December 22, 2010 By thea
Since I’m not going to have access to a scale or a computer next week, I am officially calling this post my 2010 Finale.
So there you have it. My year in numbers. I officially spent 29 weeks in my healthy range. That means I’m above average!
Hurray for somewhat better than mediocrity!
For this challenge in particular, I stayed in my healthy range 4 out of the 6 weigh ins! GO ME!
My average weight in 2010 was 156.9. Talk about skin of my teeth!
While I’m still deciding whether or not I’m going to continue weighing myself in 2011, I really do love seeing these graphs. It really gives me a good picture of how I did for the whole year, as opposed to getting bogged down in the week to week.
I never got more than 3 pounds above my range, and the dreaded 160s decade (that I vowed never to return to) only reared it’s ugly head 3 weeks out of the whole year.
As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
I’m eating better, I completed 5 races (including 2 tris) and there’s only more to come next year.
2011 is going to bring great things, friends. Great things.
December 15, 2010 By thea
Hey! Guess who didn’t check in last week!
IT’S ME!!
I was way up because I’m a girl and “way up, bloated mess” happens every 28 days.
And maybe it was all the take out and pizza, too. Hm. Hard to tell.
Or maybe the lack of exercise. That could have been it, too.
Anyway, I am back down this week…1.8 pounds. Which doesn’t even put me in my healthy range, so that gives you an idea of exactly how much I gained.
But I will be back down in my range by the end of this weigh in. Oh yes, I will.
- As always, stay within the 153-157 pound range. Nope, but I did lose this week.
- Do something active every day. Even if it’s only dancing for 5 minutes. 3/7 days
- Limit myself to one sweet treat a day (Exception: Thanksgiving Day) CHECK!
- When I have a choice, skip the food with a wrapper. CHECK-ish!
December 1, 2010 By thea
I SURVIVED THANKSGIVING! I SURVIVED THANKSGIVING! I SURVIVED THANKSGIVING!
And then, after I survived Thanksgiving, I survived a weekend road trip. That included more Thanksgiving type food AND a chicken pot pie.
That was a damn good chicken pot pie.
I only gained .2 pounds this week. Two Tenths of one pound. AFTER THANKSGIVING!!!
AND CHICKEN POT PIE!
I’m happy. Oh yes I am.
I logged 123 minutes of exercise (and some of that was walking the halls of the hotel. BORING!) and had at least 80 oz of water every day.
This week kind of rocked.
Oh and non-scale victory. I bought a new pair of jeans. In a SIZE 8!! This is my third official size 8 piece of clothing that fits. That feels amazing.
My goals for this challenge…
- As always, stay within the 153-157 pound range. CHECK!
- Do something active every day. Even if it’s only dancing for 5 minutes. 5/7 days
- Limit myself to one sweet treat a day (Exception: Thanksgiving Day) CHECK!
- When I have a choice, skip the food with a wrapper. CHECK!
November 24, 2010 By thea
This week was a bit of a rough week.
First off, I took a exercise week off. Which totally defeats the purpose when you have a Fitness Challenge on the table, but I just couldn’t (wouldn’t) get my self together to workout. I logged an abysmal 10 minutes yesterday while I was dancing with the kids.
I still have this “all or nothing” mentality when it comes to exercise. If I’m not able to do ALL of my workout, I end up doing NOTHING.
That probably didn’t need explaining.
Secondly, I had a bit of a stomach bug over the weekend. It was really bad timing because Saturday was our Annual Progressive Dinner. All that delicious food and I didn’t eat hardly any of it.
So, I wasn’t expecting much this weigh in. Which is usually when the magic happens.
I am down 1.2 pounds this week!
I need to come up with some goals for this challenge. No goals = no plan = no good.
- As always, stay within the 153-157 pound range.
- Do something active every day. Even if it’s only dancing for 5 minutes.
- Limit myself to one sweet treat a day (Exception: Thanksgiving Day)
- When I have a choice, skip the food with a wrapper.
While I had a loss this week, I feel like I really dropped the ball with the Fitness Challenge. I apologize to my Healthy Holiday Ho’s. It won’t happen again!!
November 17, 2010 By thea
Gosh. It’s been a while since I’ve checked in over here! I’ve been so focused on NOT weighing in, just letting my body do it’s thing and using my jeans as a guide.
I’m happy to report that I weighed in this morning at 157! Still within my healthy range, and this marks the 26th week of the year that I’ve been in that range.
I think I’m going to have to do a year end graph. This has been a good year!
I am part of an amazing team…The Healthy Holiday Ho’s! Our team’s focus is not going to be the scale (although dropping a pound or two will not be frowned upon). We’re going to focus on pushing each other physically and mentally. We’re going to rack up the exercise minutes and make good food choices and honor our bodies.
That, my friends, is what it’s all about.