After insane weight fluctuations, I plan on sticking to a healthy, realistic plan. I have managed to get myself back down to 115.2 after blowing it hard and blowing up to 118.6 about a week ago. I've been eating well and only letting myself have small amounts of food that aren't great (think small slice of white bread with butter, a bite of a cookie) and it honestly keeps me from feeling deprived. If I was starving myself and not eating enough calories, I wouldn't be satisfied with the small bits of "bad" food but I let myself have it once I'm full and it has been working well.
The weight is coming off at a reasonable pace. Normally, I can restrict myself enough so that I lose weight fast but I am learning that the weight loss never lasts. After all, it gets to the point where I end up super bingeing because of the restricted calories. No more of that! I have upped my exercise (especially my cardio) and I have a weight loss partner which helps.
February is 300 month for us. We are each doing 300 ab exercises a day in addition to any ab exercises we may do in a workout class. This is going well coupled with running about 1.5 miles a day. I know that isn't much but I'm working my way up. I get tired but the Vibram shoes have me sore in places I'd never imagined so I'm taking it slow.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Getting better
117.4 lbs!
Yesterday I upped my protein like whoa and tried to keep my carbs at a low. I do really enjoy fruit and could never cut them out of my diet so my carbs are usually just some type of fruit.
It felt nice to go to the gym yesterday even though I didn't do too much. I feel like tomorrow I should be able to give a pretty good workout without making my cold any worse.
Just got some exciting news! Will post more later!!!
Yesterday I upped my protein like whoa and tried to keep my carbs at a low. I do really enjoy fruit and could never cut them out of my diet so my carbs are usually just some type of fruit.
It felt nice to go to the gym yesterday even though I didn't do too much. I feel like tomorrow I should be able to give a pretty good workout without making my cold any worse.
Just got some exciting news! Will post more later!!!
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
I should have kept up
119 lbs. YIKES! I don't think it'll be too long til I can at least get this down to 116 but that number sure does hurt! A mix of holiday food (I wasn't TOO bad but not great either), a trip to Austin, TX (I HAD to try to stuffed avocado... rolled in cheese... and deep fried :/ ), and getting sick the moment I got home. It was a nice two weeks off of work though. I wish I had taken my vitamins though. Oh well.
I'm not feeling great today but I am going to go to the gym to do some light exercise. I hate how long it's been since I've had a good workout so it'll be nice to get my heart pumping a bit.
Tracking my calories again. Going to try to keep my protein high and carbs lower. Let's see how this all works.
I'm not feeling great today but I am going to go to the gym to do some light exercise. I hate how long it's been since I've had a good workout so it'll be nice to get my heart pumping a bit.
Tracking my calories again. Going to try to keep my protein high and carbs lower. Let's see how this all works.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Back to counting calories
I can't seem to budge from 117. I have been lazy and not watching what I eat or counting calories. I'll be back to it today. I've even been precisely measuring everything.
Banana with 3/4 TBS crunchy, natural peanut butter- 175
Kashi cereal with 1/2 cup skim milk- 140
More to be updated by the end of the day.
I hurt myself doing pendulum lunges yesterday. I'm not great at lunges but I can manage them if I do them slowly. Unfortunately, when doing them in a class or following some on a video, they do them much faster than I'm comfortable with. Two crunches in my hip yesterday and exercise time was OVER. I'm not sure what I'll be able to do today so I'll update on that.
I hope to get to 113 by NYE. This isn't seeming incredibly possible.
Banana with 3/4 TBS crunchy, natural peanut butter- 175
Kashi cereal with 1/2 cup skim milk- 140
More to be updated by the end of the day.
I hurt myself doing pendulum lunges yesterday. I'm not great at lunges but I can manage them if I do them slowly. Unfortunately, when doing them in a class or following some on a video, they do them much faster than I'm comfortable with. Two crunches in my hip yesterday and exercise time was OVER. I'm not sure what I'll be able to do today so I'll update on that.
I hope to get to 113 by NYE. This isn't seeming incredibly possible.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Injury
There are plenty of workouts people can do with injuries but it's a nice excuse to have when you don't want to do something. I could totally use my current injury to help me fail or to find a new way to succeed.
I woke up at 117.2 today. Not great. My poor eating habits come at night with the help of alcohol. I'm ravenous after half a glass of wine! I see why eliminating alcohol from your diet causes you to lose weight! If only concord grapes were still in season, I'd be eating those all day and not even a creme brûlée could tempt me!
Anyway, last night I burned the HELL out of my hand. There was a bit of crying involved and Clint had to go get me some burn spray but it's feeling alright today. After all, I am able to type. With the blisters on my hand, however, it's pretty much impossible to lift weights. This means I get to do my least favorite thing in the world - cardio!!! I bet I will start seeing the pounds melt off with that although the Bob Harper cardio is a bit daunting. I'll let you know if I can even finish it!
I woke up at 117.2 today. Not great. My poor eating habits come at night with the help of alcohol. I'm ravenous after half a glass of wine! I see why eliminating alcohol from your diet causes you to lose weight! If only concord grapes were still in season, I'd be eating those all day and not even a creme brûlée could tempt me!
Anyway, last night I burned the HELL out of my hand. There was a bit of crying involved and Clint had to go get me some burn spray but it's feeling alright today. After all, I am able to type. With the blisters on my hand, however, it's pretty much impossible to lift weights. This means I get to do my least favorite thing in the world - cardio!!! I bet I will start seeing the pounds melt off with that although the Bob Harper cardio is a bit daunting. I'll let you know if I can even finish it!
Friday, December 9, 2011
WHAT?
OK, now this is getting a little insane. 117.4 lbs! Ummm, WHAT?
I never ended up exercising last night :/ but I think my insane workout at the gym today should help make up for that. All this exercising is making me SOOOOO hungry! I want to eat all day long. Never again will I put a workout off or sleep as late as I did yesterday.
I ate too much today.
1/2 smoothie
banana
rice cake
KIND bar
black bean chili with smart ground
clementine
avocado with rice vinegar
I don't even want to add up all the calories. Ugh. So disgusted with myself. How do people have control when it comes to food? I never have and I never will. I'm just glad I mostly have control over my exercise these days.
What the hell should I do to try to get down from 117.4 lbs!?!?!?
I never ended up exercising last night :/ but I think my insane workout at the gym today should help make up for that. All this exercising is making me SOOOOO hungry! I want to eat all day long. Never again will I put a workout off or sleep as late as I did yesterday.
I ate too much today.
1/2 smoothie
banana
rice cake
KIND bar
black bean chili with smart ground
clementine
avocado with rice vinegar
I don't even want to add up all the calories. Ugh. So disgusted with myself. How do people have control when it comes to food? I never have and I never will. I'm just glad I mostly have control over my exercise these days.
What the hell should I do to try to get down from 117.4 lbs!?!?!?
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Bleh
Still paying for the shame spiral I went through the other day. What is it about eating unhealthy one time that makes it so hard to get back on track. Yesterday I had cookies with milk. And it wasn't just one cookie, it was 2. I guess it's like people addicted to cigarettes. After going cold turkey, any cheating can lead to a really unhealthy shame spiral until you get sick enough of it to go cold turkey again. Today, I was craving sweets and ALMOST went for a piece of the Halloween candy (I don't have much. I really only keep it for the times when my blood sugar is just soooo low that I need something QUICK to pick me up) but instead I went for a delicious mango. Much better choice!
I weighed 117 today :( :( :( but I did weigh myself after a bowl of cereal so maybe that added SOMETHING.
My biggest disappointment today is that I woke up sooo late. As in, I wasn't out of bed until about noon. I originally woke up at 8:2o but I knew Clint wanted to keep sleeping so I figured one more hour wouldn't hurt. Unfortunately, my hour was about 3 and a half. :/ Although a solid 8 hours of sleep is good, too much is such a waste. By the time I finished cooking and ate, I didn't have time to let my food settle before leaving the house for the night. But I'm not gonna skip my workout today. I'm doing what I HATE to do which is workout around 10:30 :/. I can't let myself make these kinds of mistakes and keeping track of what I'm doing is just helping me learn.
If I'm not too tired, I may be brave enough to start one of the Bob Harper DVDs tonight. If not, it's still gonna be Jillian and I'm gonna move on to Level 2 cos I feel level 1 getting easy.
Jeidi, you'd be proud. For lunch I made black bean chili that had fake meat AND lots of beans so it wasn't too high in calories AND it had crap tons of protein :). I also had it with a glass of skim milk with vanilla protein powder.
I weighed 117 today :( :( :( but I did weigh myself after a bowl of cereal so maybe that added SOMETHING.
My biggest disappointment today is that I woke up sooo late. As in, I wasn't out of bed until about noon. I originally woke up at 8:2o but I knew Clint wanted to keep sleeping so I figured one more hour wouldn't hurt. Unfortunately, my hour was about 3 and a half. :/ Although a solid 8 hours of sleep is good, too much is such a waste. By the time I finished cooking and ate, I didn't have time to let my food settle before leaving the house for the night. But I'm not gonna skip my workout today. I'm doing what I HATE to do which is workout around 10:30 :/. I can't let myself make these kinds of mistakes and keeping track of what I'm doing is just helping me learn.
If I'm not too tired, I may be brave enough to start one of the Bob Harper DVDs tonight. If not, it's still gonna be Jillian and I'm gonna move on to Level 2 cos I feel level 1 getting easy.
Jeidi, you'd be proud. For lunch I made black bean chili that had fake meat AND lots of beans so it wasn't too high in calories AND it had crap tons of protein :). I also had it with a glass of skim milk with vanilla protein powder.
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