Weekly Review (9)

I did it!  Yesterday morning I got up at 5:00AM and worked out.   I'm doing Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred.  I'm not doing it everyday, but I'm aiming for at least 5 days a week!  This morning was another story after a rough night last night with a hurt dog who wouldn't stop whining and a baby boy who woke up screaming 3 times during the night.  Tomorrow is another day, just can't get defeated by the days that I don't work out or do well on the diet.


Friday and Saturday were not good food days for me but the rest of the week has been and I still lost weight even with a couple of bad days.  This week I'm trying to do a shake for breakfast and lunch to get back into the swing of things.  Day 3 and so far so good.  I usually eat a small snack with my lunch shake, either a handful of nuts or 2 cheese sticks.  I need to have the sensation of eating actual food or I go crazy!  Totally a mind over matter thing and maybe someday I'll over come that. 


Weekly Weigh In: 291 (down 23 lbs, so close to being under 290!)

Weekly Review

I had a great week over all last week!  My food choices over the weekend weren't all that great but I started out making good choices again yesterday and am feeling good! 

Last weekend I was able to run around the yard with Caitlyn and didn't feel like I was going to die!  It felt so good and the smile on her face was all the motivation that I need to keep on this journey and keep the weight coming off.  Making the right choices, exercising and getting healthy is what I'm focusing on. 

Saturday I ran / walked my first 5K!  I finished the race and I wasn't last!  I am so proud of myself for doing this.  I felt like I was going to die afterwards but I would try to do another one in the future.  Part of the problem was that part of the race went over a pedestrian bridge over the river and then back.  On the way back it was super windy and I could feel the bridge swaying slightly, and the river was rippling underneath us and it was making me sick.  I thought I was going to throw up over the side of the bridge!  I tried focusing on the building in front of me but it wasn't working.  I felt slightly sick and got a headache the rest of the night. 

Last night I started the Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred video.  There are 3 20 min workouts on the dvd.  I can do 20 min after the kids go to bed and hopefully with all the nice weather do a lot of walking / running as well to supplement!  The other night I was watching tv and got sucked into watching a Jillian Michael's infomercial for her Body Revolution program.  I decided to do the 30 Day Shred first and if I liked it and saw results I'd splurge and order that program.  It's a 90 day program with 15 dvd's and meal planning and 30 day trial to her website.  We'll see....I can be such a sucker when it comes to infomercials! 

Weekly Weigh In: 193 (I lost a lb even with the bad weekend food wise!) 

Imagine

I've been feeling some tingling in my stomach and side.  I like to imagine it's my fat cells shrinking down to nothing.  I also like to imagine they are screaming like the mucus globs on the mucinex commercial as they shrink to nothing!  These thoughts make me smile! 

Only 2 more days until my race!  I'm really excited about this! 

Weekly Review

I did really well on my diet this week again!  Saturday night we went out to Old Chicago and I did splurge and we got the spicy spinach cheese dip.  I only ate one piece of the bread with it and then ate the veggies.  We ordered pizza and I only ate the toppings, no crust.  Plus I get one splurge meal a week!  Would you believe that I didn't have any wine or beer this week?  Beth wasn't drinking so I didn't either!  I will be having a beer and wings tonight, but no potato wedges!  And we're grilling out tomorrow night so I may be drinking wine tomorrow too! 

I also exercised 3 times this week.  Last night I worked out by myself without my sister!  We went running Tuesday night, a workout video Thursday night and last night I did 45 min on the elliptical (I did a warm up with Caitlyn on her wii dance game)! 

This Saturday is my first 5K....I think I'm going to do pretty well.  Beth and I figured that we ran over 2 of the 3 miles when we ran last week.  I know I can't run the whole thing...but maybe by the next one!  Jared is running this one with us and then free pizza and beer after the race!  Can't wait...we haven't been out on St Patty's Day since before we had Caitlyn! 

Weekly Weigh In: 194 lbs (20 lbs baby!  Yippee!)     

Weekly Review

I did really good this past week!  Shakes for breakfast and I did really well sticking to low carb meals.  Saturday night we went to dinner at Jared's Dad & Kendy's house and I had soup with a couple of slices of cheese.  No crackers and no bread.  I even skipped dessert although that was easy because it was strawberry rhubarb pie which is not a favorite of mine.  I did go out for sushi and wine with Beth last night and I think the sodium caught up with me because my loss wasn't as big as I would have expected today after having such a great week.  But it was still a loss and not a gain.  And every little bit helps.  It's hard to remember it's not all about the scale.  That getting healthy and feeling good about myself are the end goals in this journey. 

I did work out on Saturday with Beth.  We did a Kickbox Bootcamp video on Netflix and then went for a walk.  We're talking about going running tomorrow night as long as I stay motivated.  It's supposed to be 70 degrees tomorrow so we have to take advantage of the nice weather! 

Weekly Weigh In: 197 (down a total of 17 lbs)

What To Do...

What to do when I'm not hungry but I want to eat.  The feeling is overwhelming.  I've been really good this week with the diet (although no exercising has been done).  I've had my shakes in the morning for breakfast and for the most part have been eating low carb and healthy meals.  I was so proud of myself at lunch today because they ordered salad and pizza and I had a larger portion of salad and then only ate the toppings on my pizza and threw away the crust.  That is progress on having self discipline.  But then this afternoon I wanted to eat.  I'm not hungry.  I tried a piece of gum but that didn't work.  I tried drinking water but that didn't work either.  So I had a handful of nuts and that seemed to do the trick.  How do I get past these feelings? 

When I feel this way I feel out of control.  Its so overwhelming.  A couple of times this week I had an afternoon cup of coffee because it helped with the sugar or sweet cravings.  I do put creamer in my coffee so there are calories and carbs in it but I needed something and the calories in my creamer are significantly lower than the snickers bar I usually want!  I just need some tools to help be combat these feelings and hopefully soon they will subside and my healthy eating will just be a normal occurrence. 

I'm going to have to research this and see what others do....