Rethinking the plan

I put my ticker tape on my page so that I could see it move!!! Noticed it hasn't moved!!! Pisses me off! I worked out with Paul this past weekend and I am now just waiting for him to send me the plan that he comes up with. I did most of the things he showed me at the gym tonight and did 40 minutes on the elliptical. I know that I don't have the best eating habits but it is like I told my Get Fit coach, I am eating within my calorie range, I just don't make the best choices to get there. Starting tomorrow, Thursday February 25th I am going to try and not drink dt mt dew. Doesn't sound like much but for me this is a huge trigger to eat, have a pop, have to eat is like my slogan. I haven't had that much water the past few days either. I have also decided that I am going to start signing up for over time at work. My problem time is right after work, I don't eat much during the day so at 3 when I get home I think I need to eat everything in sight. I stayed at work today and got a half hour of ot then went to a union meeting until 4. When I got home I had a stomachache but that didn't stop me from polishing off a bag of cheetos, no, not a big bag but the 99 cent one. Stupid because I knew these would make me get the runs, always do, and they did. Now that I am feeling really guilty and my stomach is empty I will go to the gym. I think it is my brain that is miss firing not my glute's. Why do I do such stupid shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ready for more stupid crap, I worked out, then went to caribou for a caramel high rise, only a small one, not that it makes a difference. My brain must have been shut off when I pulled that stunt!!! Honestly I am sick of having negative posts and sick of not seeing results. So let me let tomorrow be my big day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It has to be good my boss is on vacation!!!!!!!!! BTW, I am officially out of the crap food that I like to snack on, that should help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Training Zones

We are on week 5 of the Get Fit program at the Y. This should be very exciting as it is the half way point. Well, let me tell you it is not. I haven't lost any weight doing the program. I put my food into the Vitabot system and do my workouts like I am suppose to. Well almost since I was sick for almost 2 weeks I didn't really work out nor did I eat that much and guess what? I still did not lose weight.

On Monday we learned about interval training and heart rate zones. We did a little test of these on the treadmills. She told us to walk at a pace where we could walk for a long time. I chose 4.0, she said that was to fast for me so I slowed it down to 3.7. We did this for about 5 minutes. She then had us increase the speed or incline to where we could still walk but it was a little harder, I put it at 4.0 we stayed there for 5 minutes, then we increased it again for 5 minutes, I did 5.5, lastly she had us go as hard as we could for 30 seconds I did 7.5. It was hard to judge our heart rates because the machines wouldn't measure it on the hand things they have and we didn't have heart rate monitors (I forgot mine at home). So she based it on our exertion level. For me it seemed that I did work harder than what I do when I stay at a steady pace. Maybe this is the missing piece for me. Maybe my body is so used to what I normally do when I do cardio that I don't see any results. LET'S HOPE THIS IS IT!!! Tonight I did intervals on the treadmill and have watched what I have eaten so far this week. I am hoping for some sort of movement on the scale on Monday.

On another workout note. I am going to be trained by a great trainer this weekend!! No, it is not Bob Harper, but a close second. Paul Holm!!!! I am hoping he has some fun workouts that will shake these pounds off!!! I want to be able to move my ticker tape you know!!!!!

One other thing I learned at the gym is that you always see people crank up the incline and hang on while walking, I do this all the time. This is unrealistic, you should go at a lower speed and higher incline and not hold on. As our "trainer Darlene' said " what hill are you ever going to walk that has a rope or something else for you to hang on to"? Good point!!!! Light bulb just came on!!

Not seeing results

I must say I don't know what is wrong with me, I am just not seeing results in this weight loss adventure that I am on. I ask myself daily, "what am I doing wrong"? The first week of the Get Fit program we weighed in, the 2nd week I stayed the same with my weight, the 3rd week I went up 2lbs and this week I was down 1/2 pound. In week 3 my whole group was feeling the same dis-satisfaction that I was and we all seemed to be discouraged. After all, they are promoting 10lbs in 10 weeks. This week, there were only 3 of us at the meeting out of the 8 that started. 2 of us were discouraged and the 3rd lady was the inspirational one telling us to give it time. I shared my frustrations, the trainer said that I have killer workouts but I am not eating enough!! Are you really kidding me. I have been putting all my foods into the diary even when we eat out and I drink beer and I think there has only been once that I have gone over the calorie allowance. I can have between 1385-1885 calories a day. I was staying on the lower end but she told me I have to try and get on the high end for this week. Not a good week to try, I was cautious on Monday to stay on the low end, Tuesday I was sick, and today I still don't feel the best and had a crappy day at work. Normally when I have a crappy day I eat, today I didn't want anything. Weird!!! My boss told me to have a beer tonight and let things blow over, great I don't have any and I am far to lazy to go get some. Good thing or I would be calling in sick tomorrow. haha!!! I know there is no quick and easy weight loss solution but come on can I just have a sign that the adventure will get better. How about a 3lb loss for the week, or at this point I would even take one!! Next week is the half way point and all I have done is gain 1.5lbs!!! Not what I was hoping for!