Day 308 - Weigh in

It has been a pretty fantastic day today once again!  I was pretty sure of what the results would be before I actually got them this morning because I have been doing really good in the way of watching what I am eating, and exercising regularly.  So I wound up waking at 7:30 am again after going to bed fairly early last night.  I headed downstairs, turned on the wii, and got ready for the awesome news that I was really hoping to see.  It turned out that I lost another 2 lbs this week and I am now at 189!  75lbs down, and only 4 more to go to get to my initial goal weight!  It feels absolutely amazing!

Jan and I had made plans to pick up Sara today and go to Costco, Petsmart and Safeway.  We wound up leaving the house around 10:30am and since Jan wasn't quite ready, I walked over to the Tim Horton's and grabbed myself a coffee and asked if she could pick me up there.  We finally got to Costco at around 11:30am and walked around to get our shopping done.  Actually, it was more Sara and Jan got their shopping done, I just did some looking.

By the time that Jan and I got home, it was roughly around 3:30pm.  I really didn't want to go to the gym, well I did, and I didn't.  But, I wound up going anyways.  I made it to the gym around 4:30pm and I was really surprised to see that it wasn't busy at all.  I headed upstairs to the ladies only room and got on the eliptical.  I started off on a level 4 for a min and then bumped it up to a level 8.  I left it here until the 10 min mark and then increased the level to a 10.  I left it here for the remainder of my time and wound up burning 314 calories in 30 min.

I am not sure why but every time I get off of the eliptical I never seem to feel fully satisfied.  So, I headed over to the treadmill and put it on a 2.5 speed and a 2.5 incline.  After 5 min I increased the speed to a 2.8 and raised the incline to a 4.5.  At the 10 min mark I raised the speed once more to a 3 and the incline to a 6.5.  I left it here until the 20 min mark and raised the speed one last time to a 3.4.  I went on for about 3 min, hit the cool down button and by the end of 28 min here, I had burned another 154 calories and I was completely satisfied with my workout.

Now that I am home, I will be doing my stretches, and also, I will be doing my 100 ab crunches, the plank hopefully and I will try to do at least 20 pushups throughout the stretching.  I have decided that I will be posting a few pictures that I have recently taken.  I know I haven't exactly been faithful in that department but, I feel that it keeps everyone anticipating when the next bundle is going to be up!  :)

This one was taken on my last shift at Esso.  I was really excited to be finally quitting the 2 job experience.  Now I'm not sure if it was such a wise move lol.

I couldn't quite get my hair figured out for work one day, so I took a couple of pictures and liked this one the best :)

This was taken on the night of one of the last Rush games.  I went with my cousin Stacey and we had a great time!

And lastly, these two pictures were taken last Sunday afternoon when I realized that I was now in an XL shirt instead of a 1x. 

I am now very excited to see how much more I can lose before my year is up from starting this journey and I am pretty sure that I will be able to losed at least another 25 or 30 lbs.  I will have to make my choice soon for my new weight goal as I am pretty sure I will hit my 185 within the next 2 weeks!