Mizzie's Journey to Being Healthy

Any luck finding some clothes for the new job? We went to the Tavern restaurant in Grand Marais and I'm not sure if it was the one you were talking about but it was really good and unique - lots of different things I wouldn't normally eat but it was all pretty healthy and yummy! We didn't get by the water because it was too chilly but maybe next summer! I really love that area.
Hope you are having a great start to your week! Keep up the hard work!
 
That's great to hear about the job! AND the weight still coming off! I know what you mean about getting bored with the exercise routines - I'm in the same boat. I really have to force myself to do it lately. And honestly, a lot of days it's easier to just say the heck with it and not even go and work out.

Hope you have better luck keeping at it than I've had lately!
 
Congrats on the job! Even if its temporary, its still some extra income for a bit :) And down another 1lb, amazing! Your goal is soooo close, I'm jealous, lol. Don't let the workout ruts get ya down... I'm the same way at the gym- I feel like I do the same thing so often that there isn't a point to it all. dumb, lol.
Have a great week!
 
Lisa - Yeah, the timing of the new job will work out well. Plus, I'll be home before she gets home, so no money going out to day care, which is good too. I did find some clothes, and spent a lot of money we don't have, but I got some good deals.

jjjay - Thanks! I didn't exactly find clothes for really cheap, but I did get some deals and it was SO much easier to find clothes in my size. I can't believe how much more fun it is to clothes shop when I know the stores carry my size, it's a world apart.

Andy - Welcome back, man! I've missed you! Yeah, I'm still trucking along on this. Glad to hear you are getting back on the right track too, you've come so far.

jessiefied - Thank you! It's really true, you know. If I can do it, anyone can. Honestly. Good luck!

Tigpuppy - Yeah, it's hard. I have missed so many workouts lately that there are more days that I do than days that I do. I need to work on that, really. It's terrible.

Jess - Thanks! The extra income will be nice. And I do need to just kick my own butt and get back to the gym. Funny how I never got bored with sitting on the couch with a book and a bag of chips, huh? :p

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Well, like I said, I haven't really been working out much lately. I really need to get back to that, I'm starting to feel like a slug. Plus, it helps maintain the healthy mindset, you know? I don't want to eat junk because I don't want to undo my workout.

Eating this week has been a kind of all over. I had an unofficial, unearned free day on Sunday. I just wanted to eat. Mostly it wasn't too bad, until I got in the cheese and crackers before bed. Bla! Plus, I made chocolate chip cookies last week and I haven't been able to stay out of them. It's bad. I think I had one day where I actually went over maintenance. Otherwise, I've been over my limit, but under maintenance, for the most part. Still, without exercising, I'm not sure what the scale will show this week.

Ugg...
 
Hiiii Mizzie :)

I hear ya about the feeling of being in a rut. Working out is another way for me to remind myself how bad junk is. Its like, when I went out to happy hour with coworkers last week, I had to ask myself if I REALLY wanted to exercise for 2 hours to burn off those complimentary burritos.

Anyways, each day is a new day to get back on track. Though I personally think you are doing so well :):)

Have a great day Mizzie!
 
:party: Oh my goodness Mizzie you are doing SOOO well! You are going to make your mini goal for your birthday for sure! You must look like a competley different person. And congrats on your new job! It will look great on your resume. And even though you say your money could of went to better things then work clothes it must of felt amazing to buy much smaller sizes for your new body! I have 15-20 pounds left to go too, lets kick some butt together, I'm hoping some of your hard work and dedication rub off on me a bit. Keep working hard. I am so happy for you!
 
Andy - Thanks. I really do need to get back to it. In fact, I'm going to hit the gym as soon as I'm done with this post. And I didn't make that decision until just now, lol. I think I am doing well over all, but this last week or two has been sort of blah. More on that later.

Janvier - Lol, thanks. I don't think I look like a different person, but I have been told that I do. A few weeks ago someone even told me that I was "getting so tiny". :eek: Tiny isn't a word that I've heard about me since... ever. I don't think I'm tiny, I have big thighs and arms and a roll-y tummy. yuck I don't see that much difference in myself, although I know it's there. It's just that I see myself every day, you know? Anyway, I am all for kicking each other's butt for the last 15 pounds or so! I'm going to need it, because I've been slacking.

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UGG!!! I'm so disgusted with myself right now. I weighed in at 165.2 this morning, so .2 pounds UP from last week. Ok, now I know that is such a tiny amount and all, but I can't even claim that it's water weight or whatever. It's real weight and I know it. I haven't exercised once and my calories have been all over the place. I didn't track calories a couple of days because I just didn't want to know. So, I earned that .2 pounds and I fully know it.

GRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!! :banghead:

It's not even that I gained. I know that it's next to nothing and I can lose it easy. It's more that I let myself go this week. I had a couple of good days, but what good were they? I undid them with my bad days. I wasted this week, I'm a week further from my goal and it's my own fault for being weak and lazy. I could have been at 163 today, if I hadn't been such a slug all week.

Ok, it probably sounds like I'm being hard on myself, but I have to be. I'm the kind of person who could easily gain it all back and I don't want to do that. It's a fear of mine, trust me. And I'm way to close to my goal to let myself fall apart now. What I need is a good butt kicking! Plus, I did badly this week, I know it, and I'm mad at myself for it. Hey, at least I'm not making excuses, right?

So, what I need is for everyone to come in here and yell at me to get my snacking under control and get off my butt and exercise. Tough love; bring it on.

Ok, off to the exercise room for this lazy slug!
 
I too have been having trouble with this last 10 to 15 lbs and have been really slacking lately. I was SO GOOD for months, had super human iron will power all the time! Now I just can't seem to find that inner strength lately.

If someone finds mine, please send it home. I NEED IT!!!

I'm sure your next week will be better than the last - enjoy the gym!
 
Tigpuppy said:
I was SO GOOD for months, had super human iron will power all the time! Now I just can't seem to find that inner strength lately.
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Exactly! What's up with that? For months I would turn my nose up and walk away from all my favorite foods and now I can't resist even the things I don't like very well. Doesn't make sense at all.

In other news, I did go to the gym and worked myself silly. Felt SO much better when I was done. Not to mention, rather proud of myself. Why do I skip my workouts again? It feels so good to get them done. *sigh* Another thing that doesn't make sense.

Next week's weigh in is going to rock, I'm going to make sure of it.
 
Hey Mizzie! Wow you are almost to the 150's.....Have you tought of trying a playground workout?? You can use the jungle gym as your workout machine while watching your daughter play....they have a few video on You Tube....and as soon as my son is a bit older and stop trying to eat rocks I want to start doing those....well in the spring summer and fall winter I will have to resigne myself to something at home. Congrats about the job....you knever what doors a temporary job can open for you, you meet people and if a position opens you will have your foot in the door there. You can do this Mizzie I know you have it in you!
 
Hey Mizzie, thanks for commenting on my diary :)

Even if you have felt you've been slacking off the last week, think of how far you've come! I would be so proud and so excited to be where you are.

I would guess that people start to slow down and slack off in the last 15 lbs because they've been putting so much hard work in for so long that things begin to grind and they end up getting a little disinterested - I think that's just part of being human! Does that ring true for you?

Maybe you need reinspire yourself - try some new recipes? try a new kind of exercise? Just some ideas :D

I'm sure you'll do great this coming week and you'll shake off that bad patch.

All the best x
 
Tigpuppy said:
I too have been having trouble with this last 10 to 15 lbs and have been really slacking lately. I was SO GOOD for months, had super human iron will power all the time! Now I just can't seem to find that inner strength lately.

If someone finds mine, please send it home. I NEED IT!!!

I'm sure your next week will be better than the last - enjoy the gym!
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I hear ya on that :( I'm the same. You guys are not alone!! Keep fighting Mizzie <3
 
Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. This week I'm feeling the weight loss thing a little more. It might have helped that I got a lot of nice comments over the weekend about it. Makes me motivated to work harder. lol

I've been doing a new thing with my calorie counting. I track my calories at LiveStrong and I like it. But I had my activity level set at "moderate", which is exercising 3-5 times a week. That's fine, when I'm a good girl, but I'm not always. So I set it at "lightly active" (computer work, etc) and anything extra I do gets tracked separately. I think that will work better for those times when I take a break from exercising.

Anyway, today has me amused. I haven't had dinner yet and I usually eat kind of light for breakfast and lunch because dinner is the family meal and my hubby does most of the cooking. It's easier to save most of my calories for that. Well, this afternoon hubby and I played tennis for 45 minutes then we went for a walk when our daughter got home from school. So, I put those in the list, along with my food eaten, and I still have all my calories left!

As in, I've eaten 470 calories and I've burned (through exercise) 479. LOL I could pig out at dinner to compensate, but I won't. Normal dinner will put me at about 1300 calories eaten, but 479 burned. Yea! :hurray:

In other news, I was called "tiny" today by a skinny woman who I had just met. It tickled me, I have to say. I started my new job today (more on that later) and the HR person gave me a company shirt to wear on Fridays. Anyway, she was going to grab one for me, kind of looked at me and said "You're pretty tiny, so what size do you want?" LOL Maybe she always says that, but it still made my day. I wouldn't say needing a XL shirt is "tiny", but still.

First day on the job went well. I think I'll like it eventually, but right now I'm feeling a little brain dead. All that new information... I feel dumb. :confused: But once I get it, I think it'll be ok.
 
Hey Mizzie! Glad you got your positive thinking back this week! I'm not going to be on for a while but will be back occassionally to update and read how you are doing!! Keep going - you are so close! Take care friend.:seeya:
 
Hey there! How's it going? I'm going thru a few diaries trying to catch up since I haven't had time for a few days.

Hope your new job continues to go well and that you are still liking it. I couldn't imagine getting up every day to go to a job I didn't like - I just couldn't do it.

Enjoy your day!
 
Thanks guys!

Work is going well. I had a pretty good day today, actually. I was feeling very overwhelmed yesterday, but today I realized that I am actually getting some of this, so it's all good. I do think I'll like it once I get the hang of it all, though. Too bad it's only temporary. :(

I didn't get to exercise today, but that was a time issue. I would have had time to exercise, but not shower and such before I had a meeting at my daughter's school. (parent orientation) I did cut my calories accordingly, though.

Yesterday's workout rocked though! I'm actually looking forward to it tomorrow! O_O Can you believe that? And I didn't even really switch anything, just got some new music on my iPod. That's helped a lot, oddly. Yesterday I saw myself in the mirror and I was actually happy. In part because of how my body has changed, but also because of the look I had on my face. I was sweaty and red, yet I looked determined and excited. Like, strong and ready to take on the world. It was odd, but really cool.

I don't know if I explained that right, but maybe someone will know what I mean. :p
 
The new music makes a big difference, I've noticed :) I have like 6 different playlists on my zune and try to use a different one every time. Works pretty well!
Even tho the job is temporary, give it all ya got and have fun with it. ya never know, they may have a position open up later on :)
 
Jess - I should do that with my iPod. I do have a lot of different playlists, but only one for exercising. It's full of all my fast, heart pumping music. lol


Well, my weigh in went good this morning. I lost 2 pounds this last week, so yea for that! There is part of me that thinks I should have lost a little more, since I was under calories nearly every day AND I exercised nearly every day. But I'll take it. Only 3.4 more pounds to reach my mini goal and I have two weeks. Do-able, but I'll have to be as good the next two weeks as I was this last one. I SO want to be in the 150's by my birthday, even if it's just 159.8. That would be a wonderful birthday present to myself.

Only 13.4 pounds to go to reach my big goal! :hurray: That's a little insane to me. It seems like so much weight and so much work when I started out. Now I'm inching ever closer and it's hard to believe that this is really real. I've really done it (almost).
 
mizzie said:
Only 13.4 pounds to go to reach my big goal! :hurray: That's a little insane to me. It seems like so much weight and so much work when I started out. Now I'm inching ever closer and it's hard to believe that this is really real. I've really done it (almost).
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Yes you have! And that's awesome! I'm sure you'll have no trouble dropping the last bit to make your goal!
 
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