New goals met

Sometimes when you make small goals it makes this weight loss journey bearable.  Today I met a few.  I hit 25,000 steps earning a new badge for fitbit.  With an end day of 26,200 steps (12.8 miles)
Next I was able to do 3 miles without stopping.  It took me 32 mins.  but I DID NOT STOP!  Which is a great accomplishment since I haven’t really ran since the army 15 years ago.  My lungs burned and by the time I was done I realized that my shoes need replacing.  But I DID NOT STOP…go me!

I also discovered and awesome app called Runkeeper.  Which tracks your running, hiking, walking, jogging or biking.  It’s a nice little app.  Tells you your route, distance, pace and calories burned.  You can still run the app and my couch 2 5k and my music at the same time.  Which is fabulous.  So I have added running/jogging to my exercise routine in the hopes to stay on target for my weight goal.  Here goes nothing. ( I was sweaty, wind blown hair and pretty much exhausted like this pic.  SCORE!)
My next goal?
Signing up for the Color me Rad 5k.  I am hoping to rope a few friends into it.

New goals met

Sometimes when you make small goals it makes this weight loss journey bearable.  Today I met a few.  I hit 25,000 steps earning a new badge for fitbit.  With an end day of 26,200 steps (12.8 miles)

Next I was able to do 3 miles without stopping.  It took me 32 mins.  but I DID NOT STOP!  Which is a great accomplishment since I haven’t really ran since the army 15 years ago.  My lungs burned and by the time I was done I realized that my shoes need replacing.  But I DID NOT STOP…go me!

I also discovered and awesome app called Runkeeper.  Which tracks your running, hiking, walking, jogging or biking.  It’s a nice little app.  Tells you your route, distance, pace and calories burned.  You can still run the app and my couch 2 5k and my music at the same time.  Which is fabulous.  So I have added running/jogging to my exercise routine in the hopes to stay on target for my weight goal.  Here goes nothing.

My next goal?

Signing up for the Color me Rad 5k.  I am hoping to rope a few friends into it.

Here Piggy Piggy: A new number

So I have learned on this weight loss journey that you have to have patience.  There seems to be more plateaus than losses closer to the end. But it’s the perseverance that pays off.   I listen to a lot of people who are on this same journey that just give up.  Saying what’s the point I just can’t lose.  Stop listening to those people.  Don’t let their negativity keep you from your dream.  Do your best to encourage them to continue but don’t let them convince you to give up too.   So after yo-yoing back and forth between 5 lbs. for the last 2 months.  I finally lost a pound and saw a new number.  I worked hard to see that new number.  So for all of those people in my life who told me to give up.  POOP on you. 
EXACTLY
For my friends who gave up already and refuse to get back on track…

For those I know who keep doing these crash diets and workouts.  Until you realize this you will never succeed…
For those that are battling their weight on a daily basis.  Keep up the hard work. 

And for my friends who fall off the wagon.  It happens.  Don’t beat yourself up.  It’s never over.  Just get back up and try harder.  Never be a quitter!  This is hard.  If it was easy people wouldn’t give up so easily.  You fall off one day…get back up and work out the next.  When you look back 2 years later you are going to be so proud of yourself.  I know I am.  I don’t want to go back to that me.  I feel better.  I have more energy and even a new wardrobe.

1 pound loss!  I am still in the right direction!  It’s taking me a lot of time.  Took me almost 2 years to lost 35lb but I did it.  I fell down a lot but got right back up.  So never forget that.  Determination pays off…how bad do you want it?

Here piggy piggy: Quit complaining and updates

Well it has been awhile since I have updated.  I have lost 26 pounds since I started about a year ago.  The last 18 have been since October.  I am really proud of myself.  I know that I will have to eat healthy for the rest of my life and continue to have an active lifestyle.  I know this is a life change not just a phase.  If I want to keep it off I will always have to work hard.  The problem I am having is those that jumped on the band wagon and are not doing so well.  I have tried to be supportive, give suggestions and told them the program that I am doing.  Which is free.  I even gave them dvd names and invited them to join me at the gym.  5bucks a day when you go with me.  Not to bad.  When I invite them they are always busy or too tired. When it’s time to weight I always here I have been bad this week.  Which is turning into every week.  What really irritated me was when I was asked how much have I lost so far and I told the person.  The other person commented it’s not as easy for me as it is for you.  What the hell?  I do work my ass off.  I do have bad days but I don’t wallow in self pity.  I just pick up and do better the next time.  I listen to suggestions of others that have succeeded.   I want this bad enough.  I am tired of being tired.  Tired of my knees hurting!  Tired of looking like a fat blimp in clothing.  I empowered myself to lose weight.  I didn’t try to starve myself or get the quick fix like the others were.  You can’t eat 400 calories a day and expect to stay on that diet.  You can’t continue to eat at fast food restaurants and expect to lose.  It’s a life change.  If you don’t honestly record every calorie then you are cheating on your diet.  The only person it hurts is yourself.  I don’t care if you cheat.  Doesn’t hurt me one bit.  But what pisses me off is people running their mouth making it sound like it was easy for me.  I sweated my ass off.  I went to the gym after work and gave up Starbucks 450 calorie drinks.  I swore off McDonald's.  So until you do that don’t tell me how hard it is.  Still eating what you want isn’t hard at all.   I will be happy to help anyway I can but don’t rain on my parade for all that I have accomplished.  But hell yea I look fabulous in my jeans now.  You can be gorgeous no matter you size what makes you ugly is putting yourself down.  Don’t complain about being fat if you don’t have the courage to make a change.  If you need help I will always be here to help you all you have to do is ask.

Here piggy piggy: weight loss tips

Just thought I would share some funny Weight loss tips and humor

Here piggy piggy

Yup it's that time again.  So I have become a member of the myfitnesspal.com and love it so far.  I love when  I put in my calories for the day and it tell me in 5 weeks if you eat like this you will weigh... and it puts your weight.  Which lately has been saying a weight I haven't seen in over 8 years.  I have lost 7 pounds since i got back on track.  The cool thing is I finally got the nerve enough to weight at the gym.  I knew I wasn't at the last weight I weigh in just yet but I wanted to know my muscle mass.  So I had to get on that dreaded scale.   Found out I was 6 pounds from my weight that I was in April earlier this year sad I know.  But the good new is that I have more muscle weight now than back when I was skinnier.  The gym guy told me I was technically only 2 pound heavier fat wise (BMI) now.  So even though I weigh more I have more muscle  weight.  That is awesome.  Here is a pic to explain:  Gross I know

So I am pretty proud of myself.  

Here Piggy Piggy: get off your ass

So I had done so well …lost 20 pound then was out for my neck/back and gained most of it back.  Then was just too lazy to get off my butt to do anything about it.  Sad part is I even have a gym membership.  But every time I would get ready to go to the gym I made up some excuse to put it off.  Until another month went by.  So after finally getting one size away from my “fat” jeans I decided that I was going to get back in shape if it killed me.   It first started out as weighing with 2 other nurses at work, getting back to the gym and eating right.  I was barely getting anywhere.  My mom on the other hand had lost 12 pounds already. I hadn’t done that well except when I was on Weight watcher, but who the heck can afford to stay on WW?  She then told me about this website that helps you count calories and it’s free.  Yea ok it probably sucks but sure I had to check it out.  The website ran almost parallel to weight watcher and it was free.  The only difference was one was points and this one was counting calories.  You simply put in your weight, activity level and your goal weight and then how many pounds a week you want to lose.  Then it calculates how many calories a day you can have in order to reach your goal.  I have been using it for about 1 week and lost 2 lbs. so I will continue using it.  You can even put in your exercises, like cardio, house cleaning, mowing, etc.  Then it will tell you how many calories you have burned and that get’s added to you daily allowance.  Which pretty much means if you want that pizza hut pizza just exercise a little more to give you more calories for the day.  So I don’t feel like I am keeping myself from the food I love.  The other thing that is great is that when I exercise my ass off I seriously think  hmmm is that chocolate chip cookie worth all that sweat and pain?  Not usually so I choose to eat a healthier snack or maybe just a couple of cookies instead of 4.  Here is the website.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/
My 10 yr. anniversary will be next year and my goal is to lose enough weight to look great in a swim suit.
So My piggy piggy blogging will continue.

Here Piggy Piggy: Update

Well I quit weight watchers to save money so I could join the gym.  I just couldn’t keep the weight down.  So exercise it is.  I have lost of total of 21 pounds.  That is if the steroids I am on doesn’t change that.  I work out about 3 days a week for about 45 mins.  I am hoping that helps me keep the weight down or work harder at the gym when I cheat.  I really hate the cravings I get.  It reminds me of when I was pregnant.  I would get an item stuck in my head and I would have to get it and eat it.  Sucks.  Especially right now at 4 in the morning where I would love to have a piece of cake.   mmmm cake.  No I refuse to make a cake at the crack of dawn.  The kids might think we are having cake for breakfast…lol  Yea that’s a great reason not to eat cake.   Well anyway.  I am doing me best.  I am at 141 and my goal is 133 so less than 10 pounds.  If I can resist the temptations…damn you Starbucks I just might make it.  I don’t want to be a skinny mini but I would love to look healthy.  Nothing more depressing than a nurse who doesn’t look healthy.  I don’t want to be telling my patients they should stop smoking if I can’t back off on the bread.  Kind of hypocritical don’t you think?

Here piggy piggy

Yea I know it's been forever since I did a weight loss blog. I kind of fell off the wagon. Ended up on steroids for back injury and gain back 10 pounds. Which brought me back to square one. So I joined the gym. Back down to where I started when I started weight watchers about a year and a half ago. But this is where last time i got stuck at this stupid weight and I seemed to teeter totter from here. Up 2 pounds down 3 up 1 down one grrr. But even though on this go round i am not losing poundage I have loss fat %. I have gone from 31.4 % to about 29.3 % in the three weeks that I have started the gym. I know that I should be proud and happy but I am afraid I will never get passed this point. Of course I have only been at this point for a week since getting back on track. I don't want to look like a super model but I am tired of looking like a tele tubby. Especially since I am not asking much. I just want to be the end range of my weight limit for my body frame and height. Which is 132. So far I lost 17 pounds. So here's to a skinnier me,
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Vacation, Laziness, HMMM donuts

Yes so I am suppose to be on this great diet.  You know so I can wear this stupid bikini my hubby wants me to wear.  Now mind you I could be 200lbs over weight and he would still want me in a bikini.  Men…
So Like I said on my last post about being on vacation…when your on vacation your diet goes out the window.  Which is not good considering this isn’t my big vacation…the beach one where you really don’t want to be fat.  I have done no exercising and my diet HA!  here is a pic…

Yea see one is even missing in the pic.  I have ate 4 of these little bastards…the evil devil made me do it.
   I would call the crack but starbucks already takes the cake on that one.

So here it is 2 days till my vacation is up and I can about guarantee when I go back to work to weigh on the scales I will have gained 10 lbs.  So I have 3 weeks to get some of this chub off me.  Ugh.  Hmm maybe I could become bulimic.  You know so I can eat and hmm taste the donut goodness…but it won’t turn into fat.  Too bad I like the enamel on my teeth and the lining of my esophagus…plus not a big fan of puke.
Ah to be the size of a twig and be able to eat what I want when I want.

Ps when dieting why is it your big boobs go first? I would be happy to keep the ass and boobs..just lose the gut…sheesh

oh and btw I was looking for a pic for diet boobs..don’t ever key that in google..lol you find things like this…



Don’t do it…there are worse ones.

Easter and Weight watchers

I have come to the conclusion that Hersey’s is ran by the devil. Of course everyone knows Sunday was Easter. I have been being good and not eating candy on my diet. Unfortunately when you’re the Easter Bunny its hard not to eat some of the candy as your stuffing the eggs. Plus I thought out of all the candy bad for you I would get a small bag of Hersey kisses. Because I have lost a total of 21 lbs. I deserve to have some chocolate. Yea right. I should have realized that I am not one of those people who can eat anything and not pay for it in the end. I have been being bad and not recording my food that I have been eating. I think that is how weight watchers keeps you stuck paying their monthly membership. If I record my food intake and see how many points that I have left I do better. When you don’t record you think to yourself I haven’t eaten that much today. When in fact a little of this and that adds up. So not recording my intake for 1 week and a half. With the Easter dinner and the candy. I have gain 3 pounds back. Aggravating as hell considering I have become more active. I gave up Farmville on Facebook so I would get out of the house more. I don’t even blog as much as I use to. But still…grr. NOT FAIR. I do try its not like I eat 3 cheese burgers or a pan of brownies. I watch those shows: Heavy and biggest losers. You know where people eat a pack of bacon, 6 eggs, large juice and biscuits and gravy for breakfast alone. I can see why those people are over weight. I don’t feel like I gorge myself on food. Frustrating and NOT fair. So I have to kick my ass and get back to extra exercising if I want to get back to my weight loss. I lack 10 lbs. to my goal. I am not asking much. Its at the tail end of my “required” scale for my height. Who came up with that scale is probably a toothpick or one of those people who “forget” to eat. Who the hell forgets to eat? You have to be a special kind of stupid if you ask me.

Oink oink: update

Yup its time for an update. Since it’s been too cold, been sick, and keep coming up with excuses why not to work out, I have officially plateaued off. Ugh 16 lbs. is as far as I have gone. Don’t get me wrong I love the way I am looking but to give up McDonalds and all that is evil I just thought this would come off a little better or maybe easier. My goal is to be a total of 30 lbs. lighter before I go to the beach. I did find it funny that someone in the family said “wow you have lost a lot of weight.” Hmm maybe if you visited other people in the family more often you would already be aware of this. (sorry just aggravated that the only time we are called or visited is for money)
Anyway…So I continue my battle of being the big piggy piggy and hope to be a lot smaller before JUNE. I have lost 2 pants sizes cause my butt is smaller. I think its cruel joke that the boobs get smaller and the gut stays the same. That just makes the gut appear bigger in the long run. My hubby who seriously needs education on compliment tells me maybe you can’t use a rolling pin to roll it to the top. Funny…His other “compliments” Look I can fit your butt in one hand, your chipmunk cheeks are gone. Yea…just stick with you look great honey next time. lol

8 lbs lighter

Okay so I have lost 10 and gained back 2. But I am praying it’s the exercise of the biggest loser Wii and Zumba Wii. Aw Wii workouts. I am not sure if its any worse than having a personal trainer. Then again I saved a bushel with the Wii games..lol BUT…
If I have to hear Julian tell me she is sweating or out of breath I swear I am going to throw my Wii remote at the TV. Of course my daughter finds it funny cause she can hear me cussing at the TV that she isn’t effin real and shut the hell up. Like how the hell are they out of breath they are not even real. As for the Zumba really? People do this out in public? I remember my mom and I doing sweating to the oldies at home when I was a kid. I am so not coordinated. There is no way in hell would I ever do this out in public. If you haven’t seen the infomercials on cable or dish you must not watch much TV. It’s the new fad of video workout. Latin music set to a workout. Supposedly you can’t tell your exercising because your dancing. PFFT! If your really that oblivious you need help. I was huffing and puffing halfway thru bitching are we done yet? I still do like it better than biggest loser cause its not yelling at you not to give up..lol
It is fun if you don’t care that you can’t actually do the steps. The training section is a joke. If the remote even feels your hips moving it says great job even though I know for a fact my step were way off. So its skips to adding the next step. So I skipped the learning section and started the beginners section. I can either to the hands and hips or hands and feet. But all three I almost throw things out of socket. Hopefully I will catch on…lol
here is a video of Zumba so you can see the steps

So the good new is…my new jeans are falling off me. So I had to get new new jeans. Went from a 13 to a 9/10 hot dog…hell with the actually weight numbers. If the inches fall off I don’t give a ferrets anus. Well that’s my update on the fat front…till next time…kiddies remember…I love this carrot stick I love this carrot stick I will be thin I will be thin…lol

Weight loss tip of moment: replace lip gloss with super glue lip gloss…

oink oink: time for a change

Okay so I have decided that I need to lose weight. Gaining 15 lbs from LPN school and another 10 for RN and 4 more just for the hell of it. When someone comes up to you and asks when are you due? Make me decided that its time to lose some freaking weight. I paid my dues and now a member of weight watchers. If any of my readers has used weight watchers tell me what you think about it. I also plan on joining the gym. I put in my foods that I ate today and i was10 points over what I should be eating. UGH...so I am getting off my fat butt and getting motivated to exercise. I will keep you posted on my progress...27lbs is my goal.