A bump in the road followed by a pot hole

Well it's been quite a while and unfortunately I don't have much to report. At least not of a happy nature, I guess.

Lately I've been ignoring the scale like crazy because life became a little crazy while my hubby and I were preparing for an anime convention. In place of my workout, I was going insane sewing my cosplay costume.

So fast forward a week from that I and realized to me horror that I'd gained back the four pounds I'd lost and then some. I haven't checked on it since but I must say I was very disappointed in myself. My husband was very kind though, in saying that it was to be expected with the preparations taking up most of my time, a recent period and the sheer amount of fast food that became a staple while at the convention.

It's going to be a challenge, working off more weight than I'd had previously, but I know I can do it. I have new routine I've put together that I will add to as it becomes easier the more I do it. I've also joined a site call Wellsphere ( http://www.wellsphere.com ) which I will be connecting this blog to so that I can share my journey with the community there as well.

My New Routine:

- Stretching and Warm Up: My stretches are a combination of the stretch portion of Shiva Rea's Prenatal Yoga DVD, and my old dance classes's stretch routine. I was horrified to find out how much I couldn't do anymore. The warm up consists of some less intense strength training moves and a few Sun Salutations for my back pain and to slowly get my heart rate going.

- Squats: I also took these from the prenatal yoga DVD. I'm no where near being able to fully squat, but I'm determined to get there.

- Power Walk: I'm doing 2-3 12 minute miles using the pace set in my aforementioned Leslie Sansone DVD, but now I'm watching episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic while I walk instead of MST3K.

- Cool Down: This is mostly me swaying out some of the stiffness my hips develop while walking and doing some of the other moves from the walking DVD.

- Strength Training: I do a few arm moves with a resistance band since that's the least used part of me in the rest of the routine.

This takes me about an hour at the most unless I get really into the stretching and forget what I'm doing. Wish me luck!

Slowly Slowly...

I find it funny that I get all "freaky-outy" about losing weight and I lose four pounds despite not being consistent with my workouts. I'm behind on my goal but I seriously thought that I was gaining weight despite all my work. It also didn't help that I recently had my hair cut much shorter than it was, so I was wondering if I'd actually lost most of that weight in hair!

But in all seriousness it was a surprise to me. I had been stuck in the land of "one to two pounds which is normal fluctuation thus not really weight loss" for so long, I kept checking the screen when it read 267 (just so you know, I used my WiiFit board, hence the screen).

I may not drop as much as I'd like to before August, but I'm happy that things are actually moving!