The joy of being sick

What a way to hamper my last few days of February to lose weight before March.  I've been bedridden for a few days, but hey, I'm feeling slightly better since I'm able to get on the computer now. 

My mom's been over taking care of me, I'm extremely grateful to have such an awesome mom, but her cooking... man oh man... I think my hard work this month went down the drain because of this awesome flu.  I tried exercising, but end up collapsing after 2 minutes of just WALKING.

I have 2 major tests today and I didn't even study for it because I was barely able to think with all the whooziness and headache.  Ugh, I hope I get better and SOON.  Being sick sucks arse.

I want to get back on track!  I want to feel better = (

Stretch marks

Angry red marks are starting to develop on my body = (.  I need to buy cocoa butter and such to make my skin more elastic-ish.

My weigh in is in 9 days, which gives me a little over a week to push myself.  I'm nervous, I had a REALLY bad weekend, so I feel like I'm going backwards with my weight loss.  I mean, I was told that I was visibly different, but it's only been a month!  What if I'm heavier than before!  That would suck.

Maybe if I don't reach my monthly goal, I can blame it on muscles? =P

But I need to watch what I eat still, my eating habit is still extremely terrible.  9 days... I need to make good use of the 9 days.

I also need to work on my sleeping habit.  I have terrible sleeping pattern and I hear that it can slow down weight loss as well if I don't get the optimal hours of sleep.

Ahhh!  I'll work on one thing at a time... first thing first... curve my eating... that will ALWAYS be my major problem.

Can I be anymore stupid?

I got my heart broken not too long ago.  I forgave the man, why?  Because I'm a softy and he wanted to still remain friends, so we were still in speaking terms.  And then today, he tells me, I don't ever want to talk to you again, we're no longer friends.  And BAM, while I'm still gluing the pieces of my heart together, he breaks it again.  I'm one smart cookie.

I wanted to skip my work out, curl up into a ball in bed and cry.  I wanted to eat the entire cake downstairs and pop open the pint of coffee ice cream and soothe my hurt.  I didn't skip my work out, I did eat the cake = (  But only a small portion, I'm a failure.

Lunar New Years

So with the lunar new years, I've been eating horrendously, since it's kind of like the american version of thanksgiving and christmas all rolled into one. 

The food, is insanely good!

On a brighter note, people are noticing my weight loss!  People were asking me today if I've lost weight, I'm like, maybe, I haven't hopped on the scale since February 1, since I've decided to do weigh-ins once a month.

I've been working out daily, well except yesterday, but I got a horrendous cramp during my work-out time and I passed out in bed in a fetal position instead. 

Now that the holidays are over, back to my "normal" eating habit.  I'm so excited, still motivated!  My pants are loosening as well and some old pants that I couldn't wear before, they're starting to fit!

I wish you all the best of luck as well!

Poor eating habit

My eating habit is sooo terrible.  Sometimes I would go a few days probably eating less than 700 calories a day and some days I'd go and eat ginormous meals.

I decided to do some reading on calories and I realize I need to eat 1500 calories in order to lose weight. Which means, counting calories!

I don't intentionally starve myself, seeing as how 700 calories is extremely low to eat, but I forget to eat sometimes, I only eat when I see food = /.  Especially with working full time and going to school full time, it's hard to eat properly.

I'm worried about starvation mode now, although I never feel faint or dizzy, so maybe I'm ok?  Well, time for me to step up, grab a notebook and mark down everything I eat and the calories that goes with what I'm consuming.  How do I know what calories are in certain food, especially homecooked meals?  I'll have to do more research.

On a brighter note, I'm still working out, I actually thrive on it now.  I feel like crud if I don't, I was going to work out 6 days a week, so I decided last night would be my day off from working out, I ended up tossing and turning in bed because I didn't get my work out in, so I just got up, and hopped on the treadmill and lifted some weights.  I'm developing some nice habits!

Anyways, aside from counting calories, I'm going to need to work on drinking lots of water.  So, my goal for this month is to keep track of my calories and try and drink about 60-70oz of water per day.  Sounds simple enough, I hope.

Happy February!

Whoot!  I did my weigh in today, I've lost 2lbs!  I hope it isn't water weight.

A new month starts.  I'm going to try uber hard to watch my eating habit, I'm still having trouble with this and I'm still working on increasing work out activities.  The yogurt thing is getting a bit tiresome, BUT, I'm still forcing myself to eat it.  I'm still motivated!

Good luck everyone!  You guys are all so inspiring.

So far so good

I know I just started with this whole weight loss thing, but I've been so good with my exercises, I was extra proud of myself yesterday.

Tuesdays are my worse enemy, mostly cause I get up at 5am and get home by 11pm, so I'm usually extremely exhausted by the time I get home.  I'd eat "dinner" since I don't have the time to actually eat until then, I'm going to start packing low fat string cheese and maybe little tub of yogurts and put them in my bag so my body won't go on "starvation" mode.  And after dinner I'd take a shower and just hit the sack.  BUT, I didn't do that yesterday, well I did eat dinner, but I waited for about an hour after eating and then hopped on the treadmill.  Yeah, I DID sleep late, but I was so proud of myself still.

Today, I did well, I had veggies and of course, yogurt.  I DID eat a sandwich though, which has white bread.  I need to curve my eating habit, but I just LOVE food.  I also want to fix my eating habit because I have PCOS and changing my diet would help that.  Anyways, I worked out for 40 minutes today, it's slowly improving!

I was reading a few blogs today and I was totally motivated, I feel like I'll ACTUALLY stick to this!

Yogurt and Weight Loss

I read an article that eating plain non/low fat yogurt will help me lose weight. 

www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20050317/yogurt-may-help-burn-fat-promote-weight-loss

So now, I'm introducing yogurt to my diet.  I'll probably eat 3 servings of yogurt per day before each meal.  It's not the greatest tasting of food, but if I eat it before each meal, hopefully it'll fill me up some so when I do get started on the meal, I'll be semi-full so I wont eat as much.  If not, I can always eat it as a snack replacement and toss in fruits and such to give it extra flavoring.

I worked out for about 25 minutes today. not exactly optimal, but I'm just starting, I can't go all out and burn myself out.  I'll slowly increase my work-out.  I only ran on the treadmill, I'll throw in some strength training tomorrow.

I need to lose 5lbs per month if I want to lose 50lbs by my goal date, but I wont stress too much on the timing.  Besides, 5lbs per month seems healthy.

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It Starts

I never seem to have the motivation to lose weight, but I recently got my heart broken and I feel like blah.  I want to lose weight so I can feel good about myself.  No more crappy excuses, it's time for me to watch what I eat and excercise daily.  I need to lose 50lbs!