Weight Loss Check in

britvahok · January 2014

Happy Friday!!!

What are your weight loss goals:

What is your plan to accomplish them:

How many times have you worked out this week:

How was your diet:

What's your biggest struggle and accomplishment this week:

britvahok · January 2014

What are your weight loss goals: My long term goal is to lose 50 lbs; short term is to lose 20 lbs

What is your plan to accomplish them: I started this running plan and signed up for the color run with my coworkers. https://victory-fitness.blogspot.com/2013/10/three-miles-in-30-days-running-program.html?m=1

How many times have you worked out this week: I did day 1 of the running plan on New Yrs. and completing Day 2 tonight

How was your diet: I'm trying to add more veggies and less carbs. I only had carbs for dinner last night and a salad for lunch.

What's your biggest struggle and accomplishment this week: Carbs are my biggest struggle! Staying on a low carb diet will be very difficult for me. Biggest accomplishments....getting off the couch and going to the gym on New Yrs

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zbeesma86 · January 2014

Goals-lose/maintain weight

Plans- workout & eat right. Started ww & been following points.

Workouts this week? Everyday except New Year's Day. The gym was closed & I didn't run outside. My schedule will be workout M-F off Saturday & Sunday.

Diet- clean eating.

Struggle- emotional eating. Especially during my period. I want to eat everything!

Accomplishment- drinking a gallon of water a day since around thanksgiving. Still doing it!!

piphigirl · January 2014

What are your weight loss goals: I am not sure what I weigh right now; probably between 150 and 153. My goal is to 140 pounds. I was 135 before getting pregnant and know most of my clothes fit at 140, so I think this is a reasonable goal.

What is your plan to accomplish them: First, begin running again. I start a new half marathon training group next week. Second, use FitBit to track my exercise habits. Third, begin calorie counting again.

How many times have you worked out this week: Four. Five? I can't remember. They were all 30-minute treadmill walks while listening to a new audio book. Next week I'm going to add in one short run (Tuesdays), one long run (Saturdays), and one strength class (Thursdays) in addition to walking the other days.

How was your diet: It's usually fine, but we still have some holiday goodies leftover. But I don't think having a couple peanut butter cookies or a brownie in the evenings is terribly unhealthy. I did have movie theater popcorn at the movies, though. I do okay on the diet front since we don't eat fast food, I don't consume soda or juice, I make lots of commonly processed things from scratch (like bread and pasta sauce), and most things I cook are from Cooking Light magazine.

On the diet front, I am proud of myself for not eating any gluten over the holidays. I am gluten sensitive but during and just after my pregnancy was eating gluten all the time and it made me feel terrible. I haven't had any in months now, not even at Christmas!

What's your biggest struggle and accomplishment this week: My biggest struggle is always just wanting to eat more. It's a form of control; like, I probably shouldn't have a third cookie, but I'm going to just to prove that I can. I wasn't like this before having a kid and I think it's related to feeling like I don't have control over certain things in my life after having a kid, but I can control food. I need to work on this issue.

Other stuff I want to add: I am hoping that my FitBit arrives today or tomorrow so I can get it set up before going back to work on Monday! Also, having a new audiobook is really motivating me to go to the gym since I only listen to audiobooks while walking or running. I will be going again tomorrow because I really like my book! (Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater.)

sadeathe · January 2014

What are your weight loss goals: I want to get back to my pre-baby weight. I need to get down to less than 140 lbs and am at 161.4 lbs as of this morning. So I have 21.4 lbs to shed.

What is your plan to accomplish them: I plan on using calorie counting and upping my exercise - Push ups, crunches, and squats with Dh in the morning, yoga during Albert's naps.

How many times have you worked out this week: Twice. I'm not off to a very good start. As soon as I finish this post, I'll do my yoga and that will make three times this week.

How was your diet: Not great. I do really well eating at home and tracking my calories, but we went out to eat on Sunday, Wednesday, yesterday, and have an office party tonight.

What's your biggest struggle and accomplishment this week: The biggest struggle this week has been eating out too much and always finishing what is on my plate, regardless of how much food is on there. When I'm talking, I forget that I put the fork down and start eating again. On the bright side, I did fifty crunches and over twenty girly pushups when we were evaluating what level to start out on the program we're doing - I was pretty proud of that.

Toni79 · January 2014

What are your weight loss goals:

So most of you want to get down to your pre-pregnancy weight. But I'd like to get down to my pre-fertility treatment weight. Between IUIs, IVFs, and being pregnant I gained almost 70 lbs (30 during treatments and 40 while pregnant). I'm at about my pre-pregnancy weight, but I'd like to get down to my pre-fertility treatment weight ... so I've got about another 30 lbs to go!

What is your plan to accomplish them:

I lost about 25-30 lbs last year doing Weight Watchers. But I haven't tracked in several months. Starting Monday (the 6th), I plan to start tracking my points again. I also need to add some exercise into my routine. I have a memebership to Planet Fitness and I like their 30-minute circuit. I also have a stationary bike hiding in the basement collecting dust that I'm going to move into the guest room. I plan on getting "Friends" on Netflixs and watching the series from the begninng. I figured I could watch 1-2 edisodes at a time while riding the bike! This will modivate me to ride the bike if I can't get to the gym

How many times have you worked out this week:

Technicall zero ... Unless are we couting running around in the morning trying to get out the door on time as exercise? I sometimes do work up a sweat doing it? So if we count that ... I "worked out" 5 times! LOL! I will have to shovel snow off the driveway when I get home ... so that might count as exercise too!

How was your diet:

It was ok. We tend to eat fairly healthy, but we tend to overeat! We don't keep snacks or desserts in the house. But like others have mentioned we do have some leftover holiday sweets! DD brought home Chessecake from the Cheesecake Factory for NYE! He was supposed to bring home 1 peice for each of us ... but he brought home 2 for each of us. So of course we had to eat the other peices on the 1st! LOL! So far I haven't eaten any dinners out, which is good! But I did get Starbucks lattees twice this week! Like others have mentioned, with the diet looming over me (starting next week), I may have snacked more than I normally would. Like I'm trying to get all the junk in my mouth before it is officially completly off limits!

What's your biggest struggle and accomplishment this week:

Struggle

This isn't specific to this week, but my biggest struggles in general with weight loss and exercise are TIME! I just don't have enough hours in the day! I know this sounds like such a cop out excuse, but its true! People tell me to get a quick work out in the morning or at night, but I'm just so tired! Here me out for a minute ...

I have a 1 hour 15 minute commute (on a good day). I do drop off and pick up and DC because my DH works 12 hour shifts (he's out of the house for close to 16 hours). So he can't drop her off at DC at 4 am or pick her up at 8 pm! (DH's schedule just changed mid-Dec and he used to be able to do drop off in the morning, but not anymore).

Here's my typical day - DH's alarm goes off at 3:30 - I'm awake just enough to know he's getting up ant leaving. I wake up at 4:30 and get ready. I wake DD up between 5:30-5:45 to BF, change diaper, and we're out the door no later than 6:00. Leave DC at 6:15. Assuming no traffic - Hopefully I'm at work by 7:30. Hopefully leave work between 4:00/4:15. Assuming no traffic - Pick her up from DC by 5:30. Home between 5:45/6:00 (depending if DD wants to BF at DC or at home). Dinner's at 6:30. Bath at 7:00 (we do baths ever other night). Bedtime routine and my goal is to have her asleep by 7:30 so that she can get 10 hours of sleep. But most nights I don't have her asleep until closer to 8:00 - just because its so hard to squeeze it all in 1.5 hours! DH gets home at 8:00 and if we haven't eaten, we'll eat. By the time I'm done cleaning up the dinner mess and packing my lunch and DD's breakfast, lunch, and snacks for DC the next day its close to 9:30, and exaused! Sleep is just as important to your health as diet and exercise!

If we plan our dinners out for the week we do ok. But alot of times we don't plan well or make the meals ahead of time like we planned, and we end up eating something quick! Even if I have a healthy balanced dinner for DD, DH and I might have Chipotle or something after she goes to bed. I just need more time in the day to meal plan and make the meals ahead of time. So, I'm not sure how to work in exercise. Sleep always seems to win! Espchally since DD JUST started STTN in Novemeber. Before that I'd always make sure not to stay up too late since I never knew how many times she was going to be up in the MOTN!

Sorry this is so long. But I always feel like when I tell people I don't have time during the week to do certain things they think I'm full of BS. I know I can plan better, so that is something I'm working on. But it still doesn't create more time!

Accomplishment

Hummm ... I guess I need to think positive ... I didn't eat any dinners out, so that's an accomplishment. I pseudo cleaned my fridge on the 1st ... got rid of all the expired stuff ... making room for all the yummy healthy things I'm buying this weekend at the grocery store!

TechieGirl1 · January 2014

What are your weight loss goals: Mine is to feel more comfortable in my clothes, in some capacity.

What is your plan to accomplish them: Basically eat better, eat more "real foods", and stop with second helpings, and munching (I tend to much all the time when home, and when at school I have to eat quick . also not good)

How many times have you worked out this week: none, this is a huge problem for me, I always feel like I have no time. however today I shoved our driveway, so I suppose that counts? DH couldn't shovel due to the residue of anaphylactic shock reaction last week (temperature difference).

How was your diet: Pretty good before. Although I was eating more carbs then I would like, and I need to start eating more salads and the like.

What's your biggest struggle and accomplishment this week:

struggle: again time. Plus DH went into anaphylactic shock on Dec-26th and was in the hospital (ICU) for 2 days, and came home Saturday night. He had some of his organs starting to shut down and everything. Very scary stuff, very stressful. So I've been taking care of him, the LO, as well as my mom (she has been having major eyesight issues as well, which has led to a host of other issues).

Accomplishment: currently, err.. having everyone ok, and relatively ok, and eating a bit better since new years.

BluepointToasted · January 2014

What are your weight loss goals: to lose 10-15 lbs. I am happy and maintain around 155-160, so I'd be happy to be there.

What is your plan to accomplish them: tracking calories on myfitnesspal, and working out.
How many times have you worked out this week: I worked out 3 times this week

How was your diet: sucky. Still in holiday mode, and DSS's birthday party last night. And date night tonight.

What's your biggest struggle and accomplishment this week: I'm not really struggling with anything. I try not to beat myself up if I gain a couple of pounds over the holidays, I know I can shed it. I will start tracking on Monday. I have tried to have a little balance this week by making sure any meal we had that was not celebratory was really clean.

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