Well its not totally bad news. Not much bad news at all actually. I got a new app on my smart phone I think others might really enjoy its called myfitnesspal.com and you can also use it on your computer online. I love it because I can scan in the bar code of things I eat, and it sticks them right into my daily meals, calories and all that, just pop right in there!
I had a day this week where I was over in calories by about 300, and then yesterday I was under by about 600, it was just a crazy day where I didn't have time to eat. I think they balance themselves out pretty well. I have not been just eating to eat, or because I am bored, so that is a plus.
I have slacked on the water consumption, but I have stuck (mostly) to my 1 diet coke a day rule. Workouts have been nill, I have felt very tired which a little workout would probably cure but regardless finding the time has not always been easy. Kids went back to school today and so hopefully I get some time freed up to use on myself again.
Other than that my weight is down to 159.8 as of this morning. Not a dramatic drop, but a drop none the less. Can't be upset with that!
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
July 27th I felt THINNER today!
Oddly enough. With my monthly visitor in full force. I woke up this morning and I put on my just washed and dried Jeans on for work... Wanting to cringe at the thought of buttoning them up... When suddenly it was not hard. There is even a small GAP there, they are loser!? So if that does not motivate a person I am not sure what does. I am still sleep deprived (Hurry back in session school!) and stressed (I have teenage girls) but I am staying at least near the tracks I should be on... and that is awesome! Today has been even better!
Up@8am
Coffee w/ creamer-70
Again I did not have breakfast, which I know I need to change
Lunch@2:30pm
1/4 cup cottage cheese, 1/2 cup melon
GYM@4pm
60 min on the stationairy bike. I did not go fast or do much, but I kept peddling and that is something
Dinner@7pm
Eggroll soup (cabbage, lean pork, carrots spices and soup broth)
I had 40oz of water so far (7:30pm) and 20oz iced tea unsweet I feel really good about my today.
Up@8am
Coffee w/ creamer-70
Again I did not have breakfast, which I know I need to change
Lunch@2:30pm
1/4 cup cottage cheese, 1/2 cup melon
GYM@4pm
60 min on the stationairy bike. I did not go fast or do much, but I kept peddling and that is something
Dinner@7pm
Eggroll soup (cabbage, lean pork, carrots spices and soup broth)
I had 40oz of water so far (7:30pm) and 20oz iced tea unsweet I feel really good about my today.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
July 26th 2011
Today was a crazy day. Full of mama drama. A new found daily thing now that I have not one but 2 teenage daughters. You have to deal with stresses in life, because its not going to stop so when life gives you lemons you add them to your water, and drink up!
That being said. Today was not a great day, but a former me, might have let this all get to her, and just eat a bunch of crap (more so than what I did eat)
Up@8am
Coffee w/ cream
Work@9am
1 cup fresh cantelope
Lunch@1:45
1/3 cup cottage cheese, 1/3 cup potato salad and 4 wheat crackers
Drink@3:30
12oz mt dew can
Dinner@6pm (Date night with hubster)
Lemon pepper trout, baked apples, 3 small steamed red potatoes w/ 1 tub of butter
I did NOT have rolls. I did NOT have anything fried I felt I made good choices
Drink@7pm
BIG Mt. Dew. Pepsi prodcuts and that is what the hubster got me. It was 100 degrees at the ball game, he paid like 5.00 for it, so I drank it.
Snack@10pm
A frozen custard w/ rasberries (end to date night)
I also had my lovely monthly visitor show up this morning. So I already feel fluffier than usual and stress has me as well. Tomorrow will be a better day, and tomorrow I plan on taking the kids to the gym, so I should get in a nice workout!
That being said. Today was not a great day, but a former me, might have let this all get to her, and just eat a bunch of crap (more so than what I did eat)
Up@8am
Coffee w/ cream
Work@9am
1 cup fresh cantelope
Lunch@1:45
1/3 cup cottage cheese, 1/3 cup potato salad and 4 wheat crackers
Drink@3:30
12oz mt dew can
Dinner@6pm (Date night with hubster)
Lemon pepper trout, baked apples, 3 small steamed red potatoes w/ 1 tub of butter
I did NOT have rolls. I did NOT have anything fried I felt I made good choices
Drink@7pm
BIG Mt. Dew. Pepsi prodcuts and that is what the hubster got me. It was 100 degrees at the ball game, he paid like 5.00 for it, so I drank it.
Snack@10pm
A frozen custard w/ rasberries (end to date night)
I also had my lovely monthly visitor show up this morning. So I already feel fluffier than usual and stress has me as well. Tomorrow will be a better day, and tomorrow I plan on taking the kids to the gym, so I should get in a nice workout!
Monday, July 25, 2011
June 25 2011
Last night was a stress full, and pretty much almost sleepless night due to the fact that I have a teenage child. My sleep when I did sleep was restless and interrupted by either my husbands snoring, the dogs whining, or a kid pouring cereal when he woke up for some reason at the crack of dawn. Regardless I wanted to start the day on the right foot and really did not. The alarm went off, just as I swear I was dozing off well. I snoozed. Then the light was off in the bedroom and wouldn't come on. So finding my clothes for work in the dark took longer than expected. No time to cook breakfast. Enough with my excuses here is my days journal:
UP for good at 8:22
Iced coffee (homemade w/ 2% milk) 300 calories
Worked late, until almost 3pm
Oatmeal Cream Pie (yes that is my healthy starting day's lunch, follow my example... NOT)
Workout:
20 min beginner ZUMBA Wii and then 5 min Zumba dance after that
Dinner which I started early so I did not have an excuse 6pm
2 skinless chicken legs marinated in a honey mustard sauce (all scratch)
Potato salad w/ eggs (small serving)
Brussels Sprouts w/ butter
I also drank a 20oz diet coke and 20oz crystal light I will have another CL w/ dinner and then water w/ lemon tonight
UP for good at 8:22
Iced coffee (homemade w/ 2% milk) 300 calories
Worked late, until almost 3pm
Oatmeal Cream Pie (yes that is my healthy starting day's lunch, follow my example... NOT)
Workout:
20 min beginner ZUMBA Wii and then 5 min Zumba dance after that
Dinner which I started early so I did not have an excuse 6pm
2 skinless chicken legs marinated in a honey mustard sauce (all scratch)
Potato salad w/ eggs (small serving)
Brussels Sprouts w/ butter
I also drank a 20oz diet coke and 20oz crystal light I will have another CL w/ dinner and then water w/ lemon tonight
Take 20?
I once weighed over 200 pounds. Might not sound like a huge amount, but I am only 5 foot and 1 inch "short" so on my small frame, 200 pounds is considered "obese" in fact, at 164 current pounds, and still just 5 foot one inch... I am considered "obese" according to my wii. I don't feel like I am or like I look obese, but my BMI is up there telling me that I am. I do not want to be. I have changed that before and I can change it again.
Lets see when I was 9 I hit puberty. I got chunky. I do not know what I weighed but I know I was a fat little kid. My mom had taken me to the Dr. and they mentioned my pubescent boobs and I remember my mom asking "oh so that is not just because she's overweight?" Blah! Nope they were real lady boobs. Not just fat rolls up high! Around that same time, boys, who I told everyone were GROSS started becoming interesting to me. I was fat, though and embarrassed to be so. I talked to my mom and she got me on Deal A Meal, yes Richard Simmons... I followed those cards like my life depended on it, eating only what I was allowed. Once I realized I had given myself too many "Fruit" cards all along, and even though I was losing weight, I cried... I felt like I had cheated!
Not only did I Do deal a meal, but I did "sweatin' to the oldies" as well. I lost weight. I think I got down to 100 pounds. I don't know what I had weighed, but I know I had been in a kids size 16, and I was now in a JR size 3/5 and I was 12 years old. I felt good about myself. Boys looked at me, and liked what they saw. I stopped Deal a Meal and ate like a normal teenager but I was active, so the weight stayed off mostly. I was about a size 7 and quite frankly happy to be there!
Then I had my first child. I gained weight with the pregnancy but not so much. I was in pre preggo pants after she was born... but after she was born, I could not ride my bike to get everywhere, or go roller skating with my buddies 3x a weekend. I sat on the couch with my baby, and I played with her and loved her and I ate. Once again I got fat.
I guess I didn't really care too much. I stayed at a chubby size 14/16 or so for a long time, then I had my last child and was at one point a size 18/20. Once I started nursing her, weight started to drop off. I lost about 10 pounds... Then I stopped drinking my soda (I drank a LOT of soda) and I dropped weight like it was nothing. Before I knew it I was 150 or so. I was happy there, for the most part.
Then my son got cancer, and I gained again... Not all of it, but quite a bit. Then I lost again and was down to 131.0 at my lowest ever after kids weight. I looked great. I didn't think I looked great then, but looking back now I can see that I looked really really great. I would love to get there again, and I know that it is possible because I have done it before. So here I go, once again, starting the journey of weight loss!
I am armed with many things: Wii with many games that are workout geared. Gym membership I rarely have been using, but mind you still have to pay for. Weights, somewhere covered in dust I am sure... I have a nice neighborhood where people walk all the time. Tennis shoes, among other things.
I know how to eat, what to eat, what not to eat where not to eat... I have the knowledge to do this. Its the will power and motivation I mostly lack. I am not sure why. I want to be thin. I want to be healthy. That alone should motivate me AND give me will power but it does not.
I also have a family whom I put first, I am after all, a mom. I still need to remember to take time for myself every day and do something good for me, and even get my family involved. I hope by posting on my own personal blog that I can track my progress, and possibly motivate others to come along in this journey day by day and get healthier and thinner and feel better about themselves!
Lets see when I was 9 I hit puberty. I got chunky. I do not know what I weighed but I know I was a fat little kid. My mom had taken me to the Dr. and they mentioned my pubescent boobs and I remember my mom asking "oh so that is not just because she's overweight?" Blah! Nope they were real lady boobs. Not just fat rolls up high! Around that same time, boys, who I told everyone were GROSS started becoming interesting to me. I was fat, though and embarrassed to be so. I talked to my mom and she got me on Deal A Meal, yes Richard Simmons... I followed those cards like my life depended on it, eating only what I was allowed. Once I realized I had given myself too many "Fruit" cards all along, and even though I was losing weight, I cried... I felt like I had cheated!
Not only did I Do deal a meal, but I did "sweatin' to the oldies" as well. I lost weight. I think I got down to 100 pounds. I don't know what I had weighed, but I know I had been in a kids size 16, and I was now in a JR size 3/5 and I was 12 years old. I felt good about myself. Boys looked at me, and liked what they saw. I stopped Deal a Meal and ate like a normal teenager but I was active, so the weight stayed off mostly. I was about a size 7 and quite frankly happy to be there!
Then I had my first child. I gained weight with the pregnancy but not so much. I was in pre preggo pants after she was born... but after she was born, I could not ride my bike to get everywhere, or go roller skating with my buddies 3x a weekend. I sat on the couch with my baby, and I played with her and loved her and I ate. Once again I got fat.
I guess I didn't really care too much. I stayed at a chubby size 14/16 or so for a long time, then I had my last child and was at one point a size 18/20. Once I started nursing her, weight started to drop off. I lost about 10 pounds... Then I stopped drinking my soda (I drank a LOT of soda) and I dropped weight like it was nothing. Before I knew it I was 150 or so. I was happy there, for the most part.
Then my son got cancer, and I gained again... Not all of it, but quite a bit. Then I lost again and was down to 131.0 at my lowest ever after kids weight. I looked great. I didn't think I looked great then, but looking back now I can see that I looked really really great. I would love to get there again, and I know that it is possible because I have done it before. So here I go, once again, starting the journey of weight loss!
I am armed with many things: Wii with many games that are workout geared. Gym membership I rarely have been using, but mind you still have to pay for. Weights, somewhere covered in dust I am sure... I have a nice neighborhood where people walk all the time. Tennis shoes, among other things.
I know how to eat, what to eat, what not to eat where not to eat... I have the knowledge to do this. Its the will power and motivation I mostly lack. I am not sure why. I want to be thin. I want to be healthy. That alone should motivate me AND give me will power but it does not.
I also have a family whom I put first, I am after all, a mom. I still need to remember to take time for myself every day and do something good for me, and even get my family involved. I hope by posting on my own personal blog that I can track my progress, and possibly motivate others to come along in this journey day by day and get healthier and thinner and feel better about themselves!
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