Very frustrated

up to 138.2. I have gained 14 pounds total. I think my thyroid medicine must be out of wack. I just hate feeling so bloated and fat all of the time.

I decided last week to switch up my workouts. 2 hours a day at the gym wasn't making a difference and my son was spending too much time at the daycare there instead of with me. So we are only going 2 days a week now, and we are going to spend more time doing fun things like the zoo and park.

I am walking more outside, still running, and focusing more on yoga and pilates. And I started week 4 of WW but I don't do great on the weekends. I am hoping I am still retaining water from mexican food out on Sunday night,

Doing really bad

I have been working out hard, but had a very bad weekend. I am up to 138. That's it for now. Frustrated about it.

Body fat - so high

I met with one of the workers at my gym to put together a workout plan and do some measurements. I used a handheld machne that measured my bodyfat at 30%. Online it says that is borderline obese, so I am pretty sure that is wrong. I wear a tight size 6 for crying out loud and I do have a lot of muscle. I think maybe I am 27% or so. But I am motivated to work on my diet. She just modified my weight routine some, and kept me doing so much cardio.

Day 3 of WW, I know I am going to want to snack later. It definitely had been hard and only did an hour of weights today, so not much of a workout.

Starting WW again

This is actually day two. I just cannot seem to eat under 1550 calories a day just watching calories, so I think I will be more disciplined with WW.

I did good yesterday. Based on my points, I ate around 1200 calories. Today I will be eating more as I earned 6 activity points and I am going to eat them!

Tomorrow I am having the gym do my measurements, body fat, and tweak my workout. We will see how it goes.
Today I weighed in at 135.8.

133.8

So my other eating change is making sure to eat more calcium. I don't drink milk, and I usually only have 1-2 servings of dairy a day. Sometimes none. I have noticed in the past I lose weight faster if I eat dairy, and I read some studies in my fitness magazines recently that confirmed this.

Yesterday I had yogurt for breakfast, a skim latte, and some cheese with dinner.

Today I ran 3 miles, and I need to start doing some pilates soon.
Breakfast - english muffin with 1 teas peanut butter and water, strawberries 200 calories
Lunch - triscuits - 150, lettuce, carrots - 25, pepperjack cheese -100, chicken salad - 200, greek yogurt - 125

800 calories so far.
Tonight we are going to church and will probably try to noodles and co that is new by our place. We only eat out about once a week.

Starving after working out

So I have realized that most of my current problem stems from me being absolutely starving when I leave the gym. I will eat whatever is in the car, the diaper bag, plus much on things while I prepare lunch. I probably eat 200-300 extra calories this way. I am just so hungry after a 2 hour workout that I don't care.

So, I am thinking I need to eat a bigger breakfast. Most of the time I eat around 150-200 calories. An english muffin, a piece of toast or yogurt. I am not a big cereal person. I am thinking I need to eat a more, especially some protein. I am going to put pb on my Eng muffin and maybe cook an egg with my toast.

Yesterday I ate about 1650 calories. My downfall was 2 glasses of wine for 250 calories. Wine curbs my appetite and I was starving before dinner, so I thought it would tide me over. It did, but I still ate a normal dinner.

Today at the gym I did 30 minutes on the elliptical, 20 minutes on the treadmill with 3 minutes of sprinting, and 10 minutes on the bike. I rounded that off withe some abs, light arms, and stretching. On the way home I ate about 250 calories of crackers!!


Yesterday I also did the abs and arms section on my favorite pilates dvd while my son napped and we went on a 50 minute walk.

Breakfast - 150 - yogurt, 90 calorie skinny vanilla latte

Lunch - chicken salad - 200 (made with mostly plain lowfat yogurt and a little mayo. I liked it), crackers - 300
Dinner- A casserole of sometime. We will what I have time to make, as I still need to go to the grocery store.

134.4

So that is my official starting weight for the blog. A few days ago I was up about 2 more pounds after a huge restaurant meal this week.

Yesterday I did pretty good. I ate 1250 calories. I took a 30 minute spin class, did 30 minutes on the elliptical and did crunches.

Today so far:
snickers marathon bar and pineapple for breakfast: 225
snack - donut in a meeting. 250
lunch - homemade bean burrito, some yogurt. 400

So I am up to 875, so I have about 450 I can have for dinner.

Dinner- beer can chicken, roasted carrots and potaoes.

I had a meeting this morning, so did not make it to the gym. I do plan on taking Kellen for about a 45 minute walk this afternoon to get some cardio in.

Gained a bunch...

So I haven't posted in about 9 months, when I met my goal. I actually got down to 123.8 in October and ramped up my running. I was running 4-6 ish miles for my long run during the week.

Then I got a new job and started working a ton more hours, worked out much less, and ate about the same, 1600 calories a day. So low and behold, I am now up about 10 pounds.

I am working out a lot, but just not that motivated to cut calories. Part of it is because I am trying to get pregnant again, so I kind of feel like what's the point?

Today I ran 3 miles, did 30 minutes on the elliptical, and did abs and lower body weights. Now I am motivated to do my 10 minute upper body video,

Bye!