New car woohoo!

Super excited to let everyone know I've gotten my new car. 2013 Ford Mustang convertible. V-8 6 speed of course. We picked her up on Friday & spent the weekend just riding around. She ended up with over 500 miles on her this weekend. :) Ah well. It's a new toy & it was definitely a top down type of weekend.

I think I've finally got my mind set back where it needs to be. July hasn't been exactly a great month for this weight loss journey. As of this morning I have lost .8 pounds so far this month. I've been pretty good on my physical activity, but my eating has been pretty bad. I was looking at my first month & I was averaging eating about 1,700 calories a day & lost 5 pounds in the first month. And I didn't even start until the 9th! This month I've averaged about 2,000 calories a day. Yep I'm obviously eating too much.

So I'm really trying to keep my calories under 1,800 a day average & I've been pretty good so far this week. Ha! It's only Tuesday. But I think I've already made better choices.

Here's my new baby:

Weight as of 7/31 173.6
Physical activity 2305/2400 (I'm going to make it because I've already been active over the 95 minutes)

Sodium

I'm a little down this morning due to a nice little spike on the scale. I was back up to 175.2 this morning. Ugh! I know it's more than likely due to the teriyaki pineapple chicken I made last night & the sodium causing me to retain water, but still.................. I was not a happy camper this morning.

I'm getting tired of being stuck around 174 as well, but I know it's my own fault. Here's my graph & as you can see, my downward trend seems to have switched to a sideways trend.

Weight 175.2

Physical activity 1795/2400 (still off track but getting closer)



I AM still alive

Hi everyone/anyone,

Yes I am still alive & still sticking with it, kinda. I seem to have been eating right around maintenance, or just a tad below the past few weeks & not working out like I obviously need to. My weight's been sticking right around 174 for the past 3-4 weeks. Of course there's been some weird fluctuations probably due to TOM or ovulation. But all in all I've been pretty much eating whatever I want & not exercising all that much so I'm super happy I haven't gained.

Now just to get re motivated and hit that 170 by my birthday. I am going to do it even if I have to starve myself the week before lol. I am also going to try to check in here a little more often. Even if it is just a quickie little post like today's.

Weight 174.0
physical activity this month 1795/2400 (off track, move woman!)

Failing at goals

It's my first post in July, so........................ how did I do in June?

Well, first my physical activity goal of 2400 minutes as measured by my BodyBugg. Fail! By a lousy 8 minutes! Ugh, that's pretty frustrating. My last day I knew I was about 120 minutes shy of hitting my goal so I tried to just keep moving. But we had a birthday part to go to & there's a bunch of sitting around & talking to go with that. So I was short by 8 minutes. Well, I am going to hit it in July for sure!

I also hit a weight loss goal to get to 170 by the 4th of July months ago, so I set my June goal at 171. So? Yep, you got it. Fail! As of the June 30th I weighed in at 173.4. That puts my weight loss for June at 2.2 pounds, except that I think the 173.4 is a little artifically low. I've been weighing in right around 174 for the last week. But heck, I'll take it, even if it isn't my official weigh in day.

I obviously suck at meeting goals in a set amount of time since I have not met a single goal yet. So does this discourage me? Not really. The important thing is seeing my weight continue to go down. And it is definitely going down. It's graph time!

See? Downwards! Yay! Yeah, it doesn't take much to make me happy. LOL

I've been thinking about what I want to do to recognize the 20 pound mark. For some reason this is a huge milestone for me. I'm finally out of the "obese" range in my BMI & just into the overweight category, which makes me happy, but not as happy as that 20 pound mark will. So, what do I want to do to recognize it? Hmmmm, I'm going to have to think about that.

Other fronts, not to much happening. It's slow at work, but that's because of summer shut downs for assembly plants. The joy of working in the automotive industry! But I did let my production supervisor go, so I've been doing his job on top of mine, which does leave me a lot busier than I used to be.

And we're watching my daughter's dog Clifford while she went up North this weekend. This picture below so makes me think of him.

Have a great day everyone!

Weight as of 7/2/12     174.2
Physical activity          ?/2400