Melting Fat

It’s been a while since I last updated this blog and that stinks because it means, I’ve been struggling. It’s not hard for me to lose weight and to follow thru with a diet but it’s hard to follow those while having a job, I’m half tempted to only work long enough to get certain things paid off and then quit, so I can once again dedicated myself completely to losing weight . However, that wouldn’t prove anything because once I lost the weight and had a job again, I’d be in the same boat - learning how to balance the two, so I continue to push thru. I had gained a few lbs and now I’m just a lb over my lowest weight and so I will beat this working and healthy lifestyle one way or another.

I can do that all day, it’s so much fun and it’s fun seeing my mom try to do the hula hoop on it! LoL
It does seems to be pretty close in weight for my digital scale, yesterday not so much. But today and the first day, yes.
Today it read 243.4 and the scale said 243.5, so that’s pretty damn close if you ask me.

Of course, nothing official till Sunday but I want to see how well they keep in sync with one another for the next couple of days and then I will go back to weighing once a week.

Monday, however, I’m hitting up the gym or I’m punching someone in the damn lip - I miss my weights at the gym! *hahaha* I also miss the elliptical, I love the elliptical and I never thought I’d be saying that. That’s crazy for me to be saying but I’m saying it!

The last 3 days, my calories have been so so . I didn’t log anything for Wednesday because that was payday and it’s just too much of a crazy day to log. Yesterday was going fine until mom came home with pizza from my family’s dinner last night for my cousin that just passed away.

Then TODAY was the actual funeral for Larry Don and so, I’m not sure what I had in total there. I’m pretty sure I’m at least 100 to 200 calories off on my figuring, if not more. So, I’m not eating for the rest of the night if I can bare to handle it.

And since, Aunt Flo decided to come for another visit, I’m crampy and REALLY HUNGRY but I’m trying to control the evil temptress.

So, for tomorrow, hopefully I can stay within’ ranges and low on sodium. I may have an all vegetable day tomorrow. We’ll see.

I changed my calorie range so that I lose 20 lbs by my mom’s birthday which would be 5 days before my birthday. I think that would be such an awesome gift to myself, to be only 26 lbs from being below 200 lbs.

199 is the moment I’m going to be bawling my eyes out no doubt, I get aggravated because certain parts of the body are being stubborn and I can only hope that in the next 10 weeks that I can see more of a difference because that would be a total of 38 weeks that I’ve been doing this.
Granted some women could have lost 76 lbs in 38 wears, if I manage to lose the 20 - it’ll be 62 lbs gone and I’ll be damned happy over that because that would mean I’m half way DONE.

And I still dislike people who lie about their fitness time on SparkPeople!

I would have been in range for yesterday but I had to get a cranberry juice because I think I have a bladder infection, so I went over by like 100 calories and only 10 grams of carbs. A lot better compared to other days, my goal for the rest of this week is to stay around the 1400 to 1500 calorie range and I’m sure I can pull it off.

I’m still doing the push-up challenge and I’m noticing more in my strength in my arms, so that totally rocks. After re-evaluation, I don’t think I’ll actually be able to do 100 standard push-ups by the end of the year considering I’m doing girly push-ups right now but we’ll see.

Also, I’m also not expecting to get below 200 lbs until January instead of December but that’s fine by me. I know damn well I wouldn’t be no Biggest Loser case and drop 100 plus lbs in 6 months and not be saggy skinned, I just don’t see the likely hood of looking as good as Ali after that fast of a weight loss. Nope.

41 lbs DONE and 80 to Go!

I haven’t been to the gym in two weeks and since I had to pay my payment today, I made the decision to do a workout there. Well, while there I decided for shits and giggles to hop on the captain’s chair, something I haven’t been able to do since jr.high and still struggled with. Well, I actually did 3 leg lifts with no problem and decided to do 3 more sets of 2 reps. It’s not a lot but it’s damn sure a start for me, I was so excited when it happened. I still am for that matter - I’m like “Me, doing the captain’s chair? NO WAY!”. It’s such an awesome awesome feeling, I love it!

Just a quick note before I type my real post, I found this the site mentioned in this post because my local newspaper. They have a little 1×1 square ad in the paper every day called click it and it’s to some site or video on the web and the other day’s just happened to be hundredpusups.com, just a small pic to accompany the url and that was it. Not sure, how many have seen the site from here in Odessa,Texas but I know the small ad intrigued me since I’m on this new kick of trying to get healthy and strong. With that, being strong to me means being able to do regular pushups and being able to do pull - ups. ( I can’t do ONE pull - up and when I can, that’s going to rule.)

Anyway, since I’m wanting to better my health, I had to visit the site and that’s when I started my new goal because push-ups have always been my enemy but I’ve always wanted to get away from the girly style pushups that I’ve forever been tortured by of doing. I’ve never been be able to do a proper regular pushup and the time is now for me to claim my stake in that.

I’ve done all three days of week one, well actually 2 days of week one and one day of week two. Yep, you read that right, I messed up and wasn’t paying attention and ended up doing the 2nd day of week two instead of week one. But I can already notice a difference in just a short amount of time, I don’t know if it’s just clearly from the pushups or a mix of that and doing the WII boxing every night. ( I put my all into that one.)

Although, I have to do the girly pushups right now, that’s going to give me a head start in being able to do the regular ones in the future. As soon as I can achieve the 100 girly pushups is when I will attempt the training on the regular ones.

100 Regular Push-Ups Or Bust.

That’s a site that gives a great training plan to do a hundred pushups, okay you might not be doing 100 pushups at the end of the 6th week if you’re like me and can only do one pushup. But you can sure work on the amount you can do. So, I’m taking the challenge and I intend to reach 100 pushups by the end of the year.

I need things to challenge me and this is just another one that will kick my butt into shape and because I’m weird, I would also love to do the splits. I’ve never been able to do them and I would like to be able to do that one day, that would mean I’m more flexible as well and that would lead to less injuries.

My boyfriend has informed he’s told a co-manager at Wally World that I re-applied and so I expect to be called within’ the next few days. So, now I get to schedule work into my lifestyle as well, I hope I don’t fall flat on my ass on trying to work, workout, eat right and just live life in general. I want to be healthy but damn it, I want money too.

Sparkpeople allows you to log your work in time and there’s a lady here in Odessa that I think is full of it, only because she’s only lost 2 lbs and amazingly how exercise minutes for this month jumped 120 minutes in one day and as from what I can see, she just started working out within the past 2 weeks.

I seriously doubt from what she says and what not, that she’s already busting out 2 hours of exercise time in a day. Well, unless she considers just “living” exercise and what I mean by that is : checking the mail, cleaning your house, doing laundry and that sorta thing .
Some people on spark do log those things, if you’re logging that as exercise - I can only assume you check you do these things once a week and you’re fucking lazy fuck the rest of the time.

Half the stuff I do, I don’t even log, I don’t log everytime I get on my bicycle and I don’t log every two minutes I do on the gazelle to break up the boredom in my day.

I don’t know, it just annoys me …………..

So, I had lost 1.5 lbs from the previous week, I’m getting closer and closer to one of my mid - term goals and that being a total of 50 lbs lost. Hell with that, they’re not lost, I’m not going to go back and look for them. They can stay lost and never find home again. So, tomorrow is weigh in day again and I’m expecting a gain because I didn’t do much cardio this week, I was focusing more on strength training because I’m so bad about not doing that.

My 2 end of the year goals are to be below a 35 inch waist and to be able to wear my silver Metallica football jersey without looking like a damn silver oompa loompa.

Also, I’ve started a weight loss blog at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TruTallica

I feel that using a video blog will also help me to be more accountable for my weight loss journey and it’ll also help me to see the difference in my hair. I recently cut off 8 inches and I hate it.

I’m hoping I reach 249 by next week, that’s 3 lbs but I really want to hit that goal of 237.5 by July 14th but then again, I may have to expect to see that in August sometime. I still have my fingers crossed though that I reach it in time or even just a week out.

I finally got to hit the gym today, it was a spectacular work out and I also applied there for work. So needless to say my fingers are crossed that I get hired on there even if it is just cleaning. I would at least be able to go the gym more than I what I get to now, so that would be awesome.

I’m not great at reading the tape measure or how exactly loose it’s suppose to be or how tight and so on. So I’ve been holding onto 40 for quite a while on my waist but it looks like I might be at 39.75, I’ll hold onto that until I’m certain I’m at 38 or lower, I figure that’s the best option to go for.

Also, the body fat percentage thingy I bought, although I know it’s not accurate, I don’t even think it’s accurate by 20 points. I may just sell on ebay and just deal with not knowing what my body fat % is.