08/03/2009

My diet is now 1200-1450 calories.  This is so I may be 162 pounds by Christmas, and is a loss of 2 pounds a week, though I’ve actually been averaging 2.5 pounds a week over the last month, I went from 213 to 203 in July (according to the Wii).  I use Sparkpeople.com to track my food intake, plus my fitness, which is a FREE site, by the way, so awesome.  Better than paying for weight watchers, I’m telling you.  This morning’s breakfast consisted of a ham, egg and cheese sandwich, of which Alex got about a third of, and to compensate, some Crunchy corn bran so I wouldn’t "starve" or at least feel like I was starving.  Total calories, near as I can tell…203, so not a bad start to the day.  Then, I did an hour of step on my Wii fit, so I burned off that 203 calories and then some.  My goal is to stay at 1200 calories for at least a couple of days, then increase a bit so my body doesn’t decide it’s starving and shut down my metabolism.  Oh, I also took a multivitamin from Costco… only problem is their expiration date was like 3 years ago… but I need to use them, so I will keep taking them, they’re better than nothing.  With 1200 calories, it’s hard to get in all one’s nutrients.  For lunch, I will probably have some salad or some fruit, or just a veggie plate.  Yesterday, I found myself just low blood sugar all day long, and it was really because even though I was eating every 3 hours, I was NOT eating enough, so by dinner, I was cranky.  And, I ended up having to eat something at 9, because I had so many "leftover" calories…something I intend to avoid today, at all costs.  Eating after 8 or so is a BAD IDEA, because the metabolism slows down, and you just won’t burn off the food you’re eating.  Now, I will say that after I ate my sandwich at 9, I did something like 40 minutes on the Wii… might have been 60, memory’s foggy (oddly enough, but my days go so fast, I can’t keep track of stuff anyway).  I know I did 130 minutes total, which is two hours, ten minutes.  I need to do something different one of these days, or my body is going to adjust to this, and again, I’ll stop burning calories.  Maybe some biking, though it doesn’t burn as much as the step.  But at least it’s something different.  I am finding that the DDR is still pretty hard on my knees, so would like to put it off until I can lose another 10-15 or maybe even more, pounds.  Putting THAT much wieght on my knees isn’t doing them any favors at all.  And I’d like to keep my knees.

Jerry and the girls finally got the pool put up.  It’s not a big pool, and it’s not quite balanced, but maybe I’ll get into it, though it’s REALLY cold, and actaully, I don’t like it at all, because it’s much too small to really swim in, but I suppose it’s "better than nothing"  I can swim in circles in it, lol. 

Sammi was supposed to have speech this morning, but Radine called and cancelled, her FIL is in the hosptial, and it’s NOT looking good.  So we’re on for Wednesday, assuming things get better with him.

Alex is… Alex.  She’s cute, she’s standing here and there, but not walking yet.  She’s smiley and good natured as always, and sweet as can be. 

Shabree is still obsessing over stuff.  She was grounded yesterday, and I told Jerry we need to stop grounding her as a punishment.  She hates it, but she sits there and dwells on stuff, and gets absolutely NO exercise whatsoever.  Oh, she’s lost about 8 pounds since… May?  I’m not sure, but she’s looking SO much better.  She’s now fitting back into some of her size 6 clothes, where we were having to put her in some size 10 clothes because of all the weight on her.  The size 6 don’t REALLY fit, because she’s 7 and has really grown out of most of them, but they’re not overly tight on her like they were.  So yay for that.  She’s really getting into this whole eating right and keeping fit thing.  I LOVE that Wii.  Even Sammi likes to hula hoop on it, lol.  It was a good investment in our health.  My DDR DVDs for the playstation should be here any day.  I may have to play DDR just to try the new songs out.  I’m still not loving the DVD I currently have.  It’s all right, but the some of the songs change pace and speed, which drives me batty… I like to know what to expect.  Though I SUPPOSE that it’s good in that it changes things up and makes you have to think about what you’re doing and compensate.  Still, I hate it.  I’m going to have to take myself off of beginner mode for some of these songs though.  I’m getting too good, and they’re too SLOW!  I can really move on some of these.  I really enjoy DDR (Dance Dance Revolution)

Syd has been good, but we haven’t tried doing school again.  Plus, we never got the office cleaned out.  I’m going to have to get after Jerry about that, because I CANNOT do it on my own, not even close.  On Saturday we were just out all day, and on Sunday, they cleaned the pool out instead.  Oh crud, I just remembered, I have to fax in some paperwork, I guess, so Shabree can get her school stuff.  They wanted her signature on the interent user agreement.  I don’t care for the woman who’s got her… I’ve only heard from her once.  Grrr.

Bec is just Bec… sleeps too long, lol, typical teenager.

Well, I really ought to think about getting something to eat, then I’m wondering if I should do another 30 minutes while Alex is down for a nap and the girls are at the (water) park.  Makes sense, but I’m TIRED from the hour I already did!  However, if I’m going to lose weight, I really have to get the exercise in.  And I’m aiming for 90-120 minutes a day.  So if I get another half hour, then I only need to do another half hour before bed (to raise the metabolism over night… it’s a strategy)  Of course, I could just do that half hour tonight and not do 120 minutes.  Eh… we’ll see.  I need to get some strength training in somehow, and raising Alex over my head a bunch of times may not count.  I’m not sure how to log it, in any case… what muscles get used in that?  Thing is, I’m using my arms every day hauling these two younger ones around.  I just don’t know how to account for it.

*Wandered away when Jerry came in…got lunch, back*

Now should I do half an hour of step?  I probably should while I can.  Lunch was 217 cals (and I’m STUFFED, but then, a large salad w/ a tbsp of thousand island will do that to you.  Plus I had a cup and a half of mashed cauliflower w/ cheese.  Yum.  SO stuffed.)

I’ll try to come back.  I was down to 204 today, after staying at 205.2 yesterday.