Tuesday, March 31, 2009

So first a confession--I didn't exercise today. Booo, Shannon. I know I should have, but I didn't and I have no intentions of doing so right now. I did pretty well food wise today, I kept the day light in anticipation of my friend's Erin & Sean (not a couple--Sean is Erins' life coach/tenant/manslave) anyway they made dinner for us and I had suspicions that I would be tempted to splurge so I saved calories for it. At any rate, here's what I ate today:
cheerios, 1/2 banana & skim milk
pretzel chips
fruit & yogurt parfait
chicken parmesan with pasta and cheese--(although Joey was thoughtful enough to choose the less cheesy piece for me--thank you Joey!)
corn and carrots
1 1/2 pieces of bread--I finished Emma's
1/2 tater tot (thanks again Joey!)
1 bite of very yummy apple sour cream pie (that was Chris's)
2 glasses of wine (bad idea but it's done now)
water, water and more water.
OMG!! and the most delicious strawberry field greens salad with light raspberry viniagrette dressing
so it wasn't a terrible day
but I should have exercised. . .
tomorrow is another day
And completely unrelated--Erin showed me the most awesome bra and I'm going to buy one. It doesn't "make me feel like I'm being hugged like an angel" as Erin suggested, but it does make my jugs look damn good! And it's comfy.

Monday, March 30, 2009

total weight loss: 4 pounds

Off to a good start today:
58 minutes on the elliptical (very good job!!)
skipped breakfast --gotta work on this
vegetable beef soup for lunch--1 g of fat. 160 cal.
water only --40 oz so far

I'm in the Zone

So I've finally gotten motivated--old prom pictures and having to post current pictures of myself on facebook are surprisingly motivational.
I still don't have anyone who has stepped as my "life-coach" to support and encourage this endeavor, but no matter, I can fly solo on this one.
So here's the long term masterplan:
-lose 26 pounds by the last day of school (somewhere around 6/18/09)
-lose 36 pounds by the time we go to Myrtle Beach (7/25/09)
-lose 46 pounds by the time the kids start school (circa 9/25/09)
-lose 58 pounds by Halloween
-lose 66 pounds by Thanksgiving
-lose 80 pounds by Christmas

This is a 2 pounds a week goal and puts me at a weight of 148 pounds which is within my physician suggested range of 132 (fucking kidding me, right)-155 (that's more realistic)
At 5 feet, 8 inches I think 148 is reasonable. I figure I'll be wearing a size 6 or 8 at that weight. (I can wear a 10 or 12 at 165 lbs.)
I'll get there. It's going to take 9 months and a tremendous amount of self control, but I'll get there. It's no longer an option. It's just plain stupid to continue allowing my body size to impact me physically and emotionally. It's time for a change, it's time to take action.
Hopefully as I begin losing, people will begin noticing and telling me so because like most other people, compliments make me feel good about myself and will further encourage the mission. If not, fuck it, I'm still gonna lose it. Because I am tired of feeling this way. I won't bore you with the entire laundry list of things-I-hate-about-being-fat--I'm sure you could come up with most of them on your own.
So look out world, because Shannon is losing it!