Weightloss update for December

Has it really been a month? Gosh, time really does fly when you are having fun, huh?

So, I need to do a little catch up post! I was doing great up until the week of Thanksgiving, then I hosted a party at my house, just a lil girls night out of shopping. It was an Initial Outfitters party and we had a great time, and I got 110.00 bucks worth of free stuff, something at 70% off, and 3 half-off items! Thanks to all that came!

So I ate at the party, and I have been keeping my "free" day on Saturdays, every Sat evening, I'M MISERABLE, I have never been that way before, and when I say free day, I don't eat 4K calories, but I do eat. Here is an example, this past Sat. we went to DQ for breakfast, I had biscuits and gravy and a hashbrown, yes I know fattening! Then I was planning a light lunch and dinner but my mom has been sad with all the holidays so she wanted the local buffet, I got a tablespoon of about 6-8 side items and one piece of cornbread. By the time I got home, I thought I was going to yak, this has happened for the last 3 Sat's in a row. Needless to say, I'm going to re-do my free day! I'm going to allow myself and extra 1K calories to eat whenever, spreading it out throughout the week, or saving it for something like a milkshake, but eating whatever I want all day on Sat is over. It is so not worth it!

So I've been back on track and I now weigh the same as before T-giving, which is great! This week, my plan is to drop 2.5-3.5 pounds, I know I can do it, an plan to! :-)

The Biggest Loser contest is over next week, on Tuesday I think, so I'm hoping to be in the next set of 10 category lost, I'm 3 lbs from dropping into the next set of 10's! So 4 more lbs by the 17th will make me one happy girl! That will put me smaller then when I met my husband, after 13 years and 2 children later, that makes me one happy girl!

I have ditched the treadmill, I really, really, really wanted to be a Runner, (my mom told someone the other day I was a runner, and it made me proud) I'm really not a Runner, but I do run. All that to say, that as much as I want to be able to consistently run 3 miles per day without stopping, it doesn't burn a ton of calories, I know once I build up the endurance and the miles add up, I will burn more, but 20 mins on the treadmill at a slow jog, I burn 100 calories, 20 mins. on the elliptical I burn 260, so ofcourse do the math, and you will know why I changed to the elliptical. I'm up to 30-35 mins and burn 400 calories, so on the treadmill that would be 250-300 depending on my speed. So for now I'm doing the elliptical 20 days a month, with some bike, and some weights.

I'm excited to weigh-in tomorrow to see if I have lost anything! I've had a great day today, with my total cals around 1320! MFP says I need to be at 1220, but I'm losing weight when I eat between 1200-1450 so that's the range I try to keep it in!

Today I played hide and seek with the boys, so I'm pretty sure I burned quite a bit doing that!

Until next time...........................