So...........

Tomorrow is WI and I'm fully expecting a gain.  Possibly a big gain!  Having my kitchen torn up for a week wasn't exactly conducive to healthy eating.  We ate lots of processed food, and we ate out A LOT!  I've been eating sweets and junk and drinking soda which by the way has given me a raging bladder infection!  Oh the things we do to ourselves! 

I've tracked most every day, but not every day and I've been eating far over my daily points values for the past 4 days.  This is the first time I've done this since beginning WW in July.  I'm ok, not frustrated, or feeling like I've fallen off the wagon.  Life does happen after all and as long as I get right back on track, there is no real harm done.  The harm is in not getting straightened back out.  TOM is knocking at the back door as well and that doesn't help matters any, so be prepared for me to report a hefty gain in the morning! 

I start back in with my New Rules of Lifting tomorrow, after taking all of last week off (my week starts on Tuesday in case you didn't know, because that's my weigh day) so that will help get me back on track as well.

I hope you are all well, fit and faboo and if you've strayed off the straight and narrow path a little bit, take me hand and we'll get back right together!

Till next time........I'm unTHICKINandsoTHINNIN!

PS.........this will be the last post at this blog site, from now on I'm going to post my weight loss adventures over at http://www.goodwifefarm.com/ since that's my main blog. 

It's Official...........

Stage Two really stinks!  LOL!  Wow, I don't like this at all.  It's very difficult for me and instead of feeling strong and fit, I feel awkward and unbalanced.  I don't like that feeling, but I know the only way to overcome it is to continue doing the exercises.  So as usual I shall "endeavor to persevere" and I know it will get better.  Even if it doesn't, Stage Two only lasts 3 weeks and then I'm on to Stage 3, so there is always hope! 

Ps........anybody know where I'm quoting "endeavor to persevere" from?  It's one of our favorite movies......

Till next time......I'm struggling along but unTHICKINand valiantly endeavoring to persevere theTHINNIN!

WI........

This morning I got on the scale and I'm down another 2.2 lbs!  Yaaay me!  I took all last week off from working out to let my body rest and recover so that I'm ready to begin Stage 2 of New Rules.  That's what I do today and I'm excited.  It's a new sequence of exercises with several new exercises in there as well.  My body is fitter and tighter than it's ever been, and I feel great.  I really don't have much to report, things are going great and I couldn't be happier with the WW program.  I may at some point in the future consolidate this blog with my main farm blog, but I haven't decided yet. 

Hope you are all well, fit, and fabulous! 

Till next time...........I'm unTHICKINandsoTHINNIN!

29 Weeks on WW and the end of Stage 1..........

I've been on WW for 29 weeks now.  When I weighed this morning I was up 4/10 of a pound.  TOM has his toe on the scale so it's all good.  I feel thin and trim, strong and lean, fit and fabulous! 

I'm also done with Stage 1 of New Rules of Lifting for Women.  I'll take this week off and then begin Stage 2 next Tuesday.  I'm so happy with the first 8 weeks of training that I've done with this program.  I can't wait to begin Stage 2 which lasts three weeks. 

I really don't have much to report!  I hope you are all doing great as well!

Till next time........I'm gettinfitandunTHICKINandleansexyunTHINNIN!

Man I Feel Like a SUPERwoman!

11 years and some months ago I brought my daughter into the world. 7 lbs 15 oz of black-haired blue eyed love. I labored for 27 hours with no epidural. Back labor mind you, in a hospital where they thought that I needed to wear an internal monitor (which for those of you who don't know means they screwed a little electrode into the top of my baby's head while she was still inside me). That means that you get a catheter put in and you can't get out of bed. 27 hours of back labor, flat on my back in a hospital bed. When the time came to push I was ecstatic! It felt so very good to actually be doing something. I could feel my child making her way down the birth canal. I could actually feel her moving down my body. When I pushed her out into the world I felt like I could do anything! After she was born I had to move from the room I was in, to a room right across the hall. The nurses asked me if I could get up. I said, well yeah I can get up. I stood up. They were hovering next to me, asking me if I was alright. I said, yes I'm fine! They said for me to just sit there for a minute. I kept telling them I was just fine. As I stood up to walk across the hall, there was a nurse on either side of me, hovering, wanting to hold my arms. I said I am fine......really I am! I marched myself right across that hall and into the other room. After 27 hours of labor and after the victorious feeling of bringing my daughter into the world I felt like Superwoman. I seriously felt like I could have ran laps around the hospital. I suppose giving birth was such an adrenaline and endorphin rush that my system was just flooded. I've never felt like that since.........until now!

I know that sounds terribly dramatic, but I'm very serious. I just finished a weight training session. I squatted 100 lbs for 8 reps, I did 2 sets of 8 military-style, boy, on the floor pushups! I did 3 sets of dumbbell bent over rows with a 40lb dumbbell in each hand did 3 sets of step-ups with a 40lb dumbbell in each hand on an 18"step! I can feel my body gaining strength every single day. If you don't lift heavy weights I can't describe to you the feeling of power that you get from doing it. 6 short weeks ago, I was doing body weight squats and I couldn't do a boy pushup to save my life, and baby look at me now!

I also lost 3 lbs this week which was very nice! I took bikini pics over the weekend to see how I'm doing. The change in this 6 weeks is already pretty darn cool. I'm on track to be one fit chick in June!

Hope you all are doing fab as well and if you've never lifted heavy weights, buy a book, find a trainer, give it a shot. There is a superwoman inside us all! Embrace your inner SHE-RA, Princess of Power! ;)

Till next time.........I'msounTHICKINandsototallyTHINNIN!!

New Rules......."A" day report...........

K.........so as promised here is the update on my New Rules of Lifting for Women "A" day. Started week 5 today................

An "A" day consists of

• Squats
• Bent over dumbbell rows
• Pushups
• Step-ups
• Prone jacknife crunches on the swiss ball

On my squats I'm doing 80 lbs for 3 sets of 10 reps;

bent over dumbbell rows I'm doing 30 lbs (again that's a 30 lb dumbbell in each hand) for 3 sets of 10 reps;

3 sets of pushups 10 reps (I'm doing those on our roman bench right now, getting closer to the floor every week!);

35 lbs (35 lb dumbbell in each hand) on my step-ups for 3 sets of 10 reps, and that's 10 reps each leg, do one leg then switch, legs and that's a set;

and doing 3 sets of 12 reps on the jacknife.

Then I go ahead and do my 200 crunches for the crunch challenge on WW. I did take a video of me doing the squats, but it's not the best as I had to do it myself. Will try and get a better one soon, if anybody is interested. I'm gonna be makin' some funny faces, but you squat 80 lbs and see what you look like ;) I think I'll be here for the next few workouts. It's getting pretty heavy and I don't want to lose my form. I'll see how it goes.

Till next time.........I'm unTHICKINandsoTHINNIN!

Today's WI day!

I weigh myself every Tuesday. I'm prompted to do this by my online WW tracker and it reminds me to weigh (as if I needed a reminder) and asks me if I did it, or if I want to do it later. I weigh first thing in the morning, after a potty break, and sans clothing! This morning I was down .6 pound. I think that's 6/10 of a pound, but I'm no math wizard! I do know that it's a LOSS and that's what matters. The scale is still traveling in the right direction and I'm happy about that!

I did my 4th week of Stage 1 today with the New Rules of Lifting for Women. Today was a "B" day. The "B" day consists of Deadlifts, Dumbbell shoulder presses, Wide grip lat pulldowns (which I have to modify cuz I don't have a lat pulldown machine) Lunges, and Swiss-ball crunches.

I'm doing 75 lbs on my deadlifts, 20 lbs on the dumbbell shoulder presses (that's a 20lb dumbbell in each hand) 10 lbs on my modified lat pulldowns, 5 lb dumbbells in each hand for my lunges (oooh how those suckers hurt) and then of course the swiss-ball crunches which are a walk in the park due to my 200 crunches a day challenge! I'm feeling good and strong, fit and fabulous!

Thursday I do the "A" day workout and will post the weights that I'm using then. Somebody jokingly asked me if I was going to videotape my workouts to encourage others, and I really think I might. It will be the weekend before I do it though, because I'll have to have Hubs help me!

Till next time......I hope you are all feeling lean, mean, strong and tough!! I'm still here, unTHICKINandsoTHINNIN!

Squat Rack Baby!

Aren't husbands fabulous? I'm finishing week 4 of Stage 1 in my New Rules of Lifting for Women. I'm already up to enough weight on squats that I can't get it lifted up and over my head to rest on my back. When hubs and I were working out on Friday morning, he had to help me. I told him that I needed some kind of squat rack, or else I would have to wait to lift weights until he got home, and that just ain't gonna work. That got his brain to spinning and so on Sunday we trotted off to Lowe's to buy some 4x4's to build Mama a squat rack.



I'm gonna build ya a squat rack baby! You aren't doubtin' me are ya??

Who me? As if I would ever doubt you?! Just because you HATE building stuff......I'm just sayin is all.

Hubs really truly does HATE carpentry with a passion. It's just lucky that he loves me with even more passion ;)

Here is one side almost done!

One side done........isn't it just terribly faboo? I know you'd never guess it, but we are flyin' by the seat of our pants! No pattern, just a crazy idea in a crazy man's head! LOL

Drilling the holes for the lag bolts..........

Cuttin' off the bolts cause they are way too long..........hope it doesn't scuff up the Coronet!

And then there's the finished product! I'm testin' er out to be sure it's gonna work. Worked like a charm! Pretty soon I'll have thighs of steel and carrying TWO sacks of feed to the barn won't be a problem!

Till next time..............I'm unTHICKINandsoTHINNIN!

Whoo hoooo!!!

I just did 2 BOY push ups! I've wanted to be able to do real push ups since I was a kid and have never been able to! After 3 weeks of The New Rules of Lifting for Women, I can do TWO!!!!!!!! My goal at the end of this 6 month program is to be able to do at least one pull up...........and after this I KNOW I CAN DO IT!

I am woman.............can you hear me roaring??!!!!!

New Rules of Lifting for Women....

I have to tell you how much I'm lovin' this book! Wow! I'm on my 3rd week of workouts and I can't believe how much my strength has increased in those three weeks! I work out three days a week and just follow the program and it's amazing. In the beginning I must tell you I was a little concerned that I wasn't doing enough, but my strength is growing by leaps and bounds. I took beginning pictures, but am not anywhere near confident enough to show pics of me in a bikini! But....I can promise you that in June.........there will be a bikini pic on this blog!!