Ugh

Yeah. It's now September. Back at 150 lbs. No, I don't care who sees this. It's not like I look less than that when you see me, so why lie? Lol! Losing weight is ALWAYS on my mind, but I admit to being so super lazy because I don't like to exercise, and I'm also super busy with so many other things, it gets pushed to the bottom of my list. My goal is to lose 10 lbs. If I can just get to 140, I'll be happy!!! Maybe that will melt away one of my 8 chins. LOL. Anyway. I'm still here, just.... yeah.

Biggest Loser Club

Day 2

My friend Kathy started up a little "Biggest Loser Club", where I JUMPED at the chance to participate in. We all met at her gorgeous house yesterday, where we paid our $5 sign-up fee (to put toward the pot), then we all weighed in. We will do our own thing during the week to lose weight, and then weigh in each week. At the end of 6 weeks, we will see who lost the biggest percentage of weight, and that person will win the title of "Biggest Loser" for our little group, plus win the "jackpot" of a whopping $30. Lol!

Today didn't start as good as it should have. I need to remember that I am now in competition with other ladies. Lol. The family and I are going away for the weekend, so it's going to be hard to eat "low-calorie"... but maybe I can squish in some exercise. :)

Day 65 (March 14)

Wow. The days add up pretty quickly, and here I've only lost 5 lbs. Lol. I weighed in today at 145.8. At least the number is lower, and I can totally live witht "only" 5 lbs lost right now because I've been at 150 for over a year, so 145 feels like progress!

I'm waiting to hear back from my friends on the "Biggest Loser" club we all want to start. Hopefully we'll get the ball rolling soon. :)

March 8- Day 58

I weighed myself on Monday, which was weigh-in day, and it was at 146.4, so I lost 2 lbs. I know I'm just "fluctuating" with AF and other stuff, but a lower number is a lower number, so I'm happy. A few friends of mine are going to be starting another "Biggest Loser" group and I'm excited to join! We'll go by our percentages, put $ in the pot, and end sometime early summer I think, but I think this will be good for me because if I have to OWN UP to someone, to be accountable, then I'll have an easier time doing it. I know- it's called "laziness", but ... that's me! So send me some good ~*~*weight-loss vibes*~*~!! :)

March 5- Day 53

Even though Aunt Flo has started, I've bitten the bullet and exercised today. :) It actually felt great afterwards. I love the feeling you get when all the extra endorphines make you tingle all over. :) I'm still shooting for the goal of 130lbs by summer. I know I can do it. I just can't be lazy. It's just SO easy to get lazy.

March 1st- Day 49

Weigh-in day. 148. I GAINED THREE POUNDS last week. I... don't even want to "go there". My own fault, and I'm totally disappointed in myself. Ugh.

Day 42

Weigh-In Day. I'm at 145.8, so .2lbs gained, but that's just fluctuation, so I'm still okay with it. We've been sick (not bad, just...blech) so I haven't been working out, but I'm still trying to stay within 1200 calories/day. As soon as the pukey feelings go away, I really want to start jogging OUTSIDE. I'm already tired of the treadmill. ;)

Day 35

Monday, February 15th: Weigh-In Day!

I weighed in at 145.6!!! This is 2lbs down from last week! 5lbs lost total! I'm impressed, because I didn't do the treadmill this week. Instead I kept eating...better... than I usually do, and last Thursday I walked ALL around Cedar City, lol- (Walmart) for hours on end. I'm sooo dang excited to be losing weight. I renewed my license while I was in Cedar, and put 145 as my weight, so now I'm not lying. ;) I'm not feeling to well today, but I AM excited to get back on the treadmill sometime this week and keep eating right. I'm happy to say that my mind is slowly wrapping itself around the idea of "healthy" food. I find that I gross out if I look at certain foods I used to eat, and I can only eat a few bites of the sugary snacks now when before, I could hork down a whole panful of cinnamon rolls! So- I am making progress. Slowly but surely. :)

Day 29

Ugh. I REALLY suck at this.

Day 28

I can't believe it's been almost a whole month since I first started this! I have only lost 3 lbs, but hey- that's still LESS than what I was when I started. :) Today is "weigh-in" day again. The scale says I'm still 147.6 lbs- but I'm feeling okay about it because 1) I didn't exercise last week, and 2) I'm full-blown in the middle of my period. Therefore, I'm hoping that NEXT Monday will show a little bit less on the scale. *crossing fingers*

I'm totally hurting today. Lots of cramps and heaviness, so the "exercise" I'm going to do is typical deep-cleaning housework. We have people from the power company coming tomorrow to check the air flow and efficiency this old house has as far as keeping the heat in, so the house needs to be spotless- so my heartrate will definately be up there today, which is a good thing, since on a "normal" painful period day, I'd just be lying in bed.

We'll see what happens!

Day 24

Thursday February 4, 2010

I will probably resort to posting every few days or so instead of everyday, because I have now learned how to eat within my caloric guidelines without writing everything down. :) I'm still struggling, I admit to that, but I will NOT chicken out this time. I will KEEP going, even if it takes me all year. I WILL lose this weight! :)

I'm feeling -okay- with my choices as of today, because the less my body "needs" to eat, and the more I need to pee (lol), means that I'm making progress!! Even if I can't SEE it. I know my mindset is changing when I see other family members eating fatty, greasy foods like hotpockets and DiJiorno's pizza and automatically think to myself... "unhealthy!". Lol. I go back to eating my cracker-thin crust chicken garlic pizza, my huge green-leaf (no longer the unsatisfying iceburg lettuce!) lettuce salad, or saying "no" to those darn tempting peanut-butter m&m's. :)

It's slow, but it's working! This is a LIFESTYLE CHANGE. NOT just a fad diet. :)

Day 20

Wow. I'm not being very good at updating this blog every day. I'll keep trying, though. This past week was my 2nd week, but I'm on day 20? I dunno. It doesn't make sense. Anyway. This past week I did really good on my calories and exercise. I weighed myself yesterday and I was at 150, but today I weighed myself (because it's "weigh-in" day) and I weigh 147! I HATE that my scale is so old, so I'm going to have Benji pick up a brand NEW scale today at Walmart while he's in St.George. Ugh. I hate not really knowing how much I've lost. It's also my "visitor" week, and I should be "starting" any day now, which means that I'm bound to gain like 2-3 pounds just because it's "that" time. It's so much fun being a girl! Ugh. But I'm going to just go with today's reading. 147. Meaning I've lost 3 lbs so far! That's big for me, since I always seem to weigh 150 week after week after week when I'm NOT doing this "diet". Yay me!

Weight:
147

Breakfast: 7am
2 packets maple & brown sugar oatmeal = 320 calories, but I only ate half, so = 160 calories.

Snack: 10:30am
banana @ 80 calories...?

Exercise:
I'm going to go and do Treadmill @ 3mph for 30 minutes.
---didn't do it- couldn't find an extention cord long enough to plug it in from the spot I moved it to.----

Lunch:
Leftover spaghetti

Snack:
banana & milk

Exercise: no

Dinner:
Cereal & milk

Snack:banana

Day 15

Breakfast
2 sunny-side up eggs
1 piece of toast with minimal butter
2 pieces of bacon

Exercise
Treadmill @ 3mph for 30 minutes

Snack
Oh my TASTEY!
Warm apples with cinnamon & Truvia:

Recipe:
Slice up one good, crisp apple
Place inside a microwave-safe bowl
put about 2 TBS water in it
Microwave for 1 minute to 1 min 30 seconds
Sprinkle cinnamon on top
Sprinkle 1 packet of Truvia (0-calorie sugar)

*On the Biggest Loser episode last night (1/26/10), I believe Jillian Michaels said this was either a 60-calorie or an 80-calorie snack. And it's filling!


Lunch

Exercise

Snack

Dinner

Days 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, & 14

Okay. So I totally flunked my 2nd week! After my cheat day on my birthday, I made many excuses to snack and eat. {naughty!} I weighed myself on Monday and of course, I had gained my 2 lbs back. I decided that I'm going to give it another go, and this time I'm starting my week on Monday, even though it was one of my "naughty" days.

Monday

Weight: 150lbs

Breakfast:
The rest of my "celebration cake" from my birthday

Lunch:
leftover hawaiian haystacks

Dinner:
Chicken enchiladas

*No exercise


TODAY
Tuesday January 26, 2010

Breakfast:
1 1/2 cups mandarin orange cool-whip jello salad

Exercise:
Treadmill walk @ 3mph for 30 minutes

Lunch:
1/2 enchilada
1 almond granola bar

Exercise:
Treadmill walk @ 2mph for 20 minutes

Snack:
10 peanut butter m&m's

Dinner:
1 1/4 waffles with 1TBS syrup
water

Day 8: WEIGH-IN!

Today is "weigh-in" day, since it's been exactly one week since I started my weight-loss journey. I was so excited to see that I've lost 2 POUNDS!!! My trainer said to expect about a pound a week, so doubling that makes me even more determined than ever to keep to this regime. :) What I NEED to do before I lose anymore weight is to measure my body... I want to see just how many inches I end up losing!

Weigh-In 7:00am
Before: 150
After: 148

Breakfast: 7:15am
2 cups Frosted Flakes
1 cup 1% milk
bottle of water

Snack: 11:00am
1 almond granola bar, only because I was getting shakey... @95 calories

Exercise: 11:05-11:35am
Treadmill - walk @ 3mph for 30 minutes
water

Lunch: 12:30pm
Huge salad:
Green-leaf lettuce/Romaine
a handful of fishy crackers
1 TBS mozzerella cheese
1 TBS craisins
1 TBS ranch dressing
water

Exercise: I was supposed to start doing 20 minutes at 2mph in the afternoons, but I admit it- I got sidetracked on FB, cleaning house, doing laundry, etc.

Snack:
1 chocolate zinger. naughty!

Dinner:
Hawaiian Haystacks:
2 cups white rice
1/2 cup cream-of-mushroom soaked/cooked & shredded chicken
1/4 cup sweet peas
1 TBS sliced olives
1/2 cup chinese noodles
about 10 pineapple tidbits
1/3 cup cream-of-mushroom "gravy" to pour over
water

Dessert: YES! I caved! I had a large piece of chocolate-vanilla pudding cake! Happy Birthday to me! Lol.

Day 7

Breakfast: 8:20am (I need to eat right after I wake up, but this morning was hectic!)
2 packets peaches & cream oatmeal = 260 calories
water

Snack:
none

Lunch: 12:30pm
1 pizza hot pocket = 320 calories

Exercise: 2:00-2:30pm
Treadmill walk@ 3mph for 30 minutes
bottle of water


Snack: 4:30pm
1 almond granola bar @ 95 calories


Dinner:

Day 6

Breakfast:
2 packets peaches & cream oatmeal

Snack:
Yogurt

Lunch:
Jimmy Dean Bacon, Egg, & Cheese Biscuit

Snack:
Yogurt

Dinner:
2 hard-shell tacos
4 TBS seasoned hamburger
2 TBS cheese
sprinkling of diced tomatoes
topped with lots of lettuce
sprinkle of taco sauce
water

*Yep. I didn't exercise. Bad Lisa. I totally dropped the ball today! I just got lazy, and I got crampy so I made excuses. Tomorrow will be better!

Day 5

Breakfast:
Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, & Cheese cressant without the sausage

Lunch:
2 cups froot loops
1 cup milk

Snack:
Yogurt

Dinner:
1/3 Margarita Pizza

Day 4

Breakfast:
1 chocolate covered Krispy Kreme donut (had to quickly leave St. George, so we just grabbed donuts at the service station)

Lunch:
2 packets peaches & cream oatmeal
1 orange

Snack:
Yogurt

Dinner:
1 large tortilla
4 TBS seasoned shredded beef
1/3 cup sliced and sauteed bell peppers
1 tsp cheddar cheese
1 tsp sour cream
a few sips of orange juice

Day 3

"CHEAT" DAY!

I am allowed one "cheat" day per week, and this week I scheduled it for today, since we'll be going to St. George for my grandparents' 60th Wedding Anniversary and there's going to be a lot of food. :) A "Cheat" day just means that I eat what I would "normally" eat, without intentionally going overboard on the calories.

Breakfast: 7:00am

1 Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, & Cheese cressant = 420 calories

(I ate two bites of the sausage, and because I'm not a big fan of sausage, I took it off the sandwich, and ate about 3/4 of the sandwich before I was full, so I know I didn't eat the whole 420 calories, maybe somewhere around half?)

Water

Snack:

Yogurt

Lunch:

1 1/2 cressant chicken sandwiches

water

Snack:

2 orange segments

Dinner:

Hot dog with bun

1 Tbs catsup

5 BBQ weenies

1 cup taco salad (lettuce, seasoned hamburger, thousand island dressing, tortilla chips, cheese)

1 piece of cake

water

Day 2

Breakfast: 7am
Bowl of oatmeal
3 Truvia packets
1 tsp brown sugar, because I couldn't taste the Truvia. Lol.
1 piece of toast
1/2 tsp butter

Exercise: 8:30-9:00am
Treadmill- Walk @ 3mph for 30 minutes
(Ugh! I realized I hate how monotonous the treadmill is!)

1 bottle of water

Snack: 10:05am
1 almond granola bar @ 95 calories
Starting another bottle of water

Lunch: 12:00pm
Peanut butter sandwich
half sick of string cheese
water

Snack: No

Exercise: 2:30-2:45pm
Treadmill- walk@ 3mph for 15 minutes before I just couldn't do it anymore. My legs hurt SO bad! I told my trainer and he told me to do my morning walk tomorrow and then rest until Monday. I hope by Monday I can get back on the treadmill for the entire time, because I REALLY want this to work!

Dinner: 5:45pm
1 large (bad lisa) cressant loaded with chicken salad
water

Snack: 9:00pm
1 almond granola bar
water

My trainer broke down my suggested caloric intakes for each meal. Here's what he told me today:

"We need you eating a certain amount of calories at each meal throughout the day. This is your caloric breakdown for each meal. 300 calories for breakfast, 100 calories for morning snack, 250 calories for lunch, 100 calories for afternoon snack, and 400 calories for dinner. That’s your target and you have to get as close to these numbers as possible. THE ONLY WAY YOU LOSE WEIGHT IS BY EATING SLIGHTLY LESS CALORIES THAN YOU BURN THROUGHOUT THE DAY. It doesn’t matter what you eat (to a point) it just means less calories than you burn. "

So there you have it, folks! I thought my cousin-in-law was CrAzY when she told me the secret to her weight loss was eating 1,000 calories/day. 1200/day is killing me! But I trust my friend and have faith that this WILL work if I stick to it.

**Thanks and hugs to my wonderful husband who is always there to let me whine and complain to him how much my body hurts, how hungry I am, and who put up with my crabiness. :) Eric (trainer) told me that if I can just get past these first couple of weeks, it will go much smoother. Yay!

In the beginning...

Here I go again! It's 2010 and I am trying to finish what I started. I'm going to lose this weight! I started up a blog to try and have "someone" to "report" to. A friend of mine lost 20+ lbs in about 10 weeks, and it inspired me to do the same. I am eating healthier and exercising- no excuses this time!

I'm NOT on any "diet", but I am starting a "Lifestyle Change" by good old-fashioned eating better and exercising. I'm basically eating the same things I usually do, only in smaller portions. I'm also trying hard to cut out "snacking" for the sake of snacking, and only having a "snack" when my low blood sugar starts giving me those annoying shakes. I already love ice water, so it won't be hard to try and drink more each day. I get one "cheat" day a week, where I can pretty much eat "normally" and not worry about consuming too many calories. Adding to this, I'm also going to exercise at least 1 hour a day for 5 days/week. Like I said, I am going through a lifestyle change, and hopefully it will stick. I want to be down to 130 lbs by summer.

I am going to post a lot of stuff on this blog, but because it's mainly for my own purpose, it might get boring at times. Lol. But I figure if I keep detailed notes, and this works, I would love to refer back to it when I need to, to see what I did.

DAY 1

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Weight: 150lbs

Breakfast:
Bowl of Frosted Flakes
1 cup 1% milk

Snack:
1 large banana

Exercise:
Treadmill- walk @ 3mph- 15min- 10:45-11:00am
Treadmill- walk @ 3mph- 15min- 11:30-11:45am

Lunch:
Huge salad:
5 cups iceburg lettuce
1/4 cup pineapple tidbits
2 TBS sliced beets
1 string cheese stick, diced
1/4 cup leftover ham, diced
2 TBS Ranch dressing

Exercise:
Treadmill-walk @ 3mph - 20 min- 2:45-3:05pm

Snack:
5 red grapes

Dinner:
1 chicken salad sandwich on large croissant:*
turkey chunks
mayo
pineapple tidbits
grapes
celery
cheddar cheese

Exercise:
Treadmill- walk @ 3mph- 10 min- 6:30-6:40pm
(hey, at least I got my full hour in today!)

*Dinner was hard. I was SO hungry, as I have been all day long, and my body kept screaming at me to eat 2 more sandwiches, which on any other day I would've! But I was strong. Ugh. I really hope this works. Lol.

Snack:
I'm posting that I'm going to have a banana or a yogurt, because I'm already starving.