Down 3.8 pounds for a total weight loss in 13 weeks of — at least according the Weight Watchers scale – 28.6lbs.

I prefer my home scale as today it read in at 160.8 – not too shabby.

I made it to the gym this morning — only 20 minutes on the elliptical and 10 minutes on the bike – none of it hard work, but I did it. I also did my pushup challenge which I will post here as well as over on my forum.

Pushups – 8
Plank – 60 seconds
Crunch – 20 (this is what happens when you do them DIRECTLY after doing the ab-wrenching plank – poor planning on my part!)
Wall Sit – 30 seconds
Stand on Left foot, arms above head – 90 seconds
Stand on Right food, arms above head – 32 seconds (apparently my right side is retarded because I almost fell over TWICE)

I am squirrely.
I’d say too much sugar but the only sugar that I’ve had is the artificial stuff in my soda and the fructose from my strawberries this morning. Nonetheless…I ammmmm a LIIIIIIIVE WIRE today!!!

WHOOT! WHOOT!

This morning when I got dressed, I was pulling pants out of the closet and discarding the ones that were too big. And then I came to the pants I am wearing today.

And I put them on. AND they fit. The legs are a bit tight (thank you giant thigh muscles) but the waist is not even giving me muffin top.

THEY’RE EIGHTS!

I am excited.

I’m also excited because my 3fatchicks.com/forum just started their Summer Biggest Loser Challenge. I’m on the red team – go red team!! On Sunday, my team will start some internal challenges. The first one is the pushup challenge.

So, between now and Sunday, I have to see:
How many pushups can I do?
How long can I hold the plank position?
How many crunches can I do?
How long can I wall-sit?
How long can I stand on one foot and hold my arms straight above my head (doing it for both feet)?

I’m very excited by this. I don’t typically view myself as competitive but more as comparitive. I like to see how I’m doing as compared to other people.

Whatever. I’m excited. And maybe tonight I can try all these exercises and see how many I can do and how many more I can add on during the 15 weeks of this challenge.

Today’s food (so far):
Brekkie – Eggy sammich, strawberries, dt soda
Lunch – Tuscan chicken with tomatoes, green beans, raw veggies, 2T dip, dt soda
Snack #1 – 2 wedges (12.5g total) dark chocolate
Snack #2 – 1c broccoli cole slaw

Like seriously kerfluffled beyond all kerflufflement that I have ever encountered.

It turns out that I’m 5’3″. I measured it myself.

Why is this so kerfluffle-nating?

I’ve been 5’1.5″ for basically my entire adult life. Or so I thought?
So, I’ve either GROWN or else I’ve been measured incorrectly and I’ve had the wrong information for YEARS.

I’m all askew in a world of being nearly average height…

Well.
I shall try to look at positives.

First, I’m no longer obese. My BMI, for a 63 inch tall person is 28.7. So I am now officially overweight. Cool. I think.

Second, to be within the “normal” weight range for my height, I now only have to weight 140lbs or less, instead of 134lbs or less. So, that save me 6lbs I guess…

Third, ummmmm….

Well, I got no third. Still too kerfluffled to be thinking straight I think….

It’s just so weird…

Okay.

So I did my measurements and still didn’t go to the gym. But, I did bring my healthy lunch so as to avoid the subs that I know are coming…

I am down a total of 10.5 inches in 3 months.

I have lost 0.5 inches from my bicep.

I have lost 3.5 inches from my waist.

I have lost 4 inches from my hips.

I have lost 2.5 inches from my thigh.

I am attempting to remain motivated.

Ugh.

That’s my statement for this past week (Thursday the 17th through today) and my eating and exercising habits during that time span.

I ate like shit.

I didn’t exercise enough.

And then I ate more shit.

The first shit was for emotional reasons and is somewhat understandable if not defensible. The exercise was because I felt bad for eating like shit and bad FROM eating like shit.

The final shit eating is ongoing – it’s Lab Week – which means FOOD is everywhere. We had Cookie Recipe Monday and Pizza Tuesday and Bagel Wednesday. Still to come are Sub Thursday and Potluck Friday.

However, after posting a 0.6lb weight gain from my serious food abuse this past week, I am determined that I will climb back upon the weight-loss bandwagon.

I am currently trying to avoid the guilt that I know could so easily de-rail me further.

So, I look back on my 3 Month Journal from Weight Watchers.

In three months, I have gone from 192.8 to 168.0, a total loss of 24.8 pounds.

In three months, I have gone from a BMI of 35.8 to a BMI of 31.2.

In three months, my shirts have gone from XL to a M/L size.

In three months, my pants have gone from a snug size 16 to a loose size 10.

In three months (most excitingly!), my breasts have gone from a nearly overflowing 38DD to a not fully snug 36D.

I don’t have my tape measure with me, so I can’t post my inches lost (from bicep, waist, hip and thigh) but I will when I get home.

I think that hopefully looking at this list will keep me from feeling bad. After all, I am proud of myself. I’ve worked hard, dammit. And one week (especially since I am also menstruating this week) is not the end of the world.

*starts to climb back up onto the bandwagon*

*pauses, looks back*

Oh yeah, and I ran on the treadmill on Saturday. Not just a little bit but a goodly amount. I ran and walked in intervals for a full hour. A total of four miles did I move – two miles running (ave 5.5mph) and two miles walking (ave 3.5mph). That is not too bad!

*continues climbing…climbing*

It’s amazing how easy it is to only write about my current focus in life – weight loss/exercise/healthy living and whatnot. I realize that it is a major focus in my life (and apparently fairly entertaining for you folks as my footprints and comments have never really been this high) but it isn’t my whole life.

Of course, the rest of my life may also be highly boring.

I have the dogs – Ripley – the evil puppy piranha, the little red bitch or as I have fondly dubbed her “Little Dog” which would be less funny if she weren’t such a moose of a cattle dog – and Indiana – who really only has one or maybe two nicknames “Mr. Dog” and “Who’s the best doggie in the world?” (that one always makes him wag his tail a lot). I have the kitties – Tubby gets fatter every day – well, maybe not everyday but she’s still like a little fluffy coffeetable with legs and squeaks. Zeppo managed to get a wound on his nose that he keeps digging at – and as he has a little white face, it looks like has grown a giant new reddish spot. Bootses is Bootses. She squeaks a lot and stands on my face at night. She fluffs my face and licks my eyelids when I forget to refill her food bowl at night.

I have my volunteer work with New Hope Cattle Dogs. Primarily I do events and store a crapton of crap for the rescue. Luckily, most of the events are over as the days are now too hot to do outdoor events – it’s clearly 90 already and that’s really buggering warm for the poor furry doggies. I do have an indoor event in May and probably another one in July. I think next season (which will start in probably October) that I will stop doing all the events. For awhile, I was doing one almost every weekend – which means basically a 10 or 12 hour volunteer event with setup, take down, being there all day, transporting foster dogs and whatnot. This coming cool season, I want to hike at least every other weekend. That will be AWESOME. I likes the hikes.

I plan to start training to RUN a 5k here pretty soon – though I guess that still qualifies in the weight loss/exercise/healthy living category – but I’m reather excited about it. I don’t know which 5k I will do yet but I will do at least one of them. I think that would be cool, don’t you? I already walk 5ks on the treadmill pretty routinely and it takes me less than an hour so I’m hoping to run it in less than 40 minutes. Hell, maybe I could be crazy optimistic and aim for about 30 minutes? I guess it’s only 3.1 miles or so – that would be about 6.2mph. Hey you runners out there – is that too much? I jog intervals on the treadmill (when I don’t want to play with the incline button) and usually am doing 3-5 minutes at about 5 to 5.5mph…

Aside from this – my biggest focus is work. I hate work. I need a different job in a less toxic environment. Unfortunately, this toxic environment also has 1st shift flex time hours…a very good pay rate…and generous PTO…BLAH. I just hate working somewhere this disorganized where people treat each other so freaking poorly.

In May Colleen comes to visit. I think we’ll do the Grand Canyon, Martinis and Manicures and maybe the Boyce Thompson Arboretum and a hike…depends on how hot it is.

In June I go back to Indiana for my Amy’s wedding. We’ll see if I achieve my goal before then and how well the bridesmaid’s dress fits me – I may have to have it sized again! I pick it up tomorrow evening so we’ll see…

Weight Watchers Week 11

Weigh in went well, although my scale at home is much kinder. Even post Taco Bell, I was down to 164.2lbs there. Yesterday was not a good day as I had a craptasm of a time getting to work – being parked ON the freakin’ interstate for more than 30 minutes does not make me a happy little camper. Especially when I have nothing to read and NO ONE is answering their phones. Apparently noon EST is a poor time to call people in the midwest. Anyway, I am still having a problem disassociating eating bad food from making me feel better. If I had the time to exercise again in the evening or something that was similarly stress-relieving, I believe I might do better.

I’m down another 2.6lbs for a total loss of 25.4lbs in 11 weeks (2.3lbs per week or a calorie deficit of better than 8000 calories each week).

Dman, I love that website – I have so much fun playing with my graphs!

I did find a new quote on the www.3fatchicks.com/forum

“Dieting is hard, maintaining is hard, being fat is hard. Pick your hard.”

Saturday we climbed Squaw Peak – 1.2 miles up and 1.2 miles down. Steep. VERY steep. Not a hike I would recommend for most – especially since it was packed with people in a VERY big hurry. I hate almost getting run over while I’m trying to look at the damn scenery. Ah well. It was an hour and forty minutes and 912 calories. I enjoyed it.

Sunday was the Glendale Family bike ride. It was 12 miles – since we didn’t get lost this time. Took us about 1.5 hours. I enjoy the ride but my poor bottom!

I was too lazy to make it to the gym this morning – instead sleeping in until 0530. Let’s hope I can make it tonight on the way home from work!

In celebration of weight loss going well and because my previous hair looked like Kelso’s from That 70′s Show, I got my hair chopped, dyed it blonde and purchased some colored gel (blue, green and gold – I’m still looking for red and pink).

What do you think?