3 LBS to go

I am so excited! Three more pounds to go and I have hit the 20lb mark! I am so excited that I have achieved this. Once again I cannot get through this with all of you. Your support has been overwhelming and positive. Thank you. I still struggle with wanting to binge out on junk food. I will have the odd chocolate bar. My old habit was a bottle of coke and a king size chocolate bar every day on my lunch break. I sometimes hate the whole portioning everything out by the cup, or spoonfuls. At the same time that is what I must do to keep moving forward. It is my my new lifestyle.

Anna

Long Weekend

This weekend it was really nice that Will and I had the weekend off. Mine is a 3 day but his is only a two day. Saturday we went to the gym together. Our work schedules are not the same so we cannot go and workout together. The usual, Will wants to swim but I want to go to the fitness studio. I am up for swimming but not during "Fun Swim". I prefer lane swim. we did our compromise. The Fitness center then the pool. It is nice though because after working out I sat in the hot tub. Near the end of the swim time it died down enough so I was able to some laps. I did not do many. My friend Dee met up with us. She was a little late because of the busses. I am glad she did make it do some swimming. This morning my legs hurt! That is the first time I woke up with sore legs from a working out. I am sure this won't be the last!

Anna

2 weeks..

Well I have just went past the two week mark. I am happy to say that I have lost 14lbs. I am so happy. The gym routine is going. I am starting out at 3 times a week to go. Then work into 5-7 days after. It is so tiring. Trying to balance out work and the gym. Some mornings I wake up and I just have no energy at all. Two days this week I pushed myself to go. Today I did 32 minutes on the treadmill. Normally I do about 15-20 minutes.

I am going through the point where I am so sick of salad. I know I need to eat it. Today I just wanted meat and nothing else!

Anyways that is all for now, I am so exhausted!!!!

Anna

Gym Membership

So today Will and I signed up at the Recreation Center for a Fitness Membership! I am so excited! Today I did 20 minutes on the treadmill at 2 mph. Afterwards we went to the pool. The lane pool was not open until 11:30 so Will and I sat in the whirlpool and relaxed for a bit. Then we were only able to swim two laps. At the end of the first lap I had to stop because my leg started to cramp up. When the cramp went away I did the second lap. Maybe it is not such a wise idea to do both treadmill and swimming. It is a start and I cannot wait to get better on exercise part.

Anna

Week One Update

Well I am so glad that I got through my first week. I pleased to say that I have lost 8lbs so far! I am so excited!!!!! That is all I have to say in this entry!

Anna

Measuring

As I am winding down to the end of the first week of this lifestyle change I am so blessed to know that I have a great support system. Thank you all for your encouraging words. It has meant a lot to me and has helped me through it.

The biggest change for me that I found was hard was measuring everything! Portion control. Yesterday we had a Chicken stir fry with Uncle Ben's Chinese fried rice. When we actually weighed out 42 g I was totally surprised how much it was. One serving spoonful was too much. Amazing what you learn.

Anna

X-Weighted

A couple weeks ago I posted was telling you about the guy that really inspired me to really take this journey seriously. Here is the link of his journey on X-Weighted.

http://xweighted.ca/participants/season-three/mike

Anna