Here We Go Again…

2011 is here and it has already been quite a year! There’ve been quiet a few health concerns in my family, but we are hoping the rest of the year goes good After Christmas break we went back to school for a week and then were out a whole week due to snow and then, last night, it sleeted – so we are out again today. Okay, students are out. I have to work. And guess what I’m doing? Updating my blog…lol.

I’ve started my weight loss quest yet again. I am working out using Wii Active nightly and I am really watching what I’m eating. I’m taking the Yoplait challenge for a few weeks to see if that can help boost me. Basically you replace breakfast and lunch with a cup of Yoplait light, a cup of a grain (cereal is good for this) and some fruit. Today is the first day. I’ve replaced both meals and things have gone good. While I probably should have added milk to the cereal, since I’m on the go in the mornings and didn’t bring a bowl to work, I just ate it from the bag that I had pre-measured. I’m also really working on determining if I’m really hungry or if I’m just bored or stressed or whatever and feel like I should eat. That’s been a bit of a struggle.

I’ve also become involved in a “Biggest Loser Challenge” with my SIL. She and I are about the same height, but she’s smaller than me. Probably at her heaviest in her pregnancy she weighed what I do now. I hate to admit that I am using her as my motivation to lose weight, but I am. I don’t want to be her, but I’d like to be her size. So, competing with someone who weighs less than me (and, quiet frankly, someone I’ve had issues with in the past [issues which have since been resolved, thank goodness....okay, maybe I'm still holding some resentment on some things, but I'm working on that and using that to spur me to win this challenge]) has really helped…so far. I realize it’s only going to get tougher and it’s going to be easy to make excuses, because it has been that way in the past. However, I hope I really am finally FED UP with this weight now and won’t make excuses this time. In fact, I’m trying to figure out how to sneak out of work a little early to get home early to start working out…that’s a good sign

Running. Since November, I haven’t been running. First there was a knee problem. Then there was Christmas and an ankle problem (which still exists despite medication). Excuses, excuses. Plain and simply, I haven’t done it. I need to though because I really want to run Cooper River Bridge and not just run half and walk half. However, I also just want to be able to say that I “got over it”! I got pretty new running shoes for my birthday and I know they are itching to do more than just workout with me…lol. I’m not finding the motivation to run right now and I know I have to. Will be adding this to list of things to work on.

So, to keep myself accountable, here’s the following info:

Weight: 140.9 [cringe]

BMI – 26.6

Food eaten today (from 8 am to 12 pm) – 1 apple, 2 cups of Yoplait yogurt (100 calories each), 1 cup of rice chex cereal.

That is all from me today. Until next time – keep your chin up and keep pushing yourself

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