#jigglybitsbegone

wow.. .not sure why I dropped the ball on blogging but I did til I picked it back up today... Not that my blog goes far, but its for me.

Since Christmas I’ve been lost in my work and not in the good ways, super stressed and always on the defense.  I haven’t been happy for the past year, and I’ve made the decision to leave the area, but only once a transfer can happen.. Then maybe I can get a fresh start and find my inner love for my work again.

I’ve also been to Ontario twice, both times to visit with this guy I have been sorta, kinda, maybe dating?  its tough to label it.  We have been friends for 18+years and had a little history together over 10years ago, but we reconnected this past summer and it snowballed into ‘something’.  We both have been so alone for so long it is hard to revamp ones life to be a plural, baby steps as he says.  He’ll be the bonus to me moving if I get to go to Ontario.

As far as weight loss:  In January I managed 12/31 Gym workouts and February I got 8/28 gym workouts in.... So pathetic... I had gained 2.5pounds back from my 30pound loss between Jamaica in Nov thru December and Christmas.  I managed to lose those between January & February and am sitting at 198.6... I’m under 200 and on my way to 165.  I am aiming to lose 8 pounds between now and April 15/17 when I hit my 1 year mark at really giving it a go and being down 40pds.  Then I’ll be aiming for 175 by July 1st.

That’s what I did in 2016.  I lost 30 pounds in 8 months.  And as awesome as that is, it doesn’t seem like its enough, that I could have/should have lost more.  But lets be honest, I didn’t follow a diet plan, restrict anything from my plate.  I just walked at lunch hour, worked out at night and paid attention to my eating habits.  It took me 8 weeks to lose 5 pounds and then the others slowly came off, came back on, came off with more, repeat repeat repeat.

Between going to Jamaica end of November and over the Christmas holidays I gained 1.6pds..  that’s actually reasonable but unacceptable to keep.  And yet, I’ve been home and back to work for a week now and I have eaten more crap in the last week than I did all last year.  I did hop back to the gym the second day I was home from holidays but I ate potato chips every night this week.  

That said, I am very hormonal and stressed and have eaten all the bad junk in my house so now I can get my mind back on track to not buy any of that crap and work towards losing 5 pounds by Feb 15th.  I’ve got a Squat Challenge lined up to start on the 15th for 30 days, I am making the gym a habit again and pushing myself to 60 minutes of cardio.. and on the 15th I get into weight programs... I have no life, I have no excuses of “i don’t have the time’ so why not make use of it after work and work my body into a body I can love even more than I do right now.  

Goals: Build a Butt - Starter course lol/ lose 5pds in 30 days / gym bunny status for 5 workouts per week.  

PS:  This is my #Face2Face a year apart for Christmas Parties... #nofilter

And I’m still on track...  Last time I updated this was August 23rd and I was down 21 pounds!!!  Today is October 21st and I’m down 27 pounds...   And it might not seem like losing 6 pounds in 2 months is an accomplishment but when you are trying to lose weight and live life, every ounce is an accomplishment.  

In September I took 2 weeks off from the gym because life got busy, there was a vacation midway that took me out of province to meet my guys family.. lots of stress, a birthday, etc.  And this month I’ve been off the gym for a week because again, I took a trip to see that same guy out west.

I’ve done my best at sticking to my ‘healthy choices’ lifestyle, I aim for 80/20 ratio every day. But my workouts have dwindled off..

My results are results of what I put into this.  And I’ve slacked off a little but am rebounding hard on my mission starting tomorrow (I’d start today but this head cold/runny nose is no fun with cardio)....

I am 3 pounds away from hitting Onderland and I am aiming for 5-7pds by November 22nd when I head off to Jamaica for a week with my girlfriends. Its game on for me.  I’m about to bring the house down on my jigglybits!!

And since its Friday, Here’s a little Face to Face for the record!!  (Pic on left is yesterday / Pic on right is from Jan 1/16).  I can see the difference, can you?

According to the chart ‘How much have you lost?’, I have lost the weight of 1 automobile tire.  I’m not sure what kind of car but its the description of losing 21 pounds.  

21 pounds out of 60.  9 more pounds to Onederland and 1/2 to my goal.  

September 1st I will do measurements, because I will start adding weights to my daily routine on top of my cardio sessions.  I figure that come late October, I won’t be able to convince myself to go for a 6KM walk in the cold so I need to up my game to make it count and see more results.  I accept that the scale # will vary as I start to lift and create more muscle, but I want to watch the results.

I can honestly state that I am seeing the differences in my body already, Non-Scale Victories are awesome too, I’m seeing it in how my (TMI) underwear fit, my rings, my jeans, tops, and how a once hidden under a fat roll mole is now showing.  These NSV add up to a lot of motivation to keep moving more, and controlling my appetite with will power.  I still treat myself and eat what I want, but its the portions that have downsized a lot and its working.

Lets be clear, my overall goal is to shed the fat, tone the jiggle but be healthy doing it so that it’s maintainable.  So a slow and steady pace is my way..

Goal number 1 was to loose my 1st 15pds.  I hit that last week and maintained it thru a long weekend and week with minimal workouts (long story but there was food poisoning and a rescue of a feral kitten that has taken my time)..  

Goal number 2 is to drop 1 pound below 200. So far I’m 0.2 pds on my way to that goal. lo

Goal number 3 is to drop another 15pds.  Then I will reevaluate everything and go from there.  In total I would have dropped 45pds which gets me a whole lot healthier than I was before I dropped any!!

You’re Down!!

No You’re Back Up!!

Down again...

Nope, not today! Back up you go....

Its the game I play with my devilish scale.  I weigh in on Mondays and Fridays - Fridays being my ‘true’ weight, Mondays to get me back in line from the weekend.  On Monday I was down 11.6pds total.  Today, after eating very well, drinking lots of aqua and moving my jigglybits to 11K steps each day, I’m back up to ‘just’ my 10pd loss of last week.

But it doesn’t bother me as much as it used too because I keep reminding myself how I FEEL! How I have more energy working out and eating right, How my regular jeans are loose on my hips & thighs, How I buckled my belt one more hole tighter...... These are the things that keep me from falling off the wagon after the stepping on the scale...  

It really sucks when you are pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone, ‘running’ full tilt towards your goals and suddenly you find yourself headfirst into a brick wall.  That brick wall for me is a Staph Infection of an (TMI special report) ingrown hair in my underarm area.  It showed up physically on Sunday but it does explain why on Saturday I was hot then cold then warm again.  I woke on Sunday and noticed it right away, figuring it was just an ingrown hair I dismissed it and went about my day.  I had a Doctors Appt already set for Tuesday night so I’d chat with her about how to get rid of it.  

Tuesday night came and my Dr. was all about my newly formed lump.  The actual hard lump is very painful and about the size of my thumb nail but the red circle of infection is about the size of a plum.  She was quick to prescribe Penicillin every 6 hours for 10 days and a topical cream.  And it came with a warning ‘ if it is still there by Saturday, go to emergency to have to cut out’.  O.M.G!!  

Fingers crossed it doesn’t come to that but the little bugger is seeping infection out slowly but not decreasing in size and I think the size of the red ring is about the size of an apricot now.  Come Saturday (after my hair appointment of course), if its still there, I’ll be heading to Emergency for a little slice & dice... 

So because of where it is located, I am unable to move my arm without a lot of pain so workouts are nixed for this week, I am keeping control of my food choices and amounts, I am walking for about 5000K steps a day... This morning I weighed in at only .4 ounces more than last week so as long as I’m maintaining not gaining when I’m not losing its all good.

Holy Sweet Smurfs Batman, thousands of steps equals weight loss?  Yup, a whole whopper of 2 pounds.  I’ll take it. 

So today is May 2nd and I was curious to see who far I’d stepped the past 2 weeks.  April  17-23 I clocked 47,500 Steps and April 24-30 I clocked 62,100.  Week 2 I lost weight, maybe 62,100 is my magic number when combined with a 80/20 healthy eating ratio.  

Its a goal.  I’ve a lot of them.  

Lunch time walks might be a challenge this week because the weather looks all wet and cold, but maybe I can convince myself to walk the mall back & forth or the parking garage.  Evening Cardio will remain at 50 minute sessions as last week they were a challenge so again this week before adding 5 more minutes (next week fingers crossed).

The challenge is the eating.  I’m a smoothie for BK on the go girl, with eggs for mid-morning snack, Salad greens with apple, radishes, chicken and egg for lunch, carrots & hummus mid-afternoon snack.... Its the night time eating that gets me!!  This week I’ve a steak to bbq tonight and then the rest of the week I’ve precooked some chicken legs, gonna steam some veggies each night to go with.  But after a workout I wanna snack snack snack... Its a mind game I am slowly gaining control over - last night I wanted ice cream but I kept putting it off til it was bed time... win win for me!!