I am a 28 years old married Work at Home mom to 3 children
My Weight Loss Progress:
164.6 lbs 38.7% Body Fat July 28 2007 6:30am
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Lemonade Diet Master Cleanse
I am starting the Master Cleanse aka the Lemonade Diet today. It is not meant to be used as a weight loss tool, because the fast is to remove toxins from your body. However, since I have made significant lifestyle changes and am losing weight, my goal is for this to help me to lose faster so that I can maintain. I purchased Burroughs original MasterCleanse Book as well as Glickman's newer, updated version. I am currently on step 2, drinking the salt water. I decided I will need to wake early to drink this stuff, since I don't want to be stuck at the house all day. My weight has been 167 until this morning, until it went to 166.6-after the Senna Tea began to work. I will report back on my progress.
BTW: I went to the mall this weekend and discovered that I can squeeze into size 8-10. It is definitely way too tight to wear in public, but an accomplishment. At Express-a store I used to shop at in my thinner days, I can wear the biggest size there-a 12! My goal is to wear the same size there I used to 2 babies ago-an 8. I am juiced just to be ableto wear their clothes again. Woo Hoo! I think I've lost 1 bra band size from a 38 to a 36 as well as maybe gasp a cup size from DD to D. When I get below 159, I will get re sized by a pro at Macy's or the Bra outlet store. My panties are so loose now and I had a clothes party in my room, boxing up clothes that are unflattering due to being a little too big. Nothing is falling off, but things are un-comfy and prone to cause chaffing due to rubbing, and prone to somewhat not covering my body correctly. Yeah!!!!! (:
BTW: I went to the mall this weekend and discovered that I can squeeze into size 8-10. It is definitely way too tight to wear in public, but an accomplishment. At Express-a store I used to shop at in my thinner days, I can wear the biggest size there-a 12! My goal is to wear the same size there I used to 2 babies ago-an 8. I am juiced just to be ableto wear their clothes again. Woo Hoo! I think I've lost 1 bra band size from a 38 to a 36 as well as maybe gasp a cup size from DD to D. When I get below 159, I will get re sized by a pro at Macy's or the Bra outlet store. My panties are so loose now and I had a clothes party in my room, boxing up clothes that are unflattering due to being a little too big. Nothing is falling off, but things are un-comfy and prone to cause chaffing due to rubbing, and prone to somewhat not covering my body correctly. Yeah!!!!! (:
Friday, July 20, 2007
Friday, July 20th Maintenance update
168 this morning. Wow. The lowest I’ve been in so many years. Here I am, sitting here hungry-or something. It is probably not hunger, but craving a routine. My stomach doesn’t hurt, it’s more like a sense of entitlement, everyone else is eating, and I should be able to, also.
But it is kind of like that saying, today is the first day of the rest of your life. If I want to be able to maintain y thinness, I need to have the willpower to make the right decisions most of the time. The right decision is not to eat, since it is 9:33pm and w just got home. I have got to stop eating late. My body doesn’t metabolize food well late at night. My body has also set itself on a schedule of eating times. I need to eat dinner at about 4. At the latest, I should finish eating 3 hours before bed, which for me means eating no later than 7pm.
It is these baby steps and mini lifestyle changes that will allow me to reach and maintain my goal weight. I am so happy to have maintained my weight since July 4th, without calorie counting and while exercising less. The truth is that if I’m not going to exercise, I must eat less, my body needs less. I really want to get rid of my bog clothes, so that there’s no going back.
I realize these are crazy ramblings, but I feel like a drug addict trying to say no to drugs while having a craving / going through withdrawal.
Looking back, there are still some times I eat when I‘m not hungry and or it is not logical for me to eat, and I need to nip that.
I love the empty feeling of not being full all of the time. It feels energized or peppy. I feel like I can jump up and conquer any physical thing, like run a marathon or anything. I also feel mentally ready to do anything. Eating too much and making poor food choices makes you feel less motivated.
I am just trying to journal my thoughts and feelings so I can look back on them with a feeling of satisfaction over how far I’ve come along my journey and so I can identify with what it meant to be a slave to food, after I’ve won the battle. I can do it!
I feel so good, my body feels sleeker to me, more slim, more feminine, more womanlike, when it isn’t filled up with food.
I realize I have come so far and really want to not ever backslide. Prayer against backsliding:
“Dear Lord, I come to you in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. I thank you for all you’ve done for me and are doing for me and my family. I thank you Lord, for providing good, healthy food for me to sustain my body with. Lord, I thank you for giving me the strength to eat healthy foods. Your Word says my body is your temple and I realize now that it is a sin to abuse your temple by over filing it with non nutritious food and by being a glutton. I know you would like us to fill our bodies with adequate amounts of food and I thank you for blessing me and my family to have more than enough food. I also believe that it is wrong to be wasteful of your blessings and it is wasteful to over indulge on your blessings. In the name of Jesus, I praise you, and give you all the glory. I thank you for being with me and giving me the strength through you when I do not have the strength. I thank you that through you I am more than a conqueror, even in the area of food and health. Lord, I thank you for giving me the strength to say No to bad food choices. I thank you that your work in me in this area will be a living testament to others what You can do. I love you and I praise you. In the glorious and majestic name of Jesus, Amen.
But it is kind of like that saying, today is the first day of the rest of your life. If I want to be able to maintain y thinness, I need to have the willpower to make the right decisions most of the time. The right decision is not to eat, since it is 9:33pm and w just got home. I have got to stop eating late. My body doesn’t metabolize food well late at night. My body has also set itself on a schedule of eating times. I need to eat dinner at about 4. At the latest, I should finish eating 3 hours before bed, which for me means eating no later than 7pm.
It is these baby steps and mini lifestyle changes that will allow me to reach and maintain my goal weight. I am so happy to have maintained my weight since July 4th, without calorie counting and while exercising less. The truth is that if I’m not going to exercise, I must eat less, my body needs less. I really want to get rid of my bog clothes, so that there’s no going back.
I realize these are crazy ramblings, but I feel like a drug addict trying to say no to drugs while having a craving / going through withdrawal.
Looking back, there are still some times I eat when I‘m not hungry and or it is not logical for me to eat, and I need to nip that.
I love the empty feeling of not being full all of the time. It feels energized or peppy. I feel like I can jump up and conquer any physical thing, like run a marathon or anything. I also feel mentally ready to do anything. Eating too much and making poor food choices makes you feel less motivated.
I am just trying to journal my thoughts and feelings so I can look back on them with a feeling of satisfaction over how far I’ve come along my journey and so I can identify with what it meant to be a slave to food, after I’ve won the battle. I can do it!
I feel so good, my body feels sleeker to me, more slim, more feminine, more womanlike, when it isn’t filled up with food.
I realize I have come so far and really want to not ever backslide. Prayer against backsliding:
“Dear Lord, I come to you in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. I thank you for all you’ve done for me and are doing for me and my family. I thank you Lord, for providing good, healthy food for me to sustain my body with. Lord, I thank you for giving me the strength to eat healthy foods. Your Word says my body is your temple and I realize now that it is a sin to abuse your temple by over filing it with non nutritious food and by being a glutton. I know you would like us to fill our bodies with adequate amounts of food and I thank you for blessing me and my family to have more than enough food. I also believe that it is wrong to be wasteful of your blessings and it is wasteful to over indulge on your blessings. In the name of Jesus, I praise you, and give you all the glory. I thank you for being with me and giving me the strength through you when I do not have the strength. I thank you that through you I am more than a conqueror, even in the area of food and health. Lord, I thank you for giving me the strength to say No to bad food choices. I thank you that your work in me in this area will be a living testament to others what You can do. I love you and I praise you. In the glorious and majestic name of Jesus, Amen.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
June 29th recap My first good weekend day!
Update
I really feel like I’m making progress. I have lost 15 lbs total. I am down to 169.4-from 185 at the begining of the month. approx 39 more to go!
A very recent change I have decided to implement is to stop eating late. I have read before that if you are not hungry in the morning, it is because you ate too late the night before. I also noticed that if I was too busy to eat breakfast in the morning, my weight would continue to go down by up to 8 oz between 6 am and 10am-before I ate. Since keeping my metabolism up is important, I concluded that I should stop eating late, so that I can eat breakfast earlier.
I am also happy to discover that I only have to exercise about 35 minutes and I can still lose weight quickly. Probably due to the fact that I eat so little.
Yesterday was the first weekend day I have managed to eat according to my diet plan. I have managed exercising one day on the weekend, before, but never have I kept my calories down on the weekend. The class I’m taking at Kaiser has us record our meals in a log. I used to record mine in a binder, but that made it hard to carry around. This book fits in my pocket or purse. So it is easy for me to journal my meals on my weight loss blog.
Breakfast:
¼ - ½ c oatmeal
w/ ½ tsp butter
w/ ½ tsp sugar
w/ 1/8 c or less milk in the oatmeal
Around 11:00 I went to Gym w/ my whole family! I went on the treadmill for 35 mins or so. I even did 2 cardio intervals and ran on the treadmill for a while. It feels so good to run! That was a goal of mine-to be able to run without it hurting. It feels good now. I am so happy to be able to run. I can currently run for about 2-5 minutes before feeling like an asthmatic and completely getting out of breath. I will make it my goal to increase that! (:
I also did 135 crunches in sets of 20-25 and 8-10 sets of 8-10 reps of leg weight exercises. My stomach can feel that today.
After the gym, we were in the car taking my kids to various activities so I ate a
V8-the small cans have only 30 calories
About 5 dried plums-I love Costco’s dried plums!
We went home and I ate the rest of my salad from a diner on Friday night. My salad consisted of:
1 ½ cups Romaine lettuce
2-3 oz Grilled chicken breast
Freshly squeezed drizzled lemon juice
Herbed seasoning
Big glass of water
I was full, but felt tired, so I ate
1 oz high fiber Barilla plus pasta
And had a
cup of coffee-my first in weeks! With some milk and 1 tsp sugar
My family and I left again to go shopping, and I drank some of my Husbands
lite Arizona Green Tea Pomegranate energy drink-about 35 calories-it tasted great and perked me up.
We were at the mall and I became hungry around 8ish and I shared a
nutrition bar with my daughter 105 calories was ½ of it.
I skipped dinner, since we arrived home at 10:30pm, and my husband began preparing dinner at that time.
I hate to talk about bad stuff, but I’m a realist. Lately, I have been tired and had some headaches. I also can’t seem to hear or focus well. It’s like I need an energy drink almost all of the time. Maybe it’s the congestion I’ve been having, but maybe it’s due to a lack of food…I have begun taking a multi vitamin. I still think the weight loss is worth it. I felt sick and tired and had headaches even when I was eating a lot of food, because I was eating unhealthy foods. To me, it’s worth it. My body has to learn to survive on less. I’m only 5’2”. The BMI chart says I’m healthy at 99lbs! That is very small. Just because I weighed almost double that doesn’t mean I get to eat more.
I really feel like I’m making progress. I have lost 15 lbs total. I am down to 169.4-from 185 at the begining of the month. approx 39 more to go!
A very recent change I have decided to implement is to stop eating late. I have read before that if you are not hungry in the morning, it is because you ate too late the night before. I also noticed that if I was too busy to eat breakfast in the morning, my weight would continue to go down by up to 8 oz between 6 am and 10am-before I ate. Since keeping my metabolism up is important, I concluded that I should stop eating late, so that I can eat breakfast earlier.
I am also happy to discover that I only have to exercise about 35 minutes and I can still lose weight quickly. Probably due to the fact that I eat so little.
Yesterday was the first weekend day I have managed to eat according to my diet plan. I have managed exercising one day on the weekend, before, but never have I kept my calories down on the weekend. The class I’m taking at Kaiser has us record our meals in a log. I used to record mine in a binder, but that made it hard to carry around. This book fits in my pocket or purse. So it is easy for me to journal my meals on my weight loss blog.
Breakfast:
¼ - ½ c oatmeal
w/ ½ tsp butter
w/ ½ tsp sugar
w/ 1/8 c or less milk in the oatmeal
Around 11:00 I went to Gym w/ my whole family! I went on the treadmill for 35 mins or so. I even did 2 cardio intervals and ran on the treadmill for a while. It feels so good to run! That was a goal of mine-to be able to run without it hurting. It feels good now. I am so happy to be able to run. I can currently run for about 2-5 minutes before feeling like an asthmatic and completely getting out of breath. I will make it my goal to increase that! (:
I also did 135 crunches in sets of 20-25 and 8-10 sets of 8-10 reps of leg weight exercises. My stomach can feel that today.
After the gym, we were in the car taking my kids to various activities so I ate a
V8-the small cans have only 30 calories
About 5 dried plums-I love Costco’s dried plums!
We went home and I ate the rest of my salad from a diner on Friday night. My salad consisted of:
1 ½ cups Romaine lettuce
2-3 oz Grilled chicken breast
Freshly squeezed drizzled lemon juice
Herbed seasoning
Big glass of water
I was full, but felt tired, so I ate
1 oz high fiber Barilla plus pasta
And had a
cup of coffee-my first in weeks! With some milk and 1 tsp sugar
My family and I left again to go shopping, and I drank some of my Husbands
lite Arizona Green Tea Pomegranate energy drink-about 35 calories-it tasted great and perked me up.
We were at the mall and I became hungry around 8ish and I shared a
nutrition bar with my daughter 105 calories was ½ of it.
I skipped dinner, since we arrived home at 10:30pm, and my husband began preparing dinner at that time.
I hate to talk about bad stuff, but I’m a realist. Lately, I have been tired and had some headaches. I also can’t seem to hear or focus well. It’s like I need an energy drink almost all of the time. Maybe it’s the congestion I’ve been having, but maybe it’s due to a lack of food…I have begun taking a multi vitamin. I still think the weight loss is worth it. I felt sick and tired and had headaches even when I was eating a lot of food, because I was eating unhealthy foods. To me, it’s worth it. My body has to learn to survive on less. I’m only 5’2”. The BMI chart says I’m healthy at 99lbs! That is very small. Just because I weighed almost double that doesn’t mean I get to eat more.
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