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So here is my before photo. You never really think you look so bad until you see a picture like this. Ew!
Weight 164 lbs
Chest 38"
Waist 33"
Hips 38.5"
Thigh 24.5"
So right now I can't workout as I just had foot surgery on both feet so I will have to focus on eating less and better.
My Goals
Weight: 154 by October
Longterm weight: 125 lbs.
How: Eating clean 5X per day. When I can exercise, 3X weights and 3 cardio and 1 yoga.
I need to stop eating to fill my emotions and to get rid of stress. Hopefully Yoga will help me there.
Applying for the contest today!!
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Birthday dinner
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A bit about me and the 3rd annual ECD makeover challenge
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Need advice on when/how long to see change.
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So I finally decided that it is time to get off this plateau I have been sitting on. I am very happy with all the results I have had so far, but I want more!! My first goal for the Sept. challenge was to do cooler 1 for 2 weeks. Sept. 1 was my start date.
I have been sitting at 139 for over a month now and I am ready to get leaner. I don't weigh myself often, but this was my weight July 28th and yesterday, Sept. 1. What I am really looking for with this adventure is to shed body fat and inches. I started the cooler yesterday and I will post my meal plans for every day.
Here are my stats on the first day:
weight: 139 pounds
bust: 37.5 inches
hips: 36.5 inches
waist: 31.5 inches
I keep most of my body fat around my middle, so this is the area that I am hoping will change the most. Since I started to really eat tight, which was on June 23, 2010, I have lost 13.5 lbs, 4.5 inches off my bust, 1.5 inches off my hips and 3 inches off my waist.
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Little teeny bit dissapointed in myself, I just feel that I could have done better yesterday, but its so hard for a leopard to change it's spots, I've struggled with this my whole life and I guess the only way to completely change is to do it little by little.
This morning I am STARVING! but only because I had to do a fast for some tests that I'm getting done this morning at the hospital. I am getting a diabetes test and a thyroid test because both run in my family. Mainly the diabetes one terrifies me because it runs bad on both sides of my family! (lucky me) .. I cant wait to get home after that and have a nice warm bowl of oatmeal, and snuggle my girl as much as I can before she goes off to grade 2 next week. I told her that her lunches are going to be full of veggies and fruit, I don't think she liked that idea so much. But if you don't start them young they'll, most likely, never start. My only regret is not starting her earlier and that's my fault because of my own destructive habits. Never again.
Ciao!
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Finding humor in my morning oatmeal bowl.
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Win a phone consult with Tosca!
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So far so good! Yesturday I ate quinoa with veggies and egg whites for breakfast instead of my normal oatmeal and I was so hungry until my next meal. So oatmeal and egg whites for breakfast every morning for me. I was super sluggish yesturday and barely had the energy to take care of my kids. I knew it was because my body was looking for more calories and carbs so instead of grabbing a snack that was "a cheating snack" that I knew would give me a boost I grabbed a pear and split it with my daughter. It is amazing how you can notice a change in your energy so quickly. The rest of the day I felt a little bit better but still a huge lack of energy. I decided to skip my am workout this morning and get a little extra sleep, instead I will go to kickboxing class at the gym tonight. I do very intense workouts 6 days per week and I don't think I am getting the calories my body needs on cooler 1, so I may just do it for the week and then go back to cooler 2 if Im happy with what the scales says at my 1 week weigh in. I don't have much to lose I would just like to lose the 7lb I gained on vaca. My clothes do feel looser though and its only day 4!
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Wow I can’t believe I have been on the Clean Eating Diet for a month! I haven’t seen much change in my body, but the scale is down some - I started at 236.0 lbs and as of 8/31, I am down to 225.6. Considering I had been trying to lose weight for several years and only once did I ever get past 230 lbs, this is very significant! AND as of today, my weight is 224.4! Can you believe it?!?!?!?
My next test is to get past 217. That one time I was able to dip below 230 lbs (on a completely unrealistic and unsustainable diet), I was able to get down to 217. Then, of course, my weight ballooned up to where it was before. Getting below 217 is a HUGE milestone for me.
Last night, I made one of my absolute favorite recipes. I didn’t realize it was a clean recipe until I had a hankering for it and wanted to make it (in truth, there may be a bit too much oil in it, but you can always cut that back some). It is the Chickpeas and Chard recipe in the “NOT Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook.” This recipe is so comforting and satisfying. It is a warm, flavorful recipe that only needs a few ingredients other than a bit of salt and pepper. On my comfort-food scale, it ranks up there with macaroni and cheese, not because it is gooey and oh-so-good, but because after the first mouthful, it makes you sit back in your chair and sigh. My whole body relaxes when I am eating this food. I can’t post the recipe in the recipes section because I don’t have rights to it, but you can check out the book at Barnes & Noble or get it at Amazon. There are a TON of really great recipes in there. When I first got it, I read it like a novel, marking the pages of each recipe I wanted to try. I highly recommend this book!
I have a bit of a challenge ahead of me today. I just had my breakfast, so that is taken care of, but my snack and lunch are a different issue altogether. I will be stuck in a training from 9 to 2 that is being put on by one of our service providers - several very high people within that organization. I have an inkling that they will be bringing bagels or other breakfast items of some sort. I know I won’t have any after how I felt 2 weeks ago when I wasn’t prepared with breakfast and a snack for a different meeting, but I am worried about how I will get my snack in without seeming - oh what is the right word for this situation - ungrateful? I have packed an easily transportable snack - a granola bar - so it should be pretty easy to eat, but I am still worried about how it will look.
Another issue is lunch. Lunch is being catered - sandwiches - and I sort of had a bit of influence in the sandwiches that were ordered (I had suggested the hummus plates in addition to the sandwiches, but that was overruled) and was able to steer them away from the ones that had meat and bacon on ALL of them. They are getting the sandwich platter that has some tuna sandwiches included. It is not exactly clean, with all the mayonnaise and unclean bread, but it is the best I can do... and there is no way I am going to eat that meat. If I knew it was nitrite and nitrate free, I may have caved and eaten it just to make things easy, but honestly, I don’t know where that meat has been, if you know what I mean. And there is no way I can bring my own lunch - especially if I am going to be bringing my own snack. Doing both would be downright rude. I guess I am only being half rude. Oh well.
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