Its tough

I know its tough to find the time to be healthy.  Its easier to eat the fast food, skip the run on the treadmill and slam the extra cup of coffee instead of water.  I'm the queen of trying to make my life easier.  With a 16 month and 5 month at home along with a new job and new job on top of the new job and I also sing in a chorus on Monday nights and a Quartet on Wednesdays...yeah, I'm looking for easy.  BUT then I think, is this what I would feed my children?  NO...why?  Because I want them to be healthy and learn healthy habits and live long healthy lives.  SO...WHY am I not practicing what I preach?  Don't I want to be around to see my babies grow into wonderful beautiful human beings, don't I want to grow old with my husband and see our grandchild play???  Of course - so I need to start at home.  I need to make changes in my every day life.  I need to find a way to eat healthy but quickly sometimes.  We have decided that those days, instead of fast food days, will be salad days! 

One step closer to healthy :-)

Down again

Down again with another pound or so and down again with insomnia.  Grrrr  but this week has been better ~ sleeping through the night a few nights.

Looking forward to running my 5k this week on the treadmill.  Started a new meal plan; going back to my clean eat ways.  

Also, just so everyone knows, I've tried responding to some posts here andNOTHING  happens.  I'm not trying to ignore ya'll, my comments just won't stick.  ;-(

I'm out !

Hey ladies, I hate to do this but I am out. I just can't get back to tracking. Since before Disney I've been working 4 or more nights a week plus at least 1 day or night each weekend. Filling out another spreadsheet or tracking what I eat for the day is the last thing I want to add, I just can't bring myself to do it. Add to it a bout of what I think was food poisoning last week and that is when I had to make this decision.

I've slipped a bit but not much. In a general sense I'm eating well but not checking the scale. I'm going by how I feel and how my clothing fits which - isn't where I want to be - but I don't feel gross at the moment so I'm pretty happy. Just need more water in my diet and I'm good for now.

So sorry ! I will be back when I can to cheer you all on - keep going ! Eventually it really does become habit, your brain will remember without looking what is good for you and what was not and I really believe your body will start to prefer it too. YOU CAN DO IT LADIES! I'm your biggest fan !!

Another pound bites the dust

And another one gone and another one gone...another pound bites the dust!!!

Yep - I lost another pound this week.  I really believe that eating home more helped!  I didn't have the time to cook all my meals on Sunday, but I did shop and buy smart meals that wont take up too much time to make during the week.  Tonight - Fish, greenbeans and noodles.  Much better than a double quarter pounder, fry and tea!

Hope everyone is doing well...slow and steady wins the race!

It's Aggravating!

I can't believe we are just starting our week 6 already!  I have been playing with the same 2 pounds for the last 6 months and it is just making me angry.  For instance, this past Thursday showed that I had lost 1 and a smidge pounds this week (which would have broken that 2 pound barrier) but then when I got on the scale on Saturday morning (my official weigh in day), I was up 2 pounds from Thursday.  Really??  It is just so freakin' aggravating and frustrating for me.  I'm at the point where I'm just going to screw worrying about the weight loss and just continue to focus on being and living healthy.  I workout regularly and am healthy even though I'm overweight.  I have low cholesterol, low blood pressure, strong heart, normal sugar levels, good blood numbers, etc, etc.  I'm just going to keep focusing on continuing to eat healthy, eat "bad" stuff minimally, and continue to workout.  Looking at the silver lining of not losing weight, at least it my face won't get wrinkles from the weight loss. :):)

Remember to get me your numbers today and to blog.  There are three of you that I need your numbers still for the last three weeks.  I will need those so I can do a tally after this week to send out the mid challenge standings.

 Good luck in week 6 ladies!
Stacey

I did better in week 3

Well, I at least stayed the same.  I managed to meet with our on site wellness coach and he will be tracking my weight and blood pressure for me once a week.  I only worked out 2 times last week.  On Thursday, my new work friend Angela, took me out for a drink to celebrate my new promotion.  I have only been at my job for 5 weeks and was promoted.  This is the reason why I have not been able to keep track of to much.  I have been going crazy trying to learn a new job on top of a new job :-) 

I DID cook a weeks worth of meals on Sunday (Thanks for the idea Jilly) so I have not had fast food in a few days.  Sad to say, but thats GREAT for me.  With the busy life style of 2 kids, singing in a chorus and quartet along with the job, fast food is a weekly staple.  BUT, I'm trying to cut it out.  I'll let you know next week how I did.  I know I will probably eat it once - but thats better than 4 times...(yes, so sad to say that is a very real number)

Stay strong ladies. 

One step forward and

well not quite 2 steps backwards, but I did gain 1/2 a pound.  Partly because I didn't get as many workouts in as I wanted, partly because I didn't eat quite as well as I should have, and it's the glorious time of the month.  Oh and I'm just not the sleep I need ~ gotta love insomnia.  NOT!!!!  

Rant over.

On to positives...Anthony is on his final week of Fall Break and life goes back to the way it should be on the 16th.  Leo, the cat has discovered the patio and all the surrounding buildings and most importantly the way back home. :)  I'm trying new recipes.  Yesterday I made Chicken and Veggie Lo Mein with no grains. It turned out pretty good and will be making it again.  Last week I made a REAL yummy salmon that will definitely be on the meal plan again.  And I can still eat peanut butter ~ just not the everyday and only about 1 tablespoon. 

I'm going to try to go to sleep now.  I hope everyone has a great week. 

Week 4 - It was OK

Well, week 4 was a decent week for me in that I lost 2 of the pounds I gained.  However, I have been playing with those same two pounds (up 2, down 2, up 2, down 2) for the last 4 months.  I also didn't follow the challenge very well last week and only really earned points for one workout yesterday and my water.  I was in such a funk last week (thanks Aunt Flo) that I just didn't care to deal with it.  Anyway, back to the weight. I think my nightly "happy drink" (a glass of wine for most folks) is stopping me from losing anymore than the 2 pounds.  Alcohol impacts people differently.  Some people, it doesn't stop them at all and others, the sugar in the alcohol stops the weight loss.  So this week, next week, and the week after I am going to experiment.  This week, I'm cutting my happy drink in 1/2 to see if that impacts my weight-loss.  Then next week, I'll stop it all together and see how that impacts my weight-loss.  The third week, I'll go back to the regular amount and see if I gain (or stop losing).  That is the one thing I really like about these 12 week challenges is that we all learn so much about ourselves. :)

On a happy note, I finally was able to come out of the gym and hit the pavement outside.  I can run 3.5 miles on the treadmill without stopping at the gym but knew is it so much harder outside.  I have three weeks to be able to run 5k outside without stopping. Yesterday, my goal was to at least make it halfway, which I did (YAY).  Then for the second half, I would walk a song and then run a song, walk a song, run a song.  It worked out OK.  I finished the 5k (little more than 5k), in the same amount of time as it takes at the gym (45 minutes) so I know that I'm running faster outside.  I tried to slow my pace down a bit so I can go longer, but it was just really awkward and my gate wasn't normal.  So I went back to the normal pace.  I'll run outside again tomorrow and will try to run a little longer without stopping.  I am going to slowly increase for the next 3 weeks so I can make run that 5k on November 2nd without stopping.

Kim - how did it go with the peanut butter?  I so hope you're not allergic to PB.  I would totally cry if I were.  Terry, how is the beach?  Jill and Jenny - how did your week go?  Audra, how are you recovering from your cataract surgery?  All better?

Good luck in week 5 team!