Weight Loss Wednesday

I am not being as good about posting every Wednesday as I would have liked.. but I have been doing great on walking almost every day on the treadmill... and have been eating ok..... water intake has been way up. All in all I am feeling a lot better again... walking every day gives me a lot more energy. Have been having some issues with my shoulder... pretty much it has been killing me. The worst part about it is that it seems that everything I do makes it hurt... walking is great.. but I can't swing my arms... I had fatty arm issues before I was in the accident... since then it has gotten worse... thanks to the PT I have muscles in my arms now.. on the top... but still have the wobble underneath :( So many things outside I want to do.. and yet... shoveling is out.. raking is out.. and pruning ( with big shears) is out... it isn't that I can not do things.. it is just that I do them.. and then for 3 days I hurt too bad to do anything. I also have to be very careful when I am doing things..... with everything I do I have to think about how I am reaching.. or turning....so frustrating. I do have another appointment with the doctor and I am hoping there is something else we can try... the one "specialist" says I am disabled and I am not liking that plan at all.

So back to the weight loss... I have not lost weight.. in fact I have gained a pound in the last two weeks... I am thinking it is a good thing though.. because I have started walking again and because I am doing it faithfully and a bit different than before.. I think I am getting some new muscles... hopefully in another week or two the pounds will start falling again. I have the treadmill set to almost straight up hill these days... at almost a run... from all of our hikes around here it is the hills that kill me. I can flat hike for miles.. so since we seem to have massive hills everywhere we want to hike. I am hoping this will help... and well I am having fun so am going with it.

weighing in at 238 up one pound

Weight Loss Wednesday

Well... I am not wanting to do this... so it will be short and sweet... no pounds lost this week.. but did not go up either... and my muscles are killing me. Did a bunch of hiking.. lots of hills.. and ... did some resistance type stuff with my legs... oh wow... ouch. Not hurting as bad today as I was the last two days... which I am sure means I need to do more today and really push it push. I also need to drink more water.. a LOT more water. I did not walk on the treadmill at all this last week :(

This coming week... drink drink drink a LOT of water.. and walk on treadmill!

weight 237

Weight Loss Wednesday

I know it is Thursday...but for some reason my days of the week have been off all week.. which makes for a really long week at first.. then it is over before I am ready.

I started off this year doing Weight Loss Wednesdays (first post here) and I did good for a few weeks.. then the focus started slipping.. and I had a horrible week and well.. sitting down to write about a horrible week was hard.. so I did not do it... and now I know.. that is when I SHOULD have done it more than the good weeks. I got to a place where I was not losing any more weight.. and it was getting easier to have a little extra at a meal.. or an extra snack..and I was hating the treadmill.. since it was not working... and well it snowballed.. and here I am getting back on track.

Summer should be easy time for this.. so many fresh fruits and veggies.. which I LOVE.. and we are outside all the time... even though the weather was better in February than in June this year :( Thankfully I was born and raised here in Washington and I am used to it raining ALL the time.. I am also far from sweet enough to melt... so outside we go. We have found geocaching... which is wonderful in so many ways... really gets us outside doing things... lots of caches are hidden on some really great trails... because of geocaching we have found several great hiking areas right near our home... and this last week we have been exploring them... our plan is to go at least three times a week. These are hilly trails.. hills that go straight up and down... trails from a mile to about 5 miles. The one we did the other day.. we kept up a good pace and had a good workout. We out hiked our teenagers too. Good for us.. bad for them.

We have a vacation planned for this summer that involves a lot of hiking (and geocaching) in hopefully ten different states... and we picked the top ten hilly states.. so we ( ALL ) better get in a lot better shape before then. Not only will it be hilly.. but I am expecting some of these places to be well over 100 degrees :( I will be hating the heat.. and I am sure complaining loudly, I want to be sure my hill climbing muscles are not doing any extra complaining.. as I am sure I will be testing everyone's last nerve as is. I will be bringing the Advil for my shoulder ( it hates all hiking) and that will help with any sore muscles too..sure wish there was a pill for the heat. Hmmm now that could make someone rich.

So here I am.. back on track... back to posting on Wednesdays (from here on out) no matter what!

Goal is to lose 15 lbs by August 27th (ten weeks) That is 1.5 lbs a week... with vacation coming I am sure I can do this.. always seem to lose weight on vacation.. without even trying.

Will be eating a lot of fruits.. veggies.. and drinking a LOT of water. Will be walking on the treadmill... at least 3 times a week.. and good serious hikes in the woods at least 3 times a week. Will also be working on some targeted muscles with some different exercises and want to start using the wii fit more often.

Starting weight 1/5/10 ~ 262 Weight today ~ 237 total weight loss ~ 25 lbs with @50lbs to go

Emmy's Sugar Frog

I love frogs... .. used to have a collection.. but.. there are only so many things one can collect. While we were out geocaching we saw this beautiful frog attached to a travel tag so we just had to take it and check it out. Turns out it it is Emmy's sugar frog and has a sweet tooth.. it wants to hop around from cache to cache... having it's photo taken while having a dessert :) When we read that.. we knew we had found the right travel bug (frog) for us to move along.

Last night I decided to make some cookies and I remembered that Emmy's sugar frog was visiting us and I thought he might enjoy making some cookies... from what I had heard I knew he would enjoy eating some cookies. So I gathered up all the supplies on the counter and set him there to watch. Right away he hoped into action and was making sure everything was mixed well.

Then we had to get it all patted down in the pan and nice and even. (yes we ALL washed before helping)

I did make the mistake of opening the chocolate up so it would be ready when the cookies were done baking.. lol came out to find this.

here the cookies are... out of the oven and ready for chocolate... from the look on Frogs face I am not sure I was moving fast enough.

Wouldn't you know it... he went right for the one with chocolate on it.

Emmy's frog also helped make some brownies

And some blue berry muffins while visiting.

We had a lot of fun with this frog and had thought we found the perfect cache to drop it in.. one that belonged to a little girl named Emmy.. but.. we had no luck getting in touch with the owner.. and then we noticed that the cache seemed to not have any activity so we decided to keep looking... found a well maintained cache close to home on the perfect trail for a frog so last night while out hiking/caching with the kids we left it there to continue on it's journey. We look forward to watching and seeing where this special, fun frog will go next :)

~Michelle

recipe for these cookies (in thumb print version) is on my other blog, Coffee, Tea and Recipes. Only difference would be instead of making into little balls.. just spread in a pan and bake until edges are brown.

recipe for the brownies and the muffins can be found in Chelle's Kitchen too :)

Testing

just a quick little post to see if blogging is possible from my phone. So far it appears as if it will work....maybe not not the best way or easiest...but it does seem to work :)