I dont really have a "typical" day. I eat different things everyday. But here is an example...kind of:
7am ceral w/ vitamin D milk (a few strawberries sometimes)
11am a fruit of some sort...orange, pear, apple...whatever
1pm salad...which is lettuce with ranch dressing on the side. I put the dressing in a little cup, like the little cup on top of a kids cold medicine. Then I dip my fork in the dressing and eat it that way. Sometimes I put califlower in the lettuce. Sometimes I put some lunch meat in it...just depends. Then I will have a banana or low cal pudding or maybe even a piece of colby cheese
3pm 100 calories snack or a 90 calorie special K bar
5:30pm baked pork chops, green beans, brown rice, mashed tatas
7:30-8pm 60 calories pudding or 60 cal ice cream bar or something like that
I try to eat about 1150 calories each day. Now I dont stress out when I eat a few less or more. Somedays I get in 1000 and some days its 1300. But 1150 is the number that I aim for. The "example" day above has about 1150 calories in it. And yes I use vitiam D milk in my cereal and in my mash tatas. I also put butter in my mash tatas...but not very much.
I do measure my cereal every morning. Usually a serving size is 3/4 of a cup. I do not really care for milk so I dont put much milk on it.
Now on to exercise...again it depends on the day because I do different things thru out the week. But here is an example;
6pm go to the gym and do 20 minutes on the bike, 20 minutes on the elliptical, 20 minutes on my arms, and then 15 minutes on whatever looks good that day
Through out the evening I am constantly cleaning. I am a clean freak! I dont sit down much when I am at home. If I am not cooking dinner or changing the laundry over or folding laundry or doing dishes or cleaning the hardwood floors or picking up after the kids (DH is included there) or vacuuming or dusting or mopping I am usually on the "jump-o-lean" with my kids or helping them with thier homework. There are some TVs shows that I never miss but on commercials I will do crunches or something. On a typical Saturday at my house I get up around 9:30 am and clean until about 4pm. And on Wednesday nights I roller skate for about 2 hours.
OK I feel like I am forgetting something...OH..this might be silly but at work I have arranged my office so that I have to walk all the way around my desk to get to the filling cabinets that I need to get into about a million times a day...they used to sit right behind me and I moved them to the other side of the room. And on Tuesdays I spend about 2 hours (at work) helping make about 150 pizzas and that is a workout in itself.
I only drink water. I havent really had anything but water since last October. I sometimes put Crystal Light in it. I just cant drink my calories.
Well I am sure that I have still forgoten something. I try to burn as many calories as I can everyday. I park in the furthest spot at the store and all that stuff. I use thedailyplate.com to see just how many calories I should eat and of course I have adjusted it several times. I try not to eat too much sodium and I never put salt on anything I eat.
I lost 10.8 the first month then 16.4, then 14, then 15.6, then 9.4, then 9.6, then 12.8 for a total of 88.6 as of today. Now I DID take Phen in mid October til right before Christmas. So I lost...I dont know...30 pounds or so while I was on it. But I have stuck to my eatting and my workouts. Do I regret taking it...NO! It helped me in the beginning and IMO that is the hardest time...when you are just getting started. Would I go back on it? Not now cause I dont need it. But I did take it for a couple months and I would do it the same if I had to do it over.
Hope that answered your questions ladies. It isnt anything exciting or unusual. But it has been working for me so far so I keep doing it.
I have been thinking...dangerous I know. My mind has been preoccupied today. I have been thinking about how close I am getting to were I want to be. It is kinda scary. Should I still keep my food journal? Will I be able to maintain my weight? Will I stop when I should stop lossing or am I gonna turn into an obsessive weight loss freak? Will I remain focused and keep going to the gym? Just some things I have been thinking about today. I mean I will be at goal soon...as long as things keep going the way they have been. I generally lose about 10 pounds a month. Will I spend the summer getting fitter or will I eat my way back up? UGH!
My birthday is May 15th. I have decided to treat myself to a hair appointment. I know this probly sounds silly to you but I have not been to the salon since I started this journey. I love to go see Tammi (my hair stylist) and she always does such a great job. I used to go every 4 weeks. But I stopped going so that I could reward myself after I reached my goal. I plan on getting the works! Now I know that I will probly not loss the remaining 12 pounds or so by then but I will be pretty darn close. So I figure that it can be a birthday treat and a weight loss treat all in one. Am I wrong for giving myself the "big reward" even if I am still a few pounds away?
Anyway, today I have been "dieting", on this journey, getting healthier, whatever you want to call it for 7 months. I have lost almost 90 pounds. I know that should seem like a big number to me but...I dont know. I guess I want to be able to say "I lost 100 pounds." Maybe I just have a hard time giving myself congrats when I havent completed the task at hand. Yup I have done great so far but I am not done yet. It is an unfinished project. I mean you dont congratulate a team at half time...you wait until the game is over and then tell them what a great job they did, kwim?
OK I am gonna go see how all of you ladies are today. Hopefully great!
A close friend of mine is getting married on June 7th. Originally there were going to fly out to Hawaii and get married there. But with the recent airline problems they dicovered that thier tickets alone would be over $5000. So they are getting married at thier church and the frantic rush is on to get all the invites out and all that good stuff. She only has 51 days to get everything ready.
I am very happy for her. I have known her and her fiance for years...here is my problem...I have to go out in public with all these other people and wear a dress. And it will be in the middle of summer so it will have to be a "summer-time" dress. I know, I know, I know, you ladies are always telling me how great I look but clothes readlly do cover up stuff. My bye-bye arms are aweful, my calves(is that the right spelling? OK it doesnt matter) are flippin huge...UGH! I spent most of my morning online looking at plastic surgery options, seriously! Of course I am not going to do any of them but I did look.
So I have 7 weeks to get myself in good enough shape to wear a dress...wonder if she would mind if I came dressed like a nun...just kidding.
So how about Ali? Am I the only one that cried? I was thrilled that a girl finally won. But...I thought she looked a little too thin. Not much but a little. I mean 122 pounds IS little...but congrats to her anyway.
to tell you ladies about my Saturday night. We had made plans with a guy my husband works with to go out to a comedy club. There were going to be 20-25 people in our group. I was a little nervous. I don't really "go out" much...I mean I am a married 32 year old mother of 2 and my husband and I don't drink so...well you know what I mean. So I hadnt been out-out in seven months...since I started this journey. I decided to go buy a new outfit...I bought three. Once I got home and it was time to start getting ready I still could not figure out what I wanted to wear. I tried on so many different outfits! I just couldnt find anything that I looked good in. Everything I tried on just made me look SO big. I just didnt want to be the fat girl in the group.
I did finally decide on something and away we went. We all met up at the bar next to the comedy club. We had dinner. It was hard to find something healthy to eat at a bar but I did my best. We had been there an hour or so and my husbnad whispers in my ear "You are the hottest girl here." I wasn't sure how to take that. I know he was trying to be nice...I guess I just didnt feel like the "hottest" girl there.
I did have a great time. The comedian was great. His name was Mike Armstrong...he is on the Bob and Tom show alot. Anyway, I had fun and I guess that is what matters.
I hope you are all having a great day. The sun is shinning here and it is a beautiful day here. I can't wait for the warmer (70s or80s) weather to get here!
Well I have better news to report this Monday than I did last Monday. Last week I gained Not sure why but I did. I didnt get upset about it cause I knew that I hadnt gone off my plan. So this week...a loss of 4 pounds! I am back in the 150s and I hope that I dont see 160 anything on that scale ever again. I have on a pair of size 10s today and they fit fine. Its weird how different labels fit differently. I have 2 pair of 10s that fit fine (they are from Catos and Fashion Bug) and I have too pair that are a tad bit too tight (they are Levis and heck I cant remember who made the other pair). Point being that just because it says its a size whatever doesnt mean it will fit like the other size whatever you have at home.
I had a busy, fun weekend. My DH and I went to see Leatherheads and out to dinner and did some shopping. It was really a great time.
I will be around to check on my ladies in a bit. Hope you all had a super weekend!
That was the name of the play my daughter was in last night. It was really cute. I didnt realize how tall she was until I saw her standing next to all the other 2nd graders...man that girl is tall.
When we walked into the school we immediately ran into my daughters old Girl Scout leader. She stops me and says "OMG! Did you have bariatric surgery?" Now she knows that I go to a gym cause last fall I tried to get her to join with me. I told her no and so she says "Did you just move into Anytime Fitness or what?" And I told her no again. She asked how much I had lost and all the usual questions. Then she went on about how good I looked. You know what I was thinking/feeling the entire time? I was not proud of myself and I was not happy. I was sad. I was sad that she had not joined the gym with me and that she was still 100 pounds overweight. Is that wrong of me? I mean is there something wrong with me to make me think that way...was it mean? I dont know but it is how I felt at the time.
Anyway, I hope all of you ladies have a great weekend. I have some plans with the DH and I plan on having an awesome time!
On Sunday I went riding with my DH, BIL and his girlfriend. We rode down to Brown County State Park. The ride there has several twisty roads, hills and stuff. It is a very popular place for bikers to go. On any given day in the summer there is probly a few hundred bikes down there. So as I said my BILs girlfirend was with us and she had to be home by 7PM because her ex husband was bringing her daughter home from thier spring break trip. Well we had walked around to some shops and had lunch. My BIL made a comment about how late it was getting and we should head back. We started heading back to our bikes. We passed a T Shirt place and we all decided to go in. We spent about 5-7 minutes in there. Then we went where we had parked. As we were pulling on the main road to leave an ambulance passed us. We got about 3 miles down the road and the road was closed. They made all of us take a detour. You could see a bunch of bikes parked up ahead and you just knew it was a bike wreck.
I saw on the news Monday night that this is what happened....a dog ran across the road and there was a car that slammed on its breaks. The SUV behind the car slammed on its breaks and the lady on the motorcycle behind the SUV hit her breaks and they locked up. She flew off the bike and into the back of the SUV. Her husband was riding right behind her. He said that he knew immediately that she was dead.
Now they were about 5 minutes or so ahead of us. If we had not stopped at that T shirt place we would have been either right in front of them or right behind them. I feel so bady for her family, I really do. But I am thanking my lucky stars that we stopped to look at those shirts. That poor lady died and I could have been were she was. I always am the first one in the line of people we ride with. The one in front controls the speed of the group and I ride with a bunch of boys and well...they know that I am not gonna take the turns too fast and so I go first because I guess I am the most level headed rider in the group. So I would have been the one behind the SUV. I guess it just kinda makes you think about alot of things.
I know this isnt weight related in the least little bit. But this is what has been on my mind the past few days.
OK so I get on the scales this morning and they said 163.2. All I could do was laugh. That is a GAIN of 3.4 pounds since last Monday. I have never gained before. The scales have been pretty much stationary all week and now that it is WI day it jumps up. I did eat some bad stuff yesterday but I do not believe that a tenderlion and a few fries will make me gain 3.4 pounds overnight. There isnt anything I can do about what the scale said this morning and to be honest I am not really upset about it. I know that I have eatten right...with the exception of lunch yesterday...and I have been to the gym and done everything right. So I am not mad or upset or giving up. I just will have to take it a day at a time and see what the scales say tomorrow. I know I have lost a bunch of weight in a fairly short amount of time and I know I have put on muscle and blah, blah, blah. So we will see what happens through out the week.
I did get to go riding this weekend. My DH, BIL and his girlfriend all went riding to Brown County. It was a little chili but it was nice. We walked around all the shops and had a good time. We stopped at Bobby Knights little sandwich shop and I did eat (like I said) a tenderlion and about 6 fries. It was good. I know that "normal" people eat "regular" food but they eat it in moderation. So I had no mayo on my sandwich and drank water and didn't eat many fries...moderation. It was good and I enjoyed it and I do not regret it at all. I still dont believe that meal made me gain 3.4 pounds.
I did ride my motorcycle to work today. It was only 48 degrees out this morning but it is suppose to be 69 degrees by this afternoon. So it is gonna be a nice ride home. I am so glad that spring is finally here.
OK, my Mondays are pretty busy so I need to get some work done. I will do my best to get around to everyones blogs in a bit. Hope everyone is having a wonderful day!
I dont know if you guys have them or not but out here we have a Hostess/Wonder Bread store. You can get bread, buns. donuts, ding dongs, cup cakes, twinkies, cheese and crackers, chips...all kinds of things and it is WAAAYYYY cheaper than at the regular grocery store. So I go there a couple times a month and stock up on stuck for the three other people in my house. Just because I dont eat it anymore doesnt mean that they dont. Anyway, I just went to the one down the road and got a bunch of stuff. I was at the register putting all the stuff up there and the lady made a comment about how good the peanutbutter crackers were. I said something along the lines of "I dont eat any of this stuff so I wouldnt know". And you know what she says to me...."Well I can tell by looking at you that you dont eat any of this kind of junk." I actually looked behind me to see if she was talking to someone else. ME? You can tell by looking at me? What? Do you need to have your eyes checked?
I am starting to think about how other people see me now. Not that it really matters. But someone who has never seen me before and doesnt know me from Adam (or Eve). What do they see? I know what I see and I know that people that know me can still see the "fat girl" and well...am I making sense? If I ran into you on the street what would you think of me? Do people see a girl that still needs to loss 15 pounds? Like I said, not that it matters but that lady at the bread store has got me thinking about it now.
Ok now I'm turning into a blog hog...twice in one day...thats amazing for me (lol).
So the scales are slow moving this week. OK thats a lie. They arent moving at all. I am not shocked cause I had some big losses the past few weeks but it still sucks. I just dont want them to go up. I have never had a gain on an offical WI and I sure dont want to start now.
So I have noticed something lately...everytime I see someone that I havent seen for awhile they always want to give me a hug. Even people that I have never hugged. A while back I ran into my hair stylist...I hadnt seen her since last September...she wanted to give me a hug. Then last week my BIL and his girlfirend stopped by and she hadnt seen me in about three months or so and she wanted to give me a hug. Then last night at the gym, Susan the manager, who I hadnt seen in a few months, wanted to give me a hug. Whats with that? I see myself every day and I am sure that the change in my body is a bit more noticable to them...since they all hadnt seen me in awhile...but I dont get this whole hug thing that is going on. Guess I just wondered if anyone else was having this happen to them.
Well its a nasty rainy day here and I am hating it. I want the sun shine. So if you have sunshine...could you sent it my way?
Hope you all are having a good day...its FRIDAY!!!
Not sure why but I did. I didnt get upset about it cause I knew that I hadnt gone off my plan. So this week...a loss of 4 pounds!
I am back in the 150s and I hope that I dont see 160 anything on that scale ever again. I have on a pair of size 10s today and they fit fine. Its weird how different labels fit differently. I have 2 pair of 10s that fit fine (they are from Catos and Fashion Bug) and I have too pair that are a tad bit too tight (they are Levis and heck I cant remember who made the other pair). Point being that just because it says its a size whatever doesnt mean it will fit like the other size whatever you have at home.