit stretched out, but not in pain. Hmmm. makes it much easier for future work outs.

I do not know how Joni did last week, this week she apologized to me because she gained weight. Her little boys birthday was this week and she said she has not done very good at working out daily. and she has had alot of soda this week.. I told her I totally understand and we talked about snacking with the kids when they are home. she said she does good at not snacking if she is not home but she likes to snack while doing housework. Housework makes me thirsty. I am having a hard time finding drinks that are good for me. though it is surprising to me how much I enjoy a nic drink of really cold water.