Tuesday, April 19, 2011

45 down in 3 months!! and SHOPPING SPREE

Yesterday was my 3 month mark and when I weighed it was -45 pounds on the dot!! I was also able to hit my goal of losing all my baby weight by my son's birthday:) I was sure happy and I even resisted cake and ice cream that day! I was so sick of looking at icing after decorating his cakes every time I thought about having a piece it made me feel sick. Today I weighed in and was at -45.6 which leaves me with 37.4 to lose.
Also my hubby being the sweet guy he is spoiled me yesterday. It is still pretty cold here, but there have been like 2 days that have been nice and sunny, so I've been getting my spring/summer clothes out. Well they all drowned me! I have a few t-shirts from Old Navy that I normally wear to bed or workout in that I now have to wear during the warm days because I sweat so bad in anything else. My son had to go have his 12 month shots so while we were there my husband took me shopping. He said I need to get some clothes for the warm weather since he has noticed everything is to big, and I could get whatever I wanted but can't have any of it till my birthday on the 12th. This made my day!! Especially knowing he has realized some of the changes. I'm very casual with my clothing. If I have somewhere nice to go or anything like that I like to get dressed up and look really nice, but if not its jeans and a t-shirt. One of my favorite store is Aeropostale I love their graphic tee's! I don't think I've shopped there since my honeymoon and mostly because I couldn't fit into anything. I had a coupon for $25 off a purchase of $100. So I decided to go there. I wasn't to sure on the sizes and what I would need but my hubby told me to get larges. I also got him a few shirts too. We ended up getting 5 shirts each and saved $150 while spending $80!! I don't like trying on things at stores it creeps me out, so when I got home I tried them on and they are tight but not like skin tight, so I fell ok wearing them. We also went back to Shopko and I bought some more shorts and capri's it wasn't till I got home that I noticed they weren't the same brand as my others pair I bought last week. I bought 10's and 8's since my other's fit at a 10. The 10's in this brand I can get on but are tight and make me have serious muffin top! And the 8's I could get up over my hips and butt but even laying down and sucking in I was barely able to button them. I hadn't tried on my first pairs of goal capri's in a while and decided to try them on then. I was able to get them on, button, and zip them up!!! Where they are low rise they still make me have a little muffin top but I'm hoping to be able to feel comfortable wearing them by my B-day. My hubby kept telling me how good they looked on, which made me feel good to. So since I can now get the capri's on that last month I couldn't even get over my butt, I decided to keep the 8's. I think if I can lose another 20 pounds they will most likely fit or maybe (dreaming here) be loose. After that we went to Hollister and I got 6 shirts there! About 3 years ago was the last time I shopped there and weighed about the same as I do know and their larges barely fit. But from what MFP says I should be down another 10 in another month so hoping they will fit really good. I could have bought all they had, everything was so cute, but they are pricer from what I usually spend. Thankfully most the one's I bought were in clearance for around $7.00 each, again YAY for saving money. I think there we saved about $80 there and only spent $50. And of course we had to go to Old Navy!! Since I bought shirts there last week I didn't end up getting to many things I got a pair of capri's and 2 shirts. But my hubby got 4 pairs of shorts and 3 shirts. And we found a few cute things for our little guy too. We saved $70 and spent $60. Over all it was a good shopping day!! We spent about $270 but saved $450!!***Sorry I know alot of you could probably careless about what I spent and saved but since if I put anything about spending money or my weight loss on my other blog people start freaking out this is the place I get to be excited about it!!***
I have my doctor's appointment on Thursday hoping my blood pressure will be lower again this time. It was high again last month and I want it to be lower!!
Also for week one of Ripped in 30 I have lost 2.85inches:) I also needed a new belt I bought a large because thats about what a 12 is considered, got it home and it was to big!! So I had to exchange it for a small/medium. When I put it on I got it to the second hole:) I can't believe it. I also noticed my pants are getting bigger in the thighs and a little around my waist. I love the way I am feeling lately. Today when I woke up and walked into the bathroom to do my business and weigh I had to do a double take in the mirror I couldn't believe how my tummy looked. I've been bloated for the past week and a half due to TOM so today when that had went away it was awesome to see the results:) I'm hoping for a good loss this week again! I have alot of new clothes to get into and I want to look awesome in them I think that's motivating me more than anything right now- oh and getting into my swimsuits:)

Thursday, April 14, 2011

A size 10??

I'm sorry but first off I am quite proud of myself today! I burned 1658 calories and had a total of 140minutes of exercise!! That's definitely a record for me:)

Some of that exercise was shopping! I usually don't count it but today I was sweating the whole time, so I figured it counted plus my HRM showed my heart rate was up. Anyways in the Shopko ad (I honestly have no Idea if there are Shopko's outside of Utah, if there isn't its a department store) they said how they had their Bermuda shorts and capri's on sale. I went there and of course the capri's I wanted they didn't have my size or the color I wanted. I looked at the Bermuda shorts but I haven't worn shorts in years!! I figured well in about ten pounds I'll be the skinniest I have been in a very long time I should be able to wear shorts by summer! I bought a pair for $15 in a size 10. I never try things on at the store, and I figured they'd fit by June. Well when I got home I put them on to see how far i was from fitting into them. And they buttoned and zipped up with no problem & no muffin top!! Now my thighs don't look the greatest in them but still I can fit into a ten!! I don't even remember the last time I fit into any size ten!! I know I couldn't go into to another store and buy a 10 and fit into them. Because Old navy Jeans and the one's I buy at Sam's at a size 12 are still kinda tight. But at least in one brand I can fit into a ten!! I then went into Old Navy which as most know by now I LOVE that store!! I bought 10 new shirts in either a large or medium. I can fit into most of their larges right now so I'm hoping to lose enough to wear the mediums with in a couple months. I of course had a coupon and so for all 10 shirts plus 2 shirts & the cutest pair of shoes for my little boy I only spent $35!!!! Can't beat that.

I hit my 3 month mark on Monday! It doesn't seem like its been that long. I'm hoping by then to be down 45-48 pounds. I had that 5lb. gain over the weekend which only 1.5 has come off but dear aunt flow came to visit so I'm hoping it will start coming off again. I can't see how a person can gain 5 lbs. overnight. Once I can get that fully off if I can lose another 1-3 pounds will be wonderful and make my doctor proud once again:) My Birthday is in 27 days and my original goal was to be down 52 pounds, I'm hoping to at least be at 55!

I'll shut up now since I've just kinda been rambling off. I was just so excited about the shorts I wanted to share!!

P.S.: Jillian is Satan! But I think I like Ripped more than I did the Shred!

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Day 1 of *Ripped in 30*

Oh my HELL! Jillian Micheal's you are once again my enemy! After procrastinating for a week and a half I decided to finally get my butt back in gear(of course after eating like a pig) and start doing "Ripped." I can't decide if its harder than level 1 of the "Shred" was or if its just because I'm use to some of the moves. It still kick my arse!! She says it was only 20 minutes which the "Shred" was suppose to be but it would be about 25 with the warm up and cool down, "Ripped" however was about 30 minutes with those. Still isn't bad considering in that time I was able to burn 463 calories!! I'm excited that each level is only 7 days instead of 10 with this one though. By day ten with "Shred" I was so sick of listening to Jillian say the same thing. Hopefully it won't get that bad.


Now as for my messed up body! From Saturday morning to Sunday morning I gained 5 POUNDS!! How does that happen?? I'm thinking its mostly water weight, I didn't sleep well that night and then last night I had a horrible headache and this morning I was down .6 that and I was lacking on the water this weekend. But I need to now lose 6 pounds to be at my goal for Saturday! Hoping "Ripped" will make it so I can do it. And to make it that much worse I went back into the dreaded 200's :s URG!!! On a positive note its a new week, I'm going to kick my butt this week and eat better than I did last week!


It has been nice because the last twice I have seen one of my Grandma's she has told me how good I'm looking! It boost my self-esteem up alot, she use to always make comments about me not being thin so to now be getting compliments is nice!


So "Ripped" here I come!! Hoping to get some good results again:) Come back in 29 days to see the progress! (or before hand I'm sure there will be more post)