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It’s Monday again, time for me to recommit to this journey of losing my extra weight. I know it seems repetitive yet it helps me focus on my goals, especially since I have so much weight to lose. By focusing on smaller goals it helps me stay confident and not lose hope, that I can and will reach my goals.

I have been doing so well lately, it’s like I’m waiting for something to go wrong. I don’t want to sabotage myself in anyway, so I’m trying to stay upbeat and focused. Even if I slip up once or twice, it doesn’t mean I will give up. Especially since I have been down that road too many times.

My goals for this week are:

1. 4 Spinning clases

2. continue with my 5k training plan — finally got new running shoes YEA!!

3. Watch portion sizes

4. Increase water intake — I’ve been lax on this one lately.

5. Enjoy the holiday

I hope everyday has a great week and enjoy the 4th!!!

Hello everyone!!!!

I weighed in this morning. I couldn’t believe I’m down 3lbs for the week. It’s freckin amazing. I’m so excited. It could be because I started my training for my 5k in August. After I weighed myself I hit the gym for my spinning class this morning. It was hard but I felt great. Everytime I’m at the gym these days, I visualize how I will look once I’m at my goal. It definitely keeps me motivated through any thought of stopping early. In fact, it makes me want to go longer.

I’m keeping it short tonight. I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Okay, so I have been a bit lax this week, well at least online. I have been doing okay going to the gym and eating.  I have just felt uninspired to blog. I just felt liked I didn’t have anything interesting to say. Well, I starting to feel inspired again and I updated my picture with the new haircut.

On Wednesday, I started my training program for a 5k. It’s a 8 week plan, the 5k is at the end of August over Labor Day weekend. I really think I might actually be able to do it. This isn’t easy, especially since I just am not a runner. I have never been able to get into it, but I’m determine to make this 5k running the entire way.  Maybe I be able to find the right stride to make it easier. If anyone has any tips please pass them along.  I can take all the help I can get.

I’m still sticking to my spinning classes too, those I really enjoy, even if its tough. It’s definitely not boring, that’s for sure, every class is different.  IF you have any suggestions for a new class or exercise I might enjoy just pass it along. I’m willing to try most things at least once.

Have a great weekend!!

hello everyone!!!

I am back from my weekend getaway to the beach. I had an amazing time. The weather was wonderful  and it was really relaxing. As for my diet, I did pretty well.  I didn’t obsess during meals, just went for heathly options if possible. I think the main difference is I didn’t snack like I usually do at the beach. Honestly I didn’t really feel the urge, even when my friends had the urge to snack. I wasn’t interested. That thought itself astounds me, I would have never thought it could happen, but food wasn’t that interesting to me, well at least this weekend.

As well, I did get some exercise. For some reason, I forgot that I  go out dancing at nights, when at the beach. It turned out to be some intense exercise, for the most part dancing for three hours straight is a workout. But what fun as well. I went for a 3 mile walk on the boardwalk as well.

I took some pictures with my friends and could really notice the difference in my body from my weight loss. It actually just inspires me to keep it going, which leads me to my goals for the week:

1. 4 spinning classes

2. start my new training schedule for 5k (EEK!) (8 week plan)

3. Water, increase intake

4. find new workout music

5.  watch portion sizes

6. be supportive buddy

Hello everyone,

  I’m weighing in early this week. I’m off to the beach tonight so I won’t be online again until Monday. I don’t think I have been away from buddyslim for that long since I started. Anyway. I’m down 2lbs this week.  Hey, it might have been 3 pounds by Saturday, if I was here for the weigh in, but we take what we can get. Plus, I worked really hard to get those two pounds, by today. I was at the gym everyday and really watched my portion sizes this week. In fact, I hitting the gym before the drive out the beach. Okay, I’m a little obsessed.

I’m also preparing for the beach, a weekend of temptation if there was ever one. I am prepared for the most part, I’m taking some fruit and extra water. I have already planned on taking some extra long walks on the beach to compensate for missing my workouts. I think watching my portion sizes will be extra important this weekend.

If anyone has any other tips, please send them my way.

I’ll let everyone know how it went on Monday.

Have a great weekend.

It’s another Monday, and I decided it was time to stop and look far I have come in the last three months here on buddy slim. Usually, I’m so focused on where I want or need to be that I forget to celebrate what I’ve accomplished.  I guess I’m not that unusual from everyone else. We always look at the destination and sometimes forget about the journey, but I wanted to stop a take a breather.

Sometimes it is just a shock to see that 32lb weight lost on my ticker or the graph. I’m just amazed. At the beginning, I was sure I would never make it this far or this quickly, I would have rebuffed anyone who thought so as well. Everytime I think about the fact that I’m tired or sore or hungry, I just think about what I can and will accomplish. Of course, I have found the experience of blogging here so helpful as well as the support from everyone.  I wouldn’t have done so well without it.

I like to think of myself as a work in progress, and I have made a lot of progress in the last three months, and not just on the outside.

As I continue my journey, my goals for this week are:

1. Spinning class 4x

2. Water, water and more water

3. watch portion size

4. pilates dvd — 2x

5. get ready for the beach on friday

Have a great week everyone!

Well, it has been a good weigh in for me today. I’m down 2lbs this week. I was hoping to hit the 240’s this week, but I definitely plan to next week.  I think I did well this week because I increased my water intake as well as my fiber.  I decided to celebrate, by going to get my haircut. There are always a number of ways to reward yourself and it helped me really see the difference in my face from when I started here. I’ll post a picture as soon as I can.

Since I’m heading to the beach next weekend, I’m going to be extra viligent during the week and crack up the workouts. Also, I’m going to really try to plan ahead for the beach, I’m not going to just wing it and hope for the best. I did well the last time I went away, and I’m hoping for the same results. Of course this time there will be more temptations and alcoholic beverages. I know that I can do well.

Have a great Saturday!!!

Hello everyone!  I hope your Friday is going well. I didn’t even realize it was Friday the 13th until this afternoon. My brian decided to take a bit of a break. Considering how this morning’s commute, I should have realize. I work in Washington, DC so I take the Metro to work everyday, not usually a big deal. It’s quiet and relaxing, not so this morning.

I was stuck on the Metro for an extra 45 minutes, then when I got off there was a power outage at the station, so no escalators.  You’re thinking no big deal right, well I only wished. It is a very long and steep walk to the top. In fact, I was counting the steps up, but I was out of breathe at 100 and I wasn’t even half way up, so I stopped. Even walking up when the escalators work is a trial.  I think I should be able to count it a a workout. Hey, I was breathing really hard and sweating.

But I also realized if I had to do it a few months ago, I’m not sure I would have done it or as quickly.  I love the results I’m getting from working out consistently, especially when life throws us these little challenges.

Enjoy your Friday night.

I’m in confession mode, I made a mistake today. I stopped at Starbucks normally not a problem, because I get an unsweeten iced coffee. But today my resistance was at an all time low. I got a low fat banana chocolate chip muffin. Of course I thought I was picking something okay. Well I just looked up the calorie count, 390 calories in that small thing. Geez, I should know better, it definitely wasn’t worth it, any pleasure from it is certainly gone now. It takes me 30 minutes at the gym to burn off those calories.

Okay confession over with. I’m going to recommit to think before I put anything in my mouth.  If I can’t resist the temptation of the goodies at Starbucks, I shouldn’t go. For now, I need to take myself out of the way of temptations. I’m doing so well, I don’t want to mess up my progress.

Okay, now I’m moving past my mistake today. It’s over and done with, time to let it go. I’m watching that guilt just fly away and only looking at the positive from it.  I’m going to be like the little train that could, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can do it!!!

I was trying to think of a good tip to pass along. Sometime it seems as if I have been in this battle and yes I consider it a battle against my weight forever. Evitably around this time in the process, I get distracted or bored or whatever other excuse I can come up with.  But the one thing that usually gets me discouraged is how quickly other seem to lose the weight, even as I cheer them on toward their goal.

Yet, I have finally come to the realization that every body is different. I know you thinking well duh, but still.  So, it stands to reason that everybody will lose weight differently. Even if we all do the exact same things, we won’t lose weight at the same rate.  So I have to try not to compare myself to others, not that I won’t take anyone’s advice.  I’m trying to find my triggers in losing weight. I want to keep my goal in sight, and do whatever I have to do to meet that goal.

So I’m encouraging everyone to not look at someone else’s body and expect the same results, because you’re only going to become discouraged and quit without even realizing that it’s physically impossible to be anybody but yourself. What an amazing person you are!!!