Day 76 - Weigh in

What a beautiful day today to do a blog!  The weather is absolutely wonderful and that breeze is neither a hot one or a cold one!  So i figured today would be a good day to enjoy and get out here and blog to my heart's content.  Yesterday was a pretty good day, I had a family function to go to after my workout and although I had to find an alternative route to take other than the shorter one, I still had a pretty fantastic day!  I had bought an outfit about 3 weeks ago for this special occasion because I knew that with the inches I have lost thus far, and the lbs that I have lost as well, I wouldn`t have anything but yoga pants and a t-shirt to go in.  And considering the fact that I have still lost more in the last 3 weeks, even those wouldn`t exactly show much in the way of how much I have lost. 

I am proud to announce now that 76 days ago, I was in a 4x pants, and a 3x shirt.  Today, I am now in a 2x pants in some, but a 1x in others!  I`m kind of at that point where I am in between!  My shirt size has also come down a little bit and I am now in a 2x in some, but again, a 3x in others!  It`s on it`s way! And you can definitely see the difference!  I will try to post a picture from Mel`s wedding (for those of you that don`t know her, she`s my best friend of many wonderful years) and then I will post the new ones we took yesterday as well. 

But before that...

This morning I was up fairly early, not as early as some days but, early enough, sent off a text to Nikki that I was hoping to be at the gym for 10am and if she wanted to come, I would be more than happy to have her come with me.  I had about a half a cup of yogurt for breakfast, with 6 raspberries (that`s all we had left) and about 1/4 cup of blueberries mixed in and it was sure yummy!  I then jumped in the shower and proceeded to get ready to do my workout.

I got to Nikki's to pick her up and we had a couple smokes and were finally ready to go at 10:45.  I didn't feel up to starting on the treadmill right away so I opted to go into the ladies only room and started with weight lifting to work the shoulders, arms and biceps.  I lifted 55lbs one way 10 times and then switched to the other way another 10 times.  I'm not sure what the machine is called but maybe I will take a picture sometime or even ask Jeremy what it's called and let you know another time.  When I finished that, I grabbed a 10lb barbell and while squatting down, reached the barbell to touch the floor between my legs 10 times with each arm and then hit the treadmill.  I started off at a 2 speed and 3 incline and then slowly increased the incline and speed so that by the end of my 15 min I was at a 2.6 speed and a 6.5 incline.  From there, I went over to the eliptical and did that for 10 min but on my last minute I gave it all I could for that whole minute getting up to a speed of about 5.7.  Once that was done I went over to the railing and did a calf stretch for about a min on each foot to try to help out with my heel problem and Nikki and I called it a day.  We walked over to Timmie`s for a coffee and left for home.  But I didn`t stop there!

Once I got home, I rested for a little bit to finish my coffee and share my day at the gym with Jan and then went downstairs to get some stretching in.  I pulled my right leg up to place the bottom of my foot against the left leg and leaned forward stretching out the back and pulling on my right foot to stretch out the foot just a little more.  I held this for about a min and then repeated with the other leg.  I then laid on my back and reached above my head as far as I could and pointed my feet the other way and held this for about 30 secs.  Then while I was still on my back, reached across my body with my right hand, grabbed my left leg and pulled it over to the right.  Repeated the other side and then placed my right foot on my left knee and lifting my leg up off the floor stretched the glutes for about a min on each side.  I was feeling pretty good at this point so I took it another step further and did 20 normal ab crunches and then did 30 ab crunches while reaching each arm across my body as I was going up.  On my way up the stairs I did 25 calf stretches by placing my feet on half of the stair and just raising up on my tip toes.  It was quite the variety today and I feel pretty good!

Tomorrow is my session with Jeremy and since we didn't get the measurements done on Friday like we were supposed to, I am going to make sure and get him to do them tomorrow as I am curious to see how many more inches I have lost.  I should have the next post up by about 2 or 3 as I have a few errands to run before I come home.

And now I am going to post those pictures that you all have been waiting for!  I still have a long way to go but, I am very happy with the results thus far!

Clearly these pictures were taken at Mel's wedding in 2007.

This one was taken at Grant's wedding in 2008.

And these were taken YESTERDAY!!!!  What a difference!!!

Ok that's it, peace!  Thanks once again for all the support guys!  Oh ya!  I forgot!  This week I have lost 2lbs so I am officially at 243 now!