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The Quest for Skinny Erika

Posted: 06/24/2011

The Quest for Skinny Erika Week 20This is the end of my quest, friends. It’s been 20 weeks of hard work and small portions, but I’m beyond thrilled to report that it’s been worth every sacrifice.In 20 weeks, I’ve lost 20.76 pounds of fat (30 pounds total, but of those 30 nearly 21 were pure fat), I’ve increased my cardio strength and endurance, and...

Quest for Skinny Erika

Posted: 06/14/2011

Hooray and huzzah and things of that nature, for I have escaped yet another weight loss plateau! I was more than pleasantly surprised to note a one-pound drop in my weight at the end of this week. It renewed my faith in the saving power of eating less and exercising more.Now that we’re at week 19, the end is in sight. Once I get to week 20, my Fitness Together Sammamish...

Quest for Skinny Erika

Posted: 06/08/2011

Yikes, it appears I’ve hit another weight loss plateau! My weight hasn’t budged in two weeks despite my best efforts to exercise and eat well. My last plateau didn’t last long, so hopefully this one won’t either!I’m trying not to get frustrated about this. After discussing the weight loss plateau phenomenon with trainer Toni, I’ve learned that...

The Quest for Skinny Erika Week 17

Posted: 05/31/2011

The Quest for Skinny Erika Week 17So it turns out that if you don’t exercise as much as normal and attend two birthday celebrations, you don’t lose weight. Weird, huh?I injured my knee at the end of last week (my own stupid fault, I ran on it even though it felt sore to begin with) and then caught a nasty cold. Even though I tried to make it out for walks, it wasn’t...

The Quest for Skinny Erika Week 16

Posted: 05/24/2011

The Quest for Skinny Erika Week 16As of this week, I’m officially less than ten pounds away from my goal weight of 170 pounds. I know for a lot of you 170 pounds sounds like a lot but please bear in mind I’m 5’10”!At the beginning of February, when I started working out with Fitness Together Sammamish, I was 207 pounds. To be honest, I didn’t really...

Quest For Skinny Erika

Posted: 05/17/2011

The Quest for Skinny Erika Week 15I was a bit bummed last week. I gained a pound despite good eating and exercise, and even though I knew intellectually that it was just correction weight from being sick, it was still disheartening.So this week I decided I was going to see the numbers on the scale go down. I was militant about what I ate, I added two four mile walks (pushing...

Quest for Skinny Erika: Week 14

Posted: 05/12/2011

The Quest for Skinny Erika Week 14 This is sort of week 13, really. Last week, what should have been week 13, I was sick with the stomach flu and unable to exercise. I lost a bunch of weight, but not in what anyone would consider a healthy way.So, even though chronologically this is week 14, it’s really more like week 13.Anyway, questions of chronology aside, it felt really...

Quest for Skinny Erika: Week 12

Posted: 04/26/2011

The Quest for Skinny Erika: Week 12. You could have knocked me over with a feather after my weigh-in this week, that’s how flabbergasted I was. I lost a ton of weight this week after a series of larger-than-normal meals thanks to all the special events happening around Easter and Passover.So I guess all I can say is, exercise works! Dragging my tired self out of bed every...

Quest for Skinny Erika: Week 11.

Posted: 04/19/2011

The Quest for Skinny Erika: Week 11. To be completely honest, I almost threw in the towel this week. I love the exercise, but all this eating like a responsible grown-up business is starting to wear on me. Eating well is easy to do for a week. For two weeks? Meh. For eleven weeks?Whoa.This is hard work. It’s not just the exercising six times a week. I mean, yes, that’s...

Quest for Skinny Erika: Week 10

Posted: 04/12/2011

Quest for Skinny Erika: Week 10. I hopped onto the scale on Saturday with severe trepidation. In fact, before I left I even told my husband that if the scale showed no weight loss for a second week in a row, I could not be held accountable for my actions.You can understand the heck out of the weight loss “plateau”, but that does nothing to salve the bitter frustration...