Is this thing on?

Okay...there's less than a month until the big four-oh. Yippeee! At one point I was down 22 pounds, but somehow (I'm talking to you, beerwinesushicake!) I am currently only down 17 pounds. I'm back on track now. The past two days have been pretty good, and I am back to logging my food and making sure I exceed 10k steps. Tonight Bup and I are hitting the gym, and I am going to attempt to run a mile nonstop in addition to the 10k steps and the upper body workout. (I ran a little during a 5k the weekend before last, and even though it was hot out, I held in there longer than I thought I could.)

Okay, so right now, 177 lbs. Goal for June 24, to be in the 160s. No more silliness.

Another thing

On Fitbit.com, you can add friends and compete against them. When I first started, I was number 1 in my group. Then I started adding more and more challenging people. Then I stopped really challenging myself. So now I'm in 20th place. I'm pretty sure I'm never going to beat ericks37 who has an average of 33,000 steps a day (what the eff? Is he a professional runner??), but I can at least do better than the 65 year old women who are currently schooling me.

Right now my average is 10,000 steps (in past weeks it was around 8-9k). There's a woman named Louann who is currently in 9th place with an average of 15,021 steps per day. I'm going to make it my mission to beat out Louann in the next week. (I have no idea who Louann is. I'm sure she's a perfectly nice lady. I just want to beat her.)

I'm back!

I did a lower body strength workout Tuesday and I did arms/shoulders today. I went over my 15k steps Tuesday and yesterday, but fell short by 4k on Wednesday. I think I'll have a chance to average it out before the week is out. 

I worked from home today and I decided to create a stand-up workstation. I put a chair on my kitchen table, then my laptop on that. Then I decided to put the trampoline in front of that. There's a whole study about how if you sit for long periods of time, you're going to die a horrible, untimely death. Who wants that? Here's one story about it. 

So now when I'm reading some lengthy boring piece of something, or thinking of the thing I'm trying to type next, I can bounce lightly or kind of march in place. It's nice. I had the boyfriend (Bup) take a picture of it. It's quite silly, but if it keeps me moving and from sitting, hooray! 

Also, I've kept up with the food logging. So, so far I'm keeping up my end of the bargain. The scale, however, is being a total bitch. 

Ummmm......

Yeah, checking in once a month wasn't REALLY how I intended to be doing this.

I've sort of strayed from all of my goals. Logging food? Mostly. But I've missed a little bit here and there (usually when it's something so atrocious I don't want to admit it to myself!)

Exercise? My average of like 18k steps a day has dwindled to about half that. I think I went to the gym twice (although, in  my favor, I have developed a pretty nice arm workout at home).

Breakfast? Preparing meals in advance? Eeeek, not so much. When I work from home, I usually get a smoothie or a hot breakfast, but when I go into the office, I'm usually rushing around and then I just get lunch at 11:30.

Weight? Well, it should come as no surprise that today's scale read +3 lbs over last month. 176. I have a feeling that some of that weight will be gone in the next few days. We've got a few hormonal and digestive issues going on here that should resolve shortly.

So here we are, new month, and about 7 weeks away from the big 4-0. So let's renew our our commitment, shall we?

1. Breakfast every day. No excuses.
2. Log everything. No excuses.
3. 15,000 steps minimum. You get the idea.
4. Check in here at least 2x a week. Weight included.
5. Strength training 3x a week. (Actually, I can log it here when I check in...how convenient.)

I'm not upset with myself, or feeling all crappy. Overall, I still look and feel good. I'm down a total of 18 pounds, and that's a great accomplishment. But it's time to get the scale moving in the right direction again!