Losing it one pound at a time

I ran today. Me. I can’t believe it. I’ve been wanting to run for a long time but everytime I started I would just stop and start walking after about…..30 seconds. I met another mom at my gym and she runs 4 miles everyday. She has one of those runners bodies - you know, lean and long. I so want a runners body. This morning I decided to walk the 1.4 miles down to the beach. I started walking and then decided - I’m going to run. But this time I told myself ” I’m really just walking a little bit faster. This is no problem. I can do this.” and I ran over a mile!!!! Without stopping!!! I did walk home on the way back - but baby steps, right?

Now off to a shower. Running really brings out the stink.

I lost my first four pounds. I don’t know how it happened so fast or if I just weighed in the first time on a really full stomach, but I lost the first 4 pounds. I brought my husband in to see the results on the scale. Here’s what I’ve been eating: breakfast is steel cut oatmeal w/ a sliced peach or nectarine and 5 almond chopped up. Lunch is grilled chicken and a little rice and lots of veggies. Snack is string cheese and for dinner - a big bowl of raisin bran. I happen to love eating breakfast for dinner so this is perfect for me.

THREE MORE MINI GOALS AND I’M THERE!

I weighed in this morning at 150, which is down 2 pounds. My mini goal is 4 pounds, and if I do that 4 times I get my big reward! I am so excited about getting this reward it’s really renewed my focus.

In order to make this deal with my husband, I weighed in to him and it’s the first time he’s seen my weight that high without having another human inside my body. When we met- 17 years ago (holy %hit!) I weighed 112. When we got married I weighed 123. After the first two babies, my new weight was 128. My pre-delivery weight (the “last appointment” before the big day) was 165 all three times. So basically right now I weigh the same as I did when I left the hospital. To weigh in at that number was a little humiliating. But to make me feel better he said he would have never guessed that was my number. I don’t look like I weigh that much. Did it make me feel better - nope. But it did light a fire under my booty that I really want to see my magic 1 - 3 - 6 ASAP.

Stay tuned.

The first thing my 10 year old  son said to me this morning was, “Mom, do you know what today is? It’s D-Day” and he proceeded to tell me all about it. He was home sick today and was glued to the History channel watching what happened. It really is so hard to watch, especially having 3 boys and everything. But I was proud of him for spending his time while he was sick, learning about sacrifices other people have made so that he can have the life he has right now.

That has nothing to do with my blog today, other than I’m just a really proud Mom and so lucky to be his.

So I’m sitting on my couch after eating a fairly healthy meal of grilled mahi mahi and steamed cauliflower. My 3 year old walks up and asks me for some cookies. I grabbed 2 for him and…..well…… 6 for me. I’m eating them mindlessly and then afterwards I’m just thinking to myself, “I am so done with this”. For the last 3 months I’ve been amazingly unfocused and unmotivated. Oh I get motivated, for about 36 hours then I blow it. I’m just tired of doing it to myself. I started looking around on different weight loss websites and thinking that I’ve got to come up with some really good reward because the whole reward thing seems to work for people who have had success in losing weight. So I came up with one and I shared it with my husband. Here’s the deal: if I lose….WHEN I lose 16 pounds I get it. No strings, I just get it. I’m not going to share it with you right now but it’s something just for me and I’ve wanted to do it for about a year. I always feel guilty spending money on myself but WHEN I lose these 16 pounds I won’t feel guilty at all.

I think the best way to accomplish this goal is to break it down into 4 mini 4 pound goals. It seems much more attainable if it’s just 4 pounds. I’ve done 4 pounds quite a few times, in fact I’ve even done 8. So I feel that this is something realistic. I am DETERMINED to get this weight off, once and for all, before my 42nd b-day. I’ve been carrying it around for …..how old did I say my youngest was….oh yes, about 4 years. Yikes. (I just noticed there are a lot of 4’s in my plan, wonder if that’s a coincidence. ) Back to my plan….I’ve got to workout daily to burn 500 calories, I’ve got to stay away from sweets, bread, chips and crackers. If anyone out there has any additional ideas to get me to my 4 pound mini goal, please let me know. And, I’ll keep you posted, four-sure.