Week 5 Results

Weight: 251.6
Gain: 2.0
Biggest Loser Style: +0.80%
Remaining: 91.6
New NWA: 2.69

Yeah, nobody's surprised.  But after yesterday's Duh Moment, I can tell you, this week I'm gonna have double digits.  I have written "241.6" on my hand, it it will stay there, and remind me. 

Good luck to you all,
JadeAmber

Duh

So you know how sometimes you can know something, as in know that it is factually true, but yet somehow it just doesn't sink in until way later?  And then when you finally see it you're like, "well duh"?  Yeah.  That totally happened.  I found myself feeling a little bit jealous of the success that one of the people I follow was having.  Then I went about catching up on her here: http://healthiermediaries.blogspot.com/2011/04/crazy-week.html and going, "Oh.  Oh, I see.  The difference is, she freaks out about one instance of crispy vs. grilled chicken, whereas I have spent all week thinking I should get pats on the back for having replace two or three fast food meals with home-cooked meals.  Oh I see how that would explain it.  Duh."  Yeah...Hard Edged and Foxy Lady don't just look good together, they have a cause-and-effect relationship.  I can't be a Foxy Lady until I learn how to be Hard Edged.  They're together on my hands because that's the truth of the matter - you can't have one without the other because it's a dependent relationship.  Yeah.  That is totally true.  I knew that...I just for some reason didn't KNOW that...or didn't want to.  Or something.  But I do now.  Duh.  I'm gonna have to work a lot harder if I want results like hers.  Gonna have to get behind that idea if I want to go anywhere.

Hope your I.Q.'s haven't taken any such beating,
JadeAmber

So Far and A Funny

So far today has been meh.  I had a healthy breakfast (two eggs scrambled with toast, and a half-pb&j sandwich) but then, due to extreme classroom boredom, I then had a bag of veggie chips and a bag of peanut m&m's and a vitamin water.  And right now I'm hungry but I won't be able to eat until I finish helping a friend with a paper.  I did not do a workout because I am SO SORE.  But it's a good sore.  It's jogged-a-14-minute-mile-yesterday sore.  I am wootacious.

So, last time I was at Shakespeare an old guy saw me running and told me I was "looking good" (as in good form, I'm sure, because I'm yet more sure that I did NOT just get hit on by an old man).  So that was nice.  It gave me the warm fuzzies.  It was, in fact, the second time that a stranger had tried to encourage me on my jogging efforts.  Unfortunately the first time the dude (a very attractive shirtless man, of course) said something that was both encouraging and funny, and it caught me off guard, and I had really been pushing myself and so my lungs were all hurt-y and mucus-y and in response to his kind words I smiled and a couple strings of spit totally flew out of my mouth.  His face was like "good job, random struggling fat girl!" and then a second later it was like "eeeeeeeeew..."

Good times.

Hoping you're all doing great,
JadeAmber

My Up-And-Down Day

Today started with waking up late.  Usually that makes me want to just say "screw it, whatever, I already messed up."  I came close to that, but I pulled back from the edge.  (yay, me!)  I ate about 1/3 cup applesauce and then did 3 sets of 10, with 8-lb dumbbells, the following: curls, military press, tricep extensions, shoulder lifts, lat pulls, oblique dips, flys, tricep kickbacks, bench press, military bench press, and sit ups.  That's right, son!  I am awesome.

Then I ate a plate of spaghetti with sauce and light ranch and breaded chicken (breaded with flaxseed, thank you very much, and baked, not fried!). 

Then I did bad.  I had three Krispy Kreme doughnuts.  And they were delicious.

Then I did good!  I felt stupid for having the doughnuts and decided I was going to use the sugar high, so I went for a jog around my sister’s house and…I totally jogged a whole mile!  It was totally wootacious!  And also, it hurt!

Then I had a big, delicious bowl of ziti with alfredo sauce and homemade turkey meatballs (yummy!) with a glass of some kind of flavored water stuff (think Walmart’s answer to Crystal Light…I don’t know, it’s what my sister had) which was tasty too.

Then I had one of those kiddie juice things where you stick the straw in, and then I really started to suck at life...Wendy's, jr. cheeseburger, jr. bacon cheeseburger, jr. frosty, then I came home and ate a big plate of spaghetti and breaded chicken.

So today was part Non-Scale victory, part I suck at life.  *sigh*...gonna try again tomorrow.

Good luck to you all,
JadeAmber

Yay, me!

Non-Scale Victory: I jogged farther than ever before today!  It was 3/4 of a mile.  And it was awesome!  I recently had an "ah-ha!" moment on proper breathing during a jog and wow, it made a lot of difference!  Now I just have to remember that and not eat crap today, thereby making it meaningless.  But I feel good right now! 

I'm going to post what I did for a workout every day this week.  The 3/4 mile was part of 4 miles I did today (that's going around Shakespeare Park twice).  Maybe I'll post what I ate every day too...yeah, right now that sounds like a good idea. 

Good luck to you all,
JadeAmber

Hard Edged/Foxy Lady

This week I decided to let my sister decide my color.  I told her that I was pretty sure that if I picked, the decision would involve a lot of rationalization and it would just be good to have the color handed to me, like an assignment.  She chose to give me two colors, Hard Edged (a very dark, almost brown purple) and Foxy Lady (an orangy rust color) and told me to alternate fingers.  She said, "you need to be more hard edged, and then you'll be closer to being a foxy lady".  lol.  So that's my assignment for the week!

I'm going to try to post something every day this week, and see if that helps me stay on track. 

Good luck to you all,
JadeAmber

Week 4 Results

Weight: 249.6
Gain: 3.4
Biggest Loser Style: +1.38%
Remaining: 89.6
New NWA: 2.56

Wow, this is getting old. 

I have no excuse for this week.  I just did bad.  I even continued to do bad the rest of the weekend, after I speechified about how I was gonna do better.  It seems like all I do is talk about how I'm about to do better.

I'm not going to do any speechifying today.  I did bad this week.  I hope I can do better from now on.

Good luck to you all,
JadeAmber