Staying on the wagon

Lifestyle changes are always hard sometimes harder than others but mostly for me it has been a comfort to know that what i am doing is good for me and usually quite tasty. Now more reciently i have found its easier to come up with reasons not to go to the gym and a little sweet is easy to look past right. So I've decided its all or nothing, too far in to go back now and really who would want to. Im staying on the band wagon.

8/27/08 Update:

Measurements today...im down almost another 3 inches and just under the 210 mark at 205. And the totals...drumroll please....38 pounds and 30.75 inches. :) Those were a rough three pounds! Hopfully the next few will slide off a little easier, but i have to say all those missng inches make for a great victory this week!

Confidence and employment Part II

As requested an update to my fantastic job interview. I got a call this morning and was offered the job. We must've been quite the sight dancing around the living room (David, Mia and I). And i found that just the knowledge of a job can't acquire it because to obtain it we must project an image of success. And surely we'll find what were looking for. I know i did! Here's to many more victories.

Living room work-outs

On a not so nice night in august i decided not to bear the weather to the gym as i don't see so well in rain at night when i am driving. So i pulled every work out that can be done without a machine and turned my living room upside down into my own personal gym. My sucess was great and i have opted to "work out" here on the nights that i don't go to the gym. ( which is every other day) This will bring my muscle and strength training to 7 days a week. Pay no mind to my irritated look as i am not used to photographs at random, David caught me of guard.

Maybe next time i could put the television on a really boring channel and then the gym simulation would be complete.

P.S. Confidence and employment part two coming soon!!

Confidence and employment

I've reciently found that the two are really connected. i went to a job interview this morning adorned in my new much smaller pants (a 14! when i once was an almost 22) and a happy disposition. I didn't notice the new confidence i have had in myself until the woman who was interviewing me said "you are very sure of your self it's so refreshing!" Maybe its all connected weight loss, confidence, balanced diet and the like. Needless to say the interview went very well and i'll find out the extent of my success on Monday! Wish me luck.

Patients for progress (Part II)

My frustration at the scale mounted into a drive for a leaner diet and more exercise. I'm sure barging up the side of a mountain and dragging myself up the rapids at the river 25 times helped as well. As of 8-1-08 I was sitting at 215 and it seemed i would need a good push of something to move on from it. I didn't know what to do so i ran a little harder on the mill and ate a little less and wallah. In the last 13 days i have lost 5.75 inches and 5 pounds. Bringing the total since Christmas of 07 to 33 pounds and an amazing 28.25 inches. To which my encouraging mother remarked 28 inches is like a whole waist! Hoping that determination and hard work will provide more results than ever. Health for my self is a great aspiration and the weight loss process seems to only make me healthier with each pound lost, but also i hope to be an encouragement to someone who feels hopeless like there is no hope for change. At one point i had no hope for change and now with each every day that i feel better i know now that a healthy long life is a dream within grasp.

Enjoying Activity

Ready Set Go!


We took a trip to the South eastern Oregon this weekend. Hiking, Swimming, running, playing! Somewhere in all the fun it occurred to me that i was keeping up with my family, something that hadn't happened in summers past, now i was leading the pack up the side of the mountain or down river for a new adventure and they were happy to have happy fit mommy along for the ride! (Oh and to boot an update to my hopefulness of loosing some poundage on this adventure i lost two pounds putting me at 212 31 pounds down from the staggering 243 pounds I started at!) Next summer will be even more the adventure!

Testosterone and the scale

So were here in month six and as time wears on i try to remember that a steady strong pace wins races. My husband David is in week three of his own diet and has lost a whopping 27 pounds. I try to be encouraging which i do successfully most days. However i will be the first to admit some days i find my self frustrated that with half as much work he looses in 3 weeks what it took me six months to trim off. My trainers says that estrogen combats the weight loss process in women while testosterone can actually push it along and promote healthy muscle growth at a faster rate than in women. What a bum rap! None the less i am soldiering on!

My diet is good, exercise and toning is great, my results at the scale have come down a bit but results they still are!! i am weighing in today at 214 which is 27 pounds down from my starting weight! I am excitedly coming toward the 200 mark one grueling pound at a time. Were off to the mountains for four days and i am hoping that all the extra activity will trim a pound or two off! We shall see...