Tuesday, January 8, 2013
POSTS
I have 2 posts waiting to be published. For some reason I can not upload pictures again today or yesterday. As soon as I can upload the pictures I will publish these posts. Until then I will keep writing them as the news keeps happening. Hope you stick with me..
Monday, January 7, 2013
Personal trainer
Today I had my first visit with my personal trainer, Sarah.
She took my weight which is 96.1 kg (211.8 lbs) I was actually very happy about that even though the loss I have experienced has not been healthy. It is due to working way too many hours, not eating and it being so damn hot and I work in a kitchen, I am sweating my weight away. She also took measurements of my thighs, chest, hips and stomach. I don't really know all these numbers right now. I roughly looked at the sheet as she was filling it out but sadly I didn't note it myself. I will find out and post them when I can. This way we can track my loss all the way around. I am super excited about that because I know the number on the scale is not everything. What was really embarrassing was when she tried to take my blood pressure (Normally my BP is great) but the cuff barely fit on my flabby arm and we could not get a good reading. What a slap in the face huh? We are going to try again in a few weeks. Hopefully my arms will start to get toned enough for the cuff to fit. After all that she had me doing some lunges, push-ups, planks, and messed around with the big ball. She also had me on the roe machine. I have to say I actually really like the roe machine. I did 407 meters (roughly a quarter of a mile) in 2 minutes. Originally she said lets do 300 meters in 2 minutes and I smashed the 300 way early so she said go to 350 and I smashed that and then she changed it to 400 all in the same 2 minutes. I nailed it! Go ME! I think I will be using that machine a lot more when I go on my own. I feel like I did the lunges ok until she gave a 5 kg (11 lbs) disk to hold above my head doing lunges and she was pushing me, I had to hold my balance and not drop the weight. I didn't drop the weight but I did struggle a bit with the balance part when she was pushing me around. My next training with her is on Thursday at noon. I am looking forward to the next visit because she said next time she is going to push me harder. On another positive side she said I actually surprised her with some of the assessment. Since I have never had a trainer before. We have a lot of work to do on my core. I guess I didnt' stick with yoga enough in Portland hahaha! Today was a good workout day for me and it really opened my eyes. I am more ready now than I have ever been. It is happening my friends I am finally going to be a smaller version of my self and a healthier one at that!
She took my weight which is 96.1 kg (211.8 lbs) I was actually very happy about that even though the loss I have experienced has not been healthy. It is due to working way too many hours, not eating and it being so damn hot and I work in a kitchen, I am sweating my weight away. She also took measurements of my thighs, chest, hips and stomach. I don't really know all these numbers right now. I roughly looked at the sheet as she was filling it out but sadly I didn't note it myself. I will find out and post them when I can. This way we can track my loss all the way around. I am super excited about that because I know the number on the scale is not everything. What was really embarrassing was when she tried to take my blood pressure (Normally my BP is great) but the cuff barely fit on my flabby arm and we could not get a good reading. What a slap in the face huh? We are going to try again in a few weeks. Hopefully my arms will start to get toned enough for the cuff to fit. After all that she had me doing some lunges, push-ups, planks, and messed around with the big ball. She also had me on the roe machine. I have to say I actually really like the roe machine. I did 407 meters (roughly a quarter of a mile) in 2 minutes. Originally she said lets do 300 meters in 2 minutes and I smashed the 300 way early so she said go to 350 and I smashed that and then she changed it to 400 all in the same 2 minutes. I nailed it! Go ME! I think I will be using that machine a lot more when I go on my own. I feel like I did the lunges ok until she gave a 5 kg (11 lbs) disk to hold above my head doing lunges and she was pushing me, I had to hold my balance and not drop the weight. I didn't drop the weight but I did struggle a bit with the balance part when she was pushing me around. My next training with her is on Thursday at noon. I am looking forward to the next visit because she said next time she is going to push me harder. On another positive side she said I actually surprised her with some of the assessment. Since I have never had a trainer before. We have a lot of work to do on my core. I guess I didnt' stick with yoga enough in Portland hahaha! Today was a good workout day for me and it really opened my eyes. I am more ready now than I have ever been. It is happening my friends I am finally going to be a smaller version of my self and a healthier one at that!
Friday, January 4, 2013
Here we go...
It is starting, I finally got my key card fully activated for the gym.
Today I bought a workout outfit
and before Christmas I bought new kicks for working out. I got to talk to the gym manager, she is the one that helped me back in October. She is bad ass and she said she is going to KICK my ASS!
Yes please, I am in NEED of a good ass kickin'. I haven't seen her since October when I joined originally and she said she could tell I have lost some weight since then. GO me!! I got a personal trainer too. I start with her tomorrow at 11 am. She said she was really going to kick my ass. She is a results driven person and she wants results! I think I am in for it for real! This is the year for change! I am changing all over the place. Tomorrow we will start with a physical, checking my current weight, getting measurements and all that jazz. This way we can really track my progress. I am super excited and I can't wait to start losing weight and toning my body. Her goal is to turn my body into a fat burning machine, even when I am sleeping! My response to that is YES PLEASE! I believe 100% this time I will achieve my goals!
Today I bought a workout outfit
and before Christmas I bought new kicks for working out. I got to talk to the gym manager, she is the one that helped me back in October. She is bad ass and she said she is going to KICK my ASS!
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| Michelle (the gym manager) and me! |
Yes please, I am in NEED of a good ass kickin'. I haven't seen her since October when I joined originally and she said she could tell I have lost some weight since then. GO me!! I got a personal trainer too. I start with her tomorrow at 11 am. She said she was really going to kick my ass. She is a results driven person and she wants results! I think I am in for it for real! This is the year for change! I am changing all over the place. Tomorrow we will start with a physical, checking my current weight, getting measurements and all that jazz. This way we can really track my progress. I am super excited and I can't wait to start losing weight and toning my body. Her goal is to turn my body into a fat burning machine, even when I am sleeping! My response to that is YES PLEASE! I believe 100% this time I will achieve my goals!
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Over a year....WHAT!!
I can not believe I have neglected this blog for over a year! I guess life and priorities get in the way. Tonight I got on blogger to check my sisters blog and after reading her updates I switched over to my blogs and realized that I had not updated either one a very long time, but this one I really let go. I know there has got to be an underlining reason like, I have really gotten off track and let my weight take over my life again and I was just down right ashamed that, in the going on 2.5 years with this blog that I could not meet a goal. A goal that I had such a drive for. What happened? Why could I not do it? Why was this something that I failed at?
The time has come, things WILL be different, things WILL change! I knew this would be an on going life battle for me. I moved from Portland, OR to Sydney, Australia, graduated from culinary school
and now I am working as a "pastry chef". Life is still busy. Stuff is still going on to cause excuses, but excuses no more. I am taking control once again and I will reach my goals this time. I have a lot of driving force this go around. First and foremost I want to be HEALTHY, secondly my grandma Koehn is turning 90 in September and wants to skydive. I so badly want to jump out of a plane with her. Now this is where my cheap side kicks in, if your over 200 lbs you have to pay more to jump. Thirdly I bought myself a Christmas present this year, since I was alone for Christmas, I bought a 3 day Scuba Diving voucher to learn to scuba dive and become a certified diver up to 18 meters ( which is about 59 feet). Fourthly I want to travel the world and bigger clothes weigh more which in turn makes my suit case heavier which equals more money for luggage and/or more bags (again with the cheap side kicking in). I have many reasons this time and yes some sadly are probably superficial.
Back in October I joined a gym here in Sydney.
Well, the job I had the hours picked up so much I only went the first 3 days. I was working 80 plus hours every week and getting really drained and unable to make it to the gym. Since then I have switched jobs working less in hopes of getting to the gym at least 4 times a week. Working as a Chef and being friends with Chefs I have found that drinking is very common after work. We all were going out almost every night to have a beer, but it was never just one or two beers, it was beer and tequila for a few hours after working 14-15 hour day.
Months of this behavior I realized something had to change, I did not want that to be my life. Like most people I knew I could not make that change during the holidays so I of course I waited to after the first of the year. However about 2 weeks ago I started going to back to the gym and when I joined the first time I checked my weight and I was 114kg (which is about 251 lbs). If you have been following this blog you know I started this journey at 289 lbs. I lost a crap ton of weight and then put a lot of it back on while in Portland. So when I went back I checked my weight again and I weighed 98.7 kg (about 217 lbs). HELLO!! Do you see what that means? Since being in Australia I lost 15.3 kg ( 34 lbs!)!! WHAT WHAT!! That was the extra push I needed. My original goal was to get to at least 199 lbs and now my friends that goal is only 18 lbs away! I plan to lose more than that but what was once my long term goal has now become my short term goal. What feeling!
This next picture is the most recent picture taken today...
Here I go, ready to take on my challenges and achieve my goals...hopefully you will follow me.
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| This picture was taken a few days before I left Portland, Me and Mitchell at my going away party. |
The time has come, things WILL be different, things WILL change! I knew this would be an on going life battle for me. I moved from Portland, OR to Sydney, Australia, graduated from culinary school
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| Last day of class, about to head to our externships |
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| The day I arrived in Sydney Australia! |
and now I am working as a "pastry chef". Life is still busy. Stuff is still going on to cause excuses, but excuses no more. I am taking control once again and I will reach my goals this time. I have a lot of driving force this go around. First and foremost I want to be HEALTHY, secondly my grandma Koehn is turning 90 in September and wants to skydive. I so badly want to jump out of a plane with her. Now this is where my cheap side kicks in, if your over 200 lbs you have to pay more to jump. Thirdly I bought myself a Christmas present this year, since I was alone for Christmas, I bought a 3 day Scuba Diving voucher to learn to scuba dive and become a certified diver up to 18 meters ( which is about 59 feet). Fourthly I want to travel the world and bigger clothes weigh more which in turn makes my suit case heavier which equals more money for luggage and/or more bags (again with the cheap side kicking in). I have many reasons this time and yes some sadly are probably superficial.
Back in October I joined a gym here in Sydney.
Well, the job I had the hours picked up so much I only went the first 3 days. I was working 80 plus hours every week and getting really drained and unable to make it to the gym. Since then I have switched jobs working less in hopes of getting to the gym at least 4 times a week. Working as a Chef and being friends with Chefs I have found that drinking is very common after work. We all were going out almost every night to have a beer, but it was never just one or two beers, it was beer and tequila for a few hours after working 14-15 hour day.
Months of this behavior I realized something had to change, I did not want that to be my life. Like most people I knew I could not make that change during the holidays so I of course I waited to after the first of the year. However about 2 weeks ago I started going to back to the gym and when I joined the first time I checked my weight and I was 114kg (which is about 251 lbs). If you have been following this blog you know I started this journey at 289 lbs. I lost a crap ton of weight and then put a lot of it back on while in Portland. So when I went back I checked my weight again and I weighed 98.7 kg (about 217 lbs). HELLO!! Do you see what that means? Since being in Australia I lost 15.3 kg ( 34 lbs!)!! WHAT WHAT!! That was the extra push I needed. My original goal was to get to at least 199 lbs and now my friends that goal is only 18 lbs away! I plan to lose more than that but what was once my long term goal has now become my short term goal. What feeling!
This next picture is the most recent picture taken today...
Here I go, ready to take on my challenges and achieve my goals...hopefully you will follow me.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Sassy Saturday
Today is the start of my 5th week back with Weight Watchers and what a great start it is! When I weighed in this morning I was down 3 LBS!! That's right, you read that correctly I lost 3 damn pounds this week! Oh hot damn! You know the movie, How Stella Got Her Grove Back, well (prepare for corny haha) this is How April Got Her Weight Loss Back! Holla! I am so excited! Like, every week I am nervous going in and getting on that scale. I feel like I could have done better or I think back about the food I ate and made myself believe that I did not do so well. Apparently I am doing well. I want to reach my goals so bad! I can taste them. First big goal I am still trying to reach and I will do it! To get to less than 200 Lbs. Every week I am getting a little bit closer! Right now as of today I only have 30.2 Lbs to make it to 199! I can not wait! That is going to be an amazing day! For now I am going to keep on trekking.
Saturday's Weigh In
So Saturday went really well. This past week I had lost 2.6 lbs! Heck yeah! Since we have been making bread and will continue to make bread I decided instead of taking it all home , where I will eat it whether I am hungry or not. I am stopping by my work on the way home and dropping it off for my coworkers. :) It is a win win. They get fresh warm bread and I get to get rid of it without wasting it. YAY! What is really cool is that I am giving bread to the Executive Chef and the Sous Chef at the hotel. Yeah, trying to get them to love my baking skills, so far so good.
Also, I have added a great workout to my schedule. It is not much yet but I love it. Every Thursday I do Yoga at this awesome Yoga studio downtown.
I go at noon which works out perfectly because I get out of school at 10:35 AM. I walk down to the square, study or work on homework, then I go do Yoga for an hour. You know how many activity points I earn for 60 mins of Yoga? 5 yeah that is right 5 extra points towards food I can eat, yum! After Yoga I catch the Max and head home to sleep before work that night.
Small baby steps again and I will get there, eventually.
Also, I have added a great workout to my schedule. It is not much yet but I love it. Every Thursday I do Yoga at this awesome Yoga studio downtown.
I go at noon which works out perfectly because I get out of school at 10:35 AM. I walk down to the square, study or work on homework, then I go do Yoga for an hour. You know how many activity points I earn for 60 mins of Yoga? 5 yeah that is right 5 extra points towards food I can eat, yum! After Yoga I catch the Max and head home to sleep before work that night.
Small baby steps again and I will get there, eventually.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
The Breakdown
I had finally hit it, the dreaded breakdown where I just threw a temper tantrum and just accepted the fact that I was just going to fat the rest of my life. The beginning of September I was struggling mentally, emotionally, and physically. I was eating whatever was insight and if it wasn't insight I went to the store and got "it" whatever "it" was at the time. I kept saying to myself I am just going to eat this and then I do better tomorrow. Well, the Tomorrow I kept saying never came. My weight has been bouncing up and and some downs, but being honest mostly up since I moved to Portland. I thought I could do it alone, I thought since I had been so successful that clearly I knew how to do this and what to do. Obviously not! I bounced with 15 lbs back and forth, then the last few weeks I notice there is was no more bounce just a steady gain; 1 lb here, 2 lbs there. I thought it is ok, a few stressful things started happening and I just blamed it on that. Around the second week of September I started looking back into weight watchers. That is what worked for me and clearly I needed to pay money to sit with strangers and just listen for me to lose weight. I am still not really sure why that is but most of the women and the few men in there are roughly 6-20 years my senior. Sometimes I feel like I am the only late 20's, early 30 's struggling with my weight and willing to go to weight watchers. Which is fine, I can do this, I did it in Alaska so why am I struggling here in Portland?
On September 10, 2011 I RE-JOINED weight watchers. I am sucking up my cheap side and spending the damn money to sit with strangers and listen to their stories. When I weighed in on that first day I was sadden to see how high my number had gotten again. I was tipping the scales once again at 235.4.....:( then the next week 9/17/11 I had lost .4, 9/24/11 I had gained 2 lbs ( I blamed my finals week on this gain. I was stressing losing my A in one of my classes) and to get us up to date I weighed in last Saturday 10/1/11 and I had lost 2.2 lbs. Weight Watchers has changed a few things and now I think it is for the better. First when you go in no more pulling your card and them writing down your weight. Now you have a bar code and they scan you into the meeting then you go over to the scales and they scan you again, you get on the scale and the computer does the rest. The best part is it automatically sends it to your tracker if you use the etools. Plus the app they have is badass. You can set alerts to send you messages about the time you eat to remind you to track and then it takes you right to the tracker. I have tracked way more now that it is on my phone. With my schedule all hectic I forget to write down what I eat so this is so much better. I am loving it!
My weigh in days are Saturdays because there is a location about .5 of a mile from my job and I usually work Friday nights so when I get off in the morning I can just walk over there. My meetings are at 730 AM and I get off at 6:15 so it works out pretty well. I am going to attempt to update this blog after weigh ins on Saturdays from here on out! It is time for a change in my life, time for me to finally reach my goals, I am done with putting my weight loss in the back seat and thinking everything else is more important. So here I go again, starting on this journey once again, only this time I will achieve my goals.
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| After weight in on 10/1/11 |
On September 10, 2011 I RE-JOINED weight watchers. I am sucking up my cheap side and spending the damn money to sit with strangers and listen to their stories. When I weighed in on that first day I was sadden to see how high my number had gotten again. I was tipping the scales once again at 235.4.....:( then the next week 9/17/11 I had lost .4, 9/24/11 I had gained 2 lbs ( I blamed my finals week on this gain. I was stressing losing my A in one of my classes) and to get us up to date I weighed in last Saturday 10/1/11 and I had lost 2.2 lbs. Weight Watchers has changed a few things and now I think it is for the better. First when you go in no more pulling your card and them writing down your weight. Now you have a bar code and they scan you into the meeting then you go over to the scales and they scan you again, you get on the scale and the computer does the rest. The best part is it automatically sends it to your tracker if you use the etools. Plus the app they have is badass. You can set alerts to send you messages about the time you eat to remind you to track and then it takes you right to the tracker. I have tracked way more now that it is on my phone. With my schedule all hectic I forget to write down what I eat so this is so much better. I am loving it!
My weigh in days are Saturdays because there is a location about .5 of a mile from my job and I usually work Friday nights so when I get off in the morning I can just walk over there. My meetings are at 730 AM and I get off at 6:15 so it works out pretty well. I am going to attempt to update this blog after weigh ins on Saturdays from here on out! It is time for a change in my life, time for me to finally reach my goals, I am done with putting my weight loss in the back seat and thinking everything else is more important. So here I go again, starting on this journey once again, only this time I will achieve my goals.
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