singer1961’s BodyBlog

My goal of getting back to work and losing the rest of my weight is proceeding in fits and starts, more fits than starts!  But I just entered a "Biggest Loser" contest at my husband’s work and I think that will help motivate me.  The progress is listed as percentage of weight loss with a username.  I intentionally gave myself a user name that people at his work will recognize.  That way I’ll really feel pressured to perform!

I finally got the courage to post my weight.  I have gained almost 10 pounds since my last posting.  Oh dear!!!  But I just think how nice that chart will look when it goes down again.  I look at myself right now and I’m not real happy with what I see, but I weighed lots more than that in the beginning of 2007.  I don’t want to go back there again!  Gaining this weight has really shocked me into action.

I’m going later this morning to my trainer to get help with designing a program that I can do with the equipment that we have.  We have a lot of the basic stuff, so I think we can work out a solid program.

I’m enjoying doing my cardio outside.  We lengthened our walk to include a long, steep hill.  Now it takes about 70 minutes to complete.  There are several places that are hard enough to make it very difficult to talk because I’m breathing so hard.  I enjoy the time with my husband and sometimes my son, so I’m more likely to stick with it.  Now just to get consistent with weights, but more importantly I need to fix my diet - back to journaling everything I eat.

I hope everyone has a great week!

Hi
February was my month to get back to work.  I really tried - honest.  But I had an unexpected response to trying some supplements that made things worse.  
I bought 3 supplements and my husband suggested that I try one at a time, gradually.  Well, I tried the first one - a really big seller here on bodybuilding.com - and I felt awful!  I decided to buck up and see if my body would get used to it.  I gradually increased the dose, like the bottle said and it didn’t get worse, but certainly did not get better.  I felt dizzy and had a very upset stomach, which kept me from working out very much, or sleeping well and I constantly wanted to eat to ease my stomach because it hurt the most when my stomach was empty.  I gained about 2 pounds.  Sigh……..
So, I put those on the back shelf and went to the other supplements.  I had similar problems with those, but at a less severe level.  I still don’t feel back to my normal self again.  
I do really well with whey protien and MSM for my arthritis, but I was hoping to be able to use a fat-burner to work along with diet and exercise, but it made diet and exercise harder, so I was losing ground.  Bummer.
Hopefully, I’ll be back to my normal self in a couple of days.
On a positive note, our new house is on a quiet road that is great for taking walks and the hills keep the heart going.  We take 60+ minute walks in addition to HIIT on the elliptical.  That’s going to help!