Hi – well did my walk to day – it is beautiful out today – sun shining but a bit chilly. I should have worn a sweater – but walked a bit faster. My trek took 45 minutes and I walked 2.105 – Now I know approximately the length, I can expand a bit more. Last night I stayed up until 2:30 a.m. (yes – it’s true) I had an Ice Cap at around 8:30 p.m. and also a small nap in the afternoon and couldn’t sleep. So instead of tossing and turning, I went on the computer and played “Hidden Expedition – Titanic” I am hooked on this game. It’s freeware but a demo only. Anyways, today being my walking day, I thought I would be tired, but I am so wide awake again ???? Must be the cool air from artic coming down on us. The trees are changing colors now, pretty nice. anyways, today I have to do Duke’s nails and start training ‘Little miss muffet’ – she is so strong, that she could pull me over if I am not careful. Thanks for the feed back – and hope to hear from you
Archive for August, 2006
Day 2
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006still here!
Monday, August 28th, 2006i’m still here! and i have some very good news!
we were out at the lake yesterday with a couple that both John and i get along with very well and someone (can’t remember who) suggested that we have a weight loss competition. they’re both very competitive and love gambling so of course we had to throw some money into the mix. so we went back to their place and hashed out the details and we’re all set to start friday with a weigh in. we’re going for a year at 3 month intervals. we’re measuring by who has lost the most percentage of body weight cuz it seemed to be the fairest since how much weight we all have to lose varies quite a bit. me being the highest of course. we all put in $50 every three months and the winner at the end of the three months gets half the pot and then half of it stays in for the year end winner.
that means i now have 3 more people supporting me! yay! even John is going to do it. he was thinking about joining jenny too but has since decided against it for now at least. and these friends of ours are the ones we go out and do things the most with (dinner/movies/etc) so at least we’ll all be on the same page if we do decide to go out for dinner. i figure we’ll probably just end up having dinner at each other’s houses mostly, but still way cool! i’m sooooo happy!
John seems very commited to this too. he keeps saying ‘they don’t know who they’re messing with! i’ll beat you all!’. lol. i’m really hoping we all stick with it enough to keep eachother motivated. i’m just so excited. teehee!
anyway, that’s about all for my update. i haven’t done any exercising and i’ve still been slacking quite a bit on jenny so just working on getting back into somewhat of a routine with the food again. hasn’t been easy with barbecues, lunches for friend’s leaving work, chinese buffet…. etc. so ya, new day tomorrow! ciao!
Starting up again
Sunday, August 27th, 2006Hi girls
Well after reading Michelle’s last blog, I thought maybe I should start this Walka Blogga again. Yup, I sure did – 45 minutes and 1.768 km. I thought, as I was walking, why not do it 3 times a week, to get me motivated and then when my stemina is better, go for daily. It’s all in strategy and changing habits. I always have an excuse, for not going for walking. Today it was a bit nippy but summer is over – Sorry girls, but that the facts of life. No more bikinis for us. Anyways, this blogga will be short but I hope to hear from you .
New Water Bottle
Saturday, August 26th, 2006One of the ladies that I work with had this huge cool looking water bottle at work the other day so I asked where she had bought it and instead of letting me know where she just asked if I wanted one. Apparently she got eight of them at Wal-Mart and didn’t mind giving a few of them away. So now the goal is to fill it in the morning and get all my water consumption without re-filling.
note: I used my palm pilot because the battery in our camera is dead at the moment.
Back to Work
Saturday, August 26th, 2006Well the first week was definitely a toughie. I’d really gotten out of shape this time, not that I was ever in great shape but this really hurt this time. It’s been two weeks now and things are starting to get better it’s easier to walk around and to and from bus stops (I don’t have to take breaks anymore). I think I’ve mentioned this before but my mindset has still changed a bit since we started this whole walka thing. I still try and stay standing at the bus stops as much as it hurts just to build up those muscles and walk that little bit further, just basically try pushing myself just a little bit more every day. I’m proud of that.
I really hate this part of the process, I know what it’s like once I’ve been walking for a while and I know how much work it is to get back to that so I think that’s why I put it off until I need to go to work or whatever gets me off my butt and then I suffer. Now I just need to figure out the secret to staying motivated when I don’t have that reason to move.
I know we’ve all been quite inactive on Walka lately, so how about some update from the rest of the crew.
Not yet
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006Well I am back on Walka Blogga but haven’t yet started walking. I just can’t seem to get it together. Lots of things on my mind – lots of weddings to organize and ‘the move’ for Inge took a lot of my time. My mind just doesn’t seem to want to do anything other than the above. I volunteer at the Senior Centre and prepare financial statements and I have lost a bit of enthusiasme for the centre. I volunteer at the hospital on Thursday again, because Inge won’t go to the hospital yet as she doesn’t want to encounter any of Irwin’s relatives. Have to take care of Duke a lot more as he is getting old and doesn’t walk very well – all those things weigh on my mind and I can’t seem to want to do anything else. Hubby sleeps a lot when he isn’t working at L/D and sleeps more when he is working at L/D. Not much help from him. Had a great visit from my cousin, and even though I hadn’t seen or heard from him in 40 years it was fantastic to see him and hear about his family and all our other cousins. Maybe I miss family more than I want to, Maybe I miss Michelle and Simon too and don’t say anything. Family played a great part in my life when I was younger and now that I am older I need it ??? Bob is here but …. Today I am going to pick raspberries with Nancy, Shawna, Lou, Tiffany and Roxanne. It’s pretty grey out here now (rainish), but can’t let that stop us from having fun. Have to get out of this funk as it is crippling my style. Have to be on the up and up for September – lots of travelling. Did I get over my head with this, I will find out. Will see Mi and Si in September for a day and we will just hang out. Maybe I’ll get Michelle to make me a long skirt while I am there. I will try to write daily in Blogga. Congrats to you Aline for your weight loss and walking and Michelle I want to see some new outfits when I come to Vancouver.
Walka Walka
Monday, August 7th, 2006ya, so i didn’t walk at all this last week. but i did just come back from a walk and i’m very proud! i’ve been disappointed that i haven’t been exercising at all since i started Jenny in April and have now finally seen enough of a weight loss to make me actually want to start doing strength training and cardio. want to strengthen and tone those muscles! i want to do whatever i can to reduce the chances of excess skin.
i met my new Jenny coach on Saturday. she’s pretty nice but i know i’ll still miss Kori. she was really cool. i’ve been doing not to bad with my food. the biggest problems i’m having right now are night-time snacking & not eating my veggies at night. breakfast, lunch, snacks, & water i’m pretty good about usually so i don’t really stress about them too much if i slip up a bit with those. i’m really learning to be nicer to myself in that there is no way i’m going to do everything perfectly so just forget about it. but i’ve also learned too far the other way can be a problem then too cuz then i just start letting myself have whatever i want whenever i want again which just makes it harder to learn the better habits. ugh.
anyway… i’ve been eating good today and i went for a little walk too so today is a good day. i walked just over 1 km in 16 minutes at a moderate pace and my heart rate was up pretty much the whole time. not really high but high enough to get me sweating a bit. and i weighed myself this morning and i’ve lost another 1.5 lbs! yay!
I’m Back
Friday, August 4th, 2006Okay – so now I have to do something – first of all Welcome Aline and sorry I haven’t welcomed you sooner. I haven’t been reading my blogga.
Second I take the challenge and will walk everyday and will write everyday (evening befor I go to bed)
I went out for supper last night, our anniversary, had 1 glass of wine, 1 cup of soup and 2 big pieces of cheeze bread. Hey, not bad – came home and two mars bars – This morning – I was up 2 pounds. I don’t know how to eat anymore, crave the bad things. So I know walka blogga works, it did last year . Didn’t lose much weight but felt better. Just have to get into a routine. So today is the day – after talking to Michelle last night – with such good news, it uplifted me so much that I decided – heck – time to smarten up and walk. Michelle and Aline you both are walking so here I go.
I have to open the centre (seniors) today and have to perform a wedding so will be busy and not think of food (I hope) Thanks goodness I don’t stay for the wedding reception – can you imagine how much food I would take in – no better not go there. I know I would have 2 or 3 pieces of cake. Okay no more food talk. Knitting is going to save me – can’t eat and knit at the same time. So – my to best friend on Blogga – I will take the challenge of walking and will talk to you each night.
Thanks for coming back Michelle and bringing in Aline.
Done, Done & Done
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006Well I managed to accomplish my goals for today, woohoo. Not in the original order I had planned but I got them done anyways. I got up but that was the easy one, phew. I managed to have something more substantial then chocolate and cheezies for breakfast, well I waited a bit so it was more like lunch and I ended up having hot dogs. Finally just now we got back from a quick little 20 minute walk. Simon and I went to see if we could see the fireworks for tonights Festival of Lights from the top of the parkade next door. No such luck, too many buildings in the way but it was a walk and that’s what counts. We’ve thought of another location to try on Saturday, somewhere that doesn’t actually require going downtown because from all the reports we’ve heard the turnouts have been really really high. Saturdays trip will require a little bit of walking too so now I just need to make sure I get out over the next couple of days.
Finally!
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006sorry about the late post… but i’m worth it! 
good job on your walka Mich! i challenge you to start your day off tomorrow with a walk, however long you can handle. maybe map out some places to walk to & back to home so you can keep track of distance. and post tomorrow night
hi Shorty! you must also walk & post tomorrow!
i finally decided to post cuz i’m still in somewhat of a motivation lull… hell i’m totally half-assing things and sliding. but i haven’t slid really that bad that i can’t recover. of course you can always recover but i’m just eating few things i shouldn’t, not getting enough veggies or fruit, and not exercising. but that’s IT. hehe. so ya. need the motivation.
so i decided to commit myself to a mini goal and post here that i will walk around my neigbourhood – if it’s not raining – for about half an hour after work tomorrow & post here. if it’s raining then i get to finally throw in my gazelle video and get on that damn thing. can you believe i bought that in like february or march??? definitely need to start using that.
i’m noticing the weight loss more and more now. the changes in my body shape, it’s weird. i guess i should fill everyone in on what’s been going on so far with me. don’t worry, i’ll keep it short and sweet and then yes, i will shut the hell up
April 8/06 – joined www.JennyCraig.com
also started using www.sparkpeople.com (love them!!! go there now!!! … but then come back!!!!)
did pretty good for the first couple months then have had a motivation lull since somewhere around beginning of june! hmmmm. wonder why?….. i let myself go in Van & lost the motivation. but that’s just where it started. the cause was actually not having this scary motivator of hitting almost 300lbs so close to reality anymore that caused the decline of motivation. so the more i lost the less motivation i had. it didn’t really help that i kept losing good amounts of weight just half-assing it! i felt i was being rewarded for bad work.
anyway, so much for short and sweet, but Mich & Linz know that’s just not possible with me and the rest of you will just have to get used to it!
I’ve now lost a total of 35 lbs & my goal is to be around 160 by july/07.
we’ve been thinking about planning a trip to jamaica or somewhere tropical for a reward when i reach my goal. something to work for. we’ll see.
mich… i’m ALWAYS nice 