I'm still alive!

OK so I know I promised I would be more faithful in writing here. Oops :) But I have good news! My weight this morning was 204.6 which means I have lost another 1.8 pounds! 7.4 total since this leg of the race. Speaking of race I found out that there will be a color run in my town this November. WHaaaaat??? Super Excited! I have a new 5k to train for- hooray! I'm super Duper excited! We started back on good 'ol faithful weight watchers last week (More for the Mister than myself). Adam needed some help to lose weight because he helped on the ice cream binge over the summer. I really don't like tracking my food but know its super successful. I tracked maybe 3 days this past week and lost .2. But I did eat too many sweets which totally explains very little success. Adam lost over 5 pounds this week! I hate men! I started to go back to school full time and the kids are in pre-school full time also. I am taking a soccer class to help me keep exercising. So far I pulled my right quad in one class period then hurt behind my left knee in the next class period. So not too successful. GR. I miss my bike. Hope to bike at leads once this week. See ya'll later!

A week into phase three...

I have no clue what to title this because this is my third weight loss start or journey. I can't say Week 2...I have 2 others like that haha. Hmmm well I'll think about it this next week... Last week's weight: 207.8 This weeks weight: 206.4 Weight loss for the week: 1.4 Weight loss for this start: 5.2 I know its mostly water weight but its in the right direction!! My biggest motivator right now is the HUGE stack if size 14 hand-me-down jeans sitting and waiting for me on my closet shelf. I'm in a weird transition point right now. Before my big huge weight loss last year, the smallest I had been before kids was a size 18. I am a size 16 now. I only had one good pair of size 16 jeans. AAAannnnd those ripped in the inner thigh last week. Shoot....I'm out of good jeans and I am starting to go back to school in less than two weeks. I know I can do it and I have enough capri's and skirts to last till it gets cold. But by the time it gets cold, I hope those 14's are loose on me! I feel like I'm rambling a bit... This last week was a little tough. I made it to the gym twice. I didn't ride my bike at all because the air was so smokey and hazy from a fire up the mountain from us. We are having inspections this week so I have been cleaning a lot lately to help burn calories. With the Twin Tornadoes, I have been cleaning aaalot! They destroy their bedrooms during every nap time! The living room is being cleaned like three times a day. Scouring the bathrooms and kitchen.... Blah, blah, blah :) This coming up week will be very difficult to work out. Lots of heat and its expected to get even more smokier! YUCK! I hope to be able to watch an exercise video and follow through on that. I borrowed a Jillian Micheal's 30 day shred but its been collecting dust. Hopefully I can get Adam to join me! Oh last tangent...I think :) My current weight loss show of choice is Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition. I watched Jacqui's episode the other day and it really hit home. She suffered from extreme depression and never felt good enough. When she got over herself and her issues- she was AMAZING!! She exceeded EVERY goal- which I don't think has ever happened. I look in the mirror and go wow, my thighs are awful, look at my stomach, those rolls, ugh... Since that episode this week I have been doing more of, yea my thighs are jiggly but its much better than it did a year ago! My face is thinner, I look amazing in this dress... I need to give myself some more credit! Anywho- Have a great week everyone! Get up and do your dishes and vacuum because for every hour of light effort cleaning means 234 calories burned an hour! Wahoo!

Back on the bandwagon!

Hello everyone! I'm back...aaagain. I have been through one of the roughest times of my life since my last post. To follow up with the last post- I found out my foot hurt because of the way I was playing with the kids. I let them sit on my foot and I have them ride a pony. I stopped and so did the pain. Three weeks into the competition we found out we were pregnant so I left the competition. To cut a long story short, (which if you want the long version you can find it on my blog here. Two miscarriages later here I am 15 pounds from my lightest so far. Through prayer and receiving a blessing, we decided it would be best to stop trying and start again later. OK, now on to weight loss. My lightest I was down to 194 pounds- which felt AAAHmazing. A week after the second D&C I finally braved the scale for a start weight again. My new start weight was 212. This mornings weight was 207.8- YES!! I am trying to ride my bike a TON. The kids love it and it gets us out of the house. I can already tell my thighs are looking better! Yesterday I hit the pool again. (Your not allowed to swim for 2 weeks following a procedure). It was so much more difficult then I remember! I was out of breath and dying after two laps. I wanted to cry because I was so frustrated. I did aqua Zumba after that but I was so upset from laps that I didn't really enjoy it Zumba. I am not doing Weight Watchers anymore but trying the MyFitnessPal app. I really miss how easy WW was to track portion sizes but not missing the monthly bill! Its very difficult because I use my scale for all my food and when I enter it it wants tablespoons or cups. GR! My username is KatieGM in case anyone reading this wants to add me as a buddy. Well everyone, that's where I am. And I obviously didn't run my triathlon. Hopefully I will do a 5K instead by the end of the year. Maybe.

My foot :(

Sorry everyone but I need to vent!
Competition started Saturday... I went and worked out. When leave I felt a twinge in my foot. Like maybe I stepped wrong? No clue.
Ignoring the pain all week...
Getting worse....
Keep ignoring...

This morning Woah! Put the brakes on I'm done!
I called Amanda our babysitter and went to prompt care.

I am SO FRUSTRATED with the nurse practitioner! I seriously had to hold back tears while she was in the office. She just wouldn't listen to me! All she cared about was- here's your pain meds, I'm off to the next drug seeking patient.
I seriously had to stop her from leaving twice so she would listen to me!!

My diagnosis? Sprained ankle, plantar faciitis, and tendonitis. Really dude?!? REALLY?!?! And taking an x-ray would be a waste of time so I don't need that according to her.

First it was because I am working out in crappy run down shoes. You know, she once went on a hike and one shoe had no support because she was wearing a backpack (are you lost yet? Me too...) Well she couldn't climb the stairs when she got home because her ankle hurt too much. Oh and somehow she was in a tight skirt so it was a difficult feat.

OK that's nice...Back to me (not her first nor last story).
I just bought the best shoes I have ever had with tons of support. I LOVE Sauconeys!

My shoes aren't the problem and my ankle doesn't hurt. Once again, its my foot.

Well, you said you just started a weight loss competition so I think your body is tired and its not use to working out so much so your foot just needs a break.

I'm sorry, didn't we JUST talk about how I lost 65 pounds and this is motivation to keep going? I know what the inside walls of a gym looks like. I work out at LEAST an hour every weekday. Its not because my foot isn't use to working out.

Well, You said you like swimming. Do you kick off the wall hard?
Ever since the pain started I stopped doing flip turns. And I wasn't swimming for at least a week before the pain started.

So how about I get an ace bandage...

She never came back!!!

After 15 minutes the nurse walks in- who had such a thick accent I could barely understand her. She wraps it and says ok have a good day.

WAIT- is swimming ok or not?! What do I do about my foot?! Should I stop working out? What other exercises should I do if I need to give my foot a rest?
The nurse says- Well, she's in another room. Do you want to wait for her to come out? Uh YES please! I wait another 15 minutes till she comes out. She sent the nurse back in. Uh, keep your foot up and rest three days and you'll be fine. THE END. Never saw the nurse practitioner again.

Is anybody else as frustrated as I am?!? I didn't want to go to my normal doctor because I didn't want to pay my copay then be told to go to radiology building for an x ray if needed. Pay another possible co pay... I have blue cross with medi-cal secondary. With prompt care I had no co pays. Huge freakin waste of time. I totally regret not going to the Dr in the first place. I think I am going to call and make an appointment with my dr to get some real answers.

Thanks for the vent everyone!

Weigh in!

Every week I weigh in on my Wii Fit scale. For my Biggest Loser competition it needed a picture of my toesies on a scale so I borrowed my friends.
Her scale said I weighed 200.8. Wii fit says I weigh 198.
Personally I am going to use the 198 for how I am doing.
For the competition I used 200.8 and will use the same scale for my last results.
Here are my starting pictures.






I am taking my weight loss HARD CORE this week! Weighed in this morning and I already lost 1 pound and its only Tuesday morning.
That got me pumped up this morning!! Helloooo 197!
I have burned over 1,200 calories both yesterday and today!
Did you know swimming is like 900 calories an hour?
LOOOOOVE swimming!

Sad part of this week? I hurt my foot Saturday or Sunday morning. No clue what I did! And the pain comes and goes. Sometimes I can barely stand on it other times I feel completely fine. I wrapped it and it felt worse. Thinking of seeing the doctor if it last a little longer... Mainly because I am afraid of injuring worse because I am working out so hard. Its in the lower arch near the top of the heel and through the front of my ankle. Pain go away! I want to run so bad!!

I can use a spin bike even out of the saddle and I am doing a ton of swimming... Time will tell!

Biggest Loser!!

Ok so I said last week that I didn't care if I gained weight as long as I tracked everyday? Weeelllllll... I lied.... I didn't track everyday.

This week my friend invited me into a group that is a Biggest Loser Contest...Truth is- I LOVE Biggest Loser! The summer before I met Adam I competed in a Biggest Loser at the gym and finished in 2nd place. The winner was male. Want to know the exciting part of the current Biggest Loser I'm doing? All women! Got this one in the BAG!

The competition starts tomorrow on Saturday and I am super duper excited!! This will DEFINITELY break my plateau!

A bunch of friends of friends of friends are getting together and put $25 in the pot. The end total hasn't been figured out yet but there are 70 people and we know that first place gets 70% and 2nd is 20% and 3rd gets 10%.

I would LOVE to take the kids to Disneyland but unfortunately we can't afford it. This is my biggest motivation. I want to win to give my kids this trip!

Oh anywho! I am totally excited and can't wait to get working out!

One of the other reasons I am posting this blog is because I wanted to share a recipe that someone on the group shared.
Easy Ice Cream

I said I was addicted to Ice Cream...oh and chocolate as the title of the blog says. Everything in moderation right?
Well this ice cream is made entirely of bananas! SO going to try this!!

I will post tomorrow...or the next few days depending on how busy I am... with starting weights and measurements for the competition.
Have a great day everyone!!!

Why is Motivation so hard?!?

Its been a tough month for motivation! I remember I hit the 200 pound mark in 8th grade and I don't think I ever broke it.
Subconsciously, I'm freaking out every time I hit 199. I seriously went from 201 to 199 about three times back and forth.
I would hit 199 and celebrate and take it easy. I would hit 201 and be hard on myself and try to do good all week. I was just stuck in a cycle!
Its been a very busy two weeks. The week started with the car in the shop then the day after we got it back Adam went to Fresno for a Music Teacher Conference with our car. I was home with the kids and no car for about 4 days. Then two days after he came home I left to visit my Dad and Step mom who were in town. We ate out for every meal while down there. It was really tough to make good food decisions. I split every meal with the kids and tried to choose the healthiest.
I came home completely determined to start again! We HAVE to do this! I am going to track EVERYTHING I eat!
....which sucks....
I have ALWAYS quit tracking when my eating got out of control for the day. If I went over my daily allowance then I just quit counting and never went into my weekly points.

I went to Target last week. Valentines Day boxes of Chocolate for 90% off?! Heck YES!
SO My goal for right now is track everything I eat...including the chocolate that I shouldn't have gotten...Last night I went about ten points over- BUT I tracked everything! Yay me!

I weighed in Yesterday morning and guess what?! I lost 4 pounds in the last two weeks! HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?! Hold on, reweigh... Yep! FOUR pounds. You know what that means? 197. Really...197. AWESOME! NOT 199. Super excited I broke that plateau- YES!!

This week I promise to track everything I eat. That is more important that pounds this week. I need to restart my thinking and get it back on track!