The Blonde Diaries

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I’ve written a few times in the past about my job.  I am a financial statement auditor and I just finished my 5th busy season as an auditor.  I never thought I’d make it this far.  It has taken a lot of blood, sweat, and tears so to speak to get here.  With that said, it has also led to a 30 pound weight gain over those 5 years.  I stepped on my Wii Fit that I drug out of hibernation last night and I was greeted with a message telling me it had been over 200 days since I last used the Wii Fit program and in that time I’d gained 15.5 pounds.  Talk about a shocker!

Losing weight use to be fairly easy for me.  I’d just cut my calories and go to the gym.  I was also in college with quite a bit more time and less stress.  Now I barely make it home at a decent hour where I can cook and go to the gym.  It is quite frustrating and I need to find a more streamlined method.

Tonight, I did find a new website, www.wellnessdaily.com, that I believe will be beneficial to me and to any of my readers who are looking for some motivation.  This website includes healthy living blogs, quick and easy recipes, and videos on topics such as weight loss and exercising.   Quick and easy recipes are right up my alley especially if they are healthy and can help me cut my calories and cravings.  I am also excited about videos on exercising.  I am so tired of just riding an exercise bike or using the elliptical at the gym.  Though I am reading my books, it gets dull and boring.  I would love to be able to incorporate some new exercises into my routine.  I thing the videos will be able to help me do that without injuring myself.

This website is 100% free to join and you have access to all of the information.  If you sign up soon, you can download a rebate from from Jennie-O for $5 off your next turkey product.  I love ground turkey so I am going to search for a recipe that I can make in the crockpot with ground turkey and then send in my UPC for my $5 off.

Sigh. I totally underestimated how tired I was today. I yawned all through my meetings today as well as my team lunch. Finishing four audits yesterday then going to the gym late and staying up to read my latest book – I Do But I Don’t really set me back. I didn’t even make it to the gym tonight. I got home around 6:30 and lasted until about 7pm waiting on Mike to get home before I crashed and took a nap. By the time I woke up it was 8:15 and time for dinner which then pushed back going to the gym until it was too late to go as they were closing. I can understand why people have home gyms in their home. It is nights like this when you are working semi-late, you are tired, and you just need to relax a bit more before you feel good enough after work and dinner to tackle working out. I know there are gyms out there open 24 hours a day but I just don’t know how safe I would feel to go around 10pm at night. If all I had to do was walk into the next bedroom it wouldn’t be an issue but driving, parking, and then exercising and coming home around 11/11:30 doesn’t sound too good. I might have to look at building a home gym here starting small with a used treadmill and going from there. How do you tackle this issue or is it a non-issue?

I have been doing well this week with going to the gym by myself which I hate but since Mike is in Beaumont till Friday and my butt isn’t getting any smaller sitting around the apartment I’ve been going. Last night I was at the gym after rush hour as I call it and I started my weight routine which is basically all of the Cybrex machines. I like these because I feel more confident using them over the free weights. So if you are familiar with them you may understand my small vent and if you aren’t I’ll explain very briefly. To use these machines and get the appropriate weight, you put these thingys called ball lock pins in a hole in the plate you need. They then allow you to lift the desired weight. Well, at my gym and most others I’ve been to, the chain that holds the pins to the machine are broke and thus the pins can grow legs and walk around the gym. That leads to me having to chase them around the gym and interrupt my workout. Seriously guys, do you have to move them around to each machine? What is wrong with using the one that is on the floor next to the machine? Talk about frustrating.

Yay it is Thursday! I am always glad when Thursday hits because that means I only have one more work day till the weekend and boy could I use a weekend right now.  It is never too late to join in with Think Thin Thursdays and it is ok if you miss a week or two here or there.  The more the merrier!

So I climbed on my Wii Fit this morning and weighed in at 151.9.  Not too shabby but I knew that wasn’t consistent with when I’ve been weighing/exercising on my Wii Fit so I didn’t save it and went off to work.  I did climb back on tonight and weighed in at 153.9.  That is more like where I really feel I am with my weight.  Last week I was at 153.4 so I seem to be up .5 pounds.  I also seemed to halfway meet my goals from last week so I’m going to work harder at setting realistic goals and being more strict in following them.  I journaled officially for half of last week and then mentally journaled the rest of the week.  I also made it to the gym about half of the week due to traveling home and being lazy.  So I’m going to work on that as well.

So for this upcoming week my new goal (yes, I’m only doing one) is to JOURNAL everything everyday.  I’m not worrying about points (well I am but not for the goal) but just to get into the habit of writing and reflecting.

Our task this week is to blog about our motivation.

My motivation isn’t the wedding gown being made right now in a size too small.  My motivation is actually my green string bikini I bought 3 years ago when I was at 130 and looking good.  I want to surprise my fiancee on our cruise and wear it around the ship since he doesn’t even know I own anything like that!

I have the worst time sleeping. I am never able to fall asleep quickly and normally I toss and turn all night long. I am not really into taking medicines so I have never tried a prescription or over the counter drug to treat my sleeping issues. Well, I noticed in the past week that I have been sleeping better and I wasn’t sure what the difference was until I was chatting with Mike on the drive home from Baton Rouge. It dawned on me that in the past week, Mike and I have exercised on the Wii Fit for 30 minutes each night right before bed. So the increase in exercise has increased the quality of my sleep. I am waking up feeling much better and my body is starting to limber up and tone up thanks to this awesome game. I haven’t seen too large of a weight loss but it’s only been a week. I can feel a difference so I know it will work. I just need to keep up the 30 minutes routine and add in some actual gym time on the treadmill so I can lose naturally with diet and exercise not with diet pills and be healthier in general.