Day 51
Well 51 days in now, I finally went under the number I wanted to on the scale. It has been about 5 years since I have seen this number on the scale. Talk about taking it home for me. I feel so much more encouraged!
This makes an additional -4lbs lost! I'm working SO hard for it too.
Can't wait to take my measurements at the end of this month. Even more so, can't wait to see how much I will lose by the time I go on my cruise in February!
Well that's all to report, but I am so amped about it! To all my ladies who have signed on for a spa day celebration when I reached my -20lb lost mark, get ready! I'm not far off now. :-D
~Ciao
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Monday, 17 September 2012
This is not a diet, this is my whole life!
Day 50
I've been so terrible on blogging lately! I'm sorry. It's been pretty busy around here. Hard to get a chance to sit down and have some blog time :P
50 days!!! Today I have been on my weight loss journey and exercising pretty diligently for FIFTY DAYS! W00T! Well that is definitely a milestone for me.
Today was tough tough TOUGH! I started week 2 in the Ripped in 30 today. Now I am starting to get pretty afraid of what's to come. Some of the movements I had to take a double take on... like I think she is clinically insane! I don't think most peoples body's move like that. Like this one move with the push ups. You had to get into push up position and instead of just the normal push up move you needed to go down and raise a leg to your elbow.. like seriously!?
Another one with abs you had to sit straight up on the floor, push your whole body off the mat so your some what hovering (at least in the butt area) and then you put your feet down and curl your stomach up to a bridge position, hard to picture I know but its even harder to do! Ouchies! My arms really felt that.
Oh and lets not forget the cardio plank pose from hell... you do plank jacks for like 30 sec then do mountain climbers (which is plank pose and then you lift each knee up so basically running in spot in a plank position) then back to the plank jacks and more mountain climbers. My shoulders were pinching so bad, I had to stop. It was burning. No relief from that pose at all!
Anyway I could go on and on, it's only week 2! I can not imagine what week 3 brings. I think I will most definitely do 6 days of this.
Oh and the stupid thing was I started out doing week one because i'm so used to doing 10 days on of each level from the 30 day shred, if my 4 year old hadn't mentioned anything I probably would have done week 1 again. So I did the warm up part and the first strength part of week 1 before realizing and then having to switch to week 2, doing another warm up and then the rest of the work out. Talk about worn out.
Then I had to go and clean up garbage from my back yard and do a craft with my biggest. I need a nap.
Well that's my day! As always thanks to those who read my blog and support me in this life journey! This is not a diet, this is my whole life! :) Happy reading!
~Ciao
Day of rest... pretty uneventful!
Day 49
Yay! Finally my rest day... I was undecided if I wanted to go for a 5 day stretch this week or a 6 day stretch. Well I seriously had so much cleaning and what not to do I decided to take the break, especially since the day before was REALLY TOUGH I figured it was best to listen to my body.
I did do a bunch of cleaning, got lots of stuff done. I felt very accomplished! It was enough stuff that I could classify it was a "light work-out" if i wanted to fudge it -haha.
~Ciao
Still catching up... Day 48!
Day 48
Ah, yes. Saturday. Well again I got up early and went into the city with my friend and we did a bunch of shopping at party stores since we are both preparing for 1st birthday's for our babies.
Shopping always seems to take a lot out of me, not sure why? Maybe it's just me.
So after I came home I needed to organize some more and clean up then eat and yep, back to the grueling work out. It was TOUGH today. Early mornings may be catching up to me or something - haha. Not sure, but I muscled through anyway and completed the work out. The rest of the day was non-eventful.
~Ciao
I suck at blogging, lol...
Day 47
Let's see well this would have been Friday's posting. Not really much to report on this day. I did my work out and it felt pretty good, I was actually a pretty busy little bee this day. I woke up very early, took my son to school then came home and proceeded to gut my fridge and clean it from top to bottom, boy did it need it! Then I finally ate, it was a later breakfast so I was a bit bad with meal eating and fitting in the snacks at the right time this day.
Then I picked my son up from school around 11am and off to Superstore we went to get lots of yummy fruits and veggies and all that jazz. I bought a bag of organic apples this time and WOW am I ever shocked at the taste difference! No, seriously though... I always thought it was a bit of a hype or whatever but there really is a taste difference, organic apples ARE AMAZING. I can't get enough. They are crisp and sweet and smooth. They just taste so much better. Yummy.
Then after that was said and done I still needed to do my work out. I was POOPED needless to say.
Later that evening my hubby and I had our usual Friday night Sushi/Date night and I think I very much earned that sushi ;-) lol
Well that's all for now!
~Ciao
Let's see well this would have been Friday's posting. Not really much to report on this day. I did my work out and it felt pretty good, I was actually a pretty busy little bee this day. I woke up very early, took my son to school then came home and proceeded to gut my fridge and clean it from top to bottom, boy did it need it! Then I finally ate, it was a later breakfast so I was a bit bad with meal eating and fitting in the snacks at the right time this day.
Then I picked my son up from school around 11am and off to Superstore we went to get lots of yummy fruits and veggies and all that jazz. I bought a bag of organic apples this time and WOW am I ever shocked at the taste difference! No, seriously though... I always thought it was a bit of a hype or whatever but there really is a taste difference, organic apples ARE AMAZING. I can't get enough. They are crisp and sweet and smooth. They just taste so much better. Yummy.
Then after that was said and done I still needed to do my work out. I was POOPED needless to say.
Later that evening my hubby and I had our usual Friday night Sushi/Date night and I think I very much earned that sushi ;-) lol
Well that's all for now!
~Ciao
Thursday, 13 September 2012
Getting the hang of it...
Day 46
Well today's work out wasn't so bad! Just needed to work on the form in a few movements but other then that my stamina and endurance is building. I still suck at push ups though. I just can't do them! I even do it on my knees and that's even still too hard. My arms are still too weak or something I don't know... you'd think after doing 30 days of the shred I would have built up some muscles to at least do a push up. I can maybe still do about 5 before my arms crap out on me.
I think i'm still losing weight. Yesterday I received a very high compliment from my neighbor, she said that I was looking amazing, and then when I left to go meet my friend she commented that I looked great too. It's SO encouraging to hear all this positive feed back, when I see myself every day I don't see the big changes. I can see in my before and after picture of course but to notice it in the mirror just won't happen so thank you to everyone who continues to build me up and encourage me!
Well anyway that's all I have to say for now!
~Ciao
Well today's work out wasn't so bad! Just needed to work on the form in a few movements but other then that my stamina and endurance is building. I still suck at push ups though. I just can't do them! I even do it on my knees and that's even still too hard. My arms are still too weak or something I don't know... you'd think after doing 30 days of the shred I would have built up some muscles to at least do a push up. I can maybe still do about 5 before my arms crap out on me.
I think i'm still losing weight. Yesterday I received a very high compliment from my neighbor, she said that I was looking amazing, and then when I left to go meet my friend she commented that I looked great too. It's SO encouraging to hear all this positive feed back, when I see myself every day I don't see the big changes. I can see in my before and after picture of course but to notice it in the mirror just won't happen so thank you to everyone who continues to build me up and encourage me!
Well anyway that's all I have to say for now!
~Ciao
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Feel the burn, baby!
Day 45
Apparently I was a bit too cocky when I updated yesterday that the Ripped in 30 wasn't bad. At least I think that's what I said, I was thinking that if I didn't say it.
Today was really challenging to do the movements. I am feeling it all over my body, which is awesome because after the 30 day shred I wasn't hurting in these areas as much.
I woke up this morning all stiff legged. My hamstring was sooo sore, and my quads and my butt - haha. It all hurt, and to re-work it all again today was just brutal! So we went swimming tonight and I sat in the hot tub to relax my muscles a bit. I hope after a restful night I have a bit more range of motion back. I love feeling this pain though, it makes me know that I have worked something hard and that my body is changing. Makes the work out worth it even more.
I just wish it was easier to walk! Going up and down stairs is quite the task right now and my lower back is aching. Either I worked a really strange back muscle or I had bad form in one of the movements. Maybe the chair pose? I sure felt that a lot on my lower back.
Today was also a good day for eating, although for supper time I did eat potato salad and had a bun but I also had garden salad and chicken with it. I found my appetite was increased today too. I was so hungry for one of my snacks I devoured a yogurt AND an apple. I even had some apple crisp for another snack and some nuts which I probably could have done without the crisp but its soooo yummy. I made it for my husband yesterday for dessert and it's in my fridge and it is seriously the best apple crisp both he and I have ever had! It's pretty hard to resist. Its almost gone though and I don't bake often (for this reason!)
Well thats all I have to say for now. This is a late update but I am trying to get back to doing it daily at least. I'm off to bed right now, got another busy day tomorrow!
~Ciao
Apparently I was a bit too cocky when I updated yesterday that the Ripped in 30 wasn't bad. At least I think that's what I said, I was thinking that if I didn't say it.
Today was really challenging to do the movements. I am feeling it all over my body, which is awesome because after the 30 day shred I wasn't hurting in these areas as much.
I woke up this morning all stiff legged. My hamstring was sooo sore, and my quads and my butt - haha. It all hurt, and to re-work it all again today was just brutal! So we went swimming tonight and I sat in the hot tub to relax my muscles a bit. I hope after a restful night I have a bit more range of motion back. I love feeling this pain though, it makes me know that I have worked something hard and that my body is changing. Makes the work out worth it even more.
I just wish it was easier to walk! Going up and down stairs is quite the task right now and my lower back is aching. Either I worked a really strange back muscle or I had bad form in one of the movements. Maybe the chair pose? I sure felt that a lot on my lower back.
Today was also a good day for eating, although for supper time I did eat potato salad and had a bun but I also had garden salad and chicken with it. I found my appetite was increased today too. I was so hungry for one of my snacks I devoured a yogurt AND an apple. I even had some apple crisp for another snack and some nuts which I probably could have done without the crisp but its soooo yummy. I made it for my husband yesterday for dessert and it's in my fridge and it is seriously the best apple crisp both he and I have ever had! It's pretty hard to resist. Its almost gone though and I don't bake often (for this reason!)
Well thats all I have to say for now. This is a late update but I am trying to get back to doing it daily at least. I'm off to bed right now, got another busy day tomorrow!
~Ciao
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Ripped in 30 Day 1!
Day 44
Yes! Today was a success so far.
Woke up and went to my SFL appointment, came home and prepared a "Frozen Yogurt" recipe from them, drank that for my breakfast (trying to be cautious of those carbs!). It was ok, I think if I made it again i'd have to cut back on the honey in the recipe and add more frozen fruit instead. Too sweet! Bleck.
Since it was a later breakfast I didn't get my mid-morning snack, but that's ok. I was doing a craft with my son in the morning and doing more light house cleaning/organizing instead so I got caught up in that and that resulted in a later breakfast.
I DID MY RIPPED IN 30 DAY 1! Finally!! Wooooot!
It wasn't bad actually. Most of the movements I can already do with ease, but as she says several times week 1 & 2 she goes "slightly" easy on you and focuses more on the proper technique of each movement rather then pushing you harder she wants to make sure you actually performing them properly.
It is the exact same concept as 30 day shred: 3 minutes strength, 2 minutes cardio & 1 minute abs. Some of the movements were a mixture I think of Level 1 of the 30 Day and well combining all the levels. I got through it, I was sweaty and exhausted at the end but that's exactly what I wanted!
From there I made a wrap and had cucumber and cottage cheese on the side, then did some educational stuff with my biggest from his activity book and came upstairs and proceeded to clean and de-junk as much stuff as I could. I even re-arranged my living room.
I'm telling you all this to tell you that I already feel such a difference with adding back in my exercising. It's definitely a love/hate thing.
Ripped in 30 is a 4 week challenge. So week 1 is about 5-6 days long (depending on how many days a week you want to work out) and so is week 2, 3 and 4. Supposedly weeks 3 & 4 are the mother of all work outs and she is already talking about mentally preparing for them because they will suck more then I can imagine.
My nutritionist told me to make another goal when I am 20 days in so that way I don't get to the end of my goal and have nothing else to challenge me. So I am already thinking of other exercises to do. I am really liking the Jillian Michael's series though. I want to get her newest one "Killer Abs" I've seen a preview on youtube and it will SUCK but that's what I want! lol
Anyway it's been a good day so far. Going to make Dijon Chicken and have salad for supper. I'm glad to be back at it again! So I will be blogging every day again too. :)
In light of the fact that I am now back on track I think I will post a picture of my amazing weight loss so far!
Let me know what you think!
~Ciao
Yes! Today was a success so far.
Woke up and went to my SFL appointment, came home and prepared a "Frozen Yogurt" recipe from them, drank that for my breakfast (trying to be cautious of those carbs!). It was ok, I think if I made it again i'd have to cut back on the honey in the recipe and add more frozen fruit instead. Too sweet! Bleck.
Since it was a later breakfast I didn't get my mid-morning snack, but that's ok. I was doing a craft with my son in the morning and doing more light house cleaning/organizing instead so I got caught up in that and that resulted in a later breakfast.
I DID MY RIPPED IN 30 DAY 1! Finally!! Wooooot!
It wasn't bad actually. Most of the movements I can already do with ease, but as she says several times week 1 & 2 she goes "slightly" easy on you and focuses more on the proper technique of each movement rather then pushing you harder she wants to make sure you actually performing them properly.
It is the exact same concept as 30 day shred: 3 minutes strength, 2 minutes cardio & 1 minute abs. Some of the movements were a mixture I think of Level 1 of the 30 Day and well combining all the levels. I got through it, I was sweaty and exhausted at the end but that's exactly what I wanted!
From there I made a wrap and had cucumber and cottage cheese on the side, then did some educational stuff with my biggest from his activity book and came upstairs and proceeded to clean and de-junk as much stuff as I could. I even re-arranged my living room.
I'm telling you all this to tell you that I already feel such a difference with adding back in my exercising. It's definitely a love/hate thing.
Ripped in 30 is a 4 week challenge. So week 1 is about 5-6 days long (depending on how many days a week you want to work out) and so is week 2, 3 and 4. Supposedly weeks 3 & 4 are the mother of all work outs and she is already talking about mentally preparing for them because they will suck more then I can imagine.
My nutritionist told me to make another goal when I am 20 days in so that way I don't get to the end of my goal and have nothing else to challenge me. So I am already thinking of other exercises to do. I am really liking the Jillian Michael's series though. I want to get her newest one "Killer Abs" I've seen a preview on youtube and it will SUCK but that's what I want! lol
Anyway it's been a good day so far. Going to make Dijon Chicken and have salad for supper. I'm glad to be back at it again! So I will be blogging every day again too. :)
In light of the fact that I am now back on track I think I will post a picture of my amazing weight loss so far!
Not sure if you can read the dates as the program did something really funky, but the dates read: "Before: 07/30/2012" and "After: 08/30/2012"
Let me know what you think!
~Ciao
Excuses ... excuses!
Day 43
Well got my biggest off to school today and didn't really do much. It was a pretty chill day. I have been having a few of those lately with not having any real exercise in place. Started to get annoyed with my lack of motivation to exercise.
When I was doing the 30 day shred before I had energy to do more things and I just feel so sluggish.
On the bright side, today was a fresh start. I had eggs and toast for breakfast and got my snacks in and had really good meals, a wrap for lunch and salad and buffalo chicken for supper. I didn't managed to quite get all my water in.
Then we were having company over for bible study. That didn't end until 9pm and then we needed to put "little" to bed. My husband tried very hard to motivate me, I just didn't want to do the Ripped in 30 tonight. He tried to entice me to do Zumba, or Just Dance or a BodyRockTV or something. I love him so much.
I just felt I needed to get a decent night sleep. So that's what I did...
Tomorrow is always a new day....right? Ugh. Please motivation come back!
~Ciao
Well got my biggest off to school today and didn't really do much. It was a pretty chill day. I have been having a few of those lately with not having any real exercise in place. Started to get annoyed with my lack of motivation to exercise.
When I was doing the 30 day shred before I had energy to do more things and I just feel so sluggish.
On the bright side, today was a fresh start. I had eggs and toast for breakfast and got my snacks in and had really good meals, a wrap for lunch and salad and buffalo chicken for supper. I didn't managed to quite get all my water in.
Then we were having company over for bible study. That didn't end until 9pm and then we needed to put "little" to bed. My husband tried very hard to motivate me, I just didn't want to do the Ripped in 30 tonight. He tried to entice me to do Zumba, or Just Dance or a BodyRockTV or something. I love him so much.
I just felt I needed to get a decent night sleep. So that's what I did...
Tomorrow is always a new day....right? Ugh. Please motivation come back!
~Ciao
Feeling better... finally
Day 42
Today is normally my rest day but i should have worked out anyway.
We decided to make it a family day after church and go to stir crazy. Again my eating was subpar to say the least and again snacks were missed. We had shepherd's pie for supper and I was preparing my biggest's school bag so it was pretty busy and I was feeling pretty tired by this point after playing and church and what not.
My littlest was rather difficult to put to sleep again, thinking he was over tired tonight so by the time everyone was in bed it was 9pm and I didn't feel like exercising. So my husband and I did bible study instead.
Tomorrow is a new day... I hope.... Just gotta keep picking myself up and trying again.
~Ciao
Today is normally my rest day but i should have worked out anyway.
We decided to make it a family day after church and go to stir crazy. Again my eating was subpar to say the least and again snacks were missed. We had shepherd's pie for supper and I was preparing my biggest's school bag so it was pretty busy and I was feeling pretty tired by this point after playing and church and what not.
My littlest was rather difficult to put to sleep again, thinking he was over tired tonight so by the time everyone was in bed it was 9pm and I didn't feel like exercising. So my husband and I did bible study instead.
Tomorrow is a new day... I hope.... Just gotta keep picking myself up and trying again.
~Ciao
Food Poisoning...
Day 41 (09/08/09)
Woke up feeling gross still from that roast beef sandwich. Had to take a couple tylenol (as I did last night to even get any sleep what so ever!). My stomach hurt so bad and hurts still so pretty much a take it easy kind of day...i've never had food poisoning before but can now say it sucks!!
~Ciao
Woke up feeling gross still from that roast beef sandwich. Had to take a couple tylenol (as I did last night to even get any sleep what so ever!). My stomach hurt so bad and hurts still so pretty much a take it easy kind of day...i've never had food poisoning before but can now say it sucks!!
~Ciao
Weigh in...
Day 40 (09/07/12)
It's Friday! Took my measurements last night. I have lost a total of 17.5 inches and 12lbs in total in just OVER A MONTH. WOW! I am so proud of myself, but on the other hand i'm still not at the "jump out of my skin excitement" stage because I have a certain number in mind that I want to see on that scale. Don't get me wrong though, 17.5 inches? That's AMAZING. That's huge! That's worth celebrating...
Today I did tons of baking so I could freeze preschool snacks for my biggest. I only ate 3 pieces of pizza all day. 3 TINY pieces at that. I was feeling pretty wobbly.
At my meeting with SFL I had to meet a different nutritionist, and it was later (at 5pm). She was awesome but i'm so not used to her. Her name was Danielle. I have been bad ALL week with eating and snacking. I've barely had an appetite. I got super run down a couple days ago because my littlest wasn't sleeping and I think it just caught up to me.
So she recommended that I buy an assortment of nuts (unsalted of course) and pre-bag 1 ounce worth in like 6 zippy bags. So I went to the local superstore and got those and of course I was FAMISHED so I decided to buy a pre-made roast beef sandwich. My family and I were going to this Corn Bust thing that my friend invited us to but it didn't start till 6pm and we were so hungry, because we were dumb and didn't eat lol so my husband and I decided to share half a sandwich each.
Then we went to the corn bust which we had chili, assortment of salads, dessert... and just mingled with strangers. LOL.
Well after about 8pm and I was laying in bed I started getting the most SEVERE abdominal cramping in my LIFE. They almost resembled contractions, it was murder! I felt so sick all that night, and puked my guts out.
The culprit? That dang roast beef sandwich we bet!
So no work out today unfortunately :(
~Ciao
It's Friday! Took my measurements last night. I have lost a total of 17.5 inches and 12lbs in total in just OVER A MONTH. WOW! I am so proud of myself, but on the other hand i'm still not at the "jump out of my skin excitement" stage because I have a certain number in mind that I want to see on that scale. Don't get me wrong though, 17.5 inches? That's AMAZING. That's huge! That's worth celebrating...
Today I did tons of baking so I could freeze preschool snacks for my biggest. I only ate 3 pieces of pizza all day. 3 TINY pieces at that. I was feeling pretty wobbly.
At my meeting with SFL I had to meet a different nutritionist, and it was later (at 5pm). She was awesome but i'm so not used to her. Her name was Danielle. I have been bad ALL week with eating and snacking. I've barely had an appetite. I got super run down a couple days ago because my littlest wasn't sleeping and I think it just caught up to me.
So she recommended that I buy an assortment of nuts (unsalted of course) and pre-bag 1 ounce worth in like 6 zippy bags. So I went to the local superstore and got those and of course I was FAMISHED so I decided to buy a pre-made roast beef sandwich. My family and I were going to this Corn Bust thing that my friend invited us to but it didn't start till 6pm and we were so hungry, because we were dumb and didn't eat lol so my husband and I decided to share half a sandwich each.
Then we went to the corn bust which we had chili, assortment of salads, dessert... and just mingled with strangers. LOL.
Well after about 8pm and I was laying in bed I started getting the most SEVERE abdominal cramping in my LIFE. They almost resembled contractions, it was murder! I felt so sick all that night, and puked my guts out.
The culprit? That dang roast beef sandwich we bet!
So no work out today unfortunately :(
~Ciao
COMPLETED 30 DAY SHRED!
Day 39 (Thursday 09/06/12)
I've been so terrible to update my blog, actually I will admit that I fell off the wagon a bit. So even though these updates are in past tense since i'm doing a bulk update i'll still speak as if it is present tense for sake of confusion.
My husband, and greatest supporter forced me to work out on Day 38 after all. Then today I was able to finish the work out. I was in tears though. I think its because I normally do my work out in the early morning or afternoon and the last 2 days of my 30 day Shred I worked out at night.
But.... I DID IT! I completed my first milestone goal. I completed the 30 day shred. I missed a few days here and there but you know what!? I DID IT!
Next on my work out list... "Ripped in 30"... that's my next goal.
~Ciao
I've been so terrible to update my blog, actually I will admit that I fell off the wagon a bit. So even though these updates are in past tense since i'm doing a bulk update i'll still speak as if it is present tense for sake of confusion.
My husband, and greatest supporter forced me to work out on Day 38 after all. Then today I was able to finish the work out. I was in tears though. I think its because I normally do my work out in the early morning or afternoon and the last 2 days of my 30 day Shred I worked out at night.
But.... I DID IT! I completed my first milestone goal. I completed the 30 day shred. I missed a few days here and there but you know what!? I DID IT!
Next on my work out list... "Ripped in 30"... that's my next goal.
~Ciao
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Picking myself back up again... or trying at least!
Day 38
Today was no better. Another bad night with baby. I need to seriously buck down and get him some meds for this teething. I'm not even sure if that's the whole problem but I think it is. I think he is cutting his 1 year molars or something as he is constantly chewing on his hands. Not to mention since i've stopped working out my sciatic nerve has acted up and I was in such agony last night.
Tried to be better about eating today. Had a bowl of corn pops (not good I know but it was either that or nothing as I have needed to get groceries for a few days, didn't buy stuff in anticipation for leaving for BC and so I made a poor choice in the cereal but at least it was food)
Lunch was better, a veggie wrap and cottage cheese.
I have my Kashi granola bar I plan to eat in an hour and going to try and make a healthy dinner.
I am SO SO SOOOOO disappointed in myself. I feel like I am totally sliding off the wagon so to speak. I NEED to try very hard to work out today. Didn't help that I left all my dirty laundry at my moms (and in that batch of clothes was my work out bra) so I couldn't really work out even if I wasn't feeling crappy, and even if the forces of the universe weren't against me working out these past few days.
My husband isn't anticipating working late tonight so we will work out together.
2 more days of the level 3 on the shred... 2 MORE DAYS! I am almost done the 30 day shred. I WILL finish this challenge. I do have many support people cheering me on and it has helped a lot. I just need to dust off the last couple days and stride forward and make more progress. Work out more intensely.
Thanks for all my friends who have continued to support me on my journey, pick me up when I feel defeated and encourage me to keep going! You guys are my rock, I so need a good support group and glad I have it.
Well that's all for now, better tend to my screaming baby.
~Ciao
Sleep deprivation = no exercise :(
Day 37 (Tuesday)
By now the no sleep thing was catching up to me and I was feeling SUPER crappy so I just lounged on the couch and dealt with my screaming baby all day. My husband worked late so I had full intentions of at least TRYING to work out but he never made it home till close to 8PM, at this point I only managed to get a ham and cheese sandwich and a handful of chips (since they were conveniently there) in and that's all I had to eat, then after we got the kids to bed it was almost 10PM. I was WIPED. On top of already feeling like crud I was now beyond exhausted and anticipating yet another horrendous night from my little one. So I scrapped the work out, yet again!! :-(
~Ciao
Highway to failure?
Day 36 (Monday)
We were travelling home from BC this day and I had totally planned to work out either in the morning before we left at 11AM or after I got home. That did not go according to plan. My baby is cutting some nasty teeth or something and has been completely unsettled for sleeping for a week. This mama is TIRED. So I ended up getting him to nap from 9am-10am then it was rush rush to pack and get on the road.
I did eat before we left (2 pieces of whole wheat toast with peanut butter and a yogurt) fully trying to avoid eating on the road. Didn't work. It is a 5 hour drive, and with stops with kids it makes it even longer. We ended up getting wings and potato wedges and chips. Again a CRAP day for eating.
Got home super late, and didn't get our son to bed until 9PM and by then we were so wiped we just got sushi, and then our son woke up again. So it was another exhausting night.
No work out that day due to clingy, grumpy, sick, feverish baby.... we'll try again the next day I figured. Only 2 days off working out.....read on to next "catch up" post for more.
~Ciao
Playing Catch Up.... Day 35
Day 35 (Sunday)
This is going to be a bulk post since I have been lacking on my posting daily. We'll start with Day 35 which was on Sunday.
I was able to work out this day at least but as i'm sure you can imagine having a baby shower for my sister the food there was not in the health check zone, but who cares! I let myself "cheat"... its not every day a baby is born and it is our FIRST girl, and that makes it my very first niece.
So that night was a hodge podge dinner, ended up going to get Burger King, blah! Not proud of that but sometimes you can't help it. We were all so tired and it was too late for my mom to make dinner. Then we watched a movie and again I allowed myself to "cheat" and had half a chocolate bar. Do you see what I mean about the title? Slippery Slope. Man it didn't take much... well on wards to the next day to see how I continued to slip......
~Ciao
This is going to be a bulk post since I have been lacking on my posting daily. We'll start with Day 35 which was on Sunday.
I was able to work out this day at least but as i'm sure you can imagine having a baby shower for my sister the food there was not in the health check zone, but who cares! I let myself "cheat"... its not every day a baby is born and it is our FIRST girl, and that makes it my very first niece.
So that night was a hodge podge dinner, ended up going to get Burger King, blah! Not proud of that but sometimes you can't help it. We were all so tired and it was too late for my mom to make dinner. Then we watched a movie and again I allowed myself to "cheat" and had half a chocolate bar. Do you see what I mean about the title? Slippery Slope. Man it didn't take much... well on wards to the next day to see how I continued to slip......
~Ciao
Saturday, 1 September 2012
Ho hum...
Day 34
My baby had a fever last night though and was very sickly. So I didn't get a good rest yet again, and my baby was incredibly clingy too. Couldn't put him down today. So unfortunately I didn't get my Saturday work out in. =(
I will have to counter that by working out on Sunday (my normal rest day) so it will just be swapped around a little. Which will suck because that means I need to exercise for 7 days before I get my next rest day which will be harder for me near the end of the week but I honestly couldn't exercise right now even if I wanted to. No energy.
Been trying to eat a little healthier since being here but its not working out as well as I had planned. Yesterday morning wasn't bad, I had packed some left over fruit salad and ate that, then had my normal veggie wrap and cottage cheese for lunch after my work out, and then a banana for a snack. We didn't eat until 8pm though and I was STARVING. We had BBQ Hamburger patties, which I ate 1 and a half of them and a little bit of chips.
Then today I had 2 pieces of PB & J toast for breakfast and a banana, for lunch had a left over hamburger patty and no snacks through out the day, and for supper I had spaghetti/garlic toast/ceaser salad and have had a couple drinks.
Tomorrow is my sisters baby shower and there will be cake and what not there so again not an entirely healthy weekend. Blah! So easy to fall off, but I won't allow it!!
Well that's all. Wish me luck!!
~Ciao
My baby had a fever last night though and was very sickly. So I didn't get a good rest yet again, and my baby was incredibly clingy too. Couldn't put him down today. So unfortunately I didn't get my Saturday work out in. =(
I will have to counter that by working out on Sunday (my normal rest day) so it will just be swapped around a little. Which will suck because that means I need to exercise for 7 days before I get my next rest day which will be harder for me near the end of the week but I honestly couldn't exercise right now even if I wanted to. No energy.
Been trying to eat a little healthier since being here but its not working out as well as I had planned. Yesterday morning wasn't bad, I had packed some left over fruit salad and ate that, then had my normal veggie wrap and cottage cheese for lunch after my work out, and then a banana for a snack. We didn't eat until 8pm though and I was STARVING. We had BBQ Hamburger patties, which I ate 1 and a half of them and a little bit of chips.
Then today I had 2 pieces of PB & J toast for breakfast and a banana, for lunch had a left over hamburger patty and no snacks through out the day, and for supper I had spaghetti/garlic toast/ceaser salad and have had a couple drinks.
Tomorrow is my sisters baby shower and there will be cake and what not there so again not an entirely healthy weekend. Blah! So easy to fall off, but I won't allow it!!
Well that's all. Wish me luck!!
~Ciao
Friday Motivation Baby!
Day 33
Woke up at my Mom's and I was SO proud, I actually DID find time to workout. It was difficult because there isn't much space but I punched through it just the same.
I had a bunch of other stuff I was doing too. Making "happy pill" vitamins and also making my sister's baby shower gift. (diaper cake!) so all that was time consuming. Spent a lot of time on my feet.
Not much else to report here.
~Ciao
Woke up at my Mom's and I was SO proud, I actually DID find time to workout. It was difficult because there isn't much space but I punched through it just the same.
I had a bunch of other stuff I was doing too. Making "happy pill" vitamins and also making my sister's baby shower gift. (diaper cake!) so all that was time consuming. Spent a lot of time on my feet.
Not much else to report here.
~Ciao
Thursday, 30 August 2012
Hustle hustle hustle!!
Day 32
Today I was supposed to do my measurements but no time. I'll have to attempt to do that tomorrow.
I was beyond tired today. My baby woke us up every 45min-1 hour last night. Sigh. I wasn't sure how I would make it through today as I had SO much running around to do.
Woke up, made a fruit salad and yogurt for breaky and then got to cleaning and organizing, doing laundry, dealing with my cranky baby, phone calls left right and center, then I literally forced myself to work out; it wasn't too bad actually. I was able to give almost 100% to all the moves. Felt good about that. As soon as my work out was over my baby of course woke up, but at least he gave me enough time to exercise. No way could I have done it if he was awake. Way too clingy and miserable today.
It was a challenge enough to shower and pack our bags without him melting down that I wasn't holding him, I think he must be getting sick and teething on top.
After that it was a rush for lunch and loading the truck then onwards with my errands. I am beat! But have to say so impressed that I was able to do so much today.
Supper wasn't the best. We had to grab food on the road. Any healthy suggestions for future use? Something easy to eat while driving would be ideal.
I am determined to stick to my exercise regime this weekend even though I know temptation will be there for me to just relax and visit with my family.
Wish me luck!
~Ciao
Today I was supposed to do my measurements but no time. I'll have to attempt to do that tomorrow.
I was beyond tired today. My baby woke us up every 45min-1 hour last night. Sigh. I wasn't sure how I would make it through today as I had SO much running around to do.
Woke up, made a fruit salad and yogurt for breaky and then got to cleaning and organizing, doing laundry, dealing with my cranky baby, phone calls left right and center, then I literally forced myself to work out; it wasn't too bad actually. I was able to give almost 100% to all the moves. Felt good about that. As soon as my work out was over my baby of course woke up, but at least he gave me enough time to exercise. No way could I have done it if he was awake. Way too clingy and miserable today.
It was a challenge enough to shower and pack our bags without him melting down that I wasn't holding him, I think he must be getting sick and teething on top.
After that it was a rush for lunch and loading the truck then onwards with my errands. I am beat! But have to say so impressed that I was able to do so much today.
Supper wasn't the best. We had to grab food on the road. Any healthy suggestions for future use? Something easy to eat while driving would be ideal.
I am determined to stick to my exercise regime this weekend even though I know temptation will be there for me to just relax and visit with my family.
Wish me luck!
~Ciao
Last day of lane swimming
Day 31
Well I missed out on posting yesterday so I will have to do a double post today.
I completed another day of the shred today but I was totally struggling to complete the work out today. It was so cute to see my 4 year old rooting me on: "you can do it mommy! Keep pushing" lol
Ah well I also did my last class of lane swimming, we did a relay which was SO hard. We had to swim to the end of the pool, dive under and pick up a shape thing off the bottom of the pool floor, and do a back crawl back with it (all while racing the other person); I choked on water at the end as I didn't realize I was supposed to dive down and I was out of breath as is, and then dropped the stupid shape thing anyway so I had to dive under twice.
My teacher said I was the fastest in the class though. We didn't win because one of the ladies on our team has lung issues and she could only swim so fast, I tried to be encouraging for her as I could tell she was disappointed that she was the slow one and we didn't win. No biggie. It was just for fun anyway.
Well now that lane swimming is over I am tempted to enrol again the next one would only be 1x a week and from 8-9pm. I'll see.
Had so much to prepare ahead of time for this long weekend I wasn't as disciplined in my eating as I would like. Why is it after an intense work out I crave starchy stuff? Weird.
Anyway that's all for Day 31.
~Ciao
Well I missed out on posting yesterday so I will have to do a double post today.
I completed another day of the shred today but I was totally struggling to complete the work out today. It was so cute to see my 4 year old rooting me on: "you can do it mommy! Keep pushing" lol
Ah well I also did my last class of lane swimming, we did a relay which was SO hard. We had to swim to the end of the pool, dive under and pick up a shape thing off the bottom of the pool floor, and do a back crawl back with it (all while racing the other person); I choked on water at the end as I didn't realize I was supposed to dive down and I was out of breath as is, and then dropped the stupid shape thing anyway so I had to dive under twice.
My teacher said I was the fastest in the class though. We didn't win because one of the ladies on our team has lung issues and she could only swim so fast, I tried to be encouraging for her as I could tell she was disappointed that she was the slow one and we didn't win. No biggie. It was just for fun anyway.
Well now that lane swimming is over I am tempted to enrol again the next one would only be 1x a week and from 8-9pm. I'll see.
Had so much to prepare ahead of time for this long weekend I wasn't as disciplined in my eating as I would like. Why is it after an intense work out I crave starchy stuff? Weird.
Anyway that's all for Day 31.
~Ciao
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
need to focus more
Day 30
I didn't have a positive weigh in today at SFL. I need to be more dedicated to my nutrition. My fitness is there, I am very diligent to exercise 6 days a week, as I did once again today but I need to stop letting my eating slide so much here and there.
My nutritionist said that I should restrict myself to 2x a week where I let myself relax a little on the eating, but that doesn't mean dive into all the fats I can.
She also said that I should aim to eat 10-14 servings of carbs per week so I am going to be more mindful of that as well. I may have my challenge set out for me since I am going to stay with my family for 3 days (plus a bit). I can do it though! I need more positive results on the scale and that will be my motivation.
Wish me luck!
~Ciao
I didn't have a positive weigh in today at SFL. I need to be more dedicated to my nutrition. My fitness is there, I am very diligent to exercise 6 days a week, as I did once again today but I need to stop letting my eating slide so much here and there.
My nutritionist said that I should restrict myself to 2x a week where I let myself relax a little on the eating, but that doesn't mean dive into all the fats I can.
She also said that I should aim to eat 10-14 servings of carbs per week so I am going to be more mindful of that as well. I may have my challenge set out for me since I am going to stay with my family for 3 days (plus a bit). I can do it though! I need more positive results on the scale and that will be my motivation.
Wish me luck!
~Ciao
Monday, 27 August 2012
Well that was discouraging... :(
Day 29
Well I *was* down 12 lbs but for some reason I stepped on the scale today and its up another 6... I just about lost it!
I am so grateful for my loving husband, he always keeps me centered. His text to me said "must be water retention or muscle gain. just keep going. giving up is the only fail" then he continued by saying "your body is just morphing right now. Soon enough muscle won't be growing so much and just fat will melt" he is SO supportive and knows JUST what to say to pick up my spirits.
I love you babe! <3
In any case I got back to the shred today... it was tough but I think I was able to do more movements. Except this rocket jump one and the sumo squat jumps. I can do a few of the sumo ones but the rocket jumps I can't get enough lift.
I really hope that the scale starts reflecting my weight loss soon. I know the inches are what count the most and I am obviously losing but that number is a big deal to me.
I go down to see my family this Thursday so we will see if they notice (they should!).
Going to try really hard to stick to my eating plan. I have my weigh in with SFL tomorrow. I hope it isn't a disappointing number.
~Ciao
Well I *was* down 12 lbs but for some reason I stepped on the scale today and its up another 6... I just about lost it!
I am so grateful for my loving husband, he always keeps me centered. His text to me said "must be water retention or muscle gain. just keep going. giving up is the only fail" then he continued by saying "your body is just morphing right now. Soon enough muscle won't be growing so much and just fat will melt" he is SO supportive and knows JUST what to say to pick up my spirits.
I love you babe! <3
In any case I got back to the shred today... it was tough but I think I was able to do more movements. Except this rocket jump one and the sumo squat jumps. I can do a few of the sumo ones but the rocket jumps I can't get enough lift.
I really hope that the scale starts reflecting my weight loss soon. I know the inches are what count the most and I am obviously losing but that number is a big deal to me.
I go down to see my family this Thursday so we will see if they notice (they should!).
Going to try really hard to stick to my eating plan. I have my weigh in with SFL tomorrow. I hope it isn't a disappointing number.
~Ciao
Sunday, 26 August 2012
28 Days....
Day 28
Had a restful day today, although my aches and pains are really hurting today. When Evan and I were folding laundry together I could really feel it at the tops of my shoulders. So I had to stick to folding the kids clothes instead, talk about painful!
Took my measurements today and I am well proportioned, I lost 2 inches off my bust/waist/hips/left and right thigh and 2 1/2 inches off each of my arms. Just over 10 inches in total for measurement loss, and 12 lbs lost so far! Things are headed in the right direction it seems.
I can definitely notice the difference.
Took my 1 month (well 4 weeks) picture so I will upload the before and afters soon enough, I just want to wait a little while longer.
Well off to enjoy the day with my family!
~Ciao
Had a restful day today, although my aches and pains are really hurting today. When Evan and I were folding laundry together I could really feel it at the tops of my shoulders. So I had to stick to folding the kids clothes instead, talk about painful!
Took my measurements today and I am well proportioned, I lost 2 inches off my bust/waist/hips/left and right thigh and 2 1/2 inches off each of my arms. Just over 10 inches in total for measurement loss, and 12 lbs lost so far! Things are headed in the right direction it seems.
I can definitely notice the difference.
Took my 1 month (well 4 weeks) picture so I will upload the before and afters soon enough, I just want to wait a little while longer.
Well off to enjoy the day with my family!
~Ciao
Saturday, 25 August 2012
Ouch! lol
Day 27
Seems odd that we are on Day 27 but I've only completed 22 days of the Shred (with 1 day a week break I guess it all adds up! Plus I did that ONE Saturday of "Body Rock TV" when the students were down)
Today Level 3 was definitely more challenging then yesterday. My groin muscles are SCREAMING today. I could barely sit on a toilet or go up and down the stairs.
I both love and hate that feeling. I love it because I know I've worked hard enough to do some good change, and I hate it obviously because it's extremely painful. I believe its the "scissors" ab move that is making me ache. That's a hard one.
No pain, no gain, right? =)
I've been debating extending my Level 3 another 10 days and then moving on to "Ripped in 30" by Jillian Michael's. I took a look at the YouTube clip of the movements and it is many of the same of what I am doing in Level 3, but stepped up another notch; I don't think it is out of my real of capability.
After that I think I will take a stab at "Insanity" Challenge. I think after completing both of the JM work out series my body can take on insanity. Either that or I'll do yoga and lane swimming.
Going to really enjoy my day of rest and recovery tomorrow. I earned it.
Off to bed now, this is a much later post! Almost missed blogging today altogether, tisk tisk. :)
~Ciao
Seems odd that we are on Day 27 but I've only completed 22 days of the Shred (with 1 day a week break I guess it all adds up! Plus I did that ONE Saturday of "Body Rock TV" when the students were down)
Today Level 3 was definitely more challenging then yesterday. My groin muscles are SCREAMING today. I could barely sit on a toilet or go up and down the stairs.
I both love and hate that feeling. I love it because I know I've worked hard enough to do some good change, and I hate it obviously because it's extremely painful. I believe its the "scissors" ab move that is making me ache. That's a hard one.
No pain, no gain, right? =)
I've been debating extending my Level 3 another 10 days and then moving on to "Ripped in 30" by Jillian Michael's. I took a look at the YouTube clip of the movements and it is many of the same of what I am doing in Level 3, but stepped up another notch; I don't think it is out of my real of capability.
After that I think I will take a stab at "Insanity" Challenge. I think after completing both of the JM work out series my body can take on insanity. Either that or I'll do yoga and lane swimming.
Going to really enjoy my day of rest and recovery tomorrow. I earned it.
Off to bed now, this is a much later post! Almost missed blogging today altogether, tisk tisk. :)
~Ciao
Friday, 24 August 2012
The Start of Level 3
Day 26
Had a good work out today, surprisingly enough. I started Level 3 of the shred. Yesterday I posted how I was in tears with Level 2 so I expected Level 3 to be the same. I liked it but didn't at the same time. Not sure if that is because I've been doing Level 2 for the last 10 days, it doesn't seem as hard as Level 2 though. Not saying it was a piece of cake by any means, but there were less hard moves in it then there were easy. Maybe I've just built up my strength so much in those moves that I don't find them as hard as others might?
There were definitely some that were REALLY hard though. I'll need to keep on practicing those until I can do them properly. This level has a lot of jumping with strength moves. Like you go into a squat and jump up and back down and up and down etc..
Or the lunge jump, I couldn't do that its the same idea, go into a lunge and jump thrust up and switch legs but its super fast for the switch. So Lunge, jump, lunge, jump...etc...
I'm not sweating as much today either. Again this is only the first day so we will see how the next 9 days play out. Tomorrow I very well may be drenched in sweat haha. Today is a cooler day today too so that may also play into the reason why as well.
I've been so bad with my meal plans this week. I really need to get back into it! I want to follow Simply for Life like I was in the start, but i'm finding i'm doing more of my own variations, which is still OK but i'd like to stick to the plan as best I can. It also forces me to snack more often which I am not. I ate breakfast at 10AM and it is 2PM now and I still haven't had lunch. I should have had a snack at noon but didn't manage to make that due to nap time screwing things up.
Now i'll go make an egg salad sandwich, yum!
~Ciao
Had a good work out today, surprisingly enough. I started Level 3 of the shred. Yesterday I posted how I was in tears with Level 2 so I expected Level 3 to be the same. I liked it but didn't at the same time. Not sure if that is because I've been doing Level 2 for the last 10 days, it doesn't seem as hard as Level 2 though. Not saying it was a piece of cake by any means, but there were less hard moves in it then there were easy. Maybe I've just built up my strength so much in those moves that I don't find them as hard as others might?
There were definitely some that were REALLY hard though. I'll need to keep on practicing those until I can do them properly. This level has a lot of jumping with strength moves. Like you go into a squat and jump up and back down and up and down etc..
Or the lunge jump, I couldn't do that its the same idea, go into a lunge and jump thrust up and switch legs but its super fast for the switch. So Lunge, jump, lunge, jump...etc...
I'm not sweating as much today either. Again this is only the first day so we will see how the next 9 days play out. Tomorrow I very well may be drenched in sweat haha. Today is a cooler day today too so that may also play into the reason why as well.
I've been so bad with my meal plans this week. I really need to get back into it! I want to follow Simply for Life like I was in the start, but i'm finding i'm doing more of my own variations, which is still OK but i'd like to stick to the plan as best I can. It also forces me to snack more often which I am not. I ate breakfast at 10AM and it is 2PM now and I still haven't had lunch. I should have had a snack at noon but didn't manage to make that due to nap time screwing things up.
Now i'll go make an egg salad sandwich, yum!
~Ciao
Thursday, 23 August 2012
Level 2 Completed!
Day 25
Well Jillian Michaels you broke me. The last day of Level 2 brought me to tears. I tried to do more of the harder moves today plus my muscles are screaming in pain already. Only 2 more sessions of lane swimming and then I will back it off and stick to my Shred.
Need to start thinking about other exercises to replace the 30 Day Shred work out DVD, 10 days left of this miserable torture LOL
My husband stayed home today due to a sore back so he is laid up on the couch and he was cheering me on and tried to push me to keep going. Baby woke up just as I finished my cool down stretches, which means he was only down for 25 minutes, going to be one of those days. I am thankful my work out is over with for today but to be honest I am DREADING tomorrow. How am I going to do Level 3 if I struggled with Level 2? I really want to do 10 days of each, so I'm going to push myself.
I know I can keep on Level 2 a bit longer if I wanted but I am some what looking forward to the change and being done with this work out series.
I am noticing my boobs are getting smaller too, need to get a new work out bra! That to me is a GOOD THING, anyone who knows me knows I HATE how busty I am.
Well that's all. A huge thanks to my husband for putting up with my grunts and groans and tears at the end. Jillian Michael's work out DVD's are NOT easy people. She is MEAN haha.
~Ciao
Well Jillian Michaels you broke me. The last day of Level 2 brought me to tears. I tried to do more of the harder moves today plus my muscles are screaming in pain already. Only 2 more sessions of lane swimming and then I will back it off and stick to my Shred.
Need to start thinking about other exercises to replace the 30 Day Shred work out DVD, 10 days left of this miserable torture LOL
My husband stayed home today due to a sore back so he is laid up on the couch and he was cheering me on and tried to push me to keep going. Baby woke up just as I finished my cool down stretches, which means he was only down for 25 minutes, going to be one of those days. I am thankful my work out is over with for today but to be honest I am DREADING tomorrow. How am I going to do Level 3 if I struggled with Level 2? I really want to do 10 days of each, so I'm going to push myself.
I know I can keep on Level 2 a bit longer if I wanted but I am some what looking forward to the change and being done with this work out series.
I am noticing my boobs are getting smaller too, need to get a new work out bra! That to me is a GOOD THING, anyone who knows me knows I HATE how busty I am.
Well that's all. A huge thanks to my husband for putting up with my grunts and groans and tears at the end. Jillian Michael's work out DVD's are NOT easy people. She is MEAN haha.
~Ciao
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Another 2 bite the dust....
Day 24
Today I had to literally have my own personally cheer leader to keep me going with my work out. My knee is really aching from the impact on the jump n jacks. I'm looking forward to completing this 30 day Challenge and moving on to something different. I struggled the whole way through my work out today was practically in tears, my baby was screaming almost the entire time and I kept having to pause to give him a toy or a kiss or something. Talk about stress while working out!
I just didn't want to stop the work out DVD because it took me forever to amp myself up to even starting it today. I was tight in terms of scheduling. I HAD to do my work out by 9AM today because I had places to be at certain times which meant I needed to eat breakfast sooner, and I honestly didn't have much of an appetite. So I had 2 pieces of peanut butter toast, I know awesome breakfast huh?
I did terrible with my eating regularly today. I'm supposed to have MEAL 1, SNACK, MEAL 2, SNACK, MEAL 3, SNACK.... umm yeah I did Meal 1, 2 and 3 and i'm having some frozen yogurt for my snack since I did a lot of working out today and I need to eat some sort of protein.
Lane swimming tonight was challenging too because my legs and muscles all over are just so DONE. I need to keep pushing through it though.
I had my weigh in today and i'm down another 2lbs on her scale. Can't wait till I lose another 5 or 10 though! Then I will REALLY be celebrating.
Well that's all for now. Wish me luck for tomorrow, last day of level 2 then Friday and Saturday I advance to Level 3... dun dun duuuuuun. lol.
~Ciao
Today I had to literally have my own personally cheer leader to keep me going with my work out. My knee is really aching from the impact on the jump n jacks. I'm looking forward to completing this 30 day Challenge and moving on to something different. I struggled the whole way through my work out today was practically in tears, my baby was screaming almost the entire time and I kept having to pause to give him a toy or a kiss or something. Talk about stress while working out!
I just didn't want to stop the work out DVD because it took me forever to amp myself up to even starting it today. I was tight in terms of scheduling. I HAD to do my work out by 9AM today because I had places to be at certain times which meant I needed to eat breakfast sooner, and I honestly didn't have much of an appetite. So I had 2 pieces of peanut butter toast, I know awesome breakfast huh?
I did terrible with my eating regularly today. I'm supposed to have MEAL 1, SNACK, MEAL 2, SNACK, MEAL 3, SNACK.... umm yeah I did Meal 1, 2 and 3 and i'm having some frozen yogurt for my snack since I did a lot of working out today and I need to eat some sort of protein.
Lane swimming tonight was challenging too because my legs and muscles all over are just so DONE. I need to keep pushing through it though.
I had my weigh in today and i'm down another 2lbs on her scale. Can't wait till I lose another 5 or 10 though! Then I will REALLY be celebrating.
Well that's all for now. Wish me luck for tomorrow, last day of level 2 then Friday and Saturday I advance to Level 3... dun dun duuuuuun. lol.
~Ciao
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Wearing out..
Day 23
Lane swimming last night was a bit more work on the legs. I can really feel my legs pinching anytime I use the muscles now, even stairs its like "ouch ouch ouch".
Today was the absolute hardest day of working out i've ever had so far. My body just didn't want to cooperate. I was out of steam just from the warm up. I had several thoughts during the work out "just stop the DVD you can't do this"... i'm glad now that I didn't but I honestly don't even know HOW I made it through.
P was totally uncooperative today too, he was climbing all over me during my abs moves which of course made it either more challenging or impossible. sigh. Unfortunately we have been having such terribly hot weather I really don't want to work out in the afternoon. I prefer to work out in the earlier morning shortly after breakfast so that I can just get on with my day.
I'm sure some of my lost steam stems from the fact that I weighed myself a couple days ago and I was up 2lbs and weighed myself today and i'm down 1.5lbs from that. My husband says its fluctuation from building muscle and losing fat that it will go up and down and to not focus so much on the number but the measurements. I do my measurements next week so we shall see, I really do NOT want to give up but it is very discouraging to work out THIS hard and eat so healthy (with a day every once in a while where I relax SLIGHTLY but not that bad) to not have much results.
Again my husband tells me that 10lbs a month is good and I lose that in 2 weeks. I know I should be proud of that and pace myself but it is a little disheartening.
Calling my support peeps, where art thou support peeps? lol
Off I go on my day now. Thursday is my last day of Level 2 then I advance to Level 3. I am really feeling it in my knees now too, usually only when I do jump n jacks though.
~Ciao
Lane swimming last night was a bit more work on the legs. I can really feel my legs pinching anytime I use the muscles now, even stairs its like "ouch ouch ouch".
Today was the absolute hardest day of working out i've ever had so far. My body just didn't want to cooperate. I was out of steam just from the warm up. I had several thoughts during the work out "just stop the DVD you can't do this"... i'm glad now that I didn't but I honestly don't even know HOW I made it through.
P was totally uncooperative today too, he was climbing all over me during my abs moves which of course made it either more challenging or impossible. sigh. Unfortunately we have been having such terribly hot weather I really don't want to work out in the afternoon. I prefer to work out in the earlier morning shortly after breakfast so that I can just get on with my day.
I'm sure some of my lost steam stems from the fact that I weighed myself a couple days ago and I was up 2lbs and weighed myself today and i'm down 1.5lbs from that. My husband says its fluctuation from building muscle and losing fat that it will go up and down and to not focus so much on the number but the measurements. I do my measurements next week so we shall see, I really do NOT want to give up but it is very discouraging to work out THIS hard and eat so healthy (with a day every once in a while where I relax SLIGHTLY but not that bad) to not have much results.
Again my husband tells me that 10lbs a month is good and I lose that in 2 weeks. I know I should be proud of that and pace myself but it is a little disheartening.
Calling my support peeps, where art thou support peeps? lol
Off I go on my day now. Thursday is my last day of Level 2 then I advance to Level 3. I am really feeling it in my knees now too, usually only when I do jump n jacks though.
~Ciao
Monday, 20 August 2012
Exercise is the best to relieve stress they say...
Day 22
Well, so much for my "restful" day... I had a very upsetting situation come up yesterday, so I ordered pizza & hot wings and watched a movie with my family. I felt incredibly guilty because I definitely had way more slices then I should have had and ended up feeling sick all night. I just didn't want to think about eating healthy or weight loss or anything last night. I just wanted to relax.
I will probably regret it though later as i'm sure it hindered my pounds to lose this week and I'll have to work extra hard to watch what I eat this week. sigh.
So my mom told me that apparently exercise is the best stress reliever there is; I was very upset and struggling to have any motivation to exercise but i'm not going to let that situation that caused all this on me take my weight loss journey from me too :-)
So I am happy to report that I completed the 30 day shred level 2 for today and I do feel much better. I think maybe exercise makes you so physically drained that you emotionally don't have anything left to stress about something, haha. Lane Swimming tonight as well.
Here's hoping I can stay on track. I do appreciate the support from people in my life. Thanks so much for following me and picking me up when I fall. You know who you are! <3
~Ciao
Well, so much for my "restful" day... I had a very upsetting situation come up yesterday, so I ordered pizza & hot wings and watched a movie with my family. I felt incredibly guilty because I definitely had way more slices then I should have had and ended up feeling sick all night. I just didn't want to think about eating healthy or weight loss or anything last night. I just wanted to relax.
I will probably regret it though later as i'm sure it hindered my pounds to lose this week and I'll have to work extra hard to watch what I eat this week. sigh.
So my mom told me that apparently exercise is the best stress reliever there is; I was very upset and struggling to have any motivation to exercise but i'm not going to let that situation that caused all this on me take my weight loss journey from me too :-)
So I am happy to report that I completed the 30 day shred level 2 for today and I do feel much better. I think maybe exercise makes you so physically drained that you emotionally don't have anything left to stress about something, haha. Lane Swimming tonight as well.
Here's hoping I can stay on track. I do appreciate the support from people in my life. Thanks so much for following me and picking me up when I fall. You know who you are! <3
~Ciao
Sunday, 19 August 2012
Three Weeks In!
Day 21
Day of rest!
That's all I have to say on the matter. Oh that and YEAAHH! haha. It is hard work to exercise like crazy 6 days a week, especially with this Level 2 being all in one deal with each move. Level 1 was more focused when doing strength it was all strength (still doing legs and arms though), and cardio was cardio, abs was abs.
Level 2 she tries to do all 3 in one and it is BRUTAL. One thing I have been noticing is that I get a stitch in my side about halfway in. Kind of like eating and them swimming right after. You get a cramp in your side. It's painful and it makes it hard to do the moves.
I wonder if it is the way I am breathing?
Last night I measured 1 1/3 cup of munchie mix (per the bag) and was going to enjoy some of that with a movie but I ate an apple and a "skinny cow" bar instead. I felt better about that. Skinny Cow ice cream bars are awesome and only 100 calories!
Well i'm off to enjoy the day with my boys. :-)
~Ciao
Day of rest!
That's all I have to say on the matter. Oh that and YEAAHH! haha. It is hard work to exercise like crazy 6 days a week, especially with this Level 2 being all in one deal with each move. Level 1 was more focused when doing strength it was all strength (still doing legs and arms though), and cardio was cardio, abs was abs.
Level 2 she tries to do all 3 in one and it is BRUTAL. One thing I have been noticing is that I get a stitch in my side about halfway in. Kind of like eating and them swimming right after. You get a cramp in your side. It's painful and it makes it hard to do the moves.
I wonder if it is the way I am breathing?
Last night I measured 1 1/3 cup of munchie mix (per the bag) and was going to enjoy some of that with a movie but I ate an apple and a "skinny cow" bar instead. I felt better about that. Skinny Cow ice cream bars are awesome and only 100 calories!
Well i'm off to enjoy the day with my boys. :-)
~Ciao
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Day 20
Day 20
I know catching heading huh? haha. Today again my husband did the work out with me and he almost couldn't get through it. I shouldn't really say much on that since I was also barely able to make it through, I don't know why. My body definitely needs tomorrow: my rest day. I usually am pretty good for the work outs for the first 3-4 days after my rest day. I struggle some still but not as much as day 5 and 6. I hope that holds true for this upcoming week. 4 more days of level 2 then onto level 3.
That's all I have to post for Day 20!
~Ciao
I know catching heading huh? haha. Today again my husband did the work out with me and he almost couldn't get through it. I shouldn't really say much on that since I was also barely able to make it through, I don't know why. My body definitely needs tomorrow: my rest day. I usually am pretty good for the work outs for the first 3-4 days after my rest day. I struggle some still but not as much as day 5 and 6. I hope that holds true for this upcoming week. 4 more days of level 2 then onto level 3.
That's all I have to post for Day 20!
~Ciao
Friday, 17 August 2012
Today was a Doozie!
Day 19
I don't know why but today was extremely hard to complete my level 2. I was so tired only half way in I wasn't even sure if I would be able to finish it. Several times during the work out I had the thought pop into my head of: "Just turn it off, you can start it again later after you rest a bit..." ugh! Why do thoughts like that have to creep into our heads? I say 'our' because i'm sure i'm not alone here.
I didn't turn it off though. I did push through it, and strangely enough as I was driving to my friends place not 20 minutes later I was thinking, "hmm that wasn't so bad. I'm not even tired, I probably could have pushed harder"... I always think that way though, but during the work out I seriously feel like i'm going to die... or cry at least LOL
One more day of Level 2 before I can take a day of rest.
My friend wants me to join her in this "Jazzersize" thing, ever heard of it? Sounds pretty awesome. I have a lot of friends wanting me to do active exercise things with them, I need to be careful to pace myself though. I don't want to over-do it.
I wanted to take up walking with one friend like 3-4 times a week.... and was thinking of trying out this Jazzersize class with another friend, but it's just all bad timing right now. I'm right smack dab in the middle of my 30 day shred. I'll definitely need something else to move onto after I am done this but I just don't want to take on too much at once.
Yesterday I got a little down. I was recalling a few days ago when I went to extreme pita and there was this really thin girl there, she was maybe 110lbs soaking wet, anyway... so she had this pita and she was LOADING it with cheese and delicious sauces and meats... I couldn't help but have a moment of jealousy. Honestly if I was that thin I probably wouldn't be doing this hard core exercising. So yes, I am not only doing exercising now because I am bigger but also because I want to be HEALTHIER... that being said, if I WAS thinner I don't think I would care or the thought would even occur to me about being healthier.
My husband can eat whatever he wants and never gain a pound. I even LOOK at a cup cake and I gain a pound ;-) nah, not quite but just really got me thinking about metabolisms.
I just really feel guilty when I "treat" myself. Tonight my husband and I had sushi and last night wasn't the healthiest of dinners either. I've been golden all week though but all I can think of is the sodium level and is the 2 days of eating bad going to make me gain weight, not lose anymore... it's a bit much to always think of. Today I managed to drink close to 120oz of water.
Also the beauty/image thing. We are branded that beauty is what we see in magazines and huge posters at lingerie shops in the malls... when really so many of us forget that those women either starve themselves or are just air brushed to look that "perfect". A friend told me to google "Dove Models vs Victoria Secret models" you should do the same. The comparison is astounding, well if there is any comparison. I'll keep it suspenseful and let you check it out for yourself, but honestly I know who *I* personally think is "beautiful" :0)
I just hope that when I get down to my goal weight I will be happy with how I look, my goal weight is a bit of a ways off though I'm afraid. It will take a lot of hard work and sweat to pull it off but i'm not giving up, i'm NOT throwing in the towel.
Keep rooting' me on friends! I need all the cheering I can get, it's getting tough right now.
~Ciao
I don't know why but today was extremely hard to complete my level 2. I was so tired only half way in I wasn't even sure if I would be able to finish it. Several times during the work out I had the thought pop into my head of: "Just turn it off, you can start it again later after you rest a bit..." ugh! Why do thoughts like that have to creep into our heads? I say 'our' because i'm sure i'm not alone here.
I didn't turn it off though. I did push through it, and strangely enough as I was driving to my friends place not 20 minutes later I was thinking, "hmm that wasn't so bad. I'm not even tired, I probably could have pushed harder"... I always think that way though, but during the work out I seriously feel like i'm going to die... or cry at least LOL
One more day of Level 2 before I can take a day of rest.
My friend wants me to join her in this "Jazzersize" thing, ever heard of it? Sounds pretty awesome. I have a lot of friends wanting me to do active exercise things with them, I need to be careful to pace myself though. I don't want to over-do it.
I wanted to take up walking with one friend like 3-4 times a week.... and was thinking of trying out this Jazzersize class with another friend, but it's just all bad timing right now. I'm right smack dab in the middle of my 30 day shred. I'll definitely need something else to move onto after I am done this but I just don't want to take on too much at once.
Yesterday I got a little down. I was recalling a few days ago when I went to extreme pita and there was this really thin girl there, she was maybe 110lbs soaking wet, anyway... so she had this pita and she was LOADING it with cheese and delicious sauces and meats... I couldn't help but have a moment of jealousy. Honestly if I was that thin I probably wouldn't be doing this hard core exercising. So yes, I am not only doing exercising now because I am bigger but also because I want to be HEALTHIER... that being said, if I WAS thinner I don't think I would care or the thought would even occur to me about being healthier.
My husband can eat whatever he wants and never gain a pound. I even LOOK at a cup cake and I gain a pound ;-) nah, not quite but just really got me thinking about metabolisms.
I just really feel guilty when I "treat" myself. Tonight my husband and I had sushi and last night wasn't the healthiest of dinners either. I've been golden all week though but all I can think of is the sodium level and is the 2 days of eating bad going to make me gain weight, not lose anymore... it's a bit much to always think of. Today I managed to drink close to 120oz of water.
Also the beauty/image thing. We are branded that beauty is what we see in magazines and huge posters at lingerie shops in the malls... when really so many of us forget that those women either starve themselves or are just air brushed to look that "perfect". A friend told me to google "Dove Models vs Victoria Secret models" you should do the same. The comparison is astounding, well if there is any comparison. I'll keep it suspenseful and let you check it out for yourself, but honestly I know who *I* personally think is "beautiful" :0)
I just hope that when I get down to my goal weight I will be happy with how I look, my goal weight is a bit of a ways off though I'm afraid. It will take a lot of hard work and sweat to pull it off but i'm not giving up, i'm NOT throwing in the towel.
Keep rooting' me on friends! I need all the cheering I can get, it's getting tough right now.
~Ciao
Thursday, 16 August 2012
if the pants fit, wear em'!
Day 18
Can't believe it has been 18 days already. Almost at the 3 week mark now. Today I was able to fit into a pair of jeans that I haven't been able to wear in a year and a half! Happy Day! They fit comfortably too, not snug. WHO-HOOOOOOO!!!!!! Only 18 days and I am already down 10lbs (maybe even more by now) and fitting into old pants! This is the kind of results a girl could get used to ;-)
Last night lane swimming was good, I didn't find it too uncomfortable at all. So either the lesson was a bit easier, or my legs are getting stronger. I'm thinking the latter.
Today I had a nice walk around Cross Iron Mall (twice) with a friend. Then came home and had lunch and did my work out in my new far out shoes, lol.
Today my level 2 was harder then yesterday. Not sure why? I think it was a combination of having a very bad night sleep and walking around the mall twice only 1 hour before doing the work out. I was still able to finish the work out -- but just barely!.... pace yourself Tara, pace yourself.
I had seriously the most DELICIOUS supper last night. I made a garden salad LOADED with veggies, and home made Chicken Parmasano. YUM! I couldn't get enough (but I did portion myself the right amount). It was a hit with the entire family, and I made enough to have the same for lunch today. Snack time in a few minutes and I think i'll chow down on some strawberries and watermelon.
~Ciao
Can't believe it has been 18 days already. Almost at the 3 week mark now. Today I was able to fit into a pair of jeans that I haven't been able to wear in a year and a half! Happy Day! They fit comfortably too, not snug. WHO-HOOOOOOO!!!!!! Only 18 days and I am already down 10lbs (maybe even more by now) and fitting into old pants! This is the kind of results a girl could get used to ;-)
Last night lane swimming was good, I didn't find it too uncomfortable at all. So either the lesson was a bit easier, or my legs are getting stronger. I'm thinking the latter.
Today I had a nice walk around Cross Iron Mall (twice) with a friend. Then came home and had lunch and did my work out in my new far out shoes, lol.
Today my level 2 was harder then yesterday. Not sure why? I think it was a combination of having a very bad night sleep and walking around the mall twice only 1 hour before doing the work out. I was still able to finish the work out -- but just barely!.... pace yourself Tara, pace yourself.
I had seriously the most DELICIOUS supper last night. I made a garden salad LOADED with veggies, and home made Chicken Parmasano. YUM! I couldn't get enough (but I did portion myself the right amount). It was a hit with the entire family, and I made enough to have the same for lunch today. Snack time in a few minutes and I think i'll chow down on some strawberries and watermelon.
~Ciao
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Meal ideas....
Day 17
OR another lunch idea is I eat nut type bread (so like the squirrely bread, but I don't like that bread as I find it too dense so I found another loaf type from Costco called "Oat and Nut with Honey" its super good, and my nutritionist approved of this tweak) so 2 pieces of bread, and 2 tbsp of 100% all natural peanut butter and I usually put a LITTLE bit of strawberry jam on there too, but I have come to really enjoy the all natural peanut butter by itself too. I'll have that sandwich with a piece of fruit.
For sodium my nutritionist told me you should aim for 400mg/serving or less. No more. Again watch your labels. Water is a key ingredient to succeeding. I drink at least 72oz of water each day.
Finished my Level 2 work out for today, going to rest because I have lane swimming again tonight.
I had my weigh in today, i'm happy to report that she had roughly the same number on her scale (taking into consideration that I was wearing jeans and had breakfast/water in me by then)
I had my weigh in today, i'm happy to report that she had roughly the same number on her scale (taking into consideration that I was wearing jeans and had breakfast/water in me by then)
Last night we were rushed for shopping and it was 7:30pm so we decided to grab something on the go (Fast food is prohibited in my house now, never again will my son eat that crap!) so we went to subway instead, well actually my husband did and got Cameron & himself a couple healthy subs, I on the other hand went to "Extreme Pita" which is one of the limited approved places to eat from Simply For Life.
I got a grilled chicken pita which was jam packed with veggies, so much so that half fell out and I was able to save those for today's lunch too. Talk about getting your money's worth! I got 2 meals out of 1. I also tried a Kale smoothie for the first time, it was so yummy! Just makes me want to get my vitamix machine more.
I got a grilled chicken pita which was jam packed with veggies, so much so that half fell out and I was able to save those for today's lunch too. Talk about getting your money's worth! I got 2 meals out of 1. I also tried a Kale smoothie for the first time, it was so yummy! Just makes me want to get my vitamix machine more.
So I had a couple friends ask what I eat. To give a few ideas here are some things that I have eaten and have changed my whole family's life. I'll name 2 options for each meal otherwise it would take FOREVER to type.
(Note: if you don't care to know, or have the time just scroll past all the headings to skip this section)
Breakfast: Always have protein for breakfast (almonds, eggs, cottage cheese, yogurts etc). so this morning I made a fruit salad. I chopped up apples, bananas, strawberries, oranges, and kiwi's but really you can use whatever fruit you have on hand. I measured 1 cup of that and then in a separate bowl I usually do about 3/4 cup of vanilla greek yogurt with 1/4 cup plain greek yogurt (because I can't stand the sour taste of just plain yogurt so my nutritionist recommended that as a compromise). Sprinkle some cinnamon on top and there you go. I am full after that.
Breakfast: Always have protein for breakfast (almonds, eggs, cottage cheese, yogurts etc). so this morning I made a fruit salad. I chopped up apples, bananas, strawberries, oranges, and kiwi's but really you can use whatever fruit you have on hand. I measured 1 cup of that and then in a separate bowl I usually do about 3/4 cup of vanilla greek yogurt with 1/4 cup plain greek yogurt (because I can't stand the sour taste of just plain yogurt so my nutritionist recommended that as a compromise). Sprinkle some cinnamon on top and there you go. I am full after that.
OR another option for breakfast is an egg white omelette with all kinds of veggies like zucchini, mushrooms, peppers, celery and top it off with 2 tbsp of salsa. I usually have that with a piece of fruit. If not buying organic I will peel and slice an apple as there are pestisides and chemicals on the skin. Things you can peel are usually OK to buy non-organic. Things you can't peel (peppers, lettuce, mushrooms, strawberries/berries in general) you should try to buy organic or wash REALLY well if you can't afford to buy organic produce.
Also if you look back in my blog entries you will see I posted a picture of a Mediterranean breakfast which is basically the mixed fruit idea but with yogurt and cottage cheese on the side.
Lunch: Ok so for me I again incorporate protein into my lunch because I am working out 6 days a week and usually finish my 30 day shred work out in time for lunch and you should have a good source of protein after a work out.
So I love wraps! Whole Wheat or Whole grain. Not white. So as mentioned above I went to Extreme Pita last night and had left over veggies/chicken to stuff for lunch today, so I took a whole grain wrap with cucumber, onion, lettuce, tomato, grilled chicken, grilled mushrooms, parsley/garlic, hummus, a bit of cheese, a bit of a garlic sauce, a bowl of 1% cottage cheese (4oz), and 1 carrot peeled and sliced.
(see image below)
Pardon the few bites from my wrap, I was pretty hungry and forgot to take the picture before I sat down lol
So wraps are always a good idea, with some sort of veggie too. Lots of water too.
OR another lunch idea is I eat nut type bread (so like the squirrely bread, but I don't like that bread as I find it too dense so I found another loaf type from Costco called "Oat and Nut with Honey" its super good, and my nutritionist approved of this tweak) so 2 pieces of bread, and 2 tbsp of 100% all natural peanut butter and I usually put a LITTLE bit of strawberry jam on there too, but I have come to really enjoy the all natural peanut butter by itself too. I'll have that sandwich with a piece of fruit.
The key to remember is to switch what you are used to for supper and make it your lunch. Want home made hamburger helper? Perfect lunch idea. Explore and mix it up.
Snack Ideas: It is super important to eat every 2-3 hours as that increases your metabolism. So I snack on all kinds of fruits (1 serving size), and almonds (about 4 oz), "Kashi" brand granola bars, any kind of vegetable too served with hummus (note: hummus MUST be less than 4g of fat per serving so watch the labels)
Dinner/Supper: Important dinner rule. No carbs as it gets later in the day your body slows down on breaking down food, carbohydrates are complex for the body to break down and require a lot of energy so eating carbs at night just results in your body storing it as fat. So for supper I will have a meat (fish, chicken, pork, beef) and tons of veggies (steamed or in a salad or raw on the side).
I use the marinades that my nutritionist has provided me. No sauces like ranch, ketchup etc. If I have a BBQ I have approved BBQ sauces to use but can also probably use a little bit of store bought BBQ sauce. I have 1 serving of meat and the rest of my plate is tons of veggies.
If my family is having tacos for supper, i'll have a taco salad instead and for lunch the next day I can use up any remaining ground beef and have a taco myself with veggies on the side. I also make my own taco seasoning too so the sodium in that is very low.
If my family is having tacos for supper, i'll have a taco salad instead and for lunch the next day I can use up any remaining ground beef and have a taco myself with veggies on the side. I also make my own taco seasoning too so the sodium in that is very low.
For sodium my nutritionist told me you should aim for 400mg/serving or less. No more. Again watch your labels. Water is a key ingredient to succeeding. I drink at least 72oz of water each day.
Well that's all the examples I have for now. Going to try to take it easy as I have another grilling session of lane swimming tonight. I am not sure HOW I am doing this, i've been asked that by several people too (my husband included) I just keep pushing and pushing. It sucks, but I have lost 10 lbs in 2 weeks so that is my driving force right now.
My goal is every time I lose 20lbs i'm going to do something nice for myself (ie. get my hair done, nails done, pedicure, massage...etc) anyone want to join me? lol. This is a LIFE CHANGE, its not a diet because its not a temporary thing i'm doing to lose weight. I want to teach my kids good eating habits too. Which is why my WHOLE FAMILY must change over to how we eat.
I feel good about not allowing fast food. There are healthier alternatives if you are in a pinch for eating out.
My goal is every time I lose 20lbs i'm going to do something nice for myself (ie. get my hair done, nails done, pedicure, massage...etc) anyone want to join me? lol. This is a LIFE CHANGE, its not a diet because its not a temporary thing i'm doing to lose weight. I want to teach my kids good eating habits too. Which is why my WHOLE FAMILY must change over to how we eat.
I feel good about not allowing fast food. There are healthier alternatives if you are in a pinch for eating out.
Well that's all the time I have now. Hope this blog was helpful.
~Ciao
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
16 days in now...
Day 16
Last night's swimming class was BRUTAL. Lots of flutter kicks, my quads were pinching and burning almost the entire hour. She also had us doing a lot of shoulder/arms back and forth back and forth with very little breaks. She said that today my arms would be feeling it, and yes they are.
I weighed myself on my own scale today and to date I have lost 10lbs!! I am beyond excited!
That is 10lbs in 16 days. I feel so good about that.
I had the worst sleep ever last night and woke up feeling like a cripple. Plus I had some light house work to do. Not sure what got into me today but even unloading the dish washer I was breathing heavily, weird. So I was a little nervous to do my shred but I did it.
Today was both extremely hard and somewhat easier. I think its easier in the sense that i'm starting to learn the movements, but it was so hard because I was already exhausted and they are really strenuous exercises.
I am done it for today... tomorrow i'm back at it again as well as lane swimming again.
If I feel the swimming + Shred is too much I can skip the shred on those days but I really don't want to because I want to stick to the 10 days for each level with only Sunday being my break day. So i'll play that by ear.
Now I need to shower and have a snack and try to find energy to get on with my day.
~Ciao
Last night's swimming class was BRUTAL. Lots of flutter kicks, my quads were pinching and burning almost the entire hour. She also had us doing a lot of shoulder/arms back and forth back and forth with very little breaks. She said that today my arms would be feeling it, and yes they are.
I weighed myself on my own scale today and to date I have lost 10lbs!! I am beyond excited!
That is 10lbs in 16 days. I feel so good about that.
I had the worst sleep ever last night and woke up feeling like a cripple. Plus I had some light house work to do. Not sure what got into me today but even unloading the dish washer I was breathing heavily, weird. So I was a little nervous to do my shred but I did it.
Today was both extremely hard and somewhat easier. I think its easier in the sense that i'm starting to learn the movements, but it was so hard because I was already exhausted and they are really strenuous exercises.
I am done it for today... tomorrow i'm back at it again as well as lane swimming again.
If I feel the swimming + Shred is too much I can skip the shred on those days but I really don't want to because I want to stick to the 10 days for each level with only Sunday being my break day. So i'll play that by ear.
Now I need to shower and have a snack and try to find energy to get on with my day.
~Ciao
Monday, 13 August 2012
Level Two
Day 15
OH... MY...GOSH!!! Level 2 is a KILLER work out. Focuses WAY more on extreme abs and legs and shoulders. My abs are shaking so bad right now. I actually think I just sweat about a liter of fluid. Man, I hope I can keep going. That was insane. I seriously felt like I was going to die...
Almost every movement on there (abs, cardio and strength) use ABS. It was like every movement was implementing cardio and abs.
I found Level 1 easier except for the first circuit. Level 2 circuit 1 seems to be easier than Level 1's but the rest of it is totally psychotic. I'm terrified to reach Level 3.
What I hate is all the jumping movements, as I've had 2 kids now my bladder isn't the strongest (LOL) despite the fact that I go to the bathroom beforehand. Sorry if that is too much information.
I sure hope I have lost some pounds on Wednesday for my next weigh in. I have lost weight in my breasts though, WHAHOOOO!! Anyone who knows me knows that I HATE how big chested I am. Well my work out bra is sagging now, my breasts don't fill it as nicely *boogie dance*
I am also getting many comments about how slender my face is and my waist line. So I should see some inches gone in a couple weeks when I measure again but I do hope that my weigh in is encouraging. I have been very mindful of my sodium intake, I look at every package and drink LOTS of water.
Tonight is full on lane swimming too, last session was more explaining this time it will be practicing so i'm assuming less breaks and more swimming. I'm going to be a hurting unit tomorrow. Just got to push it out and stick with it. Well lunch time, then getting on with my busy day.
~Ciao
OH... MY...GOSH!!! Level 2 is a KILLER work out. Focuses WAY more on extreme abs and legs and shoulders. My abs are shaking so bad right now. I actually think I just sweat about a liter of fluid. Man, I hope I can keep going. That was insane. I seriously felt like I was going to die...
Almost every movement on there (abs, cardio and strength) use ABS. It was like every movement was implementing cardio and abs.
I found Level 1 easier except for the first circuit. Level 2 circuit 1 seems to be easier than Level 1's but the rest of it is totally psychotic. I'm terrified to reach Level 3.
What I hate is all the jumping movements, as I've had 2 kids now my bladder isn't the strongest (LOL) despite the fact that I go to the bathroom beforehand. Sorry if that is too much information.
I sure hope I have lost some pounds on Wednesday for my next weigh in. I have lost weight in my breasts though, WHAHOOOO!! Anyone who knows me knows that I HATE how big chested I am. Well my work out bra is sagging now, my breasts don't fill it as nicely *boogie dance*
I am also getting many comments about how slender my face is and my waist line. So I should see some inches gone in a couple weeks when I measure again but I do hope that my weigh in is encouraging. I have been very mindful of my sodium intake, I look at every package and drink LOTS of water.
Tonight is full on lane swimming too, last session was more explaining this time it will be practicing so i'm assuming less breaks and more swimming. I'm going to be a hurting unit tomorrow. Just got to push it out and stick with it. Well lunch time, then getting on with my busy day.
~Ciao
Sunday, 12 August 2012
Day of rest...
Day 14
Wow. Two weeks in now!!
Never thought I would finally stick to it this long, I've tried and quit and tried and quit so many times, I just never thought my motivation would be this high :-)
Not much to say about today, it is my resting day. Just going to do some errands and perhaps play Just Dance tonight or Zumba just to keep myself somewhat active because tomorrow I start Level 2 of the 30 day shred as well as lane swimming which will be harder then the first session as the first session was more explaining movements now that we know how to do those movements it will be more grilling.
Well that's my blurb for now... till tomorrow!
~Ciao
Wow. Two weeks in now!!
Never thought I would finally stick to it this long, I've tried and quit and tried and quit so many times, I just never thought my motivation would be this high :-)
Not much to say about today, it is my resting day. Just going to do some errands and perhaps play Just Dance tonight or Zumba just to keep myself somewhat active because tomorrow I start Level 2 of the 30 day shred as well as lane swimming which will be harder then the first session as the first session was more explaining movements now that we know how to do those movements it will be more grilling.
Well that's my blurb for now... till tomorrow!
~Ciao
Saturday, 11 August 2012
Just completed Level 1!
Day 13
I am on cloud 9 right now!!! I just completed level 1 of the 30 day shred, I start level 2 on Monday.
My husband, who sees me every day, commented that I am getting thinner at the waist line too! I weighed myself today and no change in the pounds yet but then again I am building muscle as well. Just have to keep working at it and I haven't been as diligent in my eating as I should have been having the students here, so I am still waiting to lose my water weight too.
My husband did the work out with me today, he said something along the lines of "wow your making me eat your dust" I can't quite remember the words. He was amazed by how strong I was and how much of the work out I was able to do without taking a break. He is my greatest supporter, telling me a few times daily how proud of me he is. It means so much to me to have a loving and supportive husband.
So to celebrate this victory we are either going swimming or taking our sons to stir crazy to wear out some energy and then for a picnic!
Enjoy your Saturday!
~Ciao
I am on cloud 9 right now!!! I just completed level 1 of the 30 day shred, I start level 2 on Monday.
My husband, who sees me every day, commented that I am getting thinner at the waist line too! I weighed myself today and no change in the pounds yet but then again I am building muscle as well. Just have to keep working at it and I haven't been as diligent in my eating as I should have been having the students here, so I am still waiting to lose my water weight too.
My husband did the work out with me today, he said something along the lines of "wow your making me eat your dust" I can't quite remember the words. He was amazed by how strong I was and how much of the work out I was able to do without taking a break. He is my greatest supporter, telling me a few times daily how proud of me he is. It means so much to me to have a loving and supportive husband.
So to celebrate this victory we are either going swimming or taking our sons to stir crazy to wear out some energy and then for a picnic!
Enjoy your Saturday!
~Ciao
Friday, 10 August 2012
Energy spike
Day 12
Well today my students left, I was up at 5:30am to make them a good breakfast, I was very conscientious of it too. Only 2 pieces of whole wheat french toast, 2 pieces of bacon, and some strawberries.
I was SO sluggish until about 10:30AM or so. I had my morning snack (15 cherries) then I got down to business and started on dishes, then cleaning my kitchen and that led to cleaning all 4 bathrooms from top to bottom which led to doing a butt-load of laundry followed by vacuuming and washing floors.
I did all that, then I still did my 30 day shred. When I was finished the work out I wasn't even tired! What the heck?! That's awesome. I felt good though. Might do some "Just Dance" with my hubby tonight after folding all that laundry as i'm having a girly night with one of my bessies and we are going for sushi (again I need to watch the sodium).
I did OK last night at the potluck, was very mindful of the food items I chose, and made sure to drink TONS of water to help fill in the cracks, only had half of a small piece of their farewell cake and gave the rest to Evan. He was very surprised by my self control all of a sudden. I don't even really crave sweets anymore.
Say whaaa?? yep, that's right. Tara... doesn't crave sweets. It's totally BIZARRE as I am, err, WAS the biggest sweets eater and I always craved chips and chocolate and pop etc... I could care less if I have any, and yes we do have them in the house.
I can see a change in my body already, not a HUGE change by any means yet but I notice my stomach is less round. Excited to see how many inches I have lost come 3 weeks from now (or so).
Last day of Level 1 tomorrow.
Enjoy your day!
~Ciao
Well today my students left, I was up at 5:30am to make them a good breakfast, I was very conscientious of it too. Only 2 pieces of whole wheat french toast, 2 pieces of bacon, and some strawberries.
I was SO sluggish until about 10:30AM or so. I had my morning snack (15 cherries) then I got down to business and started on dishes, then cleaning my kitchen and that led to cleaning all 4 bathrooms from top to bottom which led to doing a butt-load of laundry followed by vacuuming and washing floors.
I did all that, then I still did my 30 day shred. When I was finished the work out I wasn't even tired! What the heck?! That's awesome. I felt good though. Might do some "Just Dance" with my hubby tonight after folding all that laundry as i'm having a girly night with one of my bessies and we are going for sushi (again I need to watch the sodium).
I did OK last night at the potluck, was very mindful of the food items I chose, and made sure to drink TONS of water to help fill in the cracks, only had half of a small piece of their farewell cake and gave the rest to Evan. He was very surprised by my self control all of a sudden. I don't even really crave sweets anymore.
Say whaaa?? yep, that's right. Tara... doesn't crave sweets. It's totally BIZARRE as I am, err, WAS the biggest sweets eater and I always craved chips and chocolate and pop etc... I could care less if I have any, and yes we do have them in the house.
I can see a change in my body already, not a HUGE change by any means yet but I notice my stomach is less round. Excited to see how many inches I have lost come 3 weeks from now (or so).
Last day of Level 1 tomorrow.
Enjoy your day!
~Ciao
Thursday, 9 August 2012
Many challenges today....
Day 11
Last night went good, my first session of lane swimming. It was fun actually! I learned whip kicks, the proper way to breast stroke, and back stroke, butterfly kicks, it was exhausting but fun. We shall see what Monday brings as this last night class was spent doing a lot of explaining of the techniques so I got a few breaks in between, as time goes on there will be less and less of that and more and more swimming.
The butterfly kicks were REALLY exhausting in the calf's, wow talk about pressure there were other class members behind me and I needed to keep up the pace so they didn't bump into me.
I ate really clean last night until one of the students around 9pm wanted to make me some Korean (ichiban) instant noodle things. I didn't realize however that the sodium level was 1040mg per half the package! :O I just about crapped. I spent ALL day eating clean and keeping the sodium level down so that I can lose my water weight just to eat something that has SOOOO much sodium :-( :-( so disappointed. So today I want to try to drink more than 3L of water and keep that up over the weekend. So far i'm able to drink about 72oz of water a day but I'd like to add another 24oz or so more.
I was SO bagged today because P woke up every 3 hours to nurse last night. I wasn't sure HOW I would find the energy to even do my 30 day shred today. I laid on the couch for a bit and finally around 11:30 I decided to just do it after some encouraging comments on my facebook status from friends of mine :-) Well its done. 2 more days of level 1. I'm pushing through!
Have the farewell pot luck for my students tonight and I am making a vegetable chili so I think that's going to be a big challenge for me, seeing all the tasty dishes there and desserts. Temptation WILL be there, I am going to try and drink a bunch of water and eat a salad before I leave, I know what I put in my chili so I will also try to stick to that as well as i'm sure many of the dishes there will be full of sodium or other unhealthy things.
Am I ever allowed to eat like that again? Yes I will but right now I am only 11 days in on my life change journey and I don't want to allow myself any "cheat" opportunities because I know myself all too well and it will be a landslide mess. I would also like to visit my family in B.C. but again I haven't been at it that long and as you may have read I have had a few challenging days where I really had to push myself to work out so I don't want to allow myself to justify not exercising by saying something like: "Oh well i'll just start back up when I get home", or "I can skip today and do a bodyrock or something" but then never end up doing it because i'm too busy visiting; also the eating is a concern, the temptation will always be there but right now I need to be strong and again I can just hear myself: "I'll just have one pop", or "i'll just have a little mashed potatoes".... no, I need to stick to the plan.
Luckily I signed up for the swim classes so I have 6 more of those to keep me here as well as my weekly meetings with my nutritionist so I can't be away too long.
Everything in moderation. Best quote ever!
Anyway I should run, thanks for the support as always and reading my blog!
~Ciao
Last night went good, my first session of lane swimming. It was fun actually! I learned whip kicks, the proper way to breast stroke, and back stroke, butterfly kicks, it was exhausting but fun. We shall see what Monday brings as this last night class was spent doing a lot of explaining of the techniques so I got a few breaks in between, as time goes on there will be less and less of that and more and more swimming.
The butterfly kicks were REALLY exhausting in the calf's, wow talk about pressure there were other class members behind me and I needed to keep up the pace so they didn't bump into me.
I ate really clean last night until one of the students around 9pm wanted to make me some Korean (ichiban) instant noodle things. I didn't realize however that the sodium level was 1040mg per half the package! :O I just about crapped. I spent ALL day eating clean and keeping the sodium level down so that I can lose my water weight just to eat something that has SOOOO much sodium :-( :-( so disappointed. So today I want to try to drink more than 3L of water and keep that up over the weekend. So far i'm able to drink about 72oz of water a day but I'd like to add another 24oz or so more.
I was SO bagged today because P woke up every 3 hours to nurse last night. I wasn't sure HOW I would find the energy to even do my 30 day shred today. I laid on the couch for a bit and finally around 11:30 I decided to just do it after some encouraging comments on my facebook status from friends of mine :-) Well its done. 2 more days of level 1. I'm pushing through!
Have the farewell pot luck for my students tonight and I am making a vegetable chili so I think that's going to be a big challenge for me, seeing all the tasty dishes there and desserts. Temptation WILL be there, I am going to try and drink a bunch of water and eat a salad before I leave, I know what I put in my chili so I will also try to stick to that as well as i'm sure many of the dishes there will be full of sodium or other unhealthy things.
Am I ever allowed to eat like that again? Yes I will but right now I am only 11 days in on my life change journey and I don't want to allow myself any "cheat" opportunities because I know myself all too well and it will be a landslide mess. I would also like to visit my family in B.C. but again I haven't been at it that long and as you may have read I have had a few challenging days where I really had to push myself to work out so I don't want to allow myself to justify not exercising by saying something like: "Oh well i'll just start back up when I get home", or "I can skip today and do a bodyrock or something" but then never end up doing it because i'm too busy visiting; also the eating is a concern, the temptation will always be there but right now I need to be strong and again I can just hear myself: "I'll just have one pop", or "i'll just have a little mashed potatoes".... no, I need to stick to the plan.
Luckily I signed up for the swim classes so I have 6 more of those to keep me here as well as my weekly meetings with my nutritionist so I can't be away too long.
Everything in moderation. Best quote ever!
Anyway I should run, thanks for the support as always and reading my blog!
~Ciao
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
10 Days In Counting!
Day 10
Busy day today so I will have to make this as brief as possible.
Did my work out this morning again, had C entertain P while I did it, worked out well! I was SO proud of myself in the push ups area, I was able to do 15 push ups without a break on the first rep! The second rep I did like 6 and had to pause several times after that, but still very exciting! That was my struggle area. I was able to do just about all the exercises along with them without breaks. I still am not quite there with the squat and press move but I think i'm feeling less nervous to move on now.
I have my first lane swimming class tonight too. Quite the active day.
I like how I feel energy wise now, I am still tired but it is a different tired, a rewarding tired; almost like I actually have a REASON to be tired this time ha ha. The only downside to working out so much is I am constantly sweating my face off! It's gross.
I will work out and seriously be dripping sweat for what seems ages on and off. Not sure what that's about. Comment if you have any suggestions...
Well that's all the time I have for now, will post more tomorrow!
~Ciao
Busy day today so I will have to make this as brief as possible.
Did my work out this morning again, had C entertain P while I did it, worked out well! I was SO proud of myself in the push ups area, I was able to do 15 push ups without a break on the first rep! The second rep I did like 6 and had to pause several times after that, but still very exciting! That was my struggle area. I was able to do just about all the exercises along with them without breaks. I still am not quite there with the squat and press move but I think i'm feeling less nervous to move on now.
I have my first lane swimming class tonight too. Quite the active day.
I like how I feel energy wise now, I am still tired but it is a different tired, a rewarding tired; almost like I actually have a REASON to be tired this time ha ha. The only downside to working out so much is I am constantly sweating my face off! It's gross.
I will work out and seriously be dripping sweat for what seems ages on and off. Not sure what that's about. Comment if you have any suggestions...
Well that's all the time I have for now, will post more tomorrow!
~Ciao
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Giving it everything I got!
Day 9
Woke up this morning and realized I had plans for late morning plus another weigh in with my nutritionist, so I had no choice but to work out at 9AM. Yikes. It was definitely challenging at parts (especially the parts where my baby thought doing a reverse crunch was a joy ride!)
Some parts of the 30 day shred DVD are getting easier, I have more endurance but other parts i'm still struggling. Today I noticed I was able to do more push ups! That was a huge shocker. I also did more anterior raises with a side lunge. I struggled with jump n jacks and the jump rope today. I don't know why but circuit 1 in level 1 seems to be the hardest, maybe it is the mentality that goes with it that we are JUST starting and by circuit 2 I know we are halfway done and so on... 2 more days of Level 1 and then I move on, still not sure i'm 100% ready but at the same time I am getting a little bored of the same exercises.
I had a very good breakfast today and felt really good, lost 2.5lbs in total so far, something I should be celebrating I know but I was a bit bummed, until my nutritionist asked me about sodium intake and I realized that the last week I had consumed a few higher sodium food items, so this week she said to try to steer clear of anything over 400mg/serving and by next week I should notice a huge drop in water weight. I am already noticing i'm getting a bit slimmer in places like my abs area and my thighs.
Something as simple as crossing my legs and sitting "lady like" i've noticed I can do with more ease, losing them chunky thighs helps!
Tonight I am having a chicken stir fry and doing some more just dance. I need to get ready for lane swimming tomorrow too, i'm both terrified and excited about that. 1 hour of swimming lanes and when I tried it on Sunday I could barely do 3 minutes, so why did I sign up? To challenge myself of course! You don't start out with all these exercises doing amazing but you eventually get there, and even if you can't go the whole 9 yards your still exercising your body and burning calories, so anyone who reads my blog -- if you have a work out you'd like to "try" then I say go for it! You may not be able to do everything but give it everything you got and that's the best you can do, you'll still lose weight and get into shape.
I feel both energized but drained at the same time, it is a strange feeling. Today was hard to push myself to work out, it's so hard to start out but I feel SO good to know its done. I know i've said that many times before but it is the same internal struggle I go through each time, haha. I need to decide if I am going to do the 30 day shred in the morning/afternoon tomorrow even though i'm doing lane swimming too.
Well that's all for now. Until tomorrow friends!
~Ciao
Woke up this morning and realized I had plans for late morning plus another weigh in with my nutritionist, so I had no choice but to work out at 9AM. Yikes. It was definitely challenging at parts (especially the parts where my baby thought doing a reverse crunch was a joy ride!)
Some parts of the 30 day shred DVD are getting easier, I have more endurance but other parts i'm still struggling. Today I noticed I was able to do more push ups! That was a huge shocker. I also did more anterior raises with a side lunge. I struggled with jump n jacks and the jump rope today. I don't know why but circuit 1 in level 1 seems to be the hardest, maybe it is the mentality that goes with it that we are JUST starting and by circuit 2 I know we are halfway done and so on... 2 more days of Level 1 and then I move on, still not sure i'm 100% ready but at the same time I am getting a little bored of the same exercises.
I had a very good breakfast today and felt really good, lost 2.5lbs in total so far, something I should be celebrating I know but I was a bit bummed, until my nutritionist asked me about sodium intake and I realized that the last week I had consumed a few higher sodium food items, so this week she said to try to steer clear of anything over 400mg/serving and by next week I should notice a huge drop in water weight. I am already noticing i'm getting a bit slimmer in places like my abs area and my thighs.
Something as simple as crossing my legs and sitting "lady like" i've noticed I can do with more ease, losing them chunky thighs helps!
Tonight I am having a chicken stir fry and doing some more just dance. I need to get ready for lane swimming tomorrow too, i'm both terrified and excited about that. 1 hour of swimming lanes and when I tried it on Sunday I could barely do 3 minutes, so why did I sign up? To challenge myself of course! You don't start out with all these exercises doing amazing but you eventually get there, and even if you can't go the whole 9 yards your still exercising your body and burning calories, so anyone who reads my blog -- if you have a work out you'd like to "try" then I say go for it! You may not be able to do everything but give it everything you got and that's the best you can do, you'll still lose weight and get into shape.
I feel both energized but drained at the same time, it is a strange feeling. Today was hard to push myself to work out, it's so hard to start out but I feel SO good to know its done. I know i've said that many times before but it is the same internal struggle I go through each time, haha. I need to decide if I am going to do the 30 day shred in the morning/afternoon tomorrow even though i'm doing lane swimming too.
Well that's all for now. Until tomorrow friends!
~Ciao
Monday, 6 August 2012
Why, hello again Jillian...
Day 8
Ok so I haven't done Jillian Michaels since Friday (Saturday I did the bodyrock.tv instead and Sunday was supposed to be my rest day). How is it that I have been doing 6 days of her intensity and it seems harder today? Taking a break from her really sets me back I think even though I was doing other forms of exercising, either that or my body is just tired from 7 days of exercising. I wasn't sure how I would fit in a work out today with the boys home again today for the long weekend but Evan had to do a dump run and took ALL the kids with him so I was home alone for like an hour and a half. I wasted no time and got right to it.
I have to admit I am getting a little intimidated because I want to do 10 days of Level 1, then progress to 10 days of Level 2, then finally 10 days of Level 3. I have 4 more days on Level 1 before I move up to harder movements. Scary stuff!
Getting a bit amped to start the lane swimming exercising too beginning this Wednesday. 1 hour of lane swimming Monday's and Wednesday's. Am I going to die or what? Maybe not but I sure will feel like it! I know it sounds bizarre but I am somewhat getting addicted to pushing myself through these work outs. I can't really describe the emotion attached to it.
During the work out I want nothing more than to turn it off and walk away back to my old lifestyle, but I don't! The way I feel afterwards is just .... amazing. I feel so proud of myself, so accomplished so good about this life change!
Today I was back to eating healthy. I was tempted to eat an apple or blueberry muffin for breakfast but pushed past it and had a bowl of Shredded Wheat & Bran cereal. That stuff is bland! I sprinkled a tiny bit of brown sugar on the top, not much as I couldn't even taste it. I also had a banana with it.
For lunch I had a tuna wrap and an apple.
For supper we are undecided. My nutritionist gave me a recipe for spaghetti with some sort of home made asparagus sauce, so I might try that since I need to freeze more supper stuff for P anyway.
Well that's my day. Work out is done and I can enjoy the rest of the day without dreading more exercising... until tomorrow! Just got to keep pushing through.
~Ciao
Ok so I haven't done Jillian Michaels since Friday (Saturday I did the bodyrock.tv instead and Sunday was supposed to be my rest day). How is it that I have been doing 6 days of her intensity and it seems harder today? Taking a break from her really sets me back I think even though I was doing other forms of exercising, either that or my body is just tired from 7 days of exercising. I wasn't sure how I would fit in a work out today with the boys home again today for the long weekend but Evan had to do a dump run and took ALL the kids with him so I was home alone for like an hour and a half. I wasted no time and got right to it.
I have to admit I am getting a little intimidated because I want to do 10 days of Level 1, then progress to 10 days of Level 2, then finally 10 days of Level 3. I have 4 more days on Level 1 before I move up to harder movements. Scary stuff!
Getting a bit amped to start the lane swimming exercising too beginning this Wednesday. 1 hour of lane swimming Monday's and Wednesday's. Am I going to die or what? Maybe not but I sure will feel like it! I know it sounds bizarre but I am somewhat getting addicted to pushing myself through these work outs. I can't really describe the emotion attached to it.
During the work out I want nothing more than to turn it off and walk away back to my old lifestyle, but I don't! The way I feel afterwards is just .... amazing. I feel so proud of myself, so accomplished so good about this life change!
Today I was back to eating healthy. I was tempted to eat an apple or blueberry muffin for breakfast but pushed past it and had a bowl of Shredded Wheat & Bran cereal. That stuff is bland! I sprinkled a tiny bit of brown sugar on the top, not much as I couldn't even taste it. I also had a banana with it.
For lunch I had a tuna wrap and an apple.
For supper we are undecided. My nutritionist gave me a recipe for spaghetti with some sort of home made asparagus sauce, so I might try that since I need to freeze more supper stuff for P anyway.
Well that's my day. Work out is done and I can enjoy the rest of the day without dreading more exercising... until tomorrow! Just got to keep pushing through.
~Ciao
Sunday, 5 August 2012
Sunday is a day of rest...well should be!
Day 7
Well it's been one week now since I decided to change my life and start this journey. I'm not being as strict as I hoped I would be, but I am facing many challenges having exchange students here so I think i'm doing ok.
Today was supposed to be my rest day but we took the boys swimming and I decided to attempt doing some lane swimming, I've never done that before and all I can say is holy man that is a fully body work out! sooo... I signed up for the 7 session class. I start that this Wednesday along with my Jillian Michaels too.
I need to be more dedicated on my meal plans, i'm not totally going off it but I know if I stuck to it better I could lose faster, so that is my goal this week to try to stick to the meal plan as closely as possible.
Back to the Jillian Michaels tomorrow. This day of rest was fun though, not as restful as I should have but it was a fun kind of exercise.
That is all for now :)
~Ciao
Well it's been one week now since I decided to change my life and start this journey. I'm not being as strict as I hoped I would be, but I am facing many challenges having exchange students here so I think i'm doing ok.
Today was supposed to be my rest day but we took the boys swimming and I decided to attempt doing some lane swimming, I've never done that before and all I can say is holy man that is a fully body work out! sooo... I signed up for the 7 session class. I start that this Wednesday along with my Jillian Michaels too.
I need to be more dedicated on my meal plans, i'm not totally going off it but I know if I stuck to it better I could lose faster, so that is my goal this week to try to stick to the meal plan as closely as possible.
Back to the Jillian Michaels tomorrow. This day of rest was fun though, not as restful as I should have but it was a fun kind of exercise.
That is all for now :)
~Ciao
Saturday, 4 August 2012
bodyrock.tv is AWESOME!
Day 6
I ate fairly clean today, tried to stay on track since yesterday was not a very good day for eating, not HORRIBLE but definitely not sticking to the plan 100%.
Didn't get my Jillian Michaels in today due to running around with the students too much. It is SO challenging to do this when they are around, so what I did instead was took my iPhone to my bedroom and did a 12 minute "bodyrock.tv" work out. Ok WOW 12 minutes and I am sweating so bad. 25 seconds on, 5 seconds of rest ONLY and back to it.
I feel good that I at least did a work out today. I might attempt another bodyrock later or play some Just Dance. I almost just let it go completely until I remembered I had that app installed on my phone. It's FREE and most of them you don't need anything for, you can just use a couch or chair, but this one you didn't need to use anything but your own body strength. It combined strength, cardio and abs but only 5 seconds of rest between each rep. It is tough!
Well that's my day. Keep rootin' me on friends, you have no idea how much it helps!
~Ciao
I ate fairly clean today, tried to stay on track since yesterday was not a very good day for eating, not HORRIBLE but definitely not sticking to the plan 100%.
Didn't get my Jillian Michaels in today due to running around with the students too much. It is SO challenging to do this when they are around, so what I did instead was took my iPhone to my bedroom and did a 12 minute "bodyrock.tv" work out. Ok WOW 12 minutes and I am sweating so bad. 25 seconds on, 5 seconds of rest ONLY and back to it.
I feel good that I at least did a work out today. I might attempt another bodyrock later or play some Just Dance. I almost just let it go completely until I remembered I had that app installed on my phone. It's FREE and most of them you don't need anything for, you can just use a couch or chair, but this one you didn't need to use anything but your own body strength. It combined strength, cardio and abs but only 5 seconds of rest between each rep. It is tough!
Well that's my day. Keep rootin' me on friends, you have no idea how much it helps!
~Ciao
Friday, 3 August 2012
today I really leaned heavy on a few of my support people
Day 5
Last night we took the boys to the food court as we were rushing about (thought we were going camping this weekend but plans changed last minute) anyway, so we each got something different. The craving demon in me caught hold and I went for chinese. Ummm yeah I don't think i'll be making THAT mistake again. I felt SO ill afterwards and since then I was sluggish and just really drained. It's amazing what crappy food does to your body. I think it was a good lesson to learn on my journey so I will now know how my body deals with that type of food in the future; again I am just so surprised by how quickly my body has adjusted to eating healthy. It has only been 5 days. It's a good thing for sure. (small note: I did have water with my chinese food LOL if that counts for anything).
Today I am struggling really bad. I've been so exhausted from the time I got up, it actually took me awhile to get out of bed. If I didn't have kids to tend to I think I could have happily laid there all day.
Breakfast was a bomb. I just had a blueberry muffin, no protein or fruits really, so that didn't help me at all. Didn't drink any water. All I wanted to do was sleep. I had half a mind to skip my work out due to lack of energy but I forced myself to do it. Glad that I did but I can't say much for the quality of my work out; today I just feel weaker, and wasn't able to push myself as hard. Granted I didn't really eat well so I am surprised I was able to make it through the work out without falling flat on my butt.
Then I tried to rest a bit while P napped. After he woke we went downstairs and made lunch.
I created this cool Mediterranean Chicken Wrap. Well, i'm sure *I* didn't invent it by any means but it was something I threw together.
Take: 1 chicken breast and cut into small strips and grill (I did this on my George Foreman Grill), while that is cooking take 1 whole wheat tortilla wrap (microwave for 10 sec or so to make the wrap softer to fold) and spread hummus all over it almost right to the edges, take some sliced cucumbers and put them on one half of the wrap (as you will be folding the wrap bottom up then the sides), do the same with sliced tomatoes, add peppers if you like (I don't have any so I didn't). When chicken is just about done I took fat free feta and oregano dressing and just took a silicon brush and spread some all over the chicken breasts. Add chicken to the wrap, sprinkle with cheese (preferably feta or low fat), top with lettuce and wrap it up. OH SO GOOD!
I created this cool Mediterranean Chicken Wrap. Well, i'm sure *I* didn't invent it by any means but it was something I threw together.
Take: 1 chicken breast and cut into small strips and grill (I did this on my George Foreman Grill), while that is cooking take 1 whole wheat tortilla wrap (microwave for 10 sec or so to make the wrap softer to fold) and spread hummus all over it almost right to the edges, take some sliced cucumbers and put them on one half of the wrap (as you will be folding the wrap bottom up then the sides), do the same with sliced tomatoes, add peppers if you like (I don't have any so I didn't). When chicken is just about done I took fat free feta and oregano dressing and just took a silicon brush and spread some all over the chicken breasts. Add chicken to the wrap, sprinkle with cheese (preferably feta or low fat), top with lettuce and wrap it up. OH SO GOOD!
So now that I have eaten a healthy lunch and had protein and water I am starting to feel better. I am just completely dumbfounded by how quickly my body adjusted to eating properly.
Last night we took the boys to the food court as we were rushing about (thought we were going camping this weekend but plans changed last minute) anyway, so we each got something different. The craving demon in me caught hold and I went for chinese. Ummm yeah I don't think i'll be making THAT mistake again. I felt SO ill afterwards and since then I was sluggish and just really drained. It's amazing what crappy food does to your body. I think it was a good lesson to learn on my journey so I will now know how my body deals with that type of food in the future; again I am just so surprised by how quickly my body has adjusted to eating healthy. It has only been 5 days. It's a good thing for sure. (small note: I did have water with my chinese food LOL if that counts for anything).
Well off to do some running around at the park with my kids, life doesn't stop for a mom just because i'm tired. At least I feel accomplished that I have my work out behind me for today and I can focus on other things and I can actually REST without feeling guilty.
Again a huge thanks to my support group! I really couldn't do this without you guys <3 <3 <3 the further I get into this the easier it will get but we are just still at the beginning stages and right now I am having moments of struggle so I am glad that I have people to boost me up.
~Ciao
Thursday, 2 August 2012
just another day..
Day 4
So today is Day 4, I am actually pretty amazed by the changes that have occurred so far. I haven't had any desires for juice/pop/cake/chips or any of that, last night for dinner I made a rose pasta thing and I measured 1 cup of cooked pasta and piled on TONS of veggies on my plate, everyone around me was drinking juice and I was happily drinking my water. I am managing to get all of my water in daily too.
Today will be a shorter blog as not much new to report. I did my work out a bit earlier today since I want to go to a friends place and have way too much to do this afternoon, not giving myself any chances to make any excuses to skip out on exercising.
I actually found I am getting more stamina today, I was able to push myself more and for many of the exercises I was able to follow along with them, the last few days i've had to stop and pause because I am out of breath or too achy. This is a good sign. I am however more exhausted afterwards but I would assume that is because I pushed myself further. I was able to do 15 push ups the first rep, then 8 the next. Push ups are the hardest for me so far.
Again today I wasn't really feeling like working out, I had a rough night and I am so tired but I did it anyway. I am SO glad that it is done, lol. I can celebrate that.
I made my first egg white omelette today and it was AMAZING, wow. I am SO not an eggs person. In fact unless its slathered in ketchup I usually can't stand them, but this was very tasty, I would totally eat that for breakfast again and again. It had zucchini, 1/4 cup broccoli, green pepper, red pepper (although I used orange since I have no red), 1/4 cup a mushrooms, 1 tsp italian seasoning, 1/2 tsp garlic powder and I threw in a few other spices and cooked the veggies. SO good.
Last night I went out to starbucks with a friend and got myself a green tea latte, it was actually pretty good. Next time I will order it no fat, no drip. It was a small and 270 calories, so I got myself the new Just Dance 3 for the Nintendo Wii and did a 30 min work out of dancing.
Totally forgot to mention. I am down 1.5lbs in just 2 days or something. It doesn't seem like much but i'm pleased about it. Its hard work to lose weight.
Ok well that is all for now.
~Ciao
So today is Day 4, I am actually pretty amazed by the changes that have occurred so far. I haven't had any desires for juice/pop/cake/chips or any of that, last night for dinner I made a rose pasta thing and I measured 1 cup of cooked pasta and piled on TONS of veggies on my plate, everyone around me was drinking juice and I was happily drinking my water. I am managing to get all of my water in daily too.
Today will be a shorter blog as not much new to report. I did my work out a bit earlier today since I want to go to a friends place and have way too much to do this afternoon, not giving myself any chances to make any excuses to skip out on exercising.
I actually found I am getting more stamina today, I was able to push myself more and for many of the exercises I was able to follow along with them, the last few days i've had to stop and pause because I am out of breath or too achy. This is a good sign. I am however more exhausted afterwards but I would assume that is because I pushed myself further. I was able to do 15 push ups the first rep, then 8 the next. Push ups are the hardest for me so far.
Again today I wasn't really feeling like working out, I had a rough night and I am so tired but I did it anyway. I am SO glad that it is done, lol. I can celebrate that.
I made my first egg white omelette today and it was AMAZING, wow. I am SO not an eggs person. In fact unless its slathered in ketchup I usually can't stand them, but this was very tasty, I would totally eat that for breakfast again and again. It had zucchini, 1/4 cup broccoli, green pepper, red pepper (although I used orange since I have no red), 1/4 cup a mushrooms, 1 tsp italian seasoning, 1/2 tsp garlic powder and I threw in a few other spices and cooked the veggies. SO good.
Last night I went out to starbucks with a friend and got myself a green tea latte, it was actually pretty good. Next time I will order it no fat, no drip. It was a small and 270 calories, so I got myself the new Just Dance 3 for the Nintendo Wii and did a 30 min work out of dancing.
Totally forgot to mention. I am down 1.5lbs in just 2 days or something. It doesn't seem like much but i'm pleased about it. Its hard work to lose weight.
Ok well that is all for now.
~Ciao
Wednesday, 1 August 2012
Today was a challenge...
Day 3
Well I didn't take it easy last night like I intended too... instead we all played "just dance" on the wii for an hour, that is a work out in itself. Everyone kept asking me if I was okay since I was walking funny due to my quads and abs being in such pain, but I was having a blast so I pushed myself through... maybe not a good idea? I don't know. I really felt I wanted to work off those extra calories from that iced capp yesterday though. If I am going to treat myself I need to train myself to thinking I'll have to work hard to work it off so that I am careful in how often and in what I decide to treat myself with. It might not be a system that works for everyone but I am trying it on for size.
I didn't follow my eating plan exactly last night but modified my own version of a healthy supper. I couldn't think of what to have for dinner so I had taken out a couple packs of beef, I decided to make soft tacos with my own home made taco seasoning, for myself I had a chicken breast in the fridge that I cut into strips and grilled on my George Foreman grill. The rest of my family had the regular soft tacos and I had a whole wheat tortilla with my grilled chicken, some cheese and a tiny amount of sour cream, some salsa and loaded it with veggies. It was SO good and satisfying.
OH!! I NEED TO CELEBRATE I finished ALL my water yesterday. All 72oz worth, man was I peeing a lot, hehe. I felt so good about getting in all my water. Today i'm not doing so well with that.
I met with my consultant today and she gave me some really good food ideas for things like camping and eating out and stuff. I'm excited to try them out! One thing she told me is that you can use plain greek yogurt as a sour cream substitute and it tastes basically the same but it is SO much healthier for you, so I am thinking on trying that too.
So today was a challenge because my kids are NOT cooperating, that is part of the challenge of being a mom trying to lose weight though isn't it? So many people out there make that excuse, I know I did: "I don't have time my kids don't give me a break!" well I am finding time. The good thing about the Jillian Michael's work out is that it is literally only like 22 minutes. Some people take longer showers! haha.
My stress was that my baby would scream if I didn't pick him up and have a complete melt down, he is cutting a couple teeth at the same time right now so he is being a big suck, so it was rough juggling getting my proper meals/snacks in - but I did somehow! It's so important to me that I am 100% committed.
I attempted to do my work out after I put the baby to bed and then right when I was just about done the warm up, he woke up. So that foiled my attempt. It took me a bit to get him to go back down and I kept looking at the clock because I really wanted to get my work out in before having to pick up the students from school, after wrestling with my kids and struggling to get the baby to bed I really was not in the mood to exercise today. If I didn't have such support and if I wasn't blogging i'm sure I would have created some sort of excuse as to why I would allow myself to skip out....
The biggest challenge was yet to come when a really good friend of mine called me and I haven't seen her in a bit, she said her kids were outside splashing in the swimming pool and I should get the boys in their swim suits and come on down, MAN that was the hardest temptation to come at me so far... I kept trying to figure out in my head how I could do my work out "later" but I know me, and I know later would never come. So I told her I can't because I needed to work out (even though I really was not in the mood).
So I got baby to sleep and forced myself to work out pushing past all the pain. Seriously Day 3 is so far the hardest day yet. Everything is hurting more than the last 2 days and I know that is a good thing, that pain reminds me that my body is changing and keeps me motivated to keep pushing through, but at the same time... IT HURTS! lol
I found today I felt more achy and tired quicker than the days before, I was able to do less reps too as my muscles were getting to that "pinch" feeling sooner. I still tried to barrel through it though but I am surprised at how "weak" my muscles are feeling today. Ah well, all part of the journey.
I had my students try the work out yesterday when they were asking why stairs and sitting was so hard. Let me tell you I felt SO GOOD that I was able to out do a couple ACTIVE 16 year old boys... they couldn't get past circuit 1 (there are 3 circuits total for the level 1 work out). So that was actually really empowering.
Tonight I am going out for "coffee" with a friend at Starbucks, any recommendations on something healthy to drink there? I am thinking something with green tea as green tea is supposed to be excellent for you!
Well that's my day so far, seriously though tonight I WILL take it easier. Maybe play board games or something.
Thanks for following along with me!
~Ciao
Well I didn't take it easy last night like I intended too... instead we all played "just dance" on the wii for an hour, that is a work out in itself. Everyone kept asking me if I was okay since I was walking funny due to my quads and abs being in such pain, but I was having a blast so I pushed myself through... maybe not a good idea? I don't know. I really felt I wanted to work off those extra calories from that iced capp yesterday though. If I am going to treat myself I need to train myself to thinking I'll have to work hard to work it off so that I am careful in how often and in what I decide to treat myself with. It might not be a system that works for everyone but I am trying it on for size.
I didn't follow my eating plan exactly last night but modified my own version of a healthy supper. I couldn't think of what to have for dinner so I had taken out a couple packs of beef, I decided to make soft tacos with my own home made taco seasoning, for myself I had a chicken breast in the fridge that I cut into strips and grilled on my George Foreman grill. The rest of my family had the regular soft tacos and I had a whole wheat tortilla with my grilled chicken, some cheese and a tiny amount of sour cream, some salsa and loaded it with veggies. It was SO good and satisfying.
OH!! I NEED TO CELEBRATE I finished ALL my water yesterday. All 72oz worth, man was I peeing a lot, hehe. I felt so good about getting in all my water. Today i'm not doing so well with that.
I met with my consultant today and she gave me some really good food ideas for things like camping and eating out and stuff. I'm excited to try them out! One thing she told me is that you can use plain greek yogurt as a sour cream substitute and it tastes basically the same but it is SO much healthier for you, so I am thinking on trying that too.
So today was a challenge because my kids are NOT cooperating, that is part of the challenge of being a mom trying to lose weight though isn't it? So many people out there make that excuse, I know I did: "I don't have time my kids don't give me a break!" well I am finding time. The good thing about the Jillian Michael's work out is that it is literally only like 22 minutes. Some people take longer showers! haha.
My stress was that my baby would scream if I didn't pick him up and have a complete melt down, he is cutting a couple teeth at the same time right now so he is being a big suck, so it was rough juggling getting my proper meals/snacks in - but I did somehow! It's so important to me that I am 100% committed.
I attempted to do my work out after I put the baby to bed and then right when I was just about done the warm up, he woke up. So that foiled my attempt. It took me a bit to get him to go back down and I kept looking at the clock because I really wanted to get my work out in before having to pick up the students from school, after wrestling with my kids and struggling to get the baby to bed I really was not in the mood to exercise today. If I didn't have such support and if I wasn't blogging i'm sure I would have created some sort of excuse as to why I would allow myself to skip out....
The biggest challenge was yet to come when a really good friend of mine called me and I haven't seen her in a bit, she said her kids were outside splashing in the swimming pool and I should get the boys in their swim suits and come on down, MAN that was the hardest temptation to come at me so far... I kept trying to figure out in my head how I could do my work out "later" but I know me, and I know later would never come. So I told her I can't because I needed to work out (even though I really was not in the mood).
So I got baby to sleep and forced myself to work out pushing past all the pain. Seriously Day 3 is so far the hardest day yet. Everything is hurting more than the last 2 days and I know that is a good thing, that pain reminds me that my body is changing and keeps me motivated to keep pushing through, but at the same time... IT HURTS! lol
I found today I felt more achy and tired quicker than the days before, I was able to do less reps too as my muscles were getting to that "pinch" feeling sooner. I still tried to barrel through it though but I am surprised at how "weak" my muscles are feeling today. Ah well, all part of the journey.
I had my students try the work out yesterday when they were asking why stairs and sitting was so hard. Let me tell you I felt SO GOOD that I was able to out do a couple ACTIVE 16 year old boys... they couldn't get past circuit 1 (there are 3 circuits total for the level 1 work out). So that was actually really empowering.
Tonight I am going out for "coffee" with a friend at Starbucks, any recommendations on something healthy to drink there? I am thinking something with green tea as green tea is supposed to be excellent for you!
Well that's my day so far, seriously though tonight I WILL take it easier. Maybe play board games or something.
Thanks for following along with me!
~Ciao
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Day 2 of my journey
Day 2
This is a picture of our dinner last night. Home made chicken strips and a garden salad. The chicken strips are seriously to DIE for!! So much better than shake n' bake. It was quite the hit in my family. I will definitely make those again. So yesterday was a clean eating kind of day.... that is until the sugar demon caught hold of me. We had 2 pieces of log cake left in our fridge and I seen a plate with remnants of it so I couldn't get it off my mind. I buckled and had a piece of cake, I felt soooooo guilty, but I need to post about that because that is part of being human and part of this journey I am on. So I cheated, but worked twice as hard today to NOT cheat.
I felt very sore last night.
Now on to today. Today is Day 2 and it got off to a much better start! Breakfast was delicious, below is a picture of what I had. SO good. It is a Mediterranean Breakfast Mix. I really enjoyed it, the recipe called to once again mix the cottage cheese/yogurt in with the fruit, but I had them on the side separately instead which was better for me. I know they sell those cottage cheese with fruit stuff in stores and honestly I think that is a disgusting combination. I'm not opposed to cheese with fruit, as I like block cheese & grapes but cottage cheese is all curdled like.
Anyway so today was going so good, at one point I gave the juice jug a double take and internally fought with myself to resist having any (and I did!) and had water instead. Man did I feel proud of myself. I completed Day 2 of the Jillian Michael's 30 day shred today; I think in the beginning its harder to work out because your muscles are all achy and you seriously feel like someone has beat the crap out of you. My ribs, abs, thighs, neck, pecks... man everything HURTS and to make myself do the same work out that caused this pain was hard but I managed to get through it.
I think I did a bit better today. I managed to do 8 push ups before I needed to pause, and did all my squat and press (23 total) without pausing. Jump & jacks was harder as every time I came down I felt that ache in my waist/ribs area.
I have to say I have more energy today ALREADY, what a huge difference by eating cleaner and adding in only 2 days worth of exercise. I managed to vacuum my entire house, and mop the floors AND do the work out and still I don't feel that tired.
The only downfall today was on my way to pick up the exchange students I left a bit earlier as P was beyond cranky so I figured he could sleep in the truck while I waited. It is 28 degrees here right now and I just thought "Hmm... an Iced Capp would be great right about now!".... totally not even THINKING, grrr.... so yes I went to the drive thru and got some iced capps for myself and the boys and drank half of it before even remembering about my clean eating. WHOOPS! Big mistake but hey, my nutritionist is going to allow me 1 pepsi a day (which I am not going to have anyway) so I will just treat it as a treat instead.
When meeting with her she had this cool little mind exercise for me to do. She said to close my eyes and picture a red apple in great detail and once I had it in my mind firmly to open my eyes and describe it, the second part of the exercise was to close my eyes again but whatever I do, do NOT picture that red apple. She explained that as soon as you tell yourself no to something you will immediately do it. The brain apparently does not work on negative thinking and so she told me to not ever say "I won't ever have sugar again" because as soon as I say that I will immediately crave it, so true!
Well that is my day so far.
It means a lot to me to have so much support. I think that is what's keeping me going is knowing that I am accountable. I am just going to take it a bit easy tonight. Will post tomorrow of course.
~Ciao
This is a picture of our dinner last night. Home made chicken strips and a garden salad. The chicken strips are seriously to DIE for!! So much better than shake n' bake. It was quite the hit in my family. I will definitely make those again. So yesterday was a clean eating kind of day.... that is until the sugar demon caught hold of me. We had 2 pieces of log cake left in our fridge and I seen a plate with remnants of it so I couldn't get it off my mind. I buckled and had a piece of cake, I felt soooooo guilty, but I need to post about that because that is part of being human and part of this journey I am on. So I cheated, but worked twice as hard today to NOT cheat.
I felt very sore last night.
Now on to today. Today is Day 2 and it got off to a much better start! Breakfast was delicious, below is a picture of what I had. SO good. It is a Mediterranean Breakfast Mix. I really enjoyed it, the recipe called to once again mix the cottage cheese/yogurt in with the fruit, but I had them on the side separately instead which was better for me. I know they sell those cottage cheese with fruit stuff in stores and honestly I think that is a disgusting combination. I'm not opposed to cheese with fruit, as I like block cheese & grapes but cottage cheese is all curdled like.
Anyway so today was going so good, at one point I gave the juice jug a double take and internally fought with myself to resist having any (and I did!) and had water instead. Man did I feel proud of myself. I completed Day 2 of the Jillian Michael's 30 day shred today; I think in the beginning its harder to work out because your muscles are all achy and you seriously feel like someone has beat the crap out of you. My ribs, abs, thighs, neck, pecks... man everything HURTS and to make myself do the same work out that caused this pain was hard but I managed to get through it.
I think I did a bit better today. I managed to do 8 push ups before I needed to pause, and did all my squat and press (23 total) without pausing. Jump & jacks was harder as every time I came down I felt that ache in my waist/ribs area.
I have to say I have more energy today ALREADY, what a huge difference by eating cleaner and adding in only 2 days worth of exercise. I managed to vacuum my entire house, and mop the floors AND do the work out and still I don't feel that tired.
The only downfall today was on my way to pick up the exchange students I left a bit earlier as P was beyond cranky so I figured he could sleep in the truck while I waited. It is 28 degrees here right now and I just thought "Hmm... an Iced Capp would be great right about now!".... totally not even THINKING, grrr.... so yes I went to the drive thru and got some iced capps for myself and the boys and drank half of it before even remembering about my clean eating. WHOOPS! Big mistake but hey, my nutritionist is going to allow me 1 pepsi a day (which I am not going to have anyway) so I will just treat it as a treat instead.
When meeting with her she had this cool little mind exercise for me to do. She said to close my eyes and picture a red apple in great detail and once I had it in my mind firmly to open my eyes and describe it, the second part of the exercise was to close my eyes again but whatever I do, do NOT picture that red apple. She explained that as soon as you tell yourself no to something you will immediately do it. The brain apparently does not work on negative thinking and so she told me to not ever say "I won't ever have sugar again" because as soon as I say that I will immediately crave it, so true!
Well that is my day so far.
It means a lot to me to have so much support. I think that is what's keeping me going is knowing that I am accountable. I am just going to take it a bit easy tonight. Will post tomorrow of course.
~Ciao
Monday, 30 July 2012
The start of my journey
Day 1
Hello,My name is Tara. This blog is about my journey to a fit and more fabulous me. I am not happy with my image and it is time for a change, and this time a change that will stick! I have tried many different things and every time I have given up or it hasn't worked for me. I guess you just come to a breaking point and that's where I am at. I am tired of not being able to wear the clothes that I want to wear and do the things that I want to do because of my size.
The change this time? Well I recently signed up with a nutritionist to help me achieve my weight loss goals.
So I want to blog about my success, my trials and challenges I face along the way - I know I can do this!
I have a bit to go but I can easily get to my goal weight in 5 months, I have faith!
My motivation is high.
My will power is high.
I am so amped to get to the finish line!
I will post pictures once a month, starting today. So what is my goal?
My goal weight is: 140-150lbs.
So lets get to it.
DAY 1:
Breakfast was off to a gagging hit!
The recipe told me to mix 1/2 cup of cottage cheese and 1/2 cup plain yogurt together to layer in a dessert cup with berries and fiber one cereal. I took two bites and I was gagging. Not fun!
I had to tweak that one a bit with splenda, and adding more berries and blended it to be some sort of smoothie, only that didn't work out exactly perfect either. It became more of a chunky, thick mixture that I ended up eating from a cup with a spoon.
I was feeling frustrated with my consultant because we had a sit down on Wednesday and discussed some of my likes/dislikes and she was supposed to create me a menu plan that incorporated those elements. I felt much better after writing her an email and her response was really encouraging. She told me that I could still drink 2% milk and cottage cheese, I was still allowed to have pop/soda (if I wanted, once a day but to me that seems a bit much! I will stick to once a week), and I could still cook the way I cook but we just need to compromise a bit. Overall her response was satisfactory and I think we can work something out together.
I will see her once a week so I will just make note of the things I don't like and she will just have to tweak them as she goes along. I am signed up with her for the next 3 months, couple that with working out and I feel confident that I will meet my weight loss goal!
This is a life change, and change doesn't happen over night!
During one of P's naps I did my Jillian Michael's 30 day Shred, just finished now... WOW! Seriously I am dripping with sweat. Somehow I don't remember it being that hard when I first did it, but obviously it was. I wasn't able to do as much of the movements as I would have liked but it is only day one after all and I know I will be able to do it more as I go along. My abs are already shaking and they hurt. My muscles burned and were pinching. I feel SO good that I did it though.
Well that's all I will say for now. I'll blog again tomorrow.
~Ciao
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