April 14, 2005

Hello my name is Angela and I am a recovering fat azz. LOL I am serious. I am about to send an email to all my girls asking them why they didn't tell me I was fat.

Where is this coming from? I just came from my annual doctor's visit. My doctor came in like ooh my goodness congrats! I was like yo you are in the wrong room (if you aren't married do you ever want to hear congrats from your OB/GYN, well this is 2005 so maybe). So when she realized why I said that she started laughing and said on your weight loss. Apparently this time last year I hailed 221 pounds. WTF Thank God I am 5'7 and played it off a little. I am now 186. 40 more to go baby!

I don't obsess with weighing myself. I am under the thought process of I don't need to know my weight fluctuations. While I need to lose weight I am changing my lifestyle so weight loss isn't really the most important, living healthy is so if you do the former the latter naturally occurs.

So today feels good. What am I doing? I go to the gym every day at lunch. I mostly do classes. When I get closer to my smaller self and start getting an ego on specific areas I will pay for a trainer, but not a day before. My doctor evaluated my knees and told me I need not do any running or high impact stuff that impacts my knees, but left biking on my list so I guess I won't be doing my marathon training starting next month and now have to wear a knee brace during my weight class UGH I wasn't good enough at track in high school to be having issues in adult life.

I am now up to 3 liters of water consistently and pretty much sugar free when I get home. Thank God for Cristal Light and Sugar Free Kool Aid. I am somewhat following Oprah's Boot Camp principles, but I am mostly just eating like I am in Europe. Less meat, more fruits and veggies. Damn what South Beach says I can't give up my fruit sugars LOL

Since it is Thursday I can say what I did this week. Saturday I worked out on my own since I missed my Cross Training Class. Eliptical, Stair Climber (doctor said that is a no go), lazy bike (the one where you are sitting pretty comfortably and can rest your back).
Sunday I was going to go to class and got tired. Walked 3/4 mile and slept all day. I am getting old.
Monday: Abs & Kick Boxing
Tuesday: Weight Training Class
Wednesday: Lower Back & Glutes and Cycling Class (Spinning)
Thursday: Spinning at 6 AM and will be going to my weight training class if my lunch meeting is cancelled.

I need to work out twice today and tomorrow so I can be up to my eight workouts in a week. I may not be doing 100% on the Boot Camp diet, but the Boot Camp workout I am there.

FYI I don't care what people say THE GYM IS STILL NOT FUN, but a necessary evil.

Also you ever notice when you are shopping and you are fat you look at skinny girls like biatches. Well I have a new appreciation for skinny women. They are at the gym with my fat azz 5 days a week thus they get to be skinny and in shape with muscle tone. When I was skinny I wasn't in shape, had no muscles, and didn't watch what I eat. So next time I see a skinny woman particularly one like my director who runs 5 miles a day Imma be like you the woman!