Let's Shape Up!

I am an addict, not alcohol or drugs, but an addict of sweets, i.e. cookies, cakes, chocolates. I need to make myself stronger; against this weakness I have to the sweets.

I have made a pact with myself, to cut out sweets until my weight is in the 140’s. I am in the mid 150’s at this time. Actually the last I weighed I was 153. However, since Christmas, I haven’t been on a scale, and the Christmas week, was pretty bad for me, so I refuse to touch a scale for the next few weeks.
Today, I started my second round of the P90x 90 day routine. I am drinking a lot of water, and I am getting my system back in check.

I can eat healthy and cut out sweets for the most part, my weak day is Sunday, I don’t know if it is because it is the most laid back day of the week for me, but it’s the day I tend to eat badly. If I can start doing well on Sundays then I will be great overall.

I won’t be buying anymore sweets to bring home, but when I go to the movies, etc. I need to increase my willpower.

Fingers crossed, I need to get this all under control. I don’t plan to cut out sweets from my life completely, but I need to have control and willpower to know when enough is enough.

Yesterday I went jogging and it was so cold. That was the first time I worked out outdoors in the cold weather. I thought once I started jogging, my body would warm up, but not so, my hands were freezing and my face was cold. I made it through…

Anyhow, today is a whole lot colder than yesterday, and I don’t see myself going outside today. I am going to see if I can find something on FitTV to watch, hopefully there is something fun to do and burn some serious calories….

P90X is a kicker, I am so sore, I am week 6 of P90X, and my thighs are so sore from Legs and back, which is shocking, because I wasn’t sore during weeks 1-3 of legs and back, so I was a bit stunned, when they started hurting me this past Saturday.

After week 12, I plan to do the same routine over, I won’t upgrade to doubles or anything like that, because I have yet to master a lot of the moves, plus I am still only doing the routines with 10 pound weights.

I can’t wait until my body is leaner and looking fit.

I am on week five of P90X, did Chest Shoulders and Triceps today, and was hard. However, I pushed through it. Tomorrow I go running and I am hoping it is not cold tomorrow, because I hate running in the cold.
I am hoping to get measured by someone after my full program ends in a few weeks. I would get someone in my home to do it, but I never trust those are as accurate as I would like, however if I can’t get a professional to do it, then I guess I will have to have my husband do it for me.

I have changed my weighing to Wednesdays. I usually weigh on Monday, but someone mentioned they weighed on Wednesday, so they get a couple days to recoup from a possible bad weekend, and I thought it was a good idea. Sundays are a bad day for me drinking water wise; I really need to work on drinking water on Sundays. Now that I start weighing on Wednesday, I should have a couple days to flush out my system and get a more accurate reading on the scale.

I am hoping I will have good numbers on the scale this Wednesday. Fingers crossed.

OMG!!! I had so much candy this weekend. I was literally in bed on Sunday, with a bag of candy in my lap. My children don’t like Laffy Taffy, so I took all of them, and I ate and I ate and I ate. I had so much different types, Baby Ruth, Twix, Milky Way (which I am not a fan of, so you can see how severe my candy addiction is), Snickers and so much more.

I still have quite a few left, but I am working on some tough love. I don’t have the balls to give them away, but I have put them away, and I am hoping I can ignore them for a long time.

I really need to get back on track. I use a website called myfitnesspal.com to log my calories and my weight. I finally went in and updated my weight increase. I realize that I weighed 150.4 at my last weigh in, I almost past out. I thought it was 152, and that I only put on 5 pounds, but I really out on seven pounds. Yeah I know, two pounds shouldn’t make a big difference, but you would be surprised as to how these little figures affect me.

It helped put me back in gear, and I am focused again, as I was a few months ago.

I am 5′3″ and I weigh in at 156 pounds. I felt pretty good about myself, until I realize that until I reach 141 pounds, I am considered overweight. I couldn’t believe it when I researched and saw the results. I was thinking maybe a high 140+ or something. I mean the ideal weight I want to be at is 140, because of my body type I dont think I would look good any smaller than that. Yeah I know they say the BMI is not fully accurate because certain factors aren’t taken into consideration when its determining your BMI, but none the less, I was shocked to see that I am considered overweight, even at 156 pounds. I initially started writing this article at 151 pounds, however 3 weeks of moving and getting the house together. So, when I came to post it, I had to modify the figures, so the 156 is not as shocking, but at 151 I was flabbergasted…

Need less to say, I am working hard to get to my 140, so I will be out of the overweight region.

I have been doing well with my eating, all week, it’s only been 2 days into the week, lol but nonetheless I have been doing awesome. I haven’t missed a day of P90X weight training, or a day of running. I do however need to get back to running on Saturdays, or at least walking.

Next week, is rest week from P90X, so I will be just running next week, I may have to walk a couple days next week, after a couple days straight of jogging, I get burnt out and really tired.

I am hopingthat on Monday the scale looks better than it has over the past couple of weeks. I should have been in the 140 range by now. That’s what three weeks, of bad eating will do to you.

I haven’t written anything in a little over a month. I was in the process of moving and getting the house ready and all the hustle and bustle that goes into moving. No excuses, I should have found time, to exercise, but it just didn’t happen.

I didn’t do well in my eating or dieting, for around 4 weeks, then 2 weeks ago, I started P90X, I only do the weights portion of P90X. The days that I am supposed to do the plyometric etc., I go jogging instead. I love jogging, plus anytime I don’t jog for a long period of time, when I start up again, my skin scratches the hell out of me. It is the weirdest thing; it is very annoying and painful. So, to avoid that, I try not to go too long without running.

I love P90X, it is 1 hour long, but the time goes by so fast. The first day I hurt my wrist, I have taken it a bit easy on my wrist since, but still pushing through. I don’t want to miss any weight training days. In regards to the pull-ups and chin-ups portion of P90X, I don’t have a pull up bar, so for those routines, I just jog in place.

When I weighed 4-5 weeks ago, I weighed in at 151.8 pounds, what an awesome feeling then I weighed one day this week, and I am up to 156 pounds, that’s due to almost a month of bad eating and no exercising, but I am back on track, and drinking loads of water.

Well, I didn’t have a good weekend food wise, or exercise wise. I did workout on Friday, and for dinner I had rice and peas and fried chicken, all good, because I only ate half of it. Then my Aunt invited me to a party at her gym, because they were having a grand opening ceremony, which is where it all started to go downhill, because the finger foods were so yummy, I just kept eating.

Then on Saturday a girlfriend of mine came in town for the weekend, and my husband and I took her to breakfast at IHOP, where I had the veggie omelet and two whole grain pancakes and some fruits. Later that day I had the rest of my rice and peas and fried chicken for dinner. I also didn’t work out on Saturday.

Then on Sunday, my mom baked some biscuits, so I had one with egg, the biscuits were so yummy and soft, and with the eggs, they were awesome, so a couple hours after that I had another one. For dinner I had fish and rice and peas and baked macaroni and cheese, and I wasn’t stingy with my servings. I also had ice cream after I ate my dinner. Oops!!!

Monday, would be the last day, my friend would be in town, so I took her to lunch at TGI Fridays, I love TGI Fridays. I ordered the sizzling chicken and shrimp with mashed potato, but I had also placed the trio meal, so I got the appetizer, which was the mozzarella sticks, and for dessert the peanut butter cheese cake. It was all for only $16.99. Oh it was so good.

Then later in the night, after I carried my friend to the airport and was waiting for my daughter outside her dance studio, I bought a chicken patty and a piece of rum cake. I ate ½ of the rum cake along with ½ of that patty outside the studio, because I was leaving ½ of each for my daughter. She ate the patty but didn’t like the cake so I had the rum cake with ice cream when I came home and also drank some liquor.

Needless to say a bad weekend, but that was that, and no sense dwelling on the past. I got up this morning and Zumba my ass off. I am watching everything that goes in my mouth. I only have 12 pounds to lose and I plan to lose it all by Christmas……

I am 5′3″ and I now weigh in at 151.8 pounds. I felt pretty good about myself, until I realize that until I reach 141 pounds, I am considered overweight. I couldn’t believe it when I researched and saw the results. I was thinking maybe a high 140+ or something. I mean the ideal weight I want to be at is 140; because of my body type I don’t think I would look good any smaller than that. Yeah I know they say the BMI is not fully accurate because certain factors aren’t taken into consideration when it’s determining your BMI, but none the less, I was shocked to see that I am considered overweight, even at 151.8 pounds.

Needless to say, I am working hard to get to my 140, so I will be out of the overweight region