Stretch

I keep forgetting the importance of stretching.  Today I am reminded with a weird pain in my right shoulder blade & right elbow.  That's what I get for missing 2 days of elliptical.  Think I'll go swimming today instead of weight lifting.  I've bounced back up to 242-243 but I seem to be maintaining right there.  Little bouts of self sabotage (Hello double stuff Oreo's.)  But I'm not binge eating, just craving something sweet.  2 cookies is 140 calories.  I can control that.

239

Yeah, finally made it back to the 230's.  It's been hard too.  Got a lady at work who keeps trying to give me bad foods.  Yesterday it was a cookie. I never thought there would be someone who was trying to sabotage me, just figured it would be me.  I've been skipping on the elliptical in the mornings due to it making a squeaking noise.  Will have to double down on my days off.

Eat less, move more.

two steps forward...

It's been a week.  I gained back 4 pounds and spent the week losing them again.  But I think I might have screwed up again.  Don't know why but I acted like I wasn't on a calorie restrictive diet today.  I went over by about 800 calories.  I really got to stop buying junk food. 

Got my breakfast & lunch ready for tomorrow.  I have 7 servings of veggies & fruits.  Suppose to get 9 servings a day (1/2 cup each).    Dinner tomorrow is steak & baked potato w/ broccoli.  I'll use a cream cheese instead of sour cream & cheddar & butter.  Plus, I plan to only eat 1/2 the potato.

Never did deep clean that bathroom.  Maybe next day off.  Did blow the leaves in the backyard & weed eat & blow the front yard.  So that helped.   Getting ready for the heavy storms coming from the south.  Hurricane Irma is on her way. 

244.5

Yep, told ya I would lose that water weight.  So for total weight lost I'm up to 15 lbs.  Most importantly, keeping it off.  

Today I want to push myself with exercise since I have the day off.  Plan to major spring clean my bathroom today.  It needs it.  Then I'll surface clean the rest of the house because it still looks good from last week.

Gonna get lots of squats, lunges and arm use today.  Happy Labor Day.

249 yeah

How weird is that?  I over-ate by almost 500 calories yesterday, yet I lost weight. Granted, just a few ounces, but still.

So today I made sure to get all my 9K steps in before I left work.  Sunday's can be slow so I took advantage of it and helped out another department by walking around and making sure our guests were content with their stations.   Plus I found it easier to walk long distances than shorter ones. Better for my hips, I think.

Came across this article called   10 Compelling Reasons To Try An Elimination Diet.  Being a logical thinking person, when I see something that makes sense and interest me, I pursue.  Never heard of this, but then I don't watch Dr. Oz.   So I think I might try this.

First I need to work on my vices.  Diet Coke will be the first since I think it will be easy since I've been increasing my water intake.  Next will be Mio for the water.  Then I'll move on to teas, juices, and raw fruit flavored water I make myself.  My short lived coffee addiction will come to an end.  I just started drinking it last year.  Now my iced frappes are bad.  Maybe I can find a healthier version. Like Golden Milk.

Also plan to cut back on red meat to once a week.  From now on, only grass fed steak Sundays' for me.  It took many years of watching Master Chef for my husband to finally understand how to cook a steak.  Not giving it up.  Only my hubby eats poorly when given the chance.  His choice.  Perhaps seeing my transformation from fat to fit will encourage him to cut back on bad foods and eat more good stuff.   He said he wants to get down to 175.  Sometimes I just wanna punch him in the face.  He weighs 185.  So he needs to lose 10 measly pounds. While I have loved his body since day 1, he has gotten a baby bump these last few years.  I just pat it and say "3 months" because that's how much of a bump he has.

I also want to have 2 vegetarian dinners or days.  3 fish days and 4 bean days.  9 servings a day of fruit or veggies (I prefer veggies.)

 Also think I might be gluten intolerant.  Just read 10 signs and I'm 6.  They recommend the Elimination Diet to properly test.  Another reason to do this.

Thank you google...found a healthy frappe.

Before I forget.  Went 6 minutes on my elliptical. Baby steps. Tomorrow I'll try for 10 and throw in some planks after my weights.  I can feel myself getting stronger and my hip is hurting less and less.

It was a good day and I still have 200+ calories left over.  Time for rest and practicing something new, meditation, hopefully my ADD brain will let me focus.  Night.



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250 grrrr

So I woke up to a 2 lb addition on my scale weight and I took it in stride.   Then I realized what day it was and that I haven't had a cheat day in a while.  So I went to Martins and got me a large steak & egg biscuit (700 calories) because the place is dead @ 5:25 am on a Saturday, food in under 5 minutes.  Divine but gone too fast.   I was reading my Kindle while eating it, so *poof,* barely remember tasting it.  Kept me full until lunch, 5 hours later.

Then I ate my lunch @ 11am, Ready Pac Caesar Chicken Salad. (240 calories) That still would have been fine, but I also ate my other breakfast around 2pm which was a turkey sandwich (180 calories).

Then to add to my gluttony, I had a Screaming Sicilian Mambo Italiano Stromboli..sigh...700 calories, for dinner.  I didn't even look at the box before I cooked it.

I refuse to go back to being lazy.

Lastly, a small cinnamon cake (240 calories) which I should have eaten with my morning frappe and probably would have gone another 2 weeks without going to Martins.

Good news, I've exercised every day for 4 day in a row.  That's great for me.  I want to up it to daily and add some meditation, yoga & a tiny bit of HIIT to my routine.  I'm comfortable at 5 minutes on the elliptical, so I'm planning to increase that to 10 minutes in the next few days.

Tomorrow will be better, plan to keep it at 1500 calories for the day.  I will not give in to what I know is bad for me.   Today should last me a while in the self pity department.

What can I say...some days just suck.  Eat less, move more.

247.2

So for the last week I've been bouncing around 249-252.  Today I was 247.2..and the best part is I'm currently suffering from water weight due to being a female so in a few days that will go away and I hope to be down to 245.

Dieting is proving pretty easy in the sense of I'm able to avoid overeating (smaller portions helps), not crave sweets and avoid bad foods my co workers try to offer me (chips, cakes, etc.)  That's hard too because someone is always baking something and bringing us the leftovers.  Or celebrating something (this week, co-worker's wife is due any day now..so blue cake.)

The last few days I've been taking advantage of down time at work and getting in more than 10K steps.  All morning I can go off for about 7 minutes and just walk and walk.  Problem I'm noticing is my work issued boots are in need of replacement and I should switch to sneakers.  My boots are a men's 7 because I have flintstone feet (square) so I have to wear wide.  Women's shoes are not offered in wide.  Might have to buy my own.  Anyone know of some good wide width walking shoes that can handle 247.2 pounds...lemme know.  Regular shoes go smoosh after a week.  Then I have to put in inserts for any kind of comfort.  I'm a womens 8 USA.

Watching my calories like a hawk and been paying attention to sugar and fiber grams.  Turns out Marie Callender's turkey pot pies are on the good list along with Lean Pockets.  Just 2 grams of fiber and only 3 grams of sugar.  I know, sugar is suppose to be lower, but I need something I can take to work and eat in about 10 minutes.  These work.

It's funny, I use to take a backpack to work along with a little lunch sack.  Then eat everything.  Now I just take my backpack and whatever I'm eating has to fit in it along with all my drinks.  Still indulging in 240 calories of Private Selection Hazelnut Frappuccino.  That's my line.  Gotta have some coffee now that I've become a coffee drinker in my 40's.  I'll switch to hot coffee once it gets cold around here (GA), maybe next year if it's anything like last winter.

Motivation is still an issue, but I'm practicing mindfulness.  That's where you actually pay attention to what you're doing and what's going on around you and if it's not to you liking you question it so you can make changes if wanted or needed.  It's hard too.  I've been a robot for so long, letting life pass me by that paying attention is like going back to being 5 and wondering what everything is again.

I did my monthly measurements.  My biceps lost 1/2 inch.  Nothing else changed but I know my bum is smaller and so is my waist because my size 46 work pants are way too big now.

Did 10 minutes total today on the elliptical.  Yeah me!  I also used the blower to remove leaves off the deck and had planned to weed eat the lawn (lawn mower died, very small yard tho) but Hurricane Harvey rains are headed this way and I can hear the drops on the leaves outside.  Opportunity lost.  Damn.  Maybe some gardening instead.

Oh I tried a dragon fruit finally.  Wasn't impressed, put it in my smoothie instead.  Oh well.

Eat less, move more.  Get healthy!