Why don't I post when I'm not doing so well... why why why. I haven't posted much because I've been lazy and busy but mostly lazy. Too lazy to stay on a healthy eating plan, too lazy to make a good healthy lunch at work, too lazy to make a healthy dinner at home, too lazy to blog.
I haven't weighed in awhile because I don't want to face the number.. ..but I did get a side glimpse of me in the bathroom mirror and I was shocked... I had just eaten a large meal... very healthy except for the two servings of rice and lots of sodium. But if Buddah has a female body double... it would be me!
I need to get serious.. I say this a hundred times a day... as I am putting the fried pie, donut or some other non healthy item in my mouth.....
tomorrow morning I will face the scale, tomorrow morning I will start the morning with coffee and a very large glass of water, tomorrow morning I will prepare the fruits and veggies in my fridge to eat so they don't go bad and so I dont' go bad.....now I'm going to bed.
I can't believe it's been a month since I wrote in this blog. Where does the time go. I should have been blogging all along and I probably would have maintained my loss. I've managed to gain back some of my weight. I went to California and ate my way through the central part of the state. Funny I was so active that I actually had lost 1/2 pound from the time I left until the time I got back. But the evening I got back was like something that told me to eat healthy shut down and I started back with a Papa John pizza. I don't think I have had pizza in my house in over a year and in the past week I've had two. I live alone with two dogs. You know I ate a lot of pizza. Anyway I weighed about 217 when I got back and ballooned up 8 pounds and now I'm at about 223. The good news is that tonight I got in about 2.5 miles of walking with some good heart pounding running. I felt great when I got home. The temperature is much milder than it's been in a week and I felt like getting out. Tonight the old demons started creeping in and I found a cake mix I was going to give to the food bank... and I was just about to open the internal packaging and make peach pound cake when I decided to put it back and I'm eating the can of no sugar peaches instead. The whole can big can is 100 calories and fruit (which I have been lacking) when a small piece of cake would have been at least twice that much. So I'm proud of that decision.
I need to get back to looking at everyone's blogs and get some encouragement and motivation. I really want to be under 200 by Easter. I have this gorgeous lavender dress I really want to wear this year.....It will take a lot of lower body working.. my butt has gotten that buffet table look to it again when I look at my shadow. Can't have that, can't have that!!!!
Happy Monday everyone!!! I'm feeling great and had a good weekend eating wise. I cut up all my veggies I bought and made a soup very similar to the WW zero point soup. I have a plan and I will stay on plan today because I have a plan. Funny how that works. I weighed in at 214.8 which is a few pounds less than what I had puffed up to a few days after New Years. I feel very energetic and feel like I'm on a roll.
Oh yeah - one more tidbit - bad man weekend - but who cares!
Because I'm a scale junkie I got on the scale again. This morning I weighed in at 216.5. Down a little bit. I'll change my weight on here on Monday and hope that things still going good.
I went grocery shopping last night and filled my cart with 100% whole wheat this and that and also massive amounts of veggies. I'm gonna get out the seal a meal so I don't have a lot of it go to waste before I can get to eating it. I didn't get a chance to make soup and stuff from the You on a Diet book but I plan to do that this weekend. So far so good on that.
I'll be going to San Jose area in a couple of weeks. If there in anyone that reads that from that area I'd love to get some ideas about cool places to eat and walk. I'm also going down to Monterery area and maybe a little San Franscisco time too. Any idea let me know.
I started reading my YOU on a diet book yesterday. I am going to skip ahead and get some food today and then start it tomorrow. I may have to modify some things because I'm not putting a whole fish in my house. I'll keep my tilapia or salmon filets thank you very much and thee were some other wierd things I don't plan to buy. But I will toss out or donate to a neighbor all the things with enriched flour, etc...
I just looked back at a post on bootcampbuddies and saw that my weight this time last year was 234.5 - today I'm 217.6. I like that.
Last night I got in a couple of miles walking with the dogs and then got on the treadmill for 35 minutes. I think the treadmill is gonna be a key for me in upping my weight loss. Because I'm still having issues with toast and jelly. Thankfully it's gone now, no bread (and I won't be buying more) no jelly. The only redeeming thing is that it was good high fiber bread.
Other than the toast and jelly binge - I'm eating very healthy. Salad with some small amount of meat for lunch, usually veggie type soup for dinner and fruit and yogurt in between. High fiber cereal and fruit for breakfast.... and amazingly I feel great when I put good healthy food in my body... go figure. No heart burn, no sluggishness....
Anyway Me on a Diet starts tomorrow for two weeks and ends just before I go to California. I plan to eat wisely but fun there - there will be dessert there will be chocolate.
I got up earlier than usual and made a wonderful salad with lots of healthy goodies and no extra fatty things. I packed a fresh tomato, navel orange and fat free salad dressing. I am planning to stay on plan. The scale this morning read 218.2 and that's amazing since that I lost since I had a toast, butter and jelly binge last night. The only good thing about it was double fiber bread and the dogs helped, but I toasted 4 pieces. Bread is my weakness. This is after I had walked the dogs three miles and then walked a brisk pace for 30 minutes on the treadmill. Today I will drink more water, walk at work some, and eat more beautiful healthy food. God Bless you all today as you try to improve your health!
I ended the year at about 215 but had huge meals yesterday. This morning the scale was around 219.
The good news is that it is less than I started 2006 and my hips (the only thing I've measured so far) are 3 inches smaller.
Started today off great drinking lots of water, eating healthy and got in the dog walking of about 2 miles and I also walked on the treadmill 30 minutes and worked up a good sweat and did some squats.
I have this jogging suit I bought a few months ago that I had hoped to open Christmas morning and fit into it. Well I don't and today at physical therapy a woman (much thinner than I) had on my cute jogging suit. So I sez to myself - I gotta get into that suit it's just too cute. I would love to be able to fit into it in 3 weeks when I go to California but that will be pushing it. But I'm working towards that goal.
I signed up on cupid.com and even posted a picture. Amazingly I have 2-3 men that are nice and are interested. All are local and all extremely pleasant to talk with email. One gave me his number, I haven't called yet.
Well that's the news from here.. I'm going to try to post more often and keep myself accountable.
WHOOOHOOOO – I have had a great recovery from Thanksgiving weekend.Down 4lbs.Two that I gained and two additional – how cool is that!!!!!!!!And I feel great. Amazing when you eat healthy and exercise that your body does that. Well I still have a cold/sinus thing lingering but I feel great overall.I’m over ½ way to goal for the Challenge at 6.2 pounds lost.YIPPEE!!!I feel it in my clothes and people are starting to notice.Probably more because I am caring more how I look than actually tonnage lost.I’ve lost over 25 since July in the slowest way possible but I finally feel like I’m making good progress again. Things are good.....
Hope my red teammates are doing outstanding this week!
Well the after Thanksgiving weigh in was nothing to be thankful about. I gained two pounds. I went to my Uncle's for thanksgiving glutfest and then I went to visit some friends in Gastonia. We had leftovers and I was good with those but then she handed me a big piece of apple pie and ice cream several times on my visit when I didn't even ask for it.... of course I ate it. Grrrr. I didn't get the exercise I normally do also. I did manage to bring home a bad cold. I may have caught it from my nephew or from my friends son - they were both sick.
So now I have a cold and all I want is comfort food and to rest. I have managed to drag myself into work but I'm getting no rest. I've been pretty good with the eating.. soup mostly. Yesterday I went to Walmart for medicine and cough drops. I really wanted a Marie Callanders Chicken Pot Pie - that's what I always want when I'm sick. But I was looking at the label and said 1100 calories and 72 grams of fat was not a good thing to put in my mouth at one sitting. It says two servings but there's no way I can resist making it one serving. I decided on a Boston Market turkey and dressing dinner instead. It had only 420 calories and 14 grams of fat. More than I still wanted but not nearly as bad as the chicken pot pie. Today I brought in grilled chicken and veggies. I wanted of course more comfort food but couldn't find any in our little work canteen... so I'm forced to eat healthy thank the Lord. I'm still lacking in the exercise department for a few days. Maybe by the weekend I'll feel much better and ready to go again. The dogs sure would like to go for some walks. If green tea helps you lose weight I should do well this week.
Hope all my Red teammates are doing well. I wish you could see more than 9-10 comments on someone elses blog I would like to know how everyone is doing. Melissa's weigh in blog has 24 comments but I can only see a portion of them.
Nothing new in the men department which is fine. Old boyfriend washed his cell phone and lost all his stored numbers. He emailed me to ask for all my phone numbers which I thought was a nice jesture.
This is big doings for me.... I have done WW meetings and at home a number of times but have always given up on it before I reach that first goal of 10%.
Today I made it!!! I'm not attending meetings now but trying to follow the plan.
I had a weekly loss of 1.6 on the Challenge For a total of 4.2 for the challenge. Yahoo!!!!
I'm so excited and scare about the eating week ahead. I will have thanksgiving at my uncles and then I've been invited to Gastonia NC to visit some friends that used to live in the neighborhood. So I plan to travel there Friday. She feeds me.... but I will have opportunities to walk because they have two golden retrievers and I will be walking them. I'm all excited about the trip because I really wanted to go somewhere.
