Week 5 Numbers Game:
Weight: 208 lbs
Lbs Lost this week: 6 (this was due to retaining water like a PMSing desert animal)
Lbs Lost thus far: 11
Lbs still needed to lose: 39
Desserts consumed: 1
Starbucks Cookies: 0
Peanut Butter by the spoon: 1
KM walked: 53 KM (thank you guest walkers!)
KM walked: 53 KM (thank you guest walkers!)
Glasses of Shiraz: 1
Poutine: 0
Emotional Breakdowns: 1.5
Emotional Breakdowns: 1.5
This is much harder than you can imagine, unless you are lucky enough to be challenging yourself with losing weight as well. Some seem to lose it much faster than others. I am not one that loses it quickly it seems. I know if I kick up my running game, I will start shedding perhaps 3lbs a week on the regular, so like I mentioned in my previous blog, my goal is to run at least half way of the 13km in the next 3 weeks. It is a goal that can change and I can extend if I need to, but that is what I am hoping for and working towards right now.
Guest Walkers (contact me if you would like to walk together 13km!)
Thank you to those who have walked along beside me. I have to say, it is so much fun having guests join me for my walks. It makes the time go by quickly and I love the conversations that happen. You can discuss a lot walking, especially if there is no running involved because you have just under two hours to kill time. I think with my newest goal to be met, I do need to step it up and run much more. Quit the talking, quit the lip syncing to songs and focus focus focus running up that Mount (not so) Pleasant Mountain. I have two guest walkers this week to look forward to because it feels more like a social occasion than a work out. To be honest, I do dread working out at times, thinking of how heavy my body feels trying to run. That's the part I dread. Its like a rhinoceros or a hippopotamus trying to run - picture it, as that's how heavy I feel. Mind you, a rhino or hippo with really great hair, but in the end, still a rhino or hippo. Thinking about that makes it easy to want to give up, but then I look at Eva Mendes in that one pic and I want to work that much harder to take those photos myself.
Editors Note: do you remember Hungry Hungry Hippos? I LOVED that game when I was little. I mentioned this in high school once and someone decided my name should be "Hungraay" so going forward, that's what he called me..it was cute for a while, but to think of it now, just a tiny bit insulting at the same time.
Although those game hippos are really cute, the real ones I must say are adorable. They are my favourite, same with the rhinoceroses. I wonder sometimes if they have the same issues I do. If they feel other animals are staring at them, watching what they eat...thinking if only they lost 10lbs or 50lbs that other hippos / rhinos would think they are cute enough to date? I wonder if Hippos stay at home on a Saturday night, having a glass of wine thinking "I really need to get out more, but this weight is really holding me back!" or if they have a problem every woman seems to, "I have nothing to wear"..although I suspect they are naked all the time anyway. Just putting it out there for everyone to see. I think these guys are really brave. Actually, maybe I should be more like them! Regardless, I really hope that other wildlife aren't making fun of them behind their backs or to their faces. My heart is soft for these guys, they are just so darn cute and I hope they find happiness and don't feel sad or bad about who they are or what they look like because that is not fun for anyone. Regardless, they should know that I love them for who they are, and think they are mighty fine just as they are.
On a side note, I went to Barfalo over the weekend. The name Barfalo came from a fabulous girl I used to work with. It is brilliant and completely fits what it encompasses. Buffalo is what others know it as. I must say I was there yesterday, and I have never seen so many morbidly obese people in my life - other than Disneyland in California. We went to the grocery store and there was only one isle of fruits and vegetables and everything else was processed food filled with sugars, syrups and names we can't pronounce. Just walking through the isles, made me feel so unhealthy. We were hungraay after our three hours of shopping, so we went to Pondorosa - yes, haven't been to one since I was 8 years old. The set up has changed, it is serve yourself and you can order something, but have access to the buffet with your order. I ordered a grilled chicken sandwich, cut the chicken up (sans the bun) and put it in salad from the salad bar. We also ordered a baked potato to go with our meal. My friend's baked potato had more "butter" on it then the size of the potato. I mean, it was beyond disgusting. To prove this point, my fabulous girlfriend took a picture with her finger pointing to the "butter" I have attached here. Needless to say, the potato and "butter" remained uneaten.
Surrounding us in this restaurant were large men and mostly very large women who went up for their 3rd and 4th overloaded plates with huge portions of everything. I don't want to end up looking like that, as shallow as that may sound and that was all I could think to myself. I don't want to eat like that either. Everything about that experience yesterday was unhealthy, I am so proud of myself for making healthier choices for myself and my body. I know I am not near my goal right now, but each and everyday I will get just a little bit closer to the person I long to be. No longer Phat, but extremely Fit and Fabulous!
The last thing I would like to mention today is that I was speaking with a man on Saturday night who has lost 80lbs over the past two years and has kept it off. I asked him some tips on what he had done, what he found useful and this is what he shared with me:
1. Don't deny yourself, or you are only setting yourself up to fail
2. Limit portions
3. Exercise - but do exercise that you love or you will stop doing it and again, set yourself up to fail - he does it about 3 - 4 times a week - if he doesn't feel like it, he doesn't but then makes sure he kicks his own butt to do more the following week
4. Instead of eating a pizza at night and going to bed weekly, have a slice or two once a month
5. It is a lifestyle change, not a diet because you again, will set yourself up to fail
6. You have to put a positive spin on the process and try not beat yourself up - if you skip a workout, just make sure you make up for it the following week
7. As you progressively lose the weight, remember to look at pictures at your starting weight regularly and remember and accept that is your past and it will also help motivate you to move forward as you don't want to be that person - in time, you will realize you were a completely different person.
He mentioned the reason he wanted to focus on losing the weight was because he didn't see too many obese men walking around at 80 years old, and he said he realized, there aren't any because they are all dead. He came to that morbid possibility for himself and realized he didn't want to die - hence the lifestyle change. Bravo to him and all that he has accomplished, truly an inspiration and he looks fantastic!
Although he shared things with me that I already had an idea of, a really helpful thing he shared also was that to look at weight loss in parts. I had considered this before as I am always playing mind games, but what he said just hit me. Lose weight at 10lbs intervals. You know that you can lose 10lbs fairly easily if you work hard. Reward yourself and be proud of accomplishing that feat, and focus on the next 10lbs, then the next 10lbs and then all of a sudden - your clothes are loosely fitting, people are noticing and hopefully commenting on how great you look. From there, you will just shed the pounds 10 by 10 and soon you will reach your goal.
1. Don't deny yourself, or you are only setting yourself up to fail
2. Limit portions
3. Exercise - but do exercise that you love or you will stop doing it and again, set yourself up to fail - he does it about 3 - 4 times a week - if he doesn't feel like it, he doesn't but then makes sure he kicks his own butt to do more the following week
4. Instead of eating a pizza at night and going to bed weekly, have a slice or two once a month
5. It is a lifestyle change, not a diet because you again, will set yourself up to fail
6. You have to put a positive spin on the process and try not beat yourself up - if you skip a workout, just make sure you make up for it the following week
7. As you progressively lose the weight, remember to look at pictures at your starting weight regularly and remember and accept that is your past and it will also help motivate you to move forward as you don't want to be that person - in time, you will realize you were a completely different person.
He mentioned the reason he wanted to focus on losing the weight was because he didn't see too many obese men walking around at 80 years old, and he said he realized, there aren't any because they are all dead. He came to that morbid possibility for himself and realized he didn't want to die - hence the lifestyle change. Bravo to him and all that he has accomplished, truly an inspiration and he looks fantastic!
Although he shared things with me that I already had an idea of, a really helpful thing he shared also was that to look at weight loss in parts. I had considered this before as I am always playing mind games, but what he said just hit me. Lose weight at 10lbs intervals. You know that you can lose 10lbs fairly easily if you work hard. Reward yourself and be proud of accomplishing that feat, and focus on the next 10lbs, then the next 10lbs and then all of a sudden - your clothes are loosely fitting, people are noticing and hopefully commenting on how great you look. From there, you will just shed the pounds 10 by 10 and soon you will reach your goal.
Now, I am 11lbs in, 39lbs to go to reach my first goal and the point of this blog. Technically, 4 more smaller goals of 10lbs that are completely attainable with hard work and motivation, I have no doubt at this moment that I will succeed! (ask me in 4 days when I am having an off day, it may change)
Exercise today: Keg for dinner tonight, 13km walk / run tomorrow morning before work - walking partners set for Thursday & Friday...any takers on Wednesday? You know what is super cool? I don't even crave the Starbucks cookie anymore....
Thank you all for motivating me, keeping me strong, focused and letting me feel the love and support.
Thank you all for motivating me, keeping me strong, focused and letting me feel the love and support.
Blog Soon,
PFF
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