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.01.22.09.

weight: 126.4 lbs (7 am)
body fat: 27%
water: 51%

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.01.21.09.

weight: 127.4 lbs (7 am)
body fat: 27.5%
water: 50.5%

won't be getting to the gym today. car is frozen again. bryan said he'd grab me some anti-freeze while he's at the shop today.

there's kickball practice tonight, but it's fuh-reezing and i'm not going. i don't feel like killing myself.

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.01.20.09.

weight: 127.8 lbs (7 am)
body fat: 27.5%
water: 50.5%

i doubt i'll get to the gym today, and i didn't make it yesterday because i was so wrapped up in making that dress. it's supposed to snow today, between 3 and 5 inches. if it does start while i'm at work, i'll probably just go straight home to finish the dress. if the streets are clear when i get out of work i may hit the gym for a little while, but it's doubtful.

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.01.19.09.

weight: 128.0 lbs (9 am, another holiday)
body fat: 27.5%
water: 50.5%

i'm going to try to go to the gym later to do some upper body and cardio. in the mean time, i'm going to go make a dress.

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.01.18.09.

weight: 127.8 lbs (9 am)
body fat: 27.5%
water: 50.5%

we start kickball today. i'm doing my best to be healthy, but it's going to be tough. i won't be playing in today's game so i won't be working off large numbers of calories like bryan will be. i will be burning some because it's going to be pretty cold and i'll be moving around a lot to try to stay warm, but nothing like playing.

i had yogurt and water for breakfast, and will have a banana before we go, but i'll be eating lots of pizza at uno's after the games. i'll try to limit it to just one or two pieces. we'll see.

if my car has thawed out enough and hasn't developed any terminal leaks, we'll be taking that, and i'll try to hit the gym tomorrow. otherwise, we're back down to one car. we'll have to take bobby's to kickball and back and spend tomorrow working on my car. let's pray my car is ok...

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.01.17.09.

working myself out

well, i didn't get to the gym, but i cleaned the whole house. i washed every piece of laundry that needed to be washed, including the bedding, towels, kickball gear, and gym clothes. i moved all of the furniture out of every room (one at a time, of course) so i could get down on my hands and knees and sweep every inch of the kitchen, bathroom, and living room. in some cases twice. i washed all the hard floors in the house. i scrubbed the microwave and the coffee maker and the stove top. i did all the dishes. i washed all the countertops in the kitchen and bathroom. i cleaned the toilet. i rearranged the bathroom closet to make room for the spare paper towels and toilet paper, and tuck away the old hardware from around the house that had been replaced (outlets, switches, door handles, hinges, etc). i cleaned up a little in the utility room hallway so i could get through easier to do laundry.

i also turned up the music really loud and danced.

it kept me busy, it worked out my whole body, and it kept my mind off of food. i drank 4 bottles of water, but only ate twice.

i'm exhausted. the house is clean. bryan will be home any minute. we're both going to sleep well tonight.

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weight: 129.0 (9 am)
body fat: 28.5% (this makes me so depressed)
water: 50.0%

planning on cleaning the house really well today while bryan is out of town, since i can get to the gym. i'll be moving furniture, sweeping on my hands and knees, washing the floors, cleaning counters... hopefully this will be enough to count as a bit of a cardio workout (what i was planning on doing this morning at the gym).

should have called jason and rachel to see if they were going to the gym this morning and maybe i could have caught a ride with them. oh well.

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.01.16.09.

weight: 128.8 lbs (9 am, slept in)
body fat: 27%
water: 50.5%

making progress! slowly but surely...

hoping to get to the gym today to do lower body and some cardio. it's a holiday, though, so i'm going to have a tough time getting motivated. should have gone first thing when i woke up so i couldn't talk myself out of it. oh well.

edit: my car decided that going to the gym was not a good idea. the brakes were frozen, and it started overheating. we are afraid i may have had ice in my system somewhere since i've pretty much got no anti-freeze left in the system anymore (had a blown gasket on the water pump, didn't bother refilling the anti-freeze, just put in water since it was going through it so quickly. put in a little anti-freeze when we replaced the water pump, but not much). we were really worried i may have blown a freeze plug, but that doesn't appear to be the case. bryan saw some water on a lower heater pipe and it's possible i developed a leak in a hose somewhere. hopefully there is no permanent damage.

i did do a little jumping around in the house for a couple minutes, but not much. i'm very bummed about this. i really wanted to go. i've been doing so well recently...

edit: i got a late night munchy attack. i should have had a bottle of water. instead i ate half a bag of tortilla chips. that was a very bad idea.

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.01.15.09.

weight: 129.8 lbs (7 am, lol down by a half a pound! i'll take it!)
body fat: 27.5%
water: 50.5%

this goes to show how consistent the readings can be on that scale if done under the same circumstances every time. i know that the fat is reading high because the water is reading low, but at least i can get a baseline reading that will eventually tell me if i've made any progress, since it's wrong the same way every time.

also, i will not be going to the gym tonight because it's payday. i've got to go grocery shopping after work. but i plan on going tomorrow to do lower body weights, and saturday morning for cardio.

kickball starts on sunday.

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.01.14.09.

self motivation

i can do this. i can do this. i am good enough. i am strong enough. i deserve this. i can get the pounds off.

i can. i will.

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weight: 130.4 lbs (7 am)
body fat: 27.5%
water: 50.5%

workout:
circuit training - 45 min
stretch & abs
treadmill - 5 min (warmup)
stretch & abs
treadmill - 20 min

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.01.12.09.

inferiority complex

i feel recently like there has been a lot of discussion in my life, amongst my friends, and from my husband, about how hot this woman or that woman is. perhaps that's part of my motivation to get back to the gym. i want to be one of those women that people talk about like that. i want to be hot. i want people to watch me walk past and go "dayum" and not because i'm fat and chunky.

today i went to the gym again. on the one hand i really wanted to go easy, make it short, and go home. but on the other hand, i wanted to just keep going and going and going. get on the elliptical and just go until my legs gave out. go until i passed out. go until i absolutely couldn't take it anymore.

but i know there's no shortcut. it's not a one day project. i know this is an uphill battle and i have to fight hard every day, one step at a time.

i'll get there eventually, but it's going to take a while, and that makes me unhappy.

Posted by Miss Shigatsu at  

weight: 130.8 lbs (7 am)
body fat: 28.5%
water: 50%

workout:
treadmill - 5 min (warmup)
eliptical - 28 min
upper body - 30 min
treadmill - 10 min (cool down)

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.01.11.09.

weight: 129.6 lbs (9 am)
body fat: 27.5%
water: 50.5%

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.01.08.09.

weight: 131 lbs (7 am)
body fat: 28%
water: 50.5%

workout:
elliptical - 5 min (warmup)
stretch & abs
treadmill - 30 min
stretch & abs

i couldn't go for long because i forgot my knee braces. otherwise i had planned to work out much harder and for at least another 20 minutes but my knees were ready to boycott.

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.01.07.09.

weight: 131.5 lbs (7 am)
body fat: 28%
water: 50.5%

workout:
treadmill - 5 min (warmup)
stretch
weight circuit - 60 min
stretch

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