Making Plans

OK... so I have still not been losing ANY weight at all. I have stayed exactly the same no matter what I do. I have been exercising daily, without fail, for over a month. I know that there is still room for improvement, though. I'm currently doing Curves 3X per week and an approximately 1.5 to 2 mile walk with hubby every single night. My plan is to add in a tougher cardio session on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and one weekend day whenever possible. I know that the bigger challenge has been the THINGS I am eating. Too many exceptions, too many treats, not enough planning in my meals. I have a few major goals right now. One is to go back to using my timers. Eat, set an hour timer to remind me to start drinking water, and set another timer so that I am eating 2.5-3 hours after my last meal (NOT 1.5 - 2 hours!). I need to train myself when to be hungry again.. I am hungry too soon. I also know if I eat the right dense proteins, I shouldn't get hungry so soon. My other major goal is meal planning. I am not good at trying to plan a whole day or whole week ahead of time, so right now I am going to make a goal that right after I eat (when I am totally not hungry and can be completely sensible), I will plan my next meal and prepare whatever i can for it. That way the decision is made AND the meal is ready to go before I get hungry again. I think I can make more sensible decisions this way. I really need to get back to being more strict about my choices, making better choices, whatever you want to call it. It's a little too soon for me to hit maintenance mode. While I really don't think I will be comfortable at 160lbs (I would have such a hard time getting there), right now I am really really focused on getting to 180 lbs and then being able to maintain there. I can always try to lose more if I want, but right now that is my goal. I think I will even change that on my ticker so that I can really focus on the goal. So... better food choices with timers and some meal planning... and entering the next phase of adding even more exercise. Let's see what happens over the next few weeks. I am also adjusting my ticker to reflect my current weight of 203 lbs. I bounced up to that over my period a while back, but it never went away afterward and I have been maintaining at 203 for quite a while no matter what I do!! SO my first mini goal is to lose 5 lbs and get back to the 198 I had gotten to before :)

Evening Walk

Went for a nice evening walk with the hubby tonight. This is the park where we have been walking most evenings. Usually we don't get around to it til 9 or 10pm but the past two days we've gone about 7:30-8pm and actually gotten to SEEEEEEEE the park! Haha. It's really pretty and it's nice seeing so many people enjoying themselves.

Today marks 3 weeks of exercising every day which is what our surgeon asked us to commit to. However, the point is to then CONTINUE it :) So shhhh, don't tell hubby it's been 21 days. He hasn't noticed. Whoo hoo!

On the downside, my weight is 202-203 depending on the day. I don't get it. I haven't lost anything at all with all the exercise and eating better. Hoping it's just a plateau I have to bust through, and hoping I am gaining muscle. I am also going to start having Shakeology shakes for breakfast & lunch for a week, then take it down to just breakfast after that. Hoping that helps me bust through this plateau and shake things up (ha!!) so my body will let things start moving again.

Exercise Streak

I know I haven't talked much lately about anything related to surgery, weight loss, exercise etc... but behind the scenes I promise you I am still hard at work :) We had an appt with our surgeon on the 19th and he challenged us to start doing some sort of exercise every single day, no matter what.... and we HAVE. 17 days in a row now! And we are really trying to make it a daily habit, every single day, no matter what. Once we get that down we'll start working more on WHAT the activity is, working harder, longer durations... but right now our focus is just "do something every day". Plus, I'm still doing Curves so some days (usually 3x per week) I am working out twice.

I have actually not weighed since that appointment, and at that time it had gone up due to period week... so I really have no idea where I'm at right now, but don't really care either. Exercising daily and just making better food choices, cooking more etc. Will try to get a weight this Monday morning or sometime this coming week! :)

A month?!

I can't believe it's been almost a month since I last blogged. My weight hasn't really changed, although it fluctuates. Mostly I just don't feel like discussing it anymore... I am just living life! I hope to lose more but I seem to be maintaining and I am okay with that. If and when it happens, yay :) I keep working on exercising as much as possible, but my back/hip pain is always an issue. I usually get my 3 days at Curves and one or two other workouts per week on top of that, but some weeks I only get Curves. My one year appt with my surgeon is coming up on Tuesday, so I'll try to report in on that... but mostly I think the purpose of this blog is changing. There is no day-to-day stuff to talk about in regards to my weight loss surgery anymore, so I just want to go back to talking about my regular life :) Maybe trying to post more regularly about daily life stuff like I was doing before.... but I think I am ready to shift my focus away from weight and back to my life, with of course mentioning when I hit a new milestone or maybe something comes to mind. Hope that's alright with everybody. I just want this to be my BLOG again!!! And not something I neglect so much :( So I will try to be back soon with an update of everything that has been going on lately, and I'll be starting to post a lot more random things from my daily life too.

Moving Right Along

Well, quite the shocker, things are just moving right along. Today's weight:

198.0! yay :) I'm really happy about that. No "regular" workouts last week but was going going going, and we did a big hike on Saturday. More photos to come in the future but since it takes me so long, here's a little preview:

Um yeah, do you see why I LOVE Colorado??

Other than that I've been "recovering" from my friend's visit... I have so much to catch up on. Doing a mountain of laundry today and picking up the house, have many errands to run, etc!! Hoping to get a good workout in too :) Will try to be back and update with more happenings ASAP!

Onederland.

FINALLY!!

I thought I was going to see a gain this morning... I've had my friend in town for 8 days and haven't "worked out" and haven't eaten the best (nor have I tracked my WW Points, which I plan to resume doing now). However, we were go go go and did a LOT of walking, and I tried to make good choices as much as possible. Obviously it worked for me. I'm thrilled I finally have this. And, just for the record, I saw 199.6 the second try ;)
I can't wait til I'm a few pounds lower so I won't have to risk seeing myself go up over 200 when I fluctuate. That will be really nice.

SO MUCH to catch up on here on the blog but just had to share this for now!

Steamboat Hoodie

Right now I have a friend in town visiting, so I haven't been on the blog much but I wanted to share this. I have a thing for collecting hoodies from all the great mountain towns here in Colorado. I used to have quite the collection but of course they are all much too big for me now.
My friend and I are here in Steamboat Springs, CO and went into a shop to get hoodies. For the first time I was able to buy a WOMEN'S hoodie in a mountain town!!!








It's an XL and fits perfectly. I'm thrilled I finally have this option! :)