I have a new love!!

And it's called racquetball. On Superbowl Sunday, I was over at a friends house and I got to experience the Wii for the first time. It was so much fun!! My best friend and I played tennis. We had so much fun and I remembered that we have racquetball courts at our gym. So I recommended that we pick up the sport.

Vanessa and I have two weekly dates. Lunch on Wednesday and the gym on Thursday after her kids are in bed. We never miss lunch and always forget the gym. I think we've made it to the gym twice over the past 2-3 months. We have finally found our motivation for our Thursday night gym time. I am so excited. It's also great exercise. I looked it up I burned about 1000 calories playing last night. I felt great but by the time I got home and showered I could hardly walk. So, i pulled out the myoflex, motrin and heating pad and got busy nursing my wounds.

This morning, i tried something new... water aerobics. I've been wanting to try it out for almost a year now but either forgot about it or I was too tired to get out of bed for it on Friday morning. I got my ass kicked. I was pleasantly surprised. I was still in some pain from racquetball the night before so the nonstop leg exercises in the pool were pretty brutal. Nothing the hot tub water fall couldn't fix :O)

See you on Monday, unless i come up with another reason to blog!

What A Week!!

So between traveling and PMS I gained .8 pounds. I stayed within my caloric intake and I wasn't bad at all. I even had about 6 moments this weekend where I was proud of myself. I guess that's ok. It could be worse. So much for that 8 pound loss. It's a new week with hopefully new determination. Thank you guys for all of your love and support. I love it when you comment on my blog.

This week I really need to concentrate on actually making it to the gym. For some reason that has been a challenge for me this time around. I think it has to do with the condition of my back and my left foot. I bought some new tennis shoes over the weekend so hopefully that will help my foot. I really hope that my shoes were the problem because if not then I just wasted money on shoes that I didn't need. Then there is my back. It's in terrible shape. For those of you that don't know this about me, I trained to become a massage therapist and let me just say that ignorance is bliss. I would probably still be in pain but I wouldn't be as aware of the pain. Does that make sense? I decided this morning at the gym that I was going to get better about doing an all around stretch. I've been stretching just not every part of me.

I signed up for Curves! I am NOT a morning person and the morning lady at Curves is a little irratating to me. So I just need to bite the bullet and go.

So this weekend was extremely stressful. I was put in a horrible situation during my business trip to Dallas. On my way home I was extremely distressed and upset and I wanted a sweet tea from Chickfila to soothe my pain. You would be proud of me. I passed them all and never stopped to get one. You have no idea how hard that was. I am an emotional eater, happy or sad. I was in an emotional crisis and completely passed up the opportunity to feed my pain over and over again. Yay for me!

Please keep my back and foot in your prayers. I am already off to a difficult start this week. It is now Tuesday and still haven't made it in to the gym. We have our first weigh in for the family competition on Thursady and I would like to drop a little more before then.

Have a great week.

Curves

So I signed up for Curves yesterday. I thought it would be great to add that to my exercise routine. I do have to say that I feel a little out of place. I am by far the youngest person I have seen in my two days there and my mother assures me that will be the case from here on out. The lady training me this morning was excited because I was young and picking up quickly. We will see how well this goes.

Bittersweet

This weigh in was bittersweet but mostly sweet. I lost 4.2 pounds. Yay for me. The reason why it was a little bitter is because I weighed myself on Friday and I was down about 5.5 pounds and was thinking I would be able to hit the 8 pound mark by this morning. Oh well. What can you do? The weekend was a little off but I stayed the corse regardless. All that matters is that I hit the 4 pound mark. My goal for awhile is 4 pounds a week. So I am patting myself on the back.

Last Week: 333
This Week: 327.8
Total Loss: -4.2

This weeks goal is to hit 320 pounds. That means I need to lose 7.8 pounds. I don't believe that is too far out of reason. Last week I only made it to the gym 4x and the workouts were very short. Here are the things that I am going to add this week to boost my weight loss efforts.

1. Make it to the gym everyday with regular length workouts.
2. Sign up for Curves and attend if I am signed up early enough in the week.
3. Continue to drink all of my water.
4. Continue keeping a detailed journal.

Can you hear that?

No. Ok. I guess its just me. I am at work right now and the Chex mix is calling my name. There is nothing I love more than snacking on Chex mix and sipping a cold Dr. Pepper in the afternoon. Mmmm. My best friend said I should threaten it with violence. Not a bad idea if the Chex mix belonged to me. Somehow the peanut butter bar and apple are not cutting it. Sigh....

I made it to the gym!!

Yay! It actually happened. I made it to the gym this morning. This was extremely hard for me. I haven't been myself lately and as much as my head is ready for it all of the my heart and body have had a hard time catching up. I figured if I didn't make it in today it probably wouldn't happen again until next week. My determination is starting to come back. I am definitely a work in progress right now but I am determined to beat my lack of determination and will power.

My dear friend, Sasha

There is no weigh in this week. Yesterday, instead of weighing in I had to go say my final goodbyes to a friend I grew up with. She passed away one week ago, today. It was sudden and unexpected. Sasha was very well loved and will be missed.

As for the diet, last week was just rough. Emotionally and just lack of time. It was unexpectedly crazy busy. Oh well. I did watch what I ate but I didn't count calories or journal. I was even snacking on carrots, cucumbers, avocados and tomatoes instead of other crap in the midst of all the sadness.

So you might be thinking, what will Shannon be doing to snap out of the funk. I have two motivations. Yesterday, I found out what dress and color I will be wearing in a wedding in July. The dress is beautiful, the color is burnt orange. There are 3 colors and this was the color I did NOT want. I wanted the wine colored dress. Oh well. It's not as bad as I imagined but I am going to have to change the color of my hair a bit so that my hair doesn't look orange and lose a lot of weight so I don't look as much like a round pumpkin. I am hoping for 80 pounds. I have a little more than 5 months to kick ass in the losing weight department. That is about 16 pounds a month. My dream is to lose about half that within the next 6-8 weeks. My dress needs to be ordered by then and the less they will have to alter, the better. I am a big girl so the 80 pounds is a lot to lose but not a complete stretch either. That would also put me at 250 pounds. Still not light but compared to what I look like now, I will be smokin' hot. Or as the blog says, I'll be...

Bringing Sexy Back

The second motivator is the $1000 weight loss competition that I have organized. That's right, you read that correctly. The family has started another weight loss competition that will extend through May 7. Check out the competition blog thebiggestfamilyloser.blogspot.com. This time around we addded friends to the competition.

I am currently, as we speak, in the process of posting pictures of the burnt orange dress all over everywhere. So far the refrigerator at work has 6 dresses taped to the inside and outside of the refrigerator. I have one on my monitor and soon there will be one over my phone. I am going to go searching for pictures of a $1000 bill to add to the collection. I think I will post a picture of the dress on this blog. It will be everywhere I am at all times.

See you next week with my new weigh in results.