Anessava

First, let me apologize to all my buddies for neglecting them, but I have been so busy with school and work.  I have papers to write this weekend, but will be sure to check in next week.

Ok, so I am always looking for a new challenge and a good cause and with the AVON Walk for the Cure, I got both.  It is something I wanted to do last year, but couldn’t because of school.  Like my weight loss, I needed to have no more excuses.  So, I signed up this year and am dedicated to walking 39 miles in 2 days in the Rocky Mountains.  Need Oxygen anyone?  What better way to assure some exercise then to have to train for that.  Because there is no one cause and no known cure, I can only pray that our weight loss journey will benefit us by reducing our risk of getting this disease.

When researching the web site, I learned that a woman dies every 13 minutes from Breast Cancer.  To me that is unexceptable.  And, that number does not even factor in the men who die from this disease, because yes, they can get it to.  Because I am dedicated to reaching a minimum fund raising goal of $1800.00, I decided I would use this page as a resource.  In any other instance I would hesitate, but I think this is too important to ignore the number of people I could reach through this page.  If you would like to help out this great cause, you can link to my page and make a donation at: 

http://info.avonfoundation.org/site/TR/Walk2009/Denver?px=3854144&pg=personal&fr_id=1810&et=jdOsf3xhYOuSW8cEDrz9bg..&s_tafId=389174 

Even if don’t want to donate to me as a walker, perhaps you could donate to someone else, or sign up to walk yourself, so check it out at http://walk.avonfoundation.org.

For those of you whose families may be living with this disease, or lost someone to it, I will keep you in my prayers.  For those of you who may be walking as well, kudos to you.   

Thanks everyone and have a great weekend everyone, Vanessa

Ok, so January overall was really great.   Total wieght lose since the eating fiasco I call my Christmas vacation.  -15.  “Woot” is what by buddy Leah would say.   Yeah!

I ate well, exercised three times a week minimum.  I survived the Vegas buffets.  Last weekend I even went to a friends house to watch St. Pierre kick Penn’s butt and brought my own low carb snacks.   Did the same thing for the Superbowl (which rocked). 

But tell me this folks.   How do I survive the Girl Scout Cookie delivery?  I order them to support the “little people” in my life and I am already obsessing about them.  There paid for, so it would be a shame to give them away or waste them.  And oh how I love the Somoas.  This is so sad I am thinking about this, but back in the day, it would be nothing to eat the whole box myself.   That is just not right and some cookies could really through me off track.   

 Any advice on how not to binge out on cookies would be greatly appreciated. 

Till later and reach for the stars everyone! 

Hello everyone.  Just checking in for the week.   Started my classes and I think I am going to be OK this semester.  A lot of little papers to write, but no major, crazy 100 pagers.  Hopefully I will be able to check in more than I thought.

Anyway, since my last check in I have had some really good days.   However this was prior to me deciding to take a quick trip to Vegas, you know the place with all the slots and evil buffets.  EVIL, EVIL, EVIL Buffets. (I think this is going to become my mantra)   A road trip with two other ladies.   Chocolate was bound to be consumed in mass quanntities, and it was.  So, what does this boil down to.   What happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas is it hitchhikes a ride back on you ass.

Well, I have been back since Monday night and have stuck to my eating plan all week.   Been to the gym twice since then.   In fact, tonight I tried a dance aerobics class and it was great.   Thought I was going to sweat to death though.  My instructor even turned down the main lights low and had Christmas lights around the outside of the room.  She said it was her way of making sure others don’t feel subconcious about keeping up with the skinny chick next to you or missing a step because it was just about keeping moving and keeping the heart rate up.  I thought that was an awesome idea.  There were a lot of skinny chicks in my class, but I still busted a move.   

My weekly wiegh in is tomorrow so I hope Vegas didn’t do too much damge.   To all a peaceful and successful week.   

So I have been good eating, and good working out, but GOD, “Does temptation have to be everywhere?”  It has been hard.  I work with a bunch a guys who could give a crap about their weight, so if they don’t care about theirs, then they don’t care about mine and they are always going out to lunch.  I hate that temptation…who wants to be left behind at lunch time.  Sure, I could order a salad, but where do they like to go- the evil, evil buffets.  I hate temptation.  I hate, hate, hate it.  Whoever created the buffet is an evil minion(sp?) of the devil.  Makes sense to me.  Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins.  But I digress…

On a side note, school starts up again for me tomorrow, so I won’t able to blog as often- my goal is to check in with my buddies and read up on blogs at least once a week, hopefully more. 

But have faith, I will not quit.  I will keep you all in my brain, next to all that reading I am sure I will have to do, and stay motivated.   I want to have saggy bottom jeans and a thinner picture to post just like my awesome buddies.  Talk to you soon…

Ok, I don’t know exactly what I did with day 4, but it ended up in blog limbo and just got posted.  I will figure out this blogging thing sooner or later.

Last three days have kind of blurred together.   Had to work two 16 hours days in a row (days 5 and 6).  Did a good job with the eating because I was so busy at work I did not really have time to grab any junk, not to mention the overtime pay is going to kick butt.  Speaking of butt, (like that segway) I unfortunately did not have time for gym on either of those days either. Work and sleep, what a life.

I did do my wiegh in, as Friday mornings is my day, and discovered there is actually one time I like water.   That would be the first week of wieght loss when you see all the extra pounds from water wieght loss.  I had a good one, so I hope from now on it can at least be 1-2 pounds. 

Saturday, day 7, I got up and went to the gym.  30 min. on eliptical, 20 min. on bike, and 10 min. walking.  I ate good stuff today as well.  Even made homemade veggie/beef soup for dinner.  Homemade soup, my mother would faint if she heard that.  I hardly ever make stuff from scratch.  It was good too and I have plenty to save for other healthy meals. 

Wishing you all well in your endeavors, until next time.   

Ok, had a good day with the eating.  Didn’t have time for trip to gym but did a Biggest Loser Cardio Max Video for 30 minutes.  It was fun.  Other than that, my day was completly uneventful.

I also have decided to put a real picture of me on the page.  Putting pics on the net always makes me feel a little hinky, but I figured if you all can do it and show me the real you, I could do the same.   

That’s pretty much it for the day.  Thanks to all my new buddies for linking up with me.   I hope I can be helpful to you and vice versa.

I have a 16 hour work day tomorrow so pray I don’t go through any drive-thrus.  I am going to pack my meals as soon as I log off,,,,,,,,but those cheeseburgers always call my name on a long day.

PS.  I still hate water.

Ok, even though I had a good day, stuck to my eating plan and worked out today, I have made a startling revelation that may or may not kill me.   I HATE WATER!  If I did like something that had no taste and no calories, I wouldn’t need all of you to support me in my weight loss.   Hello, does anyone else find that ironic…or at least Alanis Morsett’s version of ironic.So I have devised a plan to loose weight and become a millionaire.  I am going to buy stock in Crystal Lite, or maybe even that company that makes the cheaper version that is sold at Wal-Mart.  It is the only way I am going to survive.

Also, I have decided to record NCIS in order to be able to watch Biggest Loser for motivation.  So sad because I think Mark Harmon is a hotty.  But sitting around watching him when I could have been working out probably didn’t help much either.  I have also went out and bought “My Weight Lose Coach” for my Nintendo DS.  Kind of neat because it makes you do all of these little challenges to do.  So if anyone likes video games, it may be worth the investment. 

Bye for now, best wishes for a successful day tomorrow. 

Hello again everyone.  So I made it back on day 2.  I am pretty sure I will be a nighttime blogger.  Summarizing your day seems to be the thing to do.  

I went back to work after a two week vacation.  A vacation I ate my way through.  Seems that when you haven’t seen friends for months, they just want to get together to eat-”want to go to lunch” and by the time you are done eating, someone calls to see ”want to go to dinner.”   Sure I could have picked salad, but that is no fun.  No I am paying for it.  

I had a good day.   I kept my calories down below 1100-with a little leeway for healthy snacks.  I went to the gym and did cardio for 45 minutes and my stretches.   I linked up with a couple of my friends back home in Ohio to be email weight lose support buddies, as well as this page. 

I hope you all are doing well on your journey.

Hi everyone.   I am new to the page, and to be honest, new to blogging.   But, I decided I needed to suck it up, learn how to do this, and get a little support in this weight loss journey I am on from those who know what it is like.

A little background to let you all know where I am coming from…probably a lot like the rest of you.   Been a chubby person all my life.   Never let it stop me from doing stuff, but never really felt comfortable in my own skin.   About five years ago I topped out on my max wieght and wanted to lose some wieght.   I was successful and lost 65 pounds.  However, like Oprah, I am looking in the mirror and have gained back 45 of that.  So right now I am comforted by the fact that I know I can loose the wieght (because I have done it before) but extremely disappointed by being somewhere I told myself I would never be.   

Again, I have never let it stop me from doing stuff, like sports, going out with friends.  I even went through, and passed, an extensive physical training for my current job when most people thought I would fail because I was fat.  It didn’t stop me, but I know I can do better and be healthier.  

I am hoping that is where you all will come in.  I hope to be able to check in a least several times a week to read tips and advice and link up with some buddies who will help me create some accountability.  Lying to myself about my wieght is easy.  Lying to others isn’t.   

Thanks everyone.  Anessava