Melting Fat

I signed up for another challenge on Spark starting May 4th and ending May 31st. I just basically have to follow their work out routine and so on, then I have a chance of winning 1000 dollars. It’s being hosted by Spark, so that’s why of the larger sum of cashola. Then again, there will be a lot more people in the challenge and a lot more of liars at that. I’m now convinced the other girl I was neck and neck with on another challenge I was in, I think she was lying the whole time because after 44 days of straight exercising, she should have lost at least a lb . The point being is her ticker hasn’t moved unless she only checks her weight once every 3 months, I don’t know but now I’m kinda ticked by it because it really does seem like she was cheating.

Toccara Jones - My model inspiration, she’s 5′9 and weighs 162 lbs. I’m 5′9 as well and since she’s not 110 lbs, I thought she would be a great model for size wise.

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I went swimming in an actual pool, the first time since I think 2006, the same year I started dating my boyfriend. Yah, August of 2006, I went to my girlfriend’s apartments and went swimming with her and a few other friends. It’s been that long but I didn’t really put much umph into it because there were kids and idiot men doing stupid jumps, I kept hoping one of ‘em would split his shorts but that’s besides the point. Anyway, I went swimming today and it kicked my butt because I actually try to do laps the length of the pool, I couldn’t do many - my heart was pounding, I’m sure I burned more than 288 calories like Spark had listed since I’m still really big. I did some weight training as well but since I had a light breakfast, I got hungry pretty fast. My breakfast added up to a whopping 90 calories, I ate some of my mom’s all bran buds, they sucked. That’s the last time I run out of cereal before pay day again! BOO!

Yee Haa, 2 more lbs gone forever!

The back pain has subsided somewhat, I did some stretches and then exercised on the gazelle to get the blood flowing. I also took a pain killer; that’s probably what’s working! hahaha
I wish I could afford a well educated personal trainer so I would know rather or not I’m doing my stuff correctly and what else I could do to strengthen my back more to help prevent injury. But alas, I know part of my problem with my back is my weight on my stomach, I need to loose lots more to side step that problem.

I’m suppose to bicycle tomorrow, we’ll see what happens because at this point, I’m not sure it’s going to happen - not because of my back but more because of the blasted heat. One bad thing about Texas, the blasted heat!

There have been a few days that I’ve gone over this week but since I’m on my period, I’m not giving two craps about it nor my enormous free day today. Hell, I might even walk to 7-11 for some Ben & Jerry’s and I won’t care about the results because I know I have the power to get rid of what I gain during a bad week plus some. Sure, it may take me a bit longer to get to my goal weight but that’s fine with me, I’d rather take 1.5 years or even 2 years to get it off and keep it off, as well as having a better chance of my skin not being so loose after the weight loss. I don’t fear loose skin on my legs nor even my arms - the only place I fear that it will be saggy will be at my gut area because across my hips and the front part of my stomach area is where I store the most fat. So that’s my area of concern for saggy skin once I get to my goal weight - if I indeed end up with saggy skin, I might opt for surgery because I want to be able to wear a bikini at least one summer out my whole pathetic adult life!

In other news; I’ve never hurt myself exercising but I did getting up today, don’t know what I did but I screwed my back up standing up today. I’m always careful to not overdo it with workouts but I seem to screw my back up at least twice a year by natural methods - standing, getting out of bed or something of that nature.

The only time I injured myself with working out was in school because they didn’t teach proper techniques for crunches - they wanted set ups, not crunches. I’d rather pump out 50 crunches than 4 set ups any day!

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Yay!, also from everything I’ve read about taking hip measurements, I’ve been doing mine in the wrong place and I thought I was but I couldn’t ever find any GOOD picture examples of where it should be done. Now that I know where to measure, my hip measurement is 56 and my waist is 41/42ish. So, either way, it puts me as being a pear shaped girlie and that apple business was bothering me, so I’m ultra happy now! I’m still really large but I’m on my way to slimming down, I think I’m going to start measuring once a month - probably the 3rd of each month or the first Monday of each month.

I didn’t hardly work out at all last week but it looks like it helped to take a break. I was going to go to the gym today but honey had to stay over at work today and help fix the Co-Manager’s screw up. The store manager has never liked freight being left on the floor after 7:30 AM at the latest. ( I use to work there. ) So, anyway, his co-manager came up with the grand idea of leaving it on the floor - needless to say the store manager didn’t think it was cool and flipped her lid. Rightly so I believe, I can’t believe I’m saying that, I dislike that woman intensely. Anyway, there seems to be lack of communication there I believe.

So, I’m picky and don’t really like going out in heavy traffic too much, so I opted for a mile walk and some strength training for today, I’ll hit up the gym tomorrow.

The idea is to post your weight for that monday, if you’re trying to lose weight or maintaining.. On your first post for Melting Fat Mondays, you just discuss your weight now, your goals and what’s the reason you’re losing weight. Mine are to be healthy and I want children one day and my weight will hold me back from being and doing both.

Instead of the planned two days of rest from working out, it’s been 4 so far and I may take another, then start kicking butt again starting tomorrow. I haven’t decided yet, todays is scheduled for the gym and I kinda want to go and I kinda don’t. ( My back is feeling a little weird. )

I don’t know, I might still go … I stepped on the scale since I had one day this week that was completely outrageous and it read 262, so that would be 1.5 lbs down, providing it sticks till Monday. We’ll see.

I do know that I can handle to eat this way for the rest of my life, I actually prefer the healthy food over the junk food 90% of the time because I’m now noticing that if I have too much crap food in one day, I don’t feel so good the next day!