Busy Weekend

This weekend was pretty busy. My brother got his income tax return and was in the market for a new used car. He's been researching for weeks and obsessing every minute of it. Yet, come the day we were out to get it done, he was very ill prepared. We ended up going to a few places and found a really promising one. After all the paperwork was done however, they decided that he didn't make enough money for the monthly payments and would need a co signer. So, today his roommate is heading there with him and he's hoping to get a car today. It was rather disappointing but it was fun spending the day with my brothers. It's pretty safe to say that my diet went out the window for the day. We had this place with the best fried chicken in town called Hodak's for lunch and then one of the best china buffet's in town for dinner. We finished the night trying to play trivial pursuit but ended up having a better time laughing about how hard even the easy questions were. In the end nothing was done, but twas a good time.

Last week I did real well in counting calories and working out. Every day but saturday I had 2000 calories or less and I worked out 4 times last week. Each time was about an hour or more and I burned an average of 700 calories per trip. I weighed myself after my session yesterday (I still have trouble believing the number it gives me) and I had lost 2 pounds last week. So, now I'm at 368. With the new membership they give u an hour for free with a personal trainer, so I scheduled mine for this thursday. I hope to get out of it a plan that I can have everytime I walk into the gym. I still spend a few minutes each time trying to find out what does what and what I should work on. I mainly focus on the eliptical machine for calorie burning and raising my heart rate. I do a little toning with the benchpress, squat machine, and various other regional working machines. I tried the stationary bike the other day and my pelvis was hurting from it, so I don't think I'm ready to be sitting in that position. I've also began to do some crunches. I have issues with crunches sometimes, because I get severe cramps in my stomach like a charlie horse when I do too many. It really hurts.

I haven't been too sore which is nice. I think mainly for me it's just a matter of sticking to it, exercise and diet. My mindset is changing though, I find myself telling, well, myself that I shouldn't drink that or eat that. Especially if I know it isn't going to taste great anyways, I'm just like, what's the point of eating that. I'm doing pretty well mentally. Seeing that 22 pound weight loss has really inspired me. I just feel so good that I'm so far away from 400 pounds now. Before when I had lost weight but was still hovering around there, it didn't really feel that great, but now that I'm over 30 pounds away from it, it's just so uplifting for me. I keep thinking about if I were to get small (compared to what I'm used to) and how things would be for me. I know on shows like the biggest loser they talk about visualizing yourself at the end of your weight loss and it drives me to do better and harder during my workout. The day I'm able to walk into a store and buy normal clothes will be very emotional for me I think. 1 step at a time, baby.. 1 calorie at a time... 1 workout at a time.