Weigh In #4: Holiday Excesses, continued

Our holiday excess has continued. No workouts (except for about 20 minutes of yoga last night in my case) and tons (and tons) of eating. I have no idea how I lost a pound, I certainly didn't deserve it. I have eaten entirely too much over the past several days. I am looking forward to the holidays being over so our eating and exercise can get back to normal and we can really start losing.

Mr.
Starting weight: 245 pounds
Current weight: 238 pounds
Pounds lost this week: (2) pounds
Total pounds lost: 9
Pounds left to lose: 61
Workouts: 0

Mrs.
Starting weight: 152 pounds
Current weight: 147 pounds
Pounds lost this week: 1
Total pounds lost: 5
Pounds left to lose: 17
Workouts: 1

Weigh In #3: Holiday Excesses

Mr.
Starting weight: 245 pounds
Current weight: 236 pounds
Pounds lost this week: 2 pounds
Total pounds lost: 11
Pounds left to lose: 59
Workouts: 0

Mrs.
Starting weight: 152 pounds
Current weight: 148 pounds
Pounds lost this week: (1)
Total pounds lost: 4
Pounds left to lose: 18
Workouts: 0

Bah Humbug. I gained this week. Well, I deserved it. No workouts, and a weekend of Christmas party excesses. Two straight nights (Sat and Sun) of pigging out on meatball sandwiches, baked ziti, tons of yummy appetizers, and desserts. Didn't need those calories, but everything was delicious and a good time was had by all (Thanks, J & C!)

The holidays are so busy, I'm not even going to say that I'm going to try to work out this week. If it happens, it happens. I've got a ton of stuff going on. My goal is to not gain any more, and be REALLY good starting next week. Have a great week!

Weigh In #2

Here are our results for this week:

Mr.
Starting weight: 245 pounds
Current weight: 238 pounds
Pounds lost this week: 2 pounds
Total pounds lost: 7
Pounds left to lose: 68

Mrs.
Starting weight: 152 pounds
Current weight: 147 pounds
Pounds lost this week: 0
Total pounds lost: 5
Pounds left to lose: 17

Way to go Mr.! Okay, so I didn't lose any weight this week. I didn't deserve to. I only exercised twice (Saturday and Sunday) and didn't really watch what I was eating all that much. (i.e., having a root beer float the night before weigh in does not signal a motivated attitude). I'm just glad I didn't gain.

I did discover something new yesterday - workouts On Demand. We have Verizon Fios, and there are a whole bunch of them, and they are free. Yesterday I tried Yoga (20 min) and the Biggest Loser: Cardio (23 minutes). Both kicked my butt. The best thing about them is that they are quick and dirty. When you are tasked with taking care of a newborn, you don't have big blocks of time to work out, so these are much easier to fit into my schedule. At the end of the cardio workout, I was sweating and felt like I actually did something. And I am SO SORE today, in all the right places. :) While I'm going to do the yoga again today, I'm giving my sore muscles a chance to rest today and will try another Biggest Loser workout tomorrow (Power Sculpt with Jillian). I'm going to try to work out every day this week - gotta counteract the holiday eating!

Weigh In #1: A good start

Our first weigh in - a promising start, and quite good results given I only worked out twice the whole week (Mr. only once) and we went to Friendly's for dinner Saturday night. There aren't a whole lot of healthy choices at Friendlys', but we were good and did not get our own ice cream - just had a bite or two of the kids' ice cream. Losing weight will be challenging over the holidays - esp. when Mr. brings home two big bags of red and green M&Ms! I must admit, the thought of posting my weigh in results on this blog did lead me to avoid some bad choices (i.e. root beer floats with chocolate ice cream at 10:00 at night!)

Here are our results for Week 1:

Mr.
Starting weight: 245 pounds
Current weight: 240 pounds
Pounds lost this week: 5 pounds
Total pounds lost: 5
Pounds left to lose: 70

Mrs.
Starting weight: 152 pounds
Current weight: 147 pounds
Pounds lost this week: 5
Total pounds lost: 5
Pounds left to lose: 17

Our Story: No More Excuses!

Hello! We are Mr. and Mrs. Wannabe Skinny, and we really, really, want to be skinny. Our weight has been creeping up on us ever since we got married in 1996. We weigh too much and we know we need to be healthier for our three wonderful kids.

We've tried every diet under the sun: Atkins, South Beach, Weight Watchers, Suzanne Somers, to name a few. All of them work, temporarily. But then the weight comes back as soon as we figure out that we are being deprived of something. We don't like being deprived.

Here are our goals. We will post more individually about how specifically we will meet these goals

• Make healthier choices in cooking and eating out
  
• Minimize indulgences (we know trying to eliminate them altogether doesn't work and causes rebellion!)
  
• Exercise more (at least some activity every day)
  
• Be bathing suit ready by spring!
• Stop avoiding the above by using lame excuses
  

We are full of excuses why we can't eat better and exercise more. Here are some of our favorites:

Excuses to eat too much/eat unhealthy food:

• I'm stressed
  
• I'm too busy to cook healthy
• I'm traveling/working/eating out so I can have whatever I want
  
• Healthy food is too expensive to buy at the store
  
• I'm celebrating (and we can think of pretty much anything to celebrate!)
• I'm on vacation/it's the holidays
  

Excuses to avoid exercise:

• I'm tired
  
• I'm too busy at work
  
• I have too much other stuff to do
  
• No one to watch the kids (even though we have a treadmill, exercise videos, and our gym has a babysitting service)
  
• I need sleep more
  
• I don't have the time (although I sit in front of the TV for hours every night)

So, our first priority is to recognize when we are giving a lame excuse and overcome it. Wish us luck!