Monday, January 21, 2013

Water

It's a very wonderful thing, water. That song is played on Sirius Kids Place Live relatively often, and I just love it. It's true. Water is wonderful.

I have no trouble drinking enough water during warmer weather. In the winter, not so much. I want warm, warm, warm! Warm water doesn't taste so great to me, at least not without being infused with coffee or tea!

To combat this, I devised a little system, which was actually based on getting my daughter to drink her cranberry juice. She only needed to drink eight ounces, so I split it into two four ounce servings. Four ounces is like two healthy swigs. Completely attainable! She did it, easily, and we went on with our happy day.

Hmmm.

I approached my water consumption the same way. I set my kitchen timer for 15 minutes, and every time it went off, I fill my little cup with four ounces of water, drink, and set it on the counter for the next time. Such an easy solution.


As you can see, it helped tremendously. Each of those tic marks represents four ounces, so on Friday, I measured 7.5 cups. This is only for when I am at home (obviously), so when I leave I take a bottle of water with me and make sure I am done when I get back. It also does not include anything I drink outside of that, so I easily made my 8 cups that day. (I realize that most experts say that 8 cups is an arbitrary, outdated number, but it has traditionally be a good goal for me.)

My measuring tools are a powerful arsenal for me, and this is just another example.

Happy sipping!

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Weighing in

I really, really kicked it up on my workouts this week. I've been doing a minimum of 3.5 miles on the treadmill daily. That's up from ... oh ... NOTHING in the weeks before, so I was expecting a loss.

I got it! This week I lost two pounds! Is it wrong that I was really hoping for 2.5 at least? Ah well. There's always next week.

This brings my total to 70.6 pounds lost, only .2 pounds away from my all-time low just before Christmas. I'll get there.

The exercise was great, but I think I'm going to need to change it up a bit. All of the jogging on the treadmill is making my hip hurt, so I think I'm going to have to move to something else. Maybe I'll hit the bike at the Y every other day.

Overall this week I was pleased with my food choices. On day #3 of exercise, I was shockingly hungry. I was expecting to want more, but not like that! Aside from some tortilla chips and a few cookies (from a school activity ~ darn school!), I did well on my choices, even including the extra snackage.

This week, more of the same. The fridge is stocked with the good stuff, and I'm strangely less interested in the bad.

Onward and downward!

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Weighing in

Oh, you holiday season. You got me this year. I didn't check in on the blog, but I did update my weight on My Fitness Pal. A gain of about two pounds!

BOO HISS.

This week's weigh in went slightly better. I'm down by .6 pounds. Not much, but at least that dratted scale is moving in the correct direction again.

My neighbor has started a group where we post a daily picture of our workout. I seriously think that this might be what I needed! I sure don't want to be a known slacker, so I have made SURE to get on the treadmill every day, not just pussy-footing around with a DVD workout.

(Please don't say I'm the only one who sometimes gives less than my all on those.)

Day 1:


Day 2



Day 3


Day 1 was easy.

Day 2 was slightly harder.

Day 3 (today) ... I wanted to quit half an hour in! Yesterday was sweaty, but today was really sweaty! That's good though.

I'm working toward a much better weigh in next week.

Onward and downward!