Eating

I have found it increasingly hard to bunker down and stick to my calories for this last week. I mean I usually wouldn’t go over by a lot but late night snack was ALWAYS the culprit. But today I did well. I’m still about 150 under and haven’t gone for my run.

Exercise

I bought a new Jillian Michaels DVD that was on clearance for 4 dollars. I couldn’t pass it up when they normally charge 10-20 bucks for one. It’s Jillian Michaels For Beginners Frontside DVD. I really want to start trying to tone with my running. While running is helping I know that muscle toning and weight lifting will get me much farther than just cardio exercises alone.

My running has been going alright. I actually can’t believe my first race is in 18 days. I know that there isn’t anyway I can run the whole thing but that’s okay. It’s the effort I put in and even if I mostly run it, then I win in my books. Chris is going to come and watch which I’m excited about. I wasn’t sure if it was a possibility at first because of work, but he requested off!

I’m also going to try and burn 2000 calories this week. I don’t want to overdo myself in these last couple of weeks because I know there would be a good chance that I would injure myself!

Stats

Starting Weight:302.4lbs
Last Weeks Weight: 278lbs
This Weeks Weight:277.4lbs(↓ .6lbs)

Well I can’t weigh in this week because I left my scale at home but that isn’t a big deal because I have some non-scale related victories! But first I guess I should list my down falls this week. During our stay I haven’t really followed a diet. It sucks but it is really hard to calorie count when you go out to places that have no nutritional menus. So instead of worrying myself about it I decided to say screw it.

I also sucked at the whole “I’m gonna keep my running schedule everyday”. I haven’t been in a pool in almost three years and even then I did little swimming. I mostly just walked the kids back and forth in their inner tubes. Swimming kicked my ass. I thought running made me tired, yea not like swimming. I did my run for tonight and I did 13 minutes on the elliptical plus all the swimming and walking. Today rocked my exercising world.

Now as I said I did a shit load of walking today and yesterday. Well that would be because we went to an outlet mall in the Dells. That resulted in me wanted to try on clothes. I haven’t been able to fit into old navy clothes ever really. I mean I had some tank tops but other than that, no. Well since there was an old navy, I wanted to see how far away from a 20 I was. I haven’t really lost any weight in about a month but for the last two or three weeks I have been keeping up with the running. I had hopes that they would pull up and maybe fit over the ass but I didn’t dare let my hopes come up past that.

Yea the not only fit over the thighs and butt but they also buttoned and zipped!!! I of course bought them. They were on clearance and only cost me a total of 8 bucks. It was too good a deal to pass up. I also was able to buy a 2X shirt. I’ve had to pretty much keep to 3X shirts if I wanted something other than a tee shirt. It just goes to show that I must be losing inches if I was able to fit into both those items! I wanted to cry when I zipped them up. Before I started working out I was a 26/28. Fitting into a size 20 is a big effing deal and as my friend Deisy said, you’re so close to being able to shop at all the stores you want!

Like I said before, no stats this week since I forgot my scale and such.

Have you had any non-scale victories lately?

Or rather Jogging with how slow I currently have to go to make it doable. I have such a love hate relationship with it. I fucking hate when I start moving but about 20 minutes after I’ve finished I feel like a champion! I have been known to even throw my hands up in the air in silent cheer for finishing a hard round in the C25k program. Yea I’m totally that person.

Honestly I half anticipate crying once I finish my first 5k but it will probably depend on if I’m close to ovulating because I become a crying mess around that time. It’s really attractive as I’m sure you can guess. Anyway, sometimes I have to really get on myself to run. I usually use pictures like this one…

I mean for the last two weeks I’ve been pretty good but because I decided I was too tired and had no music, I didn’t yesterday. To make up for that I will now have to run today and tomorrow morning before we leave for the dells.

So what’s your sport or rather you favorite fitness activity?

I’m sorry I’ve been so absent in everything. I seem to go through phases. I get into reading kicks where I have a hard time pulling myself away from it and these last few weeks have been like that but I’m back now. Anyway My running is going well. I figured out if I double up, as in run two days in a row, I will be able to do one or two days of week nine from Couch to 5k.

I’m really excited about that since I thought I was going to be a total fail since I decided I could procrastinate. Now that I’ve found my pace, I feel awesome about 20 minutes after I’m done. My main problem with C25k was that I was simply going to fast for myself. When on the treadmill I set the running interval at 4.5 miles an hour and my current state I really need to keep it at about 3.5ish. Jogging outside has really helped me with that because it’s easier to set my own pace and slow down the jog if I need to.

This is how I feel every single time I start a new week. I started week 4 today and when I read it I was like “OMG, I’m going to fucking die!”. But in reality it wasn’t that bad. It really wore me out but I didn’t stop a single time that I wasn’t supposed to and it helped remembering the little people I was running in honor of! It also makes me immensely proud of myself when I finish a time length I haven’t done before!

I’m also back on my dieting and will hopefully start seeing the greatness that will bring me next week! Even though I’m going to the Dells, I plan on bringing my scale and eating great with maybe the exception of one day.

Starting Weight:302.4lbs

Last Weeks Weight: 278.8lbs

This Weeks Weight:278.0lbs(↓ .8lbs)

1st Short Term Goal: Reached 2/7/12

2nd Short Term Goal Weight:255lbs

Exercise Time:127/180

Calories Burned:931/1860

How are you doing?

On Tuesday I decided to try to make a new type of muffin that I hadn’t ever made before. I usually stick with my banana or banana and chocolate chip muffins. This time though I thought I would try some fresh strawberry muffins. My sister had said something about making some blueberry ones from a package. Since we can’t make those because of potential allergen cross over and I really wanted to try something new, I decided to go with strawberries. I looked up a recipes since I wasn’t sure if my banana one would work well with these type of muffins. Although I do plan on trying them with my original recipe, I wanted to see how they should taste first.

I found an easy recipe on AllRecipes.Com. It was pretty simple and I all I did to alter it was double the recipe.

Recipe-

1/2 cup canola oil

1 cup milk

2 eggs

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon baking powder

1 cup white sugar

3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

2 cups chopped strawberries

These were a little different in instruction than I’m used to. I usually have to put the wet ingredients in the big bowl and mix the dry in later. With this it was the opposite.

Step One

Chop Strawberries.

Step Two

Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees. Mix Oil, Milk and Egg in a small bowl. Beat lightly. Set aside.

Step Three

In a large bowl mix flour, sugar, salt, baking soda. Stir. Add strawberries to large bowl. Fold in until all the strawberries are cover in flour mixture.

Step Four

Add oil,milk, and egg mix to large bowl. Stir until mixed well.

Step Five

Line pan with paper or foil cups and fill with batter using 1/8 or 1/4 cup.

Step Six

Bake for 25 minutes. Cool for 10-15 before eating.

Some things that I did. I used a cupcake pan instead of a muffin pan. The make for the perfect sized muffins for the kids. I also suggest using the 1/4 cup when measuring out the batter. I rotated my pan 180 degrees half way through. With the cupcake pan this recipe gave me 30 strawberry muffins but again I doubled it from the original recipe.

Now on to the nutrition. Overall they aren’t too terrible a piece.

Next time I try this recipe I will be using 1/4 cup of the oil and 1/4 of unsweetened applesauce to cut down on the calories and fat. I will also be purchasing some low sodium baking powder soon because until I made this recipe and put it in to see the nutrition of them, I had no clue my baking powder had so much sodium. So if I can cut those two things these muffins will be even healthier. The kids loved them and when they are hot, they are absolutely delicious! I can’t wait to make them again!