Broken Promises

Just finished doing over 3 miles at a walk run.  77 minutes and 1269 calories burned.  Woohoo!!! I feel pumped and want to do some Just Dance.  I'm not ready to quit yet.

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You can't tell but I just got up and did 34 minutes of Just Dance.  34 minutes and 770 calories burned!!  That's 22 calories a minute!  I averaged 165 bpm and peaked at 183.  I'm really happy with that.  That's what I meant the other day by 30 minutes of intentional, dedicated, hardcore exercise.

I read something the other day and it made me stop and think.  "Why is it that the easiest promises to break are the ones that we make to ourselves?"  It was in a free, kindle, self-published, fiction novella of all places.  I spent a few minutes thinking about this because it is so true and I've never thought of it in those terms before.

If I promise my mom that I'll babysit for her on a certain day you can bet that come hell or high water I will be there on that day, on time ready to babysit.  If I promise my daughter I'll sew her a Halloween costume fit for the Queen of England you can bet she's going to look amazing.  I'm just spitballing here but I bet that 75% of the promises I make to myself end up getting kicked to the curb.  I don't think I'm alone here, why do we do this to ourselves?  Why is what we want and need always secondary to what is convenient or easy?

Over the last week I haven't been sticking to my 1200 calorie a promise I made to myself.

Let's see if I can do better next week!  Although I'll be honest, I feel pretty amazing right now. I don't even hardly feel guilty.  Last night I ate over half a can of Reddi-whip on strawberry's and it wasn't even low fat. And yet here I am today, still plugging along.  I slipped, but I didn't fall down and I didn't even give quitting or throwing in the towel a passing thought. This is huge for me. So while I'd like to do better next week, if I do the same as I did this week, I will still be just fine!

-Kate

Week 9 : 27.8 lbs down, 152.2 lbs to go
Current Weight : 297.2 lbs
Start Weight : 327 lbs
Goal Weight : 145 lbs

Week 9 Weigh In

Yay!! Another loss, 1.6 lbs this week. I'm really happy to be out of the 300's. This is a good spot to be in, I feel like it's "do-able" now.

Today is my job interview and then I'm going to go for walk/run.  Tomorrow is my cortisone injection for my shoulder and then I should be able to start doing cardio dance again.  I'm really looking forward to that.  It doesn't even feel like working out, it's just fun.  My daughter can do it with me without getting mad that I'm going to fast or getting ahead of her.  So, needless to say, I'm really looking forward to being able to get back at it.

As far as my September goals :

1) Get 30 minutes of intentional, dedicated exercise everyday.
So far so good, went for a 52 minutes jog monday and a 32 minute jog last night.

2) Keep my Diet Coke habits in check.
This is iffy.  It's creeping back up on me had 3-4 yesterday, but that's still an improvement.

3) Lose 10 more lbs by the end of the month.
16% of the way there!  I would have to lose 3 lbs per week to keep this promise, which might not happen.  As close to 10 as humanly possible is the new goal.

-Kate

Week 9 : 27.8 lbs down, 152.2 lbs to go
Current Weight : 297.2 lbs
Start Weight : 327 lbs
Goal Weight : 145 lbs

Job Hunting and Back to School

I haven't been working out as hard as I was last month.  I've had a lot of energy and have been getting around to projects and cleaning that I never seemed to get around to before and that has been sucking up a lot of my spare time.  I think however that I'm likely burning a similar amount of calories since I'm up off my butt for the majority of the day.

I have a job interview on Wednesday, I have no idea what I'm going to wear.  I've never had a job interview that I was nervous to go to but then I've never gone to a job interview this "large".  I'm hopeful but not going to let it crush me if I get passed over.

Back to school was last week and things are starting to settle into a routine.  It has been crazy getting my body back on a 7am-10pm schedule.  Around 4 I hit this wall and want to crash but I force myself to keep going and then come bed time I don't want to go to bed, however I have been getting "good" sleep.  That is something I haven't been able to say in a long while. 

My goals for the rest of September :

1) Get 30 minutes of intentional, dedicated exercise everyday.

2) Keep my Diet Coke habits in check.

3) Lose 10 more lbs by the end of the month.

That's it.  Seem's simple enough.  I can do this!

-Kate

Week 8 : 26.2 lbs down, 153.8 lbs to go
Current Weight : 298.8 lbs
Start Weight : 327 lbs
Goal Weight : 145 lbs

Walking Milestone

Today I planned to go for an hour long walk from my house to the highway and back again.  But it only took me 43 minutes!  I looked back at the last time I made the same exact path walking... it took me 54 minutes.  That was on July 29th and I didn't have a stroller that day, but I did today.

I'm pretty happy about this 11 minute improvement and I went 3.0 mph without jogging or running at all.

I also was feeling like I ate a bit too much today but in the end after checking my calories I did really well and hit all of my goals, the only one I missed was fat, I was UNDER by 16 grams!

Very good day, looking forward to keeping on this roll,

-Kate

Week 8 Weigh In

298.8!!  Was so elated when I saw it on the scale this morning. My expectations were not even that high, I was thinking maybe 300 but nope, christmas came early this year. Goodbye 300's I will never, ever see you again.  It was NOT fun while it lasted, NO thank you for the memories.

-Kate

Week 8 : 26.2 lbs down, 153.8 lbs to go
Current Weight : 298.8 lbs
Start Weight : 327 lbs
Goal Weight : 145 lbs

Zucchinipalooza

Due largely in part to the generosity of neighbors I have a lot of zucchini and by a lot I mean 10 or so zucchinis, some of which rival my 1 year old in size.  Up until this new shipment I have been eating them roasted in the oven kind of like potato chips or cut up and fried in my morning omelets.  However things have hit critical mass. I could eat zucchini morning, noon and night and not finish these things before they go south so I had to get creative.  I googled zucchini recipes and came back with zucchini bread.  My aunt made zucchini bread a lot as a child and yet somehow it had completely slipped my mind.  So I set to work, 5 hours later 4 batches of zucchini bread later (and I only burned one!) I've made it through a whopping... three zucchini's and they weren't even the big ones.

So tomorrow I will continue on with project 'Cook the Zucchini' and hopefully get through most of them.

My Recipe :

3 cups of flour
2 cups of grated zucchini
2 eggs
1 cup of grated carrots
1 cup of sugar
3/4 cup of apple sauce
1/3 cup of vegetable oil
1 tbsp of vanilla
1 tsp of baking soda
1 tsp of salt
1 tsp of cinnamon
1/4 tsp of  baking powder

Preheat oven to 350. Mix it all together (I'm not fancy enough to separate dry's and wets and so on) with a wooden or plastic spoon.  Pour or spoon into greased pans.  Makes 16 serving's.  Muffin tins makes 16-18, pie plates makes 2, 13 X 9 cake pan makes 1.  The muffins cook for about 35 - 45, the cake pan took 1 hour 20 minutes and the pie plates took 50 - 60.  They're done when the toothpick comes out clean.

I also made spaghetti and meatballs for dinner and did 1 pound of beef and about a cup of grated zucchini.  I could barely tell the difference, they were maybe a little sweeter if anything, so it makes for good filler.

I'm switching my weigh in days to Wednesday's so tomorrow will be my next weigh in, wish me luck!

- Kate

Week 7 : 23 lbs down, 157 lbs to go
Current Weight : 302 lbs
Start Weight : 327 lbs
Goal Weight : 145 lbs