Feel The Burn
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Nov 22 2005
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Well, I went to the gym last night and did 30 minutes on the elliptical at level 12 Cross Train and then I did the 42 minute fitness Kickboxing class. I no I was going to do an extra 15 minutes of cardio, but I go to the gym 10 minutes late last night! The kickboxing class was awesome! We did 40 lunges on each leg. Feel the burn baby! My legs and but are killing me today. Good, very good! Also I finished my day on 18 points! I am just doing this for a few days because I am worried about my few sweeties on Sunday! I weigh on tonight, and I do not know what to expect. I really hate this part of it! At least when I was 190 lbs I knew that if I ate well (including all my flex points) and worked out I would have a good loss! But now that I am getting lower, I have no idea what to expect! My body is holding onto every little gram of fat it can! I know I am shrinking because my clothes are getting bigger! I am getting more toned doing these kickboxing classes. Before it felt like my top half was shrinking and my bottom half was not and then I started doing the kickboxing classes and my lower half finally started to shrink! Still, it is very frustrating o work really hard and stay the same or even gain!! Oh well, there is not much else I can do. I don't think dropping my points is the key because yesterday I was really hungry on only 18 points and I am going to try and squeeze in a Sunday work out, but that will be about it! When I lost the weight the first time I worked out 6 days a week! That is just not doable now! Especially because weight watchers takes up one of those days and I have a life now!
I am very excited though, today I booked off my Christmas holidays! I usually take a few weeks off at Christmas, because Trevor does not get holidays. So I am off from Dec 20 until Jan 3!!! Yippee! I will get some well deserved rest! I have not had more than a few days of in a row since Christmas of last year! I love being able to take my time at the gym and go when ever I want! I will get lots o work outs in before Christmas because I imagine I won't be able to make it to the gym for most of the days between Christmas Eve and new years! I will squeeze in what I can and then do some at home and take my work out stuff with me to my in-laws! I can't believe I am planning Christmas!!
Well nothing else exciting going on here. Same as usual: get up, go to work, go to the gym, visit with Trevor while doing dishes, shower, visit with Trevor making supper, hug and kiss and Trevor, go to bed! Except for tonight I go to weight watchers instead of the gym! Do you ever feel like a Robot? I am so glad hunting season is over and I will get to spend the entire weekend with my husband all to myself!!!
Anyhoo I am out of here and of to weigh in!
Good night!
Wendy
P.S. Sorry fo all the cheeseburger and poutine cravings I caused with yesterdays journal entry! 
Sorry for no posts over the weekend. I just did not feel like it :
I survived my weekend away!! Well actually I am still feeling kind of guilty for using up some of my flex points! I used 15 of them yesterday. They are there to use though and I have not used that many in weeks. Actually I would like to say that using 15 flex points was planned, but it wasn't! I used 10 to 12 flex points trying no to eat a cheeseburger and a poutine : I was having a really bad craving for something really greasy that would stuff me to the brim! Of course it would not have been a little cheeseburger with a little bit of poutine either! I know the best restaurant in town to get the biggest cheeseburger (is about 6 inches wide!, I have no idea where they gut a bun that big!) and a hole wack load of poutine covered in gravy and fries and it comes with a salad covered in there really bad house dressing! Before I started eating healthy I would have this about once a week with an extra side order of gravy and eat every bite I could get in to my mouth, making myself feel very ill of course! The restaurant I used to go to has long since closed but in my desperate attempts to replace this favorite of mine a found a bigger better place that I just mentioned! Well this nasty burger and poutine is worth about 40 to 50 points!!! No word of a lie they must put a whole brick of mozzarella cheese on the poutine!! Sure I don't / can't eat it all but I sure do try! In the last 4 years I have had this once! It is was one of my most favorite things to eat and for some reason after a weekend of really good eating my craving reared its ugly head! So I figured that I would have a few "treats" to make myself forget about it! It worked! I ended up having completely empty calories for most of my 15 flex points, but I could have used a lot more! When I do have a treat I try and have things that are worth the empty calories, things I usd to love as a kid. So I had two maple cookies (mmmmm delish I forgot hoe good these were!), 2 tootsie pops (forgot how good these were too!) and some cereal and a few Minnie tootsie rolls. It was an excellent avoidance but I think this may make my weight stay the same this week or possibly a gain (blah). At this point in time in my weight loss I can not seem to indulge at all with out paying the price!! I will go to the gym tonight though and do 45 minutes of cardio and a kick boxing class. Also the thought had crossed my mind about making today and tomorrow a lower point day, just in case. Although I am already at 20 points which is as low as you're supposed to go! I got stuck at around 160 pounds so I decided to drop my points from 22 to 20, which I was not supposed to do until I hit 150 pounds! Now that I am so close to 150 lbs, I can taste it, I am not sure what to do. If I drop below 20 points, on some days that would put me below 1200 calories! I think I will talk to my leader about that this week. I did not mention that I dropped my points early to her, so we will see what she says!
I have some good news though, just for shits and giggles I went and tried on clothes at my favorite store on Saturday. I knew I could not afford to buy anything, but it sure was fun to try stuff on and it kept me busy for a few hours. Well as I was trying on clothes I realized that I had achieved another one of my goal! It is official I fit in a size 10 pants!!!! WOOHOOOO!!!!! It kind of sucked because I was bye myself so I did a little jig in the change room! Also I saw the cutest little shirt on sale, but they only had a medium, but I grabbed it anyways and it fit!!! I can not believe I am a size 10 pants and a medium in tops! This is a very interesting discovery because just a month ago I bought the exact same pants that I tried on in a 12 and they were a tad tight in the legs! Well I have not lost that much weight since then, but my legs are finally beginning to shrink!! It has got to be the kickboxing classes! Also, I fins I am starting to get my own sense of style again.
When I was over weight I never had a sense of style. I bought it if it fit! It is such a fabulous feeling to grab what ever you like in a store all in the same size and they all fit and be able to decide what I like and what I don't like!!!
Although, I seem to have a few nasty side affects from losing weight. First of all I am getting pretty damn close to a size A for bras. What the hell is with that? I keep buying a B though, and hoping for the best!! The other thing, as most of you who have lost weight would know, is the muffin top!! You know what I am talking about, it is what happens when you put on pants that fit you and all your extra skin that is left over comes pouring over the top of the pants and looks like a muffin top!! I really hate that! I like to wear low rise jeans because I am short and they are comfy, but if I wear low-rise then you can see the "muffin top on my nice medium fitted shirt! BLAH!!!! It is not that the pants don't fit, they felt great, I guess it is just one the laws of extra skin with a little fat underneath, which I still need to loose! Did I mention that this pisses me off!! Someday, after I have some kids, I will get a tummy tuck!
Well, I guess that is it for today. I have a busy day ahead of me. Mondays bleck!
Wendy
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