Weekly Update

This weekend was weigh in day and measurement day! I weighed in and took measurements on Saturday instead of Sunday due to my birthday being Saturday. I had plans to eat nothing but junk food all day and felt this would alter what my true weight would be. I came in at 142. My measurements where basically all the same as last month. The only one that showed a difference was my stomach area. To be honest....once again....this was all to be expected.

My headache from hitting my head continued until Wednesday when it started to dull down. Woke up Thursday feeling SO MUCH better, went to bed with a bit of a sore throat, woke up Friday sick as a dog. And sick as a dog I have remained. I can only imagine what all the pain pills and now sinus medications I'm pumping into my body is doing my weight and measurements. I'm not sure the last time I've been this sick. I'm pretty positive this is nothing more then a head cold/sinus infection but I've been laying around on my couch all weekend.  A week from now I will be happily on vacation so my main goal this week is to get myself feeling better. I don't care what my weight is next weekend as long as I'm feeling better. I have a game plan for when I get back from my vacation and I will jump back on board then. Until then, feel better, have a fun trip, and maybe squeeze in some yoga if I can.

Why I'm Not Upset

I told you yesterday that I gained 3lbs last week. I'm here to tell you that not only did I gain 3lbs, but I'm not upset about it. Why? Well, to be honest, I was expecting a bit of a gain. I wasn't expecting that big of a gain but, all things considered, its not to bad. Here are reasons why I was expecting a weight gain:

Reason 1: I was doing a new workout. 21 Day Fix is quite the change from nice and flowy yoga I've been sticking to. I figured my muscles were a bit sore off and on all week and that can lead to a bit of a gain. So I was prepared for the scale to not budge much and maybe go in the wrong direction. My first time doing Insanity I did the short xbox versions....I think I nearly lost a pound. But it got my body ready for the next time I did and lost 10lbs.

Reason 2: My food. Even though I was doing ok with my food I had a few days early on that were a bit questionable and the events at the end of the week didn't help it any at all. I ended up ignoring my fruits and veggies and I've learned in the last couple months that those are HUGE to my weight loss success. I just need to keep finding ways to involve fruits and veggies.

Reason 3: I hit my head. I'm not saying its the conclusions fault I gained BUUUT.....I did take some pain killers which can make you retain water. I also stopped carrying about my food in take a LOT more then I should of. I don't really recall what we ate on Friday night but I can tell you Saturday wasn't the best. I'm pretty sure fruits and veggies hardly existed this weekend and I felt my body backing up and getting upset with me. That of course showed up on the scale.

So add those reasons up, and combine them with the shit ton of NSVs I felt like I was having last week and it equals into one giant "Look at all the f*cks I give" towards the 3lb gain. I would be stupid to not expect my body weight to fluctuate, its part of life. Loosing weight has more to it then looking good, its about feeling confident. I haven't felt as thin and wonderful as I was feeling all last week in a long time. I couldn't care less what that number said if I'm feeling that comfy in my body. Now....that's not saying I'm not going to keep making improvements. Yes I love my body and yes I want it to change more! I see nothing wrong with that as long as I'm maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

So if you want me to still be honest....I'm probably not going to see a big drop this week....might even see a gain again. I'm bracing myself for that. I've been taking more meds then I would like, Didn't correct my horrible eating habits until Tuesday, and just started working out by doing yoga yesterday and today. I did the 21 Day Fix Yoga yesterday. It was perfect for testing the waters. It was a nice easy yoga that helped me stretch out. I pushed it a bit today and did the 21 Day Fix Extreme Yoga....one of my fav yogas. It felt so good to try and move into the more advanced moves and I think it's also helping my soreness I'm still dealing with from hitting my head.

My Birthday is this Saturday. I LOOOOVE treating myself to junk food to celebrate my Birthday. You only get so many days a year to throw all your food care out the window and this is one of them for me. I will be weighing myself Saturday morning because I'm sure I'll be super bloated and loaded with junk on Sunday morning and I don't see the point in punishing myself THAT bad by seeing that number. So weight and measurements for the week and month will be done a day early. I was going to try to be super healthy last weekend and all this week to make ups or the binge feast that is about to happen but......life had other plans for me.

I am also happy to report that my headache that has been a pretty nasty one since hitting my head on Friday has FINALY dulled down.....A LOT!!! I was taking 2 pills a day from the dr to help with the pain and I was able to reduce it to just 1 today and I don't feel the need to take any pm headache stuff to help me sleep off the pain tonight. The more I look back at hitting my head and all the issues it has caused me this week, the more shocked I am that I have no marks from it! No bump, no scratch, not even a tiny bruise!!! Just one nasty headache.

What's Up Doc

So Saturday's headache did not go away. In fact it turns out I had a concussion this weekend. Working out Friday was probably not the best idea. Going full steam ahead cleaning my guest room Saturday morning was probably also a bad idea. Woke up Sunday and even though I was feeling a bit better (not thinking as slowly) my headache was killing me. I couldn't tell if it was just a non stop headache due to my date with the corner of the wall or it was going to go downhill and turn into a migraine. I called the teladoc (because its free) and he said it defiantly sounded like I dealt with a concussion but he was unable to prescribe me any pain stuff that was stronger then what I had already tried. So a trip the walk in clinic it was where my hubby and I probably got exposed to the flu by a few people. She checked me over, was impressed I didn't have a single bump or bruise on my head after telling her how hard I hit the wall, and prescribed me some pills and gave me a shot in the butt. I spent the rest of the day Sunday sleeping on the couch, cuddling my pups, and reading a bit of Harry Pottery until Walking Dead time. The dr told me that I was probably going to be dealing with this "headache" for a few days since its just a load of soreness due to force of the hit.

Monday was a bit rough and I wish I could of taken the day off work to rest up a bit more. Defiantly no working out for me. Then today I woke up FINALY feeling my head pain dull down a bit....thank god. Not enough to want to jump right back into working out, but enough that I allowed myself to do some Yoga. My Body was so happy with me! Get some blood flowing in these muscles. I've NEVER been so upset about not being able to work out as I have been these past few days. I'm hoping a little stretching from the yoga might speed this up a bit and I'm feeling positive that I'll be feeling great within a few days. I also plan on visiting the chiro Friday or Saturday since I'm sore I've messed some things up.

My weigh in on Sunday was 141 lbs. Up 3.4. I'm being 100% honest when I say I'm not upset with this at all, honestly I even saw it coming a bit. I think I'll talk about that more tomorrow since I probably won't be doing much more then Yoga and cleaning the house in the next few days.

Wednesday-Saturday.

My husband being home this week has thrown off my sit down time to blog. So lets catch up! I am still successfully doing 21 Day Fix. Here are the workouts I've not blogged about:

Wednesday - Lower Fix
Thursday - Pilates Fix
Friday - Cardio Fix

I enjoyed Lower Fix WAY better then Fix Extreme lol.  I will never ever ever complain about a small handful of squats and lunges again! I also purchased a knee brace after doing some internet reading. Its defiantly helping me knee out a little bit.

Pilates Fix....of course I Loved it. It had some tough moves but I can talk more about theses workouts next since I will be relating them. I even pushed through a sinus headache to get this one done. At times it seemed to be a good idea, at others it was a bad idea.

Then there was Cardio Fix.....I am just not a HUGE Cardio Fan. I took a lot of breaks and even did some modifying. It also didn't help that I SLAMMED my head into the wall earlier that night. I was letting the dogs inside and the corner of the wall meet the top of my head. It hurt SO SO SO Bad. I hit it so hard that my teeth where sore because they bashed into each other so hard. I nearly didn't get Cardio Fix in because of the non stopping dull head pain but I figured if I kept an eye on myself it would all workout ok.

I nearly have week 1 of the 21 Day Fix in the bag! I just need to do the Dirty 30 today and Yoga Fix tomorrow. I think the 21 Day Fix is mainly weights so my love for weights and yoga should make these next two days a breeze. Just hopping this dull headache will go away or dull down even more. I had some stuff I wanted to get done around the house so I'm hoping a mid morning nap will fix me up.....a little bit.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Woke up today feeling great....which turned into a tiny bit of soreness by noon, which then morphed into a tiny bit more soreness. On the plus side it was no where NEAR the soreness from 21 Day Fix Extreme and on the extra plus side, my legs hurt and it was upper body fix today! WAHOO!!!

I really enjoyed 21 Day Fix Upper Body Fix. It used weights and was a lot more arm focus and not arms + squats and lunges like 21 Day Fix Extreme was. This made it easier to push through it. It had you use "light weights" and "heavy weights" so I used 3lbs and 5lbs. Some of the moves I think I could of easily of upped the 5lbs but since you do 5 moves, then repeat, then 5 more movies, then repeat it made me unsure of just how far I could push my arm. I'll know tomorrow if I'm able to up the weights next week or not :)

Food was a littler rougher then normal today but I think I did my best staying on track. We had soup at work today. I did my best to keep my serving side low, cut the bread bowl in half, and tried SO HARD to not snack on crackers all day. Since tonight was Valentine's it meant time to break out some chinesse food with my hubby <3. We normally order take out to avoid the crowds but since I'm on WWs this year I found a pretty dang tasty low point meal I could cook up and we enjoyed a side of Lean Cuisine spring rolls. Was super yummy and left me feeling less guilty then if I had over stuffed on the real deal. We also treated ourselves to some Halo Top ice cream. Did I go over my daily points? Yes I did, but that's what weekly points are for.

Monday

It's Monday! I actually enjoy Monday's. Weekends can be a bit rough when it comes to eating but a nice day at work means a nice routine meal. Monday's are also good times to start new workout programs....which I did today lol.

I started 21 Day Fix today. I took a look at the calendar and realized I have three weeks before I leave for a California vacation. I won't workout while I'm on vacation so I thought it was a little silly to start something only to have a week long break that might hamper results. So as I took a long hard look at my calendar I realized 3 weeks.....21 Days.....THIS WAS PERFECT!!!!! I already learned the hard way I am NOT extreme enough for 21 Day Fix Extreme so I decide on starting the normal 21 Day Fix. Today was Total Body Cardio. My body just isn't in shape for Cardio!!! It had 4 rounds where you did two moves two times for 1 minute per move each time you did it. Some moves where rough making it 20 seconds let alone 60 but I think most of them I pushed through to do at least 40 seconds. One of my fav things about starting new workout programs is seeing how rough it is to start and how easy it will become. Cant' wait until week 3 to see how bad my cardio is.

I wanted to share with you some of the food I eat. The pic today is of my meals I've had today. I did not take pictures of my snacks.

I'm not a big breakfast person. It's also hard doing weight watchers when you are already a low weight. I have 30 daily points to use and those points can go FAST when you eat a big breakfast. So for breakfast I try to keep it light and one of the ways I do that is by drinking some type of shake mix. Right now I'm LOVING Vega. This one is 3 smart points and I mix it in unsweetened almond Milk so it comes to a total of 4 points for breakfast.

I'm a creature of habit so my lunch at work typical is the same thing every. single. day. That is, until I get sick of it and switch it up. I recently switched from a turkey sandwich to a tuna salad sandwich. I kind of unsandwhiched my sandwich. It makes me feel like I eat more when I eat two slices instead of making it into one. I grab the low cal Sara Lee bread to help with my points. I also started making zero point veggie soup. It's an awesome way to get some veggies into your diet. Add in a little fruit and my lunch came to 3 smart points.

This is a VERY low point lunch and to make up for that I enjoy a few snacks. Today I munched on some pretzel sticks, an orange, and a banana before coming home. Then I came home to my all time favorite pre workout snack. I reward myself for working out before I even do it lol hey it works for me! I enjoy a light multigrain muffin toasted with some cookie butter on it.....a very very very little bit of cookie butter. This snack comes to 5 Smart Points and is only a treat I enjoy before working out. It helps knock off the after work hunger I have and helps me push through until I finish to have dinner. Love it love it love it!!! So far my snacks have equaled 7 points today.

Tonight for dinner I tried a new recipe. My hubby travels a lot which makes it super easy to eat healthy. He is home this week so I decided to search for some new recipes to try. I stumbled onto a recipe for a Layered Chicken Enchilada Bake.....BOY WAS IT AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The website said it was 8 servings and 8 smart points per serving. I don't know how I did it (used a different cheese I think) but I was able to shave a point off. I also changed it to 6 servings when I entered it into the Weight Watcher recipe builder and it turned out to be decent 9 smart points. I felt like the serving would be way to small if it was for 8 so upping to 6 helped me get a larger portion and made my tummy super happy. I also paired it with a small salad with a tiny bit of dressing and some tired cranberries for 2 smart points. So dinner came in to 11 Smart Points.

If you are counting that means I have 5 smart points to play around with tonight. I have a couple sweet things that are low points laying around the house to help with my sweet tooth. I also have some black berries in my fridge just dying to get inside my belly. So many options and I'm not sure how, if I even will, spend my last 5 smart points. My supper was pretty filling but I will probably have a light snack to help get the hunger off until morning.

layered-chicken-enchilada-bake.html  Here is the link for the Layered Chicken Enchilada Bake. IT WAS AMAZING! I HIGHLY recommend it!!! I used Reduced Fat Kraft Cheese and think that is how I was able to shave a point off but I'm not sure. I'm going to play around with the recipe in the future and maybe add some black olives or serve it with some sour cream. Yum Yum Yum! It's not often I cook healthy and get such a home run with the hubby like I did with this.

Weigh In Day!

Talk about one stressful week! I was on call for work, my dog had surgery, and I did my very best to stay on track with eating and working out because I was .9 lbs away from saying "I LOST 15LBS!!!!!". That less then 1 pound made me want to be extra careful with everything I did, but it just didn't happen that way.

Eating - Not to bad!!! I ate to much pizza on Sunday but I'm trying this new thing where Sundays are my 100% cheat days and I don't track anything. There where also chocolate cookies involved on Sunday. One of the days at work we went out to eat for lunch and I had pancakes so I just made sure to eat light stuff for dinner to balance it out. Did my very best to get my fruits and veggies in and by time Saturday rolled around I was able to have a couple more splurges because I had done so well with Weight Watchers all week.

Working out - HORRIBLE!!!!! I managed to work out on Wednesday when my dog came home from surgery and it ended there. It's been really stressful watching her recover. Turns out when they have a surgery that involves their bladder it leads to them either not being able to hold it OR acting like they can't go. It has been breaking my heart into a million pieces to watch her act 100% fine and then acting like its hurting to potty. She is doing LOADS better today so fingers crossed, next week will be better for me lol. I get headaches pretty easily and one of my triggers is stress. So stressing over my dog made it to hard to muster up the energy to push through a headache and slam out a good workout.

I woke up this morning and was all types of nervous to step on the scale. I get nervous anytime I step on a scale just because of the way it can toy with your emotions. Today was extra nerve wracking. What if I really hadn't been eating as well as I thought I had been trying. What if not counting the points for weight watchers on Sunday was a bad bad idea. What if not working out ruined it for me? What if that dumb pizza + pancake + non-workout made me loose .5 instead of .9 lbs. I would be happy with a half pound loss, but when all you need is to loose a pound to say you lost 15 total......that pound gets a little personal. So I took a deep breath, stepped on the scale, stood up straight, and closed my eyes. I looked down and had to step on the scale 2 more times to make sure it wasn't lying to me. I lost! I lost my 1lb.....and then some! My scale looked back up at me proudly showing "137.6".  That is a weekly weight loss of 2.4 lbs for a total of (drum roll please) 16.5 LBS!!!!!!!!! I kicked that 15 lbs in the butt lol. I pulled out the paperwork from when I did Insanity and the lowest weight on that was 138. That folks, puts my back in post Insanity weight range and 10lbs away from the weight I was at in my mid 20s. I GOT THIS! I am now hitting the point where in the past the scale gets stuck so I'm excited to see what I can do. And also excited to see if I can keep it off!

I also wanted to share a picture with everyone that I took this week.

This is a black belt that I have worn for a long time. I put it on this week because I wanted a skinny black belt instead of the chunky one I normally wear. Although this is my go to black belt, I haven't put it in on some time. In this picture the belt is the latched at the lowest hole on it. WOW! Not only is it on the lowest hole and that big (and un usable with my jeans) but where my fingers are is the 2nd to last hole. The 2nd to last hole is the hole I have been battling to drop down from for a long time. Anytime I would move down from it to the last whole I would be "bloated" or "have the wrong jeans on" or just "feeling fat" and need to go to the 2nd to last hole. Guess I got rid of that bloated feeling for good :). Really excited to have something REALLY show what my 15....or should I say 16.5 pound loss looks like.

Not Today....Just Kidding!!!!

WOW, what a close call. I was SOOO CLOSE to talking myself out of working out today. So close that I even was 100% for sure not working out this week! I had to wake up a tad bit earlier then normal to drop my little Lola off for surgery this morning and was going to come home and prep the house for her to come back tomorrow. I also figured she might just want to cuddle tomorrow and me working out would be no fun for her. I got home and told myself "NO!". I even distracted myself by vacuuming and doing some carpet cleaning but even after all that....I pushed myself and got my workout done!!!

I'm basically starting over with Plyo....seems to be my theme since I've started to blog. Hopefully I can push past the first week this time. The way things fell and the soreness in some of my muscles, starting over this week just seemed to fit right. So I did Lower Body today. love me some good stretchy leg workouts!!! Feeling great after getting the workout done, and it helped that it was a tiny lil 20 minute workout.

One of the fun thing with getting in shape is to be able to see and feel your progress. The wonderful, constant Down Dog in most yoga type workouts I do have allowed me to stare at my thighs....a lot. I can't tell you at what point it happened but one day I was chilling in down dog, looked at my thighs, and was like "wow! they got smaller!". That was a while ago and from time to time while taking a few breaths in Down Dog I'm able to look at my thighs and be proud, or impressed, or ready to push harder because of them. I had one of those moments again today. I don't even recall what they looked like back in August, I just know they look so much better and leaner today. I'm pretty dang proud of that. Another thing is the ability to go lower in squats and lunges. Not just go lower, but go lower with more ease. You can think "oh I can Lunge all Day".....but you can't. You'll do a workout that wants you to do a lot of them and it'll KILL the next day (been there, done that). Once you start doing those large numbers though you can really feel it. Its a hard to explain feeling but you can just tell. You sense your self going further into a move and with more ease, more strength, more structure then before. These are the things that help keep me motivated.

This is a picture of Lola and I riding to the vet on Saturday for her X-ray. I dropped her of this morning before work and wanted to cry as I drove away. This is her 4th time staying the night at the vet due to a surgery. 1st time she got fixed, 2nd time was her ACL, 3rd time was her other ACL, and now the bladder stone removal. The vet called after the surgery and said it all went well and the are sending the stone off to get tested. We should get results in a week to see what might of caused it and then we kind of go on from there. I'm ready to pick her up and bring her home tomorrow but until then I'll give our other dog Graham lots and lots and lots and lots of cuddles! (even though he's not being to cuddly tonight lol)

Life!

Sorry for the lack of posts.....not that I'm seeing anyone reading this lol. Life got busy. Not the busy busy type of busy where you can't set down, but the stressful kind of busy. So let me catch you up by each day.

Thursday: Was feeling great after starting Beachbody's Plyo and the upgrade in fruits and veggies in my diet. Long story short I should of worked out BEFORE going out to eat but thought I could eat Mexican and workout afterwards. Nope. The chimichanga in my tummy didn't feel doing a down dog and I wasn't going to force it. Friday is the Plyo rest day so I figured I would just swap them.

Friday: Not even sure what my excuse was that night....but I didn't workout. Hahaha looking back I have NO IDEA what I even did on Friday....but I did not workout. My gameplay was to do double up workouts on Saturday.

Saturday: Took my lil fur baby to get an Xray bright in early in the AM. We noticed blood in her urine the weekend before and her urine test from earlier in the week had come back clean. So we ran her in for the Xray and there was a BIG OL STONE in her. So she is going in on Tuesday for Surgery to get that removed and we will find out what may have caused it. I did manage to push through the stress and tiredness of the day and got Plyo Sweat done. I debated doing both Sweat and Lower Body but decided since Sunday was Upper Body that I would add on Lower Body with it.

Sunday: WEIGH IN DAY!!!!! Woke up and stepped on the scale and I Was 140 EXACTLY! No .8 no .4 not even a .1....140.0!!!! That's a loss of 3.2lbs for a TOTAL loss of 14.1! I'M SO CLOSE TO 15lbs GONE!!! I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!! I started weight watchers back up this week and stuck to it and pushed myself during my workouts. PAID OFF!!!! The 3.2 is a rather large number but I'm sure its to the slow gain I had in January and the lack of eating healthy. I upped my veggies and fruits in my diet BIG time. In fact, I overbought fruits so that way I would have to eat them before it all went bad. AND IT PAID OFF!!!!

And then Sunday went slightly downhill lol. We had a healthy breakfast that filled us up until afternoon. We being my hubby and I. So after seeing the time I had a REALLY great idea of "lets get pizza from Papa Murphy's!!!". Something about the Take and Bake makes it feel healthier in my life lol. So we got the pizza with the idea of eating it for a late late lunch and then eating it later for super. Then....I also purchased Lego Dimensions. AWESOME Game....which also meant no working out lol. I have incredibly sore back of my legs from PUSHING it on Saturday so I was ok with that.  The best part....I hardly have any guilt. I want to be able to be healthy and still have fun in life and that's what I did.

Fast Forward to today and the backs of my legs are KILLING me. I'm currently waiting for my salmon to bake in the oven and am hoping that will help balance out the pizza overkill last night. I had a drs appointment today so I brought up the weird knee pop and bruise thing. Long story short he felt my knee and told me I have a wiggly knee cap. The popping was due to it shifting slightly out of place an then back in.....which could of happened if I did a lot of squats (thanks 21 day fix extreme....eye roll). So he just told me to work on strengthening my quad muscle and it should help my knee cap stay in place and move properly instead of being wiggly. I kind of enjoy my wiggly knee cap because one of my dogs has one as well lol. I am also taking the night off again. The back of my legs hurt and Lego Dimensions is calling me name!

I'm really excited to push through this week! I'm going to watch my food the best I can and try to stay on track with my workouts. Fingers crossed that on Sunday I'll be able to say I'm down 15lbs since August! WOOHOO!!!!!