8 Months to a Better Me: Week 29

It seems like last week was incredibly busy and I'm pretty sure this week will be the same way! Maybe that's why the scale was so much in my favor this morning, who knows. I think I did a little better on my eating last week. I did have a few cookies during the week, but only one a day if I did. I had quite a lot of coffee, but have started to fill only half the mug with coffee and the rest with milk so that it's at least a little healthier. I've had more energy lately and I think that's thanks to both the coffee and the jogging. This morning the scale said 122.5. I am very excited, but also pretty skeptical because that means I lost 3.5 over the week and I really don't think I have. We jogged and walked a lot, but we also ate at Red Lobster and had a few fast food meals thrown in the mix as well. I won't really count it as my true weight until I see it saying the same thing next week. So, here's the run down:

Monday: 2 mile walk
Tuesday: 1 mile jog (11 minutes, 40 seconds), 1 mile walk
Wednesday: 2 mile walk
Thursday: 1 mile jog (11 minutes, 30 seconds), 1 mile walk
Friday: No exercise
Saturday: 2 mile walk and 3 mile walk
Sunday: No exercise
100 squats 6x during week
Drank average of 39oz liquid each day

I've discovered that putting fresh raspberries in my water helps me drink a lot more. Two of those days I drank 52 and then 64oz of water!

We bought some new running shoes for me yesterday, so I'm very excited to try them out tonight. They feel really good, so hoping they help improve my jogging times. And with the new jogging stroller we bought on Friday, we'll be all set for this week!

8 Months to a Better Me: Week 28

The dress I'll get if I don't end up liking the Penny's one

Wow, already week 28! I swear I was just doing week 8. It's going really fast and I only have 2 more months to go! On Monday I stepped on the scale and weighed 126. Ummm I was not happy to say the least! I stepped on like 5 times and again yesterday, same thing. I almost cried! I haven't been over 124 for weeks. I thought it must have been the little bit more food I consumed, but then realized I walked 18 miles last week! I was all depressed and cried to Derek about it. He reminded me that I started jogging last week and jogged full miles without stopping, so my legs are just packing on muscle to make up for their shock of running lol. He said to give it about two weeks and I should then start to really lose it again. If I lose 3 pounds every 4 weeks, I'll still make my goal. Here's the rundown:

Monday: 2 mile walk
Tuesday: 1 mile jog (11 minutes, 11 seconds) and 1 mile walk
Wednesday: 2 mile walk
Thursday: 1 mile jog (11 minutes, 30 seconds) and 1 mile walk
Friday: Two 2 mile walks
Saturday: 2 mile walk
Sunday: Two 2 mile walks
100 squats 6x during week
Drank average of 31oz liquid each day

Starting this week, I'm kicking this into high gear! I'm only drinking 1/2 a cup of coffee each day. It'll technically be a full cup, but I'm filling half with milk. It'll save on calories and coffee beans :-) I'm also going to get very serious about my sweet intake. I can count the coffee as dessert each day so that I don't want sugary things, however, I did make cookies yesterday, so I'm allowing myself one a day. I can either have half at lunch and half at dinner or one at one meal.

I also found my motivation for losing this weight by the wedding: I found the dress I really want. It's not the Victoria's Secret dress I originally found, but it's $50 cheaper and not quite as fancy, so I can wear it around town, but it'll also look awesome for the wedding. And I found some adorable shirts I want. So, when I lose the weight I can buy the shirts. We're going to get the dress this week, assuming I like it on me, just so it doesn't disappear, but I'm not allowed to wear it until the scale says 120.

8 Months to a Better Me: Week 27

Too funny!

Well, it's a little late, but here's my post about last week. Monday I weighed in at 123.5 again, so not bad, but not quite good either. However, considering last week was birthday week, I'd say that's probably more good than bad :) Well, here's the recap:

Monday: 2 mile walk
Tuesday: No exercise (my birthday)
Wednesday: No exercise (in Evanston visiting a friend and her new baby)
Thursday: 2 mile walk
Friday: 2 mile walk
Saturday: 2 mile walk
Sunday: 2 mile walk
100 squats 5x during week
Drank average of 27oz water each day

I drank way too much coffee, my new coffee maker is the bomb and I really need to stop drinking coffee every morning now and get back to only on the weekends. I also ate a lot of awesome birthday cake! Derek bought me a chocolate silk cake and my mom made the traditional Black Forrest cake. Guess I better be pretty thrilled I didn't gain weight lol.

8 Months to a Better Me: Weeks 25 and 26

Very quick update: I didn't track while on vacation, what's the fun in that?! We were so-so on food. We ate about half our meals that we brought: yogurt, granola bars, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and then we ate out the rest of the time. We weren't going to in order to save some money, but decided we won't be taking another vacation for at least 7 more months and this one was pretty big, so we splurged a bit. Even though we indulged in some awesome food, desserts, and the best freaking cappuccino I've ever had in my entire life, we also walked a lot. Took a lot of hikes, walked around little bay towns, and walked all over the Seattle zoo.

I stepped on the scale this morning and: dun dun dun...123.5!! Being out of town helped me (and Derek) feel so good and rejuvenated. It was nice to be in lush country with lower elevation. I'm really going to try hard to limit my sweets to only the weekends. However, if this is too hard, I will limit to only one small item a day. I don't want it to be so hard that I gorge myself when I am allowed to have them. We'll see how it goes. I am bound and determined to be 120 in 2 months and 13 days :) Hopefully, we'll be able to keep up the jogging, but it's so smoky we're not sure if we'll be able to breath as we run.

Next week, I'll have a full report again.