ihatemythyroid
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At least it the good news balances the bad. I have lost another pound this week! And I joined the Jillian Michaels program. It took calculations of what I currently weigh and my goal weight, how much I would like to lose each week and tabulated the minimum calories I can take in to reach this goal. She is really big on the "don't go below 1200 calories, EVER" thing, so what I have been doing before starting this program has been working, thanks to what I have learned here so far. At the end of each day, if I didn't meet the 1200 calories I would grab anything, even 16 animal crackers and a cup of skim milk to make it up. Weird, but it kinda felt more like a chore than enjoyable because I wasn't hungry. Her meal plans seem much more tasty than what I have been able to come up with on my own. My daily calorie intake should be around 1250 to reach this goal, and I can add 200-300 calories and still hopefully see a difference. Maybe not 2 whole lbs. but at least a loss. I am finally starting to feel the difference in my clothes!
The bad news: I weighed myself on my moms digital scale and it logged 4 lbs. higher than my dial scale. I went to Wal-Mart and weighed myself right there in the store and it read the same as my moms scale, so I bought a new digital scale. This was a blow because I thought I had conquered the 150's. So now I have to reset that stupid ticker.
I am getting to the point that I don't care what the scale says, I just want to see the difference in my body.
I hear Jillian kicks butt; today was my "off-day" and I really should have done cardio anyway, but I had a huge headache. I did swim with the kids for about an hour though. I am actually beginning to like cardio. I am finding it very enjoyable to challenge myself. Seems like the old me again. I also learned that I can burn just as many calories by doing a power walk of around 3.8 MPH constant (yes, this is power walk for me) than I burn walking at 3.3 MPH and jogging at 4.0 MPH every 5 minutes. I also learned the technique of strength training. Here I was using 5 lb. handweights doing like 5 sets of 25 reps and probably would have never moved on to the next step up.
I am still really motivated; I am going to try not to let what the scale says determine my mood. My sister in law was bragging in a very rude way yesterday because she lost 15 lbs. in 2 weeks because her "trainer" told her to start out eating 1000 calories her first week, drop down to 800 calories the second week and 600 for the 3rd week. And this is on top of her doing cardio for an hour everyday. I can't imagine a trainer told her that, but who knows. No wonder she is so bit@#y nowadays! Oh well, I have told her the dangers of playing around with her metabolism and if losing weight is more important than being healthy, okay whatever. IF I stay on course, which I will because I am so competitive with myself, I will be able to post my inbetween pics here in about 5 weeks or so. I just started this journey 3 weeks ago, and it seems like yesterday.
I am a little upset because my parents are taking me, my husband and kids to the beach this Wednesday and I AM NOT wearing a swimsuit! I really don't want to go, but everyone else is excited about it. I have already told everyone that I will be eating at least one meal at the nearest Subway, so don't sabotage what I am working hard to do. I have no idea how I am going to workout around this trip. I am going to miss 2 days of eating properly and working out. It's not that I think it will get me off-track or anything, but everyday counts to me. Everyday is important, and I want to do something everyday to reach my goal as quickly as possible.
The bad news: I weighed myself on my moms digital scale and it logged 4 lbs. higher than my dial scale. I went to Wal-Mart and weighed myself right there in the store and it read the same as my moms scale, so I bought a new digital scale. This was a blow because I thought I had conquered the 150's. So now I have to reset that stupid ticker.
I am getting to the point that I don't care what the scale says, I just want to see the difference in my body.
I hear Jillian kicks butt; today was my "off-day" and I really should have done cardio anyway, but I had a huge headache. I did swim with the kids for about an hour though. I am actually beginning to like cardio. I am finding it very enjoyable to challenge myself. Seems like the old me again. I also learned that I can burn just as many calories by doing a power walk of around 3.8 MPH constant (yes, this is power walk for me) than I burn walking at 3.3 MPH and jogging at 4.0 MPH every 5 minutes. I also learned the technique of strength training. Here I was using 5 lb. handweights doing like 5 sets of 25 reps and probably would have never moved on to the next step up.
I am still really motivated; I am going to try not to let what the scale says determine my mood. My sister in law was bragging in a very rude way yesterday because she lost 15 lbs. in 2 weeks because her "trainer" told her to start out eating 1000 calories her first week, drop down to 800 calories the second week and 600 for the 3rd week. And this is on top of her doing cardio for an hour everyday. I can't imagine a trainer told her that, but who knows. No wonder she is so bit@#y nowadays! Oh well, I have told her the dangers of playing around with her metabolism and if losing weight is more important than being healthy, okay whatever. IF I stay on course, which I will because I am so competitive with myself, I will be able to post my inbetween pics here in about 5 weeks or so. I just started this journey 3 weeks ago, and it seems like yesterday.
I am a little upset because my parents are taking me, my husband and kids to the beach this Wednesday and I AM NOT wearing a swimsuit! I really don't want to go, but everyone else is excited about it. I have already told everyone that I will be eating at least one meal at the nearest Subway, so don't sabotage what I am working hard to do. I have no idea how I am going to workout around this trip. I am going to miss 2 days of eating properly and working out. It's not that I think it will get me off-track or anything, but everyday counts to me. Everyday is important, and I want to do something everyday to reach my goal as quickly as possible.