Ok, I did not work out last night, but I am back on the prowl today! I did not work out last night because .....well really i dont have a good excuse as to why I did not work out. Well my in laws stopped by last night for a little while and it did throw a wrench into my schedule, but thats no excuse cause I had plenty of time earlier to work out and I didnt do it. I do know however that I did eat some little snacks that were NOT good for me at all. My stepdaughter had gotten 2 peanut butter cookies from Subway. Later in the afternoon, she said, I saved you a cookie. Of course I didnt want to say no thank you, so I had to force myself to eat that cookie. LOL. Ok, there was no force involved and that was the best damn cookie I have EVER eaten. I enjoyed every minute of it. Then shortly after that I was helping her put some music on her new mp3 player and my husband left a bag of ruffles wide slam open on the table. My hand made its way into that bag and I tore into them hard. They were sooooooo good. BUT NO MORE!!
I have gotten that little snacking out of my system for now. This morning I woke up and made an omlet. I used 1/2 cup of eggmates, 1/4 cup of cheese, 2 strips of turkey bacon and 1/2 cup of mushrooms. It was soooooooo good and only 230 calories. I chugged some water down with that as well. Lunch was a little ravoli lunch bucket for 190 calories and my last coke zero. There will be no more sodas for me after today! I have a bananna on reserve in case I get hungry. But believe it or not, I am totally full and satisfied right now. I am going to bake some chicken tonight with some collards and yellow rice for my husband and brown rice for me.
I am going to do Ultimate Calorie blaster as payback for not working out this past weekend. God be with me on that one.
I will hopefully have my machine tomorrow. I am thinking that I could do that for about 30 minutes in the morning and then do a firm dvd after dinner at night. Boy that sure is gonna be tough. I am thinking that it will help me out alot but my challenge is gonna be getting up 30 minutes earlier to do this. Hopefully once I do it one day, I will be able to continue to do it.
I was just thinking about how good I have felt since I have started working out and eating good. Oh yeah, let me start off by saying that my co-worker has been trying to sell her only used one time ellipitcal machine that she purchased last year. With a small child at home, she could not find time to use it. She purchased it for around $400 and was trying to sell it for $225. Well I waited until she would come down on the price. In talking to her yesterday, she said she would sell it to me for $150. I was like, well I would love to purchase it because I have been working out again and it would be nice to switch from my DVD's to using a machine. She said, Miranda...I will give it to you for only $100 because I can tell how serious you are about losing weight. So long story short, I will have my new machine on Monday!
I had joined Weight Watchers in September, but stop going after a while, but I found that i weighed 259.2 in September when I started. So that means I have lost around 10lbs since September, but I will keep my starting weight the same since I just got really serious on January 1. I joined WW after I had gotten back from a business trip to california. I go there once per year and I HATE TO FLY. Plus thats like 5 hours on a freaking plane. Well while on that plane, I felt like a fat pig. I know the seats are small, but damn, I think I was on the verge of needing 2 seats with all these hips. We actually flew from Greenville NC to Charlotte NC on one of those little ass planes. Man, the person beside me could not even put the arm rest down because my legs were so huge. The flight on the plane from Charlotte to LA was not as bad, but was still tight as fuck! But I made it and I vow now that by the time I go to California again, I will be slimmer and I wont have to worry about a seatbelt or a small ass seat.
My step daughter is here for the weekend, so working out is gonna be kind of tough. I did not work out last night and ended up eating a frozen pizza for dinner. Breakfast today was 2 strips of turkey bacon and oatmeal. Lunch and Dinner was a sub from subway, some light bbq chips and water. I will have to snack on fruit for the rest of the day. But that sub was soo good. It was the new ham sub that they have out right now.....8 gs of fat even with cheese. Right now I am hella sleepy and might just take a nap while my husband took my stepdaughter to get her nails done.
Hopefully 2morrow I will be telling u that I did find a way to workout tonight.
Man, I am so glad its Friday! Last night when I got home from work, I heated up my tilipia, corn, and brown rice. It was extra yummy. Shortly after that, I ate a pb and j sandwich. The pb was reduced fat and the bread was as well. It was very good. I did not work out last night cause it was my day off from working out. I was so tired from work that I was sleep at 7:45 and slept all the way until this morning!! I needed that so much.
Today for breakfast I had some oatmeal and some sausage. I am done with sausage for a while though, but I gots to have my oatmeal. I just finished off some sirloin burger soup for lunch. I ate about 3/4 of the can. Oh yeah, I had some baked cheetos for snack.
I went to Aldi's during lunch. If you have ever been to Aldi's you know that it is a discounted grocery store chain and they have bargains like you wouldn't believe. They sell brand names that you have never heard of before, but they do have special bargains in there that are name brand. So instead of baked lays you will get oven cooked flays....or something corny like that. I spent $22 bucks in there. Wanna know what I got? I got the following:
a 3lb bag of naval oranges
3 cans each of corn, peas, string beans, collards, and asparagus
a bundle of bananas (8)
(2) 4 packs of mixed fruit cups
24 pack of water
1 box of special k bars
1 pack of caramel rice cakes
a pack of paper plates
All of that for 22 bucks! I was in heaven. I am saving money and losing weight all at the same time. My goal at this moment is to lay off the snacking. When i mean snacking, I am talking about the 100 calorie packs and the baked chips. I am going to focus more on eating fruits in those slots instead of chips. Also i am down to just one diet soda per day now, so my other goal is to totally not drink sodas at all and just do water. That is gonna be a really hard thing to do!!!!
I do not know what I am going to do for dinner tonight. I was thinking of a salad, but they did not have any salad in a bag left at Aldi's. So I might just go and get a sub from subway for dinner or something. Who knows.
Tonight's workout will be OVERDRIVE! Man, I sweat just thinking about that.
I blog during lunch because it helps me stay focused and not in the nearest Sonic Drive in or Taco Bell somewhere. It helps me to realize what is important and it keeps me on task. I go through and read everyone's blogs and it is really inspirational. So that is why every day that I am at work, I am committed to blogging about my journey.
Last night was a good eating night. I actually baked some tilapia last night. I seasoned it with a little old baby and it was sooooooo good. I ate one piece and have the other for dinner tonight. I had some corn on the cob with "i cant believe its not butter" and some brown rice cheddar broccolli flavor. Of course I didnt use regular butter or whole milk to make that, but it tased the same with my low fat choices. Dinner was GREAT! Can't you sense my excitement. After eating, I DID NOT WANT to work out. But I did work out at around 7:30. I ended up doing the Firm UCB. Next week I will start doing some of the Firms Muscle Videos. Tonight however is my night OFF! I am tired and I cant even think about climbing anyones firm boxes tonight.
Today has been a good eating day so far.
Breakfast - Oatmeal and lite sausage
Snack - Baked Cheetos (120 calories)
Lunch - Smartones Chicken Quesadilla. I ate both of them suckers. They were good and should hold me til dinner tonight.
I feel better, and I can tell that I am really making some progress
Hello all. Man, let me start off by saying that I am tired as all get out today!! I did a firm dvd last night....Cardio Overdrive and I was sweating like someone poured water all over me. I love it though and u know what, i might be big, but I can hang with those chicks on that DVD. I must admit that I had no intentions of working out last night. I talked to my sister Monica...aka Chunky Free and I was venting about work and how tired I was. I told her that I was not going to work out. She said, "Come on Miranda, you can do it, your mind is tired, not your body." I decided that she was right. After dinner (a small stouffers lasagna and a salad) I chilled for a while. Then at 7:15, I worked out hard and it felt so good!
After I worked out, I watched the discovery health body challenge (and recorded the biggest loser at the same time). I am glad those 2 twins up there finally got on track and started losing some weight. I was starting to think they wasted perfectly good spots on that show to goof around and not make some sort of change.
Then I watched the Biggest Loser. I was sad to see Curtis and Mallory go home, but they were making good progress outside of the campus. Man, I WISH I could take up to 4 months off from work and out of my life to be on a show like that. I would lose soooooo much weight and I know I would. That is a great opportunity for those folks and I hope they make the best of it for a life time. Besides, it takes a lot of guts to get up there with those tight biker shorts on and a sports bra with everything in the world hanging out for all to see. I commend them on that alone!
Today has been a good food day. Breakfast was oatmeal, and light sausage. Snack was a pack of 100 calorie mini muffins. Lunch was a lean cuisine and some baked doritos. Dinner will be grilled chicken breasts, rice, and corn on the cob. No snack for me tonight.
I must say that I can tell a change in myself in just this week and a half. First of all, no stomache issues for me. Since I have had my gall bladder removed, it doesnt take much to have me running back and foward to bathroom all day, but so far, that has not happened since I have been watching what I eat.
Ok, i weighed in this morning and the scale said 249.4....that is a 3.1 decrease from my starting weight of 252.5. I am not too sure why the site has 252.00, but oh well. Ok, i am not happy with that loss, but it is a loss. I honestly was expecting at least 5 or more. I remember one time when I was losing weight, i was down 8.2lbs in one week!!!! But the good thing is that at least i am out of the 250's!!
Today has been a good eating day so far. I had oatmeal and lite smoked sausage for breakfast and a coke zero. Lunch was a lean cuisine sandwich and some baked doritos. I guess dinner will be chicken breasts on the george foreman grill and some veggies. Sounds exciting huh? Yeah I know, your mouth is watering.
I worked out last night and it was tough. I did a firm DVD. This time I did Ultimate Calorie Blaster which is about a 45 minute workout and it is killer. I can easily drink 2 bottles of water while doing that workout!! My hair is always soaked after that which makes for terrible hair days when I have to go to work.
Ok, today I am back on my normal schedule with work and I decided to take time during my lunch to write this blog. Man, I slipped really bad last night. I had a pb and j sandwich at like 8pm. But at least the pb was reduced fat and the bread was reduced fat as well. IT WAS SOOOOOOO GOOD!! Thats why I know that I should have worked out! When I work out, I am not really that hungry after the fact. In fact, I could throw up at the thought of food after I do the Firm. Tonight I am back on the workout routine. I just had to take a day off to prepare for work. Today has been great with my eating. I had oatmeal and water for breakfast, 100 calorie pack of cookies for snack, water, lean pockets, and baked doritos for lunch. I have fruit for snack if I get hungry this afternoon which I doubt cause I will be so busy at work. Tonight I am making spaghetti and having a salad on the side. I will not over do it with the spaghetti. I am gonna have a BIG salad to start off with and that should curb the need for lots of spaghetti.
Well thats it for now. Tomorrow is weigh in day for me. I will let u know my progress and how far i have come for 252.
Ok, so this is my 2nd day of blogging and I do look forward to it. I actually started working out and eating healthy on January 1, and I have been doing great. I don't deprive myself, and that is the most important part to me. If I want a cookie, I am gonna eat a cookie, hell I might even eat 2 or 3:) But seriously I know I can do this. I am doing it for myself, first and foremost. Next, I want to have kids and I don't want my weight to be the reason that I have a tough time trying to have kids.
My true test comes tomorrow. I have to go back to work after a 2 week vacation. My job as a systems analyst means that I sit down basically all day in my office in front of a computer. Not to mention that I am in an IT group that loves to eat. We eat for every occassion and have a monthly bday party and we all just pig out. I have to learn not to over do it and to keep focused on my goal of 185.
I have been working out, but I had to take a break tonight. I have worked out every night since last Monday and tonight is my official rest day. But a part of me wants to go in the room, pull out my Transfirmer, pop in a DVD and get to it!!!! Thats right, I use the firm for my workouts. I was first introduced to those by my sister Monica..aka ChunkyFree. They are great to have and they do work!!!
Today was a good eating day.
Breakfast - 1 piece of light smoked sausage on light white bread with mustard. 16.9 oz of water
Lunch - A Mr. P's cheeseburger Pizza. Yes I ate the entire thing, they have just about the same amount of calories and fat as a freaking Lean Cuisine. I also had another bottle of water.
Snack - 1 bag of baked doritos - only 90 calories and 3 grams of fat. Let me add that you get way more chips in that bag than you do out of a little 100 calorie pack. You can buy a variety pack of smart eating lays chips. They include baked doritos, baked cheetos, baked ruffles, and pretzels.
Dinner - 2 baked chicken legs ( i put a little flour on them to give them the fried effect:), rice, and some collards.
As you can see, I dont focus much on counting this or counting that. I just make wise choices with what I eat, because I LOVE TO EAT!
Often times, I feel obsessed with food. I know I am addicted. Last night I was watching a movie, and someone was eating chinese food. All I could think about is how much I wanted some shrimp fried rice, and a damn egg roll. I had to close my eyes and say, that I will get that in about 2 weeks.
I am ready to get back on my normal routine, but man, it is gonna be tough for me, but I KNOW I CAN DO IT. I have done this before, but of course, gained it back. The key now is to lose it, and to keep it off. I just pray that I can lose it and get down to 185!
Ok, this is my first official blog. Let me formally introduce myself. My name is Miranda, I am 28, married, and did I mention 5'9" and 252.5lbs? Well I didnt always use to be at that weight, in fact this is my highest weight ever and it is time for a real change. Not a part time change, but a real change. Sure I have lost weight before....who hasn't? I have also gained it back plus some. I think that the last time I was under 200lbs was in high school. I do remember that in 2006 I had gotten down to 208 for my October wedding, but wow, I gained all that back and then some. Sure I am tall, and my height saves me and I don't look at big as someone shorter, but I sure can feel it in my bones. I am constantly tired, my legs (especially my knees) kill me, and I just don't feel good about myself. But this is about to change. In my next blog, I will state the reasons as to why I am gunning to lose this weight. 185 is my goal and I am gonna do it!!
