I'm still puttin' along!

Well, here it is starting week 4 and I have lost almost 15 pounds. That is pretty darn good. I have been slacking the last week or so, but that's ok, I'm not being totally bad. I have still been doing some Denise Austin and trying to make good choices on food, but haven't always made the right ones.

I'm fluxuating on my weight right now, but at least I'm smart enough to know that if I went back to my old ways, it would come back and I don't want it to, so I won't let it.

Today is my not counting food day!

We have company, so when we have company in from out of town, we have to take them to Lamberts Cafe. There is no way to go there and stay on any sort of weight loss regime. So I knew from the time I got up that today was a free day.

I had 2 rolls, one with molasses on it, 2 slices of prime rib, cucumbers in vinegar, a couple of sliced peaches and then we stopped and got some sweet tea after going to Target.

Did I mention I went to Target? I needed to buy a black button up shirt for work. I don't know if they make them for women right now. Black is out, I think brown is the new black. Anyway, I got a man's button up shirt and a new pair of slacks. I tried on the pants before buying them. I took a size 16 and a size 14 into the dressing room with me. I decided to try the 14s on first and VOILA!!!!!! They fit!!!!!! I didn't even have to suck in my gut to button them!!!
I'm looking good!!!!

It's all about the choices you make!!

Today, I had to make a choice to work out, because I almost didn't want to, but I didn't yesterday, so I knew I needed to. So I did!

I picked Samantha up at school and took her to run an errand this afternoon. I hadn't eaten lunch yet, so we went to Sonic. I soooooo wanted a foot long chile cheese coney and a vanilla coke. I ordered a grilled chicken wrap and a fat free strawberry banana smoothie. I also got a vanilla coke, but I only took one drink of it and threw it away. I made the right choices today!!!

My Ass!!!

Yup, you read that right!! I am damn proud of that. Let me tell you why: Over the course of the last 3 weeks I've worked pretty hard and I've had some ups and downs. But tonight and the other night at work, I had two, count them two guys tell me that they can see a difference in my ass! WHOO HOO!!!! So I thought I would share it with ya:

That's it!!! Big and round and getting smaller apparently.

Let me tell you how I've been doing since I blogged last here. Let's see when I last left here, I had a semi bad day, but I didn't let it get to me. Saturday, I got up and had to go to a training day for work and I didn't get up early enough to exercise. I did eat good all day though. I worked that night and got home about 12:30 and had to be back to work at noon on Sunday, so again, no work out. Then Sunday I pretty much blew everything off. I ate everything in sight. I didn't work out, but who cares. I took the day off from the journey.

Monday, right back on. I got up and had an access bar drink and then I did half an hour of Denise Austin. Had a Proflex 30 shake and went to work. I ate well. Tuesday, I got up and had an Access Bar drink, and helped out in the garden. I unloaded a truck full of compost. It was heavy and it was hot outside. Mom and I both got a great workout from it. Then tonight after I got home, I did another Access Bar and a full hour of Denise Austin.

Tonight as I was driving home, I thought about stopping somewhere for food. That would have been the choice I would have made in the past, but tonight, I didn't even give in to that temptation. I feel like I am growing and learning. It's about the choices we make, right!! Tonight I made the right choice. I chose to come home and have an access bar and work out. It would have been very easy to go through any drive thru, trust me, I drove past quite a few of them that were still open. BUT I DIDN'T STOP!!!!!!!

I also came home and watched The Biggest Loser. I love that show. This is the second season and if you haven't seen it, and you are into health and losing weight and reality shows. Give it a shot. There are some amazing changes of people on that show. Of course if you have a personal trainer and gym to work in 24 hours a day, we can all have those dramatic results. But most of us don't have access to that. I do however have a personal trainer: Denise Austin and she tells me so everytime I do her workout.

Well, that's tonight's weight loss journey blog. Enjoy, I know I am!!!

Today was not the greatest,

but I ended it well. It started out as a lazy day. I woke up and took Samantha up to the bus stop and came back to bed until after noon. Then I gut up enough to go get a cheese stick and make a canadian bacon sandwich on an english muffin. Then I got back in bed and watched 2 episodes of Six Feet Under. Mom made popcorn and we each had a small bowl of it.

I got up and went to work without working out. I did have a hot fudge sundae after work, and then came home and did 1/2 hour of Denise Austin. So not completely lost. Hey for 2 1/2 weeks, I've been good. I don't feel guilty about what I did. I'm not going to throw it all away now. I will be good again, I just needed some chocolate. I actually turned into the Sonic to get a vanilla coke, but I didn't get one. So for me, that was a good thing.

If you don't squeeze it, nobody else will!!

That's what Denise Austin said when doing Bun work. Squeezing those buttocks. Whoo Hoo!!!

Yesterday began week 3! It also began Mom's journey. She started doing Denise Austin with me and also watching what she eats. She's never really had a problem with her eating, but she has been pretty sedintary this summer since it was too hot to go work in the yard.

As of this morning, I have lost 11.8 pounds. I'm not doing Atkins now. I've added some carbs back in. I'm only eating them for my first meal though. I'm combining Carbs/Proteins and then Proteins/Fats for the later foods.

I'm still using the Access Bars before working out, so I haven't really had sore muscles and I do feel myself going longer and harder on workouts. The weight is still coming off. Mom says she sees a difference in my clothes. I don't yet, but I am happy to see the numbers going down on the scale.

I am also doing Proflex 30 shakes for protein, Fiberwise for fiber and also the Attain shakes occasionally.

I haven't missed a day of exercise yet. I know that is making the biggest difference. I've always noticed when I've tried to lose weight before that when I did exercise, whether it was in the Army with no choice or if I did it on purpose, I saw better results. I'm not stopping this time.

Exercise is worth it because I am worth it!

I woke up yesterday with my head stuffed up from allergies and really just wanted to blow off exercising, but I knew if I blew off one day, it would make it easier to blow off two days. Sooooooo, I got up and I did a half an hour of Denise Austin and I felt so much better after.

This morning, I added the Access Bar to the mix. I had one before I worked out today and I ended up doing an hour instead of half an hour. I feel great after. So now, I am doing the whole Melaleuca weight loss program except for the Attain. I am doing the Proflex 30 shakes after working out. I'm also using the fiberwise drinks. So now with the Access bars, I will be looking forward to seeing greater results.