Monday, March 11, 2013

kinda successful week, not so successful weekend

So Last week.....

Last week was great, I started off the week in GREAT spirits I was steadily loosing weight, I was drinking water, I was doing my daily workouts, getting in my cardio etc. 

As for my goals,  I completed over 5 hours on the bike 10km running ( i was supposed to do 15 but the weather was bad, so I did extra time on the bike to make up for it) 

I drank my water

I tracked

I did my exercises

SUCCESS - $25 earned!

as for my weight It was doing really well, but by the end of the week I got into some easter candy, and late night dinners that caused me to gain 0.2  Im not mad about the gain as it wasnt that big, but I wish i tried just a tad harder to have a loss. 



The weekend started early for a snow day on Friday.  Let me tell you what i did this weekend.....
I ate
I ate
I slept
I ate
I watched movies
I ate
I ate
I ate some more. 

I did NOT do any of my goals, I barely drank water, I barely worked out, I did NOT track, but i did eat! 

starting today i am back on track, and ready to reach my weekly goals.  If I stay on track the rest of the week I will give myself my money for iPad. 

Friday, March 1, 2013

week in review and March goals!

I am feeling better about myself this week.  I was able to earn 34 Activity points, I tracked every bite of food,  and I lost 1.8 pounds.  I am still not to where I need to be from before our huge snow storm, but its a step in teh right direction.  Infact, last week I said that If I lost any weight at all I would treat myself to a pedicure this weekend, so that I will do! 

Im heading to Cape Cod today after work to see Mr Match,  not sure what we have planned, but it always makes me nervous.  We tend to eat out, and I work out less.  But I already have it planned Im going to Bike today before I go there,  run tomorrow, and either a short run and a walk sunday, a long walk, or a run (depending on how my shins feel)

Today is the first day of March, and I feel like this month is going to kick-butt!  the weather has been getting nicer, its more motivating, and it might be the start of my birthday month... :) 

I achieved all of my goals for the past week and earned myself 25$ towards my iPad.  Im going to be modifying my goals for the month of march.  My goals will basically stay the same each week (might alter the cardio amounts based on the plans for that week, weather etc)

3/1/13 - 3/7/13 Goals

Bike 4 hours  (1 hour friday, 1/2 sunday, 1 1/2 hours monday, 1 hour wednesday)
Run  15km (5km saturday, 5km, tuesday, 5km thursday)
Abs  120 daily
lunges  12 daily
pushups 12 daily
triceps 12 daily
plank - 1min plank in am, 1min plank at night
water - drink 3 16oz bottles a day
TRACK ALL FOOD
Stretch for 5 min a day

If I loose any weight at all this week I will treat myself to 25$ worth of goodies at a place like TJMaxx or Marshall's  Maybe some new picture framse?  or a purse? 

Monday, February 25, 2013

Weekend review

This weekend was OK. Not the best not te worst. Here are my daily tracking for Friday Saturday and Sunday.

Hoping for a great week!





Friday, February 22, 2013

Test

I am testing my ability to post my WW tracking and points to my blog to help me stay on track

2 weeks in a row....

WHAT IS GOING ON WITH ME?!?!?  this is the second week in a row that I not only FAILED my weekly goals, but that I also gained a significant amount of weight!  WTF?!

OK, I kinda know what I did wrong.  One I ate horribly, and again Wednesday I used up all my weeklies and broke in to some AP points, and then it was all downhill, I didn't even bother tracking anymore!  I ate dinner late, I snacked, etc.

I also had to babysit for the family I babysit for over the weekend, which meant a lot of eating crappy kid food, no exercise, and no time for my daily exercises.  UGH!

I MUST DO BETTER THIS WEEK!!!!  

I love trying to earn money for my iPad, but I think i need more of an instant gratification.  I think this week I am going to start something else.  I will still add money to my iPad fund, but starting this week if I loose ANY weight at all even if its 0.2  I will treat myself to something small, like a pedicure either on Friday or that weekend.

I MUST DO BETTER THIS WEEK!!!!!


Friday, February 15, 2013

2/15/13 to 2/21/13 - GOALS

My goals will be the same as last week


Biking - 4hrs on the bike
110 ab exercises daily
11 pushups saily
11 tricep dips daily
11 squats daily
1 min plank daily (could be 30 seconds each side if doing a side plank)
take all vitamins daily
track ALL Weight Watcher points daily
drink a full glass of water (or a small water bottle) before dinner daily or while eating dinner
drink another small water bottle daily before 3:30

hoping to loose what i gained this week

2/8/13 - 2/14/13 - REVIEW

this week was an EPIC FAIL!!!!!  I am so mad at myself!  there are a few things I failed at....

1.  Tracking - i was doing great until about Wednesday  On Wednesday I knew I was going to go over all of my weeklies and Activity points that were earned, so i just gave up.....UGH  maybe if I tracked I would have stopped eating, who knows.....

2.  my weight -  My goal was to be in the 158's this week meaning that I would have lost even .2  but no, I gained 2.0 pounds and am back up to 161.  UGH    FML  I even earned 38 APs!!!!!

3.  My exercises.....  I have been doing so Well with these for the first time in my life I have been doing ab exercises daily.  This week I forgot to do a plank 2 times (the two days that we skied, but I earned a lot of APs those days)  and there were two times this week I forgot to do my exercises, but did them first thing the next morning when I remembered.......

I feel like a failure!  I know this was a bad week for many reasons.  Skiing is great, and is a great workout, but it also entails eating ski lodge food - who could resist chicken fingers and beer on a cold day in a warm ski lodge?  It entails eating out, and snacking, and beer drinking.  When we got back from skiing there was 3 feet of fresh snow on the ground, and several roads took days to be plowed that meant.....No work until Thursday, lots of baking, lots of eating, oh and lets not forget about Valentines day, and the large amounts of chocolate consumed.

here were my goals for last week:


Biking - 4hrs on the bike - COMPLETE
110 ab exercises daily - COMPLETE  (even though i skipped 2 days, i did them first thing the following morning)
11 pushups saily -  COMPLETE  (even though i skipped 2 days, i did them first thing the following morning)
11 tricep dips daily -  COMPLETE  (even though i skipped 2 days, i did them first thing the following morning)
11 squats daily -  COMPLETE  (even though i skipped 2 days, i did them first thing the following morning)
1 min plank daily (could be 30 seconds each side if doing a side plank) - FAIL - skipped 2 days
take all vitamins daily - COMPLETE
track ALL Weight Watcher points daily - FAIL
drink a full glass of water (or a small water bottle) before dinner daily or while eating dinner - COMPLETE
drink another small water bottle daily before 3:30 - COMPLETE

Sunday, February 10, 2013

2/8/13 to 2/14/12 - GOALS

My goals for this week will be about the same as last week and they are as follows

Biking - 4hrs on the bike
110 ab exercises daily
11 pushups saily
11 tricep dips daily
11 squats daily
1 min plank daily (could be 30 seconds each side if doing a side plank)
take all vitamins daily
track ALL Weight Watcher points daily
drink a full glass of water (or a small water bottle) before dinner daily or while eating dinner
drink another small water bottle daily before 3:30

hoping to loose a pound this week! 

Snow Days!!!

So my posts are a little off this week, as my "weeks" start on Fridays.  Last Thursday night a blizzard was expected to come our way so they cancelled school Thursday night for Friday.  With over two feet of snow expected I spent thursday night packing and loading eh car with ski gear.  Friday Morning we hit the road around 6:30 and took our first run on Mount Snow at 9:30.  We skiied til 4pm when the lifts close, and crashed in a hotel room where we waited out the storm by ordering chinese woke up Saturday to a fresh 12" of snow and back to the slopes we went for a full day of fun. 

We drove home last night after skiing all day.  Here at home they got almost 30 INCHES!!!!  Today Mr. Match and I went snow shoeing for about 2 hours......man am i tired!  A lot of roads in town are not plowed yet, so they have cancelled school for tomorrow as well.....

time to get ready to spend the day baking!!!! 

2/1/13 - 2/7/13 - week in review

Well this week consisted of a ton of ups and downs, litterally down 2.0 up 1.8 down 1.6 up 2.0 
I tried to eat well, and exercise, and Im happy to say I again accomplished all of my goals 
and lost 0.4 pounds to make me finally earn 50$ for loosing a whole pound. 

Biking - 4hrs on the bike - COMPLETE
110 ab exercises daily - COMPLETE
11 pushups saily - COMPLETE
11 tricep dips daily - COMPLETE
11 squats daily - COMPLETE
1 min plank daily (could be 30 seconds each side if doing a side plank) - COMPLETE
take all vitamins daily - COMPLETE
track ALL Weight Watcher points daily - COMPLETE
drink a full glass of water (or a small water bottle) before dinner daily or while eating dinner - COMPLETE
drink another small water bottle daily before 3:30 - COMPLETE

earned 25$ for completing my goals
total earned this week $50
Total in the iPad fund -$150

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

up-down up-down up-down

No I am not a drill Sargent at boot camp telling you when to go up and down for a pushup.  That is my weight.  I weigh myself daily, every morning when I first wake up.  I feel like it holds me accountable for staying on track during the week.

Well its been happening all week  loose 1.4 pounds one day  gain 1.6 the next day  loose 1.2 the next day  gain 1.2 the next day......UGH   why is my body doing this to me?!  I have been eating fairly well  Ive been staying on top of my weekly goals INCLUDING drinking more water.  

I NEED TO LOOSE AT LEAST 1.0 pound by Friday  I need to see SUCCESS and keep it off!!!!


Friday, February 1, 2013

February already?!

It can't be February already.... I don't feel like any progress has been made on my weight or my muffintop.  I have working hard for a whole month, to have lost a whole 2 pounds....

This week is 2/1/13 - to 2/7/13  my goals are changing and will be this way for roughly the month of February

Running (cant do but will increase to 21km when we get back into it full swing)

GOALS
Biking - 4hrs on the bike
110 ab exercises daily
11 pushups saily
11 tricep dips daily
11 squats daily
1 min plank daily (could be 30 seconds each side if doing a side plank)
take all vitamins daily
track ALL Weight Watcher points daily
drink a full glass of water (or a small water bottle) before dinner daily or while eating dinner
drink another small water bottle daily before 3:30


1/25/13 to 1/31/13 Review

So I have to say this week was pretty successful.  Am I over the moon satisfied with its results.....No, but am I happy to be making small amount of progress....Yes.

This week I have been suffering with shin splints.  I am so bummed to have to put my running on hold, but realize after the injury I went through last year that left me with a swollen ankle (a cankle) and no running for 3 months, that it is best to take a couple of weeks now and hope for a speedy recovery.  I have done some research this week on ways to help cure these shin splints and many people have said compression socks.  I think I will invest in a pair.....stay tuned.  Oh and I have a new pair of kicks that I've been wearing after work to start breaking in, maybe my shoes were to worn out?

So since I couldn't run this week I have switched to biking.  I did one 5km run last Friday  and did 3 hours on my bike - Holy Butt soreness!

Goals for last week
Running - 5km - COMPLETE
Biking - 3hrs - COMPLETE
100 abs daily - COMPLETE
10 pushups daily - COMPLETE
10 tricep dips daily - COMPLETE
Vitamins daily - COMPLETE
Track ALL food on WW - COMPLETE

money earned for goals this week - $25

As for my weight I am down 1.2 pounds to 159.4  I am really really really hoping that I can have a good weekend this weekend and get below 159 next week.  I would like to earn 50$ towards my iPad.

Total money earned $75

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

bored

Since I can't run for a week a two (stupid shin splints!)  I have set up my bike on the indoor trainer.  Yesterday I rode it for an hour, OMG so boring!!!!!  even with the TV on, I couldn't wait to get off.

What am I going to do?!?  I have two more hours to complete on my bike this week, and I'm dreading every minute of it!!!


Saturday, January 26, 2013

Shin splints.....ugh

Last year I bought these new fancy running shoes and after about 2 weeks of running in them, I ended up getting HORRIBLE shin splints where I couldnt even waslk on my ankle.  It left me with 3 months of NO running, which sucked. 

So this past week was FREEZING cold, and when I was running my ankle (the other ankle from my injury last year) started bothering me, but more like I a pain that I had just twisted it or because it was stiff from the cold.  About half way through my run it felt fine. 

Yesterday I ran again in FREEZING temps.  My ankle started fine, but at the end felt like i had lightly twisted it.  then last night when I was getting out of the car I had whaked it on the corner of my car door.  Today my shin/ankle THROBS!  I dont knos if its the start of another shin splint or a bruise from the car door.  To play it safe I am going to lay off the running for the week. 

I am devastated because this was a goal of mine to run 20K.  But to make up for that since Ive already run 5km this week, I am going to spend 3-4 hours on my bike.  this will make up for my running goal this week

so my updated goals are
run - 5km - COMPLETED
bike - 3 1/2 hours total
abs
pushup
triceps
vitamins
and track WW points

I hope this is just a bruise and not a shin splint....

Friday, January 25, 2013

goals 1/25 to 1/31

here are my weekly goals for the week of January 25, 2013 to January 31, 2013

-  run 20km
-  do 100 ab exercises daily
-  do 10 pushups daily
-  do 10 tricep dips daily
-  take all vitamins daily
-  track all WW food daily, do not go over my weekly and/or activity points

wish me luck hoping to earn $25 more for completing these tasks, and another $50 if i loose 1.6 pounds.

I think I can!!

week in review 1/17 to 1/24

Well it's Friday.....TGIF!!!

For only having work 4 days this week, it sure did feel like a full week and then some!  This week was sunny, but brutally cold and miserable.  The day times highs were in the teens and the wind chills were in the single digits or even worse the negatives!

I am however proud of myself for as easy as it is to stay inside and sit by a fire in my cozy clothes and fantasize about being skinny on pinterest I did get out and complete all of my runs to achieve my weekly running goals.  As for eating I think I definitely at better than i did last week.  I'm still feeling slightly sick, but no longer have that post nasal drip/constant hunger feeling.  I tracked all my food and did not go over my weekly extras and my earned activity points.  I am also very proud that since I have been doing this i have completed my daily ab/push up/triceps exercises.  This is the first time ever that I have kept something like that up.   here were my goals for last week....

-  run 20km - COMPLETE
-  do 100 ab exercises daily - COMPLETE
-  do 10 push ups daily - COMPLETE
-  do 10 triceps dips daily - COMPLETE
-  take all vitamins daily - COMPLETE
-  track all food and do not go over my weekly and earned activity points for the week - COMPLETE

Money earned towards iPad for the week from completing goals  - $25

as for my weight.  I do weigh myself daily and I am happy and sad at the same time.  As of last weekend I was down 2.4 pounds I pretty much ate the same and worked out the same for the remaining part of the week but my weight crept up, but I am happy that it is lower than it was last week

Money towards iPad from weight loss - $0


Wednesday, January 23, 2013

3 years

Today Mr. Match and I have been dating for 3 years!!  it doesn't seem like 3 years, it seems like we have been dating for a lot less - hmmmmmm.  Crazy that its been 3 years already!!!  Maybe I'll get a diamond ring soon - then that will give me real motivation to get rid of my muffin top!!

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Dont make me go....

Running in this cold frigid windy weather!!!!

How do i get myself motivated to go running in this weather.  It is in fact a sunny day with a fresh dusting of snow on the ground, but its so cold, and windy.

Normally I don't think of running anything less than a 5km.  But Saturday I was running with my boyfriends 7month old lab (who is a HORRIBLE runner!) so our run ended short at a 3km.  which leave me with just 7 more Km to run to reach my goal.  My intentions this week were to go over my goal, but now with this weather I am thinking of running a 3km today and a 4km on Thursday (maybe 5 Thursday if the weather is better)


UUUGGGHHHH  I'm dreading it!

Monday, January 21, 2013

1/18/13 - 1/24/13 - goals

My goals this week are....

-  run 20k
-  100 ab exercises daily
-  10 pushups daily
-  10 tricep dips daily
-  take vitamins daily
-  track every bite  and do not go over weekly points