~I am my experiment....~

Hello everyone!!

Happy Monday to you! :)

 We've had quite the run of beautiful

amazing weather here.....it's been in the 70's

and 80's...for about 2 weeks!

unbelievable!

well.....I have been quite busy....

busy with the Linen Shoppe

busy with gardening...rearranging, 

digging up & planting....typical spring stuff...

and busy supervising Mr. T & T painting the patio,

busy with birthday parties, chauffeuring kids, laundry, 

grocery shopping, feeding the family, , feeding cats, the dog,

the racoons, possums & such.....yes there's a story there...:)

and....busy with.....

my experiment....

this is a little clue......

no no no...!

def. not my body!! just in case

anyone should have a moment of sheer insanity

and think this could possibly be meeeeeeeeeeee! :)

(but it is a clue.....)

k, now you want to know right????

you are curious....

I've piqued your interest......

hee hee :).....

ok.....so you all know maybe that

I had a birthday a couple weeks ago....

and waaaaaaaayyyy too much of this stuff....

well and I've shared with you my desire to 

get in shape & I've been running, working out etc...

but not terribly consistently...

and the eating wasn't terribly consistent....

well let me rephrase that....

eating consistently ... yes!

eating the right food consistently....no!

especially if there was any birthday cake in the 

vicinity....

so there was this little gadget at the gym

that I've had my eye on for some time....

and with my birthday & all....

and my sudden laser beam focus

on wanting to get in shape & lose the fat 

really not sure where that came from ~ but

thinking it could be from the fact that I'm not 

getting any younger & really no time like exactly

right now

to get my body back to where I want it.....

ok...alright....my experiment....

this is the cool little gadget...I was referring to...

it's called the "bodybugg"

I think they actually used to wear these on the

Biggest Loser....

well Mr. Ticking and Toile (love him!!)

gave it to me

for my birthday.........and.................it's......

so  t o t a l l y  cool !!!!

it tells me:

how many calories I'm burning all day,

(it has a very high tech kinda arm band thing that apparently is the "most accurate devise outside a clinical setting" for measuring this via all kinds of ways....click here for more info!)

everyday....shows me on a little watch display thingy...

and it comes with a program that I plug my 

eating into....and shows me my calorie deficit...

so you all know....3500 calories equates to one 

pound right? 

at the very beginning when you set it up you tell

it what kind of caloric deficit you want per day...ie..

how much weight you want to lose per week...

(along with a lot of other stuff...like weight, bmi, height,

age etc...) 

and then it tracks for you those numbers, and

what your nutrition looks like.....

so each and everyday I plug the bodybugg 

into the computer

& it downloads my activity, and I plug in what I ate

& voila!  it shows me how good I did!

ok...so...a week into it I needed to weigh

myself....and...

I was literally having a little talk with myself

regarding this little guy...

telling myself ...."ok you know 

muscle weighs more than fat..." 

"you can't let whatever that number says trip

you up"

"your weight can vary at any time 2-5 pounds"

etc.... etc...blah blah blah....;)

but....

according to the bodybugg.....I should have lost

2.3 pounds last week......

so I daringly step on the evil rotten device scale .....ready to see.....

if my experiment on my own

body

is working.....?

~working out 6 days a week~

  weight training 3 days a week,

cardio & abs on the other 3 days....and eating clean...

 relying on my bodybugg....

and relying on the so-called calorie deficit that

I did in fact experience.....

so is it working.....?

................drumroll.................

yes!

I kid you NOT....

I lost exactly 2.3 pounds the first week!....

wow!

crazy!

I'm sold!

and very motivated!

so based on my calculations .....

if I keep it up...no no no...

as I keep going

I will be 37 pounds lighter

by the end of August!

I'll keep you posted

on my progress....

and I was actually.....

almost

almost  

almost

almost

almost

considering starting another

blog to track my progress

and results

and share stuff?!

maybe

maybe

maybe

maybe....;)

anyone interested in this sort of thing?

~*~

and now because I cannot

bear to leave you with absolutely

no 

decorating inspiration

whatsoever.....

here's a little something...;)

have a fantastic week everyone!!!

xoxoxo,

Shellagh

{all images via pinterest}