The Attack of the Jens and Fun Hiking...

I was a lucky girl this weekend and got to meet up with Jen and Jen.  I had such a great time with these ladies, they are so beautiful!  I also got meet Jen's (from Arizona) mom, she was so sweet!  Here is a picture that her mother was kind enough to take for us...

After brunch I went to Jen's apartment to get some clothes!  She gave me another pile of goodies, she is so good to me.  I received a few things that where given to her by other bandsters, I love that, so cool!

Sunday morning I had a training session with my trainer and worked a lot on the upper body strength.  I was almost in tears by the end, feel the burn!!  When I came back up to my apartment Dan had made me an egg white omelet, so nice!

Dan and I have been talking a lot lately about being more active.  He is very fit and athletic and loves to go hiking.  Every time we have gone hiking in the past it ends in shouting and tears.  I give up when it gets too hard and then we have the same argument about how I am so unhappy being fat and Dan is mad because I won't do anything to change it.  The argument then "snaps" me back to reality and I realize what I am doing to my body and I join Weight Watchers, again!  Needless to say, we have not gone hiking in over two years.

Well, that is until yesterday!  After breakfast Dan and I went Hacklebarney State Park to go hiking.  It was AWESOME!  I was very sweaty and bright red in the face, but I did it.  I can't believe how different my mindset was this time.  I WANTED to sweat and challenge myself.  I am sure the trails that we did were too easy for Dan, but he was a good sport!  There were a few steep climbs, some rocky paths and then one semi-paved path.  Here are some pics...

I am a hot mess in the next couple!

After all of this and the training sessions, I am very upset about the 2 pound gain this week.   Hopefully tomorrows fill will do the trick and get me back on track!

Three posts in one day - what is wrong with me?!  That's it, no more today - I promise!

Have a great day my little pups!

I Love You All!

Thank you so much for your comments the other day on my progress pictures!  You have no idea what all of your comments mean to me (or maybe you do!).  I really do love you all and have no idea how I would do this with out your constant support!  

Hide and Seek...

Okay, so I am playing Hide and Seek with restriction.  Where did it go?  I was doing so well the last couple of months and now - I gained TWO pounds this week - WTF!?

Over the last week or so I have noticed quite a change in my restriction.  I can eat a lot more now and I am getting hungry much quicker in between meals.  I am so upset about the 2 pounds, so much so that I am dying to get into Dr. Ren's office for a fill.  I am currently scheduled for June 1st, which is only a week a way.  But, I really don't want to gain anymore weight and this weekend is going to be CRAZY!  I have all this family stuff going on because it is my Mom's 60th birthday.  There are dinners and surprise family picnics and all my favorite Connecticut food - steamers, yum!

****Well, I just got off the phone with Dr. Ren's office - they are squeezing me in tomorrow morning at 7 - YAY!!!****  

I have my cards all ready to go for my "Why" post.  I just need to take the pictures, so hopefully sometime this week I can put them up.

5:00 am Ass Kicking and Comparison Shots, Yikes!

Hello All!

Thanks for the comments regarding the Fish Oil question!  I will look into it some more this weekend.

I am so excited to tell all you lovely people that I have.......A Personal Trainer!!  I love her, she is supper awesome! We met for our first official training session on Saturday.  Before we stared she did BMI & body fat calculations and then did my measurements.   We will do all of that again in a couple of weeks to see the progress.

I will be meeting with her twice a week, Saturday afternoons and 5:00 AM Tuesday mornings.  The first 5 am session was yesterday and it was rough.  I mean, it's not that bad because the gym is in our building.  She lives there too.  But my alarm goes off at 4:25, yuck!  Once I got down there it was okay and I was ready to get to work.  Each day we meet she works with me on a new program and then at the end gives me that program as a homework assignment for me to work on by myself during the week.

So, the first session on Saturday - she kicked my ass!  It was kinda embarrassing - the noises coming from my mouth!  I swear if you just heard me without actually going into the room, you would think I was doing very naughty things ;)  Oh and I cursed, a lot.  I apologize after each bad word and she just laughed and said she's heard worse!

After my workout with her yesterday morning I felt like taking progress pictures.  I realized that I had not taken any for a few months and my original goal was to did every month.  These are a little off because I am not wearing the same pants in this months pictures - they are black and seem to hid lots of scary crap.  You can click on the pictures to make them larger - IF YOU DARE...  Hahahahahahahaha!

Now for some side by side comparisons...

Not too bad, I guess!  They will only keep getting better, right?!?!  Sorry for all of the pics, I go a little crazy sometimes...

Quick Question...

Just a quick post here, I have a personal trainer, yay!  More to come on that after my 5 AM!?! workout tomorrow...

Anyway, my questions is - Does/has anyone take(n) Fish Oil supplements?

That's all for now, my little pets!