Happy New Year everyone! I am so pumped for this year I can't even control myself! Haha! So many good things to come in 2013 :) I rang in the new year quietly at the cottage with my daughter, my mom, my dad, and my uncle. It was nice. I kind of had some second thoughts and wondered if maybe I should have made some plans to celebrate the New Year with a party, but nah. I enjoyed my evening playing games and just chilling. I hadn't gotten on the scale since before Christmas, and New Years day fell on my normal weigh in day, but I was at the cottage again. I did however weigh myself at home the next day and it put me at 237.8lbs. Since it wasn't my regular weigh in day, I didn't actually record it (I use My Fitness Pal to record all my weigh ins and track my food, and my exercise). I was actually ok with that slight gain of 0.8lbs over the holidays. Not too shabby! I must admit though, I got really, really sick on the 27th. So sick. I woke up from a dead sleep at 4am with the urge to vomit and continued that feeling for 4 hours. It was not pleasant. I don't know if this had anything to do with the band or not, but trying to vomit was really hard. I dry heaved so much that my ribs were sore the next day. I spent the entire day sleeping (I think I was awake for a total of 3 hrs on the 27th) and feeling like I had been hit by a truck. I may have to give credit to this illness for allowing me to maintain my weight over the holidays! Owell, whatever works! LOL! But in all seriousness, I was actually a little bit worried. This was the first time I have had to throw up since having the band put in. I know my Nurse had told me that you can do damage to the band and it can slip with vomitting, but this will usually occur when someone makes it a habit (apparently some people will actually use the band as bulemic tool). However, I was still kind of nervous as my stomach took a beating with the amount of force in which I was dry heaving. The area where my port is located was physically sore. It was actually sore like a bruise when I touched it. It slowly got better though and I think that I irritated the area around the port and the band itself and it was most likely swollen as I didn't have much of an appetite or room for food for a few days. It has all since subsided though and I'm back to normal now :) Thank goodness!
This passed Saturday I decided to cheat and check out the scale. I weighed in like I normally do (naked, first thing in the morning) and it read 233.4lbs. I was pumped! But, as it wasn't my normal weigh in day again I couldn't actually record it :( haha! But, that day and Sunday, I was a bottomless pit. I felt like I needed to eat everything and anything but that nothing was satisfying me. Oh and the craving for chocolate. Oh, it was ridiculous. And then it clicked...ahhhh, it must be about that time of the month. Dammit! To me that meant the scale would not be nice on my actual weigh in day. And here I was so pumped about the 233.4 number but it was just a tease. I still had a little bit of faith though that it would be close.....and that brings me to today. This morning, my regular weigh in day, I climbed on the scale and it read.....236.4lbs. Still a loss, but not the loss I was hoping for. I literally got on and off the scale 3 times just to be sure. I was a little bit down for about 20 seconds, staring at the scale. But I talked myself out of the slight disappointment by convincing myself that it was my god damn period. Geez! I hate being a woman! LOL! All in all, I'm having some fantastic success!
I started another 30 day Challenge with some friends and family. The goal is to get in at least 10-20 minutes of exercise daily for 30 days. We switched up the rules a bit and everyone will pay an "entry" fee and for every day that you exercise, you get a ballot. That ballot will go into a draw and at the end of the challenge, we will draw a name and the winner will get a Nike Fuel band that we will have purchased with the money people paid to enter the Challenge! Pretty neat idea I think. I have 15 people in it now I think and one more pending. I've completed 2 of 2 days! Yay me! I am attempting to teach myself to run. Oh geez! I HATE running. Almost as much as I hate being a woman! LOL! Totally kidding, I love being a woman ;) The purpose of training myself to run is a few things actually.
1 - I know running burns a TON of fat. I want to kick this weight loss into high gear and attempt to get to my goal (or close to it) by May.
2 - I would love to do a triathalon. I have a few friends that have done them and have been pushing me to try one. I have no interest in straight up running for hours and hours, but the thought of doing some running, some biking and some swimming (which I LOVE) really intrigues me.
3 - THE DIRTY DONKEY MUD RUN!!! I first heard about this last year and it was very interesting to me. If you don't know what it is, it's 5K (I believe) made up of various obstacles in the mud. You run as a team and it's not about where you place, it's about challenging your body to complete it. Like I said, you run as a team and you help each other through the course and completing the obstacles together. Me and a few friends have all decided to try and do it this year. I am so PUMPED! This is something that is totally up my alley. Like I said, I could care less about running for hours and hours, alone. But this, now this would be fun and challenging. I've always been more of a team player than an individual and what better way to accomplish something! So, I NEED to train myself to run. They say you can walk it, but I want to try and be in the best shape I can be to not let my team down and have to carry me the whole way. The race is in August, but training starts in April. I want to be able to run by April, at least 3km.
So, my exercise regime over the next little while will be: Mon, Wed, Fri - running/walking the treadmill. Tues, Thurs - bootcamp. Sat - Not really sure yet. Dog walks, maybe the stationary bike. Whatever I feel like doing to complete my challenge. Sun - Volleyball. We shall see how it goes!
I took some pics today and was going to post them however, I'm having some trouble uploading them. So, that will have to wait. The minute I get it to work I will upload them. I am going to try to do a better job of updating this blog. At least weekly. Ok, if not weekly, at least every 2 weeks! haha! Have a good one everyone!
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