2 Workouts in One Day??

Who worked out twice yesterday?! à this girl ß Oh yea, that’s right! I actually can’t even remember the last time I worked out more than once in a day… if ever! I did the 30 minutes on the elliptical when I woke up {which I mentioned in yesterday’s post} and then did 40 minutes with my Biggest Loser 2 Workout DVD. I actually thought I sold the DVD in a rummage sale that we had this summer, but I was happy to see it still sitting in the pile of stuff that didn’t sell! Haha. It was a pretty good workout, too. The DVD does a lot of the stuff that my aerobics class used to do {l-o-t-s of lunges, squats, etc.}, so that was cool. I think I will use it many more times in the future! I’m glad I found it! I’m also thankful that Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice were repeats last night or it might not have happened! I used to try and exercise when my shows were on to “kill two birds with one stone” {as Char mentioned in a comment yesterday} but I am just so sick of my elliptical right now. I was thinking about looking for a used Treadmill after I get my tax returns. At least it’s something different. Then when I get sick of that, I can go back to the elliptical, or workout DVD’s. I also think the treadmill would be a good tool to help with my Couch to 5K goal. You can’t really get the same effect on a Elliptical.

Eating also went pretty well yesterday. I have been trying to eat mainly Lean Cuisine’s or other diet meals for dinner and making the kids and Dave something separate. Yesterday my Mom fed the kids Ravioli before I got home so I didn’t even have to worry about dinner for them and Dave was already at volleyball so I was just able to warm my meal up for myself. I did end up having to share it with Brayden, my son, though because he’s like a dog when it comes to food and begs for bites every 10 seconds. {yay- less calories! Haha} Then Dave called on his way home from Volleyball and wanted me to pop in a pizza for him. When it was done, I jokingly pretended to grab for a piece and he said, “Nooo… you’re on a diet.” I’m actually glad he said something though because I’m not sure if it would have been a joke if he hadn’t. I don’t know if I would have been strong enough to not eat a piece myself. I was already justifying in my head “it’s only 150 calories.. that’s not much” even though I was already about a 100 calories over my goal already. {I snacked on some carrots and natural peanut butter with the boys as an evening snack}. But I didn’t have one, so that’s good.

And alright.. I admit it.. I weighed again this morning! {I’m addicted!!} I was happy that it was 2 lbs down from yesterday, but if you remember yesterday it was 2 lbs up out of nowhere, so I pretty much just broke even. I stepped on the scale again to see if it would change, but it stayed the same. So I’m kind of bummed, but I guess I should just be happy that the 2 spontaneous lbs came back off. I’m starting to wonder if maybe I am eating too many or too little calories for my height and weight. I have been aiming for between 1500 and 1600 calories and have been trying to exercise about 3 times a week. Any input?? Should I keep it there or go lower? Higher?

I took a water pill today and I’ll probably take one tomorrow too. I guess I’m hoping I’ll drop a quick lb or two before the Holiday party tomorrow. I’m really, truly, not going to weigh until Monday now… I promise! I still haven’t even tried my dress on yet. I bought two for last year’s Holiday party, and decided to wear the other one. So we’ll see how I look in this dress. I think I’m about the same weight, but I’m dreading putting it on. My dress is similar to the one below, but is red underneath instead of blue.

I Hate Scales!

The above picture clearly illustrates how I feel towards the scale right now. We are sooo not BFF’s! Ok, maybe I didn’t do the greatest on healthy eating and exercising last week, but I still tried. I can only remember exercising once during the week, but it was for an hour and a half! I felt so proud afterwards to have exercised for that long.. and to have also had a good day of eating and staying within my calorie limit. I was sure I would have lost 1 to 2 lbs just because of that day alone! Nope- had a gain! A GAIN! I know I tell other people “you’re probably gaining muscle or retaining water” but I don’t want to believe it myself. To only have a weight loss of 1.6 is very depressing… especially after watching shows like “Biggest Loser” or “I Used to be Fat.” I know it’s not realistic to expect the kind of weight loss that they have, but still… 1.6 lbs? On the first week? I don’t mean to be crude,.. but I could take a crap for that amount of weight! Grrr… but this week is a new week and I’m going to keep trying. I’m going to try and up my exercise for the week and get in at least 3 good workouts by Sunday. So far I have one down {shoveled for an hour last night- man, was I sore by the end!} and 2 to go. I’ve also been trying to stick to around 1500 calories per day. I guess we’ll see how this week goes and see if I may need to tweak my plan a little. I think I’m also a little too obsessed with the scale right now {have been weighing every day} so I’m going to start only weighing myself once a week instead of every day. That’s going to be hard, but hopefully better for me in the long run. I have been getting really discouraged after I do well one day and don’t see a significant loss afterwards.