continuing to bike

I biked four days this week for a rough total of $6 that was donated to the cause.

Couldn't find the energy on Friday to make my way down to the fitness center.

Update from week's grand total:
Fitness center members travelled 2,513 miles on the cardio machines last week,
 earning 25 cents per mile ($623.25)
to be donated to the Feed the Need fund drive. Way to go! 

exercise tally

I biked further today...  but didn't burn as many calories. Huh!?  To top it off, I went earlier to guarantee a recumbent bike and didn't get one.  My arse is numb and I cannot ride that style ever again. Ouch!

Another $1.50 to the food shelf!

feed the need

a tale of two scales

My scale at home tells a slightly different story.  It also showed a loss today, but I always seem to be a bit heavier than this scale.  My scale at home is digital.  I wonder which is closer to the truth?

Today, I'll take 156*.  It's the closest I've been to my first goal weight in ages.  With a few weeks to go until Spring and a few months until Summer, maybe this is finally the year I get back to ME after all of the baby weight.  Still working on whatever the magic move, cure, exercise is to get rid of the "pooch" after three c-sections in 5 years...  so if anyone knows, clue me in?!

I've given myself one more week to get all of my sugar cravings out of my system.  Come Saturday, if you see me with a soda in my hand, slap me.  I need a bit of an intervention where that's concerned and won't mind the added support.  That said, I do realize that not many people read my blog, so I'm actually talking to myself and need to hold myself accountable.  Ha!

Alright, alright...  workout logged for today.  I'm good.

*This shows slightly higher because I grabbed my phone to take the picture, adding weight to the scale.

A year behind me

Found this picture on my phone (with the date to actually reference) and was proud that I have maintained a pretty good weight loss since it was taken back in January 2013.  Still down and hovering on the 10 lb. loss since the weight shown.

My body composition has also definitely changed and maintained as a lot of the pants/skirts I have had in my drawer for winter no longer fit me around the waistline and have joined the donation box!

Lately, however, I've failed lately in staying on track with much of anything else.  Life and busy-ness has gotten into my way.  My eating habits have fallen by the wayside (going on vacation a week ago didn't help that) and my exercise has also waned.  We did manage to walk from sun up to sun down the whole five days we were in NYC though, so I came back to a scale that remained stable.

My attempt at the 100 days also failed.  I'm trying to decide if I should just delete my efforts from the website. One more tracking tool was apparently not what I needed to keep me on track.  Ha!  Too much effort trying to remember to videotape something every day, especially if it was the "same thing" day after day.  I may use the site for something in the future, but it won't be weight loss related.

This week...  I got back up, and in the seat after a couple of weeks away...  and biked my booty off yesterday!  Well, now that I am looking back at other photos of my biking progress, I guess I took a rather slower pace yesterday instead of biking 7 miles in 40 minutes.

Donated blood today at work and forgot that I cannot work out after donating.  Guess I'll take a day of rest and get back into the groove again tomorrow.

My goal weight is still in sight and with a new Go Giant FITBIT reward coming soon from my employer, maybe the daily wrist reminder will be just what I need to jump into Spring 2014!  You can follow along with our progress on Twitter under #gogiant if you're interested in seeing how we've managed to make this program work at the General!