Ready to Rock N' Roll After a Rough Week!

This week has been a difficult one. I started the week off with a pinched nerve in my neck and a sick kid, followed by me getting Bronchitis. I feel bad I haven’t been to the gym since Monday. I missed two training sessions with Paul. I did try to go to the gym on Thursday, but got really dizzy and had to turn around and come back home. The good news is I did see the doctor and am now on antibiotics. Hopefully I will be back at it again on Monday. As you can imagine my diet has went out the window most of the week. I spent a lot of time drinking water and eating chicken noodle soup. So when I got on the scale this morning I was surprised that I still lost another 2 lbs.

 For those of you who called or worried that I was quitting, there’s no chance--160 is around the corner! Thank you for being concerned though! I will back to my normal routine tomorrow. Sorry I don’t have much to report this week, but there will be much more next week.

Determination's helping to drive the # on the scale down!

Wow! What a wonderful Mother Day, I hope all my mothers out there had a beautiful day as well. This was an even greater week. Workouts are always tougher with Paul then just me, but I am not complaining because I have lost 10 lbs this week in total!!! I might complain a lot but thank you Paul for pushing me even when I don’t want to do it. I am still in disbelief that I lost that much in one week. But I did, and it makes me more determined to keep going. I do get discouraged a lot, but this is when I know the choice I made was the right one. There is no turning back now.

This also means that the food planning is working. I hate planning it all out. How do I know what I want to eat tomorrow or the next day? But not planning wasn’t working. It has also eliminated the quick fixes; short cuts and eating out which in most cases is not healthy for you. Planning also allows me to stick with my diet. I have no excuses. Now when I eat out, it is also planned. For instance my daughter took me out for lunch for Mother’s day. But I am not just eating out to eat out or because I didn’t plan ahead.

I have also decided to treat myself more lately. Anytime Fitness gave me a free massage at “The Massage Place”! Let me tell you the ladies there are wonderful! So I have decided that if I keep my progress up, I will get a massage each week. I need to reward myself. Mary, my massage therapist told me that once I get under the 300 lbs mark I will get a free one. So now I have even more motivation. I beat up on my body every day; so I should also be good to it. It’s okay to pamper yourself too right?


"The purpose here is to reward yourself for a job well done. This is positive reinforcement. The reward is an opportunity to stop and smell the roses that bloom as a result of your hard work."

"By failing to prepare you prepare to fail"

Another week down and I am not dead yet, all! Although I have accused Paul several time of trying to kill me. He doesn’t even deny it. Just keeps telling me it will look good on his resume. But I hate to admit it; the stuff he is telling me is working. I keep using my food plan. I’m taking a day to plan it, and then cooking it all ahead of time. But it worked. I could stay with the plan at least 90% of the time. So this means the scale is moving down again, another 5 lbs. off this week!!

The work outs seem to be going well too. I have learned not to say I don’t like something during my work outs because if I do, I get to do it even more often.  Gotta love Paul for that one. But I am running further. No thanks to Ryan, who got Paul to make me run 3 laps around the building this week. I can run one lap without feeling like I am going to die and am working on two.  I can also do three minutes on the AMT machine (which I hate by the way).  I’m still working on warming up to the stairs; I think I have a love hate relationship with those.  But I have taken another minute off my mile tooJ.  Although I still get frustrated when I get sick during my workouts, I think I want to be a trainer when this is all said and done. Get paid to make people sweat, cry and puke…okay maybe not, I will leave that one up to Paul.

I did go ahead with the injection on Friday. I am usually sore a day or two after. But surprisingly I was back at Anytime on Saturday. Not sure about Monday when Paul will be testing it all out.  So keep your fingers crossed for me!

Time to be selfish

Ok ya’ll, I’ve been in kind of a funk this week. Okay, maybe the last few weeks. But I am back at it again in full force. It took Paul giving me a few lectures, and popping up when I least expect him to.  I swear that man has a wanted poster behind every gas station counter saying, “If you see this person, call me.”  I am starting to get paranoid. Also, I got my ass chewed out from other people in my life, saying “Hey, things aren’t right with you.”  Maybe it was my birthday this week or the lectures I got, but I get it.  I am not taking care of me.

So here is what I found out. My biggest downfall is letting toxic people in my life. These are those people who you love, but they stress you out and make your life crazy, and rarely do anything positive for you. So I took a long hard look at the way things have been going lately. I have been working out, but that is only half the battle.  What suffers is my energy, the way I eat, and staying away for smoking. If my diet isn’t right, I can’t lose weight.  If I don’t stop smoking, it affects my workout.  So this weekend I finally said goodbye to these toxic people. I do hope they find a way to get the help they need, but right now I need to be focused on my daughter and myself.  This was and is hard for me, because I am a helper and a fixer. But I can’t help someone that doesn’t want to help themselves, and I can’t fix other people.  It is hard for me to realize that sometimes. A big part of me feels like I am being selfish, but anyone who knows me knows I am not a selfish person. But that is what I have to be now.  This is my health, my future, and my daughter’s too.  I have to be reminded of that sometimes.  Not only by myself, but by others too.  So thank you to all of you who gave me the ass kicking I needed this week!

Here are some ways I am going to keep myself on track. First, I am going to keep working out. Second, I am going to write a food plan each week. This will help me keep my food under control. I can’t take credit for this though, it was Paul’s idea. If I am like most of you, we get busy, so we eat out, stop for fast food, or whatever’s quick and on the go, because we don’t think we have time to eat right. I have to take time for eating healthy like I take the time to work out. It also means I have to take time to prepare food ahead of time (like making lunches for work).  I tried this for part of the week and it has been working. I will let you know how it is going next week. The third thing I need to do is quit smoking. I don’t know what the answer to this is quite yet, I am still working on it. I know it is part willpower and I make excuses to rationalize it to myself. Maybe I do need the wanted poster behind the registers! I will beat this one. I know that, and if I can this week I will be happy to say next week that I been smoke free for seven days. But if anyone has any really good ideas, please pass them on!

I celebrated my 39^th birthday this Friday (April 27^th). I have to be honest, I didn’t follow my diet so well that day. But I want to look back next year and say on my 40^th that I have reached most of my health goals, if not all of them. I am going to have a party, so mark you calendars now, you can come help me celebrate! I did have a very nice birthday this year! Thank you to all my wonderful family and friends who made my day very special! Love you all so much!