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Life In The Fat Lane....Day 26 - 30

Well let's see Friday was good I had a great workout. I've increased the treadmill to an incline of 3 to 5 on the incline scale and that is wonderful. I have also increased my speed from 2.8 mph to 3.0 to 4.0 where I'm actually doing short jogging spurts.

Saturday I had an excellent workout and then did some shopping. Got some new slacks and dress shirts that fit great. Then.......I went out to the club and decided......what the heck, sure I'll ride the mechanical bull. LMBO! All I kept thinkin' was I'm gonna be the biggest chick riding this bull tonight and frankly..........I didn't care. Well,........I kinda did because they had all of these cute little skinny chicks that were going for sexiest bull rider and I thought...OH YAYYYY! But who cares........all I kept tellin myself was if I weighed less I would be on that bull in a heart beat and I am through with denying myself things. I had a great time. I also danced all night and that was good. I love to dance so thats a good thing.

Sunday I decided to take as a rest day, besides it was a long night. I pretty much vegged all day but hey, you need those days too. Monday was a double workout and I really pushed it. I also sat in the sauna for a half hour when I was done. The temp was 133 degrees and I think I fell asleep. It was great, I woke up and I was sweating bullets. Hmmmmm maybe I don't need the treadmill. LOL

So that brings us today, Tuesday. I ended up just working out once today and it was only for about 30 minutes, but....again it was a workout. Alicia high fived me yesterday because she saw me there for my double workout. I've also ate very well all days except on saturday. I splurged on buttered popcorn and a creme' brule. It was my free day though so, I enjoyed it. I felt bad for a bit but then decided I'm not on a diet I'm changing my life and lifestyle and if this is going to work it has to work for me.

Today I had my fruit smoothie for breakfast, almonds for a snack, shredded lettuce salad with chopped bacon and lite 1000 Island. For dinner I had mushrooms, onions and carrots sauteed in olive oil and then mixed with 1/4 pound of ground beef, 1 cup of rice and cilantro. I'm full but full iwth vegetables. Well thats all for today. Tomorrow I have band practice so I might not get a blog in but I will definitely get a workout in. Today is my 30th day. To toot my own horn I'd say I'm doin' pretty good. I haven't stuck to a workout plan for this long before. I'm still discouraged because I haven't lost anymore weight but I'm not going to let that get me down because I have before and this time is definitely different. I'm in for the long haul and not the quick fix. Like they say "you didn't put all the weight on over night so you can't lose it overnight either." Ok, time for bed.

As always....To Be continued..............

Life In The Fat Lane....Day 25 "Things that make you go hmmmmm"?

I feel awesome, just great. Things that I've noticed that have changed. First of all I started this journey to change the rest of my life on January 3rd, 2011 and today is January 27th which means today is day 25 of my consistent plan of follow through on workouts and eating right. Out of the last 25 days I have only missed 5 workouts. Today was a single workout day and tomorrow will be too as its Friday and I have a friends house warming party to go to after work. Tuesday was a double workout day and I've increased my weights and I through in some "butt" work. HOLY COW.....if I keep that up my glutious maximus will be minimus in no time. I did lunges and then got on all fours and did a whole bunch of kick backs and leg raises. Wow.........that was 3 days ago and I'm still feelin' it. Every muscle in my chubby lil' body is achin' ............and I LOVE IT!! It means there really is muscle under this coat of fleshiness. I can't wait until my 6 pack reveals itself. I mean I know its under my party ball and trust me I can feel that 6 or 8 pack starting to form. Example......I went to a wedding dance on Saturday night and boy oh boy who would have thought that doin' the twist to Chubby Checker would have made my gut ache. Again......this was a great feeling for me. It also really made me think how in shape a lot of those people in the 50's must have been because they were doing the twist all the time. I mean dancing now days doesn't involve a whole lot of moving. Well, some dancing I should say.

Wednesday's workout involved 50 minutes on the treadmill and now I have started to use the incline button. I hope the guy next to me didn't notice me trying to sneak glances at his treadmill settings. Here is a guy about 6 feet tall and his strides probably twice mine, since I'm 5' 3". As I'm lookin' down at his treadmill I'm in awe because the front of his treadmill is about a foot and half taller than mine. He is really pumpin' it out. I'm thinkin' shi* I'd better pick it up a bit. So I find the incline button on this mamoth machine I'm on and up we go. Ok, this isn't bad. I take it up to level one and can feel a little difference. I'm walking at a pace of 3 mph and I decide to take it up again to level 2, then to level 3 and then, why not I take it to level 4. By this time I can really feel the workout and I can feel the sweat starting to run down my face and I can feel the back of my neck starting to get wet. Yah baby!!! This is good. I have though decreased my mph to around 2.6, but trust me this girl is burnin' fat....or getting ready to have a heart attack. LOL I'm amazed though because my treadmill is set on an incline level of 4 and this guys treadmill is still about a foot more elevated than mine. Amazing....I'm inspired and motivated. There was no way I was going to go any higher at this point. I had already been on the treadmill for 30 minutes and had another 20 minutes to go AND I was already hanging on for dear life. All I could think of was.....crap if I let go of this bar in front of my I might just fall of the back end of this bugger. Now this fella was all As*es and elbows and he was just a pumpin' his arms. Well good for him and soon enough I'll be there. So, that was yesterday. I had band practice so I didn't work out last night. I was going to but by the time I got back into town it was 9:30 and I was pretty tired.

Today was also a good day, oh yah food for the last couple days has also been good. Fruit smoothies for breakfast, salads for lunch. Yesterday my boss bought lunch and I chose the healthy weight watcher's meal at Applebees for 540 calories. It was quite the eye opener to look at the nutritional value for the food. I had the whole wheat angel hair pasta with roasted vegetables and teriyaki shrimp and my employee looked at the menu and her jaw dropped. My meal was 540 calories and the salad that she usually gets was 1340 CALORIES!!!! YAH, you read that right. The salad was 1340 calories. Isn't it funny how you think you're doing good by having a salad? Well apparently not if it has sugar coated pecans or something like that on it. Yikes!!

Today was a fruit smoothie again plus, 4 bites of a pork chipotle before going to work out. A vendor bought us lunch. Believe it or not I used to eat a whole Chipotle burrito in one sitting. Yahhhhhhhhhhhhh you read that right. Have you seen those suckers? Oh wait, it gets better....I'd ask for EXTRA rice. Can  you believe it? Now I have 4 bites and I'm feeling full. It was a good thing that I was running late to the gym, because I woofed those 4 bites and remained dedicated to my workout. I had already booked my WOWY workout and invited buddies and invited Tina so I wasn't about to let anybody down. I tell ya what if you're not working out in WOWY and inviting buddies you are really missing out. If what you've been doing in the past hasn't been working, maybe this is why. Writing my blog and logging my workouts and inviting people to workout has really held me accountable......and..........it seems to be working. Today I did 25 minutes on a treadmill that was on an incline 20 out of the 25 minutes. Who am I? I'm a changed person, thats who I am. When I was done with that Tina showed up and ran her little butt off on the treadmill. Go Tina!!!! I then proceeded to tear up some muscle on my legs, arms, shoulders and glutes. It was awesome. To clean up the phrase a bit, "I was sweatin' like a hussy in Church". Whewwwwww, it waspano great. I then went back to work and then left at 3:30 to go to our company holiday party. We went bowling. I did have 2 glasses of pop, Mt. Dew and Dr. Pepper. I haven't had pop in awhile and I had 2 and a 1/2 pieces of pizza but did not finish it all. Very good for me. I also told everybody to take home the left overs and I mad a conscious decision not to box anything up but offered it to everyone else. That is no like the old me at all. Hmmmmmmmmm, I'm starting to like this new me. Not only does she not eat as much, she works out nearly every day, she now has so much energy her house is clean. She doesn't watch much tv because she is typing her blog after her workouts AND she just balanced her checkbook..........which hasn't been done in months. Ohhhhhhhh and apparently she now talks in the 3rd person. LMBO!

I had originally lost 12.4 pounds but I gained back 2 so I'm just rounding to I've lost 10 pounds. In reality I was hoping it would have been more by now. I think I've got Biggest Loser syndrom.........I should lose 40 pounds in a month. hahahah but I took a realistic approach to my weight loss and decided that 1 10 pound weight loss in 25 days was pretty darn good. Plus if I continued to lose 10 pounds a month I would be at my goal weight in no time, besides I know I've lost inches because my pants are fitting much better. In fact the one button that is left on my pants out of the two, I think might actually have a chance of staying there. A month ago I thought that sucker might actually fly off and take someones eye out. hahahahhaha. Oh yah, I was apparently thinking I have lost a lot more weight because I actually tried on my size 18 dress slacks thinkin' hmmmmm maybe.......well........NO, not a chance....yet. Trust me, the buttons on those babies could probably reach the speed of sound if they ever took flight. Lord help those standing around me. Hey that just made me think of something. I have worn dress slacks for so long that have had 2 buttons or a button and a sliver hook a majig that I betcha money when I get into those single digit sizes there will be only 1 button on my britches. "Oh Happy Day"....trust me, you'll hear about it when it happens. Well, I think that is all for tonight. I could go on, as you are probably finding out but I don't want to bore ya. Since I don't have internet at home I can't post my next blog until Monday. So have a great weekend, make every calorie and workout count and remember if I can do this......so can you. You've only got one life to live.....don't waste it.

Until next time.....To Be Continued......Michelle "Chicks Rock"

Life in the fat lane....Days 19 - 22 It's all ok

Well lets see....Friday was good I had one workout and then went out for dinner at
Victorias and then played some pool. At Victoria's I again made a smart choice. I had the chicken picata but instead of having the chicken breast fried I asked to have it grilled. Smart choice. Saturday I got up and had a really good workout at home. I got my heart rate up and then did a lot of band workouts for my arms and then sit ups on the large workout ball. I had a protein shake for breakfast and then did not have any lunch. I had a wedding to sing at and I didn't get to eat until 5:30 I had 2 pieces of quesidilla and then had chicken, vegetables, salad and mashed potatoes at the reception.  Sunday I should have worked out in the morning when I woke up. I was going to go right away in the morning but then I decided to see if anyone else wanted to go with me. Decided to wait for  the other person and go around 10:30 or 11:00 then  by that time I decided I didn't feel like working out so i decided to take the day off and make it a free day. I looked back and did see that I had worked out for the last 8 days in a row so I thought I could use a break. Ohhhhhhhhh my gosh I am so tired I can barely type this but I need to do this as part of my committment to success. So I'll try to type faster and keep the small talk to a minimum. LOL So sunday, no workout and I went to my friends football party. I had a protein shake for breakfast and then I ate the goodies at her party. Its the funny the emotions that go along with..........what am I gonna eat. It's funny how I think about everything I eat and everything that goes on my plate. I remember listening to a subliminal weight loss tape years ago and it talked about imagining yourself at a party and going up to where the food was and then imagining what food you would put on your plate. Then visualizing what other people who were not over weight were putting on their plates. It's actually quite interesting. In fact I thought about it a couple of ways that day. First of all, all I had was a protein shake and secondly I didn't eat much of the items, I mean really. I had one sloppy joe and then some crackers and chip and dip, 3 chicken wings, some veggies with ranch. I could have stopped there. I was actually full. Soooooooo why then did I feel like it was Christmas and this food would never be here again. I was full but I wanted to keep eating. I ended up eating 3 cookies and they were really thick, yummy chocolate chip cookies. I could have and actually should have stopped with one, but it was like I couldn't stop. I was already miserable but it was as though I was thinking eat all you can because tomorrow you can't do this again. Why? Why would I do this to myself? I have done so good. Well, just like a person addicted to cigarettes, drugs or drinking....l have a problem.

They say awareness is the first step and boy do I know I'm aware. That is why I can't buy pasta and cheese. I know if those items are in the house I have no self control. I do believe eventually I'll get over that problem especially with my workout committment and dedication to myself and my friends and family. Well I'd like to write more but I can barely keep my eyes open. I did have 2 awesome workouts today. I did 45 minutes on the elyptical during lunch and then an hours worth of strength training and weights. I worked out with Tina for lunch and then met Jill at 5:15. I also saw Audrey, Vickie and Beth at the gym...you go girls. Plus I saw somebody that I used to work with that needs an apartment so I was even doing a little business at the gym.

I got on the scale and I have gained 4 pounds back but I'm not discouraged at all because my clothes are fitting much better and I know that it is probably water weight and/or muscle gain. This will not set me back in anyway. I am, as they have nicknamed me MicheLEAN the Machine. LOL

Have a great workout and believe in yourself and what you can do. Don't be so hard on yourself if you make a mistake and remember its one little step at a time. Until tomorrow.....to be continued...............

Life in the fat lane.....All is well.

Day 17 and 18

It's hard to believe I have actually worked out 14 out of 18 days, so kudos to me right off the bat. lt has been difficult at times to get my double workout in but I'm very satisfied that I'm still getting one in a day. Yesterday I was a bit tired. I ended up getting lunch for the employees and had a grilled chicken sandwich from Dominoes. OMGoshhhh or those babies good. I don't want to know the caloric count of it....I'm just telling myself...well, it's chicken. lol It was good and really I've been eating very well so one meal in 18 days is pretty phenomenal. I did though hit the gym right after and I was feeling a little full and tired so my workout wasn't very good. I did though walk on the treadmill at 3mph for 35 minutes. Again, something I havent' done in the past so I must compliment myself on doing more than I have in the past. They say doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is insanity....so I guess I've stepped off the "insane train" and I'm now on a express bus. I cheated and got on the scale yesterday. Probably shouldn't have done that but I wanted to see what was going on. I actually gained 4 pounds, but I must remind myself I was sick AND muscle weighs more than fat...AND I am really just getting started. I'm giving myself a year to complete my full transformation so I really need to be patient and celebrate each little hurdle that I go over.

Ate out last night and had walley, not fried, baked potato and salad bar. I am making much better choices. I even caught myself considering ordering the chicken breast with lemon pepper and white rice, but then I thought.....I've been having a lot of chicken. So I thought I'd change it up. Well I've got a wedding to sing at tomorrow so we'll see what choices I make there. Happy work out my friends and keep up the good work. Until tomorrow..........

To be continued...............Michelle

Well this one will definitely be short. So much for hoping to get the 8 to 10 hours of sleep that I talked about in the last blog. I again was up until 4:00 a.m. and had 3 hours of sleep. I did work out though, so that is a plus. Last night I went to bed at 8:30 and slept until 7:00 a.m. I just had an awesome workout and now I'm off to band practice. I hope to get another workout in later today. Keep up the workouts people and feel the burn.. Michelle

To be continued......