The scale is finally moving in the right direction! Went home during the weekend, as always, and I've dropped a pound! I'm now down to 233. Spring Break is in 3 weeks and I'm taking a road trip with my mom and brother to go see some old neighbor friends of ours in TN (they moved, we stayed in MN), and my goal is to be under 230 by the time that comes around. I'm going to try and work really hard over the next few weeks so that i can achieve my goal. It's only one lb a week, so it's very doable. I'm kind of nervous because when we are on the road, we tend not to eat well, that combined with sitting for practically 14hrs straight, isn't good for someone who is trying to lose some weight. I'm sure i will figure something out and if not, at least it's not often that we take a trip like this, so I'm not too worried. I can't wait!
Thought I would first take a minute to explain the title of the blog. Almost there is a song from the new Disney flick The Princess and the Frog. If you haven't seen that movie, I would definitely recommend it! Anyways, it's about being almost close to my goals. In reality I'm actually far from my goal weight, but I have some mini goals that i am almost to. Like being under 200. Is 34 lbs away 'almost there'? Okay, maybe that one was a bad example. A good one would be that I'm almost close to getting all 8 glasses of agua in daily.
Now for the reason for today's blog: I worked out today and I wasn't even scheduled to do so! In my morning class we had an exam that was easy-peasy, so I got out about 45min early. I had no clue what to do with my extra time. I did some reading for my next class, and then went to lunch (which was a bit too big calorie wise. What can I say? I love pesto!). After I got back, I still had like 30min before I needed to leave for my next class, so I decided to do a 10min workout from the Sparkpeople website. It went well, so I decided to do it again. Well, the second time around I only did about half of it again because I decided to blog about it.
There you have it and off to class now!
So I have been doing the whole "lifestyle changes" thing since the beginning of September 2009. I was doing really well, by mid-December I was down 15lbs. It is now mid-February and I have been stuck in a rut. I have been hovering around the same weight for two months now. Two months! I know
what my problem is, I just now need to fix it.
Whenever I go home, whether it be for the weekend to work, or during a break from school, I tend to fuck up on my eating. Messing up just doesn't seem to do it justice so I'm going to say fuck up, because that is what I do. I eat way too many calories than any conscious person on a diet should and even when I feel like I'm moving more, I'm really just moving from the couch to the car and so forth. I don't really worry about it too much on the weekends, because let's face it, if you aren't constantly moving when you work in retail, then you aren't working hard enough. It's the damn breaks that kill me. This past winter break especially kicked my ass.
It was Christmas for one. All the goodies, and sitting around chatting with family. I think I find it especially hard because no one else in my family is trying to lose weight (even though they all could benefit from dropping a few). I'm flying solo, and it's quite lonely up here. It's really hard when you are the only one in a house of 5 trying to lose weight. Don't get me wrong, they are very supportive of me (well, maybe except my little brother, but that's understandable). But it's not like my grandparents (whom I live with) are stocking the house full of healthy things. They grew up on casseroles and all-American foods like meatloaf, so that is what we generally eat.
I'm certainly not helping the situation on days like today when I decide to grab a candy bar before class. And was it the regular size? Nope, it was a king size. That means I am going to have to burn 400 more calories today than scheduled just because I'm human and I make mistakes. It just really stinks and there's no one I can blame but myself.