I am on my Way!!!!!!

So I have not had an ounce of dessert like food for over a week now. It is AMAZING. I can't quite believe it myself, but now that I have made it a week, I need to make it at least 2 and then I will have to make it 4 and then this exponential growth will go out of control. I have also vowed to not have white bread and no soda. I have not done the best on those two things this week. I had some breadsticks for dinner last night and have had pasta and such this week. I also had 2 diet coke binges, but at least they were diet. Right?

So this next week I am going to not do carbonation and lay off white things completely. This means a lot of things that I was able to eat last week that made the week bearable.

I also did quite well on exercising 4 days straight. 2 on the treadmill, and 2 with Jillian. Unfortunately I felt like I was getting stress fractures on both of my legs so I took 3 days off to heal a bit. I feel much better and am a little worried about exercising today. But it has to be done and I have to do it.

The thing that gets me through this whole thing is realizing that summer is so close and I do not want to feel fat this summer! The last few have not been very fun and I don't want to hold back Ryan or my kids with my feelings of embarassment. I want to be in full swing and having fun with them!

Bad Habits are Still Here

I went for over a week without exercising - yet again. I finally broke the time yesterday with a Jillian workout, and I am feeling it today. I wish I could do better at this! It is all about getting up early and I am awful at that! Also, we just switched to Daylight savings time, so I always feel like I am an hour behind anyway.

Oh well, today I will begin day 2 of exercising. Today is treadmill day. Hopefully I will be able to get this a full weeks try. Yeah - with a word like hopefully it is bound to happen - right?! Not really. I guess it is my mood today. I am a little bummed. I had plans and was excited about them, but I feel like I was nudged out of those plans and lied to by the nudger. I hate that. Why not still be in elementary school or junior high.

So how to get out of this mood? Well for starters, I need to exercise. I think doing this will have a HUGE impact on my self esteem and then increase my mood. Then we are all going to get ready and get out of the house to do something fun. Maybe take Henry to the Discovery Gateway or something. We shall see. I will post tomorrow on how it all worked out - and how I worked out.

Going Strong

Day 2 of exercising yet again. Today I ran on the treadmill - the one my dad let me borrow - I did a 4 minute warm up/walk, followed by intervals of 2 minutes walking at 4mph then jogging 2 minutes at 6mph. I did that 4 times, and then did 4 intervals of walking for 1 minute at 4mph and then jogging for 1 minute at 6mph. I hope to increase the intensity of my intervals in the near future and jog for a solid mile.

My next goal is for Monday - I will be doing the Jillian Step 1 workout. I am going to get up at 7am and be exercising by 7:30. Hopefully I will be able to do this before the 2 boys wake up.

Well I am proud of me for doing exercise today. I am also proud that I have not had a single cookie and I had to make some for tonight's get together with the Davis' at SDJH. More games and exercise tonight!

Not Progressing

So it is now the beginning of March and all I have to say is this: I am a lazy bum! I have not been doing what I intended this blog to help me do - get my bad habits into good habits. I am pretty sure the biggest of those bad habits is my lack of exercise and my inability to eat healthy. I have failed miserably on those two! I just weighed myself and I am now a good 10 pounds heavier than when I started this thing. Talk about yo-yo dieting! But I did do a workout today! that is the good news. The bad news? I am pretty sure I need to wake up earlier so I have the time to exercise. That is just SO hard for me. I am a sleeper - I love it - and the kids don't ever nap at the same time (if at all) - so I am not going to get any more sleep then. Blah - lets see how this goes. I am going to get up at 7am every day. Workout or no - at least I will be getting up earlier to get something done.