The Bloke had to leave last night to head back to Melbourne for a few days before he actually starts his new job. A day and some of training down there, and then he gets going up here on Wednesday.

I promised myself that, while I had started to take care of myself in general ways, Valentine’s Day would be the day I got back on the scale and started a more structured health plan.

Strangely enough, I wasn’t scared getting on the scale (the Wii Fit scale, that is). I knew what I felt like at my top weight and I wasn’t feeling that way. Sure, a few more items of clothing wouldn’t fit and I looked a little heavier in the mirror, but I didn’t feel the bloated yuck I always felt in the past when my weight shot up.

So much for knowing.

I’ve reached a new top weight. Sigh. And while it isn’t heaps above the old top weight, it’s still a new top that I never thought I would see.

Usually this would have me crying and telling myself how disgusting/lazy/etc I am for letting myself get this far, but I’m not. I’m not happy I’m here, but I’m not letting it influence my mood, either.

I’m reminded of the borrowed post and thinking, “Today I can cry about reaching a new top weight or I can think about how it will be even more amazing when I reach a healthy weight.”

Who would have thought I would get to this point?

I’m already prepared for healthier eating with plenty of green things – love spinach leaf salads! – and there’s a new reason I’m getting more exercise than usual…

Eleven week old Brin is a big handful already and has been adding to my activity levels! I’m looking forward to when we can go on walks together. (At the moment, he hates the lead with a passion.)

So things are on the up and up again. Bendigo is such a better environment than Ringwood, we actually have a house to live in instead of a flat or unit, we have a new puppy… I’m ready for the next stage of life.

Hi all! Welcome back to Monday weigh in here on Finally Getting Fit. I didn’t weigh in last week because it was my first wedding anniversary, but now it’s time to face the music and see what kind of damage (if any) there is to deal with.

Well, today is the day I haven’t been dreading but have been…not looking forward to. Like I said before, I don’t regret fully enjoying my anniversary weekend, but that was followed with a lot of time spent on the road and out of the house. Food choices weren’t exactly abundant.

I tried the best I could, and that’s what matters. I’m still in a good place mentally.

SW: 256
LW: —
CW: 248

In a good place mentally despite the fact that I’ve gained since the last week I weighed in.

I know why it happened; that’s what’s important. Yeah, I’m a bit unhappy about it, but I have gained before and that hasn’t stopped me from losing the weight. I can and will lose this weight just like I have lost weight before.

And even with the gain today, I have accomplished an awesome non-scale victory that I have been working towards:

I power walked a mile in under twenty minutes! Yay!

So with that to keep me going, I keep on with my new gym plan and I am trying to drink more water. I have no doubt that I can get the weight back off in the next couple of weeks.

How are you doing? How is your fitness journey coming along?

That’s right; I’m not weighing in today.

Today I am taking a break from dieting, exercise, and everything else. Today is the day I truly enjoy myself…and my husband.

May 5th is the day I celebrate my first wedding anniversary. Last year at this time I was nervously pacing and getting everything together so I could have the wedding I had dreamed of, getting married to the man I had always dreamed of.

We met online, me from the US and him from Australia. We went through a lot of hard times because of distance and so-called ‘friends’. But we made it through and met in person when I took a plane ride to Australia nearly a year to the day after we met online.

Seven months after we started living together, we got married at the local park, surrounded by our friends.

It wasn’t long after that that I got serious about my getting healthier. I knew that if I kept on my current track, my life would probably be a lot shorter and with a lot more complications. I’m a greedy sort and want all the time I can get with my husband, so I began on my journey.

Nearly a year later, celebrating our first anniversary, I am more in love with my husband than ever and I love myself as well. We have lived, learned and grown so much in the last year and the time has gone by so fast.

I can only hope that we see the success and abundance of love this year that we had sustain us last year.

Be well and happy.

Hello everyone! It’s that time again, and I hope you are having a wonderful Monday. No beating around the bush today; it’s time to weigh in.

Starting Weight: 256
Last week: 244
This week: 244

Yep, that’s no loss for this week, but that’s also no gain as well!

It looks like I am going to at least maintain 244 until my anniversary next Monday, which is the minimum of what I wanted to do. Given that this is (supposed to be) time of month, I’m grateful that I haven’t gained anything. Especially given that my PCOS is acting up and I haven’t actually completed the cycle, so to say.

I usually have about a two to five pound gain at this time, so I’m definitely happy with maintaining. There is also the usual gain after having a time of not eating much (I had the stomach flu last week), so I’m glad to not have gained because I’m back to eating regularly again.

How is everyone else doing? Loss? Gain? Maintain? I’d really like to hear about your strategies and how things are going for your personal weight loss.

Are you feeling good about where you are? Discouraged? Do you feel like you could use some support or do you like to battle it out alone most of the time? Are you on a diet plan or are you watching what you eat without a plan?

This week I’m really hitting the water and the gym. I’m trying to take it easy after being ill, but having a little loss for the next weigh in would be fabulous.

SW: 262
LW: 260
CW: 260

I have officially been exercising and all that good stuff for one week! Woohoo!

This week I am focused less on weight and a lot more on everything I have accomplished. As I said to Mr. JM this weekend, “I feel like I am in such a good place right now.”

And that pretty much sums it up. I’m working, exercising, cooking, cleaning… Things aren’t really balanced at the moment, but I feel like I’m walking with the flow of life instead of fighting upstream like usual.

The lack of a change from last week to this week is disappointing on one level, but I’m not concerned about it. First, I’m still on TOM technically so I’m probably still retaining water. Second, my body is probably still getting used to this level of exercise and is probably retaining water for that reason as well.

So it’s all good!

There is another issue happening that could be keeping me from losing weight, but I’m still debating whether or not that subject is just way too much information to be talking about on this blog.

I really feel like I have finally found the exercise routine that works for me. I’m someone who gets bored pretty easily, so spending half and hour on a treadmill doesn’t quite work for me. With the routine I’ve put together, I’m moving around, incorporating different types of exercise and I’m not doing anything long enough to become bored.

Woohoo!

I’d love to be to 256 by my wedding anniversary (May 5th) but we’ll see if that actually happens.

I hope everyone out there is feeling great and accomplishing wonderful things.

SW: 262
LW: -
CW: 260

Hello everyone!

Yeah, I know; I’m sounding a bit perky for someone who is only two pounds away from highest weight, but there is so much going on right now…

First, I had a great time on holiday. Talk about relaxing. Mmm. I could definitely use some more of that. I’m also fairly certain that a pound or so of the gain I’ve had came from the holiday (as it does). I mean, I did have pancakes for the first time in four (probably more) years.

Also, there is the TOM weight gain that it took me two months of birth control to figure out lands right on Monday, which is weigh in day. Smart move, that… *grumblegrumble*

I am still feeling pretty fantastic, though. Through bad times good things can come.

We arrived home to a pretty nasty rent rise – that we’re going to appeal – that lit a fire under our bottoms about moving. I’m hoping we get to move to New South Wales (gorgeous place with a lot more job opportunities for Mr. JM) so keep your fingers crossed for us.

I’m getting into a new exercise and eating routine that I’m quite proud of. You may think I’m kind of crazy for starting a new routine during TOM week, but when I think about it, I don’t want to wait any longer. I’m sick of being fat. I want to be the skinny me in my picture.

I’m cutting out alcohol (with the exception of the once every few weeks glass of red wine) completely. I’m also cutting out things that I let myself indulge in because they weren’t candy bars – muffins, banana bread, chai latte. I’m also cutting down on my breads/grains in a more gradual manner. Saying a flat no to all of that is just going to make me binge.

I’m brave enough to move from the individual serves of yogurt to the bulk (cheaper) container, so that will be the first test of whether or not I’m getting past my binging. Wish me will power.

The exercise is going great (after one day…) I’m combining bits of everything (stretching, yoga, cardio, weights) and breaking it up to two times a day so I am active more often and I don’t get bored.

See? I told you: huge amount of things going on right now, but I’m feeling great about everything. Even despite the gain.

You can be assured I’ll be checking in often with this stuff, though, because I want to succeed all the way! I won’t screw things up this time.

HW: 262
LW: 254
CW: 258

As they say in Australia, “Not happy, Jan.” Then again, not a mystery either.

My husband and I were in the car the other day and I was squirming around a bit because I was having some gnarly not-time-of-the-month cramps. After a few moments of sensing he was down, I finally asked him what was wrong.

He sighed. “I’m worried about you. It seems like you’re going from illness to illness.”

Without hesitation or pause, I said, “It’s because I’m not exercising.”

Don’t you just love it when your subconscious has figured something out and waits until an odd moment to let your conscious mind know?

After February and March’s glandular fever recurrence to deal with, some cramps – albeit bad ones – aren’t really moving from illness to illness. I knew what he meant though – I was just back to normal and something else went wrong. The funny thing is, though, that somewhere in my mind I realized the missing piece to my jigsaw currently is that I’m not exercising.

There are other things going on as well, of course, like working on the portion sizes for eating every two to three hours. I was doing well on remembering to eat, but as is made obvious with the weight gain, I was just eating too much.

I’m not too upset about the gain because I know why it happened and how to fix it. I do worry that people who read here will get sick of me yoyo-ing around the 250s, but it’s all trial and error anyway. I’m blogging because I need the support now, not when I figure out the method that works for me for losing weight.

I won’t be able to weigh in next week because Mr. JM and I are going on a road trip starting early next Monday morning, but come the Monday after that, you can bet your last dollar…

Believe it or not, I completely forgot about the weigh in. Just slipped my mind. I’ve also decided on a mental health day, so there is no real post about much of anything at the moment…

Best wishes,

JM

SW: 262
LW: 252
CW: 254

TOM weight gain. That’s something I definitely didn’t miss when I wasn’t having proper cycles. Mind you, two pounds is a lot better than the five pounds I used to gain like clockwork when I was a teenager.

This week things are a bit interesting in the flat. A few things are changing and will hopefully prove to be just what we need.

For the first time, I have planned out a menu for the whole week – every single meal (and I’ve scheduled in exercise, too) – and we’re going to try to follow. So far today, things have been good. Some experimental meals have turned out to be great and very satisfying.

Of course, with food comes water. I slacked on a lot of things while I was sick and now I’m getting back into them gently.

I keep reminding myself that, while the menu is all written up, I can change things if I feel I have to. That may seem, to some, like it defeats the purpose of having the menu, but it’s what I have to do. I tend to get really obsessive about food and such, so reminding myself that things are flexible is helping ease the obsessive tide that I already feel rising a smidge.

Like I mentioned, I scheduled in exercise as well. I have an hour of exercise every day with a DVD. It’s a workout that combines yoga and pilates. And for anyone who thinks that’s not a tough workout, well buy the DVD and try it yourself. Even the instructor gets sweaty, so there.

On the mental health side of things, I’ve decided to hold off on food/body image counseling until at least my next appointment at the women’s clinic (early May). That will give me time to journal as well as see if I can stamp out/get past the issues and obsessions I get. (I’ll explain more about that stuff later.)

It feels kind of overwhelming to address so much at once, but it also feels good to be working on it.

How is everyone else going?

Hi everyone!

I hope you enjoyed Mr. JM’s time here last week. He’s really good to me when I’m ill and he wanted to help me get as much rest as possible by taking over some of my blogs.

He’s a peach like that.

Time to weigh in…

SW: 262
LW: 252
CW: 252

No change, and I am totally okay with that. Haha!

Mystery Virus 2009 continues to suck all my energy, so I have zero exercise since I last weighed in. Just walking to the shops (which I did all of once) was a major trip for me that left me exhausted. So going twenty minutes on the elliptical? Out of the question.

I’m calling it Mystery Virus because no one has been able to tell me (with absolute certainty) what’s happening or even when I can expect to get better. Right now I just plan on finishing the meds I’m currently on and then I’m going to let my body do as it wishes. I have a bit more energy than I have, so I’m going to start doing some gentle exercises to get things going.

It’s been so weird to experience this. My brain is in working order and all that, so it’s like a brief taste of what it feels like to have your body betray you. There was a point when I switched my office chair for a comfy chair because I was dozing off at the computer pretty regularly.

Thankfully I am past that stage. So, two more days of meds and then lots of positive thinking. I’ve done everything doctors have told me to do and nothing has worked, so I’m going to start doing what I feel is right. And that’s just plain ignoring that I’m sick. Hehe!

I hope you all are doing well!