Getting healthy 2012

[MommaHoffa]

Well I'm going to try this blog thing again. I have been horrible in the past about keeping up with these. But I'm determined to make time to do this every night. I think maybe it might help keep me going.

I started my weight loss/getting healthy journey a few years ago. I started out at 265lbs and lost down to 195lbs. But then I got in my own way. I let other things become more important than my health and gained back almost 30lbs over the last year or so. I've decided that this year getting fit and healthy is going to be more the focus than weight loss.

These were my stats at the beginning of Jan.

weight- 226.8
neck- 14 inches
bicep- 15 inches
thigh- 29 inches
waist- 47.5 inches
hips- 50 inches
chest- 48 inches

These were my stats at the end of Jan/beginning of Feb

weight-223.2
neck-14 inches
bicep-14.5 inches
thigh-27.5 inches
waist-45.5 inches
hips- 49 inches
chest-46 inches

So, I'm making some progress already! I'm attaching pictures from the beginning of Jan. I'll take some tomorrow for Feb. And I'll do the same every month, well that's the plan anyways.

[d_tox]

hi chrssy, welcome back. i remember you.

i too fell off the wagon, left the website for about a year and a half... and am back at it again *sigh*

the good news is that i did not put it all back on and i am now taking it off just like last time.....

so the question is:

how do we make sure we stay on track this time.
for one thing, iwill try very hard to keep posting here and also, post a picture of me standing on the scales once a week... to help keep me motivated and accountable....
if i disappear, maybe someone should start sending me email alerts! - hahahaha.

[ruthan]

Thank you for your thread. I just remember that I need to do planning as well. I want to have a goal that can give healthy life style.

[MommaHoffa]

I think the idea of sending alerts or msgs to each other when we disappear for more than a few days. I plan on posting every day even if it's just to say Hi and that I got my workout in. And boy did I get one in this morning. I was at the gym by 5am and left at 830. Tomorrow is a rest day so I'm not supposed to go to the gym, but I might sneak in an hour or so if the hubby goes in to work for some OT. But if I do I'll try to keep it to just walking on the treadmill, but you never know with me. My problem is I have a hard time easing into anything. I go full speed and end up making myself sick or getting hurt. That's why I workout with my best friend at least 2-3 times a week. She makes me stop after 2 hours, but I make her go another 30-45 min after when she would have stopped on her own. We are good for each other.
Ok I still ramble lol.

[Obesity Discussion]

I think the idea of sending alerts or msgs to each other when we disappear for more than a few days. I plan on posting every day even if it's just to say Hi and that I got my workout in. And boy did I get one in this morning. I was at the gym by 5am and left at 830. Tomorrow is a rest day so I'm not supposed to go to the gym, but I might sneak in an hour or so if the hubby goes in to work for some OT. But if I do I'll try to keep it to just walking on the treadmill, but you never know with me. My problem is I have a hard time easing into anything. I go full speed and end up making myself sick or getting hurt. That's why I workout with my best friend at least 2-3 times a week. She makes me stop after 2 hours, but I make her go another 30-45 min after when she would have stopped on her own. We are good for each other.
Ok I still ramble lol.

You are so lucky to have that partner to push one another! You better post every day! I love this exercise kick, and your new ways are already showing benefits with your good results in January!

What are you doing food-wise differently?

[hollee]

I think measuring is a good idea and have done so this time because the scales don't always show the losses, which tend to frustrate me.

[MommaHoffa]

I'm trying to include more fruits and vegetables into my diet and eating less simple carbs plus counting calories. I'm trying to stay about 1500-1600 on days I don't workout or don't workout much. Days that I spend a few hours at the gym I eat closer to 2000 calories. But if I'm craving something, I mean REALLY craving it where I can't get it off my mind I'll eat whatever it is I'm craving but limit myself to how much of it I eat. I've gotta make this something that I can live with the rest of my life.

Today is going to be spent in bed sleeping most of the day. I feel like poop. I think my daughter got me sick. I'm coughing all over the place have a runny/stopped up nose and ache and am wheezy. So good thing today is a rest day. I gotta get better by tomorrow. I'm meeting my friend at the gym for our "Last chance workout". Monday is weigh in day.

I'm off to rest. Hope you all have a wonderful day

[MommaHoffa]

So I slept most of yesterday since I was feeling like poop. That is I slept until my husband and son started arguing in the room I was sleeping in. Andrew wanted his GF to come over and Gregg said no because I was sick. What we didn't know was that she was already on the way and almost to our house. He had asked her to come over before asking us. So it was a pretty stressful evening. Especially when we found out that her dad just dropped her off without making sure how she was getting home and I wasn't told that he wouldn't come get her until after 10pm. Gregg had already taken Niquil so wasn't able to drive. So I had to drive her home, about 45 min one way. So I was and still am a very angry mother. But I DID NOT stress eat last night! yay me! I did go over my calories by about 100 or so calories but I'm ok with that. Not gonna stress over it at all. Even though it was a rest day and I didn't exercise.

Today was a really good day for me. Andrew, who is grounded, stayed in his room except to eat and do laundry. So no arguing today. Plus my best friend was able to meet me at the gym today and we spent about 2 hours doing cardio and some strength stuff. I burned about 1100 calories at the gym and ate about 1500 calories for the day.

We are planning on doing a Half marathon at the end of April, it will be our second time to do it! So we are training for it. We aren't runners but are trying to become runners. This Saturday we have a 5k fun run we are doing and we plan on running a 1/4 mile and walking 1/4 mile till we finish it so we should end up running about half of it. Plus we are making plans to walk 13 miles sometime this week or next. Just so we have an idea of where we are at now. I think we have some kind of official run every month through June that we are planning on doing.

Feb. Runderground 5k
March for her a half marathon in cali for me the earlywine 5k dash
April OKC memorial half marathon
May Dirty Thirty
June Warrior Dash

We are still looking for things for the rest of the year too. We are trying to keep ourselves motivated and moving so we can finally meet our goals and be healthier versions of ourselves.

[MommaHoffa]

Oh I forgot, I sweated so much at the gym today I looked like I had peed my pants while laying down! My crotch was soaked and so was my whole backside. LOL I didnt know if I should laugh or cry so I laughed. It was so gross but no one can say I didn't work my behind off today!

[Miranda]

LOL - I've been there, done that! Now all my exercise pants are mostly black. The darker colors seem to hide the sweat better. Forget light gray! The dark gray, sweaty spots really stand out on those!

By the way, congrats on working up that kind of a sweat! That's what it takes!

[Rue]

Welcome back! I just don't have the energy to do those hard-core gym workouts! Good for you!!!

Do you think you need any change-ups to help you keep it off this go-around? I'm working on maintaining and always looking to hear what other people think they should/shouldn't have done...

[MommaHoffa]

I'm pretty sure my problem was/is food. I had stopped counting calories or paying attention to what or how much I was eating. There was just so much stress going on in my life I gave up worrying about what I was putting into my body. Plus when I was paying attention I was cooking two meals, one for me and one for my husband and kids. They refused to eat what I cooked for me. This time around I've told them if they don't want to eat what I've cooked they can fix their own dinner. The older kids seem to be doing ok with it so far and hubby is willing to at least try the food and sometimes modifies it or adds something more to it or picks out what he doesn't like. The younger ones, well we only see them every other weekend so so far hasn't been much of an issue yet. I have found a recipe for back chicken fingers so gonna give that a try soon. But when it's nice out Gregg will grill some chicken for us out on his smoker/grill and it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO yummy and doesn't add any extra calories for the extra flavor.
I also seem to have a problem with not eating enough when I workout hard. Like today I spent almost 3 hours at the gym today and burned about 1500 calories and so far have eaten 455 calories, that was breakfast. I know I need to eat more but am not really hungry, so I'm going to have to make myself go eat something, maybe a grapefruit. For some reason I eat less when I workout than when I don't. I'm just less hungry. So I have to keep an eye on under eating too. But my best friend and family try to help me be more aware of how much or little I am eating.

Today I wore my black pants so you didn't see all the sweat on my behind. LOL but I had it running down my arms and back and legs and when I ran on the treadmill there were splashes of sweat on the console. LOL I drank 3 20 oz bottle of water while I was there too. And I didn't do just cardio. I got in some crunches and reverse crunches and chest press and tricep extensions and tricep dips and leg extensions and hip abductors and hip adductors and kick backs, and I think I'm leaving something out. oh well. For cardio I did 65 min on treadmill then 20 min on this skater thing, then 25 on treadmill, then 20 on a crossramp elliptical, then 32 min on the treadmill. I can't stay on the elliptical type machines for more than 15-20 min at a time, my feet go numb, so I go back to the treadmill to wake them up. I've tried different shoes but it happens no matter what I wear, not sure why.

Ok well I've rambled on today. Miss Penny, the little one I babysit, has been being entertained by my 18 yr old son since she got here about 3.5 hours ago, while I was at the gym (Thank you very much Andrew!). So I suppose I should go relieve him and take over. He sounds like he's having fun in there with her though, they are playing peek a boo and giggling like crazy.

[Miranda]

Wow, awesome workout! You are kickin' it, girl! Don't worry about the lack of appetite. Your body will tell you when it's hungry. Also, I've found that when I exercise first thing in the am, it acts as an appetite suppressant. I don't get nearly as hungry when I exercise. Not sure why that is, but I try to make the most of it!

[MommaHoffa]

I've had problems with not eating enough since I had my daughter 16 years ago. When I was pregnant with her I had to be reminded to eat. Weird huh. But I'm getting better at remembering to eat now. Although I do skip meals from time to time. I think part of the problem now is I'm eating more veg and less carbs. So less calories are being taken in even if I eat the same amount of food. I'll get it worked out eventually. It's all about learning what I need.

Today I did my workout in the evening instead of the early morning. The gym I go to has started Zumba classes! So Cuppy, my best friend, and I went to the gym 2 hours before Zumba started. We did 65 min on the treadmill. We've been trying to run so we walked half a mile then ran .25 mile at a 5.8, then we walked about .25 and ran .15 at 5.8. After that we would walk a few minutes then run .10 at a 5.8. So we did interval running I guess.I wish I could run farther/longer but I'm just starting to really try so I guess I should give myself some slack. After the treadmill we got on this machine, I call it the skater thing lol, when you are on it the movement is like you are ice skating. We did that for 15 min. Then we still had about 30 min till Zumba class started so we went and sat in the room and stretched and rested. Oh MY COW! I didn't think we were going to be able to finish the class. LOL I think next time we won't workout right before we do Zumba. So I ended with 130 min of cardio and burned 1177 calories. I think that is pretty good. I ate 1509 calories today. I'm happy with myself today!

Night

[Rue]

Sounds like you're on a roll! Just don't do so much that you burn out...you need to have some exercise program you can do forever (lol, it can change though...you don't have to do the same one forever...)...

[MommaHoffa]

I know I tend to over do it when I do just about anything. I have to limit myself to no more than 3 hours of cardio a day otherwise I'd spend the whole day doing it. My husband and best friend help keep me in check. Plus I have started giving myself 2 rest days a week instead of 1. And once I get the weight off I am planning on reducing the workout time to about an hour a day, but we will see if I can keep it that low. lol

[MommaHoffa]

I love workout out on elliptical style machines but after about 10 min my feet and toes start to go numb and hurt. The pain is worse at the ball of my foot right under my toes. I usually push through about 15 min of it then get on the treadmill for about 30 min then get on another elliptical style machine. The gym I go to has about 4 different elliptical style machines that all work a little different but they all do it. Does anyone else have this issue?

[ianian]

I love workout out on elliptical style machines but after about 10 min my feet and toes start to go numb and hurt. The pain is worse at the ball of my foot right under my toes. I usually push through about 15 min of it then get on the treadmill for about 30 min then get on another elliptical style machine. The gym I go to has about 4 different elliptical style machines that all work a little different but they all do it. Does anyone else have this issue?

I mostly have a similar problem with feet after walking a few miles... I think most of all it has to do with a bunion ... perhaps they can be removed but I'm not sure.

That's a lot of minutes on the machines if I counted them correctly, btw.

[Rue]

Bunions can be fixed...but it's a painful surgery/recovery...so they usually don't recommend it unless the bunion/s gets so bad you can't function properly with it/them...

[ianian]

Right thanks for that info. The bunions I have are a real pain but not disabling at all so surgery wouldn't be a good choice right now.

I just got back from a 45 minute walk and not to much of a problem this time... seems to depend on what shoes I wear and if they are tight or not. Tied tighter seems to keep the pain from occurring as soon or as much.


Regards.