Not gonna lie...

Okay, I'm not gonna lie, I have not been very disciplined over the past week! :( I did really well with my work outs at the beginning of last week, then I got busy and was not able to do my nightly routines. Then on Saturday, my friend had all of us over for dinner and it was so good so I ate way too much AND I drank soda! This is just getting worse lol. In my defense, my hip was hurting really badly from my side leg lifts that I was probably doing wrong so I couldn't really work out but it feels better now, so tonight I will start again!

I'm going to try drinking water when I get hungry so I don't eat junk food. I think there is an addictive agent in junk food and that when you stop eating it cold turkey you go through withdrawl. Maybe that is a bit extreem but it's hard to not eat any junk lol. Doesn't matter, I'm not going to do it!

Next thing is, James and I have been sick lately, him more then me. We came to the conclusion that it has to do with our apartment. So this weekend we are going to dust, vacume and steam clean the carpets to see if it makes any difference. I cannot wait to move out of that place!

So, here I go again, starting my non-stop working out everyday to get to my goal of 120 by summertime! PS: Me and my work BFF got new sunglasses, check them out! haha.

Monday sucked!

I had the worst day ever at work yesterday! I hate when that happens! So having the worst day on top of being super busy resulted in me forgetting to eat breakfast and lunch! When I got home, I worked out then made dinner and passed out watching James play Rock Band!

Even though yesterday was an off day on my workout schedule, I decided to work out anyway. I also made a change to my workout routine. 30 minutes on Your Shape and then 30 minutes on Wii Fit. I get a really good cardio workout with Your Shape and on Wii Fit I can really concentrate on my abs and my arms plus I really like doing the hula hoop, the boxing and the running (which I do with my free weights in my hands!) I think I'm going to get Wii Fit Plus!

For dinner, I made muscles in tomato and garlic sauce. It was so delicious! I had that for lunch today too. I went to Giant and got 10 for 10 grapefruits! So yummy! Now we have cantaloup, honey dew, apples, grapes and grapefruit to snack on!

I won't do another weigh in for another week because I think our scale is broken, or not working correctly or something weird. It tells me one weight and the wii fit scale tells me a different weight. We'll put that on hold!

Birthday Splurge

I have to report I have been bad! I celebrated my birthday this weekend! I'm 26 now...an old old lady! I did not eat very healthy but I allowed myself to splurge! Now back to my mini boot camp. James brought home Your Shape for me on Friday and I did my first workout yesterday afternoon! It is so awesome, and I love it! I don't know why anyone would say bad things about it.

This is how it works. After you enter all of your information into the system and it scans your body, it creates a workout schedule for you. You have the option of changing the schedule as far as time and concentration but I left it as is for now. My schedule is Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed and Thurs. 30 minute workouts concentrating on cardio, upper body, core body and lower body. I plan to up the minutes after the first week. The game allows you to incorporate different things into the workouts so I use my 3 lb. weights to help tone my arms more. Yesterday, it kicked my butt! I was dripping in sweat...ew I know, sorry! But I think it will really work!

Side bar: On Friday night, I went to DC to celebrate my birthday with a bunch of friends and had the best time! Heaven and Hell never dissapoints me and that is why I love it there so much! New Moon came out on DVD yesterday, and my friend Ashley bought it for me for my birthday!!! Thanks, Ashley! (See, I mentioned you! haha!)

Happy St. Patty's Day!

I cooked my first healthy dinner the other night. I got the recipe from Nicole (Thank you, Nicole!) I made lemon garlic chicken, asparagus sauteed in butter and garlic with a small serving of rice and a glass of water. It was really good. Last night I made chicken noodle soup with alphabet noodles, that was quite tasty as well!


I have been keeping up with my workouts. I'm really anxious to get Your Shape because I'm getting a little bored of the Wii Fit already :/ I was thinking about running on Sundays because James plays football on Sundays so instead of me just sitting there watching, I am going to run! Get some cardio in and really feel like I am getting some exercise! It would be nice to run more then once a week but I don't have the ideal situation to go running where I would feel safe since I would be alone. Maybe I'll get a tredmill...conundrum...I live in an apartment...would that make too much noise for the nerdy asians below us?? Hmm, maybe but who cares! Okay that was mean! haha


On a side note, tomorrow is my birthday! My co-workers just surprised me with a cake and a song and I got really embarrased, but it was a really nice surprise! I'm taking a day off of work to spend it with my handsome stud! Not really sure what we are going to do but it's supposed to be a beautiful day so hopefully we spend some of it outside. Then he is going to take me to the circus! I haven't been to the circus in years so I'm really excited!!!

Summer Preperations

One of my best friends is keeping a blog about her weight loss goal/progress and she has inspired me to do the same, with a different plan of action.

My goal is to loose 10 lbs. in the next 3 months. I got a Wii and a Wii Fit so I am going to be working out every night using that. James is going to get me "Your Shape" this coming Friday for my birthday so once I get that, I will start working that into my daily workouts as well. However, I have read mixed reviews for it so we'll see...I might just end up working out with Wii Fit/Fit Plus. I will also be using free weights to tone my arms as part of my routine.

I will be weighing myself once a week and posting my new weight weekly (which will hopefully be less then the previous week)! I have also taken before pictures which I will use for myself so I can visibly see any progress I am making. I will take pictures once a month so I can compare them to the final result. I will spare you by not sharing those, lol.

I haven't decided on my food diet yet but soda is out. I am only going to drink water for the entire next 3 months. We will be buying a lot more vegetables and fruit and I'm going to stay away from "junk" food. I'm thinking I will probably have a Breakfast Essentials shake in the mornings, French Vanilla flavor, very tasty! Then prepare small meals for myself to eat for lunch. Fast food and carry out will have to stop if I want to make any progress so dinners will have to be planned and cooked which means I will have to get better at cooking.

Here we go! No giving up!

Starting date: March 14, 2010
Starting weight: 130 lbs.
Goal weight: 120 lbs.
Goal time: 3 months

Updog!

Definitely didn't go home on Friday night and sleep like I wanted to. Instead, I went to see Leap Year with a friend. It was your typical chick flick...just okay in my opinion. After that, I went home and zonked out until noon on Saturday. It was great! I can't remember anything else I did this weekend! Where is my memory?! Oh...I vegged out on Saturday until the football games, then it was football until Sunday night. Monday, I went to the National Museum of Health and Medicine. That was interesting to say the least. I only took a few pictures because some of the stuff in there was too weird! I posted a the least weird of the pictures.

After I started updating this blog, I started to realize this is basically a diary! Then I remembered how I kept a diary for most of high school until about a year after James and I started dating. I think it would be really interesting to read them again. I told James about them and he wants to read what I wrote about him...definitely not! :D

Oh...my birthday is coming up in 2 months. I thought about it and realized I am going to be more than 1/4 of a century old! What is going on here? How did I get to be 26 already? Not that 26 is that old or anything, it could be worse, my co-worker turned 34 today!

So excited....American Idol, Little Miss Perfect and Teen Mom come on tonight!

I karate chopped a spoon!

Thank you, Martin Luther King Jr. for being born on Monday, January 18th! Starting promptly at 5:30pm this evening, the three day weekend begins! Now, I just have to get through these 8 long hours. I wish I planned ahead and took the day off like the rest of my office!

I've decided that I am going to grow my hair out! But it needed some TLC so I went to the Paul Mitchell School in Tyson's Corner last night and got a trim from a student. Even though they make you sign a waiver before the cut, which can throw up a red flag, they actually do a pretty good job AND it only costs $12! Awesome!

Last night, I watched part of this movie called "Thirst". It is basically a rated R Korean version of Twilight...it was weird. I didn't get to finish it because James and I went to the midnight viewing of The Book of Eli which I really liked, in an odd way. It had an interesting twist at the end that made you think back about the entire movie. It will make watching it again interesting.

This week I have been really bad at going to bed at a reasonable time...resulting in endless exhaustion. Last night I went to sleep at 4am (stupid midnight release!) and I'm paying for it now! Tonight I am going home and sleeping! It's going to be a great Friday night. :D