Breakfast: 2 scrambeled eggs with cheese and spinach, 2 peices of turkey bacon Lunch: chicken wings (about ten of them) Afternoon snack: handful of cashews Dinner: 2 chicken veggie patties topped with spinach and provolone cheese and a spoonful of green beans
Exercise: 20 minutes of pilates, 30 minutes of bellydancing, 50 minutes of walking. Total steps for the day 11,690.
The last two days have been great! I am in perfect mindset and I have no doubts I will make it my two weeks! So i wore my pedometer all day today and yesterday. Yesterday i only walked 6940 steps. Bad Ang! But today went up so thats good. I am afraid tomorrow will be down as Kyle will leave work to get the girls and I will be staying, unlike today when i came home for them. When I come home i can make sure I do things to move around and now I wont have that luxury tomorrow. Oh well, I will do the best that I can. I made my walk longer today and i am seriously thinking about making it even longer tomorrow. I really love my walks, its my me time to clear my head. One interesting thing i noticed is, when i wear the pedometer all day, I suddenly become aware of every moment that i sit down. I tell ya i was finding things to do today so I could be moving. My house hasnt been this clean since i was a SAHM lol. Also during bellydancing today Molly made me sooooo happy. I have been working on hip shimmies like mad and she said today "Momma those look just like how those ladies are doing them" I was all like YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!! They arent easy to do, and you dont do them how they look lol. Hip shimmies look like they shake their hips super fast. In reality all your moving are your knees back in forth, alternating them....that creates the illusion that you are shaking your hips.
SO we tried some veggie burgers tonight. Let me back up a bit here. I hate veggies, I have gotten to where i will eat fresh spinach (thats why you see alot of spinach on my menu) and french cut green beans. So i really need to figure out how to get more veggies into my system while I work at liking more veggies. Well I heard about veggie burgers and talked to Kyle about getting them. Well he agreed and when i went to the store last night to get weekly groceries, the store was having a sale on them. I bought one box of every kind that they had on sale lmao. Fortunatley if we come across any we dont like we can hand them over to his parents, whom like veggie burgers. So tonight we had Morningstar Farms Roasted Herb Chikn. I put some spinach and a slice of provolone over the top of them and melted it down once they were done baking. I must say they were pretty dang good! A lil on the bland side but i think i can work with it and make it tastier. We have 2 patties still left, so I might have one in the morning with eggs for breakfast. LOL i cant wait to try the other flavors! Oh and another major accomplishment. Since yesterday I force myself to drink water. I can have unsweet tea (yum!) or coke zero only at meals (not snacks!). So while my water intake still needs some improving I am already doing better.
Ok well i must run and read up on all the latest blogs, hope my day tomorrow is as good as today.
... to all moms and moms to be. Today I am already feeling tons better.I have had a couple moments where temptation has reared its head but then I just redirect myself to what I can have and physically say HMMM this is something I CAN have. I got breakfast made for me this morning. Smoked applewood bacon (we are stocking up on turkey bacon tomorrow) and eggs with cheese, ham and spinach. Didnt really care for the ham but I ate about half and was finished. Right now I am snacking on some sunflower seeds to curb the urge to stuf my face. I did do pilates this morning and took a 50 min walk. In a lil bit Alex will go down for a nap, girls will get fed lunch then when he wakes up we are going to go to Kyle's parents farm. We probably won't get back til tonight so I dunno if i will get another walk in or not. I learned that a pedometer during pilates is pointless. Not enough hip action to register anything and it said i took 2 steps and burned .10 cals lol. After 20 minutes of pilates i would think i burned at least 1 calorie. Also after I logged in my exercise on my ins site I found an article about pedometers. It says that sedentry people take 2,000 to 4,000 steps a day. For good health you should walk 10,000 steps a day. To lose weight you should walk 12,000 to 15,000 steps a day. I have no idea how many steps a day I take. I know much less on weekends cause we dont have to go anywhere usually. But during the week we move around alot. So i am gonna wear mine today and tomorrow and see how many i do. Then perhaps set a goal to increase it, if necessary. Anyhow, I am gonna go read up on some of you, see how things are going...then head on to the days events.
ok so dh and i had a loooonnnngggg talk about the lack of eating properly willpower. The difference from last year when we did South Beach and this year is mindset. I realized it when I was reading some of the other blogs. EVeryone has gone through, or will go through the up and down times but its all about the mindset. I been spending more time thinking about what I cant have then focusing on what I can have. So although i have screwed up terribly today, tomorrow morning I am starting fresh and i will have a new mindset. I have already checked the pantry to be sure that we don't have anything that is bad for us. I am gonna write out our grocery list tomorrow wih a tentative meal plan. I can never stick to a meal plan well for whatever reason. And I am gonna make myself LOOK and READ a every single label on every single thing before i put it in my cart. On the 20th we are going to SIx FLags over GA, which is about 4 hrs from us. We dont have a clue as to what we will eat while there, but we gotta figure out something.
So there, those are my goals, and i need a few volunteers to come kick my arse if i mess up grocery shopping on monday lol!
So things were going well today. I have taken two walks, did pilates and plan on practicing bellydancing tonight. I had eaten ok, not real great but ok. DH went to our office to mow the grass and when he came home he had a cherry coke zero. I love cherry coke zero. The meanie didnt bring me one so I decided i would go to the store to get one....AND i would walk to that store to get it...save gas and get an extra walk in. So the plan was to stop at the convenience store. Well its on the other side of the street so I said "Eh Ingles is down the road, more exercise and more soda for my buck, and i dont have to cross this busy road." What a huge mistake. I got my soda and I know better than to go into Ingles cause I love thier donuts. Sure enough I came home with 9 of them. So now DH and I are talking about what we need to do to change our thinking. Seriously, I am doing so well on my exercising, i just cant seem to watch what i eat. ANd its before I eat. Once i eat I feel awful, half the time whatever I ate makes me feel sick to my stomach. I jsut ate one donut and already feel like yacking. I can manage to stay away from donuts (which i call my crack now lol) as long as I dont go inside an Ingles. But all my other mistakes i made this week.....its like I KNOW i am messing up but it doesnt really register til afterwards.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! THis is so frustrating!
Ok I am gonna go now, will post more later. Maybe tonight when I figure out how to deal with this issue.
Sometimes I draw a blank at what i should call my blogs lol. Anyway here is my stuff for the day
Breakfast: 2 fried eggs Snack: 1 cup of sunflower seeds Lunch: chicken breast with cheddar cheese, bacon and bbq sauce on it Snack: a small ham and swiss cheese wrap, one petit four, one chocolate truffle the size of a marble, one small blueberry muffin about the size of a marble and one sugar cookie Dinner: 2 lemon pepper salmon patties
Exercise: 20 minutes of pilates, 15 minutes of bellydancing, 45 minutes of walking (5421 seps, 2.038 miles, 3.288 km, 116.7 calories burned)
Ok so here are some of my goals that i been thinking up. For one I want to start incorporating a real long walk into my routine. For MOD we do a 6 mile walk thru town. So my thought is for now once a month i do that same route. Then possibly in about 3-6 months i up it to twice a month. Thats still a thought in process because of my schooling. Also I am gonna start wearing my pedometer thru pilates and the bellydancing cause I am curious as to how much calories i burn doing those things. Speaking of which I am already noticing a difference since i started pilates 3 days ago. The first day prolly shouldnt count cause i half assed it. But the last two days i have REALLY put in an effort. Now when i sit straight i feel a tightness in my abs. It doesnt hurt, just noticeable. Anybody else experience this??? LOL sure as hell hope I aint pulled anything! The only downside right now with feeling that tightness is that it makes me feel skinnier but then i look down and see the flab hanging down to my thighs.
BTW, many thanks to the comments on the scale dilemma. SO here is how I think I m gonna handle it. I will allow myself to weigh in each day, in the evening before bed. BUT the rest of the time it will be put away behind the trash can. I Figure maybe outta sight outta mind theory might work here. I would ask Kyle to hide it, but then that would become a challenge to find it ...which wouldnt be hard since i know all of the best hiding spots in this house lol. Now if this dont work I will get Kyle to throw the dam thing out (only 6 bucks from walmart lol). I aint gonna stress over it too much, as long as i dont get anorexic or bulemic I think I will be alright....and I like food too much to starve (Obviously) and I hate to puke. Sooooo I really dont think either of those things will happen.
So now lets talk about my afternoon "snack". As you may know from my previous blog today my oldest daughters' class had a tea party for us moms. Now i must say I was amazed, and as soon as i have more time i will post pics! We were led up to the library. Each child had to escort their mother (or grandma or aunt) to their table, and even assist mom with sitting down. Molly went to push my chair in (with me in it) and said jeesh mom you weigh a ton. Which prompted another students mom to giggle....yea ok i did too lol. The tables looked gorgeous! The teacher had brought in her own china collections and each table had a theme with color. 2 pink, 2 lavender, 1 light blue, and 1 light green table. We were at a lavender table (thank gawd). Molly made my placecard which she spelled my name as Anglella lol. All of the treats were made by the kids (this is a 1st grade class) AND in preperation all the kids were taught proper manners...like how to stir their tea without clinking the spoon etc. The treats were as follows: Ham and swiss wraps Pimento cheese on rye Cream cheese and cucumber sandwiches Blueberry muffins sugar cookies in the shape of a teapot petit fours chocolate covered strawberries Chocolate truffles
Now if you havent done the tea thing before all of the treats are finger foods and pretty tiny. SO what i did was i grabbed a quick lunch of something better before heading over so I wouldnt pig out on all the bad stuff. After we had treats and tea the kids sang mothers day songs and recited poems for us. I must say it made me teary eyed. At the end the teacher took a big photo of us, and as soon as she emails it to me I will be sure to post that one as well. Ohhhh and I got a marigold...lol another plant to kill. Anyway it was very special and i loved it!
Now back to the scale thing, i weighed myself this morning and i am down to 173! only 8 more pounds to go to reach my goal. Then i think i will set another goal to see if i can lose a lil bit more since it will put me at the max that i should weigh for my height.
Breakfast: 2 fried eggs Morning snack: salami Lunch: Chicken Breast with asiago cheese and a couple bites of garlic mashed potatoes Afternoon SNack: cashews and mozz cheese stick Dinner: Taco meat and green beans.
Exercise: 20 minutes of pilates and a 40 minute walk with two steep hills to go up (4655 steps, 1.745 miles, 2.816 km, 99.9 cals burned)
Ok so I didnt do too bad today. SHouldnt have had those potaoes but on the upside I did not even eat half of them. I have input all my exercise on my insurance website and I need 90 more points before I get another prize. Basically another 9 more days, can't get more than 10 pts a day. But before I go any further let me get out my concerns. Many years ago I was addicted to drugs and alcohol, I have been clean for 14 years now. OF course I also smoked which I quit last October....I had been smoking for 17 years. Pretty much for most of my life I have been addicted to something, and I do think I have OCD on occasion by some of my actions. For instance I have this obsession of adding numbers when i see them, especially phone numbers on the tv screen. It gets annoying at times lol. Anyhow lately I have done nothing but think (or maybe obsess) about my weight loss. Well I have noticed it mostly in the last two days. Everytime I go to the bathroom or after excercise....I go weigh myself (scale is in the bathroom). Everytime I go to eat, i start thinking maybe i shouldnt. I have always been somewhat obsessed with my weight. My mother is obese, very unhappy, and is terrified to do anything about it......and I have always thought how i could not be like her. There is much more to that as to why i cant be like my mom, but weight is one of the big ones. My walk today, I made it longer and walked faster because I wasnt sweating enough....I am kinda scared that I am just substituting one addiction for another. I certainly packed on some pounds when i quit smoking....and now i am obsessing over the food. I dunno, it could be paranoia. I have had some sort of addiction for so long maybe i am just looking for a "problem" kwim?
Ok onto the happy stuff, saw my advisor today about the class. I will be taking BUS 115 Business Law 1 this summer. Tuesdays are a 3 hr class and Thursdays are 1 1/2 hrs. Classes will end July 31. She was also VERY happy that I am coming back. I made her even more happy by stating that I wanted to retake a class. Actually two, one I will be auditing so i can refresh myself. The other I passed with a C and for me thats just not good enough.,..I know I could do better and that is what made her so ecstatic. LOL she said she has some students who wished they could get a C. So anyway, I have to pay my fees next week and buy my book. Freaking book is going to be at most 104 bucks. IF they have any used ones left its 78. I will find out soon, I wanna go write doown the name of it and look online see if i can get it cheaper.
Today when i picked my son up from daycare i had a moms day gift. He painted a flower pot and they planted flowers in it. He is 21 1/2 months old and it just warmed my heart. I have a black thumb tho so unfortunatley it will prolly die before sunday. Tomorrow is my tea party and I cant wait, gonna take some pics of that! Not much else going on, so I will post tomorrow!
Breakfast: scrambeled eggs with steak, cheese and spinach
Morning snack: handful of cashews
Lunch: chicken wings, gumbo
aftternoon snack: salami
Dinner: kielbasa, green beans
Exercise for the day: 20 minutes of pilates, 20 minutes of practicing bellydancing, 35 minutes of walking.
So today has been pretty good diet wise. I got brave and stepped on the scale. Fortunatley i only gained back one pound. That makes me feel better. I really thought i had packed it all back on. So I will check back on the 16th on the scale.
Pilates was interesting. I got a dvd from a friend called Pilates for Dummies. Omg this stuff hurts. It has stuff like where you roll on your back and you roll back up to a sitting position. I found it next to impossible. I am going to keep trying it out, I certainly dont beleive in giving up right away.
Update on school: Ok so I am going back to finish my aa in accounting. Well tomorrow morning I meet with my advisor about a class for the summer. Then by next week I will pay all my fees. On the 22nd I start class...I am so thrilled.
Also other upcoming plans: Friday I have a formal tea party in my oldest daughter, Molly, class. She is in 1st grade and all the moms are invited. The kids will be making us lunch. It prolly wont fit my diet but I think I can make an exception for her. On the 20th we are going to Six Flags in Atlanta. Sometime in August we are going to FL, I am hioping in July I will get to visit my sister in MD.
Ok so its my lunch hour. I am sitting here eating chicken and green beans. I REALLY want a greasy cheeseburger on a carb loaded bun with lots of bacon, bbq sauce ohhh and some fries. Or tots from Sonic. And I know why i want it....cause I cant have it. There is nothing quite like being in a rock and a hard place. I wanna lose weight but why does the crap have to taste so darn good? This would be sooooo much easier if all the bad stuff actually tasted bad. And i wanna take a walk right now to walk off the urges, but I cant. I didnt bring extra clothes, and I really dont think heels, skirt and walking mixes well. At least not walking for fitness purposes. I am also afraid to step on the scale. Over the weekend i took a mini vaca just for me. I had loads of fun, but i also ate some things I shouldnt have. I mean i didnt carb out or anything...I definetly made some healthier choices out of my bad choices lol. Just afraid that those 5 lbs crept back on kwim? Oh well, I will check my weight on Friday, that gives me a few days anyway.
On to some happier news. I had to run some personal info over to the college today.....I am getting ready to register for some classes WOHOOOO, i soooo cant wait. I literally feel like I have won the lottery or something. Isn't self improvement great???? Here lately it seems like I am maintaining the path of self improvemnt. I got my hair cut, not just any cut tho. usually i get it cut so i can wash it and go....no mess no fuss kinda deal. Welllllll i got mine cut into layers so I could actually have some thickness to it, which in turn means i have to actually style my hair. This morning I even put makeup on for work. I have no idea what has gotten into me, but I certainly kinda like it. Altho, for my friends......I might be getting girly but you still wont catch me in pink lol.
Ok well thats it for now, gotta get back to work.....Later!
Well on Saturday I did a marathon walk for the March of Dimes. 6 miles in less than 2 hours this year. Last year it took me almost 2 and a half hours. And since i had been walking since earlier in the month, my legs did not get sore the next day. That made me VERY happy. I wasn't too sure if I was gonna go cause i didnt feel very well. My oldest was getting over a virus and sure enough when I got home I got sick. It was actually a few hours lol. But this virus does not like anything in the stomach so I spent alot of time emptying it in all sorts of ways. On sunday when I got up my wedding band flew off my finger and I was thinking UT OH. So on a whim I weighed myself, sure enough I lost 5 lbs. So in a sick and twisted sorta way I am kinda glad I got sick cause now I really wanna get the weight off. I got a nice jump....even tho it wasnt fun to go through it. So now I am on my first two weeks of South Beach (again) with a vengeance, and so far doing ok at it. Will blog again before I go out of town on friday.....gonna go see a friend in Charleston and I cannot wait. And for everyday that I am there and stay off the carbs, I am gonna treat myself to something. Especially since there is the threat of hushpuppies looming over my head. TTFN
Hello! I am a mother of 3 at 31 years of age. I look back at prepregnancy pictures and I am shocked to see how skinny I was. A size 10, around 145 lbs, a little loose in the belly but eh nothing to really complain about. And after my first two girls I went straight back to prepregnancy size. But my son (born in 2005) now he was the one who changed everything. Don't get me wrong, I do not blame him for it at all. He just happened to come along during a metabolism change and wahhhlahhh i got hefty. I am actually in a really odd position because most women i meet get angry that I consider myself to be hefty. I have been ridiculed by larger women cause I have had 3 kids and still have " a great shape". Well I can tell you that i do not feel good at all. I have as of lately, let me be honest....but in general no. My mothers side, well they are all dead but her and every single one of them has had diabetes and heart issues. No one has lived past the age of 65 on that side, my mother is 50. On my fathers side the women have all had diabetes and cancer. They do tend to live longer on his side. My great grandma made it to 97 when her last bout of cancer finally beat her. I say it that way cause she had been in remission well over 6 years and suddenly they found cancer again......i know odd sounding despite all the checkups, but it happens to all the women on my dads side. An aunt had 3 different kinds before it took her. Anyway I have a reason for mentioning all of this so bear with me. When i had my son, I gained alot....i stopped counting when i hit the 50 lbs mark, which i must add i gained that much with my girls too. Unfortunatley at the tail end with my son i was preeclamptic and i had to be induced. After i had him i lost NONE of my weight, which i found so totally odd giving I lost 10 lbs right after each girl. Then I noticed that i was eating alot still, which was unusual for me, and that i wasnt getting any smaller. My doctor had a discussion with me about my weight. He was very frank but nice about it, otherwise I dont think I would have listened to him. Giving my family history and that they had at one point feared gestational diabetes with my son, and that I was not losing my baby weight......he had serious fears that I was heading down a deadly path. So we talked, he said that there is a chance that I can beat it all.....but I have to try. So I started looking into South Beach, my inlaws have used the method for a few years and have had tremendous results with it. Unfortunatley my own mother was not as supportive about any of this, in her words....I had to have diabetes or it wouldnt be fair to her. This was all January of 2006. IN october I got married.....i had lost 35 lbs. Unfortunatley some habits die hard and i quit smoking (to avoid lung cancer, heart issues and so forth)...so now I have gained back 15 lbs. My tracker has me losing more cause honestly I think I can do it. Course I say that but I hadnt quite made a week on this diet and already screwed up. But thats ok....I am gonna get right back on it tomorrow, and i will make it longer before i "screw up"....I am much too determined to prove people wrong. Anyway, this past month I started getting active cause I found out my health insurance has a rewards program for exercise. Each day I can earn 10 pts for 30 minutes of activity, but no more than 10 pts a day. After every 250 pts you can pick a prize. I have already gotten one prize and well on my way to another. I walk once a day around my neighborhood with two steep hills that i must go up to raise my heart rate. I also got back into bellydancing which I try to practice for about an hour a day. I am hoping this helps me feel better. It has improved things but sometimes I still feel like crap kwim? Anyway, thanks for stopping by, reading the same old stuff, and if you have any suggestions, links, advice, or questions...please leave me a message!
