Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

       It’s a good day already, I feel it! Been up since 4am, and am still drinking coffee and it’s 6am now.

       My arm fell asleep, I couldn’t even feel it. It was like it was dead. It was horrible. It’s a good thing I woke up when I did, it being like that and all, can’t be good to have it like that for too long.

       I’m so excited! I’m getting in my new bathroom things from Target today! I’m redoing the whole bathroom. It’s red right now, and red just isn’t relaxing at all, and I want to feel at peace while I’m in the shower. So I ordered a new étagère for over the toilet, shower curtain, towels, and chocolate brown rugs. It’s all coming in today!

       I guess I’m going to have to go to Lowe’s and get some paint today. I’m planning on going to Aunt Mary Beth’s in Start anyways, so it’s right up the road. Looks like I’m going to be painting tonight!

       I don’t know. I might as well wait til this weekend to do it, when I have more time. It would be nice to get it all done today though, and shower in a new bathroom tomorrow!

       I’d really like Brian to help me pick out the color paint though, and since he’s  not going to Monroe with me til Friday, I guess I can wait til this weekend. But I am seriously excited about this new étagère (aka over the toilet thingy).

       We have absolutely no room in the bathroom for anything, so having this new étagère is going to give us some storage space, and I think it will look nice too.

       I’ve got 3 more things to buy, and then it will be complete. A behind the curtain shower curtain and new rod for it, and a round hand towel holder to put beside the sink. That should do it.

       I’d like a new sink and stand completely, but that’s a whole other project, so we’re going to wait on that one. I would like to do it soon though. Just gotta find a small enough one to fit in there, cause our bathroom is TINY!

       I just woke up Brian, and hopefully he will get out of bed soon, cause he’s got to have a shower this morning. I’m so glad to see him first thing this morning, and him be the second person I talk to, cause I talk to God first.

       Brian is my favorite person in the world, and I am so BLESSED to have him as my husband, my helpmate, and my friend. I love him so much, and pray that we get to spend eternity together, in love.

       I tried to bribe him to get up with Mike & Mike In the Morning, so maybe he’ll get up in a minute. I’m kinda tired of sitting here with nothing on the television, besides. Maybe if I turn it on, he’ll hear it and get up.

       Mr. Sully was sitting in his daddy’s chair this morning, looking all pert. He was perched perfectly, just awaiting someone to move him. He’s up now and eating kitty food, having him some little crunchies for breakfast.

       I’m starting over my countdown, because I’ve about decided to lose down to 118, if I’m physically able, and enjoy my body for a couple of years before I have babies. I know that’s a little selfish, but I’ve been fat my whole life, except for that one stint in high school, for about a year there, and I’d love to just enjoy it, and feel it for a while, before I give my entire life to my children.

       So my countdown is 111 pounds, divided by 2 pounds a week=56 weeks, 14 months, and 392 days.

       It’ll fly by. I’ve already been on this weight loss thing for about 5 or 6 weeks now, which is 42 days. It seems like no time. I’m hoping to weigh 225 at the end of this week. So I’ll be on my way.

       I think we’re going to buy some weights for weight training too. So we’ll do that on Friday, when we both go to Monroe, cause I’d like Brian to be there.

       Last time I lost 40 pounds, I had a membership at Moore’s Gym, and I walked every day, and lifted weights. It worked, and I know that muscle weighs more than fat, but I also know that more muscle = more calorie burn, and as I lose weight, I lose muscle, so I’m lifting weights, to keep my metabolism up, and my calorie burn efficient, cause the more weight I lose, the more muscle I lose, the less calories I burn. It just makes sense to lift weights.

       I’m not taking any diet supplements, or drinks, or shakes, or pills, nothing. I’m just simply doing the work, by cutting my calories, and walking. It’s that simple. Anyone can do it, by making the effort.

       I don’t believe in fad diets, or lose weight quick things, it just doesn’t work.

       And I haven’t fallen prey to buying a weight loss book either, although I have before, which, it didn’t help. I don’t know Jillian Micheals, but I don’t believe in hurting myself to get to my weight loss goals either. It just shouldn’t be that hard. Cut the calories, get a little exercise, enjoy yourself.

       I’m preaching this now, and I just hope and pray that it stays this way all throughout my weight loss efforts. I may have to walk longer everyday, as I go along, but I don’t ever foresee myself walking longer than 45-50 minutes a day.

       I need to add some crunches and things to my routine, which I will most likely do once I start my weight training.

       Weight training is something that I enjoy doing, because it gives me strength, which is the goal, to be strong, and able to do things that I’m not normally able to do. As I get older, I lose more muscle, and I think weight training is key to maintaining a strong and healthy and fit body as I get older.

       I don’t believe in yoga. It is some kind of eastern religious crap, I mean they even have names for the positions, planning on channeling your energy. No thank you, I’ll stick with my God and my regular stretches.

       I really can’t do any workout tapes, because every one that I’ve done, I can’t stand the instructors. They just get on my nerves.

       I’ve tried Zumba, in fact, I have the DVD’s, but I’d rather walk, or run, which I plan on building up to, when I get some more weight off, so that it will be better for my knees.

       I just can’t stand standing in front of a TV doing directed moves for a certain period of time. It’s just not for me.

       Some of the magazines I subscribe to…Women’s Health and Self, have really good strength training moves, and I’m going to take some of the articles out of those, and use them eventually. They’ve all got lunges in there, so I guess they’re pretty important. I think pleas’ are pretty important too, for inner thighs.

       The best workout video I’ve ever come across was Kathy Ireland Total Fitness. That girl worked my ass out in high school, I mean she really did. It was a no nonsense approach, and I liked it, and I lost weight. I remember some of her exercises, and I plan on using them as I go along. I can’t even find that DVD anywhere, it was a tape when I had it.