I Jiggle, but not as much as I use to - Week 5

 It’s that day of the week… I’m linking up with Lindsey at Mr. and Mrs. Smith for the weight loss challenge.  

It’s a great group that helps encourage each other on one of the hardest roads to undertake. Weight loss and fitness are essential to a healthy lifestyle and I am a strong believe that strong and encouraging support groups are the key to staying on track and meeting goals.

These were my initial stats:

I am 5’7’’

I weigh somewhere around 146 pounds during week 1

I’d like to be at about a 125-130

My goal is to lose about 15 to 20 pounds

Last week I was at 141.5, today I weighed in at 139.6, this is a 1.9 pound loss. Last week, I spent two days at the gym, then was home for the rest of the week with a bum knee. This week I was at the gym on Monday and Tuesday with yesterday as a rest day, since I had to work and had no way of actually getting to the gym. I’m attributing my loss to the lack of soda for the past month and the muscle that I’ve been building. When you build muscle, it starts to eat away at the fat even when you are sitting around. How cool is that?! 

My goal for this month is to cut out all fast food including restaurants. I’m hoping that this will help force me into healthier eating habits as well as be budget friendly.

 

Hope y’all have a great Thursday and a fantastic weekend!

I Jiggle, but not as much as I use to…Week 4

 It’s that day of the week… I’m linking up with Lindsey at Mr. and Mrs. Smith for the weight loss challenge.  

It’s a great group that helps encourage each other on one of the hardest roads to undertake. Weight loss and fitness are essential to a healthy lifestyle and I am a strong believe that strong and encouraging support groups are the key to staying on track and meeting goals.

These were my initial stats:

I am 5’7’’

I weigh somewhere around 146 pounds during week 1

I’d like to be at about a 125-130

My goal is to lose about 15 to 20 pounds

Last week I was at 140.0 even, today I weighed in at 141.5, while this is a 1.5 pound gain, I am not too worried about it since I’ve been doing a lot of strength training. I still fit into my jeans, and have noticed changes on both my legs and abs.

I’ve been hearing a lot of “I’m not losing weight, but gaining even though I’m working out every day” from my gym buddy and several other friends so I’d like to remind everyone that being fit and healthy includes gaining muscle which just happens to weight 3 to 10 times more than fat!!!! Yup, you heard right, and this is why I advocate keeping track of your weight loss by a pair of jeans. It is the best way to insure that you are becoming healthier rather then just losing fat.

I’ve been a bit of a slacker in the gym department these past few days due to my knee, but I’m still eating better and trying to keep track of my calories.

Hope y’all have a great Thursday and a fantastic weekend!

I Jiggle, but not as much as I use to…Week 3

  It’s that day of the week… I’m linking up with Lindsey at Mr. and Mrs. Smith for the weight loss challenge.  

It’s a great group that helps encourage each other on one of the hardest roads to undertake. Weight loss and fitness are essential to a healthy lifestyle and I am a strong believe that strong and encouraging support groups are the key to staying on track and meeting goals.

I am 5’7’’

I weigh somewhere around 146 pounds during week 1

I’d like to be at about a 125-130

My goal is to lose about 15 to 20 pounds

I have actually been weighing myself all week, every morning. This is something that I’ve never done before and is a little strange. I think I’m going back to just weighing myself Thursdays mornings.

Today I weighed in at a 140.0 pounds even. That’s a 1.13% weight loss for the week and a 4.11% since the initial weigh-in.

I feel that I am doing okay. I really slacked on working-out this week, and skipped Body Pump on Monday. However, I still went to the gym, burned some calories on the stairmaster, worked my lower body and abs.

I have set up a new training schedule that will start this Sunday. It will look something like this:

 

Sunday: Body Pump

Monday: Lower body, abs and cardio

Tuesday: Cardio

Wednesday: Body Pump, some legs, and abs

Thursday: Rest day

Friday: Upper body, abs

Saturday: Rest day

I hope y’all are feeling great! Just think of the awesome bods you’ll have this summer, and how much better off you are being healthy!!

I’ll look like this again

I Jiggle But Not As Much As I Use to…

 

Here is to the first weigh in week of the Weight Loss Challenge hosted by the fantastic Lindsey over at Mr. and Mrs. Smith (check out her fabulous blog if you haven’t yet!!)

 

I am linking up with all the lovely ladies who are participating and trying to lose the last few pounds before the summer season! It’s a great group that helps encourage each other on one of the hardest roads to undertake. Weight loss and fitness are essential to a healthy lifestyle and I am a strong believe that strong and encouraging support groups are the key to staying on track and meeting goals.

Last Thursday was the first week of the challenge and the initial goals were made. You can read all about mine here.

I am 5’7’’

I weigh somewhere around 146 pounds

I’d like to be at about a 125-130

My goal is to lose about 15 to 20 pounds

I am happy to report that when I got on the scale today I weighed 141.2 pounds. Which was surprising, because my weight had not budged at all in the past two months. I’ve been at a steady 145.7 to 146.2. I do have to admit I am really bad about weighing myself continuously, daily or even weekly, so I think my last weight check was about a week and a half (maybe two weeks) ago. Which means that the weight loss might not be all during the last week. However I’m happy with it! *Dancing a little jig and celebrating*

 

You can read all about what I’ve been doing here, here, here and here.

I have started taking fatty acids and a fat burner in addition to my multivitamins, calcium and protein. I am also looking into some other nutrition methods such as consuming more power foods! 

If you want to get more of my tips check out the 25 Days of Fitness!!!

Day 1: 5 Reasons to Exercise

Day 2: Baby Steps to a Healthier Lifestyle – drinking more water

Day 3: The Four Basic Elements of Health

Day 4: Foundational Supplements

Day 5: Performance Supplements

Day 6: Results take some time

Day 7: Power Foods

Day 8: Reasons weight loss takes time

Day 9: Trouble spots – Thighs and Butt

Day 10: Routines

A weight loss challenge

 

One of my favorite bloggers (Meghan) is participating in a weight loss challenge presented by Mr.&Mrs. Smith, so I am going to link up with these girls and play along. Since my 25 Days of Fitness are hopefully leading me to a weight loss, I’d like to keep it up through the 8 weeks and see if I will be able to get to my goal weight.

 

I am technically in the weight range for my height, however I’ve gained about 20 pounds of marital bliss weight, which I’d like to get rid of so that I can fit back into my jeans and dress pants.

 

I am 5’7’’

I weigh somewhere around 146 pounds

I’d like to be at about a 125-130

My goal is to lose about 15 to 20 pounds

 

I would be very happy with just 15 pounds so I’m setting my goal at this for the next 8 weeks, however it would be fantastic if I could lose 20. However, I am also taking into consideration that building muscle is going to cause a weight gain, since muscle weighs more then fat. However, my true measure of my weight loss will be if I can fit into my jeans, the ones that use to fit me like a glove which I have to fight and wiggle to get into now.

 

Here is my plan:

 

Exercise-wise I plan on continuing with my 25 Days of Fitness challenge, running Couch to 5K, taking Body Pump classes at the gym 3 days a week, and lifting weights in-between. Monday, Wednesday and Sunday are my Body Pump classes, before class I usually spend about 30 minutes working on my legs. On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays I run, work on abs and throw in some other upper body workouts. These past two days my knee has been bugging me so instead of running on the treadmill I’ve trades up and have been using the elliptical (much softer on the knees).

 

Diet-wise I plan on using more supplements (you can read all about them here, and here). I am also using myfitnesspal.com, to track my exercise and calories. I am going to try and stick to a 1200 calorie diet. This is the first time in my life that I am counting calories, so wish me luck.

 

I will be weighing in on Wednesday nights.

 

Sorry this is a day late guys!

I’m very excited to have a goal set and have people motivating me to move towards it.

Hello! Summer vacations and new bikinis! Woohoo!

Good luck all!