You always feel better after a workout!

I have been watching my calories or points for about 6 weeks now.  I have lost about 12 pounds.  Something "clicked" with me last week. I decided to finally turn on the Wii and at least just do Wii step for a while.  I knew it wasn't going to be a very intense workout since it's just Wii Fit, but I knew I needed to do something!  I had a 1.4 pound loss the week before but that just didn't seem good enough for me! So I got the step out and started going! I love Wii Step because it is fun for me and I like competing against the scores!  My husband currently has the highest score on the basic step from when he tried it a couple years ago.  I wanted to beat that!  I kept working but still didn't break his score.  About that time, my daughter woke up from her nap.  I had this idea to just put in my Turbo Jam workout that I have had for 5 years now.  I bought it back even before I was married and actually when I was about 50 lbs less than I am now...Turbo Jam Infomercial  


I decided to just "watch" the video.  I turned it on and sat down.  A few minutes into it I realized I could do this.  So I got up and tried it.  I did about 15 minutes of the 45 minute Cardio Party.  The next day I did the 20 minute workout and the day after that I did the Turbo Sculpt 43 minute workout!  I admit it's hard to get me motivated to workout.  I don't like to at all.  Cardio was not my favorite thing to do, in my slimmer days I was strength training all the way! But these days, especially with how out of shape I am I have decided I need to do Cardio and actually like it once I get going. 

It's true....Nothing feels as good as when you finish a good workout! You truly feel so much better after a workout!!!

A month down and 10 lbs gone!!!

Wow, so I haven't blogged in a whole month!  I really thought I would be one of those people who would blog like 50x a day.  I created a secret FB group of all my friends I know who want to lose weight and so I update how things are going there.  After I wrote my frustrated post on Oct 2, I pondered "doing something" for a few more days and then jumped in slowly to following my Weight Watchers points, something that I had a membership too for months but never used.  The wake up call came when the scale said 285 for the first time in my life.  The first time ever.  I weighed 281 before giving birth to Chloe, but lost it immediately after having her. I started following Weight loss FB pages and felt more and more and more empowered! 

I have been following Weight Watcher points and using Myfitnesspal to track calories for 4 weeks now and the scale read 275.8 today and yesterday!  I have to bask in this, not because I am overly excited, but because I have stuck to something and lost weight!  I was down in the 250s in Jan-March, but gave up very easily.  I find myself looking back and wishing I had only stuck with it.  I could have very easily been 200 pounds by then and smaller than I have been in over 5 years!  But I can't think about that now.  For now, I am happy that I am losing and that I have found awesome support on Facebook.  My next goal is to consistently exercise, something that i haven't yet done.  I need to find something I love and something that keeps me going and motivated!  I have lots of different things like workout DVD's, Wii games, and I could of course walk!  I think once I start moving more I will get even more motivated!  I would like to be down a dress size by Christmas, if not 2.