The numbers....

The post I have been meaning to write but haven't had the time to write.

My current Body Fat Percentage is 48.8%. A healthy range for body fat would be 25% which would put me at a weight of 151 lbs. So that means I need to lose 75 lbs instead of 100 lbs. Like 25 lbs would be a killer but 75 is just so much closer than 100.

On a good note. I have invested in a heart rate monitor watch that is proving to be very informative. I am rather impressed with myself too. My resting heart rate is within a normal range, not the range of someone who is as overweight as I am. I steadily record a heart rate of about 74 bpm. I am LOVING that when I work out I get a better picture of how I am doing and how many calories I am burning.

Oh so back to the other numbers...My BMR (Basal Metobolic Rate) is 1479 which means it is entirely possible that I am taking in too little calories than I need to take in for me to properly lose weight. According to the numbers, I should take in 2223 a day seeing that I am active. I am contemplating giving it a shot. Maybe that is part of my issue? I am scared though, what if it backfires? It has been like moving a mountain to lose the 12 I've lost but can I afford to NOT try? I've missed the 10 pound mark for November by 8 pounds and that makes me so sad I could cry. I just don't know what to do.

Need to research it more, maybe I can find the answer I am looking for. I hate to keep doing something wrong but then I hate that maybe I am doing something right and that by doing this could be doing something wrong. AUGH!!!!!!!!!! 

Mid Day Post

 My pants are too big. I know, I know that is a good problem I but they are so loose that I had to keep tugging them up as I walked across the parking lot at the grocery store. I didn't need to moon the entire town. Send them screaming for cover. Oh on the note of too big, I bought a new shirt yesterday at Lane Bryant and it is too big as well. I knew when I looked at it that it would probably be too big, but 9 times out of 10 lately when I get home with what I think is the right size, it is too small. I would just love it if I would get back into some of my smaller clothes. I hate that I am not there yet. Makes me frustrated, makes me sad, makes me crazy, crazier than I am.

Enough mid day thoughts. If I can get more homework knocked out tonight I need to post the numbers post. Today is one of the days I wish there were two of me.

A Reason To Be Excited?????

I don't want to get anyone's hopes up, ok mainly, mine, but there is a slight possibility I may see a change. This is the slightest of possibilities and in all reality it could be the mucinex liquid nighttime cen if it is a figment of y imagination toynighthen I sleep there s a good chance that I will dream of a slimmer me. As I stepped into the shower tonight for a brief moment I swear that the woman staring back at me looked a little different. A girl can hope right?

On another note.....today I compared heart rate monitors and have picked ot a  relatively inexoensive one that is on my want list. Ummmm could this be me? Really a heart rate monitor? Everything I want right now is fitness related and otger than a new pair of running shoes, this is near the top of my list of wants. I think it would be a good way to monitor my workouts and make sure I am getting all that I can from them. For instance, if I had one last night I could have more accurately tracked my actual calories burned versus the guess that I input into myfitnesspal. So....Santa if you read this...  :-)

Tomorrow night if all goes as planned, my entry will'be a lot of numbers. In addition to reviewing watches, I also found a way to determine my heart rate range and found a calculation to determine a healthy weight by more than a number on the scale.


**** This was written last night but I was using a tablet to do so. It decided near the end that No, it did NOT want to type anymore. I finally gave up and went to sleep. Maybe tonight it will be cooperative.

I suck at this.....

And not just the blogging. How does one eat right, workout 5 days a week, cardio and strength, and NOT lose any weight?

My goal was to lose 10lbs a month and so far November is looking AWFUL! Because I haven't lost anything I took measurements again last night. Maybe seeing something there will perk me up. The trainer told me last night to try to get excited when I see a difference in my clothes. She said that the scale will eventually catch up, but when? *Sigh*

On a different note, during last night's workout it became VERY apparent that my runniing shoes are shot. ust have to make it until after the first of the year to replace them. I may get some of the orthotic inserts and see if that will help.

I look forward to the day when I am finally at a healthy weight. I so hope it happens, and I SO hope that I can start seeing some progress.

Still a work in progress

It has been months since I last wrote an entry for my blog and so tonight when I decided to start documenting this attempt on my journey to lose this weight I decided that it was worthy of a new blog.

I am logging everything I eat. Not to say I don't have moments like haing a margarita for dinner but I am pretty good about what I eat. Grapes are now my friend at night and in the afternoon and I am really trying to limit the amount of processed foods I eat. That doesn't mean that I am not using Turkey Breast lunch meat or pre-made 100 calorie sandwich rounds, but I am trying to get as much of it out of my diet as possible. I am also drinking an insane amount of water but I don't think I am getting the 2.7 liters that is recommended for women to drink per my nutrition book. There are some days I feel like I am going to float away as it is but maybe I should give it a shot.

Workout wise I am trying to get back into the swing of things. I am trying to incorporate more strength training in additon to cardio. Everything I read says that is what you are supposed to do so....

This is Day 1, at least on here. It is actually day 35 in general. I have a goal to lose 10 lbs a month. Good or bad that is my goal and October proved to be a good month - 10 lbs gone. I would like to look and feel better by my birthday in March. Hope that by then I will be at least 40 lbs lighter, 50 would be better.

I know all of this is an uphill battle but I want it. I want it.