Making it Through the Holidays

This is the time of year we all love all the candies, cookies, and loads of good food everyone bakes and shares during the holidays. Myself included. I love baking things I think my family, friends and neighbors would enjoy. Just before Thanksgiving my trainer asked me what I was doing for the holiday and I explained my family would be going out to eat. I didn't mind cooking my "usual" thanksgiving spread, but I didn't want the leftovers lingering around here. That's why we decided to go out to eat. We went over the foods I could eat. She said to start with a salad, and I could put anything I wanted on it. I ate LOTS of meat - mostly baked chicken and one small piece of ham and turkey. I did eat a spoonful of green beans, I skipped all starchy foods and desserts that I dearly love. On the way home, I realized I didn't miss not eating these foods. I stuck to my food plan and I came out ahead!

Our family is already planning what we will be doing for Christmas. We usually have our Christmas meal at my house. My selections for what I will be serving will be healthy choices and not a bunch of crap we don't need. I want to get through the holidays losing weight, not putting it on!

Now I say all this but I still plan on baking some cookies and some other calorie filled goodies. I am learning self control and that it's ok to have one or two. It's not ok to sit down with the plate of goodies and eat til its gone. I'm working too hard to get this weight off. I don't want to sabotage my efforts that I will deeply regret later on. Stay on course and set limits!

No More of the 14 Day Thang



Friday night I talked to my cousin who is a dietician and I explained to her what I was doing. After a lengthy conversation with her, I decided Saturday that I would not continue on this diet, but would continue on a diet. I would watch the amounts of sodium, sugar and fat in foods and would also pay close attention to portion control. Towards the end of the first week, this diet made me sad, overwhelmed and stressed out because of having to eat the same foods (basically fish) ALL the time. I like fish, but not that much. I'm not that creative in putting meals together based on a food list. I was in a situation where I could not eat my mid-morning or mid-afternoon meals and by the time I could eat, I was beyond hungry! I ate so much fish, I had a fin growing out my ass! So its over now and I feel much better. It could be possible that I will gain a few pounds getting off this diet, but I will work extra hard to see that this doesn't happen!

I Conquered my First Big Goal!

This morning I woke up excited because I knew I was going to be under 300 (I actually woke up before the alarm clock went off because of anticipating what was to come in just a short while). I went through my morning ritual, then weighed. I was elated...299 lbs!!!! O-M-G!!! I have worked so hard to get to this point and I can now say - I HAVE LOST 40 LBS!!!!!! My husband was so excited for me. It feels wonderful to have accomplished my first goal and there's much more to do, but baby steps. Baby steps got me here. It's the only way! Yay me!!! I'm so proud of myself! Now I will go to work happy =)

I'm Seeing Results!

For the first time today I noticed changes. Instead of my belt being in the second hole, it's now in the 5th. And this morning I didn't have to stretch my shirt out after I put it on. Ok, we all know about stretching the shirt here, and at some point we all do it. But this morning, I didn't have to!!! I noticed my shirt is kinda hanging off me. My pants have just a little sag too! Keep it coming! I'm ready for more!! This is exciting!

I'm on a 14 day Thang

Ok...so my trainer told me she wants me to do this 14 day thing which consists of only green veggies, fish & chicken. I eat 6 small meals a day. And when I say small, I mean small! Or so I thought. My husband knows he is on his own for the next 2 weeks, so he is preparing himself to make his own meals (he needs to learn to cook anyway!). I don't think it will bother me watching him eat things I can't because I have the mind set that I can do this. And it's only for two weeks?? I have a feeling after this 2 weeks she will tweek it a little, but I will have to continue this in some form. Whatever it takes, is what I will do!

Day 1 : Saturday

I'm not hungry like I thought I would be. I get through eating and before I know it, it's time to eat again. This so for hasn't been as bad as I thought. But it's only the first day. I'm sure I will be tired of this soon. My weight should drop considerably, so it will be worth the sacrifice!

Day 2 : Sunday

Again I wasn't hungry and I didn't eat my afternoon snack like I was supposed to. I just didn't have room for anything else! I had a great workout and I journaled my food intake.

Day 3 : Tuesday
I woke up this morning and have almost dropped 7 lbs since Saturday!! AND I'm almost at my first goal!!! O-M-G I cannot wait!! I have worked so hard and my sacrifices are paying off! Yay! That doesn't mean that I don't want to scarf my way through Taco Bell right now, because I could in a BLINK! And that day is coming VERY, VERY soon on my cheat meal. And my trainer said I had to have a cheat meal so there ya have it! Permission =)

I went to the gym after work, then to the grocery store to get more food for this diet thing. By the time I got home I was in tears! Tears! I am a good cook and eating food with little or no seasoning is really getting to me. I don't think I can look at another brussel sprout or broccoli spear. Ugh!! I need change and spices! I had a pity party where it was just me, my husband, Karen and Mom in attendance. They tried, bless their hearts, but I am the one that has to work through this. I will, but today is not the day.

Day 4 : Wednesday

I only lost .1. Not happy about that at all! I worked hard at workout last night, followed the plan and .1. UGH!!! I'm going to work extra hard at workout this afternoon and see how I weigh in tomorrow morning. Have a good day everyone! Cheers!

I Got The Biggest Loser Workout Today

I showed up for my workout today ready to go – let’s get started – I’m gonna do this! I’m pumped! Then my trainer tell me she is kicking it up and gonna work me out harder today. She had me on the treadmill for 20 minutes, and then took my measurements. We headed across the room and the owners husband comes walking up with a rope. Now I heard my trainer say something to him about a rope, but I didn’t know the damn thing was the size of a fire hose!! Sha-it! She showed me what to do and I did it while she timed me. By the time she said stop, I could barely lift the rope anymore! Next she had me lift a medicine ball over my head and slam it to the floor over and over again. She timed me. I did lunges (with and without weights), and the elliptical. After the first set I thought I was going to freakin’ die! I was sweating, wiping my face and drinking some water. And we did 3 more sets of these which totaled an hour. At one point when I was lifting the rope and it was so hard for me to lift it and she was there going “Keep going! You got 30 more seconds! Keep it up!” and then the words came out of my mouth “I can’t”. Well, my “can’t” did and I finished it! I have to say though, close to the end of my workout today, I felt like puking. To which I said to my trainer, “You need buckets around here”. She said, “It’s not our intention to make people throw up” and I said “It must have been the water I drank”. It was so hard for me to catch my breath, let alone take deep breaths. She said in time it will get better. Being overweight and out of shape is the cause. I have a lot of hard work ahead of me, but I’m going to do this. I can do this. And even as I sit here writing this post, I feel really good knowing I accomplished something today and I feel so good right now! This is probably a light workout to my trainer and I know it’s going to get much tougher, but I’m ready. I will do the best that I can. My body is not going to win this fight. I am!

My First Workout

Friday, September 30^th I had my first session with my personal trainer. She put me on the treadmill for 20 minutes, we did some strength training with weights and did stretches on the yoga mats. She didn’t want to overdo it the first session because of my knee (she wanted to see how my knee reacted to the workout), but she said it would get harder. Bring it on! Me being on the mat was probably the funniest damn thing I’ve done in a long time. When we walked over to the mats, she told me to sit down and as I went to sit down I realized on the way down it was going to be more of a tumble LOL Oh Lord how embarrassing!! I was hoping no one saw me LOL Of course I had to make a joke about it. As I'm laying on the mat doing my thing, to my left was this little girl watching me as she bounced up and down on this big ball. All I could do was laugh. I said "I wish I had her energy" and my trainer said "She's 3". So we are doing stretches and and then my worst fear was coming true…sit ups! Holy crap! But I did all of them. Even for my size, I think I surprised my trainer at everything I could do. Go me!!