It's been too long since my last post, but I have been very busy! I move 3 weeks from today! I am trying to get things packed up and my last day of work is only 1 day before the move. I am getting excited but a little sad too. My boyfriend will not be moving with me. He has a good job and owns a house here in this small town and is content. We will be ending on good terms so I do hope that we can remain friends of some sort.
As far as my diet and exercise goes...I am still tweaking. I am staying stead at 135, but want to lose another 7 pounds before I go on vacation August 16th. That is 5 weeks away so it is definitely possible. I had read several more diet books since I proclaimed that I wouldn't be reading anymore. I guess I am addicted! I have been having a really hard time buying into the theory that you have to eat every 2-3 hours. I could do that, but I feel like I eat much and it takes much more preparation. My doubts with this way of eating started after I read The Warrior Diet. So Friday I read Eat Stop Eat, which advocates fasting 1-2 times a week for 24 hour periods.
After thinking yet again about how I have lost weight effectively in the past, I have decided to go back to fasting. When I lost 15 pounds I ate 1, maybe 2 meals a day. They were not healthy meals, so that will definitely change, but my system seemed to enjoy not being stuffed 24/7.
I have so far stuck with my 6 weeks Slim in Six plan. I decided that I just need to stick with something that is geared for weight loss for the time being. I will reevaluate my goals once I get down to 128. I may be adding kettlebell workouts 3 times a week.
Today I am doing a fast as well as Tuesday and Thursday. Brad Pilon, the author of Eat Stop Eat, does not advocate doing every other day fasting, but I thought I would try it for the week. I am going to Roswell on Friday and would like to be able to wear my new Lucky Jeans!
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Stretchy Pants and Cottage Cheese
After my weekend in Roswell I am proud to say that I only gained 1/2 a pound, I'm 135.5 today! I am giving the PSMF another try for the next 9 days. I leave again for another trip next Wednesday. I would like to be able to wear some of my shorts by then. That is my biggest complaint right now along with cellulite. I don't so much mind how I look, I just hate not being able to wear all of my clothes. I could wear them, they do still fit, but they don't look very good. I refuse to buy new ones when the ones I have had fit just fine for so long. I am also not feeling the love for my new love handles and, dare I say it...the beginnings of saddlebags. I have never really had any, and they suck!!
I have always heard women talk about how their bodies changed when they hit 30, but I fear that mine has started to a couple of years early. All of the fat that I have put on is the icky dimply fat. Not that any fat it sightly, but this has a different texture than the fat I have put on in the past. I know, TMI, but it makes me feel better to talk about it! What is up with this?! I pray that it goes away when I lose the weight. It makes me shudder just thinking about it!
So I have a few workouts picked out that I will be doing for the next 9 days. Since I am back on low calorie they are not going to be very strenuous...apparently that hinders your results. I will be really happy if I can just stay the course and see what eating healthy consistently can do for my body. I have been of the mind set of "I can eat whatever I want just in smaller quantities and still change my body" for too long.
It is definitely one of those days that I am wishing that I wouldn't have wanted to be skinnier back when I was 128 pounds!!
I have always heard women talk about how their bodies changed when they hit 30, but I fear that mine has started to a couple of years early. All of the fat that I have put on is the icky dimply fat. Not that any fat it sightly, but this has a different texture than the fat I have put on in the past. I know, TMI, but it makes me feel better to talk about it! What is up with this?! I pray that it goes away when I lose the weight. It makes me shudder just thinking about it!
So I have a few workouts picked out that I will be doing for the next 9 days. Since I am back on low calorie they are not going to be very strenuous...apparently that hinders your results. I will be really happy if I can just stay the course and see what eating healthy consistently can do for my body. I have been of the mind set of "I can eat whatever I want just in smaller quantities and still change my body" for too long.
It is definitely one of those days that I am wishing that I wouldn't have wanted to be skinnier back when I was 128 pounds!!
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Wednesday
This seems to be a popular day for me to post. I seriously need to get off other people's blogs and start posting more often on mine!!
Good news, I am down to 135. I went back up to 136 for a few days and then 137 after a bbq and cookie making over the weekend, but I got back on track. I am really trying to pay attention to my body and eat only when I am hungry. I bring food with me to work to eat, I usually have my first "meal" of the day here at least. I haven't been eating it the past few days though b/c I am finding myself not being hungry until noon or after.
My cravings for carbs and sweets seem to be diminishing as well. Not that I don't want to eat them, but the urges that have been hindering my weight loss progress for months now are finally manageable. Thank god! Most of my pants and shorts are still too tight, but I am making progress.
I was taking it easy with the workouts due to the low calories the past 2 weeks, but that is going to change next week. I just feel so much better when I get a good workout! I feel like I am not doing any good if I am not sore once in a while! I really want to drop another 8 pounds by the time I move (first weekend in August). Which at 1.33 pounds a week is totally possible!
For July 4th my boyfriend and I are going to Deming where his dad lives. His dad's b-day is the 4th, and he always has a bbq. My boyfriend's sister is a healthy nut and works out like crazy. She had a set back when she tore her ACL riding a 4-wheeler last year, but she is fully recovered I think. So I am going to take my kettlebells with me and have her workout with me. I've got to share the love!
Good news, I am down to 135. I went back up to 136 for a few days and then 137 after a bbq and cookie making over the weekend, but I got back on track. I am really trying to pay attention to my body and eat only when I am hungry. I bring food with me to work to eat, I usually have my first "meal" of the day here at least. I haven't been eating it the past few days though b/c I am finding myself not being hungry until noon or after.
My cravings for carbs and sweets seem to be diminishing as well. Not that I don't want to eat them, but the urges that have been hindering my weight loss progress for months now are finally manageable. Thank god! Most of my pants and shorts are still too tight, but I am making progress.
I was taking it easy with the workouts due to the low calories the past 2 weeks, but that is going to change next week. I just feel so much better when I get a good workout! I feel like I am not doing any good if I am not sore once in a while! I really want to drop another 8 pounds by the time I move (first weekend in August). Which at 1.33 pounds a week is totally possible!
For July 4th my boyfriend and I are going to Deming where his dad lives. His dad's b-day is the 4th, and he always has a bbq. My boyfriend's sister is a healthy nut and works out like crazy. She had a set back when she tore her ACL riding a 4-wheeler last year, but she is fully recovered I think. So I am going to take my kettlebells with me and have her workout with me. I've got to share the love!
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Neglect
My poor blog is already getting neglected. I just get so interested in reading other people's that I forget to post on my own!! I also feel like I have been neglecting my body for a pretty long time until recently. I have always worked out and cooked healthy, but I also had some bad habits. One was drinking way too much. I kept drinking like I was in college until the end of 2007. Something finally clicked thank god (weekly hangovers and memory loss were getting really old!). So bad habit #1-gone. Alcohol only occasionally and in moderation!
Bad habit #2-I am sure that you have guessed is sweets!! I have always loved sweets, but they really only became a bad habit once I gave up drinking so much. At least with sweets I always remember what I said the next morning, and they don't make me feel bad! But they make me gain weight. So now I am in the process of making some new habits that are good! Sweets need to be enjoyed occasionally and in moderation as well.
So far this week I have went from 139 down to 135.5. I have been doing a protein sparing modified fast. High protein and low calories. I have been eating just 3 meals a day and doing 1 30 minute workout every other day. I know that at this point it is water weight, but it keeps me motivated to see the scale going down. I will do this for 8 more days and then evaluate things from there. I ultimately want to get back to eating what I want, within reason and in moderation (I'm not thinking McDonald's here, but some bread or oatmeal would be nice!) and working out every day. But I need to establish some good habits before I do that. To be continued...
BTW, thanks Mark and Tracy for your comments!
Bad habit #2-I am sure that you have guessed is sweets!! I have always loved sweets, but they really only became a bad habit once I gave up drinking so much. At least with sweets I always remember what I said the next morning, and they don't make me feel bad! But they make me gain weight. So now I am in the process of making some new habits that are good! Sweets need to be enjoyed occasionally and in moderation as well.
So far this week I have went from 139 down to 135.5. I have been doing a protein sparing modified fast. High protein and low calories. I have been eating just 3 meals a day and doing 1 30 minute workout every other day. I know that at this point it is water weight, but it keeps me motivated to see the scale going down. I will do this for 8 more days and then evaluate things from there. I ultimately want to get back to eating what I want, within reason and in moderation (I'm not thinking McDonald's here, but some bread or oatmeal would be nice!) and working out every day. But I need to establish some good habits before I do that. To be continued...
BTW, thanks Mark and Tracy for your comments!
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Breakfast - To Eat or Not to Eat?
As usual I am contemplating what to do about my eating...yes, even though I said that I wasn't going to worry about it anymore. I am more focused on my body and what it needs now though rather than losing weight. So I have been trying to decide if I need to eat breakfast. Almost everyone says that it is the most important meal of the day, but is it for me? I tend to think not. I am usually very satisfied with my coffee w/ milk in the mornings and don't get hungry at all. I do love my yogurt and oatmeal though, but I am thinking that I can always have them for lunch if I really want to. It also seems that if I eat breakfast I feel hungrier and just want to eat more.
I am going to consider this morning an experiment. I went ahead and ate my yogurt around 9 while waiting for more coffee to brew. It was good, but I just wasn't satisfied, so I had some peanuts, then some crackers, then 6 mini cookies. So eating breakfast lead to a mini binge...not what I would call good. I think that I may just put my eating times back a few hours maybe having breakfast for lunch, lunch for a snack in the afternoon and then dinner. I really need to cut out snacking...I don't need it and the calories can really add up.
Surfing the internet this weekend I found an interesting website for the No S Diet. I has 3 rules:
1. No sweets
2. No snacking
3. No seconds
Except for (sometimes) on days starting with S.
So you eat what you want as long as it fits onto 1 plate for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It sounds easy enough, not even like a diet. I seriously need to set some ground rules for myself. My free for all diet anarchy eating is not going to end well I fear if I don't do something about it now. Once I can get some good habits established and get rid of my bad ones I should be a okay and on my way to my old clothes!
I am going to consider this morning an experiment. I went ahead and ate my yogurt around 9 while waiting for more coffee to brew. It was good, but I just wasn't satisfied, so I had some peanuts, then some crackers, then 6 mini cookies. So eating breakfast lead to a mini binge...not what I would call good. I think that I may just put my eating times back a few hours maybe having breakfast for lunch, lunch for a snack in the afternoon and then dinner. I really need to cut out snacking...I don't need it and the calories can really add up.
Surfing the internet this weekend I found an interesting website for the No S Diet. I has 3 rules:
1. No sweets
2. No snacking
3. No seconds
Except for (sometimes) on days starting with S.
So you eat what you want as long as it fits onto 1 plate for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It sounds easy enough, not even like a diet. I seriously need to set some ground rules for myself. My free for all diet anarchy eating is not going to end well I fear if I don't do something about it now. Once I can get some good habits established and get rid of my bad ones I should be a okay and on my way to my old clothes!
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Will it ever stop?
Here I am yet again fighting with myself over food, what I should and shouldn't be eating. After my birthday and long weekend I was at my highest weight ever 139 (138 was my previous highest when I was 21, at least I had an excuse then, parties and beer!). I had already planned on cleaning up my diet, but I was on the prowl for a "quick fix" since my reunion is now less than 1 month away. I came across the protein sparing modified fast. Basically you come up with the amount of protein you need to be eating based on your lean body mass and multiplying that by a factor based on your activity level. You eat protein and some veggies and that's it. This is a crash diet and isn't meant to be healthy, Lyle McDonald who wrote the book I read, clearly states that in the intro. He also advises to exercise as little as possible since the calories are so low.
So, I have been doing this for 3 days now. This morning I was down to 137.5. All water weight I am sure. It has been okay, but I am not sure how much I agree with the whole low carb thing or the little to no exercise. I have been arguing with myself about whether or not I should just eat a little more so I can get in some good workouts or just stick it out (9 more days) since I can never stick to anything. What to do...what to do...
After some hindsight about my yearly cycles of gaining and losing weight (about 5-15 lbs.) I have noticed a pattern. The weight always came off when I wasn't trying to lose it! For instance last summer I was carrying around about 7 extra pounds that I picked up during tax season. All summer I worried about it, tried dieting, all of that jazz, with no success in losing it. Around September I finally decided to stop worrying about it and made exercise a daily habit again. By late November the weight was gone. Maybe weight loss is more of a mental game for me or something. I know that it would be a huge relief to stop worrying about it. That would free up a lot of time for me! Why should I worry about the next best diet plan when I already have a pretty good idea what has worked for me in the past? If I knew that answer I wouldn't be here right now! Is is really that simple to just keep up my workouts and eat what I want in moderation? I think it can be if I would just let it!
I think that the worrying has made me gain even more weight...I weighed 132 at the end of March!!! I am proud of myself this week though. I hopefully have broken my nightly ritual of sweet eating, which I believe led to the skinny me's demise in the first place. I have a good solid base under this fat thanks to my kettlebell workouts, so I think my muscle can burn off some of this fat if I would just put down the brownies and give it a chance. I have been looking at my food journal and each night for months I have been eating ice cream, cookies, brownies, candy, cereal, something sweet and carby. I am really glad that I started keeping a journal back in Feb. because at least I know why I have gained weight!
Bottom line: I am still a little worried about my high school reunion, but to be honest, those people haven't seen me in 10 years, and I really don't look any different than I did back then. So they aren't going to know that I am 10 lbs. heavier than I was 6 months ago!!! I have a killer dress to wear, along with some gorgeous heels, that accentuates my nice shoulders and arms and covers the cellulite on the back of my thighs (it is sooo gross, I usually have a little, but this much sucks!). There is so much truth to the statement that we are our own worst critics!! So self...get off my back and quite worrying about it!! You may be pleasantly surprised what it does to your state of mind and your figure.
So, I have been doing this for 3 days now. This morning I was down to 137.5. All water weight I am sure. It has been okay, but I am not sure how much I agree with the whole low carb thing or the little to no exercise. I have been arguing with myself about whether or not I should just eat a little more so I can get in some good workouts or just stick it out (9 more days) since I can never stick to anything. What to do...what to do...
After some hindsight about my yearly cycles of gaining and losing weight (about 5-15 lbs.) I have noticed a pattern. The weight always came off when I wasn't trying to lose it! For instance last summer I was carrying around about 7 extra pounds that I picked up during tax season. All summer I worried about it, tried dieting, all of that jazz, with no success in losing it. Around September I finally decided to stop worrying about it and made exercise a daily habit again. By late November the weight was gone. Maybe weight loss is more of a mental game for me or something. I know that it would be a huge relief to stop worrying about it. That would free up a lot of time for me! Why should I worry about the next best diet plan when I already have a pretty good idea what has worked for me in the past? If I knew that answer I wouldn't be here right now! Is is really that simple to just keep up my workouts and eat what I want in moderation? I think it can be if I would just let it!
I think that the worrying has made me gain even more weight...I weighed 132 at the end of March!!! I am proud of myself this week though. I hopefully have broken my nightly ritual of sweet eating, which I believe led to the skinny me's demise in the first place. I have a good solid base under this fat thanks to my kettlebell workouts, so I think my muscle can burn off some of this fat if I would just put down the brownies and give it a chance. I have been looking at my food journal and each night for months I have been eating ice cream, cookies, brownies, candy, cereal, something sweet and carby. I am really glad that I started keeping a journal back in Feb. because at least I know why I have gained weight!
Bottom line: I am still a little worried about my high school reunion, but to be honest, those people haven't seen me in 10 years, and I really don't look any different than I did back then. So they aren't going to know that I am 10 lbs. heavier than I was 6 months ago!!! I have a killer dress to wear, along with some gorgeous heels, that accentuates my nice shoulders and arms and covers the cellulite on the back of my thighs (it is sooo gross, I usually have a little, but this much sucks!). There is so much truth to the statement that we are our own worst critics!! So self...get off my back and quite worrying about it!! You may be pleasantly surprised what it does to your state of mind and your figure.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Yucky Monday
Ugh, I really don't like Mondays. I had an enjoyable weekend, but they never seem to be long enough anymore. My boyfriend's dad and a friend were here visiting. I was able to get in 2 good kettlebell workouts. I did a swing workout on Saturday while watching Sex and the City. I am getting caught up (thanks to Netflix) getting ready for the movie that is coming out on the 28th. I am sooo excited! Then I got in a clean, press and snatch workout yesterday. I am really sore today. I haven't snatched that much before (3 minutes sets x 10), so I bet that is why. I wanted to quit halfway thru, but I pushed on and finished all 10 sets. I was listening to Ori Hofmekler's Warrior Within broadcast on the VoiceAmericaHealth website. I just discovered his program which is on Wed. mornings at 10 am MST, so I am catching up on the archived programs. They are very interesting. I can tell that I am developing some nice muscle. It is easier to see it in my upper body where I have less fat.
I did the Warrior style well this weekend, but I did have dessert so I am not weighing any less. I really need to get my head wrapped around cutting out sweets. They are really killing my choices for my summer wardrobe. And I don't want to be this person that complains about weighing more but does nothing about it. I cannot continue to do the same things over and over and expect a different result!
Food so far today:
Coffee w/ 2% milk
1 cup cantaloupe
Planned for the rest of the day:
Yogurt smoothie w/ strawberries and flax seed for lunch
Apple w/ peanut butter this afternoon if hungry
Dinner:
Leftover spinach, corn and black bean salad w/ homemade avocado dressing and hard boiled egg
Homemade yellow split pea, veggie and spinach soup
The week is the detox stage of the Warrior Fat Loss Diet, which means no animal protein other than dairy and eggs. I don't plan on working out today other than maybe taking the dog for a walk depending on the weather this evening.
I have Friday off this week (it's my birthday), so at least it's a short work week!
I did the Warrior style well this weekend, but I did have dessert so I am not weighing any less. I really need to get my head wrapped around cutting out sweets. They are really killing my choices for my summer wardrobe. And I don't want to be this person that complains about weighing more but does nothing about it. I cannot continue to do the same things over and over and expect a different result!
Food so far today:
Coffee w/ 2% milk
1 cup cantaloupe
Planned for the rest of the day:
Yogurt smoothie w/ strawberries and flax seed for lunch
Apple w/ peanut butter this afternoon if hungry
Dinner:
Leftover spinach, corn and black bean salad w/ homemade avocado dressing and hard boiled egg
Homemade yellow split pea, veggie and spinach soup
The week is the detox stage of the Warrior Fat Loss Diet, which means no animal protein other than dairy and eggs. I don't plan on working out today other than maybe taking the dog for a walk depending on the weather this evening.
I have Friday off this week (it's my birthday), so at least it's a short work week!
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