Hovering

I have been hovering the last several days at 146-146.5. I am feeling pretty good about maintaining but I also want to see if I can lose just like 5 more lbs. We'll see. I want to concentrate more on eating only good, healthy foods and not over-eating. That is the key!

Thursday

I wouldn't really call what I'm doing a cleanse so I am not going to title it as a cleanse. I'm thinking of it more like calorie restricting. Anyway, yesterday I was very motivated and stayed within my calorie limit and I went to Zumba, a crazy dance exercise class, that was very fun! So, I got on the scale this morning and what did it say?

145.5!

I know I have exclamation points after each loss but it's just so wonderful to be motivated enough to get these extra pounds off, finally!

2nd cleanse day 1

Day 1, yesterday, went great! I wasn't too hungry and when I got on the scale I weighed....

147 pounds!

That is great because yesterday when I weighed myself I weighed a whoppin' 149 lbs! Ekk!!

I definitely don't want to see the 150s again so I'm glad I'm doing this.

Here's to Day 2 (out of three)!!

Hungry!

I don't know why, but I have been soo hungry today! I don't know if it's because I'm just giving in to cravings or what but today has not been a good day. And I also think, now that I'm remembering, that when I weighed myself today I was 148, even after 40 minutes on the elliptical last night. That is probably why I am not so motivated today. I told my hubs that I don't know if I can just do calorie counting. So I think I'm going to do a 3 day cleanse, starting tomorrow. I want to keep losing weight and if I can lose more that would make me very happy. I think I need to start exercising every day too. So here's to tomorrow.

p.s. no more eating for tonight either! : )

Weigh-in (Post Cabin)

I went up to my family's cabin this weekend and it was a lot of fun. It snowed a lot too! While there on Friday I stuck to my 1300 calories. Saturday was a different matter. I had 3 brownies! and ate Way too much! So now, luckily, it was Fast Sunday. I was able to refocus and get back on track. I think cheat days here and there are okay but I don't want to get crazy or anything!

I weighed myself this morning thinking I was going to be heavier and freaking out about it BUT...

147.5! Yipee!

I'm glad I didn't gain anything from my crazy Saturday. Also, bummer that I didn't lose but that's okay. I am still on the ball with losing it!

weigh-in

I weighed in this morning and I am very happy!

starting weight: 154.5
current weight: 147.5!
lbs lost so far: 7

Yes! Just what I needed to see. I am so excited. I haven't weight this little since October of 2009! This is such a great booster to keep going so I can get closer to my goal weight!

Day after Cleanse

I am kind of afraid to gain back the weight but now it's easier to feel hungry and not eat, which I think is what I need to be feeling in order to lose weight. If I eat every time I feel hungry then I wont lose any weight....

Yesterday's weight:
starting weight: 154.5
current weight: 149.5
lbs lost so far: 5

Still five pounds, but still five pounds! And here's the menu from yesterday. I took a class from 5-9 and so I didn't really eat any dinner, hence the bad dinner foods. Also, I didn't get very many fruits and used a lot of my calories on one of my snacks...Food choices people! The less calories=the more you can eat!

Breakfast:
2 eggs: 160
1 c swiss chard: 7
1 piece white bread toasted: 100
1 tsp butter: 34

Snack:
7 cheeseballs: 10 (I know...I know...)

Lunch:
2 pieces wheat bread: 280
1 tbs peanut butter: 100
1 tbs jam: 40
vegetable soup: 100 (Just guessing)

Snack:
1/2 c mint chocolate chip ice cream: 160!

Dinner:
1 Larabar: 150
Apple sauce: 50
Rock Candy: 50

Snack:

5 wheat thins: 50

Total: 1291

Not too bad. I would like to stay around 1300-1400 calories while incorporating better food choices of course. Also, if you see any discrepancies in my calories just let me know!

Final weigh-in for cleanse

So, yesterday was my last day of The Cleanse. It went pretty well. I still have tons of soup left and I only used one can of diced tomatoes. So I guess I will finish the soup off for the next few days.

now for the weights:
starting weight: 154.5
current weight: 149.5
lbs lost so far: 5

Not too bad, and I'm still under 150, which I never want to see again!

Things I've learned after/during this cleanse:
-I eat too much food
-I eat too much unhealthy food
-I am an emotional eater ( I already knew that but it helped it surface again)
-I am a snacker and need to stop!
-I didn't mind terribly all the vegetables I had to eat!


Overall, this was a good cleanse. I think if I wouldn't have cheated at all I would'v lost more weight but that's ok. It was a good jump start. Also, when I only have 5 more lbs to lose I think I will do the cleanse again to get them off fast!

So what's the plan now? I think I'll just keep counting calories, for everything, and posting it here. It seems to keep me on track with life. Until next time!

The Cleanse-Day 7

Yay! I'm done! Well, almost. Tomorrow I will be done.

Here's the low down for today:

Breakfast: none, I wasn't even hungry! I think it was from all the bad stuff I ate the night before
Lunch: Vegetable soup
Snack: A couple little bites of Hannah's Larabar
Dinner: Vegetable soup, 1 chicken nugget, 1 piece of bread. I got hungry...

Hopefully I lost some weight today! I did a little working out so we'll see for tomorrow!

weigh-in

Well, I guess I knew what was coming for me!

starting weight: 154.5
current weight: 149.5
lbs lost so far: 5.0

So, no loss, a small gain but I really can't really be mad because I brought it on myself. So today I'm sticking to the plan of a soup. Here are the recipe details:

2-3 Large Onions Chopped

1 Head of Cabbage Chopped

1 Green Pepper Chopped

5-6 Celery Stalks Chopped

2 Lg. Cans Diced Tomatoes (I like those with basil, oregano,

garlic)

2 Pkgs. Lipton Beefy Onion Soup Mix

Put the chopped vegetables in pan and pour in tomatoes that

have been slightly blended in the blender. Then put in about

4-6 cups water to barely cover the vegetables. Cook for about

10 minutes then add the Beefy Onion Soup Mix and cook until

all the vegetables are tender.

Hopefully I can lose that 1/2 pound again and maybe even another 1/2 pound!

The cleanse- Day 6

Today was been good and bad. First the good!

Breakfast: sauteed greens and cabbage and chicken
Lunch: steamed carrots and zuchinni and a handful of noodles. (Noodles are not part of the "plan" but I couldn't resist hot noodles in front of me! They were for Hannah)

Now the bad...

Dinner: baked turkey, with vegetables. 7 mini-muffins....I made blueberry muffins for Danny and Hannah and couldn't resist. Next time, no muffins...

Now the worst...

When I was at YW a leader brought out cookies, and I didn't take one and didn't have any intention to. But Hannah was following the leader around saying, "cookie, cookie". So I got one and I'm not about to let my 1 1/2 yr old eat an entire no bake cookie at 8 pm! So I ate like 1/2 of the cookie. I was mad about the cookie but got over it quickly.

Then when I got home I ate a handful of cheese balls and then Danny came home with a resses peanut butter shake and I ate the whole thing! All 12 oz! I am terrible. I feel gross and bloated. I did do some chores around the house but I highly doubt I will lose any weight tomorrow and I wouldn't be surprised if I gain weight. Lame. Tomorrow will be better, no cheating.

Food for Day 7 is this cleansing soup. Hopefully it will be yummy!

weigh-in

Well, I guess it doesn't pay off to cheat....

starting weight: 154.5
current weight: 149.0
lbs lost so far: 5.5

Oh well. With only 2 day's left, including today I don't really think I will lose the 10-17 lbs promised by the weight loss menu. But these 5.5 and hopefully more in the next couple days has really given me a good jump start.

Today's plan is 10-12 oz turkey/chicken and veggies. I'm sticking to it this time. I want to lose more!

The Cleanse- Day 5

I couldn't do it. I couldn't swallow another tomato, yuck! But before then I did great.

Breakfast: 3 oz chicken, 1 tomato
Lunch: 7 oz chicken, 1 tomato
Dinner: Summer chicken salad from Zupas, 1 strawberry (not chocolate covered), and a roll with butter.

I felt so much better afterward. I'm not sure if it's because I hadn't eaten much or what but I was WAY ornery and I knew that if all the family was going to be eating Zupas I had no chance to just sit there. I'm lucky I didn't cave and eat the chocolate on the strawberry. It was close!

So, I kind of fouled up today but I guess we'll see how my weigh-in goes tomorrow. I all reality I didn't eat that many calories but I also didn't do much exercise either, except chasing my kid around and walking through a museum.

Tomorrow will be better: 10-12 oz chicken/turkey and vegetables. I like that better. Veggies! Also, I am going to make my vegetable soup that's supposed to be for day 7 tomorrow night so I can have it starting in the morning. I am a major morning eater, can't do anything until I get my food!

weigh-in

Starting weight: 154.5
Current weight: 149.0
lbs lost so far: 5.5

I am happy with today's results! I can't believe I'm in the 140s again! woohoo! I vow to not be in the 150s again, unless I'm pregnant. I'm so excited and I'll just have to remember my weight loss goals as I go through today.

Day 5: I can have 10-12 oz chicken/turkey and as many as 6 tomatoes. Ugh...I'm not a tomato lover anyway so we'll see how today goes...wish me luck!!

The Cleanse-Day 4

Yay for day 4! I have actually quite enjoyed today. I like milk and I like bananas, and surprisingly I'm not so sick of them at this point that I wouldn't throw up if I had another. My stomach is making all sorts of rumblings though so I'm not quite sure what's going to happen, hopefully nothing. Here's a lowdown of my consumption today:

Breakfast: Banana milkshake (1 banana, 1 c milk, ice)
Snack: 1/2 banana
Lunch: 1 banana, 1 c milk
Snack: 1/2 banana, 1 c milk
Dinner: 1 c milk, 2 bananas sliced so I could feel like I was eating the yummy oven baked potatoes with all the fixin's like my family.
Snack: Banana milkshake identical to breakfast. Although I put the milk in the freezer for about 20 minutes before and it was better than breakfast because it was colder.

I could definitely feel the lack of calories that I was getting today. I never got dizzy or lightheaded but I felt tired around dinner time and a little out of it. That's the only time I had weird symptoms though.

I'm not looking forward to tomorrow but hopefully it wont be too bad. I'll just drink lots of water. Also, it's only 1 day so it can't be that bad!

weigh-in

Starting weight: 154.5
Current weight: 150.0
lbs lost so far: 4.5

Okay okay, that's great! I can't help but be a little dissapointed about not being under 150 but that's okay. For sure, I will be tomorrow. Also, today on a side note, it snowed SO much! Yesterday was so nice and we were outside without our shoes. My, how a day can change things, or as my sis-in-law said, we have bi-polar weather here!

Today I can have as many as 8 bananas and as many as 8 glasses of milk. Let's see how creative I can be :)

The Cleanse- Day 3

Day three...I was feeling okay on my energy level today but I am so tired right now. It is almost midnight so that could be taken into consideration. Fruits and veggies today, which was nice, but I'm so sick of them right now. I can't wait until tomorrow when I can make banana smoothies!
Here's the food for today, or what I can remember, I didn't write it down.
Breakfast: strawberry, orange juice, ice, spinach shake
Snack: 1 cantaloupe
Lunch: sauteed swiss chard, yellow peppers, peas
Dinner: grapes, chicken noodle soup


What?? Chicken noodle soup?? Yes. My wonderful mother-in-law made chicken noodle soup and I was off running errands and couldn't make my dinner. And she had already put some in a bowl for me, in front of me. I ate a very small bowl and it was mostly chicken, carrots and broth, and of course, was very very delicious. And I didn't eat any of the rolls with yummy butter and jam... : (

Snack: more grapes and strawberries!

As I've done this cleanse I've really begun to notice all the things I used to eat when I was eating whatever I wanted. No wonder I can't lose weight and I'm gaining weight. I snack, a lot! I am also a major snacker at my in-laws because they have lots of snacks, and unhealthy ones to make it worse! This cleanse has helped me realize how much I did eat, and all the random times I would eat. Also, I'm eating tons more healthy food than before.

The Cleanse-Day 2

Today has been tough! My honey buns said it would be hard but I didn't realize how hard! It's 9:15 p.m. and I am tired and feeling like I want a snack but like last night, anything but vegetables (or yesterday- fruit)!! I did cheat a little bit but I was starving! So, here's the lowdown:

Breakfast: cucumber
Lunch: sauteed orange pepper, frozen peas, collard greens
Snack: 2 lion house recipe meatballs about 2 in in diameter. I was just so starving that I needed to eat something substantial and I couldn't let the meatballs go to waste (Danny won't eat them, too many onions) They were SOO good!
Dinner: steamed red cabbage, yellow pepper, and collard greens. potato with butter and refried beans. I'm not sure if the refried beans are part of the diet but they were delicious!

Tomorrow I get a little more variety with my cleanse: Day 3-Same as day 1 and 2 but no potato : ( I am excited to make veggie/fruit shakes. I'm pretty sure I'm going to have one in the morning with ice. Yummy!

starting weight: 154.5
current weight: 150.5
lbs lost so far: 4

So I'm not as enthusiastic about today's weigh in but I knew that 3+ pounds yesterday was some water. I just hope that my weight loss is a little more tomorrow, like 1 pound. Maybe the meatballs had something to do with my weigh in....Here's to day 3!

The Cleanse -Day 1

Well, Day 1 was pretty good. I didn't feel hungry for most of the day and then towards the end of the day around 9ish I was feeling hungry for snacky foods; chips, crackers, cereal. This is when I would usually eat those. I didn't feel like eating more fruit AT ALL. I didn't give in and was good the whole day! Yay! Here's a break-down:

Breakfast: Apple, peaches
Snack: Strawberries
Lunch: Mixed fruit
Dinner: Cantelope and grapes. I also ate 2 beans from a bean pod without thinking but I don't think that will effect me in any way.

Now, one of the reasons I wanted to do this cleanse was to give my body a fresh start and "cleanse" it if you will of all the bad things I've been eating like chocolate cake donuts, oreos, and cookies. The other reason is for weight loss. I don't want to be pregnant and weigh so much! I just can't fathom the fact. So until I do become pregnant I am on the serious track to healthy weight loss. Now on to weights:

starting weight: 154.5
current weight: 151
lbs lost so far: 3.5

Not too bad right?! I know a lot of it is water weight but I don't need that extra water weighing me down anyway. And those numbers are great motivators for me to keep going! Just the thought of being that close to being in the 140's again makes me really excited.

Day 2 is eat only vegetables, including 1 potato with butter! Also, to try and avoid peas, corn, and dry beans (for their calories). We'll see how I can handle it!

The Cleanse

Alright, so I decided to do the cleanse.

Today, Day 1, is all fruits, except bananas. So here we go!

So far today I've had a medium apple and 1 c bottled peaches. I need to go to the store so hopefully this cleanse will help me pick some yummy deliciously healthy foods!