Back on track

So, the wrestling thing was this weekend. I chugged 4 coolers with my sister in about.. 10 minutes (her idea) but that was my only alcohol for the day. I really didn't want to get mike's because they are so full of sugar, but oh well. It happened, and I'm moving on. I didn't eat any snacks at the event because the lines were so long, but I did have McDonalds afterwards. I'm kind of glad I did because I know sometimes it's good to gorge on carbs when you hit a plateau. The next day I had Subway but I tried to be as healthy as I could and picked the oven roasted chicken breast on wheat with light mayonnaise. So all in all, not a horrible weekend but it's time to get back on track.

I haven't been recording my calories lately - I've been counting them, just not writing them down. I'm going to start recording them again tomorrow. Also, I'm able to eat carbs again so I bought some brown rice and some small potatoes yesterday. I'm so excited. I'm going to make a potato tomorrow for dinner, woooo. Other than that things are going well. I weighed myself on my mom's scale on Saturday morning and it said 196lbs, so I like hers better. I'm actually probably going to use her scale to determine my weight loss and 10lbs increment rewards, haha. I know I probably won't see much of a drop on the scale this week but oh well.

I'm beginning to way up my cardio. I'm starting 5 days a week and going to eventually get to everyday. Today I did 40 minutes on the elliptical, pretty intensely. I felt great after but I was so exhausted. I'll do either the elliptical or running at least everyday until Saturday, and I will hopefully get to ride my bike to work on Friday again. Slowly but surely I'll get back into shape and hopefully I'll start seeing results soon.

I've finally decided on incremental rewards for when I hit milestones. I'm going to do it every 10lbs. So when I've lost:

10lbs - new book
20lbs - pedicure
30lbs - manicure (assuming I've broken my nail biting habit and my messed up nails are better - if not, I'll move this down)
40lbs - new shoes
50lbs - new purse
60lbs - new bras and bra fitting & possibly a new piercing (haven't decided)
70lbs - new tattoo & new wardrobe!

I'm pretty excited about all of those. Hopefully I'll get all the way to the bottom. I'll be so sad if I don't. But that's where all you guys come in to help motivate me - so far it's worked! I was definitely not feeling like working out today but I remembered Nick telling me he'd be mad if I didn't, so I did. And I'm glad that I did. It'll be so much easier though, when I move back home and am able to join a gym again. That way I'll be able to mix the cardio up a bit more and do the step master and whatever other cardio machines they have. Then I figure once I'm down 40-50lbs I'm going to start weights (or at least yoga) and begin toning myself up. I'll be excited once I can see my collarbone again - I think once they appear I'll really know how far I've come and want to keep going. But until then....

-Monica