Day 2

So I started the HCG diet again. I am doing it full force this time (no cheats) just like I did the first time. I think it's not too bad. I am a little hungry and yesterday slightly grumpy :-) but over all not too bad. I am hoping for a good 10 lbs lost this time hopefully even 15. I am not going to weigh every day. I think every -other day will be just fine. I don't want to get done and be obsessed with what I can and cannot eat this time. I don't like how controlled I felt the last time I did this. So my best solution is to not obsess. I am doing the diet, following it really well and if I am doing a good job my pants will go back to feeling loose, I will feel good and be excited doing the best I could. My best judge is the way I feel in my clothes.

I am still on the hunt for a zumba class though. I still miss it. I think it was the funnest (not technically a word but you get the idea) work-out I have EVER done. I really enjoyed it and felt like I was toning and burning fat at the same time. I really don't want to have to join a club or gym in order to go....so I'm still looking.

Why's it always food?

We live in a food oriented society. We (or at least I do) eat when I am happy and want to celebrate, I eat when I'm sad, I eat when I bored, I eat for birthday's and the list goes on. I get so frustrated by it. Why am I so attracted to food? I look forward to those butter saturated potatoes, and big juicy burgers. Uhg. I know I am not the only one that feels this way. I know that it is a struggle for A LOT of people. But that doesn't always make it that much less frustrating.

Moving to Texas it's been horrible on my eating habits. I haven't found to many hobbies yet, the kids aren't really involved in too many extra activities that keep me busy, so I eat. I eat because I am sad I left all my family and friends, I eat when Todd and Tanner had a birthday. I get lonely during the day so I make cookies and eat most of them because they sit, staring, at me on the counter.

I haven't exactly gone "up" a size but my pants are getting a little tight and a little to squishy in the backside.....so I think I am going to do the HCG diet again. I know its not the most healthy way to diet and it's pretty rough thing to fallow, but I feel like the last time I did it I got my self under control. I shrunk my stomach, and proved to my mind, as well as my body, I don't need all the extra STUFF to feel me up and be satisfied. I think there are better things to do with my time besides eat.

I think it will be a week or so before I get it and get going but I think I am looking forward to loosing those extra inches that have inched their way back onto my backside and get looking good again for the summer that is coming.

Holy Cow!

I didn't realize how long it has been since I posted on this thing. I guess I really should be better about that! I have moved, celebrated Christmas and New Years, and now feel like I am pulling my life back together...somewhat...

I miss my Zumba class! I had so much fun and felt like I was getting so much more firm doing it. I loved the dancing. I think it is my favorite way to work out. I look like a complete dork, but I was starting to feel like I could let go a little and have a lot of fun. I was also going often enough (2 x's a week) that I almost started feeling like I needed to step it up a notch. I also felt like it was getting my "trouble spots" I know I need to work on them more and harder, but the regularity and mixing up that she would do helped a ton!

I haven't found any classes around here yet but there are a few dance work out videos on Netflix that I want to try. I figure something is better than nothing, because working out makes me feel better about my self and gives me something productive to do, I will try them out.

Zumba Baby!

I went to my first Zumba class on Tuesday. It was a ton of fun! I think it helped that Nichole, Kim, and Jillynn went so I wasn't all by my lonesome. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to move the next day. I woke up and thought "ok this isn't so bad" then by around 2 o'clock it hit. I thought "oh-boy that was more than I thought" but it was all a Totally good burn!

I went again yesterday and it was a little easier and a little less dorky for me. I think I held my own OK. It was as fun as the first time and went by just as fast. I think it will be a regular thing for me. Well...at least until we move.

Todd will be home for a week next week and he is TOTALLY going with me :-) He even said he would!

At it again...

I took a break from exercising because we were moving, Todd getting a new job, Halloween, ect. But now I'm at it again. Welcome back exercise, I missed you.

Holding steady...and trying new stuff.

I guess that's somewhat of an oxymoron. I have not ran for 2 weeks, thanks to a stomach bug and a cold, yuck! But I have been really good at watching my diet and I still have been doing 10-20 min of some-kind of exercise. I have been working on my legs, abs, and arms. So far my weight has been at least holding steady. I will weigh again in a day or two and see if that's really true or if I am kidding my self. We'll see I guess...

I really wish staying/getting in shape wasn't so hard...

Not much

I haven't had much motivation this week. I haven't gone running once, but I have done some weight training and watching what I eat. That counts for something right? I have been pretty good about working on my legs with the leg work outs. It feels good. I hope it works and my legs slim down.

I guess I should go work out now....