caverlady's Journal

BMI Countdown - Edited 09/09/08
Aug 06 2008 18:40

BMI stats so far:

6/18/08  35.4

7/14/08  33.8

7/18/08  32.9

7/31/08  31.9

9/09/08  30.9 (down almost 5 points!!!)

I have two more days till I weigh in for Biggest Loser!  Maybe I'll drop that half pound!

Today's my wedding day and I'm a Biggest Loser!
Aug 02 2008 09:23

Short journal today!  Got to get ready for the ceremony!  I'm still trying to figure out how to put flowers in my recently short hair!  Honestly!  I've had long hair most of my life!  I don't know what I was thinking!  Anyway, I'm pretty excited about being the Bride again after 25 years of marriage!  To top it off, I was a Biggest Loser this week!  3.5 lbs!  Can you believe it?  It won't be that good this week though since today and possibly tomorrow will be maintenance days!  Well have a great week-end to all my friends!

Pam

Who is hearing "Here Comes the Bride" in her head

P.S.  I have to laugh at myself when I read the journals of my British friends because in my head I'm reading with a British accent!  LOL

EDITED TO ADD:

They didn't turn out to be maintenance days!  They turned out to be Lasagne, Champagne and Beer days with other party food mixed in!  I'm lucky I didn't gain ten pounds!

The Continuing Saga of C25K - Week 3 and Other Thoughts
Jul 30 2008 14:40

Well I've made it to the third week of the program and it still doesn't seem very hard.  Looking ahead it appears that next week things will begin to get harder.  I really hope this works because I would really love to be able to run distances.  Even if I finish up not being able to run the 5K, I'll be happy if I can run for 30 minutes straight.

I'm going to have a hard time getting all of my workouts in for the rest of this week because of the wedding preparations, my sister's visit, and Richard's class reunion.  I'm still not really looking forward to this wedding like I should because of everything else that's going along with it.  If we were having a big party afterward with all our friends, it might be different.  Instead we're having a luncheon at the church (read no booze) and then I get to go to a party where I will know virtually nobody.  I don't do well in the presence of mostly strangers. I have been painfully shy since I was a child and have never felt comfortable in social situations where I don't know many people.  I tend to be the one off in the corner pretending to examine a plant or piece of art.  In addition to that, I still haven't figured out how to explain to my sister that even though she's come to visit from Arkansas, I won't be home Friday night and Saturday afternoon.  Ugh I hate being pulled in so many directions!

The weight loss seems to be going well.  My next official weigh-in is tomorrow and I feel pretty confident it will show some loss.  My clothing is getting to be too big for me.  I hesitate to buy new clothing because I don't plan to stay at this size for very long and don't want to waste my money.  Perhaps I will see if I can find anything at a thrift shop.  That way if I can't wear the clothes for very long at least they wouldn't have cost me very much.  Oh well, onward and upward!  Take care!

The Perils of Eating Chinese
Jul 25 2008 21:26

So Richard wanted Chinese tonight and I LOVE shrimp Lo Mein, Won Ton Soup, and Egg Rolls, but this meal is probably about 2,000 calories.  As much as I like this food, I just didn't want to take in that many calories when I'd been such a good girl for the last month and Instant Gratification Girl would get mad at me. While scanning the menu, I found "Steamed Shrimp with Vegetables."  I looked that up on the Internet and found a site that said it has 325 calories, which I thought would suffice.  With that came steamed white rice and I had 1/2 cup of that, 121 calories according to CC.  Therefore my meal came to about 476 calories plus the sauce and herein lies my problem.  Since I don't know what the sauce is, I can't look it up, and since I only dipped my fork in it I don't know how much of it I had.  I'm thinking of just adding 25 calories and calling it a day.  I'm going to post this on the forum also to see if anyone has any better ideas.  It was actually quite tasty,

Today I looked thinner!
Jul 24 2008 19:19

Today at work I went to the Ladies Room and accidently caught a glimpse of myself in the huge mirror (which I usually avoid), and I was shocked.  I actually LOOK THINNER!  Not a lot thinner, mind you, but noticeably so.  I came home and mentioned it to my hubby and he said he'd noticed it days ago.  It was the first time I really looked at myself in the mirror in a very long time!  I felt pretty! Maybe I can do this!

Week 2 of C25K Begins
Jul 22 2008 19:06

So I started the second week of C25K and it's definitely a little harder than Week 1 was.  No a whole lot harder, but a little.  My main concern is that it doesn't burn many calories so I have to do a second workout later that burns more.  I'm trying to work out a minimum of an hour a day and a little over that if possible.  I really need to jump start this thing because I'm starting to get a little frustrated.

i know...I know...I've said it myself.  It's a marathon not a spring and slow but steady weight loss is the best.  My head knows all this but Instant Gratification Girl wants it fast fast fast!  One of my co-workers remarked that my face looks thinner.  Great.  Now I'm gonna be a fat lady with a thin face?  Ive heard that it takes about a 10% weight loss for it to begin to show so I've got less than five pounds to go till I get there.  Why can't I lose 5 pounds tonight?!?!?!?!?

I just don't know what to do about this.
Jul 18 2008 11:33

I posted this on the forum but didn't get much response.  I'm hoping that maybe some of you might have some ideas.  I'm especially interested in Matt's opnion since a large part of this is he vs she, but I any ideas are welcome!  Sorry it's so long, but it takes a while to explain the whole thing.

First of all, a tiny bit of background.  For the last four years, I have had a job that I absolutely hated.  I always did a great job and never showed attitude while there, but I hated it.  In January I got really mad and started letting the applications fly.  The result is a new job that I like a lot better.  The only down side is that I have no vacation time that I can use until late September which in any other year wouldn't be a problem because we take our Outer Banks trip at that time every year.  This, however, is the year of our 25th anniversary.  It was June 16th to be exact.

After I accepted the position and found out all of this, my husband told me that he had all these plans for us to renew our vows on June 14th and take our "honeymoon" in St. Lucia.  Unfortunately, with the new job, I was not able to go on the trip so everything was, I thought, put on hold until sometime next year.  Fast forward a couple of months and I find out that the ceremony is to be moved to sometime in August and this is where it gets complicated.

My sister lives in Arkansas and I live in Maryland so we don't see each other very often.  She has been planning to come up this way this summer for over a year and we were going to do a week-end in Atlantic City.  I'm not much of a gambler, just a few slots, but was looking forward to spending some time with her.

Sunday, my husband announced in church that the ceremony was going to be August 2 and everyone was invited and that there would be a small reception in the Fellowship Hall afterwards.  He told me that he had planned all this around my sister's visit and he'd been talking to her trying to pin down the date so I figured that all of this was set up.  After his big announcement he told me that I needed to talk to my sister about the arrangements so she could bring something suitable to wear.  Apparently it's been decided that we will have a  bridal party and everything.  She doesn't know about his plans, so I'm guessing she's still expecting to go on the Atlantic City trip.  Add to that the fact that his high school reunion is also being held on that week-end so he expects me to go there after the festivities which will effectively eliminate my spending time with my sister on Saturday, Aug 2 and of course, totally annhilate the plans we originally made.

Now please understand, I realize how lucky I am to have a husband who would want to do something this romantic, but now I feel caught in the middle and I'm afraid that no matter what I do, someone will be upset.  Any thoughts or opinions would be greatly appreciated because right now I want to go get a huge hot fudge sundae!

Well I talked to my sister and she did know all about the vow renewal ceremony and she's onboard with that.  She didn't know that I knew about it and it was kind of comical when I was trying to talk to her about it because she was still unsure as to whether or not he was trying to surprise me.  Anyway, she's not talking about Atlantic City anymore, but I haven't figured out how to tell her he wants me to go to this reunion with him.  She's arriving either Thursday 7/31 or Friday 8/01.  The events hubby expects me to attend are Friday 8/01 7p-11p & Saturday from like 4p on.  She's leaving on Sunday so it doesn't give me much time to spend with her and I'm not really looking forward to telling her about this.  When I balked at the Friday night thing my husband got mad at me.  What do I do?  Am I being unreasonable?  I'm still thinking about a hot fudge sundae!

C25K Day One and Measurements
Jul 15 2008 18:45

I'm off for my first C2K workout.  Wish me luck!  I hope it can have me running 5K in 9 weeks.  We shall soon see!

Also, thought it was about time I took some measurements.  Should have been doing this from the start.  I do see a weight difference though.

 SW:  200          CW:  186.5      8/23 177

Chest:   43"

Waist :  39"       38" (8/23)             (N=42 1/4)    42 (8/23)

Hips:  45"    43" (8/23)

Rt Thigh:  23"  (6" above knee)   22" (8/23)        24" (11" above knee)  

Lt Thigh:  23.5"    22.5 (8/23)                                  25" (11" above knee)

Wow they don't look so good right now.  Have to work on that.  Well gotta start somewhere I guess.  I'll check back after the workout and give a report.  TTFN

EDITED TO ADD:

Well it didn't seem like much of a work-out but the instructions said not to do more even if you feel like you can do it, so I stopped after the prescribed 25 minutes.  I'll go back later tonight and try to get in a better workout.  Well now all my fat secrets are out there for the world to see!  Oh well!  At least the weight is coming down!

New Treadmill Installed!!!!!
Jul 10 2008 19:12

I already love this machine!  Today wasn't a gym day so I did my whole work-out at home!  It was wonderful!  I may go up for another short one before bed since it's just sitting up there waiting.  Lordy Lordy Lordy, it's hard enough to go past the scale, now I'm gonna be itching to climb on the treadmill every time I go into the family room!  Actually I'm thinking of using it on non-gym days to do the C25K Program.  Has anyone else tried it?  How did it go?  My calorie count is really low today because PMS just sucks the apetite out of me.  I will have to find some way to make it up.  It's funny because most of my friends crave things like chocolate during TTOM but I completely lose my apetite.  I guess that just goes to show how different people can be.  Or is it me who's just "DIFFERENT"?  Never mind, don't answer that part!  I don't know how long it's been since I've been to a McD's but it's been 7 months and 5 days since I had a cigarette!  Later all!

Instant Gratification Girl

Good-Bye 190's; Hello 180's
Jul 09 2008 19:48

Well it was 189 but it's still the 180's!  Let's hope it stays that way since I am now dealing with the dreaded TOM that, as Haley put so well, SUCKS ASS! Now I know why my back has been hurting...mystery solved.  Well at least I made it out of the 190's, right?  I went to the gym and managed to get a work-out in before the curse struck in earnest, thank God, and I'm not due back at the gym until Friday when things should be winding down, so I guess things could be worse, right? Well that's about all for not. I'll try and check in later!  Tah Tah!

Pam - As always Instant Gratification Girl