Trying to catch up - Starting with the Biggest Winner

Here I said a couple weeks ago that I was back and at it and what happened? I didn't blog! HOWEVER, I was getting with the program with eating and exercising - just not writing.

So... to get you all up to speed (who ever still bothers to come here as I'm sure I lost my readership). I gained some weight this fall instead of getting down to where I wanted to be. The Rock Your Jeans event was a big failure and I'm so mad at myself. I just got toooooo busy and overwhelmed - two part time jobs, nursing an injury, my son in tons of therapies, etc, etc. etc. I kept up SOME of the exercise, but everything else slipped. And then the holidays.

Oh boy. I wanted to stay in check, but wanted to and doing it are two different things. I have found that there is no such thing (for me) of either having none or some - it's none or too much. More on that in a future post.

So... I find myself up quite a few pounds on the scale. I was at 197 on New Year's Day. Enough to make me choke! I knew some of it was water weight, but not THAT much.

January 5th "The Biggest Winner" started at my gym. I was going to try this personal training and event thing ONE MORE TIME. And see how I do. I had already dropped a lot of the junk from the diet, so my official weigh in was 194.4.  Yesterday morning it was 190.0 - a bit more than a week later. That first water weight has dropped plus some fat.

The Biggest Winner contest has us in teams of 4. We were pretty much randomly assigned together and with a trainer. Though, I'm not sure if some groups have friends together or not - I have no idea.

We meet twice a week. Our group meet on Mondays and Wednesdays at noon. We are all women and I'm the baby of the group - which is kind of different as I was the oldest one by far with the Rock Your Jeans event (my partner and trainer were in their twenties).

My goal is to just do the best I can. I know how to eat. I know I need to push myself with exercise and I need to do it consistently. I'm not there to win anything (though if I do - woohoo!) I'm just there to push myself to lose that fat I gained the last few months and to do it in the fastest HEALTHIEST way.

Today was our third meeting and our first challenge. We did a squats test - how many could we do in 2 minutes. I wanted to push myself. I do squats for 3 plus minutes with a barbell 2 times a week - pushing myself to my max. I wanted to try to get to as close to one rep a second as possible. Yes, I like to challenge myself like that. I was close. It was 108 squats - full range in 2 minutes. I have 7 weeks to build on that before getting retested. Let's see where I go from there. Maybe in 7 weeks I can do a full 120. I'm not competitive with other people - just myself- trying to improve MYSELF.

Tomorrow I'll talk a bit on how I've learned a bit more about my carb sensitivities.