tiffers: a work blog!

i filmed a weigh-in day video, but it was super suck-ish so i'm not posting it, but here are the main points:

1.)  i maintained.  still at 267.

2.)  chris lost 2 pounds, putting him at 300 and about 20-25 pounds lost.  :D

3.)  i want a bike but didn't get to buy the one at goodwill.

that's about it.  went to goodwill to see if the bike was still there but it was gone.  of course.  you have to make up your mind when you're at goodwill cuz things don't stay around too long!

in other news, i start my new job tomorrow!  the extra money is gonna be awesome, but i'm also looking forward to it to give me some sort of schedule.  when i started weight watchers i was working part time at spencer's gifts (ringing up customers, making sure no one opened the sex toys, stuff like that), and it really helped me out because the time that i was working it was busy and i had a snack break instead of a full lunch hour since i was only part time.  plus mall food was way to expensive, so it kept my on track.

right now i've been playing housewife.  i try my best to keep myself busy but sometimes i'm  just bored and food goes in my mouth.  which is why i think i've been maintaining lately.  i'm not eating more food but i've just gotten bored with my routine so i'm not as active.  so i'm excited for those eight-hour days of moving and being busy and having a smart ones and some water to keep me going instead of sitting on my bed watching spongebob and eating a bunch of leftovers and a million vanilla coke zeros.  so yeah.

i celebrated my new job today with some buffalo wild wings, a vanilla bean frappucino and about three hours of mall walking!  my feet hurt so bad from all the walking, but i made it a point to eat first so we could spend the day walking some of it off!

also, while at the buffalo wild wings, the waitress grabbed my hand and started gushing about my engagement ring and congratulated chris for picking such a good one!  it was so cool!  i hope that happens forever because i love chris and this amazing ring of mine!

i guess that's it!  i'm gonna  be keeping my eyes open for a cheap-y bike so i can ride around the neighborhood and up to the goodwill for stuffs!

love, tiffers.

tiffers: a water-y blog!

i have a pretty focused vlog to do today about goals and such (side note, weigh-in day, up 1 pound but not bummed, it's all gonna be in the vlog), and i'll probably forget about this new goal so i though i'd write about it instead!

this goal is called. . .

WATER.

water and i are generally not friends.  i find it weird when people *enjoy* drinking water.  i don't enjoy it.  water and i just don't hang that way.  plus it makes me pee too much and that's time out of my busy day (and night)!  but i do understand how important it is and one of my mini goals this week is to have some more water.  i'm gonna try to record my water intake in my tracker just for my own benefit.

so yeah.  water.  how do people just really like to drink water?  i feel the same way about water as i do when i force myself to eat broccoli.  i get no joy from it.  it's not my buddy.  but i *does* make me feel good, the same way i feel good about eating the gross broccoli.  not that i like it but that it's good for me and i did it anyway.  it's the same way i feel when i get off the treadmill, even if i had a bad time on it or didn't go as long as i really wanted, i still feel good about myself for doing it.

so i'm going to try to keep a big glass of water as my buddy for the week.  as long as it's not meal time.  for some reason i absolutely can't eat food and drink water unless it's my only option.  don't know why.  i just can't.  D:

that's it.  tell me all about your guys's water-y goodness or water loathing in the comments.  tell me why water should be my friend even though it's so boring!!

love, tiffers.

tiffers: weigh-in, bitchy scale and ramen noodles.

a new ramble-y tiffers video.  you know you love it.

anyway, he're is a picture of my scale compared to my laptop:

it would be easier to stand on my laptop, but far less productive.

my feet look fine on it in this pic, but you can't see the way my knees are bent
up and smooshed together to make my feet fit.

so that's my douche-y scale.  i actually think my thighs are too fat, which is why it's hard to get my feet to stay on it.  damn you, fat thighs!  damn you to hell!

also i only weigh 216 if i weigh on the carpet.  maybe i should weigh on the carpet all the time!

love, tiffers

a random scale blog.

ha.  really i'm just procrastinating.  i'm tired of reading about medieval monasteries and chris won't do my homework for me.  gosh, chris, what do i have you for if you won't even do my homework for me?!

anyway, i went to the health dept. the other day for a cholesterol and sugar test (alls good, my sugar was a little high but apparently nothing to worry about).  i was most excited because every time i go to the heath dept. they weigh me!  and i love being weighed on awesome accurate scales that i can fit both my feet on!  and the best part. . .

weight in at 266.6 pounds!  that's 2.something pounds down from last weigh in!

of course, that's not an official number because it wasn't weigh-in day.  sigh.  

but anyway, i wanted to use that number to test my scale again.  you probably remember my last 'i-hate-my-scale' blog.  it's pretty off.  so we checked it against that number and it was 266.8 on my scale.  which isn't that off.  i'm going to assume the problem was with me weighing myself.  when i weigh myself i have to look down at the scale (like, over my belly cuz i'm still all jiggly), so i put more weight on the scale and it changes.  where as if chris weighs me (with me on the scale staring straight ahead) it seems to be pretty accurate.  only a tiny bit off.  i need to get you guys some pictures of my tiny scale, it's weird and tiny-like.

i'm still only blogging to not do my homework. . .

i don't feel like being a responsible adult right now!

well, back to procrastinating.

love, tiffers

tiffers: angry weigh-in vlog!

a note about my lisp:  i actually think it's my extra tooth that makes me sound that way!  and yes, you can see my extra tooth if you look closely!  it's a baby tooth that i never lost and another tooth grew in front of it. . .so i have a double tooth!

and now that i watch this video i wish i would have put some make-up on!  i'm pretty proud of my complexion at the moment though and i'm pretty sure it looks better because of the better foods i've been eating, so yay better foods!

love, tiffers.

tiffers: angry weigh-in day.

so, before i tell you about my horrible weigh-in, look at my post treadmill face:

even sweaty and gross, i'm always proud of my post-treadmill face.

i weighed in heavy today.  our scale is saying between 271 and 272.

first, let me explain my horrible rage.  i will say first off, i am not BLAMING the scale.  if i weigh in heavy, that's on me.  but hear me out:

i know i shouldn't do it, but i weigh myself almost every day, just to see where i stand.  it's a little compulsive, i know, and i'm trying to stop, but i step on that scale just about every time i see it.  and it's in my closet, so i see it a lot.

all week i've been weighing between 269 and 271.  that's a big gap for a scale, and i don't think i weigh that much more or less on a given day.  so i know there is a scale issue here.  when chris weighed me today, it was 272, which is pretty far off from the numbers i've been getting.  chris's numbers i would say seemed alright, but then again, chris only weighs in once a week so i only had one number to compare it to, and he maintained this week.

i don't know what i'm doing wrong.  i felt like i'd had a great week, but then again i had an awful week before that so maybe it just caught up to me.  but i've been tracking EVERYTHING and been keeping pretty busy even on days i didn't get on the treadmill.

i need to do something different.  i try new things every week to see if something does better or worse.  even every i change up my routine a little bit.

even through the horrible weigh-in i actually feel pretty awesome right now.  i had a bagel and some fruit for breakfast, got my treadmill clothes on and started walking before i did anything else.  like, i feel really pumped up right now, and it's nice!  instead of cleaning and procrastinating about getting on the dreadmill (and yes, that is supposed to day DREADmill) all day, i got on it for twenty minutes at a nice incline-power-walk sort of thing and i feel great.  i also had chris set up my playstation in the living room so that i can play some dance dance revolution later.

on a DDR sidenote, it's an awesome way to work out.  my favorite thing about it is if you set it to workout mode, you can set your desired time (i do mine for thirty minutes) and it deducts the time of the song you play from the total time.  so it's not like a running clock or anything, if i need a drink or need to pee or have a horrible fake-dancing cramp i can stop and not worry about inaccurate times.  it's hard to stop on a treadmill for a potty break.  D:

anyway, i have an appointment at the health department tomorrow.  i'm excited for an accurate measurement of my weight, no matter what the number is.  at least if i have a starting point i can figure out what's up with this scale of mine.

hoping for a better week!

love, tiffers.