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Hello!

It's Sunday, I know. But I knew I wouldn't get here tomorrow, so here I am!

Lets see... I had been thinking about my scale. I know it weighs me over, and I think, for a time I had been generous with how much I was taking off. Not by a lot mind you. Ok, maybe a bit. But anyway, I'm trying to be more honest about the actually reality of my weight loss. Last week, I lost about 4lbs. This week, I lost about 3. Well, mind you, I gained quite a bit of weight over the first half of the year. But I am actually losing weight again now. (from where my marker is) and so I'll say to you that this week I dropped just 1lb, bringing me to -64!

I'm so excited though. I'm looking good again, and I'm feeling SO much more confidant. *hopefully* I will hit -65 next monday!

Ooooookay.

Well. Well. Ugh. I'm still at -63, but I suppose that's not a bad thing as I've been doing zumba and hopefully gaining a little muscle back. Still, I'm going to do my best to not get discouraged and keep at it. :)

None the less, I need to do my weekly updates!

Diet: Restart.

Ok. ok. I feel like such a big diet failure here. A whole year of being a Weight Watchers success story and then 7 months of it slowly dying. I have spent the past month trying different techniques to get myself back into the groove of things, and well... I think I finally did. I have made myself an elaborate chart (without going stupidly overboard) to make sure I...

1. Workout 5 times a week (5 little blanks to check off)

2. Drink 20 cups of water everyday (I tried taking it down to 15... but it didn't cut it for me. I am sincerely bizarre.)

3. Stay within my daily points (which atm, is 24, but going down to 23 very soon. Boo.)

Of course, I also have my trusty notebook on my desk where I jot down my accumulating points. I was never able to do the whole "I ate____, and ______" I just write down numbers and move on. If I'm writing for the future of my day I'll note that it's for dinner, or drinks, etc. but even then I usually know.

I'm almost back to -65, and should be by monday if all goes well. :)

Hi, I'm Jane, I'm a stress, boredom, emotional eating addict. I will kick this. I will be seen and unhidden by this layer of fat.

I will conquer this!

Oh my goodness, I'm back again. How many months has it been?

Well I've moved with my parents to Georgia, and it is a beautiful state, I really have to admit, but it's huge! But hearing about that is not why you're here.

In January things started to go crazy personally and socially. My routine of good workout and diet... died. In April things for the move started going full steam and I really couldn't work out very much and with that diet remained dead.

Well, I come to you ~5 lbs gained, a lot of muscle lost, and incredibly untone (well, as tone as one can be with this much flab hanging off them) I'm so eager, so incredibly motivated to get back into gear. I don't want to snack, I don't want to eat a lot, I want to work out like a crazy fitness junkie! (and those who have been around me lately can vouch that this is all true)

I still have a bit more of summer to get through where people will expect me to eat and not work out... I'm going to do my best to stay with it as best I can before my friend beats me up for "starving myself". Also, I'm going to Alabama to meet my boyfriend's family at the end of the month, so thats a different story all together. I will eat whatever they put in front of me (as long as it doesn't make me vomit :D)

So, long story short, hiatus is almost over, but I'm working hard when I can, to get jump started back into this thing!!

Woo!

Look at me, all writing an update on monday when I'm supposed to! :)

I did a bootcamp/jump-start week. It was rough, and probably not the healthiest thing I could have done, but I think I needed to do something drastic to get me back on track. I ate very little. I tried to stick to about 15-18 points a day, I worked out 6/7 days this week (and now my feet are sore!!) but I did what I set out to do! I hit -70! Crazy. Feels good to finally make a new mark on the board though.

I'm kind of disappointed I haven't made it into 14s quite yet. I definitely thought I would be by now. Maybe it was just the pair I tried on, but... still too small. But maybe I'll try again in a few pounds. I'm starting to walk again, so my lower body should be catching up with my upper soon, I hope.

Lastly, I think I'm going to kick up to losing 100lbs. I want to at least be in a 12 by the end of this and I thought I would be safe on that by 160, but it's not shaping up to be that way, so I shall press on. hopefully things will move a little quicker now. Feels good to be in the best shape of my life though. :)

Total Loss: -70/100

Update!

Hey everyone (no one)!

I know I know, I suck at this. It has been such a huge struggle over the past few months. between stress over moving, my boyfriend visiting and lady times, I have been lucky that i've maintained. I'm getting back on track though. I actually stayed within my points yesterday, which was... sadly, pretty exciting for me. I've been doing good with water though, so I think that's been a big help. I'm really thinking i'm getting back to a good place now, so hopefully the next time I update I can actually say I've lost something!! It would be SO nice to finally mark something off on my bathroom whiteboard. The last time I did was in January so it's kind of frustrating as I was going REALLY well, monthly losing 5 lbs. But it's never too late to get back on track! :) I'm eager and motivated to keep going. It's getting warmer, so hopefully i'll get myself back out on the trail, though for now i'm hitting up flat abs like it's my job just to get a jump start.

Come On, You Can Do It!

So I have been very mad at my weekly updates (except my occasional thursday post) but I promise I'll get better. I've just been a little frustrated. Mostly with myself.

I've been rather idle lately, due to the cold, renovators wandering around my house, add more excuses if you like. But anyway, I spend a lot of time watching TV or DVDs... and I'm a muncher, so while I'm watching I like to snack so thats been throwing me off, even though I'm not doing TERRIBLY, I still end up going 4-5 points over my daily allotment (23) so the next day I get frustrated.

I've been working out when I can, which as I said, with renovators wandering around my house all the time (no joke.) and I never know exactly when they're coming (usually around 11, but they've come at 9:30a, 2pm, 12pm.. you get the picture. Can't pin point them) I can't zumba... because I'm just not doing that with people in the house. But! On the bright side, it's getting warmer outside, so I've been walking the trail on days the weather isn't bad and I have the time. :) I also find that on days I've worked out, I'm more motivated to do everything else right according to my diet.

You know, it's discouraging that such a short time not being on a diet can so disrupt my diet-life in general. And it legit terrifies me that I could lose it. I've gotten so far and conquered so many aspects of my being. Although I find it kind of ironic that I would lose it at the same weight where I lost it before. Another barrier to break, eh? This is the hardest one yet.

Time For a Come Back!

Well, in preparation for my family's upcoming move to Georgia, we have a painter giving us a rough estimate of sorts. I'm exiled into another room in the house so I figured now would be as good a time as any to write the return entry (so ya'll know I haven't given up yet and so I can fess up)

Its been a rough couple months as far as my diet goes. I've been longing for the warm weather, to get back on the trail. I love zumba and all but I really long for my long walks. And if anyone knows about the north east this winter, you know it's been bad. for about 1.5 miles it's cleared and plowed, but from there on it's not. So even though a lot of our snow is gone, there's a lot of ice over there still, so it might be a while before its gone. I may end up just braving it. I can't just walk in circles over the mile-half. I might as while walk on my treadmill :p

So while I was in Vancouver I found it all too easy to fall into my old snacking habits. Into the "Oh, I'm on vacation, I can let it slide." I hate that. Now that I'm back, I've been having a hard time getting back into my old routines. So far i've been working out every other day because the days in between I've been letting my body chill. Next week i'll try to kick things up again though. I was able to do flat abs twice yesterday, which was good, and while I'm not sore today, i'm really stiff. I need to book an appointment to my chiropractor. So I think getting out to walk will be good for me soon...

But on the other hand, I have had about two days where I've actually stayed on my points. I am allowed 23, and that's not a lot (compared to the 30 I started with) and I've been kinda idle lately and watching a lot of TV and whatever, and i'm an snacker when I watch things so thats not good... but I'm thinking I'll get things back in order this month and all will be well! I will once again become the diet nazi I was and try to *not* starve myself rather than eat too much.

Ah, in conclusion, I've gained about 4lbs since we last spoke, i'm not sure if any of that is bloating, but there it is. 4lbs. Grumble. But it's time to get serious again. Return to the old strategy of eating as little as possible so I can eat at night :p it's not ideal, but thats where it is. Hello, my name is Jane and I'm a nighttime snacker. *shrug* I'll see ya'll monday.

February Hiatus

Does it seem like I hiatus a lot? It does to me... Well this month is very busy for me (Heck, I didn't post last week) my boyfriend is coming to visit me for the next few days, then my sister, her husband and my nephew are coming to visit, directly after that I'm going to Vancouver for a week and then it's March. Crazies. So I'm going to be pudging it up for a while... I'll be working out when I can, but it's gonna be crazy in the life-of-Jane. I'm a month ahead on weight loss though, so at least if I maintain, I won't be falling behind!

See ya'll in March!

double mile-stone month!

Yeah! I hit -65 today! (getting right down to it) despite having the hardest time ever switching down to 23 points, daily. I apparently am very good at 24 points. But I must try harder! I have someone visiting this week though, so maybe if I try really hard I can maintain.. Haha!

So, I have a couple things to talk about this week:

Something amusing occurred to me this week, while I'm working out, during oblique exercises, I'm finding that there less stretching along with me. Meaning... love handles are starting to go away. Which is a very strange feeling! A wonderfully strange thing, but it doesn't feel right, or, the same. Absolutely blows my mind. I love losing weight!

So I've been complaining lately to my mom about how I have nothing to wear except for my work shirts (which are getting too big too) and how I have nothing I can wear to church because everything it falling off me (as I was trying not to buy winter clothes since I am moving before next winter and all of last years shirts are XXL) So she decided to take me to the outlets to buy some new clothes (winter sales are awesome, btw.) and I knew I needed to start getting a Large at Old Navy, but then when I was trying on an XL at AT Loft... it was way too big. I was shocked. Even when I tried on at Banana Republic I took larges. I'VE LOST A SHIRT SIZE! Yahoo!!! So big thank you to mom for buying me a new wardrobe. I love losing weight.

Total Loss:

-65/93

Pants: 16

Shirt: L

Ease on Down

Not really a whole lot to say this week, knocked down 2 more lbs, which brings us to -63.... Which is a big milestone for me. It's how much I weighed in high school (though I could swear I looked better then...) when I was on the "low carb" diet of fail. But anyway, I'm SUPER excited to have hit this weight, I haven't been here in, oh, 8 years, so it's very exciting! :) my 16s are starting to fit very nicely which for me is the next step to them being too big, but i'm not nearly to THAT point quite yet. :) 30 more lbs (tentatively) for this road block! Woo!

Until next week!

Total Loss:

-63/93

The Difference in Me

Good morning! I had one awful week, but not the kind of stress that didn't make me not want to do anything, but work even harder. That, on top of other reasons... is why I'm here to tell you I dropped 4 lbs. But, I maintained last week, so i guess this just kinda makes up for it. But it's still kinda fun to drop that kind of weight in one week. I was kind of worried that I would get off schedule for a little bit. What was my big thing this week? Zumba: Flat Abs. Hahaha! Okay, so if you know me, you know that my middle is my problem area. So I guess I feel better working one specific area. Well, when I came across a day when my Sculpt and Tone DVD wasn't working, I did Flat Abs twice (it's only like, 20 minutes) and let me tell you how my muscles did not thank me. but I thought I'd give the idea one more try (because I need help in the brain, or something) and I'm actually feeling fine today! Thats very exciting. Flat Abs is the funnest of the Zumba series for me. And I'm loving the results... Sooo... this might be a growing trend :)

Total Loss:

-61/93

Ok, now we're back

ok, so last week was a bomb because new years, and "2nd christmas" at my house... sooo I'm happy to say I maintained, sad to say I am not closer to -60 quite yet. but the month is young and so am I.

So you probably expect me to do a "new years" type post, but I'm actually going to hold off on that for the beginning of next month, for the anniversary of my blog and the start of the road block challenge :)

Until next week!

Total loss:

-57/93