So I have failed my goal. I will not be playing the role of Melissa's Skinny Model at the end of May. Come May 26th, I won't be 170 pounds, or a size 8, but rather I will be 16 weeks pregnant!!!!
This is the reason for my absence from the Blog. How could I possibly keep updating my weight loss and inches lost, when I'm at the point where things are starting to get bigger?
It would have been nice to lose the weight, and get some nice tight muscles before starting my journey into motherhood - but at the same time, Ben and I had already been trying for 4 months, so I'm pretty ecstatic! Plus this means I won't be giving birth in the middle of Graham and Ashton's wedding, or have to waddle around Mexico 8 months pregnant in +35 degree heat. The timing of our little one is actually, in a word, perfect!
I'm due November 6th (although Ben's hoping I go into labour a day sooner for a "Remember Remember" baby...). I will give myself the rest of November to slowly get into a working out routine again, and then I have Dec, Jan, Feb, and March to kick my ass back into gear so I can arrive in Mexico on April 14th looking hot! I live for hot weather! I would be content to live a week just in a bikini rocking a gorgeous deep tan, but I know that if I'm flabby and self conscious, that's not going to happen. And who want's to go to Mexico and cover UP their body?!? Not me!
Now this isnt' to say that I've stopped working out currently - not at all actually, although I must admit I have slowed down with my efforts. - as things grow, things hurt, and I've found my Cardio classes are causing me more pain than good at this time (jumping = No go for the tender girls) - also, a pregnant lady in a hot room spells nausea and fainting. I JUST managed to make it through my last Pump and Groove class without darting for the bathroom door, but I came really close a couple times.
Ben and I have still been going for long walks around our neighborhood, and exploring the paths nearby, and as I feel in my personal opinion. today is officially the first day of spring (it's beautiful out there!) I have plans to strap on the Vibrams and start running again. I would love to run throughout my whole pregnancy, if I can anyway! as I get bigger I might end up trading my running shoes for waddling/walking shoes - but I want to do my best while I still can.
I have been looking forward to running all winter, and this is one time where I wish I had a membership to someplace with a track (although that's certainly not in the budget, especially right about now, because I"m on my way to claiming EI and extra's will definitely be a thing of the past.) But provided the ice is melted, I can still run on the sidewalks, and I intend to!
Running gave me such a great freedom. Just putting on my ipod, and losing myself in my thoughts - it's a happy place of mine.
So right now, although I'm not losing weight, and in fact my scale is going up, and my inches are starting to increase, I couldn't be happier! I don't think I've ever been happier to get bigger in my life before! It's worth it though. I can't wait until I can tell the rest of the world my happy little secret :)
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
March 13 Update
I have good news, and Bad news...
The Bad News is that shortly after making that last post I came down with a really bad cold, and ended up opting out of working out for about a week while I recovered - this also included staying home from my pump and Groove class on Tuesday, because I had a horrific sinus headache (that even kept me home from work for the first time in 2 years as well). All in all, I felt pretty crappy about the whole thing, not just the cold, but not being able to work out - I love working out. I love how I feel when I workout, and I love feeling sore muscles the next day, and feeling my body change. So going without that for the last week has had me a little down, however I don't regret taking the time off, because my cold only lasted a week, and I'm almost 100% right now as I type this, so clearly in taking the time off and allowing myself to get better greatly reduced the amount of time I was stuck feeling like crap.
Now here's the Good News! I have both maintained weight and inches lost through my sick week, so I didn't take two steps forward one step back, and now I have to do some catch up, I'm continuing on right from where I was! I can deal with that. Sure I didn't lose anything, but I didn't gain anything either, and I'm okay with stats like that.
On Friday (once I was feeling much better, obviously) I proposed a challenge to myself - I wrote up a Facebook status that said "For every Like this status gets between now and 9am Saturday, I will do 3 pushups...Go" in hindsight that was probably a mistake....
Within 10 minutes I had over 20 likes. By that evening I was up to 40, and by the time I woke up the next morning, and counted down to 9am, I was sitting at a whopping 51 Likes. Yup. 51 Likes... that's 153 Pushups.
... What have I done? Looking back, 1 pushup for every like probably would have been more doable... especially when some of my friends were sharing my facebook status, so as many people as possible would like it... Bastards!
The most pushups I've ever done in one continuous time was 38 - and it was military style, when I was a good 25 pounds lighter, and did pushups on every workout. These days I'm doing about 11 pushups Military Style before my arms shake uncontrollably and I drop to my knees. However I can do a decent amount on my knees. So even though initially I was going to try my damndest to do all the pushups on my toes, once the numbers got past 20 I knew that wasnt' possible, so I resolved to do "girly" pushups for now.
I also decided that I needed to break the 153 into 3 pushup sessions of 51 each, as I knew there was no way I could do all 153 in one day!
On Sunday, Ben and I went for a nice 4K walk around out block, and when we return, I set up the video camera, and did my first set of 51 pushups. I was actually surprised at how well I was doing, I got to about 46 before my arms started shaking, but with a little struggling, and some gasping, I pushed through to 51. However in looking at the video, I probably could go down lower. That's the thing about a lot of moves, you don't know how your form looks unless you have a large mirror, or a video camera handy.
Don't get me wrong, I still go low enough for my arms to be in line with my shoulders in a right angle before lifting up again, but I'm not touching my chest to the floor, like I potentially should.
That was actually the first and only thing Ben said about my accomplishment "you're not going low enough - I think you are going to be called on that" Not, "Good for you, doing 51 consecutive pushups!" Just that I didn't go low enough. Oh well.
In watching this video above - you can see that when she does the pushups from the side, she doesn't go all the way down - that's how I did my push-ups, however when they change the view from the front, you can see she is now going all the way to the floor. Meh, I'll try to work on going lower to the floor, but in the meantime I'm not re-doing that first set. They still count as far as I'm concerned.
Last night, there was no workout, because just as we got home, we got a call from friends of ours inviting us to go to the Oilers game with them, so we ate and left. We ended up getting home about 10:30, and I went right to bed. No time for a workout there.
Tonight however, is another Pump and Groove class (my second last actually - but I do have a class I can makeup as a result of missing Pump and Groove last week, so I think I'll drop in to something later this week). I'm excited for Pump and Groove, I quite like the class, I love the workout I get, and the fact that I end up whimpering near the end of the toning sessions! I found that because I workout so often, some of the classes don't quite give me the burn that I crave. Sure I sweat. But I sweat in a warm room when I'm sitting perfectly still too - I want the sore muscles, the burn! The Fatigue! I love it! Pump and Groove does that for me! I can't wait!
The Bad News is that shortly after making that last post I came down with a really bad cold, and ended up opting out of working out for about a week while I recovered - this also included staying home from my pump and Groove class on Tuesday, because I had a horrific sinus headache (that even kept me home from work for the first time in 2 years as well). All in all, I felt pretty crappy about the whole thing, not just the cold, but not being able to work out - I love working out. I love how I feel when I workout, and I love feeling sore muscles the next day, and feeling my body change. So going without that for the last week has had me a little down, however I don't regret taking the time off, because my cold only lasted a week, and I'm almost 100% right now as I type this, so clearly in taking the time off and allowing myself to get better greatly reduced the amount of time I was stuck feeling like crap.
Now here's the Good News! I have both maintained weight and inches lost through my sick week, so I didn't take two steps forward one step back, and now I have to do some catch up, I'm continuing on right from where I was! I can deal with that. Sure I didn't lose anything, but I didn't gain anything either, and I'm okay with stats like that.
On Friday (once I was feeling much better, obviously) I proposed a challenge to myself - I wrote up a Facebook status that said "For every Like this status gets between now and 9am Saturday, I will do 3 pushups...Go" in hindsight that was probably a mistake....
Within 10 minutes I had over 20 likes. By that evening I was up to 40, and by the time I woke up the next morning, and counted down to 9am, I was sitting at a whopping 51 Likes. Yup. 51 Likes... that's 153 Pushups.
... What have I done? Looking back, 1 pushup for every like probably would have been more doable... especially when some of my friends were sharing my facebook status, so as many people as possible would like it... Bastards!
The most pushups I've ever done in one continuous time was 38 - and it was military style, when I was a good 25 pounds lighter, and did pushups on every workout. These days I'm doing about 11 pushups Military Style before my arms shake uncontrollably and I drop to my knees. However I can do a decent amount on my knees. So even though initially I was going to try my damndest to do all the pushups on my toes, once the numbers got past 20 I knew that wasnt' possible, so I resolved to do "girly" pushups for now.
I also decided that I needed to break the 153 into 3 pushup sessions of 51 each, as I knew there was no way I could do all 153 in one day!
On Sunday, Ben and I went for a nice 4K walk around out block, and when we return, I set up the video camera, and did my first set of 51 pushups. I was actually surprised at how well I was doing, I got to about 46 before my arms started shaking, but with a little struggling, and some gasping, I pushed through to 51. However in looking at the video, I probably could go down lower. That's the thing about a lot of moves, you don't know how your form looks unless you have a large mirror, or a video camera handy.
Don't get me wrong, I still go low enough for my arms to be in line with my shoulders in a right angle before lifting up again, but I'm not touching my chest to the floor, like I potentially should.
That was actually the first and only thing Ben said about my accomplishment "you're not going low enough - I think you are going to be called on that" Not, "Good for you, doing 51 consecutive pushups!" Just that I didn't go low enough. Oh well.
In watching this video above - you can see that when she does the pushups from the side, she doesn't go all the way down - that's how I did my push-ups, however when they change the view from the front, you can see she is now going all the way to the floor. Meh, I'll try to work on going lower to the floor, but in the meantime I'm not re-doing that first set. They still count as far as I'm concerned.
Last night, there was no workout, because just as we got home, we got a call from friends of ours inviting us to go to the Oilers game with them, so we ate and left. We ended up getting home about 10:30, and I went right to bed. No time for a workout there.
Tonight however, is another Pump and Groove class (my second last actually - but I do have a class I can makeup as a result of missing Pump and Groove last week, so I think I'll drop in to something later this week). I'm excited for Pump and Groove, I quite like the class, I love the workout I get, and the fact that I end up whimpering near the end of the toning sessions! I found that because I workout so often, some of the classes don't quite give me the burn that I crave. Sure I sweat. But I sweat in a warm room when I'm sitting perfectly still too - I want the sore muscles, the burn! The Fatigue! I love it! Pump and Groove does that for me! I can't wait!
Friday, March 2, 2012
Feb 29-March 1 and results!
So I was right - Tuesday's Pump and Groove class was awesome, and one hell of a workout!!! We did Reggaeton, Old School, African and Contemporary with a lot of squats and toning in between! I was so tired by the end!!!
Wednesday Feb 29th - Leap Day!!
We got an extra day this year!! And I used it by... not working out. The reason for that, is that we were driving Ben's parents to the airport very very early the next morning. We went directly from work to his parents place, and had dinner, and watched a little TV before going to bed early. Then the alarm went off at 3:45am, and we got up and drove them to the airport before heading back to our house for another 45 minutes of sleep before work on Thursday.
Thursday March 1 -
We were so tired after work, but we still had a great dinner (Hubby makes a mean chicken stirfry!!) and I was still adament that I was going to workout before hitting the hay, so I did this workout again:
And then just as I was about to put my stuff away, one of my favorite workout songs came on my iPod:
....so I started doing Squats. I counted to 30 before I stopped counting and just resolved to do squats to the end of the song. I'm sure I did at least 50 more on top of my first 30! I was definitely sweating by the time that song ended!! It felt great!!!
Friday March 2,
Today is Results Day!!
So the first number is my original measurements on Day 1 (Feb 8th), the second number is Feb 9, and the third is this morning on March 2.
Weight: 208 / 205.7 / 207
Measurements
Right Arm: 14 1/2" / 14" / 13"
Left Arm: 14 1/2" / 14 1/2" / 13 1/2"
Chest: 40" / 38 1/2" / 37"
Waist (Belly Button): 38 1/2" / 37 1/2" / 35 1/2"
Hips: 45 1/2" / 45" / 43 1/2"
Right Thigh: 26" / 25 1/2" / 23 3/4"
Left Thigh: 26" / 25" / 24"
So my Weight isn't really going anywhere, while my measurements are going down, so clearly I'm replacing flab with Muscle! I'm okay with that!! My scale could read 300 pounds for all I care as long as I am a size 8 I would be thrilled!!!
So I'm pretty happy - clearly I'm doing something right! Having lost 14 3/4" in 3 weeks I'm doing JUST FINE!!!
Wooooo!! Happy Friday!!!
Motivation:
Wednesday Feb 29th - Leap Day!!
We got an extra day this year!! And I used it by... not working out. The reason for that, is that we were driving Ben's parents to the airport very very early the next morning. We went directly from work to his parents place, and had dinner, and watched a little TV before going to bed early. Then the alarm went off at 3:45am, and we got up and drove them to the airport before heading back to our house for another 45 minutes of sleep before work on Thursday.
Thursday March 1 -
We were so tired after work, but we still had a great dinner (Hubby makes a mean chicken stirfry!!) and I was still adament that I was going to workout before hitting the hay, so I did this workout again:
....so I started doing Squats. I counted to 30 before I stopped counting and just resolved to do squats to the end of the song. I'm sure I did at least 50 more on top of my first 30! I was definitely sweating by the time that song ended!! It felt great!!!
Friday March 2,
Today is Results Day!!
So the first number is my original measurements on Day 1 (Feb 8th), the second number is Feb 9, and the third is this morning on March 2.
Weight: 208 / 205.7 / 207
Measurements
Right Arm: 14 1/2" / 14" / 13"
Left Arm: 14 1/2" / 14 1/2" / 13 1/2"
Chest: 40" / 38 1/2" / 37"
Waist (Belly Button): 38 1/2" / 37 1/2" / 35 1/2"
Hips: 45 1/2" / 45" / 43 1/2"
Right Thigh: 26" / 25 1/2" / 23 3/4"
Left Thigh: 26" / 25" / 24"
So my Weight isn't really going anywhere, while my measurements are going down, so clearly I'm replacing flab with Muscle! I'm okay with that!! My scale could read 300 pounds for all I care as long as I am a size 8 I would be thrilled!!!
So I'm pretty happy - clearly I'm doing something right! Having lost 14 3/4" in 3 weeks I'm doing JUST FINE!!!
Wooooo!! Happy Friday!!!
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