Thursday, October 7, 2010

Weight watchers. Day 1.

HOlE-EEEE-SH*T!!!!!! I'm HUNGRY. Ok, had to get that off my chest.

My GMIL is a wonderful woman, she does so much for my family and when I told her I was interested in weight watchers she offered to come with me to meetings and do the program with me so I would have a buddy to with. My mom is also supposed to be coming with us, I think she still needs some convincing though. So....I have huge issues with food, I use it for comfort when I'm stressed and I haven't been conscious of my portions. I don't know why I'm like this. Standing on a scale every week in front of a stranger is going to help me stay on track, I need to be accountable to someone until I can conquer my addiction to food. Since I'm familiar with eating healthy I feel like I can do the weight watchers program without eating all the weight watchers pre-packaged food. It's got tons of chemicals and is junk if you ask me.

I officially signed up and started WW today, and the first thing I realized is that the WW points system is going to take quite a while for me to get used to. I've been running back and fourth to my computer/phone trying to figure out the points of all the foods that I ate today. Luckily I'm finding a lot of the foods I love have very low point values. Based on my activity/age/weight I get 27 points per day and 35 "flex points" a week, I can divide those points out during the week or have a cheat meal on the weekend.

So how am I feeling so far? HUNGRY!!!!!! No pain no gain right?!:) I will update after my first weigh in. Wish me luck!

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Time to get busy

I've been bouncing all over lately, from BBL to insanity, to turbofire, hip hop abs, etc. My eating hasn't been the greatest, and while I mostly eat clean, whole foods, my portions are not reasonable, especially at dinnertime. I only have 11 weeks until we leave for Disneyland and I'd really like to be in the 160 range by then. I've been feeling really discouraged lately. I think the stress of my son starting special-education pre-school has a lot to do with it. I decided yesterday that I need to commit to a new exercise program to help get me out of this rut that I'm stuck in.

I've decided to start ChaLEAN Extreme, it's a 90 day program, by beachbody/Chalene Johnson (of course) I started yesterday, and so far, so good. I did burn circuit 1 and my booty, arms, legs and chest are pretty sore today. The program is about 80% weight lifting and 20% cardio. I love love LOVE lifting weights, and I'm good at it so I think this will keep me coming back. Plus Chalene is amazing, she's a great trainer and I feel connected to her since she is a mother :) She always has moms in her videos who have had 1 or more children, it's quite motivating for me. Also, the workouts are shorter, about 35-40 minutes, which is nice for me since I'm usually short on time.

Here is the commercial: