Journey to a New Me

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  • Name: Miss_Brown_Eyes3
  • City: Polo
  • Region: Illinois
  • Country: United States

My Weight Loss

Height: 154.9cm
Start weight: 220.00lb
Current weight: 201.30lb
Goal weight: 150.00lb
Lost to date: 18.70lb
Remaining: 51.30lb

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02/11/2010 03:05

Another HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY CRAP!!! Post! LOL

So I've been MIA in blogging...  but I just went through my closet and found some pants that were size 20 and a blouse that was a 1X.  I tried them on and THEY FIT!!!!  Last weekend I bought a pair of size 22 jeans because all of my jeans were too big and I've been wearing size 22s but they've been getting a little loose on me.  I am going to return them and exchange them for 18s.  I think it'll be cool to have them hang in my closet and I can work to get into them.
 
I am so damn excited and happy!!! 

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01/20/2010 03:54

Not food/diet related, just need to vent...

So, I don't really have a 'diary' or any other blog, but I really need to vent about something.
 
Today I ended a fifteen year friendship.  She was my best friend and I loved her like a sister.  We had been through EVERYTHING together.  From bad break ups to her miscarriage to the death of my fiance...  We've been each other's rock.  Lately though, I noticed that she had changed DRAMATICALLY.  She and I lost contact with each other when she moved from Missouri to Michigan and then when I moved from Missouri to Illinois.  She started to make racist remarks (which really bothered me because we have a mixed family; five of my brothers and sisters are African American [my parents have adopted seven kids]) and when I told her that it was bothering me, she didn't really seem to care.
 
Things came to a head when we were chatting online the other night...  She began to berate me and accusing me of lying about my diet and crap, to quote her, 'simply to get attention'.  It's very frustrating and hurtful because I can't believe that she was saying this stuff.  After listening to it for another hour, I finally told her goodbye and hung up on her.  Fastfoward to this morning, I woke up to a very nasty email from her and I ignored it because I didn't have time to respond because I had to work.  Once I got off work, I checked my messages and she had left me an even nastier voice mail...  I finally emailled her back, telling her that she isn't the same woman anymore and that I don't know what is going on in her life right now to make her act this way towards me, but whatever it is, I know that I don't deserve to be treated like that.  I also told her that I was on a quest to better my life, and that includes surrounding myself by good people whom I respect and admire and that I no longer respected or admired her.  No telling what she'll say to that...  but I just had to get it all said to her.  Ironically enough...  I feel better, so...  take that how you will.

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01/14/2010 17:48

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, so I've been laxed in posting on the blog.  Just been so busy and I haven't had a chance.  Also, I've slipped for a few days, so I was a little embarrassed to admit it.  Nothing huge or bad, but I had pasta one day and a cinnamon roll the next.  But I've been back on it, hitting it hard, ever since.  I've been doing the Wii every day for nine days.  I did take yesterday off, but I did it for an hour this morning and I intend on doing it for an hour tonight.
 
Anyway, I checked my weight and my BMI, fully expecting to gain a pound or two...  I'd lost four pounds since last checking it which brings my total loss to TEN POUNDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I made my first goal!!!!  PLUS, when I started, my BMI was like 42 point something and now it is 39.71, so I've gotten OUT of the forties and INTO the thirties!  I was so excited I just burst into tears.
 
I am so flipping proud of myself!!

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01/09/2010 03:41

Willpower, thy name is Sarah!

Wow, I am SO proud of myself it isn't even funny!!!
 
My parents and I went out today, just the three of us without the kids.  (For the uninformed, I live with my parents and their adopted 7 kids.)  It was sooooooo nice getting to spend that time with them without feeling like I have to shout over the kdis all the time.
 
Anyway, we stopped for lunch at this really cute little hole in the wall place.  I ordered a diet coke, cup of vegitable dill soup and 1/2 a turkey sandwich on wheat with mustard.  Afterwards, the waitress asked if we wanted any dessert and mom and dad each ordered a piece of pie.  The waitress asked if I wanted some and I told her thanks, but no thanks.  That was sooooooooooooo hard because they had French Silk pie, which is my absolute FAVORITE pie on earth.
 
Anyway, dad offered me a bite of his coconut cream pie (which I also LOVE;  I love all cream pies, I guess.  LOL) and I again said, 'thanks, but no thanks'.  This was the first time that I had eaten out since I began my diet.  I didn't even touch the potato chips that came with my sandwich!  I just ate my soup, ate my sandwich and ate the pickle and drank the coke.  Yay me!!!
 
Tonight, I rewarded myself with a treat...  a weight watchers mint chocolate chip sundae cup.  It was sooooooooooooooo good and it was even sweeter knowing that I didn't bend to temptation today at lunch.
 
I also did another 30 minutes on the Wii today, that's four days in a row now!
 
Day Thirteen starts tomorrow!!
 
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Food Log
 
Breakfast
 
1/2 banana
1 slice of wheat toast w/tiny bit of peanut butter
 
Lunch
 
1 cup vegitable dill soup
1/2 Turkey sandwich on whole wheat
1 Mini dill pickle
1 diet coke
 
Dinner
 
Grilled chicken with rice and vegitables
Crystal Lite
 
Evening
 
Weight Watchers Mint Chocolate Chip Sundae Cup

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01/08/2010 15:37

Thursday's Food Log

Grrr, must remember to do this at night!!
 
Breakfast
 
1 bowl raisin bran
1 glass crystal light
 
Lunch
 
1 bowl vegetable soup
1 king's Hawaiian role
1 can diet Sunkist
 
Afternoon
 
1 Granola Bar
 
Dinner
 
Lean Cuisine dinner
2 glasses Crystal Light
 
Evening
 
20 Wheat Thins
 
Did another 29 minutes on the Wii Fit.

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01/07/2010 02:23

Wednesday

So I had another pretty good day today, food-wise.
 
Breakfast
 
1 Bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios
 
Lunch
 
1 Pear
1 can of Diet Coke
 
Afternoon Snack
 
2 Granola Bars
 
Dinner
 
1 Lean Cuisine Sweet and Sour Chicken Dinner
1 King's Hawaiian Dinner Roll
1 can Diet Sunkist
 
Evening Snack
 
1 bag of popcorn
 
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I also did another 25 minutes on the Wii today.  So, so far, I'd say it's been a pretty good day.  Went grocery shopping with mom and while there, I found a cookbook, "Hungry Girl:  200 Under 200".  A friend of mine had told me about the book, she said it was a 'must have', said that it had two hundred recipes under two hundred calories.  So I picked it up for $16 without even reading it, trusting my friend's recommendation.  I got home and started thumbing through it and I realized that 90% of the recipes in the book required stuff that we don't normally keep on hand, so I'm thinking maybe about returning it...  not sure yet.

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01/06/2010 15:31

Thoughts and Yesterday's Food Log

First things first...
 
Breakfast
 
1 bowl Honey Nut Cheerios
 
Mid-Morning
 
2 granola bars
 
Lunch
 
1 Orange
14 Wheat Thins
1 Diet Coke
 
Dinner
 
Chips with meat, tomatos, olives and salsa
1 Diet Sunkist
 
Evening
 
Popcorn
 
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So I've been doing this diet, religiously, for ten days now.  That's ten days of not eating garbage, ten days of watching every little morsel of food that passes my lips and ten days of telling myself, "Sarah, don't give up...  you can do this, you NEED to do this."
 
The last time I had a regular soda was last Tuesday.  I've hated diet soda since before I can remember, yet I'm drinking.  I vowed never to have a diet coke, yet...  I drank one for the first time yesterday.  I always said, "I can never turn down chocolate chip cookies", but there's a whole platter of them on the kitchen counter that I haven't even come close to touching.
 
The point is...  I CAN do this.  I am.  Words can't express how proud I am of myself.  I did the Wii Fit yesterday for forty-five minutes.  I did hula-hoop, step, yoga and a few balance games and I'm looking forward to doing some more later this morning.  My parents are noticing that I'm losing weight too.  My mother said I don't look so puffy.
 
My confidence and self esteem has skyrocketed.  It's amazing how losing three pounds can jump start that.  And yes, I'm aware that three pounds isn't anything to write home about, but still...  IT'S THREE POUNDS.  I'm three pounds lighter than I was a month ago and I know I'm going to lose more.  For the first time in my life, I'm EXCITED about shopping for summer clothes.  My goal is to be able to wear a pair of shorts for the first time in my life this summer.  I am tired of wearing jeans year round, even on days when it's nearly 100 out.  I'm excited about wearing the really cute strappy tank tops, I'm excited about going to my aunt and uncle's and wearing a swimming suit and swimming in their pool. 
 
No more sitting on the side lines for me.  Move aside, world, cause I'm coming through!

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01/05/2010 20:09

Yes, I know... I rule!

So I kicked ASS this morning on the Wii Fit for 45 minutes.  I did the hula hoop, step, jogging, tight rope, yoga, and the ski jump.  I need to work on my balance, so that is why I mixed things up.  I am SO proud of myself.
 
For breakfast, I had a bowl of honey nut cheerios and after my workout, I had a granola bar because I was STARVING.  For lunch, I cut up an orange and had that with a few Wheat Thin crackers and a diet coke.  I need to drink more water today, I've been drinking diet soda and not enough water.  I'll work on that today...  once I'm done with my diet coke.  LOL
 
I also lost another pound, which brings my total up to three pounds lost.  It isn't much, I know, but I only started this diet on the 28th of December, so nearly two weeks, which, I guess is good?  I don't know.  Anyway, I'm pleased.  I'm feeling more confident and better about myself.
 
More later, friends!!

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01/05/2010 15:19

Cause I forgot yesterday...

Yes, I know, I suck.  I forgot my food post yesterday.
 
Breakfast
1 bowl honey nut cheerios
 
Lunch
 
Buddig Chicken Sandwich on whole wheat bread
String cheese
1 Diet Orange Sunkist
 
Afternoon
 
Granola Bar
 
Dinner
 
Chicken with Rice and Vegitables
Crystal Lite
 
Evening
 
3 Andes Mints
Pear

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01/04/2010 03:47

Food Log #1

Breakfast
 
1 cup honey nut Cheerios w/2% milk
 
Lunch
 
1 bowl homemade vegitable beef soup
1 roll
1 can Diet Sunkist
 
Dinner
 
1 Lean Cuisine Roasted Garlic and Chicken Pizza
1 Yoplait Light Yogurt, Strawberry/Banana
1 glass Crystal Light Lemonade
 
Evening Snack
 
1 bag Light popcorn
1 pouch Sunkist fruit snacks
2 glasses Crystal Light Lemonade
 
I also had one can of Diet A&W root beer mid-morning.

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