Ahhhh! Grrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!

I guess I have really pissed off the Exercise God---Whoever that is. Now that my knee is finally healing, I goofed and cut my big toenail too short so that it decided to grow into my toe. Unfortunately,it is ingrown and got infected and doctor says no swimming pool. Grrrrr. That was about the only exercise I could do without any pain.

I just need to appeal to the Exercise God so I can heal an get back to exercising and losing weight.

LAWL Closed its doors!

Well, now that I am done with Phyiscal Therapy for my injured knee, I planned to get back to losing weight instead of staying the same. Unfortunately, I not allowed Bootcamp or Kickboxing, which are heavy calorie-burners. At least I can go back to Yoga, BellyDancing and lite Hip Hop.

In addition to being limited on what exercises I can do, La Weightloss has closed their Alpharetta branch, and the two closest centers are an hour away! I have looked at WeightWatchers, but they are not very convenient either. My co-workers that also signed up and I are trying to get at least some of our money back.

The three of us have decided to support each other through the remainder of our weightloss goals. Although, one lady has only 15 pounds to lose. How I wish that were me! At least in my case, I never bought LAWL bars, they were WAY TOO sweet. I have found that I like several of the Luna bars, and I can get them cheaper than LAWL bars.

I will keep posted on my progress.

Workout Woes

Well, my body has finally paid me back for all the exercising. A week ago last Thursday, I did 3 workout classes! Even my teachers thought I was completely nuts. Then, that Friday, I had a session with a Personal Torturer. My shoulders were extremely sore through the weekend. On Tuesday, I planned to do 2 classes, a Sampler class and Yoga. The Sampler class is a mixture of Step, Kickboxing, and Latin. I did fine on the first 2 sections, but just after we started the Latin part I felt and heard my right knee (used to be my good knee) pop!

After a trip to the doctor and to have XRays, it has been determined that I have strained the knee. Now, I am only allowed to do Aqua aerobics since even Yoga can hurt the knee. Grrr! That really puts a large damper on things

Back to LAWL

Well, today was the first time in a long time that I went back to LAWL. Even though I had not been going, I have been keeping up with my weightloss journal and exercising - well I didn't exercise the week after my surgery. I had only lost 2 pounds and 1.5 inches in my waist while the other areas went up a quarter inch. Ticia at LAWL says that I am not eating enough especially with all of the exercising I am doing. So, I am to eat MORE! Sounds so funny.

As for exercising, I had planned on getting to work earlier on Thursday so I could try the new class at LaFitness - bootcamp - but that didn't happen. So, I just did kickboxing and hip hop on Thursday. This coming week will be (if all goes to plan) aqua and yoga on Tuesday, bellydancing on Wednesday, and bootcamp and aqua on Thursday. I have to alternate aqua and kickbox/hip hop every other week because I really love the aqua and kickboxing classes because both teachers are great and they are at the same time.

20 POUNDS!

I can now say I have lost 20 pounds on LaWeightloss. Although I have only lost 4 pounds this month, at least I am going the right direction. Also, I have lost another 1.25 inches, which brings my total inches lost to 14.75 inches!

Also, the jeans I was able to wear when I started this endeavor have been retired for being too big. I am now in jeans that were once entirely too tight, and even they are almost loose enough to be removed without undoing them.

Getting smaller

I weighed in on Friday, and I lost another 1.4 pounds. This brings my LaWeightloss total to 17 pounds since I started 2 months ago today!

Another week...another loss

Well, I only lost .8 lbs this week, but at least I went the correct direction. I have now lost almost 16 lbs since I started with LaWeightloss. They did my measurements again, and I have lost another 7 and 1/2 inches for a total of 13 and 1/2 inches.

Yea! More shrinking!

Another weigh-in

Yea! Another 3 pounds gone this week since last Friday (01/11/08). If I am doing my calculations correctly, then I have lost a total of 15.8 pounds on La Weightloss.

Weigh-in today

I had my weigh-in today, and their scale said I was down .2 lbs. However, I was wearing jeans which add approximately 1.4 lbs. Unlike my co-worker who got me to start LaWeightloss, I am not willing to take my jeans off to weigh in the center. So, I will just subtract 1.4 from my weight. This would bring my total loss for the week to 2.6 lbs.

Getting Healthy

Back in August, I signed up with La Fitness through my work. I lost somewhere between 10 and 15 pounds by just working out. Then, in November, I went on a cruise, and we all know what happens on cruises. Shortly after Thanksgiving, I signed up with La Weightloss when they had their 6 months for $99. In the month I have been with them, I have lost over 10 pounds and 6 inches. Also, my clothes are getting bigger. Since I have clothes for just about every level, I hope I will not need to buy any until I reach my goal.