I made it! I have officially lost 21 pounds in 10 weeks! I start to think, wow, how low can I go? Because we can all do the math, 30 weeks left X 2 pounds = 60 pounds! Where would I be if I lost 60 pounds from today? I'd be down to what I weighted when I first went to college which was (gasp) 20 years ago? I definitely thought I was heavy back then but I realize now how silly 18 - 22 year olds are! Or at the very least how I was very unrealistic about weight. Can you hear the chickens crying because they have been counted too soon?
Gretchen and I were calculating poundage loss by babies' weights. So if you have lost 21 pounds you have lost a Reese, if you have lost 26 pounds you've lost a Liam, 32 pounds you have lost a Joseph and (I think) 34 pounds you have lost a Claire! I'm down a Reese working on a Liam. :)
I read somewhere that it takes 24 days to break a habit and then 41 days to create a new one. Since we have been doing this bet for 70 days, it looks like we have definitely established some new healthier habits! What new healthy habits have you incorporated into your everyday life that are helping you lose?
My goals: Reboot the 10 week exercise bet with 4x a week at least 20 minutes, working towards "from couch to 5k" and 2 pounds in 2 weeks.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
week 8, 32 more to go!
Two months! two months! we've been doing this for ...two months! 8 weeks, 56 days, 1344 hours! (yes, the math gene goober rears its head!)
Two years ago, I failed miserably at a panel interview for a Reading Teacher position. I decided this year I would go ahead and put myself through the panel interview again. One of the reasons I decided to try again is I didn't want to look back 5-10 years down the road and wish I had given it another shot. I hate the "what if" game. So, I have my interview set up for next Tuesday, the 20th. Gulp! I have my 3x5 cards with the buzz words that stand for what I actually do in the classroom so that I can be more ar-ti-cu-late at my interview. What does this have to do with the Cinderella Pact you ask? Once again I'll give you the long answer, because hey...it's my blog!
Rhonda Britten wrote a self help book called Fearless Living. (Which I read part of...I know if you are going to get a self help book you might as well read the whole thing right? some day I'll finish it.) In it she asks the question, "What or how would you live your life if you were fearless?" My own opinion is that fear stops us from doing things or sets up strange behaviors so that we don't live. Case in point, I need a shirt for my interview, after 3 shops I wanted to dig into a pint of Ben & Jerry's ice cream for solace. Joe, brave man that he is, talked me down of the tight rope of that harry situation. Last month when it was time to start the process to be considered for the panel interview I drug my feet and got my paper work in THE VERY LAST day. Once again, fear was holding me back. When I finally realized that fear was holding me back I strapped on my big girl panties and got all of my stuff done. Again, you might be asking what does this have to do with our CP? Fear is often why I turn to food, I'm unsure, I'm stressed because I don't know all the outcomes, I'm afraid of loss, rejection, change, etc. My goal this week is to confront one of those fears....the dreaded 5 person panel interview....and not loose myself in Ben & Jerry's.
How is fear holding you back? And what would you do if you were fearless?
I did make my bet and I am 1.5 pounds away having lost 20 pounds total. Next week I could definitely break the 20 pounds if I can keep from letting the interview get me down!
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Mid-Interval Check in
What have you done this week that you are proud of?
- I managed to get my 1 mile walk/run down to under 22 minutes, last week it took me 26
- I'm down to the tenner spot. (A tenner is slang for a ten pound note in England. So, I thought why not use it as a way to define when you are the 0 point of one group of numbers and ready to move to the next. If you were at 170 and ready to move into the 160's you could say you've reached the tenner spot!) Yes, I am a goober!
- I didn't eat any Easter Candy! However the Harry and David catalog came this week and on the cover they have peanut butter cookies with chocolate icing and then to add insult to injury they have peanut butter chips to top it off!....I am in cookie he[[!
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Happy Easter – 34 weeks to go!
I hope this post finds everyone slightly smaller!
I made my goal of 2 pounds last week and then being off for Easter break seemed to slow me down. I had lost 3 last week and then this week watched the scale creep back up. I can see that I definitely do better on a schedule, so summer will be interesting when I am not teaching.
How did everyone deal with the big Easter Dinner? Did you control everything via making everything? Or did you watch your portions and just have smaller? Did you say, “ah heck with it! I’m going to eat whatever I want!”? I actually made everything and since I was cooking I chose what we were going to eat and I ate all the asparagus I wanted! So I guess I did more than one of the previous.
Six weeks into the exercise bet: and still going strong. In fact, I was on the wii yesterday and it had a question on ‘everybody votes’ that went something like this: “Have you fulfilled one of your life goals?” My answer was YES but then I thought how sad would it be if someone had never fulfilled any, then my wandering brain thought, ‘well, what else have you wanted to do and haven’t done it yet?’ that question was had an easy answer: run a marathon. I have a reason; hang with me on the long explanation. A friend of my mother’s, who was extremely overweight, once posed a question to my mother; what would you do if the fat fairy came along and zap you were thin again? I am not sure what my mother’s answer was and I know I didn’t have one for her but her answer was: I would love to be able to run and skip, that’s it run and skip. I thought to myself, wow, that’s it? Run and skip? Me…I’d want to run a marathon! Fast forward to Friday, and I’m thinking back to that day and I started to think how I could get myself up to running a marathon. Now, sometimes I believe in providence and sometimes I don’t but that day when I went to the commissary on the marquee was an advertisement for a 5K run for Earth Day! And then it quickly scrolled other 5K runs. I thought, ‘woohoo that is a baby step towards a marathon. At first I thought I’d give myself a year to get ready but then I saw that there is a 5K run in November which is 2 weeks before this Cinderella Pact is over and I think it would be a fabulous way to end out 40 weeks of weight loss. Saturday I started training, I ran/walked (emphasis on walk) a mile in 24 minutes and let me tell you wii miles are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay different than actual miles! :) Today I ran/walked (more running this time) and did it in less than 23 minutes! Baby steps! Baby steps!
What would your wish be if the fat fairy visited you?
I made my goal of 2 pounds last week and then being off for Easter break seemed to slow me down. I had lost 3 last week and then this week watched the scale creep back up. I can see that I definitely do better on a schedule, so summer will be interesting when I am not teaching.
How did everyone deal with the big Easter Dinner? Did you control everything via making everything? Or did you watch your portions and just have smaller? Did you say, “ah heck with it! I’m going to eat whatever I want!”? I actually made everything and since I was cooking I chose what we were going to eat and I ate all the asparagus I wanted! So I guess I did more than one of the previous.
Six weeks into the exercise bet: and still going strong. In fact, I was on the wii yesterday and it had a question on ‘everybody votes’ that went something like this: “Have you fulfilled one of your life goals?” My answer was YES but then I thought how sad would it be if someone had never fulfilled any, then my wandering brain thought, ‘well, what else have you wanted to do and haven’t done it yet?’ that question was had an easy answer: run a marathon. I have a reason; hang with me on the long explanation. A friend of my mother’s, who was extremely overweight, once posed a question to my mother; what would you do if the fat fairy came along and zap you were thin again? I am not sure what my mother’s answer was and I know I didn’t have one for her but her answer was: I would love to be able to run and skip, that’s it run and skip. I thought to myself, wow, that’s it? Run and skip? Me…I’d want to run a marathon! Fast forward to Friday, and I’m thinking back to that day and I started to think how I could get myself up to running a marathon. Now, sometimes I believe in providence and sometimes I don’t but that day when I went to the commissary on the marquee was an advertisement for a 5K run for Earth Day! And then it quickly scrolled other 5K runs. I thought, ‘woohoo that is a baby step towards a marathon. At first I thought I’d give myself a year to get ready but then I saw that there is a 5K run in November which is 2 weeks before this Cinderella Pact is over and I think it would be a fabulous way to end out 40 weeks of weight loss. Saturday I started training, I ran/walked (emphasis on walk) a mile in 24 minutes and let me tell you wii miles are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay different than actual miles! :) Today I ran/walked (more running this time) and did it in less than 23 minutes! Baby steps! Baby steps!
What would your wish be if the fat fairy visited you?
Monday, March 29, 2010
5 weeks down, 35 to go!
WooooHooooo! Half way through the exercise bet and feeling goooooood!
One eight of the way through the Cinderella pact and feeling good!
Lost my pound for the week, exercised for the week. Not bored yet!
One eight of the way through the Cinderella pact and feeling good!
Lost my pound for the week, exercised for the week. Not bored yet!
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Week 4, 36 to go!
Can you believe a month has gone by since we started?
Well, this little Cinderella Pact is growing. I hear there are others who would like to participate and create their own little groups. So, if you want to create an auxiliary group, wow! I am so glad you are here! Best of luck to you all! Here is a quick review of rules:
1. Find at least one other person to do this with you because changing the way you eat and live is difficult and having someone to lean on and boost you up is key.
2. Each of you puts ten bucks in the pot. Then decide on a monetary amount that you feel like will motivate you to lose the weight, for me it is 20 bucks. Then decide how much you will lose in 2 weeks. Ours was 2 pounds in 2 weeks because we didn’t want it to be a starvation diet since we obviously didn’t learn anything from those crash and burn diets we’d all done before. Have a neutral party hold your money, so that you are not tempted to give up. I chose my spouse. Pick someone you trust!
3. Pick an end date and a goal to be working towards. Ours was Thanksgiving.
4. Post your results here!
Thoughts about these last two weeks:
There has been some discussion about banking pounds and my overall feeling about that is…NO! That just opens up a whole can of worms better left alone. The beauty of the two week time line is that even if you had a terrible night of temptations you can balance that out the rest of the 13 days. I can also see in the future where the scale will refuse to move for a week and then you have to put your 20 bucks into the pot, but guess what, that next Monday is a clean slate. You get to start over, because wouldn’t banking pounds mean that if you failed then you were in the red and you had to then lose 3 pounds to stay on track?
Anyone else’s jeans getting loose? I need go buy a belt, hee hee!
Well, this little Cinderella Pact is growing. I hear there are others who would like to participate and create their own little groups. So, if you want to create an auxiliary group, wow! I am so glad you are here! Best of luck to you all! Here is a quick review of rules:
1. Find at least one other person to do this with you because changing the way you eat and live is difficult and having someone to lean on and boost you up is key.
2. Each of you puts ten bucks in the pot. Then decide on a monetary amount that you feel like will motivate you to lose the weight, for me it is 20 bucks. Then decide how much you will lose in 2 weeks. Ours was 2 pounds in 2 weeks because we didn’t want it to be a starvation diet since we obviously didn’t learn anything from those crash and burn diets we’d all done before. Have a neutral party hold your money, so that you are not tempted to give up. I chose my spouse. Pick someone you trust!
3. Pick an end date and a goal to be working towards. Ours was Thanksgiving.
4. Post your results here!
Thoughts about these last two weeks:
There has been some discussion about banking pounds and my overall feeling about that is…NO! That just opens up a whole can of worms better left alone. The beauty of the two week time line is that even if you had a terrible night of temptations you can balance that out the rest of the 13 days. I can also see in the future where the scale will refuse to move for a week and then you have to put your 20 bucks into the pot, but guess what, that next Monday is a clean slate. You get to start over, because wouldn’t banking pounds mean that if you failed then you were in the red and you had to then lose 3 pounds to stay on track?
Anyone else’s jeans getting loose? I need go buy a belt, hee hee!
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Week 2 down 38 more to go for Cinderella Pact & 8 more for exercise bet
Everyone’s update thus far:
Rachel – down 3 lbs & exercised 8 days within the last 2 weeks
Holly – down 2 lbs & exercised Apollo 2x the last 14 days making her have LOTS AND LOTS of banked days! Not that Apollo will let her have a day off!
Gretchen – down 6 lbs (due to liquid diet & surgery) exercised as much as the doctor would allow. Her new goal is to maintain within a 3 lb range for next two weeks.
Amber - down ?, will start exercise bet on Monday!
Some thoughts on this week:
This week I thought I did everything right however Monday – Friday however, I hovered in a +/- 0.4 he[[. Monday I went up .2, Tuesday went up .4, Thursday went up 2.2 and then Friday went down .4 and then on Sunday I was down 2.9 which roughly translates to NOTHING LOST FOR A WHOLE BLESSED WEEK! I was good, I didn’t spiral out of control into a sugar induced coma (not comma, thank you spell check gods), which is where I would have gone 2 months ago. Instead I told myself that, it is probably my body’s reaction to loosing 3 the week prior and kept going.
Which leads me to an interesting question; what do you tell yourself when the scale doesn’t move? I have read from multiple sources that the scale isn’t the only measurement we should use. The experts suggest that I get a tape measure out and measure my lovely parts and keep track of that. Others say to weigh myself only once a week. I could do the first *if* I could find my measuring tape; the latter is hard as I really like those silly stamps on the wii calendar. To be able to look at a whole month and see how many times I exercised is a point of pride for me. I did take a picture of myself last Monday, as a ‘starting weight picture’ so maybe a good idea would be to take a picture (gulp) every Monday and then I could see my weekly progress?
The only mantra I can seem to come up with is: Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, ala Dory from ‘Finding Nemo.’ Any others?
Rachel – down 3 lbs & exercised 8 days within the last 2 weeks
Holly – down 2 lbs & exercised Apollo 2x the last 14 days making her have LOTS AND LOTS of banked days! Not that Apollo will let her have a day off!
Gretchen – down 6 lbs (due to liquid diet & surgery) exercised as much as the doctor would allow. Her new goal is to maintain within a 3 lb range for next two weeks.
Amber - down ?, will start exercise bet on Monday!
Some thoughts on this week:
This week I thought I did everything right however Monday – Friday however, I hovered in a +/- 0.4 he[[. Monday I went up .2, Tuesday went up .4, Thursday went up 2.2 and then Friday went down .4 and then on Sunday I was down 2.9 which roughly translates to NOTHING LOST FOR A WHOLE BLESSED WEEK! I was good, I didn’t spiral out of control into a sugar induced coma (not comma, thank you spell check gods), which is where I would have gone 2 months ago. Instead I told myself that, it is probably my body’s reaction to loosing 3 the week prior and kept going.
Which leads me to an interesting question; what do you tell yourself when the scale doesn’t move? I have read from multiple sources that the scale isn’t the only measurement we should use. The experts suggest that I get a tape measure out and measure my lovely parts and keep track of that. Others say to weigh myself only once a week. I could do the first *if* I could find my measuring tape; the latter is hard as I really like those silly stamps on the wii calendar. To be able to look at a whole month and see how many times I exercised is a point of pride for me. I did take a picture of myself last Monday, as a ‘starting weight picture’ so maybe a good idea would be to take a picture (gulp) every Monday and then I could see my weekly progress?
The only mantra I can seem to come up with is: Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, ala Dory from ‘Finding Nemo.’ Any others?
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