OK, OK, we need to stop here.  Right here.

Not only has there been no working out and no breakfast, there has been an unhealthy intake of bad food and lack of exercise.

Cause?  Nice weather, summer BBQs, still bummed knee preventing me from running, laziness in general after coming home from work.  Combined with buying food from the cafe constantly and eating quite a bit of ice cream and chocolate recently…

It has to stop.  I’m not losing any weight because I’m not doing any work anymore.  I don’t want to slip into horrible habits.  I’ve already gone backwards 20 pounds from the hard work I did in 2010.  

My main issue is I need to plan ahead, and pack all my food in advance.  It’s the only way I can assure that I’ll be eating proper food and portions all week regardless of the events of the week.

I’ve been imagining containers filled with cucumber slices and strawberries.  It’s really what I need, I think.

Keep going.

I seem to have hit a wall, or a plateau.  Time for re-evaluation.

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Overview:

The verdict is… not good.  Not a single change in my measurements.  My weight has not changed either.  WTF.

More fruits and vegetables.  Less everything else.  Always.

I’ve had a really rough last 24 hours in all honesty.  But the past month has been great.  I actually thought I was doing well.  I obviously did not.

I think I need to buy a whole set of Tupperware containers, and start packing food in advance.  Breakfast, lunch.  Maybe even some dinners.  I don’t want to fall off the wagon.  My knee has been bugging me so I haven’t been running, but I also haven’t worked out since I started working.  Which is bad.  In February I worked out every month, and it’s the month I lost the most.  So I must get back on that.

I’ll be cycling to work in the morning, and again at night in a few weeks.  Which is good exercise, but I do need to get lifting weight again.  It’s important.  

More fruit.  More veggies.  Less food from the cafe.  Less coffee with cream.
More weight-lifting.  More cycling.  Need to not stall, and keep moving forward. 

I haven’t made a weigh-in post in a while, I usually just update my weight ticker.

But I seem to have been losing consistently since I started this new job, which has been a month.  Every week I weigh myself on the Wednesday morning, and I have been going down even since my April 1st measurements and weight info were taken.  It’s good!  I’m shocked, but not REALLY at the same time.  I have been walking 4 km almost each day, not to mention that this incites me to walk more on the weekend, which I have been doing (usually 4-5 km or so, but last weekend we spent the day walking for a total of over 10 km.  I haven’t noticed much in my body or anything, but I can tell my clothes are getting a slight bit loose, etc. I’ve been excited about May 1st coming up so I can finally measure myself and see the facts.

Otherwise… everything is going swimmingly.  I have barely worked out since I started working, except for my walking.  My knee is still injured and so I can’t run.  So I really should be lifting right now.  I need to eat slightly better as well.  I’ve been doing a lot of pastries since I started working there, since we have a cafe and they bake sweets every morning; muffins, croissants, scones, banana bread, bagels… muffin and coffee has happened twice this week, and not that it’s bad for me, but I should be eating something else than cake for breakfast.

That being said, despite the cakes and chocolates and poutine - oh yes, me and some coworkers went out for poutine last week and it was great - and other things I shouldn’t really be having, like half & half in my coffee, the number on the scale is going down constantly.   We’ll see on the first of May.

Keep going!

Wow, have I not been keeping up with this blog since I started this new job!  It’s not that the hours are ridiculous or that it’s very draining or anything.  I just seem to do other things.

I went out for dinner with some friends from work yesterday, we ate super greasy salty food so I’m expecting my weigh-in to be a little off.  I seem to be hovering around 193-195 since I started working there, I do walk a lot and haven’t increased my calorie intake so technically I should be losing weight, but I won’t know until Wednesday.  I feel like I’ve lost inches though.  Some of my pants are getting bigger.  Which is always good.  I caught a glimpse of my naked bum today in the mirror and it looks like it’s losing some of its orange-peel qualities.  It seems smoother and less flat, I’m not sure how to explain it but I feel like there’s some improvment there.

Will quite possibly go out again today and walk close to 15 km, it seems somewhat daunting but I’ve done it several times in the past, inclusing one time wearing only ballet flats for shoes, so really it’ll be fine.

I’ve been having trouble with my right knee and haven’t gone running in weeks due to the pressure it puts on it.  I need to get it checked out by a doctor, just in case I have fluid build up or something.  I know it’s most likely only due to pressure on the joint because I’m so heavy (compared to how heavy/light I should be at a healthy weight).  But still, it’s a real bummer.  So we’ll work on fixing that.

I’ve been looking at taking combat classes.  Not stupid MMA or anything.  I’m actually considering Bartitsu.  Seems fun and there’s no sparring, and I’d learn to fend off an attacker with an umbrella, how awesome/practical is that for someone who lives in the pacific north west...!  So we’ll see, but I’m not the kind to sign up for a spin class or anything.  I think this may be more interesting.  There’s the intro class on May 26th, I believe I’ll go.  It’s $60 so not exactly cheap but it is a 4-hour workshop so even if I decide that the course is not for me, I’ll have some basic combat skills I can maybe transfer into something else.

Also, still need to buy running shoes.  One thing at a time, I suppose.

Keep going!

Wow this new job is taking up lots of me used-to-be Internet time!

Have not filled any challenge, I also haven’t lifted weights in 2 weeks.  I do walk about 3 miles a day now, from the train to work, work to train again at night and then from the closest train station to my house every night.  It’s been good and I can tell just that has been enough to throw my calories into the negatives, meaning I burn more than I eat, and I can see that I have been losing a bit of weight.  I seem to have lost about 1 pound per week.  Soon I’ll have to start biking to the train in the morning as well.  It’s good for me, so I won’t complain.  It’s great.

I feel good.  And one of the girls I worked with may become my gym partner so that should be interesting.  We have a gym at work and I need to start using it.  It’s something to take advantage of since I have the perk.  

I think I’ve been doing great, I can’t wait for my May 1st weigh-in to see what kind of benefits these daily walks give me!

Keep going!