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!