Well, I've already missed a day of blogging, and I just started!! I would like to clarify that this is just an example of how bad I am at keeping up with things online, NOT that I am bad at keeping up with my goals.
Remember how I wrote last blog that I was trying not to cheat and eat before I go to bed? Yeah, I totally lost that battle. My chocolate easter bunny was calling to me from the fridge. I just had a little nibble, but it haunted me for the rest of the night, so last night I was completely successful in not eating after 9:00pm. It's harder than you think for someone like me who stays up until 11:30pm!!
Today I plugged in my Wii and turned on the Fitness Coach my dear husband bought for me. And let me just say, that the computer-generated fitness coach is a BITCH! Oh, she's so peppy and SO freakin' encouraging, I just wanted to hit MUTE but couldn't, because I was moving too fast to keep up with the cardio she was putting me through! I will be glad for a bigger living room, that's for sure!! And, even though it is my day off today, I've been avoiding snacks particularly well! I think it's because we have our Disneyland trip soon, and I hate looking fat in pictures, so that is definitely one motivator. Another is, one of my best friends from high school is getting married in June - that is DEFINITELY a reason to lose weight, considering that all my old school friends will be there! So, I'm kicking it into high gear folks! Just wait - this time next year, I'll be a size 8 and looking fantastic!
Or so I hope. Now I'll go and drink 2 glasses of water in one sitting, and pine over the dessert crepes that are in the fridge as a "treat" after dinner tonight. Stupid food!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Weight Loss is sooooo epic
Well, I think I'm going to bite the bullet and blog about my weight loss. I could write work, or my daily life, or any other such thing, but I think it will help me the most to write about the trials and tribulations of getting back into size 8 pants, which was what I was coming out of high school. Plus, it sounds less boring to me, although, my life is pretty fantastic as far as lives go :)
I have been struggling with my weight ever since I moved to Vancouver to begin my post-secondary schooling. It was a big step for me - growing up, we had regimens, though not strict ones, of meals and things we were and were not allowed to eat. This, as I have come to realize, was actually excellent parenting skills on my mom's part. Dad, well, if he made our lunches for school, sometimes he would sneak in a quaker granola bar or fruit roll-up. Gotta love him for it! So when I moved, and had freedom, and could basically do whatever I wanted, including eating at MIDNIGHT if I was up and still studying and hungry, I started the weight gain. It also doesn't help when you attend a school with A) an excellent cafeteria and B) Food kiosks in every single building, PLUS vending machines on every floor! As music students, we were constantly looking for the next pick-me-up snack to get us through that last class of the day. And thus, my eating progressed from there. We lived so close to so many food options - Safeway, Nandos, Subway, Tim Horton's McDonald's, Starbucks...you name it, I probably walked to it several times a week. AND, being a music student, didn't really get a lot of exercise except for walking to and from the bus stop each day. There was NO P.E., and most of my friends didn't play a lot of sports.
And thus, it has progressed from there. I now weigh...well, let's not get into specifics, but it's not a weight I'm excited about. And it is very, very hard to lose unless you're 100% determined to basically change your entire lifestyle. Which, I am. Determined, that is.
So, while I have been working hard these past couple of weeks to really try and shed some pounds, I will consider today as being Day 1 on my weight loss schedule. I will try to blog each day, but I'm pretty hopeless at these things, so it may just dwindle down to 1 or 2 times a week. I hope not - I hope I can keep this blog up, just like I hope to keep my weight loss on track :)
All right, so today I did pretty good. Eggs and Yoptimal yogurt for breakfast, with a fruit/veggie Sunripe juice box. Then I went to work. And it is EXTREMELY hard to lose weight when you work in a grocery store with;
-A live bakery and deli - basically they make a lot of their items fresh and ready to eat
-And of course, rows and rows of groceries. The Easter section is particularly tempting for me right now, as I have inherited my mom's love for chocolate. Not good. I'm trying to combat this by NOT going downstairs to buy my lunch, but instead, keeping the fridge in the lunch room stocked with bags of salad, dressing, and homemade sandwiches. I drink a LOT of water during the day, and oh yes - have a stash of licorice in my office when I get a case of the nibbles.
For dinner, we ate chicken cordon bleu with lots of veggies and rice. After dinner was, of course, dessert (chocolate, what else!) and tea. So, that should be the end of my eating for the day, but right now is the extremely hard part. I am always up after Jer - he gets up earlier than I do every morning, so he goes to bed earlier, but since I am up, and doing mindless things like watching tv, or sitting in front of the computer, I always get huge urges to eat. I am currently resisting this by chewing gum, so we'll see how long this lasts!
You'll notice that I have talked about diet, but not exercise. That's because exercise is a pain in the butt for me. I will continue to whine and complain about this some other time, but for now, I'm hoping to ease some of my poundage with just diet. HA! I'm totally kidding myself if I think that will happen!
I have been struggling with my weight ever since I moved to Vancouver to begin my post-secondary schooling. It was a big step for me - growing up, we had regimens, though not strict ones, of meals and things we were and were not allowed to eat. This, as I have come to realize, was actually excellent parenting skills on my mom's part. Dad, well, if he made our lunches for school, sometimes he would sneak in a quaker granola bar or fruit roll-up. Gotta love him for it! So when I moved, and had freedom, and could basically do whatever I wanted, including eating at MIDNIGHT if I was up and still studying and hungry, I started the weight gain. It also doesn't help when you attend a school with A) an excellent cafeteria and B) Food kiosks in every single building, PLUS vending machines on every floor! As music students, we were constantly looking for the next pick-me-up snack to get us through that last class of the day. And thus, my eating progressed from there. We lived so close to so many food options - Safeway, Nandos, Subway, Tim Horton's McDonald's, Starbucks...you name it, I probably walked to it several times a week. AND, being a music student, didn't really get a lot of exercise except for walking to and from the bus stop each day. There was NO P.E., and most of my friends didn't play a lot of sports.
And thus, it has progressed from there. I now weigh...well, let's not get into specifics, but it's not a weight I'm excited about. And it is very, very hard to lose unless you're 100% determined to basically change your entire lifestyle. Which, I am. Determined, that is.
So, while I have been working hard these past couple of weeks to really try and shed some pounds, I will consider today as being Day 1 on my weight loss schedule. I will try to blog each day, but I'm pretty hopeless at these things, so it may just dwindle down to 1 or 2 times a week. I hope not - I hope I can keep this blog up, just like I hope to keep my weight loss on track :)
All right, so today I did pretty good. Eggs and Yoptimal yogurt for breakfast, with a fruit/veggie Sunripe juice box. Then I went to work. And it is EXTREMELY hard to lose weight when you work in a grocery store with;
-A live bakery and deli - basically they make a lot of their items fresh and ready to eat
-And of course, rows and rows of groceries. The Easter section is particularly tempting for me right now, as I have inherited my mom's love for chocolate. Not good. I'm trying to combat this by NOT going downstairs to buy my lunch, but instead, keeping the fridge in the lunch room stocked with bags of salad, dressing, and homemade sandwiches. I drink a LOT of water during the day, and oh yes - have a stash of licorice in my office when I get a case of the nibbles.
For dinner, we ate chicken cordon bleu with lots of veggies and rice. After dinner was, of course, dessert (chocolate, what else!) and tea. So, that should be the end of my eating for the day, but right now is the extremely hard part. I am always up after Jer - he gets up earlier than I do every morning, so he goes to bed earlier, but since I am up, and doing mindless things like watching tv, or sitting in front of the computer, I always get huge urges to eat. I am currently resisting this by chewing gum, so we'll see how long this lasts!
You'll notice that I have talked about diet, but not exercise. That's because exercise is a pain in the butt for me. I will continue to whine and complain about this some other time, but for now, I'm hoping to ease some of my poundage with just diet. HA! I'm totally kidding myself if I think that will happen!
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