The journey to size 8

Well, just a couple of weeks has finally shown me slight results.  I am finally in size 12.  The pants are still a bit tight, but at least I can get the damned things buttoned!

Army Ball is next weekend...no way am I going to be in any old dresses...glad my mother in law came helped me find a good dress!  I'll still look like a cow, but at least I'll be wearing a pretty dress! :)

I need to go now.

A journey on the treadmill

I can't remember the last time I got on a treadmill.  It's been a while.  Actually, I can, but I won't bore you with THAT...suffice it to say it was around mid-2006 when my husband was deployed for his 2nd tour in Iraq (3rd deployment overall).

I walked a fairly slow speed, about an 18:45 pace, for over an hour.  I burned almost 500 calories, walked about 3.34 miles and I'm feeling really good right now.  Talk about rubber legs!  Wooweee, baby!  Perhaps even a tad dizzy after I got off the machine.  Needless to say, I'm going back again tomorrow! :)  I really have enjoyed going to the gym after I get out of school.

Maybe soon, I'll start to notice some change!  I'd be really REALLY happy to start to see the numbers on the scale go down a bit, but I'd really just like to start getting my heart into shape.

So, now it's time to hit the showers.  I feel all slime-y and smelly!

The Journey to a correct posture

Well, while I was in my Anatomy class today, we were going through the vertebrae and looking at some pathological problems with the spine.  There is this photo in the book that shows a woman who's belly looks very similar to mine and she has a problem with her spine.  So, not only do I have to lose weight, I need to correct my posture.  While I am TOTALLY enjoying learning about our anatomy and physiology, I am learning all about my own problems...all the more reason to lose all this extra weight...I need to start exercising differently!

The journey to fitness

Since I am de-cluttering my life, it stands to reason that part of that de-cluttering is losing body weight...just the same as it is "losing weight" in my garage! I'm not terribly overweight, but I am overweight for my body frame, which happens to be small. I'm tall, though, so I can carry a tad bit more weight, but as it stands right now, I'm just on the cusp of normal and overweight, BMI-speaking. I don't have to be itty-bitty anymore, afterall, I am trying to get pregnant, but I do actually need to slim down some.

Currently, I am weighing in at roughly 180 lbs. My "ideal weight" is 135, but I haven't seen that since I came back from Iraq in 2003. It's probably not very likely that I'll see that weight again for a while. My "happy weight" is between 145-150. I'm not even all that uncomfortable at 155. So, my goal is to get in that range again. But my weight loss won't even be noticeable until I've lost 15 lbs; that's the problem with being an apple shape. I gain all my weight around my middle and a little in the hips, thighs and face. But after I start losing the weight around my middle, then I start to lose the excess fat around my boobs, legs and face.

I have started swimming again. This is how I'm going to get fit and lose weight. I went to the pool a few weeks ago before I had my surgery and haven't been able to go again until today. It felt good to get back in the water. I'm going to have to get used to the smell of chlorine again. It's an awful smell!