A Little Late....Weight Loss Goal #4 Down

Well, yesterday was my weigh in day.  After we got back from camping I weighed 209 lbs.  {feeling sheepish}  I ate way too much, but I did only have 1 1/2 pops/day.  The food was soo good. Although I can tell I've been eating a different diet because junk food just didn't set well with me at all. LOL 

But I weighed in yesterday at 205.2 lbs!  I am officially down 25 lbs.  I already celebrated with my reward.  A soak in Mom & Dad's hot tub.  Boy did it feel good. 

Now Goal #5:

200 lbs by August 15.  {I have not weighed 200 lbs since October 2008}. 

Reward:  

I figure it's about time I buy a new pair of jeans.  Not a very expensive pair since I've got a lot more to lose, but I only have 1 pair of long jeans and they're getting too loose and have a hole in the seam of the leg.  

How I'm gonna get there:

We're going to start walking again.  Tonight we're going to do one time around the lake at Jensen's Grove just to get back in the swing of things.  

I'm also back to watching calories.  1500-1600 calories/day.  

When I reach that goal. I'm going to take an updated pic.  Lots of people have noticed I've lost weight. Funny thing is I don't see it. LOL I guess that's the way it is.  It is very flattering though and it motivates me to keep going.  

I am making a difference in my life.  Not just in the way I look {that's just a nice bonus}, but in my health too.  I've doing lots better at taking my meds. Only missed a couple days last month.  I just keep telling myself I need to do this or I won't be around to watch my kids grow up to be adults. I let it get too far and that will not happen again.  

200 lbs....Here I come!!

A Camping We Will Go

We're packing up and heading out tomorrow to go to Island Park for a week! McKinnon Family Reunion time. I'm excited to spend some time with my brothers and sisters and mom and dad.  The kids are excited to spend time with cousins and aunts and uncles.  Even Grandma and Grandpa Wood are coming up for a time.

Sadly, my camera has given up. Hopefully it's just the battery, but I have to send it in to be repaired so I won't get to take it with us.  Everyone else will just have to extra pics so I can post some.

I have some weight loss goals.  My main goal right now is to be 205 on July 31.  With all the yummy food up camping I'm going to need to be really good and watch portion sizes.  I'm not going to not eat anything, but have just one of everything. :)  I'm also limiting myself to 1 pop per day.  This morning I weighed 203.4lbs so if I'm good I should only gain a little bit and come in at where I need to be for the 31st.  

We're going to have a great time!  I'll see you all when I get back.

Ironwood

Soon I will post some stuff from the 4th of July and that.  I've been so busy with everything, I'm lucky if I get my weightloss goal posts put up.  I feel those are important for me to keep accountable so I've been focusing on those.  

Right now I want to talk about Ironwood.  It was a great camp again this year!  I have to say this year's kids were the politest I've ever worked with.  Met up with old friends, made new ones, and had a freakin' good time!

Backstory:  Ironwood is a throwing development camp that was founded back in 1989 by some Idaho throwing coaches.  One of the coaches that's been there since the beginning is my coach from my senior year of high school.  At the state meet my junior year Coach Johnson gave me the info on Ironwood, but for some reason I didn't go.  However, I did go between my senior year of high school and freshmen year of college.  I learned how to throw the hammer there.  {I LOVE the hammer BTW}  My two brothers went 2 times each after that.  They learned so much and became the throwers they are today because of Ironwood.

Fast forward to my first year as a throws coach {2007}, I wanted to go to Ironwood to help coach.  I talked to Bart the camp director and volunteered my first year.  Took my sister Keeley and another girl from a local school with me.  I loved coaching up there and the reaction of the throwers when something clicked for them.  I was addicted.  Well, I went again the next year as an official staff coach.  I missed camp in 2009 because Bentley was born.  Back at it in 2010 and again this year.  I am completely in love with Ironwood.  I wouldn't miss it unless absolutely necessary.  I can't even describe the feeling I get while coaching up there.  Ironwood is my throwing family.  I love the people that I meet there and the incredible people I get to coach and associate with.  I look forward to seeing them every year even if it is only for a week.

Until next year Ironwood. I will miss you.

Side note:  I gain about 5 pounds every year at Ironwood.  Since I'm working on my weight loss goals, I set another small one in addition to my other ones.  My goal was to not gain weight this year.  I didn't expect to lose, but I wasn't going to gain. {Little bit hard to do BTW since it is a 10 drive up and a 10 hour drive back.  The traveling itself usually makes me gain weight.}  So Monday morning before I left I weighed 211.4lbs.  Weighed this morning now that I'm back.  I weighed.......

208.4!!!  

I'm stoked!! I can't believe I lost weight, much less 3 lbs, while I was at Ironwood!  Big accomplishment for me!

Weight Loss Goal #3 Down

Another goal down!  I was really worried that I wouldn't make it because it doesn't feel like I'm losing weight, but when I stepped on the scale today I came in at a nice 212.8!!

Woooooot!

I'm going to adjust my goals a little bit since I'm so close to what I had originally planned for my next one.  I was going to give myself the whole month of July to get down to 210lbs.  I gave myself that much time because there's the 4th of July celebration, Ironwood, and a family reunion where we camp for a week.  I thought I'd be smart and not make it impossible to eat a few fun things during those times.  But since I'm only 2.8 lbs away from that, my new goal is to weigh 205 by the end of July.

7.8lbs.  And when I reach that goal I will be down 25lbs since starting in May.

Reward:  A good long soak in the hot tub at Mom's house.

I'm going to need it with the amount of work I'll need to put in to reaching my goal.

Plan:  Keep eating right, walking, core exercises, and adding in some weight training (just with dumbbells.  It's all I've got for the summer.)

Now to go choose a yummy lotion to open.  I'm thinking...Coconut! Oh yeah!

My Own Worst Enemy

There's 2 reasons I'm writing this post.  First, I want to be totally honest in what I'm doing for my health.  Second, I have a friend that's been struggling and I want her to see that she's not alone. :) We all struggle.

I love food. I love to cook/bake food.  I love to eat what I make.  Let's be honest, I'm my biggest fan and come on, I am a pretty darn good cook if I do say so myself. :)

The other day I made Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies.  Delicious!  They are one of my favorite cookies.  However, they have 236 calories per cookie!  And I ate 4 of them.  That was the day I told you I went over my calorie intake by 1000 calories.  All because of 4 cookies.  

Since I've started my weight loss journey I've done quite a bit of baking actually.  Banana bread, cinnamon rolls, brownies, cookies.  I want to have a snack around the house for the kids and money is really tight right now, so I bake.  

I also work at a restaurant.  Delicious food!  Last Friday I ate 3 cups of Clam Chowder.  The week before that my friend from work brought in Oreo Balls.  If you have not had Oreo Balls, you have not lived!  These things are so freaking good!  They have 150 calories per ball though and I ate 6 of them that night.  

I've been dying to go out to eat and have a big fat juicy steak.  I LOVE steak!  It's a good thing money is tight because otherwise we'd go out at least every other week.

So what do I do when I overeat like this?  Well.  I just try to move more.  Walking or Kinect Fitness.  But mostly, I just move on.  Tomorrow is a new day.  Heck the next meal is a new meal.  I try to eat as healthy as I can to make up for it and just keep pushing.  We all have our moments we need to splurge or we don't have the best self control.  It's good for us.  Sometimes it gives us a treat, other times it motivates us to do better.

A friend of mine that is a dietitian told me that she tells her clients, "Anyone that tells you they never splurge and never eat junk food is lying to your face."  LOL  I just keep that in mind.  Everything in moderation, right?

Weight Loss Goal #2 Down

Today was weigh in day....and I did it!!  I weighed exactly 220lbs this morning.  It was close actually.  Yesterday I ate waaaayy to much (that's another post in itself) and was 1000 calories over my intake.  So last night I worked out and burned 450 calories.  So worth it.  Now that I've made my goal I feel a renewed sense of purpose.  I will be making sure I really watch my eating.  I kind of slacked the past few days.

Anyway, I'm excited to spend an afternoon reading.  I just have to find a day to do it. LOL

Weight Loss Goal #3:

June 30th - 215lbs.

Reward:

Open a new Bath & Body Works Lotion.

Here we go!

Feeling Tired

I have not been able to go to sleep until 1:30am the past few nights and now I feel so tired.  I don't feel like I have the energy to workout, but I know I need to so I think I'll do some walking and then a short Kinect workout.  Hopefully that will get me energized again.

Also, I have felt more hungry the past few days which has made it really hard to not eat more and stay under my calories.  I did not eat well yesterday. Well last night mostly.  Pizza and enchiladas.  2 cups of milk.  Mostly I just ate too much.  My stomach really felt overfull.  

So back to eating great today.  Breakfast was scrambled eggs, a banana, and 1% milk.  I need to go drink a couple glasses of water though and maybe chew some gum so I don't keep trying to eat.