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My New Exercise Plan

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No Pain - No Gain

"I love being surrounded by dumb bells"

"I'm in no shape to exercise"

"Winners find a way, losers find an excuse" [DD: This puts me firmly in the 'loser' category]

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Let's Get Physical, Physical ...

... I wanna get Physicaaaal.



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Saturday Sit-Ups

Is simply STARING at this Brazilian hunkahunkaburninglove doing sit-ups considered to be EXERCISE?? If so, then I've definitely burnt some calories this afternoon.

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Monday Weigh-In - Small Victories

Despite cheating early and often this past week (McDonald's, Chinese takeout, the 2:00 am run to the store for Swedish Fish), I still somehow managed to lose a pound. This makes a grand total of 27 lbs - 2 pounds away from my first goal.

The stress over my apartment situation (I'm still not 100% sure where I'll be living in the coming weeks) and general burn-out contributed to a less-than-stellar week.  However, I still walked a lot - which definitely helped.

This week I plan on getting back on track and losing these two measly pounds, so I can start working on my NEXT goal...

Monday Weigh-In ... Oh YEEEAAAAAAHHHH

Another great week – I lost 6 more pounds, for a total of 26 lbs. lost in one month!  This means I need to lose only 3 more to reach my first goal of dropping 10% of my body weight.

BTW, in a year-plus on Weight Watchers, I never lost as much weight as I have in the last month.  Big shout-outs to Dr. Atkins and the extremely walkable streets of Manhattan for the assist.

It also helps that I haven’t cheated (thanks to that SUGAR COOKIES trickery) and I walked almost every day.

It’s great that things are going well NOW, because when I MOVE and lose my routine/comfort zone it certainly won’t be as easy.  The only way I lose weight is by sticking to my routine – and uprooting my life and moving will shoot that all to hell.

As far as the move goes – things are still in limbo.  I've been trying to go through all my stuff and get rid of anything unnecessary - but I still have tons of work to do.  And I still don't have anyplace to go...

Monday Weigh In - 20 Pounds, Biatches!

That's right - I lost 5 lbs. last week, which makes me 20 lbs. lighter than I was on March 25th!!  As a matter of fact, I am wearing a pair of jeans I couldn't even THINK about putting on two weeks ago.

This is a bit of a shock to me, considering I had a liquid dinner drinks with my dear friend Agnes Gooch on Monday, and then spent a hungover Tuesday touring various McDonald's in search of carbs (I found them, TRUST).  But after I got that out of my system, I got back on track and walked my butt off every day.

I don't want to jinx myself, but this is a fantastic way to start off my week.

>P,B!

Monday Weigh In - Small Victories

I lost another pound last week – bringing my total up to 15 lbs lost since March 25^th.  My goal is to lose 2-3 lbs. per week – so dropping only 1 is a little disappointing.  But considering all that happened last week, it could have easily been worse.

For some reason I just wasn’t “into” walking – and didn’t do it every day.  And when I did walk, I usually didn’t make it the whole way.  In addition, work was stressful with at least one major crisis that resulted in me getting yelled at by my boss.  I tend to take these things extremely personally, and since I am an emotional eater all I wanted to do was lose myself in a carb frenzy.  However, I resisted.

One thing I couldn’t resist, however, was hanging out with The Minx this weekend!  She was in NYC for an event, so we arranged to meet on Friday and Sunday for meals.  On Friday, THIS was my dinner…

Yep – I took The Minx to dinner at Arby’s in Brooklyn.  And I must say, I was extremely good – only eating ONE of the Minx’s curly fries!!  However, due to a kitchen mix-up I ended up with an extra (free) roast beef sandwiches (I just HATE it when that happens!).  I ate one at the restaurant and the other one I shared with my kitties later that night. Apparently Oscar adores Arby’s roast beef almost as much as I do.

On Saturday night I found myself craving ice cream.  So I walked to Gristedes to get some of that Breyers “Carb Smart” stuff (below)…

Unfortunately they only had chocolate (which I don’t like) – so I ended up buying a pint of “Root Beer Float” ice cream – which is definitely NOT “carb smart”.  Needless to say, that pint didn’t stand a chance.

On Sunday The Minx and I got together again – this time in Koreatown.  We had decided on Korean BBQ so I could eat meat (insert joke HERE) – and the restaurant didn’t disappoint…

Each table at Kang Suh has a little grill in the middle, and if you order the BBQ, they grill it up right there.  The picture above is the “pork” I ordered – which was basically two giant, thick slabs of bacon - surrounded by all the accoutrement they give you.  Delish!

Anywhore – with all that happened (or didn’t happen – e.g. walking) last week, I can’t complain that I only lost one pound.  It’s certainly better than gaining.

Monday Weigh In - Good News!

I have surprised even myself - another 4 pounds down last week!  That means I've lost 14 pounds since starting back on my low-carb diet and walking regimen only 1 1/2 weeks ago.  It also means that I'm about half-way toward reaching my first goal of losing 29 lbs (10% of my body weight as of 3/25).

Exercise: Last week I walked all the way home from work 3 days and part-way home the other 2 days.  In total this probably adds up to almost 10 miles for the week.  And to top it off, I did an hour of aerobics at my apartment last night.

Diet:  I only cheated once, and it wasn't major.  One of the servers at my restaurant left a STACK of Girl Scout cookies in the office for days, and finally I couldn't take it anymore.  I totally swiped a box of Lemon Chalet Cremes - but then only ate about 4 of them, felt guilty (not for the theft, for cheating on my diet), and threw them away.

This week will be challenging.  The Minx will be in NYC this weekend, and we plan on meeting on Friday and Sunday for lunch/dinner/whatever.  Sunday's meeting will be at ... ARBY'S (!!), so I'm going to have to be extra good this week to make up for cheating a little over the weekend.

How was YOUR week??

I Could Have Used This Yesterday...

The Broadsword Handle Umbrella.  Yesterday was one of the coldest, rainiest and nastiest days I can remember - and my poor little umbrella just wasn't up to the task.

To complicate matters - I actually walked home from work in all of that mess.  Yes, I made sure I got my exercise - even though I ended up soaked and now probably have pneumonia.