Sue's Healthy Lifestyle

Ice Dancing At The Olympics

I received a email from a co-worker that I haven’t heard from in a while. It seems I know someone who has a family member in the Vancouver Olympics!!

‘For those of you that are watching the Olympics tonight, the Ice Dancing starts at 7:45 PM (EST). Our niece and her skating partner (Vanessa Crone and Paul Poirier) are Canada’s 2nd entry. They are in Group #3 and are the 13th group to skate. Please join us in wishing them well.

Keep Smilin’ …..

Fred’

We all wish them the best of luck Fred, you must be proud!

Sue

Well my son is off to the Canadian military as an engineer and beginning a new career. It just reminds me of how far everyone has come on their different journeys, whether career, life or weight loss based.

On my continuing weight loss journey I have met my ups and downs. It is difficult to keep up with the motivation and not find excuses for the smallest thing to throw you off your track.

I have been walking Skyla as much as I can, weather permitting, and she is walking much better on the leash now. So I now have to keep it up, so she doesn’t revert back to her old ways.

I have to continue weighing my food and fitting exercise into my lifestyle. The days are getting longer and soon the warmer weather will be here and you can’t hide under your sweatshirts anymore.

We have to travel to Montreal in June for Matts graduation parade, so that is my timeline in shedding at least another 20lbs. I want him to be proud of his mother!

I’m still watching the Biggest Loser as I find this motivates me tremendously. I have made it up to the 2nd level on the 30day shred and it is tough, but makes you feel great afterwards.

Keep on losing……
Sue

Off To The Races!

Well I finally got back on track and am raring to go again. A lot of self talk and telling myself not to get disappointed about life. Things normally happen for a reason and my reason will become clearer as the days pass by.

My next goal is to lose 25 pounds. I started back with the 30 day shred again and this time went to level two. There is actually less jumping involved but it is very tough. I was sweating like crazy by the time I was finished and boy could I feel my arm and stomach muscles.

Now that I am not doing my course anymore I miss my walks. I had every intention of starting them up and taking Skyla for a walk around the block, about 4miles. I was just getting dressed to go yesterday morning when a snow squall came in with high, high winds. So needless to say we stayed inside. The storm raged all day here!

I spent some time looking through some cookbooks and picked a few recipes to try out that sound good and are low in fat and healthy. I am pretty much cooking for only the two of us right now, so I have to remember to make less. Especially when it comes to the potatoes! Unfortunately I do love my roasted and oven baked potato wedgies.

You can find part of the reason of how I got more motivated over at my other blog, Whoissuefleckenstein, take a peek and feel free to leave comments.

Sue

photo credit: C-Ali

Motivation

Well I am going to be frankly honest and I seem to have lost my motivation right now. I was doing so well and I started back exercising after the holidays but today I missed my work out and feel bad about it. Not sure what is going on. I know that I have finished my business course and walking to class was how I got my walk in every day. I really miss that and taking the dogs out in the snow around my yard is not the same either. I miss the friends that I made and staying home for the last week has not been exciting. My job search has not resulted in anything positive either so maybe all these factors contribute to me just feeling blah! right now!

I know I can not keep this up or the pounds will creep back on. Someone told me to check out belly dancing, so tomorrow I think I will try and find something on Youtube to look at and try.

Let me know if anyone else is experiencing the winter blahs right now.

Sue
Motivation

Happy New Year

Well the New Year finally came and went and it is time to get back on track with life in general. I weighed myself this morning and only gained 1 pound over the holidays so I am very glad about that. I now have to get back on track with exercise, I have rested my foot so will see how it goes when I start up tomorrow.

I love the saying: It is not what you do between Christmas and New Year’s, it’s what you do between New Year’s and Christmas that counts!

It is very true a few days of extras is not going to hurt it’s when those few days turn into weeks and then months.

So for myself for getting back on track I purchased some digital food scales so I can really track what I eat, plus I opend a free account over at myfitnesspal so it will make it really easy to track my food, exercise and water intake. Plus meet others who are trying to lose weight and maybe get inspired, hey or even inspire someone myself!

Created by MyFitnessPal – Free Calorie Counter

Why don’t you get your own tracker and join me in losing weight and making your own lifestyle more healthy?

Sue
Happy New Year