My little Bit of Honey

So I went an entire week of calorie counting and exercising (3 days which is better than before!) and I definitely have seen results. I have dropped 1.6 pounds (though, MFP doesn't reflect it since I had gone up a bit and come back down) and I am feeling a bit better. I feel like this could actually work and it's making me feel good again and motivating me again! I was really happy when I got on the scale this morning and saw how much I weighed, it made it all worth it :)  The Fitbit is really, really helping too! I love seeing how many steps I've done for the day (usually over 10k!!) it's a lot of fun and helps motivate me to compete with myself. Just a small update today as I don't have much else going on! :)

Day 2 went really well, not as good as day 1, but still good! I stayed just about within my calorie range (I think I was -18 calories which is wayyy better than I was doing before). I didn't go for a walk so I am sure that was part of it. Day 3 has started off really good as I have already gone for a walk today! I also got a FITBIT in hopes that will help me stay on track. :) That's all for today!

So I'm going to start posting daily and checking in to keep myself accountable! I have MFP, a fitness group with my girlfriends and this blog. Hopefully all three together will keep me going ! Yesterday was a good day, I went for 2 walks and was able to stay under my calories by 326 calories! yay! So here's hoping today is just as good. I didn't go for a walk this morning because I'm working from home, I'm slowly increasing my speed to start to run. I just don't want to do all or nothing so walking is good for now! My goal for today is to stay at or under my calorie range : )

It's been so long since I did a blog post, I bet you all thought I fell off the face of the planet huh? ;) Well, I'm still here! I did have some medical issues recently that for now look to be resolved (hopefully). It was a scary and tough time for me and my family, but I'm here and everything is fine. The good news is that over the past 2-3 weeks that I really haven't been working out, I didn't gain any weight. I didn't lose any, but I didn't gain any. It was tough this morning to get up and work out, but I did it. I took a walk this morning to try and ease myself back into this working out thing and then I re read some of my first blog posts (I try to do this when I'm in need of motivation and to remind myself how I did it the first time.) It made me realize that even though I've been "trying" the past few months, I've really been just trying which basically means I haven't been giving it everything I've got. Look, It's ...

Today started out not so great, I honestly was not feeling like moving this morning. I was exhausted after a lovely yet busy weekend all I wanted to do was sleep in. I didn’t want to go out and exercise, I just wanted to sleep. I even made it to work and sat in my car for 15 minutes debating whether or not I wanted to run. I really, really, really did not want to.   At 5:45 I finally said to myself   “This is it, if you don’t go now, you won’t be able to and then you will have gotten up at 4:30 for no reason at all” So I did. I got out of my car and I went for a “run” I use the word run loosely as I can’t call what I’ve been doing running, though I have to say it doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going as long as you are out there. So I did it. I did really well too, towards the end it was tough though because there is a MASSIVE hill that I have to go up and come back down to make the full 30 minutes. I had to run up this hill and I’m not even kidding you, I know for ...

I found this online and thought it was super appropriate, I know I’m going to fall off the wagon at least ten times before I have a good rhythm going. It sucks to be honest, but it’s the way it is. Life gets in the way and then we have holidays and days off. We get sick or things happen and often weight loss is the first thing to get pushed to the side. Which to me is fine, It all makes sense and it’s all part of that journey (I know, how cheesy but bear with me).   The thing for me and the reason I get back on the wagon is because it’s always on my mind; honestly, there isn’t a time that I’m not thinking about how to get back on track. I can only take it day by day as I’ve said before and that’s the only way to do it right now. I’m feeling good about my work out this morning, it was so.freaking.hard. I did day 1 of C25K which I’ve completed before, but I really pushed myself this morning (I had the treadmill up to 6.5 at one point) and I wanted to quit so badly. My legs...

I kept my promise to myself, I went to the gym this morning and put all I had into my workout. I think I definitely needed to let myself "off the hook" mentally to get back into it, if that makes any sense. I'm really happy with how I did, I did 10 minutes of cardio to warm up and then the rest of the time I did resistance training and focused on my arms. I can see that I am getting stronger and the amount that I can lift is slowly going up. It's all about my attitude and keeping positive, I had a few comments on my blog post yesterday about how any work out is better than none and they were totally right. At least I got up and got out there. Sometimes I just need a reality check that this is what I have to do if I want to lose weight and feel better about myself. If I want to be healthy. In other news, the size 14 pants are fitting quite nicely today, even better than last week! I tried on a pair of my size 12 pants and I can put them on, but they are super tight (...