weigh in monday. (week 24)

No, I didn’t go shopping but I decided that I will save my money for a big shopping spree when I am able to squeeze my but in to my size 7 jeans!  I feel good when I’m working towards a goal.

I got to drive a car to day! It was fun! I wish I took the time to learn how to drive at 16. I’m a 20 year old newbie driver. My mom says she can see a change in me. She not only sees my body changing she sees the way I carry myself changing. Knowing that makes me even more determined to lose the weight I packed on. I can’t wait until I can feel 100% confident in myself.

“You’ve got to let go of the stuff from past – because it just doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is what you choose to be now.”— Kung Fu Panda 

I’m addicted to this song. I need to add this to my work out play list.

If you are a weight loss /fitspo tumblr keep up the good work! If I can do it then you can do it too!

Two spoonful of honey before bed will help burn off fat while you sleep.  The hibernation diet promises to help people lose weight while they sleep.

This diet was developed by an Edinburgh pharmacist and sports nutritionist, is said to be endorsed by Olympic gold-winning cyclist Chris Hoy and used by champion boxer Alex Arthur.

The diet advises eating a couple of teaspoons of honey before bedtime and training with weights instead of long aerobic workouts.

Mike McInnes and his son Stuart were working with athletes and thier nutrition, when they discovered that eating fructose-rich food such as honey, helped burn fat and increase stamina.

The best time to burn fat they found is while you are sleeping.  When you eat fructose, it is converted to glucose in the liver. This stabilizes blood sugar levels and allows the body to activate recovery hormones which rebuild muscle and skin cells. You then burn more fat sleeping.  Eating two teaspoons of fructose rich honey before bedtime will do more fat burning than even exercise. 

Hormones are fuelled by fat, so when you eat honey before going to bed the body burns more fat. Instead of working to regulate blood sugar use honey before bed.

Mik McInnes said “The key time for fat burning is in the first four hours of sleep when we go into slow-wave sleep.  This switches on the pituitary gland and out of that comes a series of hormones that break down and use fat as fuel.”

“Take your liver to bed empty, and your body can’t get to work with those hormones because it’s desperately trying to sort out your blood glucose levels.”

“So stabilizing your blood glucose at night by fuelling up your liver - honey is the key - allows that recovery to take place as it should.

“We also discovered that athletes who were using our liver fuelling strategy were reporting that their appetite was controlled much better.”

You can also increase the amount of fat you burn by doing 15-minute weights sessions three times a week, according to the diet. Resistance exercise stresses a muscle and then the body repairs it while you are sleeping by mobilizing fat and you reap the benefits, Mike McInnes claims.

McInnes said: “We know it’s revolutionary because we see the results we have had for athletes. It is a whole new approach as the liver is the organ that all the sports literature misses out. The sports establishment don’t like us because we are coming at it from an angle they haven’t thought of.”

Source: http://www.nmhoney.com/nmhoney/Sub%20Files/A%20Spoonful%20of%20honey%20before%20bed.htm

so I didn’t get fired from work, but I did get a write-up and some sense talked into me. an icky feeling resides in my stomach; it could be my guilty conscience, or hunger pangs, I can’t decide which!

today was okay. I ate (roughly): one cup special K with 1/2 cup fat free milk, a yoplait light strawberry yogurt, subway’s black forest ham sandwich with no cheese and tons of vegetables, a bag of pretzels, a hamburger with extra lettuce, extra tomato, ketchup and mustard, the rest of my bag of pretzels, string cheese… yep. I had a bite or two of my coworkers fries, so I added up 100 calories for that, and I’m about 200 calories under my daily intake.

so why do I feel so shitty?

I keep forgetting I’m only five days into this caloric intake readjustment. I’m only six or seven days into my gym membership. I’m only six days into this blog. the race is long. I just wish I could get some instant gratification, you know?! my mind is pleading for results because I’m used to seeing them so soon in my life. like, work 30 hours, get a paycheck in a week. wonder what your plans are for tomorrow, text a friend, find out. crave frozen yogurt, buy frozen yogurt.

the commitment I’m making is a commitment that’s going to last a lifetime. I want to be healthy. right now, I’m feeling down on myself when there isn’t any big setback to feel down about! well, not with my diet at least.

I think I’m eating too many carbs. wait… yeah… I’m definitely eating too many carbs. those have ALWAYS been my weakness! mmm bread bread bread pretzels bread. any suggestions for filling foods that aren’t so… bready?

Nutrition

Breakfast
1 Slice Whole Wheat Toast with 1 tbsp. Peanut Butter
Honey Nut Cheerios with 1/2 Cup Skim Milk
Athenos Greek Strained Nonfat Blueberry Yogurt
1/4 Cup Bear Naked Fit Triple Berry Crunch Granola
1/2 Grapefruit
Calories: 585

Post-Workout Snack
8 oz. Low-Calorie Grape Gatorade
1 Rounded Scoop Optimum Nutrition 100% Whey Gold Standard Double Rich Chocolate blended with 8 oz. Skim Milk
Calories: 226

Lunch
Subway Turkey & American Cheese on 6” Honey Oat with Lettuce, Tomato, Black Olive, Mayonnaise, Mustard
Fit and Active All Natural Strawberry Fruit Strip
Calories: 420

Dinner
Tyson Chicken Breast Patty
1 Small Banana
Mixed Steamed Vegetables, 1 Cup
Calories: 310

Nighttime Snack
Up & Up Women’s Daily Multivitamin Dietary Supplement
10 Medium Strawberries
1/4 Kit Kat Bar
Dreyer’s Fruit Bar, No Sugar Added
1 Chips Ahoy! Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie
Calories: 176

Water Consumption
14 Cups

TOTAL CALORIES: 1717 (goal 1756)
TOTAL CARBS: 251 (goal 219 g)
TOTAL FAT: 47 (goal 49 g)
TOTAL PROTEIN: 99 (goal 109 g)
TOTAL SODIUM: 2535 (goal 2500 mg)

Fitness

5K practice run, 33:21
Calories Burned: 406

Sleep

8 Hours

2 weeks ago I was 126.6

Today, I was 126.0

I don’t understand why this is. I literally can’t fault my eating on any day over the past 2 weeks - the single “bad” thing I’ve eaten has been an ice cream last weekend which I factored into my calories anyway. Just checked back through my MFP diary and I’ve not been over 1350 calories on a single day. I’ve worked out 6 days a week burning between 300 - 800 calories at a time. The maths simply doesn’t add up. 

YES, a loss is a loss, and I know that because I’m so close to goal I can’t expect to lose more than 1lb a week, but half a lb over 2 weeks? That’s terrible, and a poor effort on my part.

The thing is, I’m actually starting to feel slim and happy with my body. I can feel my shape changing and muscles starting to appear. I woke up feeling great, and this STUPID set of scales has pissed me off. I’m annoyed. Rant over.

Edit - Just realised this means I’ve failed one of my June goals which was to be 124 or 125 by the end of the month. So I’ve lost a grand total of 2lbs this month. Feel free to point and laugh. Biggest Loser’s got nothing on me!

This was me at my thinnest back at the end of 2009. I want to get back to this - and then some (a lot) more.

SW: 79 kg (174.2 lb) 2011.1.10
UGW: 56 kg (123.5 lb)

Last week: 67,2 (148.1)
This week: 66,9 (147.5)
Lost: -0,3 kg (0.6 lb)

Total: 12,1 kg (26.7 lb)

Seems like another plateau…. I’m gonna beat you!!

Day Four- Your greatest fears about weight loss.

6/4/11

337.8lbs, down 4.2lbs from last week!

No pics yet.

I can feel myself being more… not bony but… bony?  I don’t know how to put it.  

Basically I’m able to feel things on my body I haven’t felt in a long time, like my collarbones, and my feet and hands are a lot more sinewy than they were before.  I’ve been noticing muscles I haven’t seen ever since I started p90x. 

Yay!

also, personal time is a lot more intense, ngl, and I’ve noticed that I’m slimmer *downstairs* as well. ;)

989 calories burned walking 2.46 miles in 50:00 minutes.

Day Twenty-Two- What was your lowest weight? How and why did you gain?

To be honest, I have no idea. I don’t weigh myself often. I’m going to guess about 100.

I gained mostly because I quit sports towards the end of high school, but also because I went to college, where healthy options are available, but less healthy options are plentiful.

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I must start by saying that I ate entirely too much last night for dinner. I must also say that I don’t believe one should do any differently when eating at one of the highest rated Italian restaurants in San Francisco. In fact, those are the only two things I will say about that.

I didn’t eat too terribly today, considering what I wanted to eat.

Breakfast- Apple, a few cashews

Lunch- Falafel wrap, and I took a lot of the pita off, and my first soda in a month

Dinner- A grilled cheese made with 1 slice of whole wheat bread, a serving of Healthy Choice red beans and rice soup

I’ve been sneaking bits of chocolate, sips of my family’s coffee and other random things all day. I think it’s PMS. Also, even though I’m glad I ate so much yesterday (because it was so good and so worth it), I’m feeling really gross today.

We got home too late from our trip for me to work out. I start work tomorrow, and am planning on loading my lunch with fruit and veggies to hopefully make me feel better. I’ll throw in a little chocolate or something sweet just in case, because these cravings are terrible! I haven’t had any cravings until now!

I think I’ll go drink some water in an attempt to clean out my system.

so i finally got a real gym membership! (yay)

the whole going to my university gym just wasnt working out. the city upped street parking fees so it was like a quarter for five minutes. and then the gym was only open certain hours and not on the weekends and i could only park on the street for like this two hour window…it just wasnt working out. hahaha

so i trucked myself down to the local la fitness and the guy was pretty nice about setting me up with a membership that i could afford.
i went to a place last summer for like $75 for three months which was really small and like my entire high school went there. i just didnt feel like dealing with people hah that sounds horrible, but its true.
you know when you run into someone who like you ‘know’ and its all awkward cause you should probably say hi, but you dont. and then the other person doest say anything so its just this big awkward encounter.

…yeah thats my old gym.

but anyways, this la fitness its pretty nice. its really large and i can take yoga classes for free and stuff so im pumped about that.

today i just jogged on the treadmill for an hour. i was kinda intimidated to go down with the juice head guido’s (okay..they werent really guerillas. but i still felt stupid going down there. :P) to lift weights and do leg machines.

i have this huge bubble blister on my pinky toe, which im hoping takes care of itself by tomorrow…cause i actually want to go to the gym. haha

oh! and today i also pulled weeds and put up this gazebo in my backyard.

in other words, today was pretty successful. right?

sweet dreams. :) 

Breakfast: oatmeal with a sliced banana, some walnuts, and cinnamon-sugar; coffee

Mid-morning snack: bagel twist from DD; more coffee

Lunch: spinach salad with red cabbage, cucumber, carrots, raw pumpkin seeds, raisins, and oil/balsamic vinegar; multigrain tortilla chips with guac

Dinner: (at Pizzeria Uno) Veggie Curry Pasta (small plate- I love that they have this option!) with a side of broccoli and a breadstick; unsweetened iced tea

Nighttime snack: (at Starbucks) Skinny Vanilla Latte (tall)

Exercise: elliptical for 1 hour

Sorry I haven’t been posting! This past week has been madness! I had to get all my traffic tickets straightened out. I did traffic school for one and went to court and lost for the other… But hey. Haha, at least they’re dealt with!

On the way, I lost track of my eating habits because of all the stress… But I’m back on it. And I actually spent two hours on the elliptical at the gym today because I was engulfed in the NBA Finals (GO MAVS!). Hahaha.

Anyway, I’m going to Disneyland on Thursday! Woohoo! Every time I go, I always manage to lose weight. I guess it’s because we don’t eat as much, and we’re always walking!

But until then, it’s healthy eating and being a gym rat. (=

xoxo sarah

Hey there! I’m actually not tracking my calories for weight loss reasons, I’m doing it to ensure that I’m not undereating.. which is very possible considering I’m not used to getting all of my calories from fruits and greens.

I have nothing against those foods, I just like to keep things simple and concentrate more on fruits and leafy greens. I also don’t particularly like the taste of those foods. I actually have a ton of different fruits and greens in my kitchen (I’ll be sure to do a post one of these days), I just don’t eat all of them on the same day. For example, I would eat a bag of grapes for breakfast on one day.. and mangos the next. Uncomplicated mono-meals are the easiest to digest, and it’s kind of fun to be able to dedicate an entire meal to one of my favorite fruits.

But yes, variety is key. Oh, and so nice to see that produce gets you excited.. that is quite rare in this day and age!

I am afraid that I will not be about to loose enough weight in time to look good for my wedding, also that I won’t notice/be able to recognize and be happy when I reach a good weight

just looked through some pictures of me

This means I do most of my workouts at night.  Mostly before bed.  I’m a freak and working out before bed actually makes me sleep better so…

This also sucks, because I reach my net calories and then burn them and then end up in a situation where I run around 600 net calories and don’t feel like eating. 

I’m trying to start working out in the morning.  Like today, I walked/ran this morning on the treadmill and it was nice.  So I guess I’m gonna keep doing that.

So today I officially started cycle 1: accelerate.

The purpose of this cycle is to start the rapid weight loss basically by detoxing your body. For the next seventeen days, I’m allowed unlimited protein (meat, poultry, fish, and my favorite, eggs!), but I have to limit my carbs. By reducing carbs, my body will have to turn to fat to convert into energy. Also, cutting sugar is a big part of this step. The book suggest truvia as an alternative to sugar, and also to splenda/equal/sweet’n’low.  I HATE splenda with such a passion, but I had a truvia in my green tea before and it tasted like sugar. So thumbs up for that.

Anyhoo, I don’t want to get into all that technical stuff right now, i’ll do that maybe over the weekend. Today was particularly hard because I didn’t have any food prepared, and I only had some frozen vegetables, a little chicken. but here’s how my day went:

-Woke up at 10:30am: i’m still trying to straighten out my sleep cycle, so I had gone to bed around 2am, so I still got eight hours. I already take meletonin (a vitamin) to sleep, so I took that about an hour ago, so I should be asleep fairly quickly, and I hope to be up.

-Drank 8oz of hot water with half a lemon: the book suggests to do this every morning because it “awakens your digestive juices,” or something like that. to be honest, it doesn’t taste too good, but the lemon did wake me up some.

-By 11:00am went for a walk: the book (yes, I will be referencing the book a lot so I do suggest you buy it) directs to have 17 minutes of exercise to day, twice ideally. The 17 minutes I think is just a cutesy consistency with the title, but I walked around the state park for 45 minutes, just because it’s a full loop and I hate backtracking.

-Ate breakfast around 12:10: I still haven’t figured out if I want/should eat before or after walking, but today I decided to do it after. I had two scramble eggs with a sprinkle of low fat cheddar cheese with some salsa. Salsa is on the list of unlimited things you can have as dressings during this cycle, and it tastes really good with eggs. Also, by scrambling my eggs, I cut down on the amount of grease on my eggs.

-Lunch at 2:30: because I have to leave for work at 3:30, I had to have lunch a little early (meaning closer to breakfast than 3 hours, which is ideal). I made a salad with iceberg lettuce, orange peppers, cucumber, tomato, and a serving (palm sized) of grilled chicken. I drizzled a tablespoon of olive oil, with two tablespoons of balsamic vinaigrette for a dressing.

-Snack at 5:00pm: just had a chobiani Greek yogurt. nothing too special.

-Ritas: everyone at work got ritas and I caved and got a small vanilla custard (i figured it would hve less sugar than an Italian ice). I immediately regretted it, only ate three bites, and gave it to a coworker. I’m awarding myself ten points because I definitely would not have done that before.

-Dinner around 7:30: before work, steamed corn and defrosted some broccoli and had with another serving of chicken. it was pretty plain, but very filling. Corn actually isn’t on the list of unlimited veggies, but I didn’t have anything else. I’ll have to keep that in mind when stopping for veggies tomorrow.

-Cookies :( I baked some cookies for a friend that i’m seeing tomorrow and I munched on some dough. When the cookies were ready however, I let them cool and packed them up right away so I wouldn’t be tempted. I only had one small one with some milk. After eating healthy all day though, I do feel a little sick and “blah”

 

Today kind of look me by surprise, mostly cause I didn’t have all the food I needed. I need to buy a lot more veggies and fruit, and some more ingredients for meals. Tomorrow though, i’ve leaving my house fairly early and spending the day down at my friends house about two hours away. I hope to get in a walk in the morning before I leave and making breakfast, but i’m worried about the other meals, especially because I don’t know anything food places in the area. I am, however, looking forward to starbucks (for which my town lacks). I think i’m just going to go with an iced coffee with soy milk and a truvia. that’s not to be right?

See you later!

-A

I’ve never done it before- but I can’t stop feeling guilty for what I ate today. I’m scared to try it- but I feel like I have too. Ugh.

At least tomorrow is a new day.

Wednesday, June 8th 2011

To be honest I did slack of today and didn’t hit the gym, but I did do a little light exercise before bed

> 200 Crunches

30 Day Wight Loss Challenge

Day Three - Thinspiration

I’m not really into thinspiration. I look at it sometimes but usually to see what these girls are wearing. I’m really into fashion and clothes and things of that nature. I love lookbook.com and whowhatwear.com. I look at those websites all the time and i would love to feel more comfortable in my clothes and wear different, fun things! 

I also have a total girl crush on Binki Shapiro from the band Little Joy. She is beautiful, talented and has great STYLE. A really inspiring woman.

Haven’t had a chance to weigh myself yet this week. I’ve been crazy busy with summer school starting (chemistry from 9:30am to 2:30pm…sick)  and working six days this week. I managed to fit some exercise in tonight though. Did my first day of the 30 Day Shred and swam laps for about 30 minutes.

Morning~

In about 2 hours I’ll have my maths exam and all I can think about is, how can I get rid of these calories of my fxxking and horrible breakfast.

My mother forced me to eat 3 (!!!) little pieces of some kind of brownies. And then also gave me a sandwich for the exam. And if it’s not already enough, she gave me 5€ for lunch :’D

I think this woman doesn’t understand anything. Or my mind is just kinda damaged. I mean, HOW can people eat breakfast, snack, lunch and dinner?!

I would cry my eyes out if I had to eat this much…

But well~ that’s just my opinion. My family has very different thoughts.

Anyways. Wish me luck for the exam, I’ll be back after it.

Stay strong my sweeties ? 

Day Twenty-Six- What excites you most about reaching your ugw?

Half of it is the thrill of experiencing something new. Something I’ve never ever had. The second part is getting to wear the clothes. I want to wear anything I want. Mary Kate Olsen dresses in a way that if she had like, 10 spare pounds, she’d constantly look like a bag lady, rather than a billionaire. I want that power. 

couldn’t bring myself to do it. I hate myself right now.

Xenadrine Water
Breakfast: Grapes, Peach
Snack: Banana Chips
Xen Water
Lunch:  Protein Bar
Xen Water
Dinner: Breaded Fake Chicken Nuggets w/ Hot & Sweet Mustard and a side salad w/ fat free balsamic vinaigrette dressing

man junior year of high school I was gettinn bigg!

and even at the beginning of this year!

I may not be 100% happy with what I look like now, but I am glad I’ve lost weight!  

It motivates me to keep going! 

Need a lot more improvement, but i’m not going to get too...

I’ve lost 1 pound in 2 friggin dayyyyysss ! And just come back from a 2 mile run baby !

Bob Harper’s Fitness Tip to Stay Motivated #1: Trust the Process 

• “Your body has changed from exercising and eating well, so you know the program works,” says Harper. “Don’t start questioning it or give up because you’ve stopped seeing noticeable progress. If you’re doing everything right, your body just has to go through an adjustment period.”

Bob Harper’s Fitness Tip to Stay Motivated #2: Try Not to Obsess

• “Don’t focus on the 10, 20, or 50 pounds you’re still hoping to lose,” says Harper. “That’s too daunting. Take it day by day with small goals. When you get up, think, ‘Okay, I have to do my cardio workout and I’m going to make smart choices at lunch.’ Check your healthy habits on your to-do list.”

Bob Harper’s Fitness Tip to Stay Motivated #3: Let Your Body Rest

• “You’ve been pushing yourself for a couple of months now. If you’re feeling worn out, take a day off, then return to your routine the next day,” suggests Harper. “The workouts are designed to break down your muscles so they get stronger, but they won’t if you don’t give them time to recover.”

Bob Harper’s Fitness Tip to Stay Motivated #4: Don’t Get Comfortable

• If you keep doing a particular workout that you love—maybe 45 minutes on the elliptical—stop! “Instead, slash the time in half and jack up the intensity,” says Harper. “Your muscles will think, ‘What the heck is going on?’ and that’s exactly what will get you over the hump.”

Bob Harper’s Fitness Tip to Stay Motivated #5: Keep Reading SHAPE!

• “Every month it’s filled with ways to change up your workout and stay inspired. Use them!” says Harper. “I also recommend taking group fitness classes, where you’re surrounded by likeminded people who enjoy working out. They’re fantastic motivation.”

I was feeling a bit down about my lack of loss for the last 2 days so I used a photo I took before my diet started (about 2 weeks before) and one I took 2 days ago!

Be prepared for sudden changes in your meal plan. For example, my uncle handed me a take out menu and told me to pick out lunch. So instead of a peanut butter sandwich and Dr. Pepper, I’m going to have a small bacon and mozzarella calzone and water. I’ll just walk a little bit further or dance a little bit longer than I originally planned.

oatmeal ( delicious with skim milk )

Whole egg ( with the yolk of course )

berries ( many kinds )

avocado

skim milk ( with fiber like tropicana slim milk )

I spent my grocery money for the week on a silk romper so I’m having coffee and toast as my only meal of the day

it’s cost-effective plus helps with weight loss!

You know how people say “from head to toe”

no exaggerating right now. Everything from my head to my toes hurt! haha and the fact that my toes hurt surprises the hell out of me.

I can’t really complain though. I got most of my room moved in and unpacked AND can easily count it as my workout until I can get my treadmill back up and running.

OMG! I forgot my workout DVD at my dads house! Guess I gotta make another trip haha. Not that I’m planning on doing a workout in this state or anything lol.

Chocolate for breakfast?  YES!!!!  This muffin is AMAZING and only 100 calories!!!  I usually eat it with a cup of fruit for breakfast on the mornings I wake up craving chocolate!!!  You feel like your cheating, but you are totally not!!!  There are many different flavors to choose from on their website (which you can view by clicking on the picture).  The only thing that is annoying is that they only sell standard flavors in stores (chocolate, corn, banana nut), if you want the more advanced flavors (chocolate chip mint, chocolate peanut butter, etc.) you need to order them off line!!  This brand also sells cake mix, muffintops, brownies, and cakes!!!!!  I am in love with these things!!!!!!!! TRY THEM :)

Need a lot more improvement, but i’m not going to get too down on myself.

i think some people are only meant to be in your life to help you lose weight by creating stressful situations. and i will stick

But I’ve had exams up until today!! It’s quite literally consumed me.

And it’s done weird things to my eating, like being too stressed to eat most of the time. And when I am hungry? Its all cravings haha

We’ll see the effects on the scales tomorrow.

team flippyfloppies. more like team WINNERS.

yeah, that’s right.

this girl right here.

As of today, I weighed in at 169.2 lbs.

I started losing weight last spring/summer when I weighed 210 lbs. This puts me at almost FOURTY ONE POUNDS lost, and about 5 lost for this summer.

Hahahaha I love it.  About to eat, run, then go to work.  I love my life. 

I have finally considered myself on track enough to know that I won’t fall behind.  This means I’ve accepted that I will not get back up above 230lbs. I’ve reached my first goal weight.  Now on to my second.  Only 7 pounds. :)

You’re not hungry; you’re bored. It’s not time to eat. Wait until noon, and then we can have green beans and carrots. You always like that. By next wednesday, you’ll weigh around 156 lbs. Who knows, if we eat healthy and don’t go overboard, maybe 155 lbs. So, be quiet. It’s all okay. I’ll take care of you. 

Breakfast:

Watermelon

Lunch:

Peanut butter sandwich, Dr. Pepper

Dinner:

Salad

Work out:

30 jumping jacks

10 crunches

Walk (not sure how far yet)

Dance

I finally hit 110. Went in to see my doctor for a regular check-up. She saw that I came down from 140. Said my BMI was underweight (really?!). I’m wasn’t planning on losing anymore, but she said that if I did, I had to come back and see her.

I still have a considerable amount of arm flab. Hip bones are not apparent. I’m not so dense that I think I’m not thin, but there are definitely healthy, thinner girls out there who aren’t getting fingers wagged at them by their doctors.

Guess it’s time to focus on muscle tone.

picture irrelevant. 

Tomorrow is a very very exciting day!

And now I’m off to work at my grandma’s house from 11 to 4.

Apparently she wants me to drive her to Stop & Shop so she can get groceries, which means she’ll want to go through the Wendy’s drive-thru for lunch. I need to figure out if I can afford to get the chicken nuggets there or if I should stick strictly to the Lean Cuisine I’ve been eating the past few weeks.

When I was younger, I used to never care about my weight. Now, it’s everything to me.

What food is your weakness?

Anything drizzled or covered in chocolate.

Wasn’t TUMBLR friendly. lol

Lunch was a chicken & mushroom pasta n sauce made up with water (free) mixed with a full tin of mushrooms (superfree) & a pint of squash (free.

Kitkat as usual is 5.5syns.

Gonna get home & do my biggest loser workout! Hopefully will be greeting Bob & Jillian like old friends. I won’t want anything too heavy after that so I’m going to oven cook 2 of my garlic & chilli sausages (syn free from Joe’s Sausages our consultant makes a group order every week) and chop them up into a 2 egg omelette (free).

Sorted!

BY THE WAY, some creeper who apparently lives across from the gym congratulated me on how often I’ve been going there :D

Apparently he can see me exercising everyday from his window that faces the gym o.O

Scale came in yesterday and I weighed myself this morning: 146 lbs. That means I’ve lost 6 lbs since my starting weight of 152 lbs. 

I’m not going to lie I’m feeling a little bit disappointed… During the school year I usually weight 147 lbs. I gained 5 lbs when I went home this semester between my brother’s graduation celebrations, my going away celebrations, etc, etc. I feel like I’m just back to the weight I usually am. There was even a point this spring where I was down to 143 lbs. I feel like I won’t be breaking even until I’m back down to 143. There’s no reason I should have put that 10 lbs back on. I never want to put that weight back on again.

Either way… before I got on the scale I was feeling awesome about my figure. I’ve been going to the gym a lot. I haven’t lost 20 lbs over night and I need to understand that is healthy. I want to loss the weight healthy with an exercise program I can keep up with when I go back to school. An hour of gym a day isn’t unreasonable to keep up with during the semester.

I weighed myself before I went to the gym today and after some working out I feel better :D I’m going to keep this up!

Maybe I haven’t lost so much because all the fat has been turning into heavier muscle at the gym :P

even though i only had it for a week and a half, i guess it was a pretty easy habit to get into. :P

i ordered some new ones last night. three different cheap ones. not sure which kind works best for me, and they were seriously around $2 a piece+shipping so it’s not like i have much to lose if any of them break. haha. if all three of them break…well then…i’ll have to think about getting a fancy expensive one i guess. :P

anyway, i think all of them are coming in from out of the country so it’s going to be a while until i get them. ah well, at least we’re getting the treadmill this weekend. 

Until then, think I’m just going to do lots of walking. 

The reason that got me into weight loss this time around was honestly… my boyfriend. I think that’s a great reason beside being healthy. I want to enjoy being healthy with someone I love.

I want to enjoy his company in more ways than just sitting around watching movies but being fit enough to go hiking and enjoy the beautiful world with him and others.

In light of that…

Goal setting:

By the end of the summer I want to…

1. Overhead Press: 50 lbs. This is important to me because I’m so short I need to be able to lift things that are over my head :P Seriously…
2. Chest Press: 100 lbs. I’m already at 62.5!
3. Row: 100 lbs. It seems to keep up with the chest press.
4. Leg Press: 200 lbs.

I don’t think these goals are crazy. I’ll work at them everyday :)

Are you vegan or vegetarian? If so, has this helped you lose weight? If not, would you ever consider turning vegan or vegetarian?

I went vegetarian for like a month and I did lose a lot of weight, but I got sick because I wasn’t doing the whole vegetarian thing right. I eat meat now, but I eat it a lot less frequently. I wouldn’t go veggie again just because I work out so much and I need meat as a source of protein, but I do choose fish or poultry a lot now.

My boyfriend is coming over to see me! We’ve been apart for 5 weeks so it will be so good to be back together, he is only staying Friday - Monday so we don’t have long, but it will be so nice, I keep thinking about it and getting butterflies! SO EXCITED!!! I’m going to pick him up from the airport at 11am!

I need to start planning things to do with him, on Saturday we are going to watch my Dad do a triathlon, the sea swimming element of it is around a big rock with a 1000+ year old castle perched on top of it so that will be all pretty and nice. I want to go for a cycle together as well (exercise AND couple time, excellent!) and just chill and do nice things together.

After he goes on Monday though we won’t see each other for another 5 or 6 weeks :-(

OH and that was what I came on here to ask you all, we are going out for a meal together tomorrow night to my local Indian restaurant, I don’t really know what the best thing to have weight-loss-wise would be, obviously I want to stay away from things like fried rice, naan, and creamy curries like korma and tikka masala, so what would you suggest? I was thinking I’d get tandoori chicken or chicken shashlik and then steal literally 2 spoon fulls of my boyfriend’s boiled rice (the portions are HUGE). What do you think? Does that sound sensible? What do you normally order at an Indian if you’re watching your weight?

Okay I didn’t eat a salad for dinner. I ate a freaking meatball parm sub and even had some...

Okay I didn’t eat a salad for dinner. I ate a freaking meatball parm sub and even had some dessert.

I’m trying to live the whole “eat to live not live to eat” lifestyle. It’s working PRETTY well. But I mean… life is too short. I enjoyed it. And today is going to be a GOOD day food wise. Meals all planned out. It was a struggle to get near 1200 calories. I’m going to be under and I’ve already decided I am not shredding today.

> I’ve been up since 4:30AM… just woke up and couldn’t fall back asleep.

> I am FINALLY going to give my presentation tonight (hopefully!!!) and would like to practice between work and school.

> I have school all night and want to shower before that as well.

> I want to work on some homework possibly after school.

> I want to finish watching “Gulliver’s Travels” so I can return it to Netflix and get my next movie.

So the plan is to shred Friday through Monday and I’ll be done! Sunday we are taking engagement photos (nothing too fancy, my future sister-in-law is taking them) so I don’t want to look like a fat cow.

Tomorrow is weigh in. Scale hates me this morning but I know it is water weight and sodium overload and I am hoping it will be good tomorrow and show a nice loss. 170s I KNOW YOU’RE THERE. PLEASE COME OUT TOMORROW.

So I've decided to combine my 30 day shred reflections with this 30-day challenge thing about weight loss on tumblr.

SO. 

Day 1 - Your stats.

SW: 160

CW: 140

UGW: 120

oh and I’m 5’2”.

Day 1 of 30-day shred:

Ouch. That is one high intensity workout. I am absolutely shaking. I sort of jumped back and forth between the two intensities at level 1. Lol. But for real, that was gnarly.

Still yet, I think I’m going to try to do my own workout as well as Jillian Michaels’. If I can do hers every morning and then mine every evening that would be pretty awesome. We’ll see how THAT goes. lolololol i’m so tired ughhh

I love everything right now.

Nothing like Zumba with friends to cure the angry soul.  My friend Christiane (Hi!) came to the Wed. night class my mom and I go to.  The instructor isn’t one I’m completely used to—not my Zumba instructor friend (who got a different job and can’t teach classes anymore!!).  She’s a little more intense, but class was so fun.  And the more people you know and like in the class with you, the more enjoyable.  I love it.

I love everything.  I love you people, who read my blog and find me inspiring, in whatever crazy way.  I don’t say this enough (probs because I feel fruity and awkward when I do) but it honestly means so much to me when people message me or tell me in person how great they think I’m doing, and everything that goes along with that.

So YAY for everyone!

Lost 1.4 inches today and 1 pound. Still fat though

Lost 1.4 inches today and 1 pound. Still fat though

Last Week Was:

This last week was finals week. That said, I am still a little disappointed that I didn’t go to the gym at all. So I’m expecting this weeks weigh in to reflect the lack of exercise. I know I’ve got to get back in the habit of working out If I want to make some real progress this summer, and I really plan to step it up. Hell Yeah!

Any way, That’s all in the past! It’s summer time now! I’m amazing, and this is going to be great. I’m looking forward to the future and I’m likin’ what I see!

More coming soon—Taylor, 193lbs

woo hoo!

woo hoo!