I've been soooooo lax in my eating.. nothing horrid.. just not tracking it (well it could be horrid because I'm not tracking it)... but I've neglected water, most veggies and fruit and planning my meals.. .it's like I"m putting crap in my fuel tank and expecting it to run well.... I remember when I was a kids a kid vandalized the family car by putting sugar in the gas tank.. guess what.. the car didn't run either.. I got to get off the sugar and starches and get on the protein and veggies....
My nephew is getting married in December.. the first kid of that generation to get married in the family.... I want to look good in pictures, I want to feel no self consciousness. I found a beautiful dress at coldwater creek I really really would like to wear to the wedding.. it's a red sheath dress with a jacket and ruffled detailed. I looked at what my hips had to be to fit into a size 16 petite... 9 inches smaller than I am now.... so back to walking regularly, back to squating regularly, back to the gym and definitely back to healthy eating.... REALLY!!
I'd like to say that I've been so busy and focused on exercise and diet that I haven't had time to post.. alas that is not true... although I am in the middle and hope to be finished with a home project... I got a new mattress/and adjustable base with massage (can you say spoiled) I guess it would be spoiled if someone bought it for me but since I'm single and I bought it for me then I guess I'm not spoiled.. just broke. Anyway I decided to paint my bedroom and fix it up, I've been in my house 9 years and I have no color on the wall.. now I do. I chose a beautiful aqua like color... valspar shallow marsh, then I found a comforter set that is brown print with teal and the flip side perfectly matches the wall.... I bought new sheets from HSN that are one set aquar and one set chocolate..... now I'm on the search for curtains.... there is a bit of shimmery gold in the comforter and I think that's what I'm looking for... I haven't had much exercise except for the painting/prepping and moving furntiture the last week. That will change this week ... My plan is to get the room finished today and cleaned up. Clean my bathroom vanity which has all sorts of things cluttered on it from the project...
Eating has been okay not perfect - but I've made a crockpot of pinto/cranberry beans and have been eating on it a lot this week.. this gives me good filling fiber with very little fat.... I'm gonna make a pot of black beans this week.....
Hope everyone has a great successful healthy week...
And I need it... I've had a hard time getting back in the groove of the weightloss thing... I do well for a day and then I sabotage myself with vending food... yesterday I prepared a great bag of food for the day.... and because I didn't eat breakfast I went for the rice krispie treats... I know better than to start the day with sugar... because then I crave it all day long. I am doing better today and have been eating what's in my bag...
This past weekend I went to Atlanta for my nephew's graduation for Georgia Tech... (I am proud of him) and because I went by myself and no other family members in my car I got to go to places in Atlanta I haven't been before... I checked out Harry's Farmer's Market and the Dekalb Farmers Market - it was sooooo cool. I got a bunch of spices I didn't have cheap and veggies, and some other things.. it was a good trip. I'll be doing another road trip up there in the fall for sure just to go back and visit.
I'm on the Pink Team in the W/L challenge Endurer was so gracious to host! I'm excited and I hope we all meet our goals.
Well my birthday weekend has come to an end.. thankfully. I don't know if my tummy can't take it. I feel so bloated.. I've eaten a lot of fat, sugar and starches. The carrot cake cheese cake was yummy but it's got to go and not go in my tummy anymore.. I'm gonna pawn it off on the work bunch. Tomorrow it's back to the good healthy eating that helped me lose a few pounds and feel great.....I'm afraid to get on the scale - if I can get my butt out of bed I'll be going for a walk early in the morning plus a bunch of walking and gyming through the week. Hope everyone has a happy and healthy week. I'm suppose to be in a challenge that is starting next week.. but as typical with my memory.. I've forgotten who is running it.. if someone remembers.. please let me know..
I lost another pound or so... I'm down to 221. I checked and I haven't been that low since early 2007. Good going Julie!!! I'm proud of that and that I've lost 20 pounds since Jan 1. I can tell it in my pants but not much else but people have notice some at work... I went to the doc today.. I had a follow up and get results of blood work.. I'm exactly normal.... even though this blood work says I'm not diabetic my doctor is not convinced... I was just on the cusp of it in November when I was heavier and less active.. my cholesterol is below 200 and all the components of it are below the bad range.. she wants my LDL to go down to 70 .. it's 92 now.. and below100 is normal.... and it's lower than it was back in February.. so things are better but she still wants me to go on cholesterol medicine to get my LDL down. Anyone know ways to get it lower (certain foods, etc) without taking medicine? My BP was good, .. so I'm feeling good. I've been smilin all day. There was a funny incident my doc who is actual a PA but I think smarter than the actual doctor she works for... had a bit of a bad fit today when a drug rep brought in a dozen kripsie kreme donuts to the office... she said he won't get her business because she's all the time harping on her patients to stay away from that kind of stuff.... after she said she was really please with everything concerning my numbers.. I asked if I could have one of those donuts... she said no.... anyway.... the bad news is I went to dunkin and got coffee and two donuts... and because it's my birthday weekend and I've given myself just the weekend off... I had a cheeseburger... and because I'll be 47 gasp I'm making a cake out of Junior's cheesecake cookbook... if you haven't seen this book don't go looking for it.. it's deadly.. I've hidden it for 6 months and said I was only going to cook one on my birthday and maybe one at Christmas.... oh and because I'm a numbers girl... I tallied up the calories and the fat in this cake.. It's a carrot cake cheese cake.. two layers of carrot cake one layer of new york style cheese cake covered in cream cheese frosting.... are you ready.. this was kinda shocking and thankfully I plan to have just a small protion of it and then it's going to work...16,897 calories in the cake and 1022 grams of fat.. if I get 16 servings out of it...that's still over a thousand calories a serving.. and with that fat that is over ones days WW points... it's probably all the flex points... but even after all that.. I can't wait to try it... maybe I should go get those pills and double up... Hope everyone has a great weekend!!!
I'm gonna keep up this gym stuff - besides the occassional eye candy I've been told is totally fat free.. I've lost more weight... 3.8 pounds for my weekly weigh in with my co-worker... and she lost a pound or so too. I'm very happy about that.... for the first time in a long time I feel like things are moving in the right direction.. that I may actually get to wonderland in the future.....I was having serious doubts...
I got a great new waterbottle recently and I love it!!! It's a camel back and has a nifty plastic loop handle (for those of us with little hands) and a bite valve straw.. and a wide mouth.. I can put lemons and limes and other fruit in there to flavor it up if I want... yummy love it!
Well off to get a good nights sleep --catch up with all of you later...
The weekend is my gym time.. I don't know why I can't seem to get there during the week but I did make it three days in a row and this afternoon I was rewarded again with hunky man. I got in a great sweaty workout too...
This weekend I spent time cleaning out the spare room of all the spare stuff I have.. everything gravitates toward that room and it looks less and less like a guest room. But I got rid of a lot of things I don't need by freecycling them and the rest is going to goodwill. i can see the bed, I can see the floor I can get to the closet and I can close the door just about 15 minutes more and I'll be pretty much done with it.
Well here's to a happy and healthy week.. I plan to stay on plan and see the scale move again downward...
I keep forgetting to post even though I read a bunch of blogs....
I did well on my first week challenge with Julia from work.. we both did well. We way in on Tuesday and I lost 3.6 pounds for the week.. unfortunately the day we started was after the 4th of july weekend where I ate everything in site. I went to the gym last night and plan to go again today.. maybe I'll be rewarded by seeing the hunky man. Today I've been cleaning out the guest/junk room some more and freecycling. I've freecycled about 4 groups of things and it's good to get rid of. A friend of mine has a booth in a antique/craft mall and said I can put a few things there.. they aren't antiques but more decorative things that may fetch a few bucks. I need to run to walmart and get a few more plastic totes to keep the things I really want to keep nice. Hope everyone is doing well.. I joined a challenge that is starting in August on the board...and as always happens I've forgotten whose blog exactly it was......anyway I'm excited about it.....I love a challenge it helps motivate me. I go to the doctor on Friday morning and I need to lose a few pounds before I go. I think I'm exactly the same right now as last time and in order to keep me off BP medicine or anything else I promised her I would continue to lose some weight and my BP and everything else would be normal....we'll see..
three days in a row to the gym.. that could be a recent record. I went today and did the eliptical for 15 minutes doing some sprints a few times in there, and then I walked the treadmill on hills for 40 minutes and I was sweating good afterwards.. I feel so good after I've gone... I don't know why I don't do it every day.. ... and today I was rewarded for going by seeing a fine specimen of a man. I feel like I stalk this man.. I do go about the same time he does and I can't help looking.. .. he's probably between 45-50, short military salt and pepper hair cut, nicely built but not crazy muscular and has the sexiest shoulder and back muscles..... ahhhhhhhhhhh ..... so why don't I go there more often......
Eating is doing well too. I made bbq chicken breast in the crockpot... the sauce was bbq sauce, dijon mustard and honey.. then after I shredded it I added a little more... had to put it away or I would have eaten three chicken breast worth of it. this afternoon I made an awesome dessert... sliced banana, tsp of honey, and about cup of blueberries and I heated them up and sprinkled a little cinnamon. Would have been excellent on ice cream but I put them on cherrios (now that's a bit wierd but I wanted to cut the sweetness of them)
Been a good day and hope to make it a great week.....
I usually read posts at least once a day but forget to come and post myself. Not much going on... but I did start WW at home with a friend from work. We took a picture to show our start (it's posted in my pictures page for the world to see) and hopefully we'll be able to stick with it at lease a month LOL and take a picture each month. We'll weigh in once a week.. not really a competition but just helping each other. Let me tell you the picture is very sobering, especially seeing the side view and my right arm. My right arm is currently about 2 inches larger than my left arm. I broke it and have a plate in it and the doc said it would take a few years to get back to normal.. hello we're coming up on two years this week and it still huge.
Anyway have been doing very well this week and really really trying to log what I eat.. I found a cool food log thing on about.com you can put in all your food and it analyzes your calories and nutrients...gives you suggestions for maybe something healthier... also has a nice exercise log in there...
I'm off to the gym... for a good workout and good sweat fest
