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

Danger Danger!!!

Avoid these at all costs.......unless you want some absolutely amazingly fabulous chips.  

Holy crap these are amazing.  I made the mistake of seeing that the Lays flavor contest bags were at the grocery store.  4 flavors!  I bought three ::hides in shame::  But these are the only ones that I feel the need to eat.  Wasabi Ginger....seriously....if you like the taste of wasabi and ginger -- buy these!  The other two I picked up were Mango Salsa --- very mango-y and after one chip I closed the bag and will probably bring them to work for the people here --- and bacon mac & cheese (I think it was called) --- those were okay...nothing amazing (IMO).  The other one they had at the store was Cappuccino -- I told myself I was showing self control by only buying 3 bags... ha! I'll learn.

So last night was a slip.  Along with eating chips from the bag -- not measuring -- I had redeemed the free gelato coupon I had gotten.  Honestly, I don't think I'd buy that again.  It was way too caramely and just 'eh' tasting to me.  So I don't think I'll be tempted by what's left in the freezer.  

With my bad night, I decided to weigh this morning.  I needed to.  Needed to be honest with myself.  So after my bad weekend and bad night last night, I was up a lb from last week.  

Today Miss Harley goes in for surgery to remove a couple cyst like bumps.  I'll pick her up after work tonight, but as long as all is good I'll still be hitting the gym tonight.

My food is logged and I still have some room if need be for another pudding/shake or something.  I already ate my ounce of portioned out wasabi chips. lol  Ughhh.  Breakfast of champions huh?  Just means I miss out later on them.  

::fills up my water::

Cheers to a better day!

--Katie

Yesterday was GREAT!

What a freakin on par eating day -- I wound up at 1303 cals for the day.  And I made it to the gym!!!  

And this happened!

Yep -- 675 cals burned on the elliptical and then I did about 15 minutes of weights.  The sweat was pouring off me and it felt great.  I'm hoping to get back to the gym tonight too!  So yesterday between the elliptical and what my fit bit synced otherwise, it put me at over 1100 calories burned. Nice!!

It's amazing how different you feel when you're eating good foods compared to bad foods.  Bad foods just seem like poison.  Poison hidden in amazing tasting goodness.  But you get down, sad, tired, lazy and just wind up eating more poison because - well, why not, right?  I don't think I could ever totally cut out the "bad stuff" but at least if I'm consciously making better choices and striving to do my best it won't hurt me so bad.  :)  So my food is logged for today and things look good except my sodium.  That's kinda off the charts.  That's because I'm having soup for lunch.  But I'll keep up on my water and hopefully just flush it all out.  Progresso's French Onion soup is only 100 cals for the whole can.  I'm going to melt a 60 cal cheese stick on it too so it'll be semi like the real deal. 

Dinner will be steamed broccoli and leftover turkey breast tenderloin.  Yum!!  I wanted to weigh so bad this morning...well, kinda...but I didn't.  I need to wait at least another day.  I need to remember I did eat/drink SUPER poorly over the weekend. Give it a few days of awesome to get the good numbers back!!  After yesterday though, I feel like I can totally get my 4% this week!!  I'll see what reality says next time I get on the scale, but I'm feeling good!!  

Hope everyone has a great day.  I really appreciate you guys taking time to read about my struggles and successes and always being there for me :) 

--Katie

Weekend was good, but crazy bad

unfortunately, crazy bad = my eating/drinking for the weekend!

Today is a new day though and I've got everything logged and accounted for.  I went through and recounted what I could from my weekend and logged into MFP too.  It's seriously bad.  Like holy shit bad.  But I'm sipping my tea - had my planty shake and a hard boiled egg - and I'm just gonna water it up!!

Oh - and check out what I won at the bowling fundraiser.  LOL I'll have to share - a lot! 

Bowling was a ton of fun though. I bowled horribly, but had a couple drinks and a lot of laughs.  We also saw the Planes movie and the Purge 2.  One with Claire, and one without.  You can figure out which. haha  

Gym tonight. Gym tonight. Gym tonight.

I know I'm not going to want to, but I have to.  If I can get out of the house early enough, I'd like to get in 2 hrs.  I need it.  After all the bad choices and WAY too many excess cals, I have to.  No excuses.  Talking to Kelly- she asked if I weighed this morning.  You know I'm a compulsive weigher, but um hell no did I weigh this morning.  I'll weigh sometime this week.  Ideally Saturday.  But you know me and there is very little chance that I'll be able to wait that long.  

So my last weigh in on the Diet Better Competition - I was only 4.1 lbs away from reaching my 4% goal.  I'm still striving to reach that this week.  I know it'll be tough with the crazy calorie counts but I'm still reaching for it.  Worse comes to worse, I come close :)  I've got 22 days!  

Well, time to get some work done before this super long, super boring meeting we have this morning.  Ugh.  Doesn't make a Monday any better.  Oh well.  

--Katie