Wednesday Weigh-In Aug. 12, 2009

Catching Up

Sorry I didn’t update Monday or Tuesday. On Monday I forgot. On Tuesday, just plain busy trying to catch up. Sunday’s birthday dinner was postponed to Wed. (today) because my dad was sick. That didn’t stop me from eating badly on Sunday. I didn’t keep track but let me just say, brownies and fried mozzarella (my favorite hot food!) were involved.

I didn’t walk Sunday or Monday and I felt like crap. Got back on track yesterday, though and will make sure I walk extra tonight following the Big Birthday Dinner!

Food Diary for Tuesday:

Breakfast: Cheerios and 2% milk – 350 calories

Lunch: turkey sandwich, mustard, whole wheat bread – 195 calories

Dinner: white rice, cream of chicken, chicken breast – (est. 450 calories)

Snack: 2 bananas – 210 calories, 1 granola bar (100 calories each) – 520 calories

Total calories 1,515

The weekly weigh-in stats: David Wright

• Starting weight Wed. Nov.19: 350 lbs.
• Goal weight: 250 lbs.
• Weight last week: 329 lbs.
• Weight today: 328 lbs.
• Amount lost this week: 1 lbs.
• Total lost since Nov. 19: 22 pounds

Tara’s Weekly Update:

The countdown is on to our holiday and instead of stepping up the exercise, I’ve had to cut back! How ridiculous I hear you cry, but I’ve got so much work to do so I’m free to, you know pack and float dreamily around the house in a pre-holiday haze, that exercise has had to take a back seat.

That said, I have taken posession of a new personal trainer who I’m hoping will whip me into shape.
OK, so it’s not some athletic gym bunny who’s going to get me jogging up and down my stairs. It’s an EA Sports Active Trainer for the Wii which I’ve been asked to test and, given my history of fitness classes and hate of all fitness videos, I thought it would be an interesting trial.

I’m going to give it a go this week and next, but will probably have to wait until my return to really get into it.
And I think hubby would divorce me if I told him I was taking it away with us . . .

The stats: Tara Cain

• Starting weight Wed. Nov.19: 168 lbs.
• Goal weight: 140 lbs.
• Weight last week: 162 lbs.
• Weight today: 160 lbs
• Amount lost this week: -2lb

 

Now it’s your turn. Share your success (or setback) story with us.

If you’d like to post a Wednesday Weigh-In post on your blog and help spread the word of our goals, please do so. Get all the info on how you can participate right here.

See you downstairs in the comments – and let’s all show our support and visit anyone taking part.

Update

As always, thank you to everyone who takes part in the Wednesday Weigh-In.

Thank you!

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Changes

What will you do today?

I recently wrote about a post about fear over at Blogger Dad, asking if fear is keeping you from living? A reader, Trina, responded to the post, saying that fear was holding her back. The post inspired the anger necessary for her to start a walking routine which she had not done prior.

Meanwhile, back at BlogToFit central, yours truly was sitting on his ass eating junk food. And I thought to myself, something is very wrong here.

I am writing about fitness but I am the last person in the world who should be giving fitness advice.

I’ve talked about this issue a few times here and how it has been difficult to stay motivated. I also talked about how I’ve just been going through the motions lately. So I decided that I need to hold myself more accountable. Publicly. Hence, the changes to this site, which I will detail below.

The biggest of changes will be daily posts each weekday. Tara and I have been so busy with our online work efforts, we’ve barely had time to regularly post or comment here. We created a home which we rarely visit. When you don’t visit your family, you begin to feel guilty and you stop by even less because you can’t bear to confront the fact that you’ve been too busy, a bad blogger, a horrible fitness inspiration, etc…

So the first change is that you can expect daily updates (M-F) from me. The posts will usually be on the short side, sometimes funny, sometimes serious, but will always tell you at least two things.

1. What I did today (exercise-wise) and
2. what I ate today.

I realize that this isn’t exactly the most scintillating stuff and most people really won’t care what I ate or did. That’s cool. However, others of you may want to use the posts as a way to account for your own actions. Consider this blog your fitness friend.

Wednesdays will still be our usual Wednesday Weigh-In.

Fridays will feature links to some of the best (and worst) diet and exercise or motivational stories of the week.

Additionally, we will reach out to more guest posters to present more voices and experiences.

Before we go, I want to point out the most obvious of changes – the site design. Blog To Fit is now rocking the Frugal theme by Eric Hamm, a super clean and amazingly flexible theme which runs on Wordpress. I will be tweaking the site a bit more as I experiment with Frugal’s back end, but I hope the new design breathes as much life into the site as does the content.

Thank you to the loyal readers who have stuck around this long. We look forward to the coming months!

So, what did you do today? What will you do tomorrow?

Wednesday Weigh In, July 29, 2009

What do you use to motivate you?

I was visiting one of the Blog To Fit faithful today – Carolyn at Scrapping Servant - and was really impressed with
a. her dedication
b. her enthusiasm and
c. the photos showing her weight loss.

Wow, she has lost 16.5 lbs and boy can you tell!

I know photographs are a great motivator (I talked about how horrified I was when I saw a photo of myself and didn’t recognise this person staring back at me) but it has really worked for Carolyn.
Seriously, go over and take a look.

I have been using my fabulous upcoming holiday as my motivation. Or so I thought, but it’s just not working. I just don’t get that drive for success.

So I wonder, what do you use to drive you on to reach your weight loss/fitness goals?

The stats: Tara Cain

• Starting weight Wed. Nov.19: 168 lbs.
• Goal weight: 140 lbs.
• Weight last week: 161 lbs.
• Weight today: 164 lbs
• Amount lost this week:+3lb (WTF?!)

The stats: David Wright

I varied this week. At times, I was incredibly good. Other times, I was pigging out. I have come to an important decision regarding my ‘diet’ and this blog and what its going to take to push me to the next level. I will update you all next Monday.

• Starting weight Wed. Nov.19: 350 lbs.
• Goal weight: 250 lbs.
• Weight last week: 329 lbs.
• Weight today: 329 lbs.
• Amount gained this week: 0 lbs.
• Total lost since Nov. 19: 21 pounds

Now it’s your turn. Share your success (or setback) story with us.

If you’d like to post a Wednesday Weigh-In post on your blog and help spread the word of our goals, please do so. Get all the info on how you can participate right here.

See you downstairs in the comments – and let’s all show our support and visit anyone taking part.

Update

As always, thank you to everyone who takes part in the Wednesday Weigh-In.

Thank you!

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Wednesday Weigh In July 22, 2009

A picture of health

Do you suffer from that affliction of not actually looking how you think you look?

I recently did the unthinkable and met up with a bunch of other bloggers who live in the same region of the UK as me.

I could no longer hide behind fancy text and headlines – I was out in the open and exposed and they could all see me.

And then I saw a photograph we took on the day as a reminder of our meet up.

Ye gods, I thought, who is that girl on the end? I don’t recall her coming along for the meet up.
And then cold realisation trickled down my back and stuck in my guts – it was me! I hardly recognised myself.
I think it was the jolt to the system I needed because I haven’t stopped walking (and with a slightly quicker step I might add!)

I know it seems like a cliche, but sometimes that photograph on the fridge door really can motivate you to make that change.

The stats: Tara Cain

• Starting weight Wed. Nov.19: 168 lbs.
• Goal weight: 140 lbs.
• Weight last week: 162 lbs.
• Weight today: 161lbs
• Amount lost this week:1lb

The stats: David Wright

Thanks for all the support in the comments section last week. I ate much better and have tried a few new healthier items, including beans, which I’ve never cared for before. However, with the right spices and some ground turkey, they are not bad at all in a taco soup mix that my dad gave us a recipe for.

Didn’t work out much, however. I’ve been so busy, I’ve not made the time to do so. The only way I will get it done is if I involve my family, and exercise with them. Walks with my son are always good and I am spending lots of time with him, anyway, so we may as well do something healthy.

• Starting weight Wed. Nov.19: 350 lbs.
• Goal weight: 250 lbs.
• Weight last week: 329 lbs.
• Weight today: 328 lbs.
• Amount gained this week: 1 lbs.
• Total lost since Nov. 19: 22 pounds

Now it’s your turn. Share your success (or setback) story with us.

If you’d like to post a Wednesday Weigh-In post on your blog and help spread the word of our goals, please do so. Get all the info on how you can participate right here.

See you downstairs in the comments – and let’s all show our support and visit anyone taking part.

Update

As always, thank you to everyone who takes part in the Wednesday Weigh-In.

Thank you!

Want a bit of humor and motivation delivered via email? Subscribeto get each BlogToFit post delivered for free! Email not your thing? That’s okay, you can also subscribe via RSS – like all the cool kids do. It’s also free. Unless you really WANT to pay us.

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Wednesday Weigh In May 20, 2009

I have incentive!

In just a few months time I will be going on a fabulous holiday.

We can’t really afford it, we’ve agonised over whether or not to pull out and we have scrimped and saved since last September.
Of course it didn’t help that I quit my news desk job and started up in business on my own from home with two young children hanging off my leg.
Plus hubby has had the threat of redundancy hanging over his head.
Yeah, it’s been fun!

But we have decided to take the plunge and go for it. It will take every penny we have, but we figure if we don’t go for it now we probably never will.

We are just a tad excited.

With all that in mind, I do not want to taint this holiday by being miserable and overweight.
I’ve already started thinking about clothes and getting myself into a tiz about it.
Looking at beachwear fills me with dread (and you know how much I’ve gone on and on about how bust size can totally ruin you look!)
I want to skip into a store and get excited about buying embarrassingly low-cut tops (my kids are too young to roll their eyes and tut at mummy looking like mutton just yet), and cut-off jeans and floaty kaftans slit up to the thigh.

So I have been using a visualisation technique to wean myself off hot buttered toast and sneaky chocolate bars.
I imagine myself lying on the beach, fabulous outfit on, neat little toes painted hot pink and the sun beating down on my (factor 30′d, obviously) legs.
There are no embarrassing overhangs, my bust actually fits inside my top and I have no problem whatsoever in flashing my torso.
(In my very lovely mental image the children are the picture of contentment and only say ‘mummy, mummy’ a handful of times and nobody demands ‘I want an ice cream’ at the most shrill pitch they can muster. Yes, it is bliss!)

It sounds a bit daft, but I’m convinced it could work. Today I reached for the biscuit tin during a ‘weak’ moment and saw my dream slipping away for the sake of a quick Rich Tea fix.
I put it back, had a cup of tea instead and revelled in the warmth of my smugness, if indeed there is such a word!

Tara

Now, for the weekly Wednesday Weigh-In

David Wright

Thanks to everybody who weighed in last week (figuratively and literally). I appreciate the support. I questioned my motivations and drive during the week and will post my thoughts on it next week – as well as a more concrete plant. I didn’t do much exercising last week. But on the plus side, I also didn’t do much eating. So no weight loss OR gain to report.

The stats: David Wright

• Starting weight Wed. Nov.19: 350 lbs.
• Goal weight: 250 lbs.
• Weight last week: 325 lbs.
• Weight today: 325 lbs.
• Amount lost this week: 0 lbs.
• Total lost since Nov. 19: 25 pounds

Tara Cain 

The stats:

• Starting weight Wed. Nov.19: 168 lbs.
• Goal weight: 140 lbs.
• Weight last week: 164 lbs.
• Weight today: 163lbs
• Amount lost this week: 1lb

Now it’s your turn. Share your success (or setback) story with us.

If you’d like to post a Wednesday Weigh-In post on your blog and help spread the word of our goals, please do so. Get all the info on how you can participate right here.

See you downstairs in the comments – and let’s all show our support and visit anyone taking part.

Update

As always, thank you to everyone who takes part in the Wednesday Weigh-In.

Thank you!

Want a bit of humor and motivation delivered via email every weekday? Subscribeto get each BlogToFit post delivered for free! Email not your thing? That’s okay, you can also subscribe via RSS – like all the cool kids do. It’s also free. Unless you really WANT to pay us.

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