Thursday, July 30, 2009

Waiting to exhale....

It's Thursday. My follow up doctor appointment day. The day I find out if I have arthritis at 40 running all through my body. :O( I'm seriously hoping NOT. We'll deal with that news when it comes this afternoon.

For now though, things are good. Still working out every day. In fact, this week I have increased my speed and incline on the treadmill. Hoping that will help push me to finally hit the 10 pound mark. That's my goal for this Tuesdays weigh in!!

I've also cut my calories, per my doctors suggestion. I'm averaging about 1450 a day this week. This has by far been the toughest part of my week, but it's necessary. I don't want to still be fighting this fight at 45 and 50. I want to beat it once and for all, learn how to manage a healthy weight and then stay there!!!!! Opps....I hear the baby crying.....gotta run!
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Celebrate Small Victories...

Okay, it's Tuesday. You know what that means.......weigh day. I got on the scale today and it was actually DOWN from last week. (Don't ask me how, but who am I to question the wisdom of the weight loss Gods!!) 1.4 loss this week. I'll take it. That puts me at 7.4 pounds lost in 5 weeks. Not stellar results, but according to my doctor, these are results that could actually last.

During my visit with her today, she mentioned that she was doing a lot of weight loss research lately and the consensus seems to be that your body will not keep off a weight loss of 2 pounds or more a week. Physiologically impossible. So 1 or 1.5 a week should really be our target if the goal is to lose it and then keep it off forever!!!

I get it, but that just means it will take longer to lose. Longer to lose, longer it will stay gone. Must commit that to memory. I'm on the right path, just turns out it's a meandering path and not the autobahn!!!!
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Monday, July 27, 2009

Back on Track! :O)

Okay.....Day 35 is finally at an end. It was a tough day, but I made it. I'm finishing out the day with a total of 1415 net calories and my 1 hour workout complete! Whewww......I feel better. Still a little sluggish from the effects of yesterday, but definitely on the way back to "the best of my life".

I watched the show "Ruby" tonight before my workout. It was really inspiring. If she can keep moving forward.....so can I. Viva la' us, Rub!!!! ;O)
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End of Week 5

Okay....today is day 35 of the "best of my life". That means I've been trying to change my food choices and consumption and increase my physical activity for 5 full weeks now. My initial goal was to consume 1636 net calories a day for weight loss. I started out pretty strong:

Average Daily Calories Consumed:
Week One: 1649
Week Two: 1541
Week Three: 1578
Week Four: on Vacation and didn't count calories, but felt I ate well.
Week Five: 1986!!!

By far this last week was my worse to date. Not sure what happened. I don't know if the new medication has anything to do with it, but I had horrible cravings and gave in to them more often than I should have.

Yesterday was by far the worst single day in the last 35. It started great. Got up, ate a healthy breakfast and went to the park with Bruce and Hayden. We walked 3 mile trail near the lake. Came home, got ready and went shopping with Hayden while Bruce went to work. So far so good. When Hayden and I got home, I turned in to a human vacuum cleaner and went to work on the fridge!!

Frosting, sandwich, more frosting, another sandwich, more frosting. Hmmm....how about some chicken soup with white pasta noodles. Yum. How about 2 bowls. (If 1 is good, two is better, right??) More frosting. ....Okay....feeling sick as a dog. Throw out the rest of the frosting before I eat ANOTHER spoonful. Done.

Today.....My insides feel like a sewer system. So NOT worth it. What happened? How could I have lost control to such a degree? How could I have forgotten how physically bad I feel when I eat that much sugar and refined carbs???

I have to shake this off and get back on track. I can't let the last 5 weeks be ruined by one off one. Today is going to be a tough one. Wish me luck!!!
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Sugar Coma....

'nuff said. :O(
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THE WEIGHT LOSS PLAN

Here is the plan if you would like to follow along:
1. figure out how many calories a day you should be consuming
in order to lose weight. (7 calories x your current weight)
This is the net amount per day you should be eating.
Net amount = calories eaten minus calories burned
through excercise.

Example: 2200 calories eaten minus 450 calories burned on
treadmill= 1750 net calories.

2. Try to eliminate or drastically reduce the "white foods" you
eat. White bread, rice, pasta, flour, sugar or anything made
with these ingrediants.

3. Work out 1 hour a day, 7 days a week. No excuses.
(This does NOT have to be done all at one time.)

4. Keep Track of your calorie intake and your exercise and
weigh in only once a week.

That's it. It's just that simple and just that hard all at the same time!! Good luck to us all.

Also- if you would like a template of the Excel spreadsheet calorie and food log that I use, Just send me an email at WeighLessLiveMore@yahoo.com and I will be happy to send that to you.

Coupon Kitchen

A Tasty treat made with this weeks coupon finds:

This week I had a dollar off of Duncan Hines Cake Mix. Last week I had a dollar off of Cool Whip. I bought both.

The cake was on sales for 1.66, so I paid .66
The Cool Whip was on sale for 1.25, so I paid .25

I purchased the Duncan Hines Spice cake mix (It had fewer calories) and instead of making a cake, I made cupcakes. The box said it made 12 servings (based on the cake) at 270 calories per serving, so I did the math. 270 x the 12 servings per box = 3240 for the whole cake. I made 24 cupcakes. 3240 /24= 135 calories per cupcake.

When we're ready to have one I "ice" the top with the cool whip for a cool 10 extra calories. I get a great tasting cupcake treat for only 145 calories! I think kids would love these and not really miss the heavier icing version. :O)