Okay, so I read my blog from the begining today and I am a little sad. I was so motivated to lose weight and then I let obstacles get in my way. After reviewing my blog I am able to idenitfy my pitfalls and the things that work. So, here is my list....
Challenges!
1. Eating poorly at night and on the weekends
2.No exercise at night or on the weekends
So, hear is the deal!
New tricks to get it done!
1. keep walking at lunch time
2. Journal every day
3. Do 20 minutes Monday-Friday of the thirty-day jump start or thirty-day shred
4. Watch old tv shows or listen to music on week nights
5. On saturday and sunday walk for 30 minutes in the morning and come home and do yoga.
6. Weigh yourself every sunday! Post your weight!
7. Replace all drinks with water!
8. Eat small meals!
9. No fast food on week nights! be a food snob!
10.Have a fruit-cup or fresh fruit instead of candy or dessert
11. Make fitness apart of your life!
Evening Meal Ideas
1. Soup
2. Veggie Sandwhich
3. Baked potato and vegetables
4. Pasta and vegetables
5. Rice and vegetables
6. Haystack
Friday, February 26, 2010
The Morning Report
The Good:
Well I ate two meals while I was ate work yesterday, and I went for my walk. In the evening I are a large dinner, a burrito and a quesdilla and an iced tea. I seriously ate until I was stuffed.
The Bad:
I was up late watching tv and I ate a few forks full of chocolate cake and 2 fruit snacks.
It is difficult to decide what I really need to cut out to be successful. I like the discipline of the three meals, but I don't want to use it as a crutch to the point where I am ignoring the needs of my body. I'd like to get to the point where this isn't a struggle. I think what I really should have cut out was the late night sugar party I had. I also have to not stuff myself. I think was is really challenging for me is that my eyes have always been bigger than my stomach. I feel cheated when I have a don't have a large plate of food in front of me. I never listen to my body when it say's to stop eating. I am the girl that gets full from one burrito at taco bell, but will eat two anyway. This morning I was going to have my first meal and I was really thirsty so I drank a lot of water. I has set out a light yogurt and some cheese and crackers. The truth was that after I ate the yogurt I was too full to even think about the crackers. Some times I feel like I want to be a robot that is programed to eat in a routine. I just want to turn my brain on auto-pilot and not make any food decisions.
I will make a true confession!
Weight-loss especially the food aspect is really hard. Sometimes I want to do anything to lose the weight, even not eat at all. The truth is I have to really prob deeper into my issues with food, and find out why I have a bad relationship with food. I can't just blindly eat a set calorie amount I have to listen to my body and feed it healthy foods. I also can't be stuffing food haphazedrdly into my body not worrying about the calories. If my body really does want to eat more frequenyly then I am going to have to give it smaller meals. I may have to set the calorie max to like 150 instead of 300. I still need to make a strong effort to consume fruits and vegetables. I think I really want to eat more fresh fruit and trade my juice in for pure water. I think sugar and water may not mix for me.
The new plan:
Don't throw a shoe at me, because I am an excessive planner. "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." The new plan is to be actively engaged in the weight-loss process by making an honest effort to listen to my body and eat healthy foods. My area of focus is to eat smaller meals. I will try to eat like I am a kid, or a patient that just had a bipass surgery and has the stomach the size of an egg. I will try to stop eating well before the container is empty. I will be wiser about where my calories come from. I will not become a crazy obsessed person who wants to lost 100 pounds in a week. I will slowly get my body back on track and I will believe in myself.
Love CLM
The Good:
Well I ate two meals while I was ate work yesterday, and I went for my walk. In the evening I are a large dinner, a burrito and a quesdilla and an iced tea. I seriously ate until I was stuffed.
The Bad:
I was up late watching tv and I ate a few forks full of chocolate cake and 2 fruit snacks.
It is difficult to decide what I really need to cut out to be successful. I like the discipline of the three meals, but I don't want to use it as a crutch to the point where I am ignoring the needs of my body. I'd like to get to the point where this isn't a struggle. I think what I really should have cut out was the late night sugar party I had. I also have to not stuff myself. I think was is really challenging for me is that my eyes have always been bigger than my stomach. I feel cheated when I have a don't have a large plate of food in front of me. I never listen to my body when it say's to stop eating. I am the girl that gets full from one burrito at taco bell, but will eat two anyway. This morning I was going to have my first meal and I was really thirsty so I drank a lot of water. I has set out a light yogurt and some cheese and crackers. The truth was that after I ate the yogurt I was too full to even think about the crackers. Some times I feel like I want to be a robot that is programed to eat in a routine. I just want to turn my brain on auto-pilot and not make any food decisions.
I will make a true confession!
Weight-loss especially the food aspect is really hard. Sometimes I want to do anything to lose the weight, even not eat at all. The truth is I have to really prob deeper into my issues with food, and find out why I have a bad relationship with food. I can't just blindly eat a set calorie amount I have to listen to my body and feed it healthy foods. I also can't be stuffing food haphazedrdly into my body not worrying about the calories. If my body really does want to eat more frequenyly then I am going to have to give it smaller meals. I may have to set the calorie max to like 150 instead of 300. I still need to make a strong effort to consume fruits and vegetables. I think I really want to eat more fresh fruit and trade my juice in for pure water. I think sugar and water may not mix for me.
The new plan:
Don't throw a shoe at me, because I am an excessive planner. "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." The new plan is to be actively engaged in the weight-loss process by making an honest effort to listen to my body and eat healthy foods. My area of focus is to eat smaller meals. I will try to eat like I am a kid, or a patient that just had a bipass surgery and has the stomach the size of an egg. I will try to stop eating well before the container is empty. I will be wiser about where my calories come from. I will not become a crazy obsessed person who wants to lost 100 pounds in a week. I will slowly get my body back on track and I will believe in myself.
Love CLM
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Update
The Good:
I ate two servings of fruit, tons of protien and 2 servings of vegetables yesterday!
The Bad:
I ate all day, and I do mean all day. Eating small means is dangerous to me, because I eat when I am hungry, bored and stressed. I am a constant snacker!!!!!!!!
Here is what I ate yesterday!
8:00 am 2 veggie patties (220)
12oz superfood drink (195)
10:00 light yogut (100)
1:45 2 veggie patties (220)
12oz superfood drink (195)
2:30 2 granola bars (240)
7:00 taco bean salad (300)
between 7:00-9:oo
2 fruit snacks (160)
2 cheese sticks (200)
ice tea (120)
9:00 8 butter crackers with cheese spread (240)
Grand total 2, 170 calories.
According to this I am 270 calories over what I should be taking in for the day.
The Plan: It is great that I am eating healthy foods and I need to keep this up, but I need to control the amount of food I am taking in and the frequency of my eating so that I don't go out of control. Since I have so many cues to that trigger me to eat I am going to start eating on the clock. I will eat at 8:00, 1:45 and 6:45, just three meals a day!
The new plan follows these steps
1. Eat healthy foods (fruit, vegetables, fish, whole grains like bread, brown rice, the whole food diet)
2. Eat only three meals a day!!!!!!!! (this is a very important step!)
3. Stay away from foods that attack my body
(sweets like ice cream, candy, cookies etc, snacks like chips, crackers, cheesy foods like pizza, cheese. fried foods like vegetables, french fries, fish and shrimp)!
In 14 days of success from eating the right way I will treat myself to a trip to the mall! A $100.00 shopping spree!
Sample Menu!
Breakfast- 2 veggie patties, 1 apple
Lunch- 2 veggie patties, 1 apple
Dinner- taco salad, soup or veggie stir fry
CLM
The Good:
I ate two servings of fruit, tons of protien and 2 servings of vegetables yesterday!
The Bad:
I ate all day, and I do mean all day. Eating small means is dangerous to me, because I eat when I am hungry, bored and stressed. I am a constant snacker!!!!!!!!
Here is what I ate yesterday!
8:00 am 2 veggie patties (220)
12oz superfood drink (195)
10:00 light yogut (100)
1:45 2 veggie patties (220)
12oz superfood drink (195)
2:30 2 granola bars (240)
7:00 taco bean salad (300)
between 7:00-9:oo
2 fruit snacks (160)
2 cheese sticks (200)
ice tea (120)
9:00 8 butter crackers with cheese spread (240)
Grand total 2, 170 calories.
According to this I am 270 calories over what I should be taking in for the day.
The Plan: It is great that I am eating healthy foods and I need to keep this up, but I need to control the amount of food I am taking in and the frequency of my eating so that I don't go out of control. Since I have so many cues to that trigger me to eat I am going to start eating on the clock. I will eat at 8:00, 1:45 and 6:45, just three meals a day!
The new plan follows these steps
1. Eat healthy foods (fruit, vegetables, fish, whole grains like bread, brown rice, the whole food diet)
2. Eat only three meals a day!!!!!!!! (this is a very important step!)
3. Stay away from foods that attack my body
(sweets like ice cream, candy, cookies etc, snacks like chips, crackers, cheesy foods like pizza, cheese. fried foods like vegetables, french fries, fish and shrimp)!
In 14 days of success from eating the right way I will treat myself to a trip to the mall! A $100.00 shopping spree!
Sample Menu!
Breakfast- 2 veggie patties, 1 apple
Lunch- 2 veggie patties, 1 apple
Dinner- taco salad, soup or veggie stir fry
CLM
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Rainy Day!
It is offical walking at lunch time is now a habit. I made an agreement to walk during sunny days. I looked out the window and it was rainning today and I could not bear the thought of staying in doors and having cabin fever so I braved the rain and got in a 40 minute walk. I also got a bonus walk in today, because I took the train to work.
I am still working on incorporating a strength routine and I am working on making my diet better, but the one thing that has stuck is my walking routine and I am proud of that!
CLM
I am still working on incorporating a strength routine and I am working on making my diet better, but the one thing that has stuck is my walking routine and I am proud of that!
CLM
Monday, February 22, 2010
Check Up!
Hey, I just wanted to do a quick check-up!
The Good:
Well I am still motivated to lose the weight.
The Bad:
I ate a whole lotta junk this weekend. I am going to switch my focus from calories to good nutrition. The reason being that you can still eat unhealthy foods as long as they are within your calorie range. I feel like this can teach you moderation to some extent, but when you are combating serious unhealthy eating habits, it becomes to much work to log in your pizza intake. I prefer just keeping my blog as my journal. The calorie counter website was giving me a headache. A lot of the foods I eat where not even listed. I think I am going to stop being lazy and go back to the whole foods diet! I wasn't definitely smaller when my focus was on eating foods that were good for me.
The New Plan:
I am going on the whole foods diet. The whole foods diet is a way of eating where you focus on eating foods that are good for you and cutting out foods that are not good for you. You do this by eating fruits and vegetables and shying away from proccessed, packaged goods and fast food. This way of eating requires you to work for your food, by shopping frequently and cooking almost daily. I use to live this way for several years and I never was excessively over weight. This way of eating will produce gradual weight-loss, but I think it will be a better way for me to know when I am doing good with my eating and when I am eating poorly. I may still keep a food journal, I just won't be tracking the calories. I may just add it at the end of each night to my blog, or something.
On the exercise tip:
I did have fun doing the biggest loser work out dvd. I previewed the Jillan Michael's thirty day shred. I really am not all that thrilled about the indoor routine. I like walking our doors a whole lot more. I just want to add in some strength training and maybe some yoga. I am going to check out the power sculpting video tonight, but I may just create my own strength training workout routine to do on monday's, wednesday and friday's for twenty-minutes. I don't really like the cardio combination strenght moves. We shall see. In the meantime I am focused on getting my walks in this week! I really need to add in those weekend walks even if it is for thirty-minutes.
Well that is all for now folks.
CLM
The Good:
Well I am still motivated to lose the weight.
The Bad:
I ate a whole lotta junk this weekend. I am going to switch my focus from calories to good nutrition. The reason being that you can still eat unhealthy foods as long as they are within your calorie range. I feel like this can teach you moderation to some extent, but when you are combating serious unhealthy eating habits, it becomes to much work to log in your pizza intake. I prefer just keeping my blog as my journal. The calorie counter website was giving me a headache. A lot of the foods I eat where not even listed. I think I am going to stop being lazy and go back to the whole foods diet! I wasn't definitely smaller when my focus was on eating foods that were good for me.
The New Plan:
I am going on the whole foods diet. The whole foods diet is a way of eating where you focus on eating foods that are good for you and cutting out foods that are not good for you. You do this by eating fruits and vegetables and shying away from proccessed, packaged goods and fast food. This way of eating requires you to work for your food, by shopping frequently and cooking almost daily. I use to live this way for several years and I never was excessively over weight. This way of eating will produce gradual weight-loss, but I think it will be a better way for me to know when I am doing good with my eating and when I am eating poorly. I may still keep a food journal, I just won't be tracking the calories. I may just add it at the end of each night to my blog, or something.
On the exercise tip:
I did have fun doing the biggest loser work out dvd. I previewed the Jillan Michael's thirty day shred. I really am not all that thrilled about the indoor routine. I like walking our doors a whole lot more. I just want to add in some strength training and maybe some yoga. I am going to check out the power sculpting video tonight, but I may just create my own strength training workout routine to do on monday's, wednesday and friday's for twenty-minutes. I don't really like the cardio combination strenght moves. We shall see. In the meantime I am focused on getting my walks in this week! I really need to add in those weekend walks even if it is for thirty-minutes.
Well that is all for now folks.
CLM
Friday, February 19, 2010
Biggest Loser 30 Day Jump Start
I went on a fitness shopping spree and purchased some biggest loser dvd's. I just tried out the 30 Day Jump start. It is really nice! Week one you do ten minutes a day and by week four you do 40 minutes a day. There are 6 workouts a week so you do three days of cardio and one day of upper body, one day of lower body and one day of abs. I did 5 of the week one workouts for a total of 50 minutes! The workouts can be modified to you activity level. This a great workout ! Your muscles feel warm after and it is light enough that you can do it again!
CLM
PS: I did a 45 minute intense power walk today and it was great!
The ugly: I had some strawberry ice cream today, but I still came under1900 calories today!
CLM
PS: I did a 45 minute intense power walk today and it was great!
The ugly: I had some strawberry ice cream today, but I still came under1900 calories today!
Back In Action
Hello!
It has been along time since I have posted. Wow, since October of 2009. Well the last couple months have been crazy!
The Good:
I am highly motivated to be fit! I have been walking monday-friday on non-rainy days since January. It is no longer a struggle and I am getting faster. I am getting ready to add a new routine that focuses on strength training. I will be doing exercises on dvd for twenty minutes after work on Monday's, Wednesday's and Friday's.
The Bad:
During the fall and holiday's I ate tons of junk food and was not moving much. My grandpa passed away at the begining of the new year.
The Ugly:
My weight went back up to 265lbs as a result of the holiday eating.
What I have been up to:
I read some more books. I even tried to eat all fruit for breakfast and salad twice a day! I became frustrated and was tempted to go on an all juice diet!
The new plan:
The new plan is to eat 1900 Cal a day. I will do this by cooking daily and eating mostly whole foods. I am a member of calorie counter.com I track my food daily. On the exercise side I walk 30 minutes during lunch monday-friday. I am adding back my saturday morning walks and I am adding strength training three days a week for 20 minutes.
What I have learned:
When it comes to calories fat and sugar pack the most calories and whole foods like fruits and vegetables pack the least. Instead of doing in all salad diet I can have string beans and baked potato. A low calorie option as long as you skip the butter, cheese and sour cream.
Stay motivated no matter what. Even when I was pigging out I continued to read success stories, watched youtube videos and other things on fitness.
Take it day by day and focus on healthy principles when it comes to eating. Instead of writing out a plan for the week that I will never keep I focus on stocking up on healthy fruits and vegatebles so that I can eat.
The Power Concept:
Cook, Cook, Cook or go on Jenny Craig! Resturants pack on calories on every food item! Cooking is the best way to love yourself. The kitchen is one area you can't be lazy in! It is the only way to avoid the fast food and pizza trap!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Weight-loss!
CLM
It has been along time since I have posted. Wow, since October of 2009. Well the last couple months have been crazy!
The Good:
I am highly motivated to be fit! I have been walking monday-friday on non-rainy days since January. It is no longer a struggle and I am getting faster. I am getting ready to add a new routine that focuses on strength training. I will be doing exercises on dvd for twenty minutes after work on Monday's, Wednesday's and Friday's.
The Bad:
During the fall and holiday's I ate tons of junk food and was not moving much. My grandpa passed away at the begining of the new year.
The Ugly:
My weight went back up to 265lbs as a result of the holiday eating.
What I have been up to:
I read some more books. I even tried to eat all fruit for breakfast and salad twice a day! I became frustrated and was tempted to go on an all juice diet!
The new plan:
The new plan is to eat 1900 Cal a day. I will do this by cooking daily and eating mostly whole foods. I am a member of calorie counter.com I track my food daily. On the exercise side I walk 30 minutes during lunch monday-friday. I am adding back my saturday morning walks and I am adding strength training three days a week for 20 minutes.
What I have learned:
When it comes to calories fat and sugar pack the most calories and whole foods like fruits and vegetables pack the least. Instead of doing in all salad diet I can have string beans and baked potato. A low calorie option as long as you skip the butter, cheese and sour cream.
Stay motivated no matter what. Even when I was pigging out I continued to read success stories, watched youtube videos and other things on fitness.
Take it day by day and focus on healthy principles when it comes to eating. Instead of writing out a plan for the week that I will never keep I focus on stocking up on healthy fruits and vegatebles so that I can eat.
The Power Concept:
Cook, Cook, Cook or go on Jenny Craig! Resturants pack on calories on every food item! Cooking is the best way to love yourself. The kitchen is one area you can't be lazy in! It is the only way to avoid the fast food and pizza trap!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Weight-loss!
CLM
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