Picture's worth...

So the long awaited Week 2 shots. Yep I know pins and needles :)
BTW I hate shots by myself. Hoss makes me feel less weird when he's in the shot with me.

yes I look like my momma

without glasses

Might as well go all around :)

IDK, roll with it

hehe, mug shots

With glasses

without glasses

Week 2

whelp it's almost that time again. Tomorrow I weigh in and on the one hand I'm looking forward to it. I've been working hard and it better show. On the other hand, I'm not -- I've craving salt and chocolate right now which will never end well. I think I'm going to take that obligatory picture today. My hair looks good :) and I'm in a dress that's a little snug so if I keep up with the pix in this dress, maybe just maybe we'll see if there is any difference. Maybe?
But I'm proud of myself. No I hadn't been eating at home like I wanted to but I made three goals!
Goal 1: Bike at least 3 times a week. I did 4!!! If you count yesterday with last week.
Goal 2: Walk every workday -- and we did!! 2 miles around 50 minutes each day. I'm loving the consistancy. We can talk and walk and keep it together -- we are talented. And LeCrete, I do believe we cut a minute or two this morning :) I got there around 6:03 and we finished around 6:50 :)
Goal 3: Get my 10 mile bike ride on resistance 1 under 30 -- totally took that out Friday. The next biking goal is resistance 2 10 miles under 30. Rode yesterday to see how long I was going to go. And it came in at around 33 minutes.
I'm still doing good mentally but it's only week 2 and I do weigh in tomorrow so we still haven't crossed a big hurdle.

Trial 1

Week 1, and we have our first trial for me. I've been exhausted since Monday evening. Maybe it was the total 13 miles I did between walking and biking. Maybe it was the 5:45 a.m. wake up call or even Tuesday's 5:30 alarm. But I've been exhausted. So I was already thinking about being bad and texting my buddy that I wasn't going to make it. But yay!! I didn't. Instead our mini-beast, Sandy, wakes us at 5ish whimpering and at 5:30 boom I hear the thunder and we understood the whimpering. Few seconds later, I get the text that says that the rain was going to cancel our walk. And it did. though really we could have walked afterwards. It only rained in my area for 15/30 minutes, I don't know about the ASH area.
So that minor trial completed -- not my fault. Then came I still have to exercise and I'm exhausted still. But I passed it! I got on that stupid bike for 10 miles and did it a little over 30 mins.
BTW, I've made that my goal. I want to do 10 miles in 30 minutes before I increase the resistance -- possible? Eh, I don't know. If it take another week, then I'll go ahead a bump it up to the next resistance but keeping the 10 miles. there are 10 settings so that should take a while and we'll see what happens.

A reason to take notice

Day 2 has started off sloooow and humid. Had some serious trouble getting up this a.m. but I did it and we walked 2 miles again around the same time (possibly longer but we lost track of how many laps we did)
Notice my new tickers! One for my miles both for walking and cycling and then actual weight loss. Which leads me into this: I stepped on the scale and after a week the number went down but next week we'll know if it's gone. While a one week drop feels great it's the second week that it stays gone that makes me feel the best! I hate it when it goes back and forth and back and forth and ... I yo-yo a lot. Probably why I don't stick with a weightloss program.
So I'm down about 4.5! I forgot how much biking really burns. And I was a good little girl and took all my snacks and put into individual servings. I know I said I wasn't doing the D word but I don't have to eat right to cut back and that's not really Ding (yes it is a four letter bad word) right??

Day 1.2

Nope I don't plan to blog everyday of this journey but I figured I might as well start it off right. I ♥ first days of lose weight programs. No seriously, I do. Everyone has all this energy and gung-ho for doing it. Mine was no different. I kept waking up thinking I missed the 5:45 a.m. alarm and while I was late getting to the track, LeCrete and I did our 2 miles in about 50 minutes. Not too shabby for not keeping a consistant pace. I know I can normally do one mile in about 15/20 minutes so we kept a good enough pace for me! Got home and woke Bret up and did another mile with the pups. YAY!!!
And nope not even gonna talk about the D word -- I'm not doing it. It's just exercise at this point.
And I'm totally pumped about making my butt sore and riding the stationary bike this afternoon. And yep, I'll get Hoss to take the obligatory before pic because that's loads of fun and I might even post it :) **Can you find the sarcasm??**
So how do we make every day Day 1?? I mean the first week is usually good and if you see results the following week is good, but it's that third week that gets me or the first week I don't have results.
And yep, I'm tired but it's my normal bored with work wishing I was reading a good novel tired.
Bottom line: day 1 has so far been a success. I'll let you know how the bike riding goes later -- goal 10 miles 45 mins.

Here I go again

I had this blog going a year ago but I had to stop. I stopped trying to lose weight and getting on the healthy road. Now I'm ready to do it again. When your dear sweet hubby looks at you and says "Yeah I can tell you have put on weight" without me asking you know it's time. And nope I didn't get mad at him. I've told him numerous times: "I know you love me know matter how I look but tell me when I'm fat" Whelp he did and now I listen.
Tomorrow morning, bright and early, I'll be meeting up with a friend and we are going to walk a school track. First goal: 2 miles -- hmm we don't have a time yet but that's ok we have an hour and a half to do it in.
When I get home from work I'll hop on my stationary bike and go for about 10 miles at least 3 days a week. I started this part last week and in 3 days did over 30 miles. (looking for a log to put on blogger to keep track)
But now I've decided to start fresh and take down that old blog and start a new E-Less blog.
Today, Hoss and I went and bought me some new workout bottoms and soon I'll get some cycling shorts (cuz that bike hurts my tail!!!)
Anyways, so bottom line: the day a started last week:
I weighed in at 193 (nope I'm not ashamed or embarrassed to put that out there).
The Immediate goal is 170
The Ultimate goal is 125/130