So far, so good

It's only been one full day but that one day went well.  I felt hungry a lot, but I'm coming off a holiday binge.  I'm using fitday.com to track my eating, exercising and weight/measurements to really keep me on track this month. 

Yesterday I ate around 1200 calories.  I burned around 2500 calories.  200 of that 2500 calories was me doing the 30 Day Shred.  The rest is my lifestyle (mostly sitting, some movement).  I weighed in today at 187 which is great at a 3lb loss, but I won't get excited until doing my Week 1 measurements on Monday.

Day 2, here I come!

It's Been FOREVER! And I'm much fatter :(

Ever since I bought my house almost a year ago I've really just not given a crap about eating right or working out.  I haven't wanted to go on dates.  And I haven't been wanting to impress anyone.  I quit my job 8 months ago and just haven't been very active.  My lifestyle has slowed down physically A LOT.  And because of that my weight and fat has gone up... way too much.  I've just been content with not caring about my weight.

I'm going on a cruise in a month (wahoo!) and I would really like to lose 2 inches on my hips and 2 inches on my waist in the 30 days before I go.  I bought 2 beautiful formal dresses for cruise dinners and I will be spending a lot of time in a swimming suit.  This is the heaviest I've been in a very long time and I've got to slim down.  This 2 inches really isn't much, but it will be a start and let me feel a little better for pics on the cruise. 

The plan is to start the 30 Day Shred again since I did well on it last time.  I'm also DONE with carbonation (Cherry Coke & Dr. Pepper) and really just done drinking anything but water.  Desserts are out along with big portions and too many carbs.  Wish me luck!!!

Measurements as of 12/31/2011:

Weight- 190
Waist- 38 1/2"
Hips- 46"
Right Thigh- 26"
Left Thigh- 26 1/2"
Right Arm- 15"
Left Arm- 15 1/2"
Under Boobs- 37 1/2"

angie :)

{Falling off & getting back On}

I have fallen off the wagon and gained weight back and I am feeling super depressed about it along with other stuff going on in my life I  am finding myself struggling with eating healthy. My kids are noticing and calling me out on it, which I love and hate at the same time. I know what I am doing wrong and know that I need to get back on track and get this icky weight off my bod! *sigh*

I am trying to get my house into order, feeling like such a slacker 'specially after seeing all Angie's progress on her place but I try to keep reminding myself that she is Wonder Woman in disguise. I did get my husbands "man cave" done but no one but his friends see it and I want to get the places people see done.

Anywho, I just wanted to let you know I was still here, still off the wagon but trying to pick myself up and jump back up on the weight loss wagon. It's just a struggle right now and emotionally exhausting. I do love reading about all your progress, hope to see more in the upcoming weeks.

{P & I.B. have hit my home}

This whole month has been a huge bust! Not only have I gained weight and am heavier then my start weight at the beginning of the year but my boys brought home a nasty little bug from school that made it's way thru the whole family and come to find out my littlest one has Influenza B and they thought my oldest daughter had it but after a trip to the ER on Saturday (where they found that the baby had I.B. and figured my oldest daughter had the same thing - but never tested her) and after taking both girls to the Pediatrician where she couldn't find anything wrong and thought my oldest was on the mend because her fever seemed to have broken to rushing her to the ER later that night only to find out my oldest NEVER had I.B. (just baby) and had a "substantial" case of Pneumonia and was admitted to the hospital for 2 days.

Needless to say my "Love" month has totally sucked and my emotional eating has taken a toll for the worse and to top it off I finally had my "visit" from Auntie and she stayed for like a week and a half and I was miserable from horrid cramps and made others miserable from my horrific mood swings...

Hoping that in March I can get back into the swing of things and start getting back to my workout routine at the gym.

"Sorry about the complete post whining about how I am a huge failure this month but figured I hadn't posted much and should probably explain why" (she says as her head hangs low as she walks away to go grab a corndog...)

Week 7 Weigh-In

This week I lost another pound. I had a bit of an off week and didn't really exercise much. Only once to be honest. But, at least I still lost a pound and didn't gain any weight! My total weight loss is now at 28 lbs! I started at 300 lbs and I'm now at 272 lbs. I thought I'd share some of my progress pictures with you all to see.

Here I am at 290 lbs. I never took pictures at 300 lbs, so this is my starting picture.

In this one, I'm 283 lbs and was feeling pretty small the day that I took this picture.

And this is my most recent picture at 276 lbs. I'll take another progress picture when I hit 265!

I've noticed the postings of most everyone has dwindled, I hope you all are still on board. I'd love to hear how you are doing!

{Mindless Eating"

I was curious about a "Hot topic" on my Yahoo feed and found it very interesting and wanted to share it here too.

found the image off of Amazon

Dr. Wansink explores the psychology behind how we eat with his book "Mindless Eating". You can find the artical by Dominique Dawes here with the short video that goes along with it, which is quite interesting too and goes on about other topics as well (with commercials of course...lol)...super interesting because he talks about how color can change how you eat as does music too.

I tend to eat mindless-ly and it was an interesting read and just wanted to share...Hope it's as interesting for you as it was for me.

Week 6: *shrugs*

The only loss this week is 1/4" on my thighs.  I'm very happy to lose something on my thighs, but disappointed to not have a loss anywhere else.  I'm not surprised though.  I only worked out twice all week and haven't been eating right... not terrible, but not right either.  Back on track this week... but it's SOOO hard when I'm so stressed and our house is in such a state of chaos.  I'm going to a show on Friday and I wanna look hot.  That will be my motivation for the week!

A little side note for readers of this blog.  There are several authors.  That's why the measurements and weight are all over the place in each posting.  There's been a little confusion :)