PJ Weight: 156.4
Week Gain: +0.2
Cumulative Loss: -35.2
Seth Weight: 174.4
Week Gain: +2.8
Cumulative Loss: 24.7
The plateau continues.
Seth noted to me in desolate tones after this morning's weigh in "I hate how hard it is to lose anything, and how easily it comes back!"
I couldn't agree more.
We remain frustrated. We haven't started our new Monday-Wednesday-Friday exercise routine yet, but we've decided to just start next Monday. I'd have a hard time trying to do anything requiring floor work or weights anyway, since I injured my wrist/thumb lifting babies. I've been wearing a wrist brace for the past week and a half, so anything that puts stress on that area is out.
I do remember from the last time I lost weight that my body seems to consider 155 its ideal weight. I get close to this weight, and I fight for every ounce. To get below that threshhold, I practically need to starve myself and exercise constantly, and honestly, I'm not sure I'm really willing to do that.
That's not to say I'm giving up. I'm not. I just accept that it's going to be a struggle to lose anything from here, which I sort of knew already.
On the bright side, Seth's lost around 25 pounds. I've lost around 35. We're both in vastly better shape than we were at the start of the diet, so even if we don't lose another ounce for the next three months and change we've been successful.
As a career pessimist it's against my nature to look at bright sides (the glass is half full and what's left is probably poisoned, anyway), so I'd like to take this opportunity to invite you to applaud my positive attitude.
Until next week, then, I'll be basking in your presumed adulation.
That, and trying to lose that damned pound a half.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Week 37
PJ Weight: 156.2
Week Loss: -1.2
Cumulative Loss: -35.4
Seth Weight: 171.6
Week Loss: -2.0
Cumulative Loss: -27.5
Weigh in and blog day was actually yesterday. We remembered to weigh in, but I forgot to blog. Instead, I watched a movie after the girls went to sleep. Shame on me. (If you're interested, I watched "Charade", starring Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn and Walter Matthau. It was a fun movie if you like classic movies - though I have problems believing Audrey Hepburn's character could repeatedly outrun Cary Grant's character while she was wearing heels... but I digress.)
This was a pretty good week for us, by the numbers. We did have some days where we weren't as careful with our diet as we should have been, but I suppose the good days were more numerous than the bad. Hooray. I still have hopes & ambitions of making it to 155 soon.
We're smack in the middle of our week off of exercise, and doing nothing has been everything I dreamed it could be. There's people who would say "doesn't your body CRAVE exercise now that you've been doing it for a while and all of a sudden stopped"? To those people: I now give you a look filled with both profound skepticism and a healthy dose of pity.
}:-|
(Emoticons only go so far. Use your imagination.)
We're both enjoying sleeping until a reasonable hour and not putting ourselves through what (for us) amounts to a little slice of hell every morning. The little slices of hell will start up again next week. It might be Wednesday that we start, since Wednesday's weigh in day, and Monday's a holiday and ... well ...who wants to ruin a holiday exercising?
As for what we'll do: We still have the P90X program on loan. Perhaps we'll do some of those videos, though I'm not planning to do them in the sequence they recommend, nor am I planning to do them 6 days a week. I'm also not necessarily planning to do any of them the whole way through, given their length. I figure we'll do what we can get through in a half hour, do some cool-down exercises and stretches, and call it a day.
For the time being, I'm just going to enjoy sleeping in for the rest of the week.
Week Loss: -1.2
Cumulative Loss: -35.4
Seth Weight: 171.6
Week Loss: -2.0
Cumulative Loss: -27.5
Weigh in and blog day was actually yesterday. We remembered to weigh in, but I forgot to blog. Instead, I watched a movie after the girls went to sleep. Shame on me. (If you're interested, I watched "Charade", starring Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn and Walter Matthau. It was a fun movie if you like classic movies - though I have problems believing Audrey Hepburn's character could repeatedly outrun Cary Grant's character while she was wearing heels... but I digress.)
This was a pretty good week for us, by the numbers. We did have some days where we weren't as careful with our diet as we should have been, but I suppose the good days were more numerous than the bad. Hooray. I still have hopes & ambitions of making it to 155 soon.
We're smack in the middle of our week off of exercise, and doing nothing has been everything I dreamed it could be. There's people who would say "doesn't your body CRAVE exercise now that you've been doing it for a while and all of a sudden stopped"? To those people: I now give you a look filled with both profound skepticism and a healthy dose of pity.
}:-|
(Emoticons only go so far. Use your imagination.)
We're both enjoying sleeping until a reasonable hour and not putting ourselves through what (for us) amounts to a little slice of hell every morning. The little slices of hell will start up again next week. It might be Wednesday that we start, since Wednesday's weigh in day, and Monday's a holiday and ... well ...who wants to ruin a holiday exercising?
As for what we'll do: We still have the P90X program on loan. Perhaps we'll do some of those videos, though I'm not planning to do them in the sequence they recommend, nor am I planning to do them 6 days a week. I'm also not necessarily planning to do any of them the whole way through, given their length. I figure we'll do what we can get through in a half hour, do some cool-down exercises and stretches, and call it a day.
For the time being, I'm just going to enjoy sleeping in for the rest of the week.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Week 36
PJ Weight: 157.4
Week Gain: +0.6
Cumulative Loss: -34.2
Seth Weight: 173.6
Week Gain: +3.6
Cumulative Loss: -25.5
Well this was a sad weigh in for Team Mintz. Seth was up a pound over last week as of yesterday morning. This morning the scale decided to be a hateful little appliance, hitting him with a three and a half pound gain. I'm convinced that it's water, since he ate a bunch of very spicy Indian food the night before. While I have no idea if that makes you retain water, nobody really gains 2.6 pounds in a day. So, hopefully a lot of that comes off for next week's weigh in.
Seth gets extra credit for doing a great job with this morning's workout, though. His channeled all his anger at the spiteful scale into working extra hard. *Applause*
For my part, I ate his leftover Indian food for dinner this evening. :-/ (It was only 3 small lamb chunks and 2 small potato chunks, and about a half cup of rice, so it wasn't TOO diet-hostile.)
I was good for lunch though! I had a lunch outing with some ladies who used to work with me, and they inspired me to eat healthy instead of going for the Chicken Francese that was calling my name. I instead had a surprisingly delicious salad with various fruits and some truly fabulous walnuts, and a bowl of escarole & bean soup. So thanks Reva and BJ (and Maria, though I know she won't read this) for helping to keep me on track!
As for my resolutions from last week: I stuck to them. I ate less donuts, and less cheerios. (YAY) I also made a tray of cupcakes and had a few more than I should have. (YAY... I mean... BOO) And there might have been some Chinese takeout with eggrolls and General Tso's Chicken and fried rice.
There also might not have been. You don't know! Must you always assume the worst?
*guilty look*
*cough*
Moving on.
So the cupcakes and the alleged Chinese food conspired against me to bring me up another half a pound this week. I'm irritated about it, but not as much as I was last week. I feel more in control now than I did, despite the weigh-in number. For that reason, I'm calling this week an improvement over last week and running with it (or 'walking quickly with it', given my whole no-running philosophy).
Coming up this week: the end of our Power 90 workout routine (Friday - last day!) and the beginning of a week with no exercise.
It's amazing the pure pleasure even typing the words inspires in me. 'A week with no exercise'
Ahhhhh. One more time.
..a... week... with... NO... exercise...
Wow. I feel like I just spent an hour on a Caribbean beach with a good book and tropical smoothie. FROM TYPING THE WORDS.
In case you couldn't tell, I'm rather looking forward to this.
Week Gain: +0.6
Cumulative Loss: -34.2
Seth Weight: 173.6
Week Gain: +3.6
Cumulative Loss: -25.5
Well this was a sad weigh in for Team Mintz. Seth was up a pound over last week as of yesterday morning. This morning the scale decided to be a hateful little appliance, hitting him with a three and a half pound gain. I'm convinced that it's water, since he ate a bunch of very spicy Indian food the night before. While I have no idea if that makes you retain water, nobody really gains 2.6 pounds in a day. So, hopefully a lot of that comes off for next week's weigh in.
Seth gets extra credit for doing a great job with this morning's workout, though. His channeled all his anger at the spiteful scale into working extra hard. *Applause*
For my part, I ate his leftover Indian food for dinner this evening. :-/ (It was only 3 small lamb chunks and 2 small potato chunks, and about a half cup of rice, so it wasn't TOO diet-hostile.)
I was good for lunch though! I had a lunch outing with some ladies who used to work with me, and they inspired me to eat healthy instead of going for the Chicken Francese that was calling my name. I instead had a surprisingly delicious salad with various fruits and some truly fabulous walnuts, and a bowl of escarole & bean soup. So thanks Reva and BJ (and Maria, though I know she won't read this) for helping to keep me on track!
As for my resolutions from last week: I stuck to them. I ate less donuts, and less cheerios. (YAY) I also made a tray of cupcakes and had a few more than I should have. (YAY... I mean... BOO) And there might have been some Chinese takeout with eggrolls and General Tso's Chicken and fried rice.
There also might not have been. You don't know! Must you always assume the worst?
*guilty look*
*cough*
Moving on.
So the cupcakes and the alleged Chinese food conspired against me to bring me up another half a pound this week. I'm irritated about it, but not as much as I was last week. I feel more in control now than I did, despite the weigh-in number. For that reason, I'm calling this week an improvement over last week and running with it (or 'walking quickly with it', given my whole no-running philosophy).
Coming up this week: the end of our Power 90 workout routine (Friday - last day!) and the beginning of a week with no exercise.
It's amazing the pure pleasure even typing the words inspires in me. 'A week with no exercise'
Ahhhhh. One more time.
..a... week... with... NO... exercise...
Wow. I feel like I just spent an hour on a Caribbean beach with a good book and tropical smoothie. FROM TYPING THE WORDS.
In case you couldn't tell, I'm rather looking forward to this.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Week 35
PJ Weight: 156.8
Week Gain: +0.6
Cumulative Loss: -34.8
Seth Weight: 170.0
Week Loss: -1.0
Cumulative Loss: -29.1
The plateau continues...
and continues...
We've both been at about the same weight now for about two months. Perhaps we've put on some more muscle with the exercising, but the scale is frustrating.
I'm got to admit we've fallen off the diet wagon a lot more often lately, too. Yesterday there was an Indian buffet lunch (ohgodyummyfood) and on Sunday there was a half of a tray of brownies. (At least it wasn't a whole tray of brownies. Right?) I will also say, though, that both of these things were so amazingly welcome and appreciated that I can't even begin to feel guilty about it. So there.
But I have been more lax with the diet restrictions, and part of it is certainly out of a sense of frustration. And I can clearly see it's the beginnings of the self-defeating, self-fulfilling prophecy that has been my bane in the past. "I might as well have that [fill in yummy food item here] because it's not like I'm going to lose weight this week anyway."
Noticing that is one thing. Harder is to actually do something about it.
As to that, my first step toward "doing something" is to blog about it. So here I am. Aaaand what's next?
Well.
Erm.
Perhaps setting a goal? OK. My goal right now is to get down to averaging 155. Yes, I'm only 1.8 pounds above that, but since I've been floating between 156 and 158 for a couple months, it's going to take some kind of new and different effort to get there.
Progress! I have a goal. Now I need a plan to achieve it.
Specific things to try.
1.) Eat less donuts.
It's not every morning, but more often than not during the week I've been having a donut for breakfast. It started with those holiday star donuts, but I loved having them in the mornings, and I was technically fitting them into my calorie intake / weight watchers points, so I haven't cut back on the habit as sharply as I should have once they disappeared. Perhaps I'll say I can have two days with a donut for breakfast per week. That doesn't sound impossible.
2.) Stop eating out of the Cheerios container.
Raven has started on her first real solid foods - Cheerios. So I feed her one. And me a couple. And her one. And me a handful. Continue until both of us are full of cheerios. I'll try to cut back the unconscious Cheerio grazing. It's a lot of calories that I'm not really keeping track of when I'm just eating out of the big container. I'll set myself aside a little bowl if I feel I have to have them.
OK - That's enough of a plan for now I think. It's a pair of points that I can work on, but nothing too crazy. I could make all kinds of vows about healthy this, and at least five servings of veggies every day that, but I'm not going to. At this point I'm so sick of dieting, the thought of trying for the whole gung-ho diet makes me cringe.
So we'll go back to baby steps and see how it goes. One day at a time, right?
Thanks for sticking with me while I babble at you!
Week Gain: +0.6
Cumulative Loss: -34.8
Seth Weight: 170.0
Week Loss: -1.0
Cumulative Loss: -29.1
The plateau continues...
and continues...
We've both been at about the same weight now for about two months. Perhaps we've put on some more muscle with the exercising, but the scale is frustrating.
I'm got to admit we've fallen off the diet wagon a lot more often lately, too. Yesterday there was an Indian buffet lunch (ohgodyummyfood) and on Sunday there was a half of a tray of brownies. (At least it wasn't a whole tray of brownies. Right?) I will also say, though, that both of these things were so amazingly welcome and appreciated that I can't even begin to feel guilty about it. So there.
But I have been more lax with the diet restrictions, and part of it is certainly out of a sense of frustration. And I can clearly see it's the beginnings of the self-defeating, self-fulfilling prophecy that has been my bane in the past. "I might as well have that [fill in yummy food item here] because it's not like I'm going to lose weight this week anyway."
Noticing that is one thing. Harder is to actually do something about it.
As to that, my first step toward "doing something" is to blog about it. So here I am. Aaaand what's next?
Well.
Erm.
Perhaps setting a goal? OK. My goal right now is to get down to averaging 155. Yes, I'm only 1.8 pounds above that, but since I've been floating between 156 and 158 for a couple months, it's going to take some kind of new and different effort to get there.
Progress! I have a goal. Now I need a plan to achieve it.
Specific things to try.
1.) Eat less donuts.
It's not every morning, but more often than not during the week I've been having a donut for breakfast. It started with those holiday star donuts, but I loved having them in the mornings, and I was technically fitting them into my calorie intake / weight watchers points, so I haven't cut back on the habit as sharply as I should have once they disappeared. Perhaps I'll say I can have two days with a donut for breakfast per week. That doesn't sound impossible.
2.) Stop eating out of the Cheerios container.
Raven has started on her first real solid foods - Cheerios. So I feed her one. And me a couple. And her one. And me a handful. Continue until both of us are full of cheerios. I'll try to cut back the unconscious Cheerio grazing. It's a lot of calories that I'm not really keeping track of when I'm just eating out of the big container. I'll set myself aside a little bowl if I feel I have to have them.
OK - That's enough of a plan for now I think. It's a pair of points that I can work on, but nothing too crazy. I could make all kinds of vows about healthy this, and at least five servings of veggies every day that, but I'm not going to. At this point I'm so sick of dieting, the thought of trying for the whole gung-ho diet makes me cringe.
So we'll go back to baby steps and see how it goes. One day at a time, right?
Thanks for sticking with me while I babble at you!
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Week 34
PJ Weight: 156.2
Week Loss: -2.4
Cumulative Loss: -35.4
Seth Weight: 171.0
Week Loss: +1.2
Cumulative Loss: -28.1
As of right now, we have 14 workouts and 2 rest days left before completing the 90 day cycle of the Power 90 program. I could blog this week about how we've become so accustomed to getting up early every day to exercise that our day doesn't feel quite complete without it. Or, I could blog about all the new routines we're eager to try once our remaining 2.5 weeks are done.
I would, of course, be lying like a starving used car salesman if I were to blog those things.
I'm pretty wiped out at this point. I've never enjoyed exercise, and that hasn't changed. I don't mind the Power 90 Phase 1 weight routine, since it's not that long. The Fat Burning DVD that came as a bonus I similarly don't mind. It has enough variety and isn't too in-your-face. I wouldn't go so far as to say I enjoy either of them. In theory, I like the idea of getting into better shape, but I'm tired. We're taking at least a week off of exercise after we finish the 90 day program. Then we'll see what we try.
My coworker (whose workout video collection rivals the library of congress for number of volumes, I swear) lent us the P90x dvd's and booklet to try, since we kind-of-liked Power 90. After reading the accompanying booklet I'm ... profoundly skeptical. The booklet has detailed descriptions of the moves contained in each DVD for the whole program. I have a feeling some of the DVDs, if not most of them, will go back to her untried.
P90X just seems like too much. All of the workouts are just TOO LONG. Maybe someone with more free time wouldn't mind dedicating an hour and a half to a yoga workout, but seriously, I don't have that kind of time. And I am not (REPEAT FOR THE SLOW KIDS: NOT!) going to be getting up at 5am to do an hour and a half workout before work. This will not happen. Not ever.
So we'll see whether we try any of the workouts from P90X. But that's in another couple weeks.
For now I'll just celebrate my loss for the week. And I'll celebrate going to the doctor for a physical and being applauded for losing weight since last she saw me. Yay! And I'll celebrate for Seth too, since he went to the doctor and didn't get yelled at (much). So Yay for both of us.
And that concludes another week. Can I have a pie now?
Week Loss: -2.4
Cumulative Loss: -35.4
Seth Weight: 171.0
Week Loss: +1.2
Cumulative Loss: -28.1
As of right now, we have 14 workouts and 2 rest days left before completing the 90 day cycle of the Power 90 program. I could blog this week about how we've become so accustomed to getting up early every day to exercise that our day doesn't feel quite complete without it. Or, I could blog about all the new routines we're eager to try once our remaining 2.5 weeks are done.
I would, of course, be lying like a starving used car salesman if I were to blog those things.
I'm pretty wiped out at this point. I've never enjoyed exercise, and that hasn't changed. I don't mind the Power 90 Phase 1 weight routine, since it's not that long. The Fat Burning DVD that came as a bonus I similarly don't mind. It has enough variety and isn't too in-your-face. I wouldn't go so far as to say I enjoy either of them. In theory, I like the idea of getting into better shape, but I'm tired. We're taking at least a week off of exercise after we finish the 90 day program. Then we'll see what we try.
My coworker (whose workout video collection rivals the library of congress for number of volumes, I swear) lent us the P90x dvd's and booklet to try, since we kind-of-liked Power 90. After reading the accompanying booklet I'm ... profoundly skeptical. The booklet has detailed descriptions of the moves contained in each DVD for the whole program. I have a feeling some of the DVDs, if not most of them, will go back to her untried.
P90X just seems like too much. All of the workouts are just TOO LONG. Maybe someone with more free time wouldn't mind dedicating an hour and a half to a yoga workout, but seriously, I don't have that kind of time. And I am not (REPEAT FOR THE SLOW KIDS: NOT!) going to be getting up at 5am to do an hour and a half workout before work. This will not happen. Not ever.
So we'll see whether we try any of the workouts from P90X. But that's in another couple weeks.
For now I'll just celebrate my loss for the week. And I'll celebrate going to the doctor for a physical and being applauded for losing weight since last she saw me. Yay! And I'll celebrate for Seth too, since he went to the doctor and didn't get yelled at (much). So Yay for both of us.
And that concludes another week. Can I have a pie now?
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Week 33
PJ Weight: 158.6
Week Gain: +1.8 (ouch)
Cumulative Loss: -33.0
Seth Weight: 169.8
Week Gain: +0.2
Cumulative Loss: -29.3
Well, my eldest daughter Jade caught some kind of bug this week that sent her temperature through the roof (105+) and I was NOT concentrating at ALL on what, when or how much I was eating.
It shows.
The best I can say is that I'll try to do better in the coming week, assuming Raven doesn't catch the same bug. (She was showing signs this evening that she might have... which makes me nervous.)
Gold stars to Seth & me for sticking with the workouts though. Still didn't miss any even with Jade being sick.
In any event, this is another "whoops it's 10pm Wednesday and I still haven't blogged" blog, so I'm going to call it a day and hope that when I wake up in the morning my tiny little girl doesn't still have a fever!
Week Gain: +1.8 (ouch)
Cumulative Loss: -33.0
Seth Weight: 169.8
Week Gain: +0.2
Cumulative Loss: -29.3
Well, my eldest daughter Jade caught some kind of bug this week that sent her temperature through the roof (105+) and I was NOT concentrating at ALL on what, when or how much I was eating.
It shows.
The best I can say is that I'll try to do better in the coming week, assuming Raven doesn't catch the same bug. (She was showing signs this evening that she might have... which makes me nervous.)
Gold stars to Seth & me for sticking with the workouts though. Still didn't miss any even with Jade being sick.
In any event, this is another "whoops it's 10pm Wednesday and I still haven't blogged" blog, so I'm going to call it a day and hope that when I wake up in the morning my tiny little girl doesn't still have a fever!
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Week 32
PJ Weight: 156.8
Week Loss: -1.4
Cumulative Loss: -34.8
Seth Weight: 169.6
Week Loss: 0.0
Cumulative Loss: -29.5
After the long entry last week, I don't have a whole lot to say this week by comparison. And since it's now 10pm and I just remembered "Oh crap, it's Wednesday and I haven't done my entry yet!" this is unlikely to be a long one.
I did want to mention that this week a coworker loaned me Turbo Jam, another Beachbody exercise program coached by Chalene Johnson. My coworker is a connoisseur of workout videos and has a vast collection. When I mentioned we were looking for more variety and liked the P90 bonus DVD, she said she thought we might like to try this one. Well, Seth & I have tried the "learn the moves" workout, and the shorter of the cardio workouts (20 mins) on the first disc, and have decided we hate this woman with a holy passion.
Where the familiar Tony of P90 is pretty laid back, and his DVD's are pretty subdued, Chalene is like some kind of hyperkinetic meth addict cheerleader doing a cardio routine to a soundtrack that kind of makes me want to die. Luckily you can play without music (I think...) but still her moves are all dance-ish in nature, which I hate, since I'm completely uncoordinated and unaccustomed to (and relatively (ok, extremely) hostile toward) dance of any kind. The editing of the 20 minute workout also bothered me, since we couldn't follow the moves easily since they were always cutting between Chalene and one of the 40,000 aerobic automatons backing her up, and the moves were very complicated (for us, as dance/aerobic n00bs) and the moves changed with alarming frequency.
So yeah. That about sums it up. We might try to make it through the weight routine that's in the Turbo Jam 2-dvd set just to give it one last chance, but it's a longer one at 45 minutes, and I'm thinking that will be WAAAAY too much Chalene. More likely I'll be returning this one to my coworker with a "Thanks... but this chick is DEFINITELY not for us". Maybe she has something a little less psycho-happy-dancing-cheerleader in her collection that she can recommend. We shall see.
Also - 1.4 pound loss this week! YAY! :-)
OK. That's it for this week folks.
Week Loss: -1.4
Cumulative Loss: -34.8
Seth Weight: 169.6
Week Loss: 0.0
Cumulative Loss: -29.5
After the long entry last week, I don't have a whole lot to say this week by comparison. And since it's now 10pm and I just remembered "Oh crap, it's Wednesday and I haven't done my entry yet!" this is unlikely to be a long one.
I did want to mention that this week a coworker loaned me Turbo Jam, another Beachbody exercise program coached by Chalene Johnson. My coworker is a connoisseur of workout videos and has a vast collection. When I mentioned we were looking for more variety and liked the P90 bonus DVD, she said she thought we might like to try this one. Well, Seth & I have tried the "learn the moves" workout, and the shorter of the cardio workouts (20 mins) on the first disc, and have decided we hate this woman with a holy passion.
Where the familiar Tony of P90 is pretty laid back, and his DVD's are pretty subdued, Chalene is like some kind of hyperkinetic meth addict cheerleader doing a cardio routine to a soundtrack that kind of makes me want to die. Luckily you can play without music (I think...) but still her moves are all dance-ish in nature, which I hate, since I'm completely uncoordinated and unaccustomed to (and relatively (ok, extremely) hostile toward) dance of any kind. The editing of the 20 minute workout also bothered me, since we couldn't follow the moves easily since they were always cutting between Chalene and one of the 40,000 aerobic automatons backing her up, and the moves were very complicated (for us, as dance/aerobic n00bs) and the moves changed with alarming frequency.
So yeah. That about sums it up. We might try to make it through the weight routine that's in the Turbo Jam 2-dvd set just to give it one last chance, but it's a longer one at 45 minutes, and I'm thinking that will be WAAAAY too much Chalene. More likely I'll be returning this one to my coworker with a "Thanks... but this chick is DEFINITELY not for us". Maybe she has something a little less psycho-happy-dancing-cheerleader in her collection that she can recommend. We shall see.
Also - 1.4 pound loss this week! YAY! :-)
OK. That's it for this week folks.
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