I'm so glad to get back on track. The week break from blogging about it gave me some time to think and organize my weight loss plan. I made a list of things to eat for the week and went grocery shopping. My husband had today off so it threw my week off a little bit. Tomorrow feels like my Monday now, so that's the day I'm going to start writing down every.single.thing. that I put in my mouth. I have several fun exercise dvds including Carmen Electra's strip dancing dvds and the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders workout dvds. I plan to do those 3 evenings a week. Here's my loose diet plan for this week.
Breakfast: 2 high fiber waffles with low fat syrup and 2 slices of bacon -or-low fat oatmeal
2-3 snacks per day picking from the following options: jello, fruit, raw veggies, low fat wheat crackers with hummus, skinny cow ice cream sandwhich, pickles, brussle sprouts with cheese, triscuits, low fat popcorn, or no sugar added applesauce
Lunch and Dinner will be choosen from: sandwhich (turkey, tuna, or ham on wheat bread with lettuce, tomatoe and pickles) low fat progresso soup, smart one meal, low fat hot dog on wheat bun, or salad.
I tried to give myself plenty of options without being overwhelmed. Sometimes, I will munch on a snack while trying to decide what to eat. I also bought some diet green tea and crystal light and plan to be drinking throughout the day. I'm not going to cut out my morning coffee or diet soda yet. but, I'm going to try and drink water, crystal light, or green tea as much as possible. Sometimes diet soda really helps curb my appeitite, so it helps when I first start trying to eat better because it seems like I'm always hungry.
I'm excited to have such a specific plan in place. I think I can meet my final weight loss goal by this time next year if I stick to it and don't get off track. That's really motivating to me. Also, my sister losing 4lbs last week when we were taking a break is also the kick in my butt that I need to get it in gear.
Monday, October 10, 2011
back from "break" (M)
We're back after taking a week off and we're ready to get started.
I weighed in this morning at 227.5, a 4 pound loss! I'm so excited to get into the 220's. I'm motivated and I'm ready to get out of the 220's and into the 210's, something I haven't seen on the scale in a LONG time.
My birthday was this past weekend, so I had a bit of a rough time sticking to my diet. I went out to eat a couple of times and ate plenty of cake and ice cream, but thankfully it didn't mess up my weigh-in that much. I've always celebrated with food. I've always gone out to eat with my family or friends to celebrate a birthday or big event, and I hope that as I get older and lose weight, I stop doing that. There's really no need to eat an entire Bacon Cheeseburger from Red Robin (delicious, but HUGE!) and then turn around and eat cake and ice cream 2.5 hours later when I'm still full from dinner. That doesn't mean that I'm going to start eating salads for my birthday, but I think that after this year, I won't be so excessive about it.
When we started this blog, one of our blogs was about what we'll treat ourselves to for every 10 pounds we lost. I couldn't think of anything at the time, but I know what I'm going to get for myself when I reach 10 pounds: I'm going to get something from Philosophy. Whenever I go into Sephora I always like to smell all of the Philosophy soaps, but I can never justify spending that much on soap. So I'm going to treat myself to one when I've lost 4 more pounds :)
I weighed in this morning at 227.5, a 4 pound loss! I'm so excited to get into the 220's. I'm motivated and I'm ready to get out of the 220's and into the 210's, something I haven't seen on the scale in a LONG time.
My birthday was this past weekend, so I had a bit of a rough time sticking to my diet. I went out to eat a couple of times and ate plenty of cake and ice cream, but thankfully it didn't mess up my weigh-in that much. I've always celebrated with food. I've always gone out to eat with my family or friends to celebrate a birthday or big event, and I hope that as I get older and lose weight, I stop doing that. There's really no need to eat an entire Bacon Cheeseburger from Red Robin (delicious, but HUGE!) and then turn around and eat cake and ice cream 2.5 hours later when I'm still full from dinner. That doesn't mean that I'm going to start eating salads for my birthday, but I think that after this year, I won't be so excessive about it.
When we started this blog, one of our blogs was about what we'll treat ourselves to for every 10 pounds we lost. I couldn't think of anything at the time, but I know what I'm going to get for myself when I reach 10 pounds: I'm going to get something from Philosophy. Whenever I go into Sephora I always like to smell all of the Philosophy soaps, but I can never justify spending that much on soap. So I'm going to treat myself to one when I've lost 4 more pounds :)
Monday, October 3, 2011
Week Off
Michelle is in the process of Moving and getting settled in her new house and Lynn is getting caught up from the rough week of everybody in the house being sick. We know we both gained and wanted to take a week off and regroup. We need to find our motivation and reason for doing this. We both want to lose weight and need to lose weight. We know this is going to be hard, but we have to find a way to push through and go more than a day or two without faltering. We both plan on taking this very seriously and are starting right away, however, we will be taking a week off from blogging about it. Hopefully we can come back for next Mo day's weigh in refreshed and ready to don this right.
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