Weigh in # 7

Whoo hooo!

Let's get right to the stats:

Digital scale: 174.6 lbs
Wii Scale: low on battery this morning and wasn't working. blah blah.

This is super exciting. I even slipped up..A LOT this week. I did buy some Breyer's Peach Ice Cream..which is yummy! Everyday is a new day, I think I finally have my mind right...FINALLY. I've tried a ton of exercises and foods to try and lose weight and this is the only thing that has ever worked for me. I am so happy to have finally found my cure for my belly, which I had even prior to having a baby by the way. If you want to see what my goal weight looks like on me, I'm going to post a picture of me and imagine me 10 lbs heavier than the picture. That would be my goal weight, 130 lbs. I still have over 40 to lose but I have lots of time.

I have been eating a lot of salads, mostly for dinner in order to keep dinner light. My salads typically consists of romaine, tomato, cucumber, mushrooms, onion, feta cheese, sunflower seeds and a balsalmic dressing. I've been eating turkey bacon and 2 scrambled eggs almost every morning and lunch is kind of all over the place. Sometimes it's a mixture of different foods that don't go together like, a grapefruit, cheese stick, nuts OR it might be a small pita bread pizza consisting of pizza sauce, pesto, spices, pepperoni & cheese. Very good! Tonight I made taco salad.

I haven't been doing much for exercise this week, it mostly consisted of carrying my daughter, doing housework..OH and sleeping...with an occasional walk here and there. Slacker? Yes. I just haven't had much time and when I do have time, I'd rather relax, read, watch a movie, OR yes, sleep. These days I enjoy treating myself to a home spa which in other words, is a warm shower followed by lotion and clean clothes....aaaaahhhhh, bliss.

I'm thinking about joining this decade and starting a vlog and jumping ship on this blog stuff. Not only will vlogging be a lot more fun for me AND you but, I can post them on youtube and get more followers...I need more input from other fellow weightlossees. LOL The decision will come soon and I will let my whole 4 followers know asap. If I do join the vlogging world, I will be dropping this blog all together and transferring my info to my new vlog. I'll keep you posted.

Spring is peaking around the corner and I'm so excited. I really have a lot of "Spring cleaning" to do and I can't wait to install our hardwood floors and get this place looking nizice. We did clean our garage last weekend..our to do list is slightly shorter now. YES!

I found a new blogger to follow and all his videos are pretty interesting. You can find him on youtube, he calls his channel "Underground Wellness".

Anyway, gotta get to my life now. Mwuah!

obsessed.

This is amazing. I have never in my life lost weight like this. This low sugar and carb diet is working. I've become obsessed..well, almost obsessed with weighing myself ever since I realized that weight was falling off. So, I weighed myself this morning and I'm down another pound since yesterday. I always weigh myself first thing in the morning before I've eaten so that it stays accurate. I've lost a whole pound in one day, that is shocking to me. Anyway, I can't wait until this next weigh in...it's going to be big news. Ya know, when you start to lose weight like this because you've finally found something that works for you, it's really easy to stick to it. When you want results so badly and have wanted them for some time, when you finally see them, there's no turning back.

Mwuah!

Weigh in # 6

YES!! Excellent results this week.

I started a new diet/life change type plan. I recently read this book by Jorge Cruise called "The Belly Fat Cure". Jorge basically says to cut down on your sugar intake and keep track of your carbs and you WILL lose weight. He uses S/C which is sugars/carbs and he says to eat no more than 15 grams of sugar and 6 servings of carbs each day. I have been staying pretty close to this the last 3 days and here are the stats from my weigh in that I did this morning:

Digital Scale: 176.4 lbs
Wii Scale: 178.5
BMI: 28.03

A side note: my digital scale also tells me my fat percentage which I have been far too embarrassed about to come out and say the actual fat content of my current body. BUT let's just say that since I started this blog, my fat percentage has dropped 6 %..whooo hoooo! That's kind of a big deal. In total I've lost a bit over 5 lbs, I am so excited. Oh by the way, when I was doing the low sugar and carbs for 3 days, I was not working out and I still lost the weight and more than what I was losing while working out. I do plan to continue working out but this was a bit of an experiment. ;) Jorge also promotes the use of sugar substitutes like Stevia and sugar alcohols which I'm not really sure about their actual safety yet. I have just been cutting my sugars instead of substituting to make things sweet. I'll have to do more research on this.

Welp, it's the end of my 30 day challenge, which needless to say, I did not follow. I did workout but I did not do that video every day for 30 days as I had originally planned. Your body needs rest and variety..which is something I've always known so I don't even know why I attempted it. Also, today is the official end to my 21 day habit challenge of reading for at least 30 minutes every day. I did do this challenge. I read everything from baby magazines, web articles, and books. Now I have to think of a new challenge. hmmmm...

I'm going to be doing housework here while my daughter sleeps because it's the end of the day and as usual, this place is a big sty.

Mwuah!

Weigh in # 5

Late again! I'm a busy woman.

My weigh in last week was not so good. I gained .6 lbs according to my digital scale. Here are the stats:

Digital Scale: 179.6 lbs
Wii Scale: messed something up, wrote the wrong thing down.
BMI: 28.37

I did eat some cake on my and my husband's anniversary which was that Saturday, I did my weigh in that Sunday...it must be the cake. LOL

Welp, to weigh in # 6 I go.

Weigh In # 4

Okee dokke, artichokeeee. Delicious, OH SO GOOD for you, artichokeees.

I had a tid more weight loss this last Saturday. Here are the stats.

Digital Scale: 179 lbs
Wii Scale: 180.07 lbs
BMI: 28.37

HIP HIP HOORAY!

I'm going to bed.

Mwuah!

Weigh In # 3

yeh yeh, it's been a while..slacker. Get over it people, I'm kind of a busy person.

First I'd like to start off by saying that this blogging stuff is beginning to get boring. 4 followers? Come on people, where you at?

Now since it took me two weeks to post, weigh in # 3 is from Feb 20th and I will have another post for weigh in # 4.

Digital Scale: 180 lbs
Wii Scale: 181.08 lbs
BMI: 28.51

So we finally have improvement!! Not much, but we're headed in the right direction. It's been a struggle to stick with the "30 Day Shred" challenge simply because it got boring and I need to do something else every once in a while to work different muscle groups. I have also done the Jillian Michaels "Burn Fat, Boost Metabolism" video. That is a good one too. I like that it's 40 minutes long but is broken down into several sections, it's pretty tough though. I've also been warming up for 10 min on my elliptical and then doing a video plus lots of stretching. I'm not going to lie, I've been slacking. I'm so busy with my daughter during the day that when I put her to bed at night, the only thing I want to do is eat, relax and then go to sleep. It's hard to tell myself that I need to workout when I'm so tired, even though working out will indeed give me the energy boost I need. Either way you go, it's a snowball effect. Don't work out and then you don't have energy so then you continue to not work out or work out, get energy and feel like working out more often. Hmmm. I need to get on it. My eating has been very good with the exception of my oreo binge I went on last week..'twas only one container of oreos, but it was bad news. It took a whole 3 days to clean it out. LOL It's so hard to resist when they're in the pantry and I've got ice cold milk in the fridge..mmm mmm. That's a slap on the hand, no more oreos!! I have forgiven myself and I'm continuing to move forward. I've been eating enormous salads to include things such as tons of baby romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, mushrooms, feta cheese and either italian dressing or Newsman's Own raspberry dressing. So yummy!

I have yet to make coconut ghee, simply because I didn't have a good storage container for it..BUT NOW I DO. I should be making it sometime before the end of next week. Excited.

I heard from another blogger that there is no try and there is no fail. See saying that you'll "TRY" to lose weight is kind of implying an assumption of failure. AND saying you "FAILED" at losing weight isn't true either because whether your goal was reached or not, you had a learning experience in which you will (or at least should) grow from. This blogger also made an excellent point that who really cares if you ate an entire chocolate cake yesterday, today is a new day. You know what you've done wrong in the past, well do something right today..even if it's only one thing. Don't ever give up on your goals. I'd have to say that this blogger has some good points here.

I watched the movie "Fat Head" last week and though my husband is pretty much avoiding any grains because of it, I think a large portion of that movie is hog wash. Of course, that's my opinion..it could very well be based off of facts OR maybe not, but I don't think that eating saturated fats could possibly be healthy..they are SATURATED after all. Meaning solid at room temperature, how could the stuff NOT be clogging arteries or showing up in your love handles..no way is that stuff "good for you". I've heard that if you were to open up your "tire" aka, fat roll across your abdomen, and take a look at the fat under neath, the composition would be that of pig fat or cow fat...whatever it is that you've eaten during your life time. So, people's bodies do store saturated fats and not in a good way. This is a topic that needs much more research on my part because here I am, probably starting fires with my followers who know more about it then me. Of course. Welp, I suppose I'll drop the subject BUT my point is that movie is full of it.

Mwuah!