My Selfish Year, and the journey to skinny

OMG! I'm wearing my skinny jeans again today too! And they are even looser then the last time I wore them. Just a matter of time before I don't look like a circus freak in them. Sigh...I wish I had smaller calves though. that is the only part of them that are tight and it kinda makes the thighs of the jeans look funny...like...riding pants almost. I'm sure thats just my perception of it. But if there was leather on the inside of the knees, I'd be ready to ride.


I'm already planning my week off of work. How much beer is too much beer for a weeks supply? Just kidding, thats way too carby and caloric. I'll just buy a box of wine. But I don't want to drink too much because time off work is not as much fun when you're nursing a hangover everyday. I should know, thats how I spent two weeks in July when my brother came and visited. Too much beer, too much vodka and whisky and a daily hangover. Two weeks worth of it. I was so glad to go back to work.
 
Howdy friend from the great white north!


I just ordered the same scale. I cant handle one with split personalities anymore.


Sorry about your sickness, the flu diet sucks.


Got any new goals for Feb? Im athinkin (technical term) on mine.


You are doing good at jumping over lifes little speedbumps (like fried bread) and getting right back on track.
 
My first major weight loss goal that comes with a reward is on February 12th, the goal is to be below 240. Thats just 4 lbs away. I think I can do it! Some other February goals are to work out 15 times in the month of February, and I'd like to see my ass in my 16's and say goodbye to my largest pair of pants that have become a security blanket for me. No more big grey size 18 old navy perfect fit khakis. I've got other size 18's that were smaller compared to that pair, they are my largest pair of pants and I'm going to cut them up when they are out of the rotation.
 
Tonight I end the month of January in the year 2012, 16 lbs lighter, and in control of my eating. Technically I didn't start my journey until the 3rd of January, but, I was thinking about it from prior to new years.


This month I have been selfish in the following ways: quit the boards and committees that were eating up my time, turned down a business trip that would have put me on the road for 9 days, delegated the laboratory compliance and inventory to a sub so that I can go home at 5pm instead of being in the office till 7 or 8 at night, refused to provide junk food snacks to my sons soccer team, they get apples and cheese after games on saturday afternoons or nothing. I think I did pretty well. I'm sleeping better at night thanks to no late night meetings or work. Sleep is VERY selfish ;)


And tonight I reward myself for January's successes with some white wine and a turkey dinner lean cuisine. Can't wait to get to my first goal! February, I'm going to dominate you!
 
Just wanted to repost my goals to keep the fire alive!





2012 Goals: 1.4 lbs a week = 80 lbs: SW: 260


Goal Number 1: 7 weeks: less 20 lbs (largest goal)


240 by February 12, 2012

Reward: Coach Handbag



Goal Number 2: 7 weeks: less 30 lbs


230 by April 1, 2012

Reward: Recumbent Bike



Goal Number 3: 7 weeks: less 40 lbs


220 by May 20, 2012

Reward: New outfit: slacks, blouse, jacket



Goal Number 4: 7 weeks: less 50 lbs


210 by July 8, 2012

Reward: Shoes



Goal Number 5: 7 weeks: less 60 lbs


200 by August 26, 2012

Reward: Heels



Goal Number 6: 7 weeks: less 70 lbs


190 by October 14, 2012

Haircut, Highlights, mani-pedi



Goal Number 7: 7 weeks: less 80 lbs


180 by December 2, 2012

lip injections



Goal Number 8: Four Weeks:


Get as far below 180 as possible before 12/31/2012



UGW: 155


Reward:
 
Weigh in for February 1 is 242.2

how the hell did that happen? A loss of over a pound since Sunday. Well, I'm not complaining, I'll take it!


That leaves only 2.2 left until my first goal weight and that weigh in is not till the 12th so I may have to readjust my timeline. So I'm just going to call it a month today, even though I'm short a few days and say that I've lost 17.6 lbs in a month. Feels good to say that. I feel like I've accomplished something, and I've done it for myself, not anyone else and that makes it feel all the more better.
 
GOOD JOB!!!


230s here you come!


Then 220s


Think about this...In like 100 days you could be nearing the 100s.


Know how we do that? One day at a time!


When you go below 240 I will give you a big Texas YEEEEHAW! ( regional lonestar term of positive affermation)
 
Thanks Brawny! 100 days from today would be May 11th (I used google, don't get all impressed) and my goal for near that date would be 220, so if I made it close to onder-land by May 11th I'd really have to re-evaluate my goals. I told myself I would only sprint for loss for the first 20 lbs and then slow it on down. Because I didn't want to usual struggle to lose the lbs. But if its going to be this easy for the whole ride I have no excuse to not up my goals and change my timeline. BUT, I think the weight is coming off quickly right now and will slow down no matter how hard I try eventually. I'm sure once I do actually hit onder-land things will go by at a snails pace. When I was 164 lbs a few year ago, it took me 12 weeks to get down to 158. 12 long, hard, emotional weeks. and that was as low as I got. I immediatly went back up to the low 160's, hovered and maintained for about 8 weeks and then started gaining because I got a promotion, went back to school and filed for divorce all in the same month (next time I'll definitely wait till after I finish school to get a divorce, lol).


on another note, I figured out how to do my signature *points down* Not that I was trying but I finally got the spare time and build up of boredom to find the place to do it. Also, those dang ticker things don't work here do they? I wish they did, they soooo fancy, me wants.
 
You are doing so well!!! Keep up the good work! You won't have to wait long before you get your first treat!! I mistakenly got on scales today just to see how i was going ive not lost a penny! Will wait till next week now :)
 
Awesome work oldschool (on both the weight loss approaching your Feb 12 goal and the signature block :sifone:)


I like how you've set both goals and rewards along the way. Still have to figure out that reward thing myself.
 
Thanks everyone for the support! I feel like I've been dipped in awesome, dredged in awesome and then fried in awesome, to form a crispy awesome exterior to encase my mushy fat interior. Its...awesome.


Yesterday I entered my new weight into my calorie counter software and it downgraded the amount of calories I can eat in a day. I went from being able to eat up to 1900 calories to only being able to eat up to 1600. Booo! Hisssss! So last night I ate alllll the way up to 1600. It was a pretty low cal day until I got off work and then the munchies hit. I don't know if it was psychological because I knew I couldnt have as many calories as before, or if it was just because Wednesday night was a pretty hardcore TV watching night. Extreme tv watching. We watched so much TV mountain dew could have made a commercial about it. What can I say...it was ghost hunters night. And then face off. And then My 600 lbs life. And then I went to bed, but I couldn't sleep. I laid in bed awake until...well, I don't know the exact time I finally fell alseep but I know I listened to the furnace kick on and off about a dozen times.


aaaaanywaaay...


I've got no plan for today. I usually like to go into a day planning. Listing. Conspiring against the day to make it mine. Today, nada. I havn't been grocery shopping so I don't have any food to pre-prepare for the day. Except coffee. I've always got abundant amounts of coffee in stock. It seems to me that fly by the seat of thy pants type of days end in disaster. So, I'm going to try and minimize the disaster by not going to a restaurant at lunchtime and instead going to the store for healthy food. And I'll avoid the side of the store that has the deli and fried food hot line. Damn, why do they have to put the salad bar over there?
 
Congrats Old school! :) I'm happy to see you doing well. can I ask what software you use? I used a site that i list on the first post in my blog entry but i'm starting to worry that i've stopped losing weight and am maybe eating the wrong amount of calories, I'm going to try to finish out this week like I've been doing but after that, i might have to start doing something differently! I've stayed under 1500 calories every day, i jsut don't get it!


you're going to hit your goal weight in no time though, so happy 4 u!
 
I have an iPad so I downloaded the sparkpeople app (the one for entering your calories, fitness miutes and stuff...not the recipe app). its got some bugs but it automatically updates to the website which I use daily also for motivation and support so its awesome sauce (to dip my crispy awesome exterior in).
 
See....you are making a plan for not having a plan.


You gettin stronga girl!!


Hope you were able to get in a decent day.
 
It has been decent, in many good ways. I didn't even make it out of the office for lunch I had a co worker grab me some 200 calorie soup. I'm sitting at 370 cals for the day so far. I didn't go to the store because a behavioral health clinician position I've had posted suddenly had one hell of a badass candidate and I had to jump on interviewing ASAP. SO, I did. Hopefully I'll be making him an offer by the end of the day. Sometimes people come along that are just a perfect fit.


So, I'm seriously thinking about a cheat night. A coworker asked me if I wanted to come over and enjoy a bottle of wine with her and I'm thinking of bringing some cheese, crackers, olives and the like to go with it. mmmmm, cheese and wine.
 
Sounds like you could enjoy your night out and still stay within your calories since you're only at 370. Go for it! It's not everyday you find the perfect person for a job.
 
Such a good day ruined.

Had major IT problems right when I was heading out the door, spent some extra time waiting around for a technician and some customer service people to return my calls. Came home, made dinner, logged onto my Facebook to find a (now former) friend had left me a wall post demanding that I change my profile picture because it was ugly. It's a fucking picture of me. Who the fuck says that kind of shit? Not everybody is born gloriously beautiful, and not everybody photoshops their pictures to be somebody they're not. A mutual friend left a wall post on her page telling her her ugly insides are showing and she should crawl in a hole and hide. Anyways. That's my day. Ended at 1560 calories. Had brown rice and chicken veggie stir fry with peanut sauce for dinner and it was good.
 
OMG what an awful cretin!!! Glad you have disowned this previous "friend". She is clearly a very ugly person! Your tea sounds verry yummy, one of my friends says she thinks i should be american because one of my fave foods is peanut butter, (well i adore pretty much all nuts) and it aint very popular here. I'm at home today, poorly as manage to break some cartilage in my knee in the stupidest way ever! Ive been tossing and turning all night not slept much so spending day at home doing working with my little boy :)
 
Hey Old school,

Looks like you are doing well...sorry about the facebook picture episode..what a crummy "friend". Keep up the good work!
 
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