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.