Again

Hey, Walked again today. Took a pit stop at the post office, but I did walk the long way.... Was beautiful out! Very crisp but not windy... and so pretty... Felt good to get out there to walk....

Walking....

Hey, Been awhile.. Sorry bout that.... been busy. I was out for a walk Saturday Dec. 15. Today I walked the same route. The route being: out the back of the house, down the driveway to the ally, south down the ally, east down that street to the intersection where it meets the grid and main street, up the grid road to the yield sign, South down the gravel there past the grave yard to the approach in the next field, back from that approach to railway ave, down railway ave to the bar, south from the bar to SDL shop, back onto the original street to the alley, north up the ally to our driveway, up the driveway into the house. Was a good long walk.. probably about 40minutes. My legs were tired today, my feet felt like lead. And what pops into my head "Putt, Putt, Putt, The fat is falling off your Butt!!" LOL Ok, it wouldn't go away either... so here I am out walking to this.... but at least I was out walking. I didn't walk yesterday, in fact didn't leave the house. It was a snower and a blower and just lovely so, I walked good today... :)

I have also been trying to eat less. No seconds.. and smaller firsts. I now take a small cereal bowl for my breakfast instead of a super soup bowl, which is twice as deep as the regular... fine for soup... but watch what else you eat that way.. LOL

Anyhow, that's about it for now... Been slacking in measurements and weigh In's too I know but the scale is going the wrong way... trying to fix that before I remeasure...

TTFN

Been a while

Well, today I did good. I know, only 2pm but I have done well already!!! I got up earlish. Made Hubby breakfast, had my half and half of regular cheerios and fruity cheerios(very yummy). I had my vitamin. I did my dishes, I have steadily been working on laundry. LOL no fun if you have no cloths.... ooh wait... maybe it would be more fun? Nah, your right... -12 would feel lots colder naked!!! LOL I have gone for my walk. Long walk, As posted in Dec 17th post.

Good day, all round...

Keep it up?

Well, I walked again today. Hubby stayed in. Actually he loaded some crap in to the truck. I walked the long way around town to the mail. Stopped in and cast my vote then walked home. Took just under an hour for my walk... so, I am getting just over 1/2 hour of exercise if you take out the post office and the other stop. So, it's good! Now just to make it a habit! LOL But, I am getting there!

Brrrr

Well. Hubby and I walked for the mail again today. If we keep this up, it might just become a habit! LOL We didn't walk the short way like we wanted to because it was cold, and the wind was wicked yet again today! We instead walked through town a bit... up the alley down the street, down another street up to the post office, up to the co-op, then home. Was a good walk. Good for both of us... but it sure was damn chilly!!! Felt better when I thawed at home.
TTYL

Walking

Well, I walked the long way to the mail on Thursday Nov. 2nd. My hubby actually joined me today for a walk to the post office, the long way. I want to start walking more. Just because we are no longer on the road working and I need the exercise. Maybe it will help the weight loss along too... and make me feel better.. I know it works, it has before. I just find it hard to be motivated without a walking partner. Ah, well.. hopefully I will get to walking the long way around both ways to and from the post office and feel really good!
TTYL

Fumbling

Hey, yes, fumbling. I have had 3 large... maybe 4 large Vanilla capachino's... very bad. But they were sooo good and it was cold out... HAHAHAH excuses... Next time... smaller.. I should only have a small. But I am thinking I will try a Vanilla Steamer and put an earl grey tea bag in it so it is a London Fog. Think that is about the right taste. So, that is the goal... to get down to small cap.'s or switch to steamer though I bet they are both bad for you!!!!! LOL so... medium of either.... we shall see... Though I haven't had much pop. I had a can of 7-up the other day. With my Chinese food. Eh, it was yucky, the 7-up, not the Chinese. Love the Chinese at that place... its sooooo good!!! and not greasy!!! Love it.

Anyways. I should be out walking... I need to kick myself in the ass. It's kinda dreary out, just makes me want to stay in ... but I need to get my ass out walking... and yes. My ass needs it. I think I would feel less tired too. In fact, I know previously if I could get out for a walk, I felt better... so need to haul my ass out.

Beyond that, holding my own. Ish. The weather has been dreary then sunny then cold then then then... you know how it can be... today is dreary, but I am walking anyways!!!

TTYL

Holding steady.

Well, I weighed a couple days ago. I weighted about the same as I did last time... so at least holding steady. That's a good sign. I mean at least I am not gaining. Which is always good. Been cold and wet and sucks the life outta a person the last bit.. so haven't been too enthused about walking... course we have still been working too, which in itself will keep a person from walking. Oh well... one of these days... I have been doing pretty good sticking to the medium french vanilla instead of the large... now just to switch to the small... one of these days... getting there.... every time I have to stop to pee at the side of the road on the way to the city... makes me think "If I had only had a small... would I still have had to pee?" LOL

Anyhow.. not much on this front to talk about... so Later...

Bleh

Feeling icky today, Made a trip to the city yesterday in the rain... well lets see first tried to work in the rain. Gave that up went to the city to do some shopping. We ate at A&W in the mall.... well... lets say we don't wanna do that again soon. A burger and fries with a root beer and my guts are just nasty today! I mean nasty... Guess healthy choices pay off better.. we really would have liked chili from Timmies but know damn well the line would have been an hour deep at the time we got to the city. *sighs* Other than that we haven't eaten out much. Been eating good home cooked stuff, even if it is a deli meat wrap that I whip up. Still better for us than that restaurant crap... And that's about it for now.... I know I don't post tonnes here but don't find that there is a lot I can say other than I am working and trying to eat right... occasionally fall off the bandwagon and have some fries er something but nothing significant yet.... come winter... I will log walking and stuff if I can get up the, get up and go to walk then tell ya about it! LOL
anyways, off an running... TTYL

2nd Measurement - 1 month ish

Height: 5'8
Weight: 257.1 lbs Down - 1.7lbs (at least in the right direction)
Chest: 51 (wearing good white bra) - 1 inch
Ribcage: 39 = same
Bicep: 15 + .5 inch
Waist: 45.75 (around the belly button) - .25
Low Waist:49 No measure to compair
Hip: 49 =
Thigh: 28.5 -.5

Totals lost: 1.7lbs and 2.25lbs

Feels good. The little changes are helping. Hopefully with being home I can get out and do some walking... get some other parts of me tightened up. I want to make some home made soups and such... straight from the garden so.. that is a beautiful thing!!! And hopefully eat better through the winter. But we shall see how that goes.

Haven't forgotten

Hey, I haven't forgotten about this here.... I have just been busy with work. Though it is hard to be with the weather the way it is. I have been trying to follow what I am aiming for. I had an order of fries the other night... I didn't eat them all as they came with gravy on them and I have never been a fan... so, I guess it kept me from eating them all, good job huh? LOL I have also been trying to have a medium french vanilla cap instead of the large. I don't know how much difference 4 ounces makes but, it tends to not make me feel ill so all is good. Mind you when we headed out on the road for a 3 hour drive I still took the large....... bad bad bad... I should have had a bottle of water. Ah well, next trip, I think, I hope, we shall see!! Next week I will weigh and measure and see what kinda difference a month makes.
Catchya later!

Holding my own.

Well, I have been feeling better. I don't have upset stomach. I don't feel as tired as I did. Feeling much better all round. I do need to be more active, though I do find that work is very physically demanding but not cardiovascular. I got on the scale after a shower today. I know I know not supposed to step on it so much but been pretty much 2 weeks. I weighed the same after a shower as I did before.... might have to weigh in the morning for a good read... eh.. one of these days. I have been drinking a lot of iced tea, but am working on drinking water instead... getting there slowly. So that's all for now!

New Scale

Yes, we have a new scale in our house. It tracks your weight for you and your goal and your BMI. This scale says I weigh less..... and I didn't even do any work... LOL

Weight - 258.8lbs (still a somewhat heavy day)
BMI - 39.5

So, there is the starting point.

The Pill

Yes, I have been one to be on it. I like the ease of it. But, Last night I looked up the side effects. I had to read them twice. Now I am not blaming everything on it, but one has to wonder. Side effects being - weight gain, hmmm interesting.... mood swings, yup had some of them.... Breast tenderness, definitely.... Tiredness, does wanting to sleep all day count?....Upset stomach, goes hand in hand with not wanting to get out of bed.... depression, that one I don't thing I'm struggling with. I was debating staying on it. Hubby said whatever you want, when I told him side effects, he said " so when do they go away?" LOL. So, needless to say with the weight struggle the pill is ending.... And we shall see how it effects things.

Hopefully now I can lose some weight. Before being on the pill, I could work out(walk steady/jog intervals) for about a month and would see results. Since the pill I have to work and work and work and work and in a month if I feel a little better I am doing good and normally see no change otherwise... so, we shall see what happens.

Talk to you later,

1st Measurements

Height: 5'8
Weight: 261lbs
Chest: 52 (wearing good white bra)
Ribcage: 39
Bicep: 14.5
Waist: 46 (around the belly button)
Hip: 49
Thigh: 29

Starting Off

Ok, I am still feeling kinda funny about this one. I know I know it's a choice. But, I figure maybe, just maybe I can reach out to someone or I will post something I am struggling with and someone else will read it and go "I've been there, this is what I did". Maybe high hopes, as I am not sure exactly who would read this anyways.....

So, this is about losing some weight. It's been hanging around my body far too long. I want to lose it. I am going to post measurements and such here. What I have been doing to try to get rid of the weight and all the good stuff. So, on with the good stuff... if your hear reading it, I hope it helps... or that you enjoy the read.

So, I started off March 26, I weighed 269 and I do believe that was on a heavy day too. I made the effort to walk. I Walked 14 times the long way for the mail 4 of those times were the long way to and the long way from. What I mean by the long way is the I am thinking about 3km way around, rather than the 500meters straight up the street.

April 8th, I weighed in where I have been sitting weight wise it seems for the past 3 or 4 years. 264 lbs. Ouch I know. I did sit at 210 for a long time, and I felt better then. Not so tired. I still didn't feel as good as when I weighted about 180lbs(mind you I was in high school, and skating at the time).

We then started working in April. Work is physical, and I tend not to add anything after work or before, as I am often thinking it's a workout enough to walk around and do squats with my 20lb pouch on. I should be doing something more I know.

We are working outside from April, until we have to stop basically because we have run out of work or warmer weather.

In May I decided I was going to try not to eat french fries. As we are on the road a lot and eat out most of the time, and it is hard not to have a meal that on the menu comes with fries. That was what I was going for in May/June. I was not succeeding. It's far to easy to say "I worked hard today, I can eat whatever I want!" not the case.

The middle to end of June I made the decision that my "no fries" wasn't a strong enough conviction. So, I told myself that I was going to avoid fries, but that once in awhile it was ok. I don't think I have had fries since. Now being on the road we drink a lot of pop too. I also in June when I reassessed my "fries" stance, told myself I need to stop drinking so much pop. I am going to drink uncarbonated drinks. I have been mostly successful with this, though I have had pop probably one bottle a week, this beats having more. I feel good about that. I do think that the bottled iced tea and such that I have replaced it with still has very high sugar and calories, but that it is far better for me than the pop. I want to eventually switch to water with fewer iced teas and will get there eventually. One step at a time.

Now, I weighed myself on July 21. I weighed 261lbs. Loss of 3lbs. I believe this is a "heavy day" weight, and that I may be down even a little more, though it could have been optical illusion from the heat too, time will tell.