i am soooooo thankful it’s the weekend!!! after the last few weeks i’ve had i’m just worn out, absolutely worn out. now that i’m settled at work it will be soooo nice to just have a relaxing weekend with my sweet fam.

this month i lost 9 pounds and i am totally STOKED with that!  that is probably the biggest weight loss i’ve had for quite a while. 

i followed weight watchers to a “T” and worked out like crazy and it absolutely paid off.  i am just in love with the weight watchers program and wish i had done that sooner.  honestly, it’s hard for me to eat all my points some days.  i’m slowly figuring out which zero or low point snacks i like.  feels weird to snack after dinner as for the last year i’ve not allowed myself to do that.  but if i still have points left and i’m hungry i allow myself to have a snack and it seems to be working out ok for my weight loss.  there is an amazing white cheddar popcorn i get at walmart (i can’t remember the name of it right now) that is only 3 points for 2.5 cups of it.  totally feels like i’m cheating when i eat it.  and knowing i have that to look forward to later helps me not overeat at dinner. 

as for my exercise, i’m still going to the gym in the mornings.  although some weeks i just didn’t make it every day.  when i go to the gym i mainly do the elliptical and bike.  i super love leaving the gym at 7 am knowing my workout is done for the day!!  and on mondays and wednesdays i am still teaching zumba, which is an amazing burn.  it is number 3 of the top calorie burners.  i have a fitness app on my droid that records your workouts (totally love it) and i can wear it on my arm during workouts.  during zumba it tells me i burn normally between 600 – 700 calories in an hour.  THAT is amazing.  we had a few weeks where we couldn’t have class though because of the building being in use by others.  i imagine if it had been a normal month i might have been a bigger loss.

i am also super excited to say the weight is finally coming off in my stomach.  seems i’ve been waiting forever for it to target that spot.  but the top of my stomach is finally starting to go down.  now if the rest of the little pouch would just go away i’d be happy.  in time i’m sure it will, just have to be patient and keep busting my butt.

so with saying all that, i’m very pleased with this month.  and i am hoping to see the same or better next month.  i’m going to continue exactly what i am doing right now. 

out for now
~kisses

this month i’ve lost 8 lbs…not too bad BUT i did gain back during the holiday season, so this is mostly losing that weight…

i struggled this month, like hardcore struggled…i began going to the gym every morning and working out for an hour before work, i still instruct my zumba class twice a week and i attended some step aerobics classes…i can honestly say i’ve been working out harder than i ever have in my entire life…so you can imagine my disappointment two weeks in a row when i stepped on the scale and saw the exact same number as the week before…are you KIDDING me, i’ve lost nothing?  frustrated like you would never believe, i knew i was doing something wrong…

i’ve faced this battle by myself for two years now and i can honestly say i’m super proud of what i’ve accomplished…but there has to come a time when you realize you just can’t do it by yourself anymore…for me, that was one hard pill to swallow…i am a super independant woman and normally have the mind set “i can do ANYTHING by myself and don’t need ANY help”…for some reason inside my (crazy) head, asking for help is a sign of weakness and failure…

i thought about this for a few days and then remembered my word for 2011, courage…and i knew what the right choice was…i had to have to courage to finally admit i needed help in this battle…and this last week i joined weight watchers…

i’m so thankful i did and am pretty sure i realized where i was screwing up and why i wasn’t losing…if you can even imagine this, i was eatting enough…that is quite possibly the craziest thing i’ve ever said…i was eating waaayyy less than i should have been daily which was making my body think it was starving…so every thing i ate my body just held on to…

i am determined, moreso now than ever, to continue on my journey…and i know that i will succeed!

out for now
~kisses