Happy New Year 2012... So happy with myself today! weigh in #1

Well, Its January 1, 2012!  The first day of the first month of THE YEAR my life is going to change! IT HAS TO!  I am happy to say I have started out the day quite well today!  I joined a 100 days challenge with a group of folks that plan to have 30 minutes a day (EVERY DAY) of some sort of intentional movement for the first 100 days of 2012.  So this morning I began the walk away the pounds video work out!  I have done it in the past when I was not quite this large and with me having such shortness of breath and more pain levels and all I was figuring I might get half of it done at best.  So the warm up begins and I am telling Leslie are you kidding me THIS is a gentle warm up?  I am about to die! lol  I huffed and puffed and every inch of me hurt but I did the warm up and got into the cardio level power walk as she said.  BOY did my carido feel it! LOL  But I kept watching the little digital clock up at the top count down and doing my thing with her and then FINALLY she says we are fixing to start the cool down, I am ready to die at this point but I am thinking I made it this far!  So I kept going and did the ENTIRE 20 minute work out!  Basically she says it is a 15 minute mile (those of you who run are probably like FIFTEEN MINUTES for ONLY ONE MILE, but for me this is HUGE!  I DID A 15 MINUTE POWER WALK MILE!  And its kinda cool because its not just walking in place.  You do walk forward adn back, you do knee lifts up and down, you do side steps and you do kicks and then you do hamstring curl while walking.  towards the end of the workout you do double side steps and knee lifts too I think.  Anyway you are also doing stuff with your arms.  She says it is a way better work out than if you just went outside and walked a mile but its the same distance that would be covered.  I still have to do 10 minutes of intentional movement today.  I am thinking about maybe trying to do the mile workout again this evening.  but not sure if I should do that or something else.  Any way you look at it I am excited!

As if that is not enough good news to share, I did a weigh in this morning.  Thought the first day of the year was a good day to do a weigh in so I will weigh in every Sunday Morning now I reckon, or I may end up moving it to monday, not sure yet but for now its today.  I am at 342.2  that is a slight loss from 345!  I am so excited.  The biggest changes that brought that were more water and more movement in just basic living.  Today was the first day of a literal workout.  Well, last night during the fireworks I stood the entire time (which is another thing that never happens with me cuz standing hurts) and so because it hurt I was doing leg lifts, and marching in place and such on and off. so I guess that was a sorta little workout.

I also did my measurements yesterday.  :(  so sad but its the way it is.  I am gonna post them here and then see later if I can figure out something to go on the side bar that I can show the change as they go down.  I can't decide how often I should take measurements.  Not sure if once a week is good, maybe once a month.  I dunno.  Any ideas??

Ok, had to come back in and edit this cuz I forgot to put the measurments in.  So here goes:
Dress Size (28 to 30)
Waist (56 inches)
Hips (67 inches)
Arms (21 inches)
Thighs (30 inches)
Weight on Dec 29 (345)
Weight on Jauary 1(342.2)

Ok, there they are out there!  Not sure why it is hard to put it out there, not like anyone that looks at me can't see how HUGE I am.  But anyway, I pray to see the numbers go down down down :)

Happy New Year from The Sisemore's!