Weekend of April 6th and 7th - Good Start

It's Monday morning and I'm not crippled. Yay!

I thought I would be. Over the weekend I started with DailyBurn. I'd been thinking about it for a while and decided to try it out. You can see the details of my workouts on the Exercise Log page.

Definately pushed it. I was a day behind because I opened the 30 day trial on Friday night. So I caught up on Saturday.

I picked the DB15 as my program. It looked like the best for rank beginners. Although I have a fair bit of exercise and fitness experience I am seriously out of shape. My thoughts are that the 15 minutes a day of the DB15 is the minimum for success. If I do that, great, goal accomplished. Anything extra is bonus levels.

So in all, I did 45 minutes of the scheduled DB15 videos and another almost 40 minutes of yoga. My only guess on why I'm not dying is the yoga. The Inferno was killer and I really thought I would be in extreme pain from that today but I'm not. Soooo happy!

For food good choices, I did one biggy, one smaller.

Saturday night I got hit by hunger around 9pm. I hadn't eaten dinner (bad choice) so I was very set up for a major binge fest. I went to Denny's and ordered the Prime Rib Philly Melt with seasoned fries and mayo. On the face of it a bad choice. The good choice was that I got a take out box with the food and before anything else I cut the sandwich in half and dumped it with half the fries in.

My guess is that the total meal was around 1500 calories. So cutting it in half turned it into a reasonable 750. (I ate the leftovers for Sunday lunch.) Was Denny's and that meal in particular a good choice? No. But I made it a "less bad" choice and most importantly, it's something I wouldn't have done normally. Usually I would have eaten the whole thing and just felt horribly guilty.

On Sunday, there wasn't huge good choice, but I did limit myself to one serving of the pasta shells we ate and had more green peas instead. I didn't look into it online, but I think I probably saved myself about 100-150 calories.

In all over the weekend I cut out 850-900 calories out of my "normal" choices. I'm feeling fairly successful for doing that. And I didn't splurge on anything else as a reward. (That's a problem I've had in the past. I do something good, like excercise or cutting out something bad, then "reward" myself with a treat in the way of some other high cal food. Pretty self defeating I know. I need to figure out different ways to motivate myself.)

So, good weekend. Looking forward to carrying that through the week.

Good Choices Intro

I guess the point of this blog is to keep myself honest, share my experiences (good and bad) with others who might be interested, and honestly, to see if I can get a following!

I'm a 37 year old woman with 2 kids, a job, a website or two, and close to 70 pounds to lose.

At last weighing I was 207lbs. ... Depressing.

I'm not 6 foot. (In fact a modest 5'5".) There are no gland problems. I don't have any major mental illnesses. (Really, who can say that they are 100% sane?) There isn't a whole lot of reason for me to be in this position other than age, some stress, and laziness.

So enough of that. I'm tired of being fat. I'm tired of how it makes me feel, mentally, emotionally, and physically. Most importantly, I'm tired of feeling like a failure. It feels as if it doesn't matter what else I accomplish in my life, as long as I have this rather insane amount of extra weight, there's always an asterix. "* For all her success in life, she did have a weight problem."

Right now I have an asterix that grosses 65-70 pounds. That is one obese asterix.

Unlike previous efforts I'm not making grandios plans, "lifestyle changes", or promises. I'm not going on a "diet". I will create no graphs, carry no notebooks, do no complex calculations. I'm mearly going to try each day to make good choices.

Here's the plan:

• Every day I'm going to try to make at least one good food choice. This sounds overly modest but when you consider that I have been making almost NO good food choices in the last few years, I think this is a great way to start.
• I'm going to incorporate excesise into my life. Every day. This is the closest to "grandiose" as my plan gets. To accomplish this task I've signed up for a 30 day free trial of DailyBurn. More on my reasoning behind this in another post.
• I'm keeping this blog. Every day I'll post about my good choices, feelings, progress, and such. My hope is that at least once in a while the knowledge that I have to post will help me make a good choice. And maybe I'll get famous in the process! (lol)

So that's it for now. Map created... now to actually walk it.

Lisa