I visited Shrinking Jeans today to see what their next, new challenge included and they announced that the site is a year old in November already. This means that it has been a year since I have started working out and losing weight. I can’t even believe it. As they say, time flies when you [...]
When I first joined the gym in November, I had plans to try lots of the classes but I didn’t right away. I basically stuck with the elliptical machine, the treadmill and the exercise bikes. I did each of those for twenty minutes a few days a week. I felt great and was seeing slight [...]
There are so many horrible news stories right now, it’s downright disgusting. I cannot really stomach anymore bad news or sad stories. I just can’t. For many weeks, I have stayed steady on my weight. I haven’t gained, I haven’t lost. While I am thankful for the lack of gains, I was starting to get [...]
We have our vacation to the beach coming up in mid May. I can’t wait to go and I have been trying to watch what I eat and I have been successful in drinking only water. I have been going to the gym when I can. I’ve lost a good amount of weight since November….ten [...]
No, I don’t have my weight just yet. As I said before, I don’t have a scale here at home so I use the one at the gym. I am going there after the kids go to school and before I go to work. I did weigh myself on Monday and it showed that I [...]
Today is the first weigh in day for the weight loss challenge and I was fearful of stepping on the scale because I hadn’t been to the gym since Saturday. I ate like I normally would have all weekend too. This week, so far, I have been eating so much less than I normally would [...]
I went to the gym this morning after not having gone for three days. I did the elliptical and the treadmill. I jogged on the treadmill much longer than I have ever jogged. It wasn’t long by most people’s standards but about seven minutes of jogging for me is progress. That is my goal, to increase [...]
Okay, first off, I know that it is a bit early for the snowy theme but I am in that mood with snow in our five day forecast so sorry. Yesterday I mentioned that I might write about my feelings on the gym today. So, that’s what I’ll do. I have nothing else to write about [...]
