Wow, it's been a long time since I posted! I am a year into my Nutrition Therapy Program and am not eager to report that I have actually gained weight since I started the program. Yup...learning more about the human body and how food affects it has not helped me to shed the unwanted pounds. I am now teetering between 138 and 139. I also have not lost my diet mentality. I give up worrying about what I eat for a while only to eat too many sweets and too much food in general. Then I decide it's time to do something because my clothes don't fit. That doesn't end up lasting because I never have a plan. I am thinking there is really something to the thing called goal setting.
I am currently toying around with Eat Stop Eat again. It's a matter of feeling accomplished after fasting for a whole day and getting back the feeling of really being hungry. I was doing well on the eating plan I got from my teacher/nutritionist; eating 3 meals a day with a protein, fat, fruit, vegetable and fiber. But I find the more I think about planning meals and food in general the more I eat. Working from home being near the kitchen all day doesn't help either!
So...bottom line here is that I need a plan. No more willy nilly. I need to fit into my jeans by the time fall comes around. I can't afford to buy more (nor do I want to!). Stay tuned.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Turbulence Training and 30-Day Detox
It's been along time since I've posted. I have been really busy. I moved, started school and got a puppy. I don't have the time to play on the computer that I used to. I am in the 3rd week of a Turbulence Training transformation challenge. More on those workouts later. I did all 3 workouts week 1 and only 1 last week. I'm back on the wagon this week though! I also started Dax Moy's 30 day elimination diet challenge. It started yesterday, but I am not starting until today, so I guess mine is only 29 days.
I am in a holistic Nutrition Therapy program right now. I figured I need to walk the walk before I can tell clients what to do. I am also considering taking up yoga to get more balanced. I will try to post my food intake and workouts each day.
I am in a holistic Nutrition Therapy program right now. I figured I need to walk the walk before I can tell clients what to do. I am also considering taking up yoga to get more balanced. I will try to post my food intake and workouts each day.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Busy!
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!
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!
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!
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