Overweight!

I am overweight!  It is a strange thing to be happy about, but anyone who has been obese knows how this feels.  I do not put s whole lot of faith into the BMI scale, but it is still nice to not have that label hanging over me.

I actually hit this milestone on September 4, but I have been seriously busy lately.  We are in the middle of our adoption homestudy.  So much stress!  My individual interview is tonight.  After that we are supposed to have one more meeting with the social worker and then we can start working on matching with children.  We are hoping to have kids in the house by Halloween or Thanksgiving.

I have also been somewhat of a slacker with my P90X because of things to get done with the homestudy, but I've not given up entirely.  I've also started getting ready for a 5K mudrun that I plan to be in on October 29.


Today's weight is 162!

Fitness and Weigh In

The scale has been moving pretty slowly for me lately.  I don't really mind though because I am in this for the long haul and I have improvement and victories that have nothing to do with Mr. Scale.  I am doing things that I never would have imagined I could before I started this journey.  Right now I am going to the gym M/W/F and doing 1 hour of weight lifting (power hour - body pump style class) and 1 hour of zumba.  I am also doing P90X.  I have surprised myself quite a few time lately with the things I am able to do.  First I did double burpees (burpees with 2 push-ups instead of 1), then I surprised myself by adding the jump between burpees, then I discovered that I could do 15 push-ups in a row, then I did the entire Ab workout from P90X (AbRipperX is a non-stop ab workout that totals to about 350 reps total of 11 different ab exercises in about 15 minutes.), then I did quadruple burpees, then I did quintuple burpees.  I couldn't possibly impress myself more than that, right?  Wrong!  Yesterday I did one-arm push-ups!  I did them on my knees, but I busted out 6 of those, alternating arms, 3 on each arm.  Yes, I would like to be able to do them on my toes, but I used to have to do my normal push-ups on my knees too (heck, I used to not be able to do normal push-ups on my knees), and I WILL get to the point that I can do the one-arm push-ups on my toes too.  Can anybody say badass?  I hope so, because that's what I am!

Today's weight: 165.8

Wow!

Today I was in a bad mood because the scale is up 2 pounds from yesterday.  I was feeling like throwing in the towel and having doughnuts and pizza and/or fried pies.  I didn't though.  I ate my normal breakfast.  I got my butt into the car and to the gym.  I came home and had a healthy lunch.  I did my P90X plyometrics.  As I was finishing up I got a call.  I have officially been taken off of my diabetes medication.  I no longer need it.  I have it covered with diet and exercise.  So, take that scale!  I will give a weigh in anyhow though.  Today's weight, 2 pounds and all, is 169.8.

Weigh In and NSV

Today I am 169.2.  Back out of the 170s, woohoo!  At the gym this morning, during power hour, I was able to do the jumps in between the double burpees.  Yep, I am a total rockstar!  Things like that are so much more important to me than the number on the scale.  It's just a number.  What should gravity's action have to do with my happiness with myself?  It's silly.  Yes, I have lost 75.8 pounds.  It is much more important to me that I can do 2 hours of zumba non-stop now when I could barely walk 15 minutes before.  I can do like 100 squats with 45 pounds on my back.  I can do push-ups.  I can do burpees and jump between them. I have lost 50.75 inches total. I have gone down more than 22.4% body fat, not really sure on that one because I didn't check it until about 2 months in and haven't checked it since April (darn broken machine). I have gone down 13.9 BMI points.  I have dropped my glucose levels from diabetic to normal.  I have dropped my cholesterol to healthy numbers.  I have lowered my blood pressure to a healthy score.  All of those things are so much more important to me than a silly number on the scale.

Zumba and Weight Lifting Woes

I have become a zumba addict and a weight lifting addict.  I think these are very good addictions and do not plan to try to recover from it.  I recently discovered that I can now wear zumba clothes.  I fit into zumba clothes! Zumba clothes run kinda small, so I was not expecting to be able to fit into them yet.  I bought this outfit as something to work toward.  It is an XL (they go up to XXL).  I'm very happy about being able to wear zumba clothes now, but now I have trouble.  My normal zumba class has been canceled and will probably not resume until June.  With it goes my weight lifting (body pump style) class.  I am annoyed to no end.  The contracting company that pays for the class instructors at the base gym used money that was supposed to be for them to pay for other things (refs for games and such) and now they are out of instructor money until the new contracts start June 1.    We asked the instructor if we could pay her and she said that she was told that if she let us do that she would be breaching her contract.  Excuse me?  They already did that by not paying her, how can they tell her that she can't let us pay her?  I have a place I can go to for zumba, but I will have to pay for classes and it won't be my regular teacher.  I also have the Wii zumba game, but while it is fun, that is really not the same.  Plus, I have no way to replace my weight lifting class. The instructor was sweet enough to give me the CD with the class playlist on it and I can use the weights, but it still won't be the same thing.  I need her!  I'm pissed off and very worried that I will lose some of the progress that I have made.

Size 10

It is a really bad picture, but that is me in size 10 levis and a small shirt.  That's right, small!

Strength

Today I was on my elliptical for 45 minutes. I then went on to do some strength training. For my strength training I am currently using 5 pound hand weights and thinking of moving up to 6. During my workout today I was thinking back to when I could not finish 5 minutes on the elliptical, when I was using 2 pound weights and could barely get through the exercises with them.

I love how much stronger I am these days and I can't wait to see how much stronger I get as I continue on this journey. I think that has a lot to do with the success I am having. It is not just about losing pounds for me this time. It is about getting stronger and healthier. I am impressed with myself and I'm ok with saying so.