Update

I have not been that active on here - the main reason is that I have not been that active in my weight loss. I have not 'fallen off the wagon' but I have taken a small break from actively trying to lose weight. I have maintained my weight completely during my hiatus and now that I am living in my new fabulous house with many more resources available to me (like being able to leave my food scale out without fear of it getting broke) I should be able to get back to my regime with better results than before.

D and I are setting up a gym in our basement. It currently consists of an elliptical machine (in pieces), my exercise bike, weights and a pull-up bar. Once we get things organized down there I will have my pilates ball and mat as well as the stepper and the free weights. Currently there are tons of boxes to be emptied and crap to be organized so there isn't much room for exercise.

Temptations are still around as they will be for the rest of my life - but I am feeling confident that I will be able to resist them once again.

I have plans to try something completely new. I am going to try and get up with D in the morning when he starts getting ready for work and exercising before I have to start getting ready for work. Hopefully this will not only make it so that I get exercise in daily but also give me more energy during the day. I have heard that working out in the morning can give you more energy throughout the rest of your day and if it is true it would be awesome.

So here is my recommittal to my regime. Go me.

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Weight loss: 19lbs
Mood: over-worked

I have a new job now as many of you know - it has got me super stressed out and over worked for the majority of each day. I am not a huge fan of it as it is not in my field but the people are super nice here and I am picking things up quickly enough.

Because of the job I have had to let go of a great deal of things in my life including my weight loss - I have not abandoned it, just have to wait and see what happens in this time to be able to direct myself properly with it - there is a fair bit of walking around here but also sitting and I am not sure how to adjust my calories for all of this. My art is suffering too but that is for another blog all together :)

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Thursday, May 8, 2008
Weight loss: 19.5lbs
Mood: honest

I have not posted here in quite some time and for that I am sorry. The reason I haven't been regularly posting here is because I have been ashamed (again) - I have been misbehaving slightly. Not enough to have gained any weight but I have not yet broken through this stupid plateau. It is just so frustrating and hard to keep going when you see almost no progress whatsoever.

I have decided to take an unofficial break - not a break from eating properly or exercising regularly, just a break from logging. I know what you are thinking, Stephanie not using her spreadhseets- that's crazy talk! But honestly, I need to view this as more of a lifestyle than a regime (or diet or whatever) and logging won't get me that viewpoint. Until I move into the new house I think I am just going to 'eat right' and exercise reguarly and I will see what happens. I know what I eat on a regular basis so if something positive (or negative) happens I will know how to repeat (or not repeat) it - so I don't think that will be a problem.

In terms of exercise, I have gotten my bike out and have started biking around Ottawa getting photographs. My first bike ride for photos took me on a 2 hour bike ride down the canal and around. I was tired but rather impressed with myself that I had made it that far. The aspect of getting photos (which I love) out of the bike ride makes me go a little further because I see something in the distance that I want a picture of - great combination I think. I am also still using my elliptical machine but not really making great use of the weights of tapes I have. Hopefully I will be able to get myself back into the weights and floor workouts soon, though I have a feeling the tapes will stay away until the cold weather comes back.

Sorry that this post has been sort of mish-mash like and not very well phrased - I am just trying to type as I think and I am not thinking very coherently today. Anyway, I am going to try and post more regularly on here again and would like everyone to visit my other blogs and my DeviantArt site as I am very regular on those sites (particularly my photography blog and my DeviantArt site).

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The Biggest Loser

Biggest Loser history was made last night when Ali from the pink team became the first female biggest loser. Ali started out at a whopping 234 pounds and ended the show with a weight loss of 112lbs, losing 47.86% of her initial weight! She is totally inspiring and I will admit taht I was emotional when she won. At 122lbs she looks absolutely amazing. I can only dream that I am able to followin her footsteps - although my pound losses are a bit more spread out than hers. She lost that weight in about 6 months - pretty amazing. Congratulations Ali - you totally deserved it!

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Weight loss: 18.5lbs
Mood: unsure

So I have dropped to my lowest weight (or highest weight loss depending on how you look at it) since I started and I am happy about that. Only another 1.5lbs until I am at my plateau marker and then anything under that I will considera break in the plateau. I increased my water intake (or rather was more honest with it and realized I wasn't actually drinking what I thought I was) and increased my exercise. As for my calories, I pretty much left them the same, at least for now. I have gotten used to eating this much food in a day and I really don't want to screw that up by playing around with higher or lower calories. I now walk most days for about 2 miles or so. I take long photo walks in the parks around Ottawa of which there are many. It is really enjoyable and with D coming with me, I don't feel like I am missing out on anything back home. Hopefully this will keep going and I will be able to break this stupid plateau by the end of the month. Then I would only be a month behind in where I wanted to be - but oh well, that is really only a couple of pounds and I could always readjust my goals if I needed to.
I went shopping yesterday with D's sister, who is tiny and gorgeous and pretty much as perfect as they come, and it was kind of depressing. We were in La Vie en Rose (a great store) and looking at the 3 for $15 racks, which are arranged from xs to xl across the width of the store, and of course she was on the xs and s side while I was way across the store on the l and xl end. It was like that all day long and it hurt me each time I noticed it. She could buy pants from the regular stores, I want so badly to be able to do that. I am not mad or anything like that, she is great, I am just a little jealous I guess. I want to be thin and beautiful like that. Oh well, I am how I am and I am improving myself. I did manage to get a really great peacoat from Old Navy which was normally $50 but was on clearance for $9.99!! Such a steal! I love it. So that made my day better, and then of course we walked around parliament and I got to take tons of pictures which always makes me happy.
Anyways, this update was about me hitting my lowest weight of this journey and I am happy about that. Only a little more and I will break through this plateau and be back on track. Gotta get this weight off for T's wedding afterall!

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