Back from vacation

I just got back from 10 days in Florida for our family vacation. Vacations are nice, but its oh so good to be home. We had plane delays from both planes going there that left us 11 hours behind schedule and 40 minutes stuck on the plane at our airport here in MI coming home. While in FL we spent a day at Disney World, went and climbed a 17 story light house, swam in the ocean and the pool at my mom's house and went the Marine Science Center (which was Cassie's big highlight of the trip). We will rest up tomorrow, bake some cookies for my Niece's school bake sale and spend some time with our pets that missed us like crazy.


Tonight I started over on Jillian Michaels Body revolution. I was on day 15 before we left for the trip. However I didn't do it at all while there, even though I brought the DVD's with me. I'm feeling not overly bright especially since I ate horrible most of the trip as well. The scale's not going to be nice come Wednesday mornings weigh in. The workout was nice, I like both workouts 1 and 2. I should since I can't seem to make it to workout 3.  I'm looking forward to workout 2 tomorrow and I love that you change the workouts each day as I found myself getting bored doing the same DVD every day. Here's to a fresh start on it.

Kicking up the workouts

Today I decided to give my Jillian Michaels Body Revolution dvd's another try. I have 15 days until our vacation so it couldn't hurt to kickup my workouts (or rather start working out, 2 days a week doesn't really count). I would like to see at least 4 pounds by then. Wednesday's are my preferred day for my weekly weigh ins, today I weighed in at 204. Ouch I should have continued with the dietbet. I took my measurements also and will post the amounts lost or gained later. I know that some don't agree with taking the measurements yourself. I also think these can be a little off, however I left myself detailed notes with the area I put the tape measure like a mole, scar ect. For me that is good enough. I like these workouts except while doing them I swear JM's trying to kill me. Its all good though. I feel really good after working out. I just need to keep the motivation to actually DO the workout.

Dietbet

I came across this site called Dietbet. How it works is you pay whatever the fee is for the one you want to join and have to lose 4% of your weight in 28 days. Everyone who reaches that goal, shares the pot. If you reach yours the least you would go home with is the amount the bet was. The one that I'm doing is $25 and starts today. My 4% is 8 pounds. So if you win the least I would walk away with is that $25. It was just motivation enough to get me to kick myself into gear, my final weigh in was 198 :)

In gear

Time to kick my life in gear and headed on track back. I'm feeling like for a bit here recently it's veering off slightly. I thought that having our belongings here with us and not in storage things would be falling into place, instead its very overwhelming. I'm starting to get into this funk. I feel drained and not energized like I thought I would. Tomorrow I am working till noon and then its time to tackle the mess of boxes and just get them out of the way. Hopefully with everything put into its proper place or as close to that as possible things won't seem so overwhelming.

On another note, going to MN and back I lost motivation for my weightloss and its showing on the scale. 208 oh how I hate seeing that 200+ on the scale, yet what did I do when I saw it? I took a nap and then ate some girl scout cookies.

Ambition

Today I was feeling ambitious so I made homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast and zuppa toscana for lunch. Both were under 130 calories and very yummy. I need to stay motivated in order to keep myself from getting fast food or grabbing junk food. I sat down with Cassie and after our heart to heart about her unwillingness to try new foods and how its hindering my weight loss she seems more willing to try some of these new recipes. I hope it keeps up. I don't need her to like everything that I make, just to try it. Plus its not like I'm going to make things that I know she would never eat. The things I want to make are ones she should eat. So here's hoping...

I weighed in today at 202.6. I think the bodybugg is helping. At least enough to keep me active. If it shows that I'm not going to reach my target burn for the day then I get up and so a DVD or go to the Y for a walk/bike ride. Plus its neat to see how many times I wake up during the night. Now if only I could fix that issue. I had been doing well since I got this but then I let Cassie try it out one night and now I'm back to not sleeping again. I'm sure its just because I'm excited and nervous to leave for MN on Tuesday.

Oh about that. I suppose I forgot to mention that. Cassie and I are going to MN this Tuesday and will head home Friday. We are going to get our stuff out of storage. I rented a car to get us there and a Budget Truck to get us and our belongings home. I hate that this is a very short trip, however with 2 jobs its hard to get more time off. Plus I don't want to be to greedy with my days off since I will need 10 days in May for our FL trip.

Bodybugg

I recieved my Bodymedia Bodybugg Link and Core. Every excited to try them out. I decided to give the Core to my sister here in MI. She's been so very wonderful to both cassie and I that I wanted to thank her in a small way and since as part of the giveaway I need feed back on it I thought she was a good fit. I weighed in today at 205.

Its a neat little gadget. It records your sleep patterns, calories burned, steps taken ect. Incase you all haven't seen one. This is the Link (the one i'm keeping). Mine came with both the grey band as seen in the pics and a Black one with blue intsead of the silver.

Weight Watchers for the 8th time

I pulled out my weight watchers stuff thats been riding around in my trunk for months and months now and have decided to try it again. My starting weight is 209. I really HATE that I allowed myself to regain 11 pounds. I was down to 198 mid December. So very close to what I considered my "safe zone", guess I really don't have one. Oh well back to the drawing board. I won 2 bodymedia bodybuggs that should be arriving soon. I will post more on those later.

I got back part of my tax returns, found an awesome deal on plane tickets to Orlando FL. I purchased them, so Cassie and I will be going to Disney in May. We haven't taken an actual vacation ever. We are super excited!. I also splurged since Kohls was having 30% off, I have a friend that let me use her employee discount and had a $10 gift card I bought a keurig. It was a really good deal. :) i'm very happy with my awesome deals lately, i'm normally not this lucky so I took advantage of it. Now if only I could win the lottery ;)