Wii Fit

I was supposed to kick up my treadmill walk today but some of those "legitimate health issues" I mentioned before flared up. I have very bad feet, the bones grew wrong. When I was 16 years old I had foot surgery on both my feet. They moved bones around, cut tendons, and removed drilled off portions of my bone (I was awake for all this, so that was fun). The surgeries kinda mad things worse but now I don't have any insurance or money so I just have to suck it up and take the pain. You see the cushion that is normal found under the ball of your foot is not there on my feet. The cushion of my feet shifted forward so that I step down directly on bone. My left foot has been bothering me for a few days but not enough to keep me off the treadmill. Last night I hurt my right foot pretty much taking the treadmill off the menu today. I was going to do some yoga instead today but then I found the Wii Fit hiding behind the tv. I had used my sister's years ago and decided to try it again. I did feel better that I better results than my first experience. Last time my BMI was in the obese portion and I was really old, in my 60s. It was very sad. Today wasn't great but it was better. My BMI is 26, I'm only slightly in the overweight portion, and my Wii age is 36. It was a little awkward working out with a virtual person on that little board but I did really like the yoga and how it really makes you focus on your balance the whole time. I didn't really like the strength training, didn't seem to be enough. I did end up getting 40 minutes of Wii workouts but the hoola-hoop was the only one that really left me feeling anything. I think I like the Wii Fit enough to use it every day but not as my main workout. I want to use it to help keep track of my progress and improve my balance, maybe at night when I'm usually sitting doing nothing.

6/15

I did get to do my regular 45 minutes on the treadmill and felt very good about it. I think I'm ready to kick that up a little.

First Measurements

bust - 40"

waist - 33"

hips - 41"

thigh - 24"

arm - 11"

weight- 155 lb

size - 10

For my physical activity today I walked on the treadmill for 45 minutes. When I'm on the treadmill I do the "weight loss" program that is 45 minutes with lots of short hills. I'm always amazed how sweaty I get from just walking but I think that has to do with the constant incline. Also, I won't stay on the treadmill if I don't have something that interests me so I have been re-living Lost. For Christmas my boyfriend got me the complete series of Lost mainly because I pestered him so much about it (it was the only thing I wanted). So now I have the perfect length show to watch as I walk cause each episode is about 40 minutes. I tried this with Friends but it didn't work out so well because you have to watch two episodes and when the first on is over it makes me want to get off the treadmill which obviously isn't a good thing.

Also, I have been wanting to try out Zumba dance cause it just looks like a fun way to work out. I found some cheep old DVDs on amazon and tried the first one out today. The first one said "Beginners" so I thought it was going to show me the beginning dance moves but it was just an abs, butt, thighs workout. It was 30 minutes and I didn't get a sweat going but my muscles did shake and I could see how it would help tone up. It seemed like it would be a good routine to do when I want to exercise but don't have enough time to get all sweaty and have to shower. One other thing is that I didn't realize one of the reasons I got a good deal on the DVDs was because it's half in Spanish. It's not so bad when they're counting cause it just helps me refresh my very poor Spanish skills. However, it is annoying when they have to explain everything twice and I'm just sitting waiting to get my workout on (maybe this is why I didn't get a good sweat going. I'm thinking of just trying the workout without the DVD, we'll see if that works better.

Starting in the middle

We all know that most people struggle with their weight at some point in their life. I have fought with my body all my life. I've had lots of excuses, some legitimate health issues and some not so legitimate lazy issues. Last year I turned 25, weighed 180ish pounds (and I'm only 5'4"), and decided to stop listening to all my excuses and start changing my life. I knew this was not going to happen if I jumped in too deep too fast, so I started small.

I cut my food portions in half and tried to be more conscious of how many calories I was eating (not that I was strictly counting calories but that I was just more aware of how much I was eating). I lost about 10 pounds in about 2 month which helped motivate me to start being active.

In June I bought a pair of Reebok Easytone shoes and started walking. I walked where ever I could and used an elliptical machine whenever I could. I lost another 10 pounds that summer and was feeling optimistic (which is a big deal for this pessimist). At that point I was the smallest I had ever been in my adult life.

After that I moved on to walking on a treadmill everyday and another two months later I was on the verge of being 150 pounds but then the holidays hit and I began a new weight battle. I gained 5 pounds by New Years, which I think is not that bad for holiday weight but I did not want to allow the gain to continue. So I kicked up my weight loss routine and lost the five pounds but burnt myself out. I did what I knew I shouldn't: too deep too fast. Fortunately I was aware of this and decided to be content at 150 pounds and just try to maintain it.

That was working well for me until I got into a car accident, lost my three part time jobs within a three week period, and lost hope. Just before my whirl wind I had started doing Bikram Yoga which was the best workout for me. Unfortunately when you loose all income you can't really justify over $100 a month to yoga. The scary combination of stopping yoga, sitting at home all day, and eating way too much comfort food made me gain my lost weight back rapidly. When I stepped on the scale next I was up to 165 pounds again and hating myself.

The comfort food was put away and the treadmill was started back up. I started feeling better and decided that I needed to figure out a way to not let myself back track again. That brings us to the purpose of my new blog. I know there must be lots of other weight loss blogs out there of different people documenting their success and probably even more blogs that died away without any weight success. I have never read a weight loss blog and have no idea how it's commonly done so this is just going to be my way. I really don't care if anyone reads my blog but if someone finds it and likes it or finds it motivational then that's all great but the real purpose is to keep myself accountable. I am challenging myself to post everyday (at least every week day) about what physical activity I did that day. And every Monday I will post my measurements and hopefully the numbers will be going down every week. Stay tuned and hopefully I'll reach my goals which is to be 130 pounds and a size 6. So long story short I'm starting a weight loss blog in the middle of my weight loss goal which I started last year wanting to loose 50 pounds and as of today I want to loose 25 more pounds. Let's do this.