Goal: Lose baby weight + 30 lbs
Achieved so far: Baby weight is gone!
Pre-pregnancy weight: 221.0
Weight last week: 211.2
Current weight: 206.8
Weight loss/gain since last week: -4.4 !!!!
TOTAL WEIGHT LOST (not including baby weight): -14.2 !!!!
What a great weigh in for my 51st blog!
I can not believe I am so close to saying I weigh "one hundred and something"! I had a brief stint in the 100's when I was in the 10th grade but other than that it has been a looooooooong time! WOOHOO!
I think part of the reason the weigh loss was so big though is because I only did my resistance band training once last week. Instead of doing them I opted to work on my push ups and crunches.
I did about 500 crunches last week. I just measured my waist and I am at 42 inches! Just a few weeks of crunches and I've already lost 2 inches!
Leslie doesn't know it but I have her to thank for this! Probably over a month ago her and I were running and she said she could feel her abs burning. I told her that I didn't even know if I had any and what was the point in working on them since it would take a tummy tuck and some lipo in order for me to get a nice tummy. "It can never hurt to strengthen your core," was her reply. Touche, Leslie!
I had a successful week with both eating and running.
I ate lots of veggies this week and lots of brown rice. Both really helped to fill me up and make me feel satisfied. I love the fact that I actually know what those two things feel like now! I used to think feeling full meant feeling sick. So not the case!
I wasn't feeling well on Tuesday but Leslie came over and I ran anyway. I think part of the reason that I wasn't sick for long was because I kept up with my exercise! Since her hubby was out of town on Thursday, she came over again for dinner and we ran before hand. We really pushed it both days and it felt wonderful.
This weekend we went to my parents house in Tennessee. My mom and dad did a great job of filling the house with healthy goodies and that really helped with my success on the scale this morning. The chicken sausage scrambler was the best dad!
Octavio and I got to run 3.2 miles together on Saturday morning (yep dad, I measured it and it's more than a 5k). It was the hilliest terrain I have ever ran on and I didn't enjoy it until it was over.
Seriously, look....
First you go down and up this hill...
Then you turn the corner and go down and up this hill...
That is a 0.8 mile circle and we ran it four times so we hit each of those hills four times!
We ran it in 31:39 though and I am proud of that!
My parents gave me one of their big exercise balls so I am going to check out some of the workouts on Sparkpeople.com and see how I do this week with that. I will continue my push up and crunch training and I have to run Mon, Wed, Fri, and Sun this week.
*On another note*
My baby turned FOUR this weekend :(
Oriana got a nice healthy present from us for her birthday :) For some reason she thinks in order to stop the bike you need to honk the horn!
I can't lie. I had a taste of her cake :)
What did she do on her first day after turning four?
"Mommy, now I can pick out my own clothes."
Challenge:
In the spirit of strengthening your core...
Pick two of these and do 12 reps!
For some of my readers from MySpace who are just joining me, tomorrow I will address your questions about the race! Tune in again!
Don't forget to leave a comment and show me some love!
"Mommy, now I can pick out my own clothes." 
15 comments:
Finally! I've been waiting for almost two hours for your blog update! *wink*
CONGRATS! What a great week!
I am so impressed by how many crunches you did. I did get your tip on a towel under my back and am going to try that. Two inches lost from doing crunches... wowser! You are a hottie!
So glad you and the hubby got to run together! The couple who runs together, stays together!
Love Ori's bday gift and declaration of independence. SO CUTE!
Have a great day! Keep up the excellent work!
You are incredible!!
Wow...way to go Michelle! You are amazing! Congratulation!!!!
You're incredible, I'm so happy for you and proud of how commited you are. I would have quit a long time ago, but thats the laziness in me!
Ori's outfit is....cute! haha. She is getting so big! We need to come and see you all again soon. I'm looking forward to another week of blogs, I don't know what to do with myself on the weekends! :-D
That is awesome, Michelle. I am back on the move again this week. Thanks for all your encouragement....you loser!
Chris
Wow. I don't know what to say, I'm so impressed by your will power, it makes me want to throw on some workout clothes and run down Miller Rd.
I think I'm going to start doing some crunches now after reading this! Oh, excerise ball- the best for crunches by the way. Have you seen the Bender Ball commercials on TV? Arla here at work does them daily and drinks a fat buster smoothie for breakfast and one for lunch and has lost 105 pounds in just over a year.
Congrats on your weight loss and keep up the good work!
What are you doing up at 5:55am? It was great to see you and the family this weekend, as I told you you are looking more and more like a woman and less and less like my little girl, although you will always be my little girl. I gotta say you are looking great keep it up you will be under that 200 number before you know it and I can tell you this when your mommy hit that she turned it on even more. PROUD is the best word I can say. Love ya lots Daddy
ps, you forgot a hill, its actually down, up, down, up..down
Great job Michelle!!!
You are someone for me to look up too!!! If you can do it....then so can I. Weight Watchers here I come...and watch out Sweating to the oldies this big girl going to be shaking her booty!! lol
Keep up the great job. And good luck on your next race.
take care,
jeanette
Awesome week :0) Im so proud of you..You are on hot mama :0)
Well, this is going to be a looong response comment since I have 8 comments so far! Thanks guys!
Leigh - You are right - The couple who runs together, stays together! How are you and Michael doing on that?
LaVonda - Thanks friend! We need to get together and run after you recover from the Mini!
Ash - Why don't you all come down Mother's Day weekend? Mom and I are running the Zoo race together - you could join us!
Chris - Thanks for leaving a comment! It makes me feel spe-shul :)
Cheri - Never heard of the Bender Ball. I'll have to look into it!
Dad - The time is on PST I believe so no, I wasn't up at 5:55 a.m. You know better than that! Thanks for being proud!
Katie and Jeanette - Thanks for joining us! I look forward to more comments from you guys!
You are doing awesome Chelle! Do I see you jogging down my street sometimes? If so stop in and say hi! Happy b-day to Ori!! Wow 4 already. Keep up the awesome work. you look great! Lyn
great job on the exercising.... and willpower... i know what you mean about "feeling full as feeling sick".. i eat fairly heathy but i have no control.. i'll just keep eating until i feel sick. even if its veggies, i can't imagine that eating till you wanna puke is good.. still stretching the tummy. :) but on the good side, i have been forcing myself to use my gym membership.. 100 crunches the other day... not as good as your 500/week though.. :) great job! sorry about the address.. i just read that message yesterday.. :(
Hi Michelle, it's great you are working so hard to get healthier. You are looking great and seem to feel really good, too. Keep it up! Your example is really inspiring to me. Alan
Oy, hopefully soon I'll be able to lose more than 1lb a week! >4lbs--FANTASTIC! Oh, and I don't remember who said it, but they were right about using the ball for crunches--the best! Also, don't know if you've tried it, but winsor pilates is an excellent core workout. Keep on trekkin, woman, you're doing awesome!
Lyn - Thanks for checking this out! That would be me jogging by your house :)
Lynea - Keep up the hard work. You know it is worth it!
Alan - Welcome and thanks for the encouraging words!
Paces - I'll have to check out Windsor Pilates!
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