Ah...the Kool-Aid Man Won - FAIL!

OH YEAH! The fucker got me and he got me good, several times. So he won – God knows how with his huge belly and itty bitty legs - and now Stephen gets the money. Well, I guess we don’t get to go to our favourite vacation spot. I asked him when he wants the cheque.

He said, “Here’s the deal…” (Deal? Hmmm…) “Why don’t you keep $500 of it as a consolation prize because you did so well and you now need new clothes since your current ones are all too big?”

Do I have the best husband in the whole wide world or WHAT???? J  My belt is even too big!

Now let’s take a look at how I actually did. I did pretty well! I don’t think I did too shabby a job. I mean, there was two weeks in February where I totally slacked off (hmmm that was 2-4 pounds I could have lost towards my goal); then there was the week in March where I picked up a bacterial infection. I could have still run but I got overtired and just didn’t feel that I could or should.

But I’ve lost a total of 15 pounds in these three months without too too much effort. And if you count the 3 pounds I gained in the first few days, I kinda lost 18 pounds.

What else have I gained from this adventure?  

• I am so much more active now.

• I spend more time with my daughter.

• I run at least every two days (love it) and try to go 6 days a week because I love it so much.

• I’ve started walking almost every evening with my daughter as part of her bedtime process and we sometimes talk Daddy into coming too. Little did I know that a five year old could handle a 1.5 mile walk lol…with whining of course, but she did it!

• Here’s a biggie, one I didn’t think was going to happen…I actually LOOK FORWARD to exercising every day.

So in a nutshell, I’m a work in progress! Here are my new goals:

2^nd Quarter Goals

Current Weight: 170

Start Date: Monday, April 4th

Goal Date: June 30

Total Time: 13 weeks

Weight Goal: 13 pounds (this goal is changeable depending on how things go since it’s not set in stone that a body can keep losing one pound a week consistently.

2^nd Quarter sub goals #1

Current Weight: 170

Start Date: Monday, April 4^th

Goal Date: April 30^th

Total Time: 4 weeks

Weight Goal: 4 pounds

New goal setting date: April 30th

What will be a requirement to obtain these goals?

• This time I really want to input what I eat in my Calorie Counter app from About.com.

• Go back to blogging. This really was helping me get so excited and I was told by people that I was inspiring them.

• Go back to taking pictures of my dinners. This actually made me feel very good when I could actually see the nutrition loaded on that plate.

• I need to eat more food. Really, throughout the day I wasn’t eating enough. There were times where my body probably was in starvation mode. I wasn’t always as conscious as I should have been throughout the day.

• Continue to use miCoach app from Addidas, Runtastic app and the Biggest Loser Facebook App. These are always fun to use. And they’re great for tracking progress!

And here are some comparison pictures to mark my progress. I realize the pictures were taken at different distances, however, I think you can see the improvements on the pics on the right. These pics are dated as Jan 1st for before and Mar 22 for after.

 And I can get into my semi-skinny jeans again, I can basically pull them right on and there's no effort doing them up!!!!!! How exciting is THAT????

So "Mr." Kool-Aid Man - You're goin' down THIS quarter! Just in time for bikini weather too! 

Screw you dude!

March 20th...*SIGH*

Well here I am in the home stretch of my bet with Stephen. I have exactly 12 more days left to reach my sub-goal. And from the looks of things it ain’t gonna happen. So how do I feel about this? Let’s just say that I don’t lose well. But even though I’m not going to make it, I’m not going down without a fight.

You see, the main goal of this whole thing was to get me to be more conscious and create better habits.

So have I met my goal? Nope.

Am I going to? Probably not.

Did I create better habits? You bet I did!

In fact, I have gotten to the point where when I don’t exercise, I actually miss it! I haven’t done anything for a week because I was feeling much too weak due to a bronchial infection (Thank God for antibiotics!). 

Anyway, excuses aside, in the past I woulda gotten all, “Screw it, I’m gonna lose anyway, so I’m just going to stop.”

Happening? Nope.

I’m going to fight ‘til the bitter end. So I’m going to do what I did back in 2000 in the hopes that I’ll at least get closer. J

What I did back then was the Fit for Life diet. This is not be confused with Body for Life. This was something that came out in the 1970s and I embraced this book 11 years ago eating like a pig but still pounds were melting off. Fast.

Basically what’s involved is never mixing certain foods – never ever mixing protein with carbohydrates. There’s reasons behind this which I’m not going to go into, just read the freakin’ book if you wanna know lol…there’s another aspect of only fruit before noon, which I’m not sure I’m going to follow through with. We’ll see what happens.

All I know is that I’m not stopping no matter where I’m at with the stinking bet. I’m enjoying running and adore the endorphins that make me all tingly and happy. J So I’m off to get that back again.

I’m not only 12 days away from losing my bet, but I’m 12 days away from setting my new goals (yay that’s always fun right?) – my goals for the second quarter. What’ll happen in the end is I’m healthier and more fit.

So that being said…who will be the real winner? Hmmmm?

Comments are encouraged. I really want to know what you think!