Getting back on Track - restarting the diet

Okay, I've gained 10 pounds in the last month and Wiifit says I'm obese again.

So I've restarted my soup diet that I lost 70 pounds on, and I'm hitting the gym every morning for the summer. Here's the schedule:

Monday: Core-N-More 30 minutes, Zumba 60 minutes
Tuesday: Abs & Back 30 minutes, Yoga 45 minutes
Wednesday: Core-N-More 30 minutes, Pump 60 minutes
Thursday: Zumba, 60 minutes
Friday: Core-N-More 30 minutes, Pump 60 minutes
Saturday: Pilates 60 minutes, Zumba 60 minutes

Plus I'm trying to bike to & from the gym, for about 5 miles per day.

Plus I've restarted my Biggest Loser workouts & calorie control on Wii Fit.

Plus I'm walking the dog 30 minutes a day.

Yesterday I burned 900 calories, but overate by 400 calories.

Here's the calculation I received from my cardiologist last summer:

Multiply your current weight by 10 (169 x 10 = 1690) (a man would use 13 instead of 10)
That's the amount of calories you need to consume every day to maintain your current weight.
If you want to lose 1 pound per week, you need to cut 500 calories from that calorie count

3500 calories burns 1 pound = 3500 divided by 7 = 500

So 1690 - 500 = 1190.

That's the calorie consumption goal per day.

However, it is not recommended to go below 1200 calories a day for a woman, 1500 for a man. If you do, you will go into an anorexic state and your body will gain instead of lose. My current goal is 1340 calories per day, which is a little less than 1 pound per week.

Then I try to burn another 500+ calories per day in exercise to lose 1 more pound per week.

The Soup Diet was done by Good Housekeeping 3 years in a row, so they have 3 different weeks of menus.

Week One menu:
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/food/healthy/amazing-soup-diet-1007

Year three menu:
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/diet/third-annual-soup-diet-0302?click=main_sr

I can't find the second year menu online anyway. Email if you want a copy of it.

I use a calorie counter app on my droid to calculate my calories per meal, but also keep a spreadsheet and & journal. The calorie counter app is cool because I can scan a bar code on a food & it will give me the nutrition data & I can add it to my calorie count for the meal.

The calorie counter links to www.fatsecret.com.

For the most part, I use the CardioTrainer app on my droid to track my calories burned in exercise, but the caloriecounter app does this as well. What I like about the CardioTrainer app is that it links up to GPS tracking and calculates how far I've walked & how many calories I've burned. You'll see my posts on facebook about what kind of workout I've done, but you don't have to link it into your facebook profile if you don't want to.

http://www.worksmartlabs.com/cardiotrainer/about.php

Zumba is a great workout, and I go to Zumba 3 times per week:

www.zumba.com

You can find a class in your location at this website.

The Biggest Loser on Wii Fit helps keep me on track. It schedules workouts for me 3 times per week, I have a challenge & a weigh in once a week, and I have to put my calorie intake in every day.

I was doing a Biggest Loser club at the local gym, but quit for the summer. It was helping give me accountability. I'll probably start it back up in the fall, but we'll see how it goes. Because I'm not working over the summer, I've dropped out this expense.

I have not started riding my bike to & from the gym yet, but I did ride 4 miles on the stationery bike at the gym today. I have to get to bed early enough to ride to the gym.

This is week one day two. I've lost 1.2 pounds since restarting the diet yesterday.

4 weeks and 2 days until Chase turns 18

I contacted the attorney and started the process of guardianship. Unfortunately, I have to notify his biological father that I intend to gain guardianship of Chase. I've not received any communication, nor child support for 4 years now. I've been told that his father no longer lives in Oregon, but in California. If I can't find an address, I'll have a run an ad in the Oregonian & it will cost $3000. The guardianship needs to be filed before Chase turns 18, or it will cost more money and I will have visitors in my house doing an inspection.

So I've written a letter to Chase's paternal grandmother hoping she'll give me her son's current address. I think she will. I'm now playing a waiting game.

I talked with the summer school staff and convinced them I need a refund. Now I'm waiting for the check to come in the mail.

I've also talked with Chase about what we plan on doing. He will be subpoenaed to inform him of my plans.

5 weeks till Chase turns 18 - and diet struggles

It's almost exactly 5 weeks until Chase turns 18!

Here are the dones:

1) He has a checking account & his state ID card.
2) We chose a brokerage - ISN.
3) We met with NW Senior & Disability Services.
4) We went to Social Security, but they rejected his application until he turns 18, and they said to wait until September to reapply.

Still need to start the Guardianship process.

Have an Adult Neurologist visit scheduled for August (finally)!

He was trying to get credits over the summer for his modified diploma during Summer School, but the class was too hard and it wasn't working out very well. So we dropped that.

Now for my progress with weight loss.

I've gained 10 pounds since summer started! Yikes! I dropped out of the Biggest Loser for the summer. I didn't go to the gym for 2 weeks because I was just too darn busy, and my hamstring was really bothering me so I decided to give it a break.

So I made it in to Ela's Zumba class Monday morning, and then I could hardly move yesterday. My thighs are SO SORE, I could hard sit. I overslept Yoga class yesterday, but made it to Ela's Pump class this morning. Amazingly, I think more squats and more lunges helped, rather than hurt.

So now I have 37 pounds to go to meet my target, and I've set a goal of 20 pounds by the end of summer - which is 9 weeks until school starts. Really? 9 weeks till Fall? I need to get busy on my other summer projects now.