Yesterday evening, I read all the 'courses' offered, and there is a lot of great information there, especially for someone who is truly a beginner - which I am not. That said, it wasn't a waste of time, driving it home never is! I dove into the forums and made a post and I've checked them again today - going to get them into my routine. Seems to ( Read more... )

I ended 2013 at 200 pounds exactly - 91 pounds gone, spitting distance from breaking 200 for the first time since 1996. Awesome! Holidays went great, and I never felt deprived. I had lots of great food, just in moderation, and I kept up on exercise. I'm feeling stronger and stronger -- I can actually plank for awhile and start to lower myself down ( Read more... )

Survived 3 birthdays and Thanksgiving awesomely :) I even dropped 3 pounds, so I'm down to 207! Weight loss definitely has slowed down from the 10 pounds per month average I was doing for so long, but that is totally okay. I'm at 84 gone, and I lost during a holiday week, and I don't feel deprived. In fact, I feel awesome ( Read more... )

I was good - I kept myself to 2 of the awesome cheese-and-nut-stuffed bacon-wrapped dates, two small pieces of flatbread with a small amount of goat cheese, artichoke tapenade, and roasted garlic. I could have eaten so, so much more because they all taste so good, but I wanted cake. I kept my end goal for the day in mind (have cake without ( Read more... )

Because I used this is the beginning to state and restate and re-re-restate all my plans so I helped solidify them in my consciousness and sub-consciousness, I am going to do that for the holiday times too. It really worked and helped before, and it can only do good now ( Read more... )

I started this journey on February 23, 2013. I'm almost 9 months in at this point, and I'm now down 81 pounds. For awhile, I was averaging 10 pounds a month, and that's slowed a bit, but not in a way that's bothering me at all. I'm still at just over 2 pounds per week average, which is great ( Read more... )

So I stopped posting back in June, since this is really just a conversation with myself. I've kept up weekly short updates on my fb though. The reason for the blogging stop was time-related (too little of it) and success-related (had a pretty good idea of what to do). But, I figured I should do an update to keep myself motivated ( Read more... )

Saturday - 1 hour cardio + full strength + chill out in hot tub or sauna. In other words, relax and take my own sweet time. Groceries, packing, and gaming, ftw. Dinner = salad or roasted vegetables + a meat ( Read more... )

That's 38 lost total, putting me at 253. A couple more weeks and I should be in the 240s. I love every time I move into a new "tens" arena -- it feels awesome!

So Wednesday brought an unexpected challenge. Demonspawn the Third had a band concert that the obnoxious band teacher turned into a 2.5 plus hour ordeal because it was the last of the year. Band had to be there at 5 pm and it started at 630 and ended at 915. Try working and then fitting dinner for everyone in there! We decided to just do a late ( Read more... )