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Operation Fatty: One Month, Measurements Update

A Cowboy's Wife — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:28:15 +0000

It’s been exactly one month since I’ve been going hard at Anytime Fitness and hiring Sarah as my personal trainer. It was a month that I thought would be easier with a trainer and while I find it much more motivating to have a trainer, it definitely isn’t easy. Everything about the workout is hard and exhausting, and at times, will have you wondering if you’re cut out for it. But I’ve stuck with it and have done more than I thought I was capable of at this weight and in this unhealthy body.

To recap, I’m working out three times a week at 2pm, for one hour and 5 minutes. I wish I could do it earlier in the morning when your weight and all is more accurate but I just can’t. I start by warming up on the ‘stair climber’ machine for 5 minutes. That one hour consists of 30 minutes of circuit training, which is HARD. We work upper, lower, abs and it’s killer. I never knew how weak my upper body strength was. It’s also crazy to see your legs shaking from being so weak! The other 30 minutes is cardio. My cardio is done usually on the stair climber, which burns a lot of calories, and/or the treadmill and elliptical. I find that I don’t burn near as much calories on the elliptical as I do on the other two though I prefer the stair climber even though it kills my legs. (fyi, we didn’t do cardio for the first two weeks of training. We started with trying to gain some strength since I had none.)

3x a week/1hr & 5minutes/cardio and circuit training

While I have been incorporating more healthy eating habits and water, I still do eat whatever everyone else eats, just less. This might have something to do with a smaller pound weight loss but I’m still very happy with my loss, especially in inches. I’m SOOOO much firmer and can tell huge differences in my stamina and strength since I first started.

So I think by having the food options that Nutrisystem is giving me, I’ll definitely be able to really lose more. I really need that here on the ranch.

With that, here are my numbers…………..

About 8lbs lost (mostly likely gained muscle) and 12.25 inches lost from my neck, down to my calves. Sarah tells me that 2lbs per week is a healthy weight loss, especially for me still eating “fatty” foods here and there. She thinks I’m doing great and so do I. We kicked it up a notch this week and I’m starting Zumba 7 the treadmill at home this week as well. I think doing all that will really make a difference but I need that Nutrisystem FO SHO!

And that’s the update y’all. I really appreciate the support I’ve gotten from everyone. It feels so good to have that and it truly is motivation! Until next time……….

Operation Fatty: Fail, Trying Again

Fat Burner — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:46:48 +0000

Fail, a word I know too well but I’m determined to not let it keep me down. I want to be stronger but realize that I need additional support both mentally and physically.

I noticed that when people were rooting each other (me) on, I was doing great! I felt not so much obligated anymore but motivated. And then the encouragement dwindled down….and then so did I which means that I NEED to have people surrounding me, telling me I’m doing great, forcing me to exercise, and pointing a finger saying “Don’t eat that!”. I NEED it. Seeing my picture with the apron on made me realize that I’ve gained weight and it sickens me. I don’t know how it can be so hard for me to lose weight when I want to lose it so bad. Frustrating.

Biggest Loser starts tonight and I know that they inspire me and I’ll get back on that horse and start again. Even so, I also know that I need more than that. I need help from a program and I need you. I hate to ask you to be there for me when I’m not always there for you all but I need you.

I am looking at weight programs to see what might work best for me. Every one of them has had success and failures but I want to know what you have tried and why it did or didn’t work for you.

I’ll continue my workout routine but I need you to make sure I do it–to remind me to do it every chance you get.

Operation Fatty: Recommend a Treadmill and the REAL Me

Fat Burner — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:40:37 +0000

I get a lot of people saying, “You don’t look like you weight that much!” but the sad fact is, I do. Many times when I post pictures of myself, I cut just about every part of my body off that I can. But you’re about to see just how big I am. Did you know that I wear spanx constantly and that I even try to hide my fat, in my house, from my own husband? I sit a certain way, I pull my shirt way down, and I never let him see my get dressed. He’s very supportive and has never said anything about my weight except for, “You look good to me.” but it’s all in MY mind. Maybe I’m not 300lbs but I am still considered obese at the 190lbs at 5’5. And still get confused for being pregnant.

And by the way, that’s my fake smile….that’s a smile that is trying to cover up the fact that I am cringing inside because she’s taking a fully body picture. Cringing because she’ll probably show the family that picture and they’ll see that I really am fat..not they don’t already know but a picture is so much more real.

So, because I’ve been working hard on my weight here lately, I want to do a little more. I’m already doing the 10-minute trainer but I think I need some cardio and I think a treadmill will be perfect for me. I’ve had one, loved it, it died.

YOUR INPUT NEEDED

I’m asking YOU for your recommendations on a good–cost friendly treadmill. Something that I can fold up to move into my room out of the way so that it doesn’t crowd my living room. Can’t wait to hear what you have to say!