Week 13

After my minimal loss last week I was really hoping for good things this week. I have been working alot and not really had much time for exercise. I still have hopes to reach my goal. I have 2 weeks to lose 7lbs to reach my goal. I was totally shocked when I jumped on the scale the day before my offical wi and I was only 229lbs I was so happy I was running around work telling everyone I had lost 22 pounds and my goal was now sounding more obtainable.

At my wi this week I was 229lbs for a loss of 4.4lbs I was jumping for joy for a total of 22lbs lost. Only 3 more lbs to reach my 25lb goal and a total of 10% of my body weigh loss.

Week 12

I had a hard time this week with staying on track. But no matter what I tracked everything good or bad. That's what it is all about right. Stay accountable on and good and bad weeks and you will continue to be successful.

I was pretty nervous to wi I have not had a gain in quite awhile and I was hoping this bad week would not be a big setback for me. I weighted in at 233.6 for a loss of 0.6lbs giving me a total loss of 17.6 lbs. I was pretty disappointed in myself as I no longer feel I will be able to reach my goal of 25lbs by my birthday week. I will keep on trucking and hope for the best.

Week 11

So we went away to Trudeau Park for the Long Weekend, What a blast we had. Lost of Mud, great bands and way to much Booze was involved, it was great. I will be posting Pictures as soon as I get my computer up and running. I am very late in posting this as my computer currently has no power source and the US Postal service sucks. I am crossing my fingers that it will arrive tomorrow. So back to the weekend at Trudeau Park, Mike's band Counterfit fifty (http://www.myspace.com/counterfitfifty) played pretty much all night sat both on the outdoor stage and in the bar, it was great exposure for them and a whole lot of fun, they played an open stage in the bar and played a bunch of songs with a few of the guys from My darkest days and a few other bands. Sunday we spent the day at the mud pit watching all the crazyness!!! Next year we will be bring a wreck of a car, or what will be a wreck of a car to play around in, I really can wait till next may to be honest. hahaha .... SO I suppose you can guess that Weight Watchers foods where not in the mix that weekend. We ate mostly from the chip truck, I was a little worried about my WI, but at the same time I knew regardless I would get back at it and It was well worth it.

At my weigh in I weighed in at 234lbs for a 1 pound loss giving me a total of 17lbs loss so far... So the weekend did not totally kill me, at my mid week peek I was 233lbs so I guess I consumed 1lb worth of junk and boose ... Back to the grind for week 12

Mid week peek

So i was a bad girl and did the dreaded mid week peek to see how I was doing this week b4 I go away for the weekend. I weigh 233lbs so that another 2lbs down for a total of 18lbs. Lest hope I don't mess it up with all the boose I will be consuming tonight and tomorrow. But I look at it this way I gotta have some fun in life to right.

Happy Victoria Day Weekend, Have fun and play safe.

Don't Drink and Drive.

Week 10

So I have fallen off the Power 90 wagon. Going away for the weekend really put me off track. I have not earned any Activity Points this week. I however had remained on points for ww and I feel I will still have a good wi. Life has been pretty stressful around here and I hope once life gets back to normal I will get back to my Power90 , I have noticed that the pain in my back has returned and I certainly did not miss it when it was gone. Mike and I are leaving today for May 24 weekend to party it up and have a great time with friends. His band will be playing 3 shows at Trudeau Park over the weekend. I am going to get back to earning load of AP's on Monday when we return. I am holding myself to that promise. I am still losing weight with out the activity, well actually I am loosing more without it, seem strange don't it. But I felt so much better when I was getting all that activity in, I am thinking my body will do better with working out everyother day as aposed to 6 days a week. So that is my new place to work out everyother day. Hoping for good results.

I wi again at home this week, as I have decided to save myself the money and follow the program at home and WI at WW only once a month as required by my Lifetime member status.
I wi at 235 lbs this week for another 1.5lbs lost bring me to a total of 16lbs lost. I have 9 more lbs to go to reach my birthday goal of 25lbs lost. I am so excited to acheive that goal and get started on my tattoo. I am getting a really nice back peice it will have a star for every 5lbs I have lost and at every 25 interval I will get more added to it. I will add a pic of the idea for the tattoo. Less than a month and I should be able to book the appointment, I don't want to book it now and jinks myself. wish me luck 9lbs to go.

Week 9

This week has been sooooo busy .... I went away for the weekend with the Girl to a Bed and Breakfast in Brighten to Scrapbook!!!! It was so nice to get away and hang out with my friends.... oh and the scrapbooking part was fun too .... lol .... All I can say is Sat we ate so much!!! It was all healthly food which was good, but the quantity of the food was alot. The woman Marylou who runs the B&B is a fabulous cook!!! I didn't really get my work outs in this week either, I am such a bad girl. I worked out on friday before I went and we went for a walk on sat, but as far as activity goes that was about it. I didn't really count points over the weekend either, I just wrote off all my flex for the week. I also found it hard to get back on track over mon and tues, it is so easy to slip back in to not journelling etc. I got back on track for Wed and hope tho have a great week coming up.

I did not have the cash to go to the Meeting this week and WI as I spent it all to go away on the weekend. Because of this I had to settle for WI at home. I weighed in at 236.4lbs that's 2.5lbs down for a total of 14.5lbs lost. You have no idea how excited I was to see a decent loss after loosing only 1lb in 2 weeks.

Week 8

Well this is a week late in coming, but like they say better late then never. I went and wi earlier in the day this week because I had to start my prep for the fun colonscopy that night. The prep was not as bad and I had expected and I managed to get thru it OK. There were 4 ployps found and I have to wait another week for the results .... that's a little nerve racking, to say the least.

I had set a goal of 50 Activity Points this week, which I now think may be a bit excessive. The weather was no so great and I didn't get out walking much. I only earned 36 Activity Points doing Power 90 each day. I am still pretty proud of myself tho. I think 30 is a more realistic goal for future.

Thursday - Power 90 Sweat = 7 AP
Friday - Power 90 Sculpt = 5 AP
Sat- Power 90 Sweat = 7 AP
Sun- Power 90 Sculpt =5 AP
Mon - Power 90 Sweat = 7 AP
Tues - Power 90 Sculpt = 5 AP
Wed - Break

Total AP - 36


I weighted in at 239lb again, so no lost this week. Talk about frustrating, I am working my ass of doing Power 90 and getting no results. I decided to give it one more week and see what happens.

Just a little update!!

It's been a busy week and everyday I have ment to get on here and write but I never seem to find the time. I continue to make sure to have the time to workout tho, some might think I am crazy but the last thing I do before bed other than shower is my workout, if you drive by my house anytime between 10-midnight you might just see me in the livingroom workin this oversized body of mine. I am now on day11 of the power 90 program and it is kicking my ass. I feel stronger already tho. Lastnight when I was doing the scuplt part of the program we have to do what is called 7-7-7, you do three sets of 7 pushup with your arms a varying widths apart. when I started 10 days earlier I could hardly do 1 pushup, now I was able to do 4-4-4, I'm not so sure my form is what it should be, but I am certainly doing 100% better than I was 10 days earlier. I mentioned in my pervious post that I was worried that I was not eatting enough, so I am trying to eat some of the activity points this week, I have eattin all my flex and dipped in to my activity points lastnight. I'm sooo hoping that all this hard work will pay off, I'm not sure how I am going to handle it if i go to wi tomorrow and I am not down at least 2lbs. Speaking of tomorrow, I'm not sure how I will handle this, but I have to go for a colonoscopy thursday because colon cancer is pervelant in my family. I have to fast starting tomorrow am so nothing solid to eat all day. I don't know how to work in my daily points that way, I guess I am going to have to be creative with my fluids to try and get thos calories in. Not that it will matter much because with the prep I have to take all of what goes in will come right back out ... yukkkk ... so not looking forward to tomorrow. I am hoping tha I will be able to get my work out in early before I have to start my prep... Wish Me luck.

Week 7

This week I set a goal to earn 40 Activity Points. I smashed that goal and I have earned a total of 56. I am loving the Power 90 program. I am so excited to see my 30 day results

my fitness schedule for this week

Thursday - No activity
Friday- 2hour 45 min walk = 10 Activity Points
Sat- 35min Power walk = 3 Activity Points
Sat- 40min Power 90 Sweat with Abs= 8 Activity Points
Sun- 20 min Power walk = 2 Activity Points
Sun- 28min Power 90 Sculpt = 5 Activity Points
Monday- 30 min Power walk = 2 Activity Points
Monday-40min Power 90 Sweat with Abs= 8 Activity Points
Tuesday- 36 min Power 90 Sweat = 7 Activity Points
Wed- 60 min Power 90 Scuplt, Sweat with abs = 11 Activity Points
Total = 56 Activity Points


I had my wi this after noon at 239lbs that's 1lb gone for a total of 12lbs lost. That's is 5% of my total body weight gone in 7 weeks. I know that 12lbs in 7weeks is awesome, but I can't help by wishing this process was faster. I know It took me longer than 7 weeks to get fat, but don't you just wish as if by magic it would all just fall off. That's just a little wishful thinking on my part. Oh well, back to reality and back to working hard. I am worried that maybe I am not eatting enough, I know what sounds silly, you think when your loosing weight that less food is best right!! Wrong. I think I am going to try and eat maybe 1/2 of my Activity Points this week and Hope I see good results. Here is hoping for 3lb or more lose this week.

Staying on Track

This is the first chance this week I have gotten to write. I am staying on the right track tho.. I didn't let the rain stop me on monday. I had planned to go walking on my lunch hour again on monday only one small problem stood in my way, I looked out the window at work just before my lunch break and it was pouring. At first I was quite disapointed!!! Then all of a sudden a giant light bulb went off in my head and I thought Melissa your a genius ... lol ... I work across from a Mall ( a not so busy mall), I thought if the mall walkers walk in the mall during the winter, why can't I when it is raining. SO THAT IS JUST WHAT I DID.... I power walked for 30 min in the mall, ppl might of thought I was strange going around and around and up and down the stairs, but when I was done I felt great. I came home and did the Power 90 Cardio work out after work also earning me a total of 10 Activity Points. I am apsolutley loving this workout, soon I hope to be strong enough to do the yoga properly, I'm sorta cheating at the plank as I can not do it just yet but aleast I'm trying. I have also notice that the pain in my back that I had been living with for the last few months is GONE!!!!! I could not be more happy about that I can finally get a good nights sleep. I had a meeting yesterday at work so I didn't get a full lunch break so I never managed to get out for a walk. However I did do my Power 90 cardio when I got home earning me 7 Activity Points yesterday.

Last night was date night. Mike and I went out to The Red Dog with friends and had to much to drink I used 18 of my flex for drinks. It was so much fun, it has been awhile since we got out where Mike's band was not playing. I could of done with out the shooters the kept ending up in my hand. I was hurting this morning and I still feel pretty lazy this evening. I will still be doing my workout tonight tho, hung over or not.

Day three of the new me!!

Well I got a rude awaking this morning, I woke at up at 5 am to Mike stepping on me as he got out of bed to go vomit. Poor Guy. Off to work today for 12 hours I went. I had packed a yummy stir fry with rice noodles for lunch, I gobbled it down on my break and out side I went. I power walked for 2 mins down by the river, it was a beautiful day and I really enjoyed getting out and moving. I earned 2 activities points while I was at it. I did find myself to be hungry alot today, I guess working 12 hours is mostly responsible. I used 10 flex points today so I could have 2 small slices of pizza with my family when I got home from work. After I got the kids in to bed and the tornado that happened to my house while the kid where home with a sick dad all day cleaned up, I got in another workout. Today I did the Power 90 sculpt ... wow I'm really not in shape at all. There where a few spot where pushups where required I tried but I am no where near strong enough to life my body weight yet, so the thrid time I decided to do something else while they did pushups, I did some kick boxing to keep me moving. I also found I was not able to do the dips either ... damn it I need some upper body strenght. I am going to purchase a yoga mat and resistance bands sometime this week. This sculpting work out earned me another 5 activity points putting my weekly total at 28 activity points. 12 more points to reach my weekly goal ... I am so kicking butt this week I could not be more proud of myself. I am determined to keep it up!!

Tomorrows Goals ... 20min walk on lunch break
40min Power 90 cardio afterwork

Power 90 rocks!!!

I just finished up a 40min power 90 work out and it was awesome. I feel amazing and I earned another 8 activity points. for a total of 11 today. I have now earned 21 out of my weekly goal of 40. So I just logged on to check out my facebook, and there was a message from Tara form Biggest Loser, I sent her a message earlier today telling her how much of an inspiration she has been to me, I didn't really expect a responce because she prolly gets tons of messages. This is what it said;

Tara Costa
Today at 11:25pm
DO NOT STOP! I promise you have the power to do it, keep up the blog. It helps to write about what emotions you are having and others will connect with you =)

I'm so excited , it's been a great day. Tomorrow will be a little harder to get a my workouts in because I work a 12 hour shift. Lets hope I get my lunch break and I can try to get out for a walk. I will also do the Power 90 sculpt workout tomorrow before bed.

Stayed up to late!!

Staying up till 3am lastnight creating this blog was probably not a good idea when I had planned to get up and walk early in the morning. Needless to say we did not get out walking this morning, by the time we were all up and ready to go out it was time to head out to take the kids to see the race car and then go to the Zoo. We went to the see the car and unfortunatly while we where there it started to rain. SO much for the ZOO :( I did manage to get out for a 35min power walk tonight after supper rain and all, earning 3 activity points. The kids are off to bed here in a few mins as soon as there movie is over and I am going to give power 90 a try before bed. wish me luck.

Kicking it in to high gear.

So the nice weather is here so I got up this morning took Aiden to the bus with Braidleigh in the stroller and then just kept on walking. We walked for 1.5 hours it was awesome. I would of kept going but Braidleigh was getting restless in the stroller and I had to go and pick up Aiden from school because he and I had dentist appts. I was in the mood for more walking later in the day and walked over to pick up Grace from her mom's for the weekend. We walked to the park and all around the neighbourhood. The kids played with alot of the other children they had a blast. I go home and figured out that I had earned 7 activity points today alone and I got to thinking. I was reading a magazine article about the biggest looser contestants and then I found some of them on facebook, I was pleasently suprised when they accepted my friends request. I find alot ot the women on the show very inspiring especially Tara, she is a force to be reconed with. So it dawned on me that if these ppl can loose 10lbs in a week on the ranch, what is stopping me from loosing 5lbs at week at home. I am already loosing an average of 2lbs a week just by eating within the proper amount of calories, Imagine what I could do it I started to really work out. The kids where in bed so I couldn't go out for another walk... I so wish I had a treadmill. I went down stairs to dig out my form shaper, it was a workout in it's self just to get it out from under the stairs. Once I did I started using it and Immediately remembered why I hated it, the bottom of the back rest dug in to the tale bone something fierce.. owch. So I thought there has to be something else I could be doing for exercise, I thought about getting out some of my videos that i have bought over the years but I didn't want to stop moving to look for them. I then started to jog on the spot and I did that for about 10 mins and we to the kitchen to get large can of food to use as a weight and alternated working out my arms after another 15min, I was still wishing I could go outside. Because the kids where in bed and Mike was at work I could not leave but that didn't mean I could not walk outside so out I went. I power walked back and forth 2 houses in each direction around and around. Good think it was 11:00 at night because the neighbours if they seen me would of thought I was a nut. But I got in a great work out and earned another 3 activity points today for total of 10 points. The kids and I are going to walk again tomorrow morning and then we are going to the zoo tomorrow afternoon we will get in alot of walking there also. I am so stoked ... My goal for this week is to earn 40 activity points. I'm well on my way.

Week Six

So this week was Easter and I was scared. Chocolate is my biggest weakness. I have been allowing my self a small amount of chocolate each day from the beginning, those 100 cal chocolate bars are awesome. But this week was different, there was chocolate everywhere. Plus Easter dinner, I was scared to death to tell you the truth. But I made thru the week on points. I splurred a little more of my flex on chocolate this week mind you ... mmmmmmm chocolate.

I weighted in at the end of the week weighing 240lbs another 2lbs down for a total of 11lbs

I was stoked to get my 10lb star finally. To celebrate, I had a my favorite BBQ steak, roasted potoatoes and Asparagass for supper that night it was to die for!!!

Week Five

I started this week pissed off and determined. I didn't know why I gained weight last week, but I was not going to let it happen again. I counted points, drank lots of water. However this was the weekend I was having my best girl friend down to go out and party. we went out to the bar to watch my husband band play www.counterfitfifty.com. We had drinks and plently of fun. I stuck with light beer and stayed away from the shooters. I used 25 of my 35 flex points that night. That just ment I had to be extra good the rest of the week.

I weighted in that week at 242lbs down 2lbs this week for a total of 9lbs lost.

Week Four

I started this week off pumped I was hoping for a 1.5lbs loss and to obtain my 10lbs star.

So the show the Biggest loser has been one of my biggest inspriations for starting this weigh loss journey. This was the week that three of the eliminated contestants got the chance to win their way back on to the show. This week Nicole won her way back on the show by loosing an increadable 80lbs in something like 10 weeks at home. That's pretty damn impressive. So this contestant wins her way back on the show only to gain 5lbs that first week back and was voted home once again. I watched the show the night before I was to weighin for the week, and it had me pretty bummed. I figured if a contestant on the biggest loser can gain 5lbs in one week what kind of hope is there for the rest of us. After watching that show I had a terriable feeling about my weighin for the week. I had stayed on points and done everything the same as I have every week so I really had no reason to be worried, but yet I still was.

I weighted in the week at 244lbs a 1.5lb gain, bring my total down to only 7lbs lost.

I was devastated, I did not understand why I gained.

Week Three

I decided that is would be the week that I learned to run. I was not thinking about the fact that I have terriable knees and running is a terriable idea. I started out running the first day and I ran half a block walked half a block ran half a block so on and so on. I went around our whole block, it's not that far and it only took me about 10mins. I was red as a cherry tomatoe when I was finished and I could hardly breath but I was pretty proud of myself. That was the last time I ran that week. I had all these good intenisons again but lacked that get up and go. I did well with the WW program and I continued to eat all of the flex point that week as it seemed to work well for me the last 2 weeks.

I weighted in at the end of that week at 242.5lbs, down 3lbs for a total of 8.5lbs lost

Sooooo happy I was leaving that weigh in ... wow 8.5lb in just 3 short weeks.

Week Two

At the beginning of week 2 I set 2 small goals for myself.

#1 - walk 2x this week
#2 - loose at least 2.5 lbs

I had a pretty good week. I stayed completely on points and walked just on day that week. I had all these good intentions but not the get up and go to get out there walking.

I weighted in at the end of that week at 245.5 lbs, down 2lbs that week. For a total of 5.5lbs lost.

Week One

I joined weight watchers on March 5, 2009 at a whopping 251lbs. I went home that week determined that this would be the last time I ever see that number on a scale. I set 5 goals for my self that week.

Goals
-25lbs by June 9th, 2009 - my 30th Birthday
-50lbs by Sept 9th, 2009
-75lbs by Dec 9th, 2009
-100lbs by March 9th, 2010 - this will put me back at my orginal goal of 151lbs
-115lbs by June 9th, 2010 - my 31st Birthday

I weighted in at the end of that week at 247.5 lbs for a weight lose of 3.5lbs

I was pumped and ready to rock it week 2

How it all started

I have battled with my weight for years. It all started when I was a kid, looking back at my school photos I would have a year where I was skinny then a year where I was fat. I remember weighing 160lbs in grade 11 and 12 I maintained that weight by walking everywhere. After graduation I moved to North Bay to attend college. I lived on campus and went from walking everywhere to walking no where. My weight ballooned out of control by the time I graduated 2 years later I had gained 57lbs and weighted 217lbs. I joined weight watchers 2 months after graduation after having seen myself in photos. I had great success with the program, I lost 67lbs and was down to 150lbs in just 9 months. I was going to the gym daily after work and loving life. About 6 months later I became pregnant, all day nausea prevented me from going to the gym and I gained 90lbs with my pregnancy. My son Aiden was born October 31, 2001, I lost 23lbs before I was even home from the hospital which was a good start, I went back to weight watchers and lost an additional 37lbs. I was 30lbs from goal and weighted 180lbs when I begin having relationship problems and I went back to school. I gained back 20lbs and my relationship ended. I became a single mother and spent my time focused on school and my son and let my weight goals go to the way side. I spent the next few years battling the same 10-15lbs up and down I tried all sorts of diets but never with much success. I started dating my husband Mike in December 2005 and we where married in December 2006. We became pregnant in early 2007. I was 210lbs when I became pregnant, I gained 30lbs with this pregnancy. My son Braidleigh was born December 10, 2007. I was not so lucky this time none of the weight came off before I left the hospital and over the course of the next year I yo yo dieted and end up gaining an additional 11 lbs. On March 1, 2009 I decided to go back to weight watcher for the final time to get healthy so I can spend a long happy life with my children.