3 Weeks in!

I know I am a week late but I did it! I am down 10 pounds and 11 inches off my body in two weeks!! Even with the set back of the broken piece (which I got replaced!) I can be done!

Eating has been touch and go this last week but I have still been trying to eat healthy snacks, smaller portions and breakfast! The two hardest things for me this week was still trying to eat breakfast and staying up too late so I am hungry in the middle of the night!

But I DID IT! and I am determined to stick with it and get even more fit! I will get down to the weight I was when I got married!

I feel good about myself too, and that is always a plus!

Day 10!

Ok! Still going strong! Thought I was gonna miss today, but I worked out anyway even though its midnight!

Doing good with the eating. Breakfast is still hard to eat, but I am working on it! Still down 7 pounds! YAY!

Day 7 Sunday weight in and inches check!

Ok people....drum roll please! I am down 7 pounds and have lost 5 inches off my body! 1 inch in my hips, 3 inches in my waist and 1 inch in my upper arms! YAY!

This system can totally work! Lets see how well I can stick to it long term!

Whoohoo!

Day 6

Tomorrow is the big inches check! Ooo I am nervous! But even if I have not lost inches I have lost weight, and I FEEL better!

Yesterday I did ok with the eating.

Today was a rest day for Winsor but I went to an 8am Pilates class. Then I went to go swim some laps and a water aerobics class was starting! DUDE I love those old ladies! They are hilarious! So I found my new Saturday routine, I LOVE it!

OH and they are REPLACING my bar! YAY! Oh did I already say that? I am just so excited!

Day 5

I am down 7 pounds!!! Can you believe it! I know that the weight loss will slow down but it's a good motivator! I will measure myself on Sunday to see if there are inches lost. I don't know how well I will do next week without my weighted bar. :( I am going to do the 8:00 pilates class at the gym tomorrow!

I ate breakfast today and yesterday!

Day 4

Yesterday was a rest day for the Pilates plan but I went to the gym and swam 200 yards. It felt good! Today I was doing the Cardio Blast and my bar broke. I am sooo sad! I wrote them a letter, hopefully it will be replaced and I can get on with my losing 10 inches plan! How long this will be delayed for I do not know, but I will do what I can with the resistance bands. I am going to keep working out!

Still skipping breakfast, why do I do that?? I need to go and eat!

Day 3!

Day 3 is a rest day for Pilates workout, but I am going to the gym tonight!

Still missing breakfast, this can't be good! Lunch was awesome! I had a chicken salad in a whole wheat pita! I rocked!

Day 2

My house is not set up correctly for the next video I needed to do! I don't have a door visible from a TV to use the equipment. I didn't get discouraged though! I just did the first video again. I will have to use my laptop to play the video and do the work out next time. I can feel it though, and its not so bad where its uncomfortable but enough to know I have done something!

I have a bad habit of skipping meals.

Yesterday it was breakfast, and I was proud of myself for turning down a piece of pineapple upside down cake! But then I ate two bites of my daughters pizza! That's what I get for skipping meals! You get so hungry you just eat whatever! NOT a good thing! I did better at snack and dinner time.

Today I got a late start and skipped breakfast AGAIN! This is not good since my goal is to eat breakfast and drink LOTS of water. I did however do better on my lunch. I went to the park so instead of eating out, I brought my lunch with me. Everyone there was envious of my black bean salad in a pita! YUM!

It's NOT a diet! It's a MEAL PLAN!

So I got this one week meal plan that came with my Winsor Pilates kit. I wrote everything down and was kind of nervous because I didn't know how much it was gonna cost me, and right now I have a budget I really need to stick to! Luckily most of the dinners my family will eat, and I didn't want to have to get double food or make two dinners! I don't mind doing 2 lunches but 2 dinners is out of the question! So I went to the store yesterday with a little bit of anxiety, would I be able to get everything I needed? It took me a lot longer to shop, I was writing down all the prices and adding up totals, at the end I was 20$ under budget! YAY! Now I hope it lasts at least two weeks and then it will be well worth the money I spent!

Rosemary orange lemon chicken TOTALLY ROCKS!

And so it begins!

Did my first workout today! There were a couple of spots that were a challenge but one thing I LOVE is that she has one girl doing the modified version of the exercise which is very nice! I got a little discouraged because I could not do them the way I wanted to but then I thought,"You are not sabotaging it now! keep going!". When it was done I felt like, "That was it?! YAY I did it!" I felt like I had worked out, like something had happened. I also didn't feel worn out at the end but energized and refreshed! :)

With the system I bought there is also a meal plan, I am excited about this! I am going to try my hardest to eat what is recommended. My biggest focus is going to be eating breakfast and drinking lots of water!

LET'S DO IT!

INTRODUCTION

Just a little background..I have gained 40 pounds since I got married 8 years ago, 20 pounds with each kid. I am DONE being out of shape! I know as Mamie would say, "honey your body ain't gonna be like it used to!" Yes it's true the body of my 20's is long gone, with kids comes wider hips and other parts that stay big! This does not mean however that I cannot be healthy and in shape! I am determined to do so! (I am beginning to feel like the Seinfeld episode with too many !!!) I began with Weight Watchers and learned how to pick better foods, I also learned that I already do some good things, eat chicken which is out main meat, I don't fry anything, replace oil with apple sauce when I can etc. I have hit my 10 pound plateau. I got discouraged until I complained to my friend about my midsection, if I could just get rid of that I would be so much happier! She told me about Winsor Pilates and I checked she website out, and dreamed about it for almost a month. Well I finally did it! I bought the program, received it yesterday and am determined to lose 10 inches in 2 weeks!

So here we go!