Another Weigh-In Monday
Welcome to week 3 of the BigSliceOff! I'm slow out of the gate this week - the kids are home for a teacher in-service day, and they are making me insane crazy busy. I'll post this week's worksheet in the next few hours. My apologies for the slackitude!
I stepped on the scale each day last week. It went something like this:
Monday: 174
Tuesday: 172
Wednesday: 172
Thursday: 170
Friday: 171
Saturday: 172
Sunday: 170
Today: 176
The hell is up with me? I mean, really? 176? After I finished cussing and imagining throwing my scale under the wheels of the next car to pass my house, I got a grip. And I measured my waist. It is down a full inch from a month ago.
So (@(^#*@)*)(*(Y!!!! the scale today. I wrote the number down, and flipped it off, and made out with my measuring tape instead, right in front of that cheap, lying piece of garbage scale.
Ahem.
So! This week! FIve hours of aerobic exercise of your choice, PLUS I want you to think about ways to incorporate a little strength training into your day. No weights? No problem. Pick up something heavy, and then put it down again. Repeat until your arms fall off.
There have been times in the past that my purse weighed 20 pounds from all the diapers and wipes and snacks and bottles of water and juice boxes. If you are more dainty than I am, use a gallon jug of milk. Or load up a duffle bag with some telephone directories. Pick up your toddler and put him down again.
Go see Mistress Krista and find out her lo-tech ass-bustin' solutions, and find something that will work for you. Let me know what you try!
Also, plan those menus! Drink that water! And don't forget to laugh!
Comments
Strength trainging. You want me to locate some muscles and work them!! You are a hard woman.
Posted by: healthymummy | March 19, 2007 12:04 PM
Seriously. Way to bust our collective butts, Jenny.
Posted by: Fat Bridesmaid | March 19, 2007 12:43 PM
I (heart) your measuring tape.
F*ck that lying piece of crap scale.
Before I bought hand weights, I lifted soup cans.
Posted by: EverydaySuperGoddess | March 19, 2007 12:50 PM
I'm not part of your current challenge, but I hope I can post a comment anyway. Weighing yourself every day is an exercise in frustration because of daily fluctuations in water weight, etc. I learned a trick a while back that works well - weigh yourself every day for a week and then average the numbers to get an idea of whether the scale is moving up or down. In your case, the 8 days of weigh-ins actually average to 172 pounds, so you can thumb your nose at that 176 weight today.
Posted by: Ginny | March 19, 2007 4:23 PM
Well, I like weighing every day so I really face reality. I also like to take the average (and loosing an inch is fantabulous). My question is: Is there something that you only do on Sundays? Because from that limited data above it sure looks like there might be something like the "Sunday evening wine drinking ritual" in this.
Or maybe I'm totally wrong.
Posted by: Susanne | March 20, 2007 5:00 AM
Checked in at 124 Monday.....ROUGH WEEKEND. Parade food and (whispering) green beer.
Posted by: MJ | March 20, 2007 10:24 AM