Emotional Eating

I am the epitome of an emotional eater. I eat when I'm happy, sad, stressed, bored etc. Especially stressed!!! My middle name should be "comfort food!!!" This is a very bad habit! Not sure how to tackle this one. I have been doing great on adding good habits this week such as my water intake, but that comfort food habit is tough one. Time to hit the books and read up on ways to break this habit.

Progress Report

OK, so I haven't blogged in 2 weeks so I think it is about time to give a progress report!

I will give myself a B- for my workout effort. Not to make excuses but we are now in the home stretch of school being out and I feel we are busier now then a month ago. No excuse, but it has made getting a workout in every day a challenge. I have been getting my workout in 4 days a week for the past 2 weeks. We have also had some storms so getting in the pool was a no go, but I could pop in my Pilates DVD that I haven't done since I have been unable to get up earlier. So, with that being said, I could definitely improve but I'm also really happy that I have gotten in what I have! 4 days is better than none!

I went to a weight loss seminar that my Chiropractor was giving and I'm not sure if you know this but in order to get the amount of water you need on a daily basis you need to be drinking 1/2 your body weight. I will admit that I did not know that. I thought I did good on my water intake but I was really short on the amount. So, for the past week I have upped my water intake and WOW, what a difference that has made. I feel fuller, but not bloated like I thought I would feel which has helped the afternoon munchies.

All in all I feel pretty good with how this new regime is going, but I know I can do better. I have not seen one ounce of weight loss, but I'm trying not to let that get me discouraged. I keep reminding myself that this is for health and not a number! I say that but I would still like to see that number go down.......just a little.......

So Far So Good

We'll I have only been at the exercise thing for 4 days and so far so good. With the exception of a shorter workout on Saturday, I have been in the pool every day for a 30 minute workout. Since my knee isn't going to cooperate and allow me to take a dance class yet, I'm going to add a Pilate's mat workout to my new regime. I have a several Pilate's workout DVDs and it is time to blow the dust off of them and use them. I'm going to start with the 20 minute workout. My goal is to get up a 1/2 hour early in the morning and do the workout. I still in my heart believe that a morning workout jump starts your metabolism so I need to add that in. I tried to get up this morning, but it didn't work so I will just keep trying. I have realized that I am really no longer a morning person. I really felt for a long time that I was a morning person, but I think my desire for sleep has taken over!!!! My other hope is that with the exercise I will sleep better at night making getting up in the morning difficult. I wake up several times a night so I'm hoping that this will help. It has certainly helped Doodlebug sleep better!!! She has been out like a light the past two nights!!!!

I decided to do the dirty deed and weigh myself this morning. I had the need to know my starting place. I hadn't weighed in awhile so I was pretty surprised to see the scale read 195.4. Now, I have already told myself that I am focusing on getting healthy and not what the scale reads! Easier said than done! I think I will just pick a day during the week and weigh in so I can track my progress! Even if I don't see progress every week the weigh in will keep me accountable. Haven't decided on a day yet. I'm just not sure what day will be best. Any suggestion?

Back at It....so to sepak!

I am finally back to my blog. Oh how I have missed you and your blank posts just waiting for some spark of inspiration to fill you with witty dialogue! OK, maybe not witty dialogue but I really have missed writing. It is a wonderful de-stressor and we all know we could use a lot less stress in our lives. So, here we go!!!!

I'm beginning with a new inspiration to get in shape and healthy. A good friend of mine has been running for several months and doing awesome. I am inspired to work out more and finally "shit and get off the pot" as my FIL would say. I, un-fortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at it, can't run. I don't actually like to run, but since my knee surgery impact exercise is out of the question. Which is hard for me because my exercise of choice would be to take a dance class. I have tried to take class on several occasions but have found it to be extremely painful, so I have decided that since the weather is now hot (we bypassed warm and went right to hot this year) I will hit the pool, swim, and do water aerobics. I have taken so many water aerobic classes that I have put together my own routine and tonight I started. The pool temp was perfect and it felt really, really good to get out there and move. Especially in the water due to the weightlessness! Now, I have not given up on the idea of taking dance classes and with the beginning of the summer semester at Doodlebug's dance studio I will definitely give it a shot, but with the pool I can get out there every day.

My goal for the rest of this month is to hit the pool and do 1 half hour session every day. I think that is so doable. I of course would love to get up and do this first think in the morning, but that would mean being in the pool at 5am. I'm not even going to attempt that and set myself up to fail. So, the evening it is and after dinner digestion. I'm hoping this will also help curb the late night sweet treat habit that I have gotten myself into!

I haven't decided if I'm going to put an actual weight loss goal with this right now. I think I will just focus on the new habit of exercising every day. Along with changing some of the bad eating habits the family has fallen into. I already mentioned the late night sweet treat!!!! The afternoon snack attack is also on the habit to break list! We actually eat fairly well with lots of fruit and veggies, but this carb queen has some carb habits to work on!

So, my dear blog, here we are. We are ready to begin this new quest of health! Lets get to it!!!