14/100 Days: Monday, August 08, 2010

REMINDER…….

Currently for 100 days we will:

• Get 10,000 steps (at least an average of every day)
  


• Drink no soda
  

(We do get one day a week where we can have the day off but we have to get around 5000 steps at least)

MONDAY FUN-DAY

So finally got back into it and did get my 10,000 steps in. WAHOO! Adam had to work very late so was exempt. It took several short walks at work, pacing the living room for a long time, and a few treks around the block, but hey I GOT THIS.

12-13/100 Days: Weekend

Well I'm sad to say that I didn't get my steps in. Bummer! No $100 prize! But I can still get my steps in every day and I can still get the $100 for losing weight.

I'M STOKED TO WEIGH IN ON WEDNESDAY MORNING!

NEW MEAL PLAN

So we are sticking to our new meal plan and the big ol' yummy salad for lunch every day is working out GREAT! Its so much less calories and its huge. I feel like I'm eating FOREVER. The one thing is, it does take a LONG LONG time to cut everything up. But this is the dedication that is needed.

THIS IS JUST WHAT WE NEEDED. It will be much easier to stay within the 1800 calories and I think we will both see better results!

Wow awesome results below! WAY HUGE DEFECIT! Go me!

10/100 Days: Thursday, August 05, 2010

Just a quick reminder to anyone new to my blog…….

Currently for 100 days we will:

• Get 10,000 steps (at least an average of every day)
  
• Drink no soda
  

(We do get one day a week where we can have the day off but we have to get around 5000 steps at least)

THURSDAY

I don't get it how the week can seem to fly by somewhat, but yet the days drag by! I've got so much work to do today! Webinar next week. J

NEW MEAL PLAN

So I figured out our new meal plan and how to get it to 1800 calories and still be pretty easy etc. I figured out the problem too. So before we were having the same thing for every meal and snack. I can actually deal with that except for dinner. So we started having different than chicken and veggies so like spaghetti with turkey and whole wheat noodles. Yummy but a little more calories. It actually wouldn't matter but then we have the leftovers for lunch and having both those meals is just a little too much.

So what we are going to do is keep our same snacks and breakfast and then for lunch have a big chicken salad with tons of veggies etc. Then for dinner we can still have our different thing, but we don't have leftovers for lunch, we have them the 2^nd night. Oh I'm so grateful he doesn't mind leftovers. And hey now I only have to cook every other night and we are having less calories. Can I get a WIN WIN?

 

SHARK WEEK!!!!

Hee hee I just wanted to say it! My nephew Max and Hailey were all super impressed with the Air Jaws one where the great whites in South Africa jump out of the water for a seal. Pretty amazing stuff!

 

I'M JUST A PILL……

Good grief people. You really need to get me my pills! I dunno know but my doc was taking F-O-R-E-V-E-R to respond to the pharmacy about my pill refill. I had to go two days without my happy pills and last night you could really tell! Especially since the internet was down too. Without my happy pill and my cyper happy pill-facebook, Holly is not a pretty girl. Lol. Molly (my evil twin) was about the house last night and it was scary!

I think I was just annoyed at going to Harmon's again for the pills and then Jiffy Lube AGAIN (which is hot and they did the flush AGAIN).

But oh my goodness there was a point where Laurie, and the kids and I started screaming for fun and it was quite nice! I highly recommend it. Then Hailey was dancing and we were all laughing so hard! I can't believe the moves that girl makes up. Laurie is getting her in dance class which is AWESOME

9/100 Days: Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Just a quick reminder to anyone new to my blog…….

Currently for 100 days we will:

• Get 10,000 steps (at least an average of every day)
  




• Drink no soda
  

(We do get one day a week where we can have the day off but we have to get around 5000 steps at least)

ITS HUMP DAY!!!!

Dirty birds. Get your mind of the gutter…….theres only room for mine in there!

So yeah I'm in a super duper good mood about getting my goal. OH YEAH BABY!

DOES MY BUTT LOOK BIG IN THIS?

(Ha ha, my butt would look big compared to Texas!) So I decided with my gift certificate I would go on ANOTHER shopping spree. Yeah! I have no summer shirts seriously. So I went to Elaine Giant (ie Lane Bryant) and they were having a pretty good sale! I bought like 6 shirts and 5 unmentionables hee hee.

So here I've been doing good and then on the way out of LB I see Great Harvest Bread. Oh man seriously! So I drove over without much thought. Then I felt a little guilty. I thought do you want to blog about this and admit you are a big fat pig? No, so I won't. I won't count these calories. No one will ever know.

So like the greedy thing that I am I got a cookie and a lemon bar and I hadn't even had lunch yet. And do you want a free sample the lady says. Hells ya! And sample was 1/3 of a huge freakin cinnamon roll with icing and the works. ::Sigh::……oh drive back to work I was like you have to write about this AND you have to count it. So yeah definitely going over calories today. Just get right back on the wagon. I'll learn some day (I think)…..sheesh!

I MUST FIX THIS OR I'M GOING TO RUIN ALL THESE NICE STEPS I'M DOING!!!!

EVENING

So last night we decided we could have one night off a week. As it was though I did get 9.466 steps so I almost did it! And I guess if we are doing an average I could really still get it.

CAN I JUST SAY I LOVE SHARK WEEK!

Woot I'm a nerd and I love it!

WEEK ONE RESULTS

STEPS GOAL: Completed

STARTING WEIGHT: 397.5

THIS WEEK: 395.5

I LOST 2 POUNDS OH YEAH BABY!

I'm sorry but I freakin rock!!!! Wahoo. Gosh I don't even have a speech prepared……….I'd like to thank……….ha ha jk. Woot one week over. Sha-zam!

7/100 Days: Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Just a quick reminder to anyone new to my blog…….My name is Holly and my husband and I are on a quest for good health! (Goal of my life lol).

Currently for 100 days we will:

• Get 10,000 steps

• Drink no soda

IT REALLY IS TUESDAY…..

(All day I've been thinking it is really Wednesday and it is not!!!!). I weighed myself today mistakenly and I was really stoked! But I'm going to keep it a secret until tomorrow! Bwa ha ha ha ha. I'm evil. You will never know! That is until tomorrow! AREN'T YOU JUST DYING? (ha ha, all 4 of you friends that I pay to read this blog)

ASSESMENT

(What did you call me?) That don't mean you know me bitch (ha ha, name that movie Jen)

So I'm super excited that I am still blogging. I really do seem to do better when I blog about it. So here is my take on how things are going:

THE GOOD: (things to keep up)

• Steps: This is going amazingly well! It is not easy for me and I just need to keep it up. Yeah me. (Thanks honey for helping me with this)
  



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  Endurance: You know this is hard on my body-my back, my feet, my calves. But every time I complain I have to remember:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • It is ultimately MY fault that it hurts so much (I ate it)
    
  
  
  
  • It will get better
    
  
  
  
  • It really is good for my body (even though it cries at night lolz)
    



• Blogging: As I mentioned above, I think this keeps me motivated, and inspires me. I mean I don't want to blog that I had a dozen donuts or ate an entire chocolate cake or something.
  



• Program: I mentioned before its dumb that I have to be on some kind of a 'program' but hey it works. And all this is, is no soda and walking 10,000 steps every day for 100 days. Nothing wrong with that. Play on your strengths and mine is exercising so I see it as being a really EXCELLENT endeavor (oh, 50 cents word. My English teachers would be proud, well as long as they didn't read the rest of my posts like EVER)
  



• Water: Ok seriously rock on! I'm doing so good. Drinking so much water. I'm missing Diet Coke less and less now.
  

THE
UGLY: (needs changing)

• Food: Although I am still burning more than I am consuming, I need to get it down to 1800-2000 calories and I'm not doing it. In the bodybugg I can program the six small meals. I figure if we have the same thing for breakfast and the 2 snacks that we can vary lunch and dinner, but keep it within the calories. So that way I can figure out a few dinners and make sure we stay within that allotment. So I need to figure that out and execute it!
  

CAR MADNESS

So it wasn't really a big deal but I seem to make EVERYTHING bigger than it is! I think I mentioned how my Check Engine light came on so I went it to the dealership and they were fixing it all day. Thankfully it was just 2 items that were covered under warranty but then there was the transmission fiasco.

They asked me if I'd had the flush that is recommended at 30,000 miles. I told them I did just 2 weeks ago at Jiffy Lube. They told me I better take it back as it smells and was overfilled. Sheesh! So I spent the night first arguing over the phone and then in person with Jiffy Lube. I won-of course! Don't mess with me during this lovely time of the month. Don't make me get fugly on your ass! They made me mad, and I don't get upset easily (cough, laugh…..laugh even more hysterically) …….Which by the way, I KNEW if I didn't wear black pants one day I would start. I was right!!! Sheesh. I shake my fist at you Eve!

NIGHTERS!

I was so tired and exhausted about the car that I told Adam to take me away to anywhere just as long as I didn't have to think or make dinner, but not somewhere really nice cuz I was ugly that day lol. So we went to Village Inn. Oh I wanted everything under the son and hashbrowns or potato cakes. Well I was MOSTLY good because of Adam's influence. Adam was better as he had a salad. I had an egg white veggie omelette, fruit, and wheat pancakes with yummy syrup. Mmmmm syrup (said like Homer). Afterwards we walked our 2 miles which seemed funny after pancakes.

After talking to Laurie for a bit and hearing about her fun Wendover weekend I was out! I think Adam was pacing the room getting his last steps in and I was out like a light.

FINAL STEPS….

10,024. Don't overdo it or anything lol

6/100 DAYS: Monday, August 2, 2010

JUST ANOTHER MANIC MONDAY…..


(Who..oh oh….wish it were a Sunday, that’s my fun day……) Ha ha you know you are singing along, well if you are over 30 lol.


READY
I’m ready for a new week. Sorry Lisa I dogged you this morning. I think she hates me sometimes. I’m gonna have to walk tonight with my stupid sandles. Stupid blister….HEAL FASTER!


12:54 PM
I have to say my lunch was really yummy. Well to be honest the cucumber I cut up was really bitter. But anyway the rest was leftovers from last night. I made pizza as healthy as possible. I mean its still pizza. But basically I got the good Harmon’s wheat bread they make at the bakery and cut it in half and then put pizza sauce on it (which is low in calories already). Then I loaded it with turkey pepperoni (which is like 70% less fat than regular and still tastes quite good) and olives, green pepper, and mozzarella cheese (less fat and calories than other kinds). I have to say it was YUMMALICIOUS! So you really can have something yummy, you just have to modify it a little. It still tasted oh so very good and not as greasy as pizza can be so I have to say I quote enjoyed it.


GOOD AFTERNOON!

So I got invited to watch the Bachelorette tonight at Lisa’s. Hi yes, I’m that kind of a spaz that loves reality shows!!!! And I’ve gotta run to get my prescription tonight and take care of the whole CHECK ENGINE SOON light that started popping up yesterday. Guess that means Subway is for dinner lolz.


So I decided I better go for a nice long walk so I walked around the four neighboring office buildings. So I’m at 3633 now. Still a long ways to go! I’m gonna march during the Bachelorette I think.


DUDE FIX MY CAR….
I have to say the guy at Checker was really super helpful, no I’m not saying he was cute lol. He gave me the codes and explained what they meant as to why the Check Engine light is on. (By the way, poor Laurie feels like it’s her fault as she borrowed my car last weekend and then the next day the light comes on. Dear silly sis-it’s not YOU….ha ha I’s me which sounds like a break-up)
Then he told me it probably is under warranty and thankfully my car is still under the Power Train and we have the extended warranty so I’m really hoping it can fix the problem. I will head over there tomorrow morning early and catch a ride to work and cross my fingers all day long!


TV TIME….
Ode to Reality Shows. So yeah, I’m a dork and watched the season finale of the Bachelorette. Does it sound any better if I say I didn’t watch ALL of the episodes? Yeah didn’t think so!


Yeah, well if you watch did you like Roberto? Oh you did not! Ok I kind of did, but I wanted her to pick Chris so I’m bummed. Ha ha like it matters. So in the after-show they are still together surprise surprise. So who knows. And why do I care about these things? Its just entertaining is all. People are such dorks. Like obviously in the after-show they had some time to fill when Frank didn’t show up as they had a good ten minute segment about the incredible rainbow that appeared. I’m sorry but that just was over the edge of bizarro-land for me.
And yeah, I did walk a little during it to get my steps. It's ok, the Pettey's (although most of them are not Pettey any more that is how I will forever more refer to them), they already know I'm bizarre. No sense hiding the fact!


WACKY WALKERS….
So yeah if you don’t go to the gym, it takes a LOT to get the 10,000 steps. Every day yesterday I went to the far breakroom and went up the stairs to the far bathroom. I took 2 long walks at work. Then at home I walked in place. I walked while shopping and having my car looked at. I paced around downstairs for a good 30 minutes. And after the show Adam and I walked in place in the room until we got our goal. Oh man, that must’ve looked so silly. AND I'M NEVER SILLY!



FINAL STEPS:



So how many steps did Mrs. Holt get???? (Drum roll please).......................10,207. Got it by the skin of my teeth! Yeah me!



BODY BUGG STATS FROM YESTERDAY:

Here is the food I ate (went over on calories, but still burned way more than I ate) and the calories I burned, consumed, and the difference.

3-5/100 Days

WEEKEND AT HOLLY'S……

Wow the weekend seriously flies by! Do you ever just wish that time at work would go by as fast as it does when you are home?!!!

Well this weekend I was determined to be as lazy as possible. The last two weekends I've been away from home, so I seriously needed a break!

AND YES I DO MISS DIET COKE. This weekend was especially hard. Laurie keeps it stocked in the fridge and I get SO tempted!

Friday Freakout

Poor poor Adam. So I was all annoyed that I had way more steps than him. He wanted to go walking at Jordan Parkway and I had already worked out that morning with Lisa. I knew I needed another workout to get all my steps in, but he needed 5000 steps still. At first I was thinking we'd do like 3000 and then he could do the Wii at home.

Then I realized what a psycho hose beast I was being and told him that we could walk as long as he needed to and to forgive my lazy ass and warned him I was tired and would be slow. Again……poor, poor Adam……….

BLISTER CITY:

So we went walking and I have to tell you I'm really digging the Jordan River Parkway. Sure we have to first BATHE in bug spray and its just sagebrush all around. You also have to dodge the skaters and bikers who could run you down at any moment, but there is something about being in nature when you are exercising that is so delightful. Like the other day we saw a spider spinning its web and it was kind of magical. Oh how geeky I am……..all I'm sayin' folks is that it beats the bloody gym! The one downside is that I can't go as fast as Adam can so I feel like he needs to go faster to get a better workout.

But anyway we walked nearly 3 miles that night. Oh man it almost killed me. I tried to distract myself by looking at the pretty…..uh sagebrush lol. Then there were the nice lesbian bikers that were so friendly to us lol.

That last half mile I had to take my shoes off and realized I was wearing my crappy shoes. Suddenly I see these huge blisters on my heels. Rah! That's probably my bad Karma punishment for getting all bitter with Adam.

HEALTHWISE:

And the back is still hurting but this is good for me right? I mean it HAS to be…….whose dumb idea was this 10,000 steps for 100 days???? Lol. (I maintain it was Adam's idea, but he says it was me that said 100. That which doesn't kill you……….

Surprised Saturday….

Saturday morning was so lovely. I planned on sleeping until noon. Well I think I got up at 8:30 but hey that is still sleeping in. Then instead of cleaning I was lazy! Oh yeah I loved it.

CAN'T WAIT TO WEIGH!

So I thought I would weigh myself. I mean seriously I've been killing myself since Wednesday, it has to be good news right! And just to remind you I was 397.5 on Wednesday morning.

So I step on and I'm thinking oh how low will it be? Will it be 395? Maybe 393……….lets see. And yeah it said 399. I just stared at it in total disbelief. Really? I mean really? Adam was sweet and told me about the whole 'muscle weighs more than fat' but I was really depressed about it. But I told myself I wouldn't give up no matter what that dumb scale says…..(what a world……)

SHOPPING SPREE……

So then I got bored and decided to buy me some new shoes…..I couldn't find my good tennis shoes that I took camping and NEVER give me blisters. So I got some bright green shoes that are awful purty! And then there was the cutest little red purse, I just HAD to get it!

AGAIN WITH THE BLISTER!

I got my haircut and then we went to the parkway again. I didn't even last a half of a mile. STUPID BLISTERS! So we went home and Adam ended up working so I walked around like an idiot until I got my steps doing dishes and folding laundry. Do you know how many steps 10,000 is? I felt like I was going insane walking everywhere stepping like a fool. Dang! I should have slapped on my ipod and just danced! Marching while watching tv. I'm sure if there was a camera on me, I would have made some HILARIOUS reality tv people.

SUNDAY MELT

LIGHTBULB:

So suddenly I realize whats about to happen soon and its totally fine my weight was higher. DUH!!!! I wish I would've thought of this Y-E-S-T-E-R-D-A-Y.

DINOSAURS EVERYWHERE:

So we went with Adam's family for a picnic and to see the Dinosaur Park in Ogden. I have to say it was pretty dang fun. But HOLY MOLY I nearly melted. Adam projected that we would get all of our steps in. I knew better! But we did get ¾ of the steps in so that was really nice. And it felt like we lost about 10 pounds just in sweat. I am seriously sensitive to overheating so I seriously had 5 things of water. CRAZINESS. But it felt good though. Too bad we got a shake afterwards lol.

GOING RED:

So Laurie helped me dye my hair red. Its kind of fun! I was totally freaked out to do it but Adam has always wanted red so there you go!