Inching up!

So here they are - my inches for this week. They are up from the last measure, not too big a surprise to me. But I'm also not going to spend a lot of time specifically measuring and remeasuring for "accuracy". I'm going to just slap that puppy on and see what it says. This is still give me a good measure of what is happening.

Total Inches - 324.0 (up 2.6inches)

Neck -15.9, Bust - 47.5, Ribcage - 42.4, Waist - 47.5, Hips - 52, Thigh (L) - 26.8, Thigh (R) - 25.5, Calf (L) - 18.7, Calf (R) - 18.1, Bicep (L) - 14.9, Bicep (R) - 14.7

*sigh* it was good to get that out of the way.

Today's weather has taken a turn for the worse. So I didn't get to walk home like I wanted. I also forgot my "smalls" so I was unable to go to the gym! Tomorrow I'm running on my lunch hour for sure. Tonight, not too sure what I'm going to do. Might be some push ups and crunches.

I also forgot to get batteries at the grocery story yesterday - so piccies will have to wait for next week (then I'll be down my first 10lbs and want to take one anyway!)

Inches update ***NOW with significantly less sniveling

Weight in - 272.4lbs
up 0.2lbs
Inches - 321.4inches
same (different locations but same numbers)

Neck -16, Bust - 47.5, Ribcage - 41.5, Waist - 47, Hips - 52, Thigh (L) - 26.8, Thigh (R) - 24.8, Calf (L) - 18.9, Calf (R) - 17.9, Bicep (L) - 14.5, Bicep (R) - 14.5

I walked down the office stairwell tonight and thought about the first time that I did that due to the lovely Karen's stair challenge. I thought that I was going to D.I.E. and/or my hip flexers were going to rip right off my pelvis. Today, it was a quick and easy jaunt down 468 stairs to the main floor.

I walked home, at a good clip and wasn't breathing too hard. I remembered that I used to be breathing so hard that people in front of me would know to step aside - they could hear me coming. Today I'm a stealthier ninja like this blogger!

My abs are a little sore - from holding me up while I've started running... hey! I've started running!!

Perhaps I am clinging to a ball on Newtons Cradle, but I think that the swings are getting smaller. I have to remember that WANTING to eat half of China is not the same as eating half of China. My old habits and cravings will likely not go away as quickly as my disappearing inches. But, I'm going to have to learn to deal with it.

Thank you to TX Tena, The new viewer C, UK Helen, and the very fit and apparently nerdy NerdGirl. You are all right and thanks for your comments today - they gave me perspective.

Anyway - I've been neglectful with my piccies. Here you go for a little catchup on my photos.

Dinner tonight:
mixed greens
1/3c 1% cottage cheese
1/2 tomato
2T red onion
3oz mozzarella
6x lite rye crackers
1T becel
2 slices turkey breast
Lemon Perrier (spoiling myself)







Lunch Yesterday:
mixed greens w/ 1oz Stilton

Bubble & Squeak (made 5c I had 2c): 1/2 head cauliflower, 1/3 head cabbage, 2 med red potatoes with 1T becel and 1/2c skim milk (too much - less milk next time) and 4 cloves garlic browned slightly.

Chicken breast with lemon pepper seasoning pan fried in 1tsp olive oil.

Top Floor: Laughing Cow Cheese, tomato, becel, Cottage cheese, Pineapple&Jackfruit cups, Yogurts

Second Floor: Egg whites (and eggs), leftover bubble&squeak, leftover steam baby bok choy, strawberries, more cottage cheese, almond milk

Ground floor: cauliflower, cabbage, grapes, turkey breast, mixed greens (lunch on top - pita, tomato, mixed greens in container).

Basement: carrots, zucchini (of questionable state of perishing), potatoes, sweet potato.

Monday Weigh-In

okay.... *drum roll please*......

Weight - 272lbs
Inches - 321.4

Fat Burned - 3Lbs
Inches shed - 2.7

I'm really really happy! AND I have a great lesson learned, now is the tricky part - I really NEED to pay attention to this lesson before I jump back on the bandwagon called "This is easy - I can eat what I like", and stay on the path called "Sensable eating on weekends and through the week shows me what I can do".

Regardless, I'm happy about both the inches and the fat!!

Inches Breakdown:
Neck - 16, Bust - 47.5, Ribs - 41.6, Waist - 47.7, Hips - 51.5, Left Thigh - 27, Right Thigh - 25, L.Calf - 18.3, R.Calf - 18, L.Bicep - 14.3, R.Bicep - 14.5
Total inches: 321.4

Well - thats all I have time to post right now - I just didn't want to make anyone wait any longer! I did enjoy posting my "fluffer" email earlier in the day though! teehee

More later. Dinner now.

From Wallowing to Basking & a WI

Thank you to all who commented today. Everyone was totally right, and I guess, sometime you just need to hear it a couple of times to remind yourself that things are not the deep hole that you think they are.

I thank you, and all the people who posted on their blogs today as well. I love reading them, they really help put life and weight into perspective. So I've gone from wallowing in my own pity to basking in the knowledge that today was a new day and yesterdays mistakes don't have to be made today.

So - now for the nitty-gritty. weight is up 0.6lbs, but I'm down 1.3inches.

Stats:
Pounds - 276
Inches - 324.5

Neck -16.1, Bust - 47.2, Ribcage - 42, Waist - 48, Hips - 52.8, Thigh (L) - 27, Thigh (R) - 26.1, Calf (L) - 18.8, Calf (R) - 18.1, Bicep (L) - 14.2, Bicep (R) - 14.2

Down 1.3inches YAY!!! Food today was significantly better (today is a new day!).

Bfast:
1/3c 1% cottage cheese
1 lrg banana
black tea w/ 1/4tsp honey
Snack1:
1 med non-fat milk half sweet mocha with 1T whip (it appears that I can not learn from my mistakes)
Lunch:
1c BNS Mac&Cheese
1.5c roasted brussle sprouts
1/3c activia apple&grain yogurt
1.5c fresh strawberries (OMG YUM)
Snack2:
pro-atmeal (thanks to nerd girl for this one! me like) protein powder, oats, flax seeds
1/3c pumpkin custard (mixed in)
Dinner:
1 chicken breast pan fried in lite oil spray with 1 sm zucchini
2c mixed greens
10 snap peas
1 sm beet steamed
1T xvirgin oil
1T balsamic vinegar

6x hearty ryr crackers + 2tsp marg
Mint tea x2

Water: working on just over 2L right now, by bed time - should be over 3L.

Exercise: Walked to work (1km), walked home from work (2.2km), walked down the 468stairs from my office floor to the ground floor! (yay).

Better, much much better.

WI...and a Technical Issues

Well there you have it.. The inches are in and its not the greatest news. I'm up 0.2inches and down 0.2lbs. Kind of harmonious actually. But a great lesson in what I need to get back into now... sweat'n and work'n.

Stats:

Pounds - 275.4

Inches - 235.6

Neck -16, Bust - 48.3, Ribcage - 42.1, Waist - 48.3, Hips - 52.2, Thigh (L) - 27.2, Thigh (R) - 25.8, Calf (L) - 18.8, Calf (R) - 18.1, Bicep (L) - 14.5, Bicep (R) - 14.5

I've taken the "crime scene" photos and I have to say that I think I'm MORE hesitant about posting these ones then I was about the front page photos. .....Anyway, in the spirit of doing thing that make me uncomfortable and make me want to change, I'm going to post away for all to see. Looking at these and the past pics... I really should have re-thought my choice of "bottoms" but too late now.

*******Technical Issue********

I have not the effing foggiest why these pics are coming through to the post with the "funny legs". They don't look like that in the real pic itself. Anyway - I'm tired of messing with it - so the important bits on are there and thats what matters.

Happy New Year to all, and a WI

Happy New Year to all.

I didn't manage to stay inside my set goals last night, but I'm still pretty proud of how I managed with regular "civilians"! haha

I moved some chocolates away from me at one point and the person next to me brought them back, and sat them right between us again. My first though, "HOW RUDE, right after I had said I need to move these away from me". Then, I decided that I was not going to be bothered by them. And so I didn't give them another though. Small steps in the right direction.

And for 2009 I decided that I would have an extra weigh-in. I know that in future I'll be mad if I didn't know what weight/inches I start this year with. So.... *drum roll please*

Weight - 275.6 lbs .... (you have no idea HOW GOOD that felt to type in those numbers)

Inches - Neck -16, Bust - 48, Ribcage - 42.2, Waist - 48, Hips - 52.2, Thigh (L) - 27.2 Thigh (R) - 26, Calf (L) - 18.8, Calf (R) - 18.1, Bicep (L) - 14.5, Bicep (R) - 14.6

Total Inches: 325.6

I've burned off 2.8 inches of fat and I've managed to burn off 2.9lbs of fat from my frame.

I AM SO FUGGING EXCITED THAT I CAN NOT STAND IT. :)

Tonight in celebration I'm going over to a friends house (she is struggling with weight loss post baby) and I'm going to make the Butternut Mac&Cheese for her and the family. Weeeeeeee. Spreading the love.

Burn Baby Burn!

Back on track - I will have my official weigh-in and measurements tonight - but I'm down a little. YAY! Just so you know. 278.5lbs today!

And….. TMI alert - I also did not have my normal morning "routine" pre weigh-in, or as my brother says, "it's still in the shaping room". I don't know what an average turd weighs in at, but I'm not going to bother to find out and I'm just going to be happy that even with my extra load I was still down from last week.

I spent a lot of time on the parental sofa this last five days chugging tea with lemon & honey, drinking Nyquil from the bottle and applying carmex to my chapped nose holes. But I did get to do some thinking.

First of all, I have been thinking about how I think about the term "losing" weight. Although this is really just semantics, I'm going to stop thinking about how much weight/fat I've lost and start thinking about how much fat I've burned off.

Lost implies that I've "misplaced" this fat and will be looking for it pdq, and I want to try to think of it in different terms. This fat didn't just fall out of my purse at the bus stop, my body has consumed it into nothingness. That’s a good feeling to know that the body has eliminated it and not just set it down somewhere to be picked up again.

Other then that, I'm too sick to do anything physical, but I will be doing my stairs down to street level after work today. I also told myself that if I wanted to have a "special coffee" today (skim milk latte) that I would have to take the stairs down there as well so I might get 2 sets in today.

...Actually, after I'm done this post I am off down the stairs and I will get my skim milk latte and feel special without the cream and get in an extra workout today. HA!

Bfast: tea (black), flax oatmeal package, kashi 7grain bar, 1/2c Apple Cinnamon Stars (Gerber baby food…don't judge they are tasty little buggers), (getting now) skim milk latte
Lunch: 1 cup Golden Autumn Carrot soup, 3 WASA hearty rye crackers, 1 cup bean salad
Snack 1: 2 cups chopped fruit (apple, honeydew & watermelon, grapes)

I'm in trouble for snacks today - I left the house in a hurry and forgot to get any yogurt or tuna. I'll have to get creative here. I'm also all out of fruits at the house, must rectify that this evening.

okay - I'm off to get my coffee, go down my 468 stairs!

Weight In Monday, Dec 15, 2008

Well today was weight in (see last couple of posts!) I'm up. Not good.

Weight: 278.8lbs (+0.2lbs)

Inches:
Neck - 16.1, Bust - 48, Ribs - 43, waist - 48.5, Hips - 51.4, R Thigh - 27.5, L Thigh - 27.8, R Calf - 18.3, L Calf - 19, R Bicep - 14.9, L Bicep - 14.8
Total - 329.3

So, I guess calling this blog one inch at a time was pretty accurate. I'm not too unhappy as my inches have gone down, I think that I'm about to have a good breakthrough if I can just maintain my better habits and keep my activity level up right now. I've made a mental shift as well. That this is not going to be simple, so now when its hard I'm not as disappointed that I'm struggling. Managing expectations I suppose. :)

So there you have it! I'm having some rice chicken and curry sauce with peas and carrots tonight, as well as 4 mini pitas toasted with hummus. Its pretty great! I have some other obligations tonight though, so I have to run. I'm going to be on later to surf the other blogs and see what everyone else has been up to today and over the weekend.

EDIT::
Forgot to log my Monday stairs. Down 26 flighst, every 5 flights I went up 1/2 flight.
down 26 x 18 = 468
up 2.5 x 18 = 45
down 2.5 x 18 = 45
Total = 558