WOOT!

Long time, no see.  EXCEPT FOR RESULTS!  These I have totally seen over the last few week!  AND IT'S AWESOME!

Down 27.2 lbs!  YAY!  I'm almost in the "overweight" BMI category instead of "obese".  CANNOT WAIT FOR THAT!

Not such a great week

....but I still lost 0.2 lbs.  And I consider that a MAJOR victory considering it's "that time" and I'm eating anything and everything I can get my hands on!  Oh well.  Better luck next week!

FINALLY OVER 20 POUNDS!

I can't believe it!  I have finally gotten over the 20 lb hump!  I am so super excited about this.  This is a HUGE notch in the weight loss belt!  I even HAD to buy new pants earlier this week because mine were simply TOO big.  Just cannot express my elation.  GO ME!

Super week!

Well this has been one of the best weight loss weeks so far!  YAY FOR THAT!  For some reason I just hit a stride and it was EASY after that.  I have been working out every morning AND every night and I really feel it is paying off.  I am also still drinking by cranberry green tea mixture and I think that is keeping my water weight and bloating down. 

So anyway...finally down to 213.8!   AND SUPER EXCITED ABOUT IT!  I was down to 213.4 on Thursday but I cheated last night and ate HASHBROWN CASSEROLE for dinner.  Oh my goodness I was so sick afterwards....never again.  So I have full faith that I will get that 213.4 back pretty quickly! 

Short post, I know.  But I have SOO much to do!

Long time, no see!

Let's just say that it has been a while!  I wasn't able to get on here last week due to the fact that we were in South Carolina celebrating birthday weekend.  And there was NO way I wanted to weigh myself after that!  Now I didn't go absolutely crazy..but I sure as hell didn't stay on my diet 100% either!  In the end, I ended up gaining weight so I decided not to post late even.  It was just depressing.

So I am back this week with better weight news.  I say better weight news because all of the other news in my life is sub-par.  We have had quite a lot of family crisis situations as of late and it is very difficult to stay on a healthy eating plan when I want to take out my emotional stress on a GALLON of cookie dough ice cream.  I haven't done it...but don't think it's not at the back of my mind.

So, anyway, back to the healthy eating plan.  I haven't been following it as rigorously as I was at first, but I only allow that because I am trying to let my body tell me more than my mind.  I am trying to notice when I am full and hungry instead of just eating because I'm bored.  It is a very difficult concept for someone who has spent years just eating because it was there or because it's "time" to eat.  I have kept up with eating a healthy breakfast every morning and I really think that has paid off.  If nothing else, it has been a good metabolism booster for the rest of my day.  I have also had such a hard time drinking the correct amount of water that I have now added a cranberry and citrus green tea drink mixture to my plan.  It is so delicious I can't help but drink it.  I use 1/3 diet cranberry juice and 2/3 diet citrus green tea.  The cranberry juice is good for flushing out your system and the green tea is supposedly good for metabolism.  So it my mind it is a win-win even if I am adding calories from drinks.  It's only about 40 calories for 2 cups so it really isn't that bad at all.  And at least it is getting some sort of liquid in my body.  I know I get a lot of liquid from all the fruits and vegetables I eat, but I seriously can go the entire day without drinking ANYTHING....I'm like a camel and I know that can't be good for me.

I have been doing my best to make healthy meals to take to school every night while I'm fixing dinner and that has really helped me throughout the day.  I don't skimp on my lunches.  I make them really delicious and yummy looking and it makes me excited to get to eat it.  Not like walking into the lunchroom and going "Ew... whole wheat pizza...oh well at least it's something".   Now I get to go, "YES!  I'm having baked salmon and spinach tortilla rollup with homemade salsa and sea salt crackers with spreadable cheese!"  And yes, that is actually a typical lunch.  I am not starving myself by ANY means.  I am just making better choices and that allows me to still eat quite a bit when I replace the quantities with fruits and vegetables. It's great.

So on to the weight loss.  Drum roll please!!!   BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!     216.8!  TA-DA!  It is a HUGE achievement for me.  I wish I was down a lot more but I am SUPER thrilled with myself because this means I have lost OVER 15 lbs TOTAL now!  Regardless of if I have 40 more lbs to go or not, I am WAY excited about losing 15 lbs.  So....YAY!  In the end, I don't always make the right choices, but more often than not, I do think about what I am about to do to my body before I ingest something.  And apparently, it's making a difference!

The scale is my friend....

....sometimes.  Let's just say it's an OCD problem that I can't stay off of the scale every morning now.  But it has been good for me because it helps me keep better tabs on what I am doing during the day.  I have made it a point to get up and workout every morning this week (GO ME!) and up until this morning it was really paying off!  Somehow from yesterday morning's weigh in and today I gained two pounds.  This is completely impossible because yesterday for breakfast I had yogurt, Kashi, and a banana.  For lunch I had a cucumber salad and a small portion of cheese and low cal crackers.  For dinner I had a lot of veggies in spaghetti sauce and 3oz of sausage.  So there is no way that could have been over 4000 calories.

For this reason I will be using my weigh YESTERDAY because it ROCKED!  I FINALLY hit below 220!  And it felt SO good.  My new goal is 215 or less before the middle of next week.  I am really shooting to get it before next Saturday and I think if I keep working out, my metabolism will speed up and help this out! 

So for now I will just keep on trucking with everything that I'm doing! 

Challenges

Oh has this week ever been full of them!  This was the first full week back to school since Christmas break.  And it whooped my butt.  So needless to say, there were quite a few challenges with losing weight this week.  First of all, I didn't even set foot on the elliptical ALL WEEK.  Then I just had a break down food-wise in the middle and inhaled a whole bag of candy...something I truly regretted later because it made me feel like CRAP!  So this coming week WILL be better.  I had really wanted to be below 220 by weighin this week but I had a really hard time with that.  So I am going to reset that goal again for this week, PLUS another pound to put me at 219.  This will be no problem, should I actually get up on time and get on the elliptical in the am!  Wish me luck!

See I told you I would have a hard time keeping up with this thing!

So anyway, we are back from Christmas break at school this week. Hence the reason you haven't heard from me.  Or I guess hence the reason I haven't heard from me (since I'm the only one who reads this blog!)  HA! 

Things are still going pretty good.  It is a bit more of a struggle to keep on the eating healthy thing at school but I am still plugging away.  This past week I also started doing the elliptical for 20 minutes in the morning.  It is a STRUGGLE to get up earlier to do that but I always feel better after I finish.  In addition that I also add walking during my planning period and once I even went to the stadium and did the stairs!  My legs hated me after that! 

Results?  Awesomeness!
I am now down to 223.4!  Which of course motivates me to keep going!  I am only about a week away from being under 220 and I want to see that SOOOOO badly I can taste it!  But for now, I must go taste some yogurt and Kashi..mmmmmm.