Weigh-in

Today I weighed myself for the first time in a long time. The good thing is that it was not as bad as I thought it would be...the bad thing is it is way more than it was at this time last year! But it is going to go down as I slowly work at this weight loss goal.

Lucky part 2

Since I was writing this post in a rush today I think I forgot to name some people. Specifically my cousins who work out with me and keep me grounded. We are like an extended group of brothers and sisters that are a ton of fun together! Also I forgot my aunts and uncles who have helped to make me who I am and have been like extended parents for all of us kids.  My life would not be the same without all these people in my life!

Thanks everyone for your love and support in every aspect of my life even if you do not always agree with what I do.

I love you!

Lucky

So I have started my goal of losing 10 pounds by the end of the year. Really I don’t think it’s going to be so hard considering that once I told Adam about it he was supportive. I guess one thing I should probably do is weigh myself. I still have not weighed myself so it’s going to be a little hard to keep track of weight loss until I do that. I will say that this weekend I was averaging about a meal a day. Which maybe is not good but I was busy and just forgot to eat. Lately I have not been very hungry anyway. Maybe it is my body’s way of telling me I have had enough. Today I have done well with eating and yesterday when I went to pick up some groceries at Wal-Mart I bought some stuff that will help me get a little variety in my diet for my work meals.

Last night I made a special treat for myself for snacks this week. Hopefully Adam will not eat it all in one sitting because I made then for me to enjoy all week to fight the night snack attack! Anyway what I did was take low-fat cinnamon graham crackers and put fat free cool whip and banana slices on them. I first had these oh so long ago in the dorms at good old BSU and probably have not made them since. But I put them in the freezer and a couple of hours after I made them I tried one last night. It was just as good as I remembered!

Now some unrelated to weight-loss stuff:

Adam and I made one of our other goals for 2011 this weekend. Besides getting healthy and losing weight we are starting the process of organizing our house and purging some of our old stuff. So this weekend we went out and bought some of those cubby hole cabinets and some baskets to go in them. After Adam put them together and left for work and me in a pile of things to go through I started going through old pictures and cards and letters. It was fun to look back on some of those memories and it reminded me of how far I have come. There is a definite progression to the stuff that I found and some of it made me miss the old days when I could see my friends more but it also made me grateful that I am no longer going through the ups and downs of life with the not so wonderful boyfriends I had a tendency to be attracted to in the past! I sometimes get down on myself for not doing what I wanted to do while I was at Ball State but I know without the experience of going away to college I wouldn't be who I am today. Also my degree in History has helped me in my career at Roche because as much as I grumble about my job I am very grateful to have a great job with a great company. So looking back this weekend really did help me to put some things into perspective and appreciate what I have.

So that was my Thanksgiving weekend. I am lucky to be thankful for so much in my life! I have a wonderful, loving, hardworking husband who absolutely adores me and a wonderful dog that I could not imagine not having in my life! I also have wonderful parents, grandparents and in-laws that are supportive and loving. I have a wonderful brother and my soon to be sister in law who I cannot wait for their wedding in a few weeks! I also have wonderful friends who are supportive and who make me laugh! I have a great job that pays well and I have wonderful coworkers who keep me sane. Adam and I have a very nice house that we are having fun making into a home and we are lucky to live in a great neighborhood. And I am going to school to live out my goal of working in the medical field!

I am one lucky girl!

Katie

P.S. After writing this post I realized that our wedding song was Lucky by Colbie Cailet and Jason Mraz. I know that is not a coincidence!

Happy Thanksgiving!

So....It’s been a month and a half since the last time I blogged. So you probably all figured out the diet may not being going as well as imagined. I could sit and make excuses all day but honestly it comes down to be and having no control over myself at times. BUT tomorrow is a new day. (Because starting a diet on Thanksgiving is just not fun!) I am planning tomorrow to start fresh with trying to lose weight and getting back on the big 3-0 shape up!

My goal starting tomorrow is to lose 10 pounds by the end of the year. This means a total overhaul of what I am doing now. This shouldn’t be hard because I am currently doing nothing right at this point in time. So bring on the gluttony today because tomorrow it is all over!

It has begun!

So here I am 2 days into being 29 and honestly having a hard time getting the workouts in. Since I started school life has become increasingly chaotic for me and the time I have to myself is precious! But last night I did take Wiggles on a 2 mile walk. It was good for her also. She enjoys her walks and really this year they have been few and far between since it has been so hot. I am trying to get as many of them in for  us before the weather gets too cold for her to go out (which is probably around 10 degrees warmer than it is for me! What can I say she is my child!) One thing I can say is that I have been doing well with eating less. I find that if I do the smaller meals at consistent times I am less likely to want to snack when I get home. For example last night I did not even want dinner until later and really ate less than I normally would. It is amazing how fast you can go from eating a lot to not needing as much. It probably tells me that I was eating way too much to begin with before. It was probably more for comfort than nourishment also. That is a big problem for me, the comfort eating. I tend to do it a lot more lately than I had before.  That is what habit that is going to take a lot for me to break.

I would have to say though that my husband has been a big impact on this lifestyle change. Many of you reading this may not have seen my husband in awhile or ever met him. Adam has lost over 35 pounds since January! Amazing since I seem to have gained that amount since then!  He has motivated me to want to make a change because he looks so good. He is wearing smaller jeans than he did his junior year of high school which is wonderful. I hope to have that kind of results.

One thing that I do want to preface is that while I would like to lose weight one of my biggest reasons for doing this is because I want to be healthier. I could lose all the weight I wanted and still be unhealthy if I don’t make this a lifestyle change.  This is going to be a hard one for me since I come from a family that loves food and food has been a huge part of my life. Also living in a country where almost every social interaction is surrounded my food. I did Weight Watchers for several years and the one thing I did take away from them is that it is all about making good choices when temptation is in front of you.

Oh and I did want to let everyone know that my 29^th birthday was amazingly wonderful! I have such a great husband and family that always make me feel special. And of course I have wonderful friends that left wonderful messages for me on Facebook and through text messages and phone calls!  I think 29 is going to be a year to remember!  J

It probably all started with the J-Hud WW commercial I saw during Dr. Phil.....

But here I am on the eve of my 29th birthday and I am just not happy with the way my body looks and I am going to try to do a big shape-up before I turn 30 next October. The idea came to me while walking my incredibly spoiled and incredibly loving pitbull Wiggles around the neighborhood. I think my bad lifestyle choices have actually rubbed off on the dog because she has started to gain a ton of weight too! So I started to think: What if I start a blog counting down until I turn 30 and also counting down the pounds!

I think I am stuck in that weird limbo where walking down the street I think I look good until I catch a glance of myself in a store window or in the bathroom mirror at work! I am reminded of how I have lost control of my body and how it is negatively affecting my health. I am having trouble sleeping at night and have noticed that I am losing my breath walking into work some mornings. I had back surgery in January and have been horrible because I have gained probably a good 15 pounds since then when I should have been getting into shape because I was starting to feel better. (I had a herniated disc that was horribly inflamed and the surgery was the last ditch effort to do something to get relief!)

The most frustrating thing is that I know how to lose weight and have a ton of tools that can help me. I have been on many different kinds of diets since high school and have countless work-out DVDs and VHS tapes (yes I still own a VCR-actually we have 3 of them in our house). I also had a wonderful trainer help me to shape up before my wedding last year. These tools are going to be the secret to my weight loss success!

Well I am starting to ramble and I am also getting tired! Now off to bed to wake up in the morning and enter the last year of my 20s!