Keeping it interesting.....

Or just being stupid....

LOL

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaah...... so just to keep you guys guessing, I weighed this morning.  UGH - yeah...9 lbs to lose in a week... Hmmm... Will she do it?? I'm not holding my breath, but I'm not hopeless yet.  I feel like I can do it.  It will be hard.  It will be super challenging.. But it is doable....I think...  Hoping for the water weight to fall off.  

Jeebus.... so I think I can weigh in the 19th or 20th.  So hopefully one of those days will be good for me.  

Yeah - I don't really have much else to say right now.  Just updating you all that I'm not as close as I was.  :( Bummer!  Hoping I can get this off quickly though.  I'm drinking lots of water and tea today, had a planty shake for bfast, doing an HL shake for lunch and grilled chicken on top of a salad for dinner.  

--Katie

Tired...Headache...but it's Wednesday!

Well, I decided last night that I wasn't going to do the gym this morning.  I'll go tonight.  We had Member's Night at the Zoo last night and didnt' get home until late, so no way was 4:30 gonna feel good.  

Check out my stats though from my fit bit! I know they're not 100% accurate, but it's neat to look at --- and I did well surpass my 10K step goal for the day :)  

With the weather, we thought we were going to skip the zoo but last minute ended up going...so I didn't plan well and was just wearing flip flops --- my feet are sore today. haha  Oooh, and we ate at the zoo.  BUT I passed on the amazingly delicious sounding/looking/smelling pizza, chicken tenders, pasta etc and got a side salad with chicken and basalmic vinegarette and some fruit!!  SCORE!  I even skipped on the french fries C kept trying to share with me :) 

I was down another 3 lbs today ---- so that puts me back where I was, I believe --- I need to lose 4 more lbs to make my 4%!!! I've got a little less than 2 weeks to do it -- plenty of time!! My FitBit wasn't charging so I'm not wearing it today -- hopefully when I get home it has a charge -- or else I think it's broken :(  But we shall see!  

So send me some of your favorite motivational quotes, pics, etc.  I want to keep being encouraged and motivated and I want others to feel the same.  

What keeps you going??

--Katie

2 days in a ROW?! Sweet!

Yes!!! I'm on track!!  

2 for 2.  I've gotten up early and went to the gym 2 days in a row.  4:30 a.m. early!  I am proud of myself.  Today I wanted to quit a number of times.  I went through it in my head --- "well, I can just stop after 30 mins and then do some weights"....."ehh, I'll just stop after 45 minutes...." but I kept going.  I did my full hour.  Tomorrow I'm planning on just doing a half hour.  I am going to do the 30 minute circuit to get some weights in too.  Kelly said I deserved a Monster (sugar free of course) so I treated myself this morning.  The caffiene is much appreciated.

It's such a rainy dreary day today!!  Yuck.  If it clears up, we'll be going to the zoo tonight but I'm not holding my breath.  

Oh - I was down 3 lbs this morning.  So I'm back to 30% towards my weight loss goal for this competition.  Thank goodness!! I'm back to making progress.  I really, really want to meet this goal and then join the longer competition!  So I'll just keep on doing well and sticking to my promises to myself.  If we don't go to the zoo tonight, Steve and I will be sharing this amazing steak we picked up from Holiday Market last night.  But my side dish planned is spaghetti squash! Nice and healthy!!  And then we were able to pick up some fruits and veggies and deliciousness.  I picked up this veggie 'cheese' that I had gotten free from BzzAgent and have yet to try it.  But they say it melts, and that's a big selling point to me.  Has anyone tried using FF shredded cheese in a casserole?! Umm can we say nasty? FF cheese doesn't melt - it basically turns to plastic.  

Well I hope everyone has a fantastic day!! 

--Katie

One for one!!!

Yes, let's start this week with a positive.  I woke up early and was at the gym by 4:30 -- did the elliptical for an hour and burned 673 calories.  I have already logged my food for the day and planned my calories wisely. 

Now for the bad news.  Bad eating, drinking and poor choices had gotten me back to my starting weight for the 4 week challenge.  Now I'm down to 2 weeks to go and I still need to lose 4% of my starting weight.  Self-sabatoge. I'm notorious for that.  I don't know why, but I am.  Sometimes I think it's just that I'm afraid of failing that I just do it (I know that doesn't really make sense....but I don't know how to explain it) -- other times, I think it's just an addiction to food.  Why does saying that sound so much more embarrassing than saying you're addicted to drinking or smoking?!  It seems like something you should easily be able to control....but then again, to a non-smoker, choosing to not smoke sounds easy too.  Why would you want to do something you know is bad - that will shorten your life - that can cause your family pain and grief.  You don't WANT to -- it's an addiction.  But it needs to stop.  It really does.  Listening/watching Extreme Weight Loss makes me really feel that I do have this addiction.  Sure I'm not 500 lbs, but even at my 263 --- I know that i have these tendancies.  And it needs to change.  And it's changing today.  <---- Yes, I know you've heard that before....

I need to be in control of my life.  I need to take that back.  One of these times, you're going to read my blog from day to day and be like "Whoa! She finally did it!!  :) After all these proclamations that she was going to be healthy, she really did it!!"  And I will feel damn good about myself on that day. 

This is going to be a great week.  I've got 3 more days this week that I'm going to be gymming in the AM.  This will be fantastic.

Picture theme for the day are inspiration pics.... I want to go further than all these pics, but this is a start :)

--Katie