Showing posts with label measurements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label measurements. Show all posts

Sunday, September 30, 2012

October Challenge- Tighter Belts and Even Tighter Wallets

I have let myself gain back ten pounds this summer and still haven’t worked on losing them. I have also spent too much money this summer on frivolous things and recently on eating fast food and junk food. I want to have a smaller waist and more money in my checking account by the end of October. That is why I named the challenge what I named it. Here are some of the details…

Goals

  • Lose two pounds a week.
  • Follow my eating plan wholeheartedly.
  • Walk at least 8,000 steps every day as part of the fall walking challenge at work.
  • Eat fast food/eat out only on weekends (to save money and eat healthier).
  • Eat on plan meals at events and have a standard size amount of one dessert (one wedding, one birthday party, and one Halloween party).
  • Finish C25K- I have two 30 minute jogs left. If I can’t do 30 minutes at once, then work on building my endurance back up and complete these two jogs.
  • Hook up my xBox 360 in my office, so I can do my workout video games on it.
  • Don’t buy frivolous things this month and spend less time shopping on weekends scouting for good deals.
  • Focus on fitting into clothes I already have and not buy new clearance rack clothes to get by at the weight I am at the beginning of the month.
  • Blog more often and post weekly updates on this challenge.

Rewards
  • 195- Chuck Berry CD

 
  • 190- Singstar Legends game


Beginning Weight

  •  On Sunday, September 30th I weighed in at 196.8.

Beginning Measurements

  •  On Sunday, September 30th...
    • Neck- 13"
    • Arm- 14"
    • Bust- 39
    • Waist-37"
    • Hips- 46"
    • Thigh- 24.5"
    • Calf- 16.5"
If there are any of you out there that want to join in with this challenge, message me, e-mail me, or find me on Facebook.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

New Year's Day and Measurements

I decided it might be a good idea to measure myself again and see how many inches I lost as a part two of my accomplishments of 2011. So here are the stats...

Weight- 210          192ish

Neck:13                 12.5
Shoulders:43       42
Chest:40               38
Bicep:14                13
Waist:36               35
Forearms:11         11
Hips:48                 46
Thighs:26             24
Calves:17              16

Before
Now







I've lost 10.5 inches total from adding all the losses from above together. Not too shabby!




Onto the feast for today... My husband cooked a dinner similar to what we had on Christmas. The difference being that this time I wasn't sick and could eat it. He made a turkey breast, wild rice, asparagus, broccoli, and acorn squash. I had the turkey, broccoli, and squash (wild rice makes me sick and I don't like asparagus).

The feast

My plate

The "vultures" ready for the feast.

Some of the other food I ate today was not so good such as carrot muffins and even a Reese's peanut butter cup. Yikes on those two things as snacks/dinner. I did eat an okay breakfast, my usual McDonald's go to.



Exercise: some cleaning and organizing

Last night as an attempt to stay up to midnight (which didn't happen by the way) I did some more cleaning in the basement. It is almost all organized and just the floors need mopped with some bleach water.