Today I weighed in at 160.5, making it the first week in 5 weeks that I have not lost two pounds a week, but still having a one pound weight loss. I was expecting a lower weight loss this week since I didn't exercise like I usually do because of my fall. I wasn't even able to walk properly on Monday! I am sad that I was not able to achieve my goal this week of weighing in below 160 but I know that I did everything I could this week and I was still able to lose one pound. So I must work on being positive and think about the accomplishments I have made. One pound is much better than nothing, or gaining and I know that next week I will drop below 160.
This last week was difficult because I was so sore at the beginning and at the end of the week an exhaustion settled over me that I didn't hardly know what to do with myself. I am still very tired today and I am not sure where this exhaustion is coming from as nothing much has changed at night. I still go to bed at the same time, and the girls still wake up at the same time, and I am still getting up twice at night since it always works out to where one girl will wake up twice or they will both wake up once. Odd how that has been the case for the past several months. So maybe I am just exhausted from my sleep being so disrupted. I did try to exercise yesterday as a last chance exercise even though I was incredibly lethargic. I managed about 30 minutes before I couldn't exercise any longer. The girls were really cranky too and it was exceedingly difficult to exercise. Lily kept getting under my feet and I accidentally kicked her in the head (not hard!) because she decided to sneak up behind me and that was pretty much it. On Wednesday I exercised very lightly as I detailed two posts ago since I was still very sore from falling down and I was able to get in about an hour of light exercise on Thursday. So much less than usual.
But there is reason for rejoicing, I have officially lost 50 pounds since I started! So now I can take a picture and post my big 5-0 post this week!
The good the Bad and the ugly. My personal journey to become healthy, happy, fit, and to attain peace with food and myself.
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Challenge Complete
Today is the first official day after my 30 day turned 7 week challenge. We were supposed to go to the dutch bakery here in town to celebrate but of course Matt got busy as usual and it is postponed, hopefully until tomorrow.
As I look back on the past weeks I feel like I accomplished something amazing. I originally started this challenge to rid myself of my sugar addiction. Before I started, sweets were all I could think about. I would wake up in the morning wondering what I was going to eat that day that was sweet, and then berate myself for thinking about it because certainly it was much too early to be eating sweets before noon. There were many days where I couldn't even make it until noon before I had to satisfy my sweet tooth. I would eat some of the candy we kept for Lily's potty training or just eat a few handfuls of chocolate chips. I always made sure we had something dessert like in the house and I would indulge in way too much every day, usually more than once a day. I would constantly think about how I wasn't supposed to be thinking about it and then since I was craving it so badly I would give in and immediately feel guilty about it.
When I first started the challenge, it was very difficult for me to stay out of the candy, especially when I still had to give it to Lily as a reward for using the potty, or when I watched my husband eat dessert in front of me. (I usually had to make myself scarce while he was eating the dessert because the temptation was too great, I couldn't even watch him eat it!) I also found that when I went over to people's houses and I was offered sweets I was embarrassed that I couldn't eat them and I felt like I had to explain myself, which I did.
As the weeks passed, I experienced the most rapid weight loss since I started this journey. Keep in mind around week two I also re-configured what I ate and started eating much healthier food and cooking much healthier as well. As time went on I found it was getting easier to say no to sweets and that many forms of sugar were no longer appetizing to me. It took even longer for the desire to eat them and especially the cravings to stop. I am glad that my challenge went longer than 30 days as I really don't think that would have been enough time.
I also realized that over the course of the 7 weeks, I was able to appreciate the natural sweetness in other foods, especially fruit. I also discovered that I liked other foods I didn't use to like, such as Zucchini and cucumbers, and I can even eat bell peppers as long as they are chopped up and mixed in with other foods like rice or quinoa. Here is a picture of my salad I ate for dinner last night. I don't even need fatty salad dressing anymore, I flavor it with lots of yummy toppings and some balsamic vinegar.
I have spinach as my leaf, topped with 3 oz of lean beef (3 points) one tbsp of sunflower seeds (1 point), tomatoes, and strawberries, and scallions (all 0 points) for a grand total of a 4 point salad that is very filling. And it is a complete meal because you get your protein from the meat, complex carbs from the spinach and the strawberries, and your essential fatty acids from the sunflower seeds. I also sometimes put 1 tbsp of chopped walnut on top for some added flavor and additional essential fatty acids.
I have also been branching out and experimenting in the protein shake arena. I finally bought some protein powder, and after looking at several direct sales companies (since I am a Pampered Chef consultant, I try to support other direct selling companies by purchasing gifts and other things I might need from them when I can) I decided to just get some vanilla flavored whey protein from Costco since it was MUCH cheaper, not as fancy but cheaper and right now that is what I need.
Anyway, I made a protein shake with almond milk, vanilla protein, spinach, mixed berries, splenda, flax seed, and a dash of vanilla extract. It was different that is for sure (with the spinach in it) but everyone in the family loved it, especially Lily
Which makes for the healthiest meal she has had in a long time. She basically lives off of milk, cheerios, noodles with Parmesan cheese, and chicken. She is a picky eater and tricky to feed. She will choose not to eat over eating something that she doesn't think that she will like.
But over the course of the past weeks I have come to realize that I don't need sweets to survive, and in fact I am doing much better without them in my life. I used to think that in order to enjoy life I needed to eat desserts every day and that I could never pass them up if I had the opportunity to eat them. I still think that I would enjoy desserts and I am not saying that I want to cut them out of my life completely. I think that eating two desserts a week would be a very happy place to be once I get to weight maintenance. That would give me a few treats a week and it wouldn't be over abundant.
I have decided that during the rest of my weight loss, since I have experienced such great weight loss success during this challenge, I will allow myself one serving of dessert a week, but candy will still be off limits. That doesn't mean that I can eat a whole batch of cookies once a week, but a serving of two cookies. This will require some planning on my part. If there is an event during the week that will have desserts available I will save my dessert for that day, and then the rest of the week, desserts will be off limits again. I don't want to go back to where I was. I want to make a permanent change that I can keep up for the rest of my life. Now that I know that I don't kneed to have desserts to survive and that I can live a happy and full life without them I want to work on having a healthy relationship with desserts. Maybe once I reach maintenance I will make candy off limits and one of my two treats can be candy, my choice. But for now, who needs candy? Its just junk anyway, and not anywhere near as good as baked goods.
I am very glad that I gave myself this challenge and that I was able to complete it. Now I look forward to the coming weeks with a new view, and maybe a little wiser too.
If you would like to see other posts related to my challenge see the list below:
Pulling my Sweet Tooth
Sugary Progress
Birthday Temptations
Happy Halloween
As I look back on the past weeks I feel like I accomplished something amazing. I originally started this challenge to rid myself of my sugar addiction. Before I started, sweets were all I could think about. I would wake up in the morning wondering what I was going to eat that day that was sweet, and then berate myself for thinking about it because certainly it was much too early to be eating sweets before noon. There were many days where I couldn't even make it until noon before I had to satisfy my sweet tooth. I would eat some of the candy we kept for Lily's potty training or just eat a few handfuls of chocolate chips. I always made sure we had something dessert like in the house and I would indulge in way too much every day, usually more than once a day. I would constantly think about how I wasn't supposed to be thinking about it and then since I was craving it so badly I would give in and immediately feel guilty about it.
When I first started the challenge, it was very difficult for me to stay out of the candy, especially when I still had to give it to Lily as a reward for using the potty, or when I watched my husband eat dessert in front of me. (I usually had to make myself scarce while he was eating the dessert because the temptation was too great, I couldn't even watch him eat it!) I also found that when I went over to people's houses and I was offered sweets I was embarrassed that I couldn't eat them and I felt like I had to explain myself, which I did.
As the weeks passed, I experienced the most rapid weight loss since I started this journey. Keep in mind around week two I also re-configured what I ate and started eating much healthier food and cooking much healthier as well. As time went on I found it was getting easier to say no to sweets and that many forms of sugar were no longer appetizing to me. It took even longer for the desire to eat them and especially the cravings to stop. I am glad that my challenge went longer than 30 days as I really don't think that would have been enough time.
I also realized that over the course of the 7 weeks, I was able to appreciate the natural sweetness in other foods, especially fruit. I also discovered that I liked other foods I didn't use to like, such as Zucchini and cucumbers, and I can even eat bell peppers as long as they are chopped up and mixed in with other foods like rice or quinoa. Here is a picture of my salad I ate for dinner last night. I don't even need fatty salad dressing anymore, I flavor it with lots of yummy toppings and some balsamic vinegar.
I have also been branching out and experimenting in the protein shake arena. I finally bought some protein powder, and after looking at several direct sales companies (since I am a Pampered Chef consultant, I try to support other direct selling companies by purchasing gifts and other things I might need from them when I can) I decided to just get some vanilla flavored whey protein from Costco since it was MUCH cheaper, not as fancy but cheaper and right now that is what I need.
Anyway, I made a protein shake with almond milk, vanilla protein, spinach, mixed berries, splenda, flax seed, and a dash of vanilla extract. It was different that is for sure (with the spinach in it) but everyone in the family loved it, especially Lily
But over the course of the past weeks I have come to realize that I don't need sweets to survive, and in fact I am doing much better without them in my life. I used to think that in order to enjoy life I needed to eat desserts every day and that I could never pass them up if I had the opportunity to eat them. I still think that I would enjoy desserts and I am not saying that I want to cut them out of my life completely. I think that eating two desserts a week would be a very happy place to be once I get to weight maintenance. That would give me a few treats a week and it wouldn't be over abundant.
I have decided that during the rest of my weight loss, since I have experienced such great weight loss success during this challenge, I will allow myself one serving of dessert a week, but candy will still be off limits. That doesn't mean that I can eat a whole batch of cookies once a week, but a serving of two cookies. This will require some planning on my part. If there is an event during the week that will have desserts available I will save my dessert for that day, and then the rest of the week, desserts will be off limits again. I don't want to go back to where I was. I want to make a permanent change that I can keep up for the rest of my life. Now that I know that I don't kneed to have desserts to survive and that I can live a happy and full life without them I want to work on having a healthy relationship with desserts. Maybe once I reach maintenance I will make candy off limits and one of my two treats can be candy, my choice. But for now, who needs candy? Its just junk anyway, and not anywhere near as good as baked goods.
I am very glad that I gave myself this challenge and that I was able to complete it. Now I look forward to the coming weeks with a new view, and maybe a little wiser too.
If you would like to see other posts related to my challenge see the list below:
Pulling my Sweet Tooth
Sugary Progress
Birthday Temptations
Happy Halloween
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Working through Pain
This morning I am feeling much less achy from my fall on Sunday and I am getting antsy since I haven't exercised since Saturday. I was able to formulate a Zumba workout that was low impact. Zumba songs are labeled low, medium and high intensity and interestingly enough high intensity does not necessarily mean high impact. Often the two go hand in hand and most of the songs I chose were medium intensity but I was able to get a few high intensity songs worked into my regime. I modified some of the moves that were high impact like the jogging in place moves to something that wouldn't hurt so much. I just have a lot of bruised tissue and when I move around a lot, or bounce around my tissues shake (as anyone carrying excess weight knows) and that causes more pain, so I tried to keep it lower intensity. I was able to finish the whole hour, and I didn't sweat like I usually do but I figure it is better than nothing.
I have been doing a lot of reading up on food lately. This thing that we cannot get away from. We eat several times a day, every day year after year after year so I figure that I better learn how to do it right. Matt is an oatmeal lover and he always eats oatmeal in the morning, even before I started to eat more oatmeal. We used to eat instant oatmeal, until I switched us to eating old fashioned oats. They are much healthier for you and they keep you fuller for much much longer than instant oatmeal. There are a few drawbacks, the biggest one being that it takes much longer to cook. But as long as you are not in a rush in the morning it works out just fine. I realize I should have taken a picture of my oatmeal this morning as I cooked it differently and spiced it up in a new way. We usually cook it in water, but if you cook it in almond milk it tastes much better. However, if we both eat one cup of oatmeal (that is 1/2 cup each dried oats) it takes two cups of almond milk to cook it. Each container of milk has 4 cups and I have 4 containers from Costco. So that is two days per container giving us 8 days of oatmeal for $10 and that is just not something we can easily afford right now. So we will have to stick with water for now. But I found a really awesome blog post from the person who blogs at runsforcookies.com where she talks about how she cooks her oatmeal and what she adds into it. Here is the link
http://www.runsforcookiesrecipes.blogspot.com/search/label/oats
It has really inspired me to branch out and start trying new add ins for my oatmeal despite the fact that we won't be able to cook it in almond milk.
I have been doing a lot of reading up on food lately. This thing that we cannot get away from. We eat several times a day, every day year after year after year so I figure that I better learn how to do it right. Matt is an oatmeal lover and he always eats oatmeal in the morning, even before I started to eat more oatmeal. We used to eat instant oatmeal, until I switched us to eating old fashioned oats. They are much healthier for you and they keep you fuller for much much longer than instant oatmeal. There are a few drawbacks, the biggest one being that it takes much longer to cook. But as long as you are not in a rush in the morning it works out just fine. I realize I should have taken a picture of my oatmeal this morning as I cooked it differently and spiced it up in a new way. We usually cook it in water, but if you cook it in almond milk it tastes much better. However, if we both eat one cup of oatmeal (that is 1/2 cup each dried oats) it takes two cups of almond milk to cook it. Each container of milk has 4 cups and I have 4 containers from Costco. So that is two days per container giving us 8 days of oatmeal for $10 and that is just not something we can easily afford right now. So we will have to stick with water for now. But I found a really awesome blog post from the person who blogs at runsforcookies.com where she talks about how she cooks her oatmeal and what she adds into it. Here is the link
http://www.runsforcookiesrecipes.blogspot.com/search/label/oats
It has really inspired me to branch out and start trying new add ins for my oatmeal despite the fact that we won't be able to cook it in almond milk.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
-40 pounds
I figured I better post this today since I am hoping to be able to post my 50 pound weight loss photos later this week or early next week and it wouldn't make sense to post 50 pounds without already having my 40 pound weight loss post up yet. So here it is!
I hit 170 pounds on October 7th 2013 and here is what I wrote:
"Two months later and here I am at 170! I have noticed a big difference this time. For the first time I actually feel thinner. I am no longer obese and I am down to size 14 pants! I have recently given up desserts and candy, and I also learned about eating healthier, both helped me to lose quickly, 6 pounds in 3 weeks. I am looking forward to continuing on eating healthier for the very first time. I think I could lose the next 10 pounds pretty quickly because of this change, but I need to focus on being healthy and obsess less about the numbers on the scale. I am hoping to be 150 before we go to Crested Butte in February to ski, that's 20 pounds in 4 months, I know I can do it!"
Looking back on what I wrote I had no idea that cutting sweets and eating healthier would cause my body to shed weight like it did. If I can weigh in at 160 this Sunday then I will have lost 10 pounds in about one month, making it the fastest weight loss I've had since the first two weeks. Now my goal is to be 150 by January 1st and 140-143ish by the time we go to Crested Butte. The thinner the better because skiing is hard work and I remember skiing at Crested Butte after Lily was born. I was at about 180 and I could only ski about two hours and I was dying and I didn't even go back out for the rest of the day because I was too tired and my legs were not strong enough. I was so upset with myself and thinking of all the money I wasted on a ski ticket that I was too fat and out of shape to use. But this year will be different! My goal is to ski the whole day with a one hour to hour and a half break for lunch! (We go up with my in-laws and stay at their condo so they will be there and I can hang out with the girls for a little bit before going back out). I am excited to be able to make my next post and picture about losing 50 pounds and hopefully I will be able to post that one no later than next Monday!
"Two months later and here I am at 170! I have noticed a big difference this time. For the first time I actually feel thinner. I am no longer obese and I am down to size 14 pants! I have recently given up desserts and candy, and I also learned about eating healthier, both helped me to lose quickly, 6 pounds in 3 weeks. I am looking forward to continuing on eating healthier for the very first time. I think I could lose the next 10 pounds pretty quickly because of this change, but I need to focus on being healthy and obsess less about the numbers on the scale. I am hoping to be 150 before we go to Crested Butte in February to ski, that's 20 pounds in 4 months, I know I can do it!"
Looking back on what I wrote I had no idea that cutting sweets and eating healthier would cause my body to shed weight like it did. If I can weigh in at 160 this Sunday then I will have lost 10 pounds in about one month, making it the fastest weight loss I've had since the first two weeks. Now my goal is to be 150 by January 1st and 140-143ish by the time we go to Crested Butte. The thinner the better because skiing is hard work and I remember skiing at Crested Butte after Lily was born. I was at about 180 and I could only ski about two hours and I was dying and I didn't even go back out for the rest of the day because I was too tired and my legs were not strong enough. I was so upset with myself and thinking of all the money I wasted on a ski ticket that I was too fat and out of shape to use. But this year will be different! My goal is to ski the whole day with a one hour to hour and a half break for lunch! (We go up with my in-laws and stay at their condo so they will be there and I can hang out with the girls for a little bit before going back out). I am excited to be able to make my next post and picture about losing 50 pounds and hopefully I will be able to post that one no later than next Monday!
Monday, November 4, 2013
Rough Start to the Week
Yesterday I fell down the stairs while I was taking a whole bunch of things downstairs to clear off the kitchen table. I always find it interesting how time can slow down and indeed it seemed like I was watching in slow motion and complete shock as my brand new Pampered Chef stoneware, lap top computer, and various notebooks tumbled down the stairs. In fact I was so focused on my computer that I was already halfway down the stairs on my butt before my brain registered the fact that I was also sliding down the stairs. Fortunately, I wasn't going head over heals. I slipped because I was wearing regular socks instead of my house socks with the grippers on them or my slippers. Believe me that is a mistake I do not intend to repeat. I had forgotten to change my socks after coming home earlier in the day. Anyway, I fell on my left hip, bruising it pretty badly. I also banged up my left forearm. Fortunately nothing is broken, but I am incredibly achy on my left side today and I can't walk without pain. Last night was difficult as I could only sleep on my stomach because every other position hurt too much, and getting out of the bed to take care of Lily and Chloe (both woke up last night) in the middle of the night was torture.
I am thankful that the fall wasn't worse. I could have been hurt bad, but I mostly just slid down the stairs on my butt. Even more amazing is that my computer is okay, and because my stoneware was still in the box, it didn't break! The box is all crumpled up but the stone is fine. I am super thankful for that. However, I am bummed out that I won't be able to exercise for a few days. I really wanted to drop below 160 this week and I don't think I can do that without exercise, but it is more important that I let my body heal, so I will just have to play it day by day and really focus on my eating this week.
Last night we had the missionaries over and Matt wanted Hamburgers and French Fries. I use my Pampered Chef french fry wedger on my potatoes, add a little olive oil, some salt and then bake them in the oven at 425 deg for 30 minutes. It makes for a much healthier version of french fries instead of actually frying them. I skipped the cheese on my hamburger and had onions, tomatoes, pickles, and spinach. So I only had about 4 oz ground beef and the hamburger bun and about 1-2 tbsp of BBQ sauce to count. I also opened a few cans of baked beans. Chloe loved the beans! She was super cute eating her beans. Actually, yesterday I didn't bother counting points since it was fast Sunday.
This morning I was supposed to make the amazing banana quinoa waffles that I found in our church cookbook, but we didn't have enough bananas. So I made Lemon-Ricotta Pancakes from weight watchers. You can find the recipe here: http://www.weightwatchers.com/food/rcp/RecipePage.aspx?recipeid=381901
It is 5 points for two pancakes, I ate 3, which they say is 8 points. Plus one point for the maple syrup and 3 points for milk so I had a large point breakfast for a total of 12 points. That is about 3 points more than I usually eat for breakfast. I also put some protein powder into the pancake mix (2 tbsp in half the mix after I cooked up some pancakes for Matt) so that I could satisfy the combination of complex carbs and protein that I am striving to eat at every meal. So my points might be a little higher, maybe an extra point for the protein powder. I was using a protein sample package so there is no nutrition info on it so that is going based off of what I could find for protein powder on Weight Watchers which is remarkably unhelpful since the measurements are in scoops and ounces instead of TBSP and tsp and cups.
After dropping the car off at the repair shop to get the breaks done and going to Costco to stock up on frozen veggies, fruits, fresh fruits, diapers, and various other necessities, and after getting the surprise phone call informing us that our back breaks aren't working and our $100 break job just turned into $600 repair job (we knew something was up because we were replacing the front brakes about every three to four months. Makes sense now) it was time for lunch. So I had to put all the groceries away, cut up strawberries for Chloe, make some spaghetti noodles with Parmesan cheese for Lily, heat up french fries and leftover hamburger meat for Matt and finally after all that I made myself a delicious 5 point salad. My salad consisted of spinach leaves (0 points) topped with 3 oz steak (3 points) 1 T sunflower seeds (1 point) 1 T chopped walnuts (1 point), strawberries (0 points), and balsamic vinegar (0 points). That way I get my protein from the steak, my complex carbs from the spinach and strawberries and my essential fatty acids from the walnuts and sunflower seeds. It's awesome! A complete meal all packaged up in pure deliciousness.
Now it is about 3pm and I am really wanting to eat some junk food, but I know that I have to eat healthy and really focus on eating within my points this week if my exercise level is going to be low. So I age an orange for a snack and I will have left over sesame chicken for dinner with some vegetables adding about another 12 points and rounding out the day at about 29 points. I am allowed 32 points but I am trying to go under that in preparation for dropping 7 points here pretty soon. I am not focusing on it or worrying about staying under and in fact most days I am right at or slightly above my allotted points, but it is in the back of my mind. About two more months now and I will have to drop those points when Chloe stops nursing. Besides that, I am getting in less exercise than I would even on a day I don't exercise because I am really in a good deal of pain from falling down the stairs.
Well, that is all for now, lets hope my kids go to bed early!
I am thankful that the fall wasn't worse. I could have been hurt bad, but I mostly just slid down the stairs on my butt. Even more amazing is that my computer is okay, and because my stoneware was still in the box, it didn't break! The box is all crumpled up but the stone is fine. I am super thankful for that. However, I am bummed out that I won't be able to exercise for a few days. I really wanted to drop below 160 this week and I don't think I can do that without exercise, but it is more important that I let my body heal, so I will just have to play it day by day and really focus on my eating this week.
Last night we had the missionaries over and Matt wanted Hamburgers and French Fries. I use my Pampered Chef french fry wedger on my potatoes, add a little olive oil, some salt and then bake them in the oven at 425 deg for 30 minutes. It makes for a much healthier version of french fries instead of actually frying them. I skipped the cheese on my hamburger and had onions, tomatoes, pickles, and spinach. So I only had about 4 oz ground beef and the hamburger bun and about 1-2 tbsp of BBQ sauce to count. I also opened a few cans of baked beans. Chloe loved the beans! She was super cute eating her beans. Actually, yesterday I didn't bother counting points since it was fast Sunday.
This morning I was supposed to make the amazing banana quinoa waffles that I found in our church cookbook, but we didn't have enough bananas. So I made Lemon-Ricotta Pancakes from weight watchers. You can find the recipe here: http://www.weightwatchers.com/food/rcp/RecipePage.aspx?recipeid=381901
It is 5 points for two pancakes, I ate 3, which they say is 8 points. Plus one point for the maple syrup and 3 points for milk so I had a large point breakfast for a total of 12 points. That is about 3 points more than I usually eat for breakfast. I also put some protein powder into the pancake mix (2 tbsp in half the mix after I cooked up some pancakes for Matt) so that I could satisfy the combination of complex carbs and protein that I am striving to eat at every meal. So my points might be a little higher, maybe an extra point for the protein powder. I was using a protein sample package so there is no nutrition info on it so that is going based off of what I could find for protein powder on Weight Watchers which is remarkably unhelpful since the measurements are in scoops and ounces instead of TBSP and tsp and cups.
After dropping the car off at the repair shop to get the breaks done and going to Costco to stock up on frozen veggies, fruits, fresh fruits, diapers, and various other necessities, and after getting the surprise phone call informing us that our back breaks aren't working and our $100 break job just turned into $600 repair job (we knew something was up because we were replacing the front brakes about every three to four months. Makes sense now) it was time for lunch. So I had to put all the groceries away, cut up strawberries for Chloe, make some spaghetti noodles with Parmesan cheese for Lily, heat up french fries and leftover hamburger meat for Matt and finally after all that I made myself a delicious 5 point salad. My salad consisted of spinach leaves (0 points) topped with 3 oz steak (3 points) 1 T sunflower seeds (1 point) 1 T chopped walnuts (1 point), strawberries (0 points), and balsamic vinegar (0 points). That way I get my protein from the steak, my complex carbs from the spinach and strawberries and my essential fatty acids from the walnuts and sunflower seeds. It's awesome! A complete meal all packaged up in pure deliciousness.
Now it is about 3pm and I am really wanting to eat some junk food, but I know that I have to eat healthy and really focus on eating within my points this week if my exercise level is going to be low. So I age an orange for a snack and I will have left over sesame chicken for dinner with some vegetables adding about another 12 points and rounding out the day at about 29 points. I am allowed 32 points but I am trying to go under that in preparation for dropping 7 points here pretty soon. I am not focusing on it or worrying about staying under and in fact most days I am right at or slightly above my allotted points, but it is in the back of my mind. About two more months now and I will have to drop those points when Chloe stops nursing. Besides that, I am getting in less exercise than I would even on a day I don't exercise because I am really in a good deal of pain from falling down the stairs.
Well, that is all for now, lets hope my kids go to bed early!
Sunday, November 3, 2013
November 3rd 2013 Weigh In
Today is my weigh in day and if you have been reading you know that I was hoping to actually weigh less than my husband today. I continued to eat well all week and exercise, and my hard work continues to pay off! I weighed in today at 161.6! Scoring myself a 2.4 pound weight loss. I seem to be in a groove and I am excited to have finally discovered how my body needs to eat. Now that I am eating healthier the weight is just falling off. I am hoping to be able to keep this rate up for the remainder of the year to reach my goal of 150 by the end of the year (with two weeks to spare if I lose 2 pounds a week).
I definitely attribute my faster weight loss to the change in my eating habit, as I have been exercising all though out my weight loss journey and never has the weight come off this fast (with the exception of the first few weeks when the body sheds all the excess water weight). Losing consistently has boosted my motivation and determination and I am excited to keep going and next week I plan on weighing in the 150s!
I definitely attribute my faster weight loss to the change in my eating habit, as I have been exercising all though out my weight loss journey and never has the weight come off this fast (with the exception of the first few weeks when the body sheds all the excess water weight). Losing consistently has boosted my motivation and determination and I am excited to keep going and next week I plan on weighing in the 150s!
Friday, November 1, 2013
Happy Halloween
Halloween takes on a different color when you know you will not be eating any candy or desserts. Especially candy. In the morning I took the girls to a meetup that my meetup group organized at the Library. Lily had a wonderful time running around the room with the other kids dressed up as Tinkerbell, and Chloe crawled around trying her hardest to snitch popcorn off the floor and grab treats from the unsuspecting children. The adults brought candy for the kids so we could do a mock trick or treat activity. Lily brought her purse into the Library and used that as her bag. All the other adults thought it was super cute, and lets face it... it was! I focused on meeting new people and eating the healthy snacks. Someone brought carrots and hummus, which was a winner for me! There was also Pizza cut into little pieces and I had a few pieces since pizza is not something that is off limits at the moment. Saying away from the cookies, banana bread, pumpkin dip and various other desserts was actually pretty easy this time around, I guess all the desserts roaming around my house are building up my resistance. I'm getting desensitized, or so I hope. Here is a super cute picture of the kids at the meetup. It looks like Lily is choking Chloe, but I promise she isn't!
Lily loved trick or treating tonight, even though it was pretty chilly out tonight. It could have been worse though, I've been out when it is sub 0 during my childhood. Lily must have been tired since she didn't take a nap and had already been out this morning because she just rode in the stroller from house to house and didn't say Trick or Treat at all, but I could tell she was still excited to be out since she would get upset when we passed houses that were dark.
There were a lot of dark houses this year and not very many trick or treaters out. I am glad I only spend $5 on my Halloween candy to give out to trick or treaters. Chloe was dressed up as Pooh bear wearing a bumble bee costume (picture below) which was great because it was a warm costume. Lily got a little too cold, so it was a good thing our loop was small. Be that as it may, Lily still got plenty of candy and once we got home I said "It's a good thing I extended my 30 day challenge otherwise I would be pigging out on Lily's candy right now!" (Or I would have taken a bag for Chloe to get some candy of my own!)
I sorted through Lily's candy and put all the inedible candy into our trick or treater candy bowl hahaha, is that cruel? Must not have been too cruel because most of it was taken before the suckers that I bought were. That is good since Lily likes those little dum dums and I can bribe her to do stuff with them. So now I have a good stash of bribing candy and on Monday the potty training will recommence! So not looking forward to it. One more week of my challenge to go.
Lily loved trick or treating tonight, even though it was pretty chilly out tonight. It could have been worse though, I've been out when it is sub 0 during my childhood. Lily must have been tired since she didn't take a nap and had already been out this morning because she just rode in the stroller from house to house and didn't say Trick or Treat at all, but I could tell she was still excited to be out since she would get upset when we passed houses that were dark.
There were a lot of dark houses this year and not very many trick or treaters out. I am glad I only spend $5 on my Halloween candy to give out to trick or treaters. Chloe was dressed up as Pooh bear wearing a bumble bee costume (picture below) which was great because it was a warm costume. Lily got a little too cold, so it was a good thing our loop was small. Be that as it may, Lily still got plenty of candy and once we got home I said "It's a good thing I extended my 30 day challenge otherwise I would be pigging out on Lily's candy right now!" (Or I would have taken a bag for Chloe to get some candy of my own!)
I sorted through Lily's candy and put all the inedible candy into our trick or treater candy bowl hahaha, is that cruel? Must not have been too cruel because most of it was taken before the suckers that I bought were. That is good since Lily likes those little dum dums and I can bribe her to do stuff with them. So now I have a good stash of bribing candy and on Monday the potty training will recommence! So not looking forward to it. One more week of my challenge to go.
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| We took about 6 photos and that was the best one. |
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