Goals

I joined a new Facebook group with a girl I went to high school with, and she had everyone introduce themselves and tell what their goals were.  I've never really wrote any goals down, so I thought I would share what my goals currently are:

1.  Drink more water, which I do drink alot of anyways, and less Sonic Route 44 cokes and sprite.  Every now and then I just crave a Sonic drink and somehow my car just drives itself right there....to often!

2.  Get back to the Y to water aerobics classes.  I go to two classes on Tuesday night, and two classes on Thursday night.  I've since had two friends want to take them, so it's definitely been motivating me to go back to them on a regular basis.

3.  I've been logging my food and exercise into the MyFitnessPal app, however I'm always going over my calories.  I definitely need to work on this one!

4.  I've also gotten back into the habit of blogging on my weight loss blog.  I've been keeping track of my food log and exercise log, and then just trying to have some kind of daily posting.  If anyone else has a weight loss blog, I'd love to follow it!

5.  Cooking at home more.  My husband and I go out to eat WAY too much!  I might cook at home once a week, and the rest of the time we go out to eat or hit a fast food drive through.  So I've been trying to meal plan and use the crockpot more on the nights I'm at the Y late doing water aerobics.

2013: New Year, New Start

2013:  New Year, New Start

It's 2013!  The start of a new year!  The start of the new weight loss journey for Shawn and I!  We are focusing at getting back on track with losing weight, working out at the gym, and getting healthier.  We did great two years ago and both lost weight; I can't remember how much Shawn lost but it was over 50 pounds, and I lost 50 pounds, plus we both lost ALOT of inches and just felt healthier and happier.  Then last year, we got off track and I put 32 of those pounds back on.  I'm determined this year to get those 32 pounds back off and more!  Shawn won a free family membership to the YMCA again this year so we have no excuses for not going.  He was up at 4:15 this morning and headed to the gym to walk the track and play basketball with the guys.  I've shaved my legs and have my swimbag ready for water aerobics on Thursday. 

Today's lunch consisted of a frozen Healthy Choice General Tso's Spicy Chicken Asian steamer meal and frozen Lean Cuisine egg rolls.  Probably not the greatest, but definitely much better than the egg drop soup, egg roll, white rice, and sweet and sour chicken that I had from Shing Lee's on Monday :(

I weighed in on the scale at work this morning and my starting weight was 331.2 pounds and will weigh-in weekly on Wednesday's.  My work scale is the only scale I'm going to use for weigh-ins to get the most accurate reading.  And I need to have Shawn weigh-in tonight at home to get his starting weight.  I also want to take our measurements and possibly get some "before" picture shots. 

A Motivation Goal

This morning I was thinking about my weight and how bad I had eaten all weekend and how I needed to get back on track.  Then I remembered that I currently weight 315.6 pounds and that is only 15.7 pounds away from being under the 300-lb mark.  I can't even begging to tell you when I weighed under 300 pounds, but I know it was pre-Shawn.  LOL!!  So I set a goal for myself that by the time we board the plane for Florida for Dan's wedding on Sunday, September 5, I am going to lose those 15.7 pounds.  That is 5 weeks away and I've been losing about 3 pounds a week with WW just by watching what I am eating, so I'm going to have to continue eating right, but I'm also going to have to step it up a notch and add some exercise into that routine. 

I've always enjoyed bike riding and saw a really fun bike at Target the other night.  I have a bike at home, however it needs new tires and a more comfy seat so I haven't been able to ride it.  I mentioned to Shawn the other day that I wanted this bike, so I think I'm going to get it.  Actually I'm going to go to Target tonight to look at it and take a picture of it and then I'll go home and plead my case.  He'll cave...he always does.  I have a great husband like that. 

I've also been tossing around the idea of going to the YMCA and doing some water aerobics classes.  I know they have one tonight so I might stop in and check that out to see if it's something I would like or not. 

And of course there is just getting out and walking.  I always have an excuse not to do it.  But I need to just get out and do it - even if I start out just walking around the block once.