Thirty-three days and counting...

The 5K I signed up for (and convinced others to sign up for) is in 33 days.  I'm excited and nervous.  I've had a few, very minor, aches and pains that have kept me from running regularly.  Also, it hasn't been as convenient lately because we've had someone staying in the same room as the treadmill, so I can't get up super early and run.  I did run last week and it went pretty well.  Unfortunately, that was only workout 2 of week 3 of the Couch to 5K plan.  I only have about 4.5 weeks left, so I need to get a move on. 
Weight is still doing ok.  I dropped one pound last week.  I've been moving more even though I haven't been exercising much.  Hopefully as I pick up the training for the 5K, the weight will come off a little faster.
I'll keep you posted!

Time flies

I have no idea how so much time has passed since my last post.  I fully intended to post a few days a week, and it's already been a week and a half. 
I had a colonoscopy yesterday (I get them every two years because my mom was diagnosed with colon cancer pretty young) and that meant I went through one and a half days of fasting.  It actually worked pretty well to keep me on my Weight Watchers plan.  I dipped below 190lbm for the first time in a long time and now I don't want to let that go. 

I'm doing it!

I'm actually doing it.  I'm going to the Weight Watchers meetings, I'm exercising, I'm tracking my food, and I'm losing weight!  And, I'm pretty darn happy about it.  I've been doing the Couch to 5K program again and I'm on week three and I'm enjoying it!

I've had my off weeks and days.  Vacation and holidays make it really hard for me to make myself stick to the plan.  Luckily, I've got a break from those for a while now. 
I've signed up for a 5K in October.  I've got my husband and some friends signing up too.  I really, really want to do a 10K and a triathlon at some point in my life.  I've been reading Ben of Ben Does Life for a while and I find him so inspiring.  Not necessarily because he keeps trying and he has his setbacks but because he's trying to share it with others and because he sets such high goals (100 miler!). 
Another person I read regularly is Jill of Baby Rabies.  Her blog helps me in other aspects of my life and she's really funny.  I've actually starting taking action on my long dormant interest in photography partially because of Jill.  She's a photographer and gives lots of tips on her blog.  I'm really enjoying the small amount of progress I've made in photographing my son so far and hope to include pictures in this blog in the future.
Things are good.  I hope there are for you too.

Another new beginning...

I can't believe it has been so long since I posted.  That's shameful.  But sickness, excuses, and denial have all been prevalent in the last few months.  So, I stopped by Weight Watchers on the way home from work on Tuesday and joined.  I had my first meeting this morning.  The coolest thing about it was seeing the "Lifetime Members".  These are people that have met their lifetime goal but still come to the meetings to help them stay on track.  Awesome.  What I realized during my big exercise push is that it wasn't enough.  I just stayed above 210lbm for a long time.  In the recent past, I've been pretty consistent around 205lbm.  Today, I hit 202lbm.  The lowest I've been since I got pregnant with my son over two years ago.  I always feel weird saying this time is it and this will work, but what other attitude could I have?  If I think it will fail, then it definitely will.  I think this time will be different.  Weekly meetings with people to learn your name and people to weight you in and see your weight loss.  Plus, I'm really tired of being fat.  It sucks.

Ugh

Unfortunately, I didn't stick with the calorie tracking for very long.  I weighed in this morning at 210.2 pounds.  However, I started Brazil Butt Lift this morning.  The Cardio Axe workout was actually a lot of fun! With the DVDs came a 6 day supermodel slim down plan.  I'm doing it.  I started today.  I'll be following their meal plan exactly and getting approximately 1000 calories per day.  I do their prescribed workouts each day too.  After I've finished the Insanity workout for the day.  It is a lot, but I'm hoping that an results I see at the end of the week will be motivation to continue on.  I really, really want to lose this extra weight and get down to a good, healthy, attractive (at least to me) weight.  There were notes in the meal plan that said you shouldn't do this for more than 6 days at a time and that you might feel irritable and have headaches.  I already have a headache and I'm not even done with day 1.  Yuck.  But, by eating their meal plan, I'm eating foods I wouldn't normally choose.  I've found that I actually like grapefruit (with zero calorie sweetener) and string cheese.  Hopefully, I can get some more sleep and have another good workout tomorrow!

Progress

Sunday's weigh in was bad.  I was at 211 pounds again.  But, I've worked out everyday for the last 11 days.  I also ordered the Brazilian Butt Lift workout dvds from Beachbody and I plan to do those along with Insanity.  I weighted myself this morning, after the workout, and it read 207 pounds.  I am pretty excited.  Also, two days ago I started tracking my calories again.  I used to do this and it works really well when you account for everything.  I'm also using the Bodybugg again and it all goes together on myapex.com.  I know that I've posted my measurements here before, at least hips, waist, and chest.  I've also posted my goals.  I stand by those.  But, yesterday I happened across information on Alessandra Ambrosio (the Victoria's Secret model).  Throughout the years of paging through VS catalogs, she has been my favorite.  Anyway, the information I found was that her measurements are 34"-25"-34".  That seems amazing to me.  I've since found women that are smaller, but a 25" waist and 34" hips?  That's impossible for someone like me, right?  We'll see.  With my big push for exercise and my renewed calorie counting, I'm going to try.   What do you think?  Impossible or not?

Insane

We did the Insanity workout for three days and on Friday, I had such muscle pain that I just couldn't do it.  So, we took a break.  Unfortunately, that break lasted through Sunday.  My weigh in wasn't good, 211.4 pounds.  We started Insanity backup this morning.  I have the 5K in less than 4 weeks but it is really hard to run after completing that workout.  I'm not sure how to get that done.  I tried today and couldn't run really at all.  I just walked at a an incline for a while.  Maybe I'll have better success on the days Insanity doesn't focus on the legs.