Mizzie's Journey to Being Healthy

Well, I got a surprise this morning. I was just lazing about, thinking that I really need to change and get to the exercise room, when the phone did the special ring saying that someone was in the entry way (of the apartment building). It was my mom... O_O Apparently she had a dentist appointment here this morning and was stopping by after that. My daughter and I were both still in our pj's and the apartment was a totally mess! *sigh* Oh well. I was happy to see her, but a little embarrassed. lol

She didn't stay long, then I went to the exercise room like a good little girl. I really didn't want to go. It's hot and my back hurt (we need a new mattress badly!!!), but we went. I'm glad I did now, but I'm feeling lazy again and I don't want to clean. Wah!

haha. SUPRISE! Love visits like that.

"oh, you're coming over? ok, what time? YOU'RE DRIVING DOWN MY STREET? *click*"


GJ on the workout - I totally hear you about it being WAY too hot outside. Had to shift from going out in the evenings to going out in the mornings. Anyways, mainly stopped by to send good vibes on the potential job! GOOOOD LUCK MIZ!
 
Hey Mizzie!

I am sending you good vibes so that a job comes your way soon! I have been stuck in the 170's for longer then I want to think about, but don't give up we will get to the 160's soon!!! Mabe our bodies need to adjust plus you have the job hunting stress that makes weight harder to loose! You can do it, Great work outs!!!!!
 
Andy - Exactly. Except that she was already at the door! I didn't even have time to do the 90 mph clean of the house. Oh well, at least it was just my mom, it would have been disastrous if it had been my grandma!

Verobc - Thanks! I'm really hoping to find something soon. Although I'd have to readjust my workouts, since I like doing them in the morning, but I wouldn't be able to before work since the exercise room wouldn't be open. But I could work around that.

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Gah, someone yell at me. I really don't want to go exercise today. Part of it is that I have a lot I need/want to get done today. Laundry, cleaning, daughter needs a bath, errands... and all that before 5:30 because we are going to me grandma's for dinner tonight. I know, I know, get off the computer, go do my workout and then get it done!

Wah, I don't wanna! :nopity:
 
You will feel so much better if you go!!! The scale will like it too!!
I understand your frustration with the scale lately - maybe it's from the humidity? It's super humid here lately.
That's so awesome about the scuba gear! I love seeing people meet their goals and get their rewards - you totally deserve it! I should have set a reward for reaching 140 and maybe I wouldn't have given up so easily once my weight started creeping back.
If you haven't made a decision about the shoes yet I would take them back and keep looking. You want to make sure you have a good fit so you don't hurt yourself - especially since your increasing your running.
Keep going Mizzie - I'm sure next month the scale will be nicer to you! Keep it up and hopefully you made the right call in going to the workout room!!!
 
Gah, someone yell at me. I really don't want to go exercise today. Part of it is that I have a lot I need/want to get done today. Laundry, cleaning, daughter needs a bath, errands... and all that before 5:30 because we are going to me grandma's for dinner tonight. I know, I know, get off the computer, go do my workout and then get it done!

Wah, I don't wanna! :nopity:

Quit your belly aching and march into that gym lady! /shakes fist


On a serious note, Ive been bit by the lazy bug too! Hiked a mountain monday morning, since then............. :3

But you know as well as I do if you actually force yourself to just WALK into the gym, you instantly feel better about doing it. In my experience, the tough part is getting up from the couch first :S
 
C'mon Mizzie get off the computer and into the gym.....you will feel better after! Do what you can today! You could always bring your daughter bath stuff at your grandma and then you could give her a bath after diner!! That is what I do for my kiddos when we eat else where!!!
 
Bah, I should have listened to all of you! But I didn't. I do have a reason though, hear me out. I was stressing so much about the things I need to get done, plus the fact that the house was a total mess and that was bothering me badly. So I decided to get to work on my list of stuff, then I would exercise if I had time before we had to leave. Well, I ran out of time, but my chores are done and the house is passable.

Had a blast at my grandma's! All of my aunts and uncles on that side were there, for the first time in I don't know how long. And most of my cousins and their children as well. It was almost a family reunion. I have no idea at all on my calories, but I had 1000 left for the day before we went and didn't eat myself silly. I kept portions small and avoided the wine and soda altogether. Stuck to water. So I don't think I did too much damage.

I hit it hard this morning though! We even went a little early because I was afraid that I would get all whiny about not wanting to go. When I miss a day, it's so easy to want to skip another.

Oh, I have to tell you all this though. I had told my daughter that she could be my personal trainer to "help mommy get healthy". (I don't want her to become weight focused at 6 years old, so I talk about getting healthy instead of losing weight) And I told her that when I don't want to go, she could yell at me to go.

Well, yesterday afternoon it suddenly dawned on her that we hadn't gone. So she comes up to me and says "Mom, exercise!" I told her that we were out of time and I was too busy, but she told me to "get up, get your exercise stuff on and go, young lady!" :smilielol5: I had a really hard time convincing her that I really couldn't at that point. Then today, she wanted to make me do the whole routine twice to make up for it! Dang, and you think Jillian is tough? You haven't met my daughter! The only thing that stopped her glaring at me to do it twice was when I explained that it would be too much and I could hurt myself. LOL

Cutest personal trainer ever!
 
LOL I think it's sooo cute that your daughter takes her personal trainer job so seriously lol!!!! We should introduce our daughters I also think mine could give Gillian a run for her money!!!!! I also tell my daughter that mommy changed her way of eating to get healthy and I hate when she catches me on the scale, but I did explain to her that mommy hadn't been carefull with her health that is why I have to keep track of my weight now. She even asked me why I was doing it now I told her I wanted to be fit so I can keep up with her! I think we should probably follow our own words you know foccus on health and fitness and weight loss can just be a bonus of that! Something to think about!!!! Great job on getting to the gym today!!! Familly reunion are fun, good job for staying away from wine and soda!!!
 
That post about your daughter is so adorable! I want to hug her just thinking about it! So cute! Well I would say keep it up while I'm on holidays but I know your daughter won't let you slip! Take care and I'll see you in a few weeks!!:seeya:
 
Verobc - Yeah, it was seriously cute! And really hard to explain to her satisfaction why I couldn't go. As I joke I asked her this morning if I should go or not and she pulled that serious face again and ordered me out of the apartment. And I know what you mean about trying to explain the weight part of it, but I did about what you did. I told her that I let myself get unhealthy, which also made me gain weight. So, for me, part of getting healthy is working on that.

Lisa - Lol, she'd hug you right back, she loves people. And don't worry about me. It's like I'm living on that new show Jillian has out where she goes and lives with people. Have a blast and see you in a few weeks!!!

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So, the weigh in for today is 173.4, which is an even 2 pounds lost. I'm pretty pleased with that, especially with the last month or so. Ok, so it's not the whoosh I was hoping for, but I also have my TOM now, so 2 pounds down is good!

Got in a good workout this morning. Believe me, my daughter wasn't about to let me miss it again! And now I have to go clean up my kitchen so I can make an angel food cake. YUM!!! We are getting together with my close friend and her husband tomorrow and I'm bringing dessert. I'm also bringing strawberries and cool whip, but I'm an angel food cake purist. I like mine plain.

This friend of mine is pregnant with twin boys, about 6 months along, and I haven't seen her since she got pregnant. (we live a few hours away and they've had a really hard year. They lost their 15 month old daughter last August when she choked at daycare, so they haven't been up to visiting much for a while.) Also, she hasn't see me, obviously, since I've started to lose weight. I'm very excited to see them again!

Well, got to go, tons of things to get done!


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Oh my gosh, I almost forgot the best part! As of this morning I've lost 46.4 pounds and I knew that was close to what my daughter weighs, so I had her jump on the scale... 46.4 pounds! I've officially "lost" my daughter!!! ^_^
 
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Oh man, I'm worried about my weigh in this week. In the last week I've had three days where I just couldn't count calories (one day at my grandma's, one day with hubby's homemade pizza and one day at my friend's house). I know on those days I eat more than I should. I don't stuff myself or anything, but I'm sure calories are over. I guess I'm just hoping for a loss, and I doubt it'll be 2 pounds. *sigh*

Had a lot of fun at my friend's house though! It was so great to see her again. She's getting so big, too. I can't wait until she has her boys.

Oh, and she knew I was losing weight, but she said that she could really see it and we talked about it a bit. I think she is really the last person who hadn't seen me since I've started this. At least, the last person who knows me well enough to see the difference and comment on it.

Anyway, now I have to go have breakfast and get my butt to the exercise room.
 
Ugg, today is bad! It actually started out really good, went to the exercise room and did my thing there. I was feeling pretty good about it too. Then hubby (who took yesterday and today off work) suggested salad for lunch, so my lunch was only around 100 calories and had some veggies. Yum! I had 1300 calories left for the rest of the day! :D

Then we went to the county fair in the afternoon, where we walked around quite a bit and I managed to avoid the cheese curds, funnel cakes, ice cream and deep fried candy bars (could there be anything less healthy???) But I did have a snow cone and bought a large bag of kettle corn to bring home.

Then, we had to run to the mall for a few things around dinner time and we decided to go to the pizza place. Great.... Thing is, I can't complain, because it sounded really, really good to me. I had 3 pieces, but they cut the pieces really thin there. My daughter had 5! lol Then I had more kettle corn in the evening. *sigh*

My best guess is that I'm somewhere between my calorie limit and maintenance, so it's not the end of the world, but I'll never lose 2 pounds this week if I do that. New limit: one bowl of kettle corn a day and that's in place of my usual snack (around 100 cals), NOT in addition to!!!
 
Hey Mizzie you are doing so great and you have caught up to me!!!!! Deep Fried Candy bar???? There is such a thing???? Good job on skipping all the junk...sometimes when there are special occasion it's ok to "induldge" on that day! Good Job on the work out!!
 
Hey Mizzie, I've been MIA lately but i just caught up with your blog and it sounds like your still kicking some ass! I wish i had someone like your daughter yelling at me to get up and move!
 
Oh, I have to tell you all this though. I had told my daughter that she could be my personal trainer to "help mommy get healthy". (I don't want her to become weight focused at 6 years old, so I talk about getting healthy instead of losing weight) And I told her that when I don't want to go, she could yell at me to go.

Well, yesterday afternoon it suddenly dawned on her that we hadn't gone. So she comes up to me and says "Mom, exercise!" I told her that we were out of time and I was too busy, but she told me to "get up, get your exercise stuff on and go, young lady!" :smilielol5: I had a really hard time convincing her that I really couldn't at that point. Then today, she wanted to make me do the whole routine twice to make up for it! Dang, and you think Jillian is tough? You haven't met my daughter! The only thing that stopped her glaring at me to do it twice was when I explained that it would be too much and I could hurt myself. LOL

Cutest personal trainer ever!

First of all, this is about the cutest post I've ever read on this site, lol! Adorable. Second, I always see your posts so I finally decided to pop in :) I didn't read through your whole diary as there are a load of pages, but I do hafta say congrats- you are incredibly inspirational! Already 40ish lbs down?! Amazing.. I'm jealous, lol.
 
Verobc - Yes. Yes there is. Isn't that the most unhealthy thing you've ever heard of? I believe they had Snickers and a few other kinds. And they literally take the candy bar, put a stick on it, dip it in batter (similar to corn dog batter, I think), and deep fry it. Part of me wants to try one some day and the other part of me is afraid of the instant heart attack and 5 pound gain. lol

heather - Thanks! I don't feel like I'm kicking too much ass, since it's been kind of slow lately. But I'm trying. And yeah, everyone needs a child like this at home, they'd never be able to skip a work out.

Jess - Thanks for dropping by! I have a hard time seeing myself as inspirational, but you are so sweet to say so! ^_^

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This week is going to be harder for me to exercise. My daughter is visiting her grandparents for the week. I'll have to kick my own butt and go. lol I am going to go today, just as soon as I finish this post, actually.

But I didn't go yesterday. To be fair, I really didn't have time. My little brother was visiting a friend of his that lives in my town and my mom wanted to know if I'd bring him back home yesterday. As a bonus, she said she'd take me out for lunch. So by time I got up, I really only had time to eat, shower and dress before I had to go get him so I could be there by lunch time. Then I stayed pretty much the whole day. My mom only lives an hour away, but I never get to see her.

She had a lot of really nice things to say about how I look now, and it was really nice to hear it. I'm having a hard time realizing that I'm not an obese cow anymore. I'm still overweight, but not by too horribly much. I'm less a "fat girl" and more just "chubby". It's hard for my head to realize that. When I'm dressed, I look ok, but I still see myself in the mirror before a shower and I see rolls of fat. Seems like after losing nearly 50 pounds, there wouldn't be so many rolls still. But every one of them are still there, just smaller.

*sigh*

On the plus side though, and please don't take this the wrong way, I found out something awesome yesterday. My mom isn't fat. She maybe has a little weight to lose, but 20 pounds tops. I've never seen her as fat and since I've gained all this weight, I've always felt my mom was kind of judging me and disappointed about it. Even though she never said anything.

Anyway, we got to talking about my clothes now and I told her that she would probably keep seeing me in the same 3 shirts because they were the only ones that fit nicely. I still wear the rest, but not when I'm going to see someone because they look horrible on me. I look fatter than I am because they are so baggy. She asked what size shirt I'm wearing now (XL, down from XXXL!) and when I told her she said she had a ton of XL shirts that don't fit her anymore... they are too small! She pulled a bunch out of her closet and I tried them on and they all fit!!! I think I brought home about 20 shirts. Mostly tee shirts, but some that I could wear to work when I get a job.

It was really fun to get a bunch of shirts that fit, and for free too! I looked so much nicer in them. AND, and this is the part that I don't want you to take the wrong way, I'm skinnier than my mom!!! Not that I'm saying "nah, nah, you're fat mom!" because I'm not. Not at all. She's not fat, and that's the point. She's not fat, but I could take the clothes that don't fit her anymore and wear them. Oh wow, I'm not fat either. And I don't have to feel like she's secretly judging me and disappointed in how fat I am.

And I didn't realize how much I worried about that until I didn't have to any more. Plus... a whole bunch of new clothes! Ones that fit! YEA! :hurray:
 
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Ok, so apparently I have some kind of mental issue about my workouts. I feel like if I didn't do my whole routine, in full and exactly the way I've done it before, I cheated somehow.

Ok, take today for example, I get to the exercise room and start the Couch to 5K thing, but I just wasn't feeling it today. It wasn't that it was hard or that I didn't want to exercise, I was just bored with it mostly. Which is kind of odd, since yesterday I was loving it and felt so powerful and strong while I did it. Anyway, I did about 5 minutes, then a few minutes of just power walking and gave it up. I went once around the room doing the weight lifting, but I just didn't feel like doing that either. (I usually go around 3 times)

I decided that I'd rather take a bike ride, so I came home and got my bike. Went for about a 30 minute ride. All in all, I did about 50 minutes of exercise (including the walk to and back from the building with the exercise room). I usually do about an hour with my normal routine, so I didn't exactly skimp on it. Yet, I feel like I didn't really exercise today. Like I skipped out or half assed it. A bike ride is a legitimate form of exercise, it's not like I sat here and watched TV instead. And I went at a good speed too. I was dripping sweat and my legs were burning by time I got back. Now, of course, it's really humid here and I'd probably sweat like crazy just laying on the grass, but still.

So why do I feel guilty?
 
Probably because it wasn't your INTENDED workout. I do the same thing now and then, and I feel weird about it too. No worries! You DID workout, you DID sweat, and you DEFINITELY burned calories, even if it wasn't the couch to 5k workout you set out for :) Don't feel guilty!
 
I don't know why but if I find myself enjoying a workout....then I feel like I wasnt working out and I feel guilty ......weird wirring in our brains I guess! Good job on the workout Mizzie....and I totally feel the same way when I give my mom my now too big clothes! Wow you are doing so great!!!
 
*grumble, grumble, grumble*

I'm so frustrated today! I don't think I'll ever get out of the 170's. It's my "official" (to me) weigh in today and I lost a whole whopping 0.2 pounds. :banghead:

And I could handle that if I knew I had been bad, but I looked over the last two weeks and I've kept the calories right where they should be. Typically around 1500 or just under. There was one 1800 day, but then there was one 1300 day too.

AND, I've exercised 4-5 days weekly. Yes, there have been a few days missed, but there have also been a few unscheduled activities, so that really should balance.

It's not my TOM, I haven't been eating a lot of sodium heavy stuff and I've been drinking a lot of water. There's nothing to account for it!

Yeah, I know, I know, this type of thing just happens sometimes. But I thought I was out of the plateau, with 2 pounds lost the last two weeks. I've been in the 170's since the middle of June, that's nearly 2 months ago. I suppose that's normal for a lot of people and I know that weight loss slows down, but I didn't think it would be an abrupt jump from 2 pounds a week to less than half a pound a week over night.

If I don't see 160 something soon, I'm afraid I'll do something desperate. No idea at this time if that's eating a whole ice cream cake by myself or exercising dawn until dusk for a week.

*grumble*

Ok, I'm being over dramatic. I'm just thoroughly frustrated.
 
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