Update!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is Sunday morning. I wanted to update my progress from Saturday and my plan for today. Yesterday I was not feeling well, so I did not get my walk in. I did drink a fruit smoothie for breakfast. I had some tortilla chips for a snack. I also ate about 5 peppermint candy, they helped with stopping my nauesa and dizzyness. I drank at least 32oz of water. I had a black bean salad and some potato salad for lunch. For dinner I had a veggie riblet and some rice. For dessert I had a slice of apple pie.

So far, this morning I had some fruit juice and a bagel for breakfast. I will try to make a bean salad for lunch and dinner and I will go shopping and prepare my food for this week. I will ride my bike for 30 minutes tonight!

Have a wonderday day!!!!!!!!

CLM

For the love of walking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Saturdays I will walk 6 miles to break up the Bike routine. I love the way my legs feel after the bike, but I need to see nature and get air in my lungs atleast once a week. Another modification to my eating plan is an eating out guide!!!!!!!!!

1. Only order water
2. fruit smoothies from Jamba Juice are approved
3. Grilled fish with vegetables
4. All vegetable sub with dressing no larger than a six inch
5. whole black bean and rice burrito, hold the sour cream and chips!

Need to add these safe guards!!!!!!!1

The dessert clause : I am allowed i small cup of sherbet a night or a fruit-cup, or a popsicle that is all fruit or low in sugar. I can have fresh fruit any time!!!!!!!!!1

CLM

The Plan

I will update my blog at least every friday!!!!!!!!

So here is the plan for September!!!!!!!!

Exercise

Everyday except Wed

Bike while watching one episode of the Cosby Show aprox, 30 minutes.
10 crunchies, 5 reps of 5 sets of curls and raises with 3lb weight.

Food

Meal one : 8am 1 yoplait light, 1/2 cup fiber one and a table spoon dried fruit
Meal two : 11am pb&j or veggie burger and a fruit-cup
Meal three: 2pm 1 yoplait light, 1/2 cup fiber one and a table spoon dried fruit
Meal four: follow weekly schedule

1. haystack( aka taco salad, lettuce, tomato, black beans and five tortilla chips) Ceaser free dressing
2. baked potato with broccoli
3. red beans, brown rice and greens
4. haystack
5. pasta with red sauce and grillers crumbles and a green salad
6. Navy beans, string beans and potatos
7. haystack
8. Tuna sandwhich
9. Black eye peas, greens and rice
10. haystack

* I will shop and cook and plan the meal for the entire week on saturday's!!!!!!!!!

Note: I do not count calories although I will eat smaller portions!!!!!!!! The goal is to eat healthy, as long as I stay away from junk and follow the eating plan I should be okay.

I will weight myself at the end of every month! My true measuring stick is this old pair of black pants in a size 16. When I can fit them I know I am doing right!!!!!!!!!!

The Begining!

Yesterday I got on the new scale I purchased and to my utter disbelief it read that I was 247lbs. I was so shocked and embarrased. I wanted to start a blog about my journey to get healthy. I had begun writing before I weighed myself when I thought I was 230lbs. I was so sad about the news that I was 17lbs heavier that I erased everything I wrote and was going to chicken out of doing a blog. Instead of being depressed I am starting over. I chose to blog my journey, because I know that it will keep me accountable!

So let me back up and tell you how I arrived at my present condition and tell you a little about myself.

For starters I am a twenty-five year old, African-American woman residing in the Bay Area. I reccently graduated Cal State East Bay with a degee in Ethnic Studies. I am a Bay Area native, al though I do have tons of family that live in Louisiana. I feel like my whole college experience was about getting to know myself and now I am on a journey to love myself, get healthy and enjoy my beauty. I am not the best grammar student in the world, but I will attempt to make my blog readable. Forgive any mistakes along the way.

So, here is a little of my body history. I was a normal weight baby and an active child playing jump rope and tag daily. I was addicted!!!!!! When I entered high school I played a ton of sports, including ; volley ball, basket ball, batminton and I ran cross county. My average weight was 145lbs and I am 5ft 3inches. I started gaining weight in college, do to inactivity and a pizza habit. During my senior year in college I started walking and I was able to get down to 150lbs and a size 12 by graduation in June of 2008.

The victory was short lived, because I began eating candy and cracker snacks at my job in a poor response to stress. I stopped walking, because of bad weather and I did not adopt an indoor routine. I started eating ice cream and pizza again and by January of 2009 I was back up to 200lbs. I got depressed and the weight kept piling on. By August of 2009 I weight a total of 247lbs and am now a size 24.

This is a blog about my journey to get healthy. My goal is to start a daily exercise program and adopt healthy eating habits. I aim to kick my sugar addiction and my habit of eating when I am stressed. Goodbye, (French fries, grilled cheese, taco bell, pizza and ice cream)! By making these changes I hope to get back to a healthy weight range and dress size. The rewards I am most looking forward to is having my energy back!!!!!!!!!!!! Cute clothes wouldn't hurt either. The biggest obstacle in my way is food. I love exercise and just bought an exercise bike and free weights so that kicks the bad weather excuse. I just need to come up with a daily routine. I have no idea how I am going to tackle the food thing, but this is the begining of my journey. Stay tuned as I figure it out!!!!!!!!!!

Carolyn aka CLM