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!
For a while I stopped blogging. I wasn’t feeling like going on line at writting that I have had no success or very little success. However, I found when I blog it keeps me honest. I don’t want to look back at the blogs and see how whinny I have been. It is depressing and no one wants to here you whin. It is a fact. It simply has to be. So I am back to a very predictable diet. Honey Nut Chex for breakfast, small snack mid morning/day (right now an Uncrustable or a small yogart), then Tuna sandwich and two pickle spears for lunch, then dinner will consist of tuna or chicken. If I am still hungry later I will have a bottle of water and fix a small snack like the individual sized popcorn. Sounds kind of boring I know. However for me it works. After this box of cereal I may go back to oatmeal for a little while. You never know. Lets just hope the portion sizes work. Then when I am over this horrid cold/allergy attack I can start exercising again.
Speaking of exercising, this spring I had planned with my friends to go out and play a new sport or do something that requires physical activity and being outside every other Sunday. We have all been trying to loose weight. Well I asked if on the next Sunday that it is nice out if they wanted to go do something, get started. The responce I got was ‘maybe if I am awake’. I asked are you going to sleep past 3pm? ‘Maybe’ which means that no she is not going to want to do anything with me this spring/summer. Which is fine by me if she wants to stay inside all summer with the blinds drawn playing the sims2. Personally I don’t want that to be me. I don’t want to sit around all spring/summer and be couped up inside getting fatter and fitter. I just get so frustrated because they agree to do these things with me and I get excited because we have all been lazy the last few summers, ok most of my life. However, now I want to fit in the bathing suit and go swimming. I wanna go to the golf course and try the driving range, not play the video game. I wanna try tennis. I want to throw a football around. I want to throw a frisbe. I want to play volley ball and badmitten. Honestly, I just want to get outside, enjoy the weather before I am to old to realize what I really missed out on. Sure I love watching movies and kicking it on the sofa. There is not doubt in my mind that I will still do that in the summer. I just want to add some variety. You know I think she is scared of what people will think, and she has alway had that hard exterior when she is out in public, I just wish she could put on her call cool collected self and go out and have some fun. I guess what it comes down to is I need to meet people who want to do the things I want to do. Maybe I am just being selfish. I don’t care. It is my turn. I bend for everyone else. Why can’t they just follow through with their agreement. Wow!! So sorry this turned into a rant but I feel much better. Now maybe I can have a good day!
Ahhhhh, the power of PIZZA!!!!!! It smells sooooooooo goooooood. That soft chewy crust topped with a sweet yet savory sauce and melty gooey cheese. How I love the cheese!!! Yet, I resisted the call of the pizza. That is right I made it throught the week without eating pizza. I had my tuna fish sandwich and my cereal for lunch. Talk about being a good girl. That is right, even though I am suffering through this nasty allergy attack I did not give in to my food wants. Now, we will see what the week has to hold going forward!
It snowed this week. Again I was craving the oh no so good for you starchy carbs. I did make some homemade chili with lots, and lots of beans. First time making my own chili and it didn’t come out tasting too bad. So far this month has been almost a wash. I haven’t been in the mood to diet. Work is stressing me out. My sister moved up the “brides maid dress” shopping up from the end of may to beginning of April. So that is practically 2 months down the drain. I just have to continue watching my portion sizes and drink lots of water. Lots and lots of water.
Yeah, we did it this weekend. I went to a lot of fast food joints and was a bad bad girl. I figured if I was starting on Monday, I might as well enjoy my last weekend of dinning out. Yes, I need to give them up for a while. Apparently, I don’t have the will power to resist the junk food and to go for the salad when I am out. I gained a few lbs back and it really sucks. That has me sad and the weather has me down. It is snowing and of course I want to sit at home watching movies and eating while my butt spreads instead of going outside and exercising or even walking. I have been catching a ride all week long so I missed out on walking this last week. I know that even if it is cold tomorrow I need to start walking to work again. It is my gateway to a more healthier life. With this knowledge I will go forward with ambition to stick to my life change.
So it has been a while. The winter weather has rolled into town again, and I find myself craving the starchy carbs. At one point I had lost 23 lbs. Now I am fighting to regain that 20 lb loss. Good thing I am only a lb away. It just sucks to see you meet a milestone, only to see you have to revisit it. I will beat the goal again. I do plan on being down to 200 lb’s or below by May, when it is time to try on the dreaded bridesmaid dress. I know I will always be the largest girl in the group, I am just hoping to bring it down to something I am comfortable with. Well off to finish the week with a moderate ending. I will start next week back on track.