My little black diet book

So at work we have had to put up a lemonade stand and different people have run it every two hours. I am really glad it is over. You couldn’t go anywhere with out being hit up by someone to get some lemonade that was super sweet and had way to many calories. The hard part is you have to support you coworkers. So you get your glass of lemonade.  Then there were no healthy snacks.  Totally sucked, I am not the only one looking for a health alternative. So needless to say it was a little hard to sell. I must say I am glad that stress is over. Now on to being in the fish bowl… NOT COOL! This is going to be super stressful, but I will stick to my life change!

I have felt horrible the last two days and it is pulling into the third. I hope today is the last of this bug that I have. I forgot how bad it sucked to be sick. Normally the only thing I have to fight of is allergies. At least with allergies I don’t feel like I have been on a fishing boat in the middle of a storm. I have, however, been eating appropriate portion sizes and watching what I am putting im my mouth. I have dropped down a pound since being sick. I guess if I were to look on the bright side, there is at least one good thing about being sick.

I guess I am a little competative. So I am trying to lose weight and I know of two of my friends who are also wanting to lose weight. Well, I just can’t have them lose more weight then me. It just doesn’t work that way. I am going to lose it before one of them especially. Lets just say it is because we look like sisters and I want to be the thin one. She has always been and she has a smaller frame then me. I know that she is competing with me because she asked me how much I lost. Then when we went out to dinner she asked what I was going to eat and then got almost the same thing. Now normally I wouldn’t care, but damn it! I just can’t let this one go. I have liked the guys looking at me. I don’t want to go to Vegas and have her say they were only looking at her. Now I am a larger girl and I won’t go saying that every guy is going to look at me but I will say this. By the time Vegas comes I will have lost another 20 pounds come hell or high water. Nothing is going to stop me. I mean NOTHING!  It feels good to be motivated

I exercised this morning for 15 min. Yes, it is not much but I am up 5 min and I exercise 10 min in the evening as well. Hopefully soon, I will be able to get back to the full 30-50 min in the morning. It just seems getting up in the morning has been really hard lately.

I must say the diet has been ok. I haven’t eaten the best food however I have started to exercise so it is helping. Going out on a couple of dates has helped as well. Must say I have been busy, never realized how busy my life could be. Well toddles!

This weekend wasn’t bad. I had lots of BBQ chicken. That was yummy. I didn’t get in any exercise but I am planning today. I woke up late so I didn’t have enough time to exercise, I will have to buckle down and do it tonight. Period. No excuses. I went dress shopping yesterday. Even though I have lost more then 20 lbs I still couldn’t find a dress and the twigs found several. Talk about a disappointment. I will not give up. I will find a dress and it will be a smaller size.

Yeah, my pants they burned me big time. So I was just sitting here getting ready to give you an update on my weekend progress. When I was sitting on the floor and stretching for my bouncy ball. My pants that had a little whole in the seem decided to give out on me. No it wasn’t because my butt grew, but because I was kneeling on the cloth of my pants and they apperiently didn’t like that.  So now I really know I need to get back on the diet. That was a sign from above or I should say below! I am down to 3 pairs of pants for work and one are falling off. I guess I will be buying pants sooner then later. 

This weekend I went out of town with some friends. At first I was way excited because I was going to spend some time away from work and the city and just relax. Well, then I started thinking. Man I am the only one on a diet. Mind you we usually have snack cakes and potato chips to snack on and for meals when we are down there. Scary!!! I did very well down there. I didn’t have one snack cake! I had a few potato chips. It was that or starve and well I needed something so my body wouldn’t think I was never going to eat again.  I did have a slice of B-day cake and some ice cream but I resisted the seconds.

Tonight I cheated. I had the dreaded McDonald’s.  However, I only had one cheese burger and some med fries. Normally I would ask for 2 cheeseburgers and large fries. I skipped the reg coke and went for the diet pepsi. So there went my 20% naughty for the week. Now I have to work on the 80% healthy. We will see how it goes. It is nice seeing more day light. Oh and my friends that promised to play bad mitton this weekend did not work out. Stupid wind and stupid people who don’t know how to arrive somewhere on time!!

Todays foods will be:

Breakfast: Honey Nut Chex Cereal

Mid- morning snack: Uncrustable PB & J

Lunch:  Ham Sandwich (yes I am taking a break from the Tuna fish)

Dinner: Chicken breast - baked w/buffalo sauce and a salad.

H2O all the live long day!

Wow! I am this far into a diet, I think it might actually stick as a life change!!

Alright The last stats taken were 01/08/06 and looked like this:

            Jan                          March

weight: 222 lbs                    214 lbs

neck: 14 1/2 inches              14 1/4 in
Arms: 13 1/2 inches             13 in
Chest: 45 inches                  43 1/2
Waist: 43 inches                  42
Hips: 49 inches                    48
Thighs: 24 1/2 inches           23 1/2
Calf: 15 3/4 inches               15

Wow! There it is.  The numbers will help me focus…now just got to fit into the smaller pants!!!!

Yesterday was a good food day for me. I have been sticking very closely to my food routine. Occassionally, I will replace my cereal for a Smart Ones turkey TV dinner.  What can I say, not to big on the breakfast food.  I am Down to 214lbs from 237. Tomorrow morning I think I will do the measurements. I am every excited to say that others have noticed the weightloss as well. I am sure I will be able to go down in a dress size very soon. That will make me happy. I am shooting for a new dress size when I get down to 205lbs. The other day I was going to go shopping for new clothes but was bloated and decided for my sanity I would not do it. I am not big on shopping for clothes because I can never find anything in my size that I feel flatters my body. Problem is my body not the clothes. I have a huge white girls flat butt. So I do the squats when my knees don’t hurt to try and get it a little more shapely. I guess we will have to see. I am almost over the allergies. I hope this was the big attack of the season and I will be fine the rest of the spring summer and fall! Also I know I need to get back to doing the stairs at work. I was taking them down and then back once and then the elevator every other. I had a dream last night that the big boss yelled at me for not taking the stairs.  Creepy if you ask me!

Now a message from my fortune cookie: You will never regret the present, you live life to its fullest!