I am a 27 year old mom of 3:
Date Weight Body Fat
June 1 185 41.2%
June 5 181 41.8%
June 7 178.8
June 8 177.8 40.9%
June 9 179.2 40.9%
June 11 178.8 40.7%
June 12 177.2 41%
June 13 176.8
June 14 175.4
June 15 175.4 40.7%
I went back up to 177.something and hovered there until Sunday June 24
June 27 173.0 (Time 9:01am) (:
June 28 173.0 (6am)
June 29 171.8 8am
June 30 169.4 (8am) 40.7% Woo hoo!!!!
July 4th 169.0
July 18 167.something
July 24 166.6 5:30am 39.something bodyfat
August 2 162.4 35.8% body fat night time (night time body fat % is lower; weight on scale is higher)
August 3 3am morning 160.2
August 3 7am 160.0
August 16h 8pm 158.6 33.something body fat
September 9 10:52pm 160lbs 34.something % body fat
November 21 8:26am 149.0 34.0% bodyfat
My Husband is a 39 year old Dad to 3:
June 5 253.2 27%
June 13 248
My Daughter is 12 year old:
June 1 130
June 5 124.4 29.5%
June 11 123 27%
June 14 120lbs
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Thursday June 14th
I want to blog, but I need to get to work, so I'm going to try to be quick. I woke up this morning and my weight is down to 175.something.!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so excited.
I know that yesterday, I skipped breakfast and ate a piece of fruit instead. So today, I haven't eaten breakfast, but have had water with squeezed lemon.
My son and I took a walk for about 35 minutes. I have been incorporating a 3 20 second sessions of cardio everytime I excercize since last week, so I did incorporate running/jogging for about 20 seconds 3 times. I was surprised that it was only 35 minutes long, but figure, that is fine for maintenance.
Today's Food/Excercize log:
In bed, I did some leg lifts. approx 4-5 sets of 15 reps per leg.
Breakfast:
dk green lettuce with egg whites and garlic powder (sounds gross, but the lettuce tastes like spinach. My toddler loves it) I cook this in the microwave with a lid so the veggies can steam.
water with lemon
I Power-walked for 35 mins with my baby in stroller.
-I walk so fast I sweat. I added arm movements today. I also had 3 20 second cardio intervals.
Lunch:
1/2 burrito (see yesterday's recipe)
dk green lettuce
30mins bicycle riding with 2 sons (1 on baby carrier and 1 on his own bike next to me)
Dinner:
I have to admit, I ate too much. I can feel the food in my stomach. Darn. It was the change in routine. I usually cannot eat until late, but it was so hot and I was so busy today that we pushed dinner up earlier, and it was hard for me to quit eating.
I didn't have time to cook dinner and still eat at a reasonable manner. Plus, with the higher cost of fresh produce and food with less preservatives, I have to use things up, so I used leftovers and made a smorgasbord/buffet salad, we had:
leftover enchilada and taco meat, which I mixed,
corn tortillas in olive oil-1 per family member except myself.
Beef Barley vegetable soup
I set out a big bowl of dk green salad
I set out little bowls of:
egg whites
egg yolks
diced salmon
salad mix: it has bacos, soy nuts, sunflower seeds, and some other stuff
pitcher of lemon water
My 2 youngest children made their own
yogurt from organic plain yogurt, berries and honey.
All of my kids ate salad and a taco, except my youngest didn't get a taco, cause my husband ate 2. My daughter ate some of the barley soup.
I ate Approx 3/4 - 1 cup beef barley vegetable soup
2 servings dk green lettuce with egg whites
lemon water
1 cup Green tea with honey
My goal is to get out there and exercise one more time tonight for 30mins to an hour. It is 7:30 now and still quite warm outside. It was misery riding today in the 99 degree sun. Oh well, that's just a part of exercise. You can't let the weather stop you.
I am so excited.
I know that yesterday, I skipped breakfast and ate a piece of fruit instead. So today, I haven't eaten breakfast, but have had water with squeezed lemon.
My son and I took a walk for about 35 minutes. I have been incorporating a 3 20 second sessions of cardio everytime I excercize since last week, so I did incorporate running/jogging for about 20 seconds 3 times. I was surprised that it was only 35 minutes long, but figure, that is fine for maintenance.
Today's Food/Excercize log:
In bed, I did some leg lifts. approx 4-5 sets of 15 reps per leg.
Breakfast:
dk green lettuce with egg whites and garlic powder (sounds gross, but the lettuce tastes like spinach. My toddler loves it) I cook this in the microwave with a lid so the veggies can steam.
water with lemon
I Power-walked for 35 mins with my baby in stroller.
-I walk so fast I sweat. I added arm movements today. I also had 3 20 second cardio intervals.
Lunch:
1/2 burrito (see yesterday's recipe)
dk green lettuce
30mins bicycle riding with 2 sons (1 on baby carrier and 1 on his own bike next to me)
Dinner:
I have to admit, I ate too much. I can feel the food in my stomach. Darn. It was the change in routine. I usually cannot eat until late, but it was so hot and I was so busy today that we pushed dinner up earlier, and it was hard for me to quit eating.
I didn't have time to cook dinner and still eat at a reasonable manner. Plus, with the higher cost of fresh produce and food with less preservatives, I have to use things up, so I used leftovers and made a smorgasbord/buffet salad, we had:
leftover enchilada and taco meat, which I mixed,
corn tortillas in olive oil-1 per family member except myself.
Beef Barley vegetable soup
I set out a big bowl of dk green salad
I set out little bowls of:
egg whites
egg yolks
diced salmon
salad mix: it has bacos, soy nuts, sunflower seeds, and some other stuff
pitcher of lemon water
My 2 youngest children made their own
yogurt from organic plain yogurt, berries and honey.
All of my kids ate salad and a taco, except my youngest didn't get a taco, cause my husband ate 2. My daughter ate some of the barley soup.
I ate Approx 3/4 - 1 cup beef barley vegetable soup
2 servings dk green lettuce with egg whites
lemon water
1 cup Green tea with honey
My goal is to get out there and exercise one more time tonight for 30mins to an hour. It is 7:30 now and still quite warm outside. It was misery riding today in the 99 degree sun. Oh well, that's just a part of exercise. You can't let the weather stop you.
June 13th Wednesday recap
June 14, 2007
I am so excited at my weight loss and energy. This is amazing to me. 2 days ago, I added an extra exercise session to my daily routine. In the morning I took at power walk around my neighborhood, in a different area than usually. I took my baby with me.
Lessons I’ve learned are:
You can’t be perfect, you just have to get out there and move. For example, I don’t worry about matching, looking cute or even wearing exercise clothes. I just make sure I’m wearing something that is comfortable to move in. I also don’t even worry about my hair being too cute. If I didn’t let go of looking cute, I’d never find the time to exercise with 3 kids, a dog, a husband, a business and volunteer work. I believe that once my exercise routines are a habit, I’ll be able to work into my routine looking cute while exercising, but for now, it is best for me to make sure I exercise at all costs.
Another thing, I feel so good when I exercise. My mind is clearer, I’m more focused, and I feel excited about accomplishing tasks. I also feel very thankful towards God when I exercise because I get to marvel in the beauty of all of the trees and flowers and animals that he has created. I also get to be thankful that I live in a nice neighborhood and that it is a safe area to walk around.
Yesterday, I had a busy day, so I didn’t get to eat much: Here is my day:
8am Worked in my home office
During this time, I fed my baby a mini bagel from Trader Joes with small amount of cream cheese and real fruit spread; I was too busy to stop to eat. I did grab a banana to bring with me as well as broccoli in a little zip lock, an orange and a couple of bottles of water to take with me on the field trip. I certainly didn’t want to end up at Taco Bell starving. Plus, I only packed $10 for me and my 2 kids to eat. (I knew the field trip was going to be to Taco Bell and I was very anxious to see what I could do to make healthy choices while surrounded by high calorie, low nutrition foods. I assumed I would eat a bean burrito. And try very hard to limit myself to just one. My eldest is about to graduate 6th grade in a few weeks and my middle child is going to have several end of the year celebrations, so I will be at several school functions with foods like pizza, ice cream, etc.)
9am at my kids’ school by name to chaperone a walking field trip-this was my morning walk.
10am shared a banana with my 2 year ld. I ate most of it.
11am Taco Bell
I ate the broccoli first, before I ordered my food.
I also drank ice water from Taco Bell
I looked up bean burrito calories on the Taco Bell guide and was shocked: it was around 340 calories for 1 burrito. So, I ordered pintos and cheese and a taco. I think each item had around 150. But an amazing thing happened, when I was halfway done with the beans, I felt full. I ate them very slowly and drank lots of water with it. But I couldn’t believe it. To make sure I didn’t eat my son’s burrito-since he has a tendency not to finish food, and I have a tendency to take bites of their foods, I ordered it with onions, I hate Taco Bells onions. And I gave away my taco to one of the kids. I figured, if I’m not hungry, I shouldn’t eat it.
Worked in home office
1:15pm I finished the beans
Worked in home office
2pm I did feel kind of tired/hungry, so I had some green tea with honey
5:45pm I ate a whole orange-man, it tasted good. Food tastes better when you eat to live, rather than living to eat.
Went on bike ride with my 3 kids and my friends’ child. I wanted to see if we could bike to my new favorite fresh food grocery store-Trader Joes, and we could. I also looked to make sure that they had bike racks. The ride there and back was probably at least an hour worth of exercise time.
I have been trying to find ways to incorporate exercise into things I need to do.
8pm Dinner
HM Burritos
HM crock pot pinto beans
carne asada-I only used a small portion of meat, about ½ to 1/3 lbs so there was less meat than beans. I put the meat in the crock pot about halfway through the cooking time. The meat was from Trader Jo’s.
Green Salsa from Trader Jo’s-about ½ bottle in the crock pot
Into the crock pot, I also added:
-A few cloves of garlic,
-1 whole onion
-1 whole bell pepper
Whole wheat tortillas-from Trader Jo’s
I encouraged everyone in the family to add their choice of veggies to their burrito. I used an iceberg romaine salad mixture. It comes prepackaged and is called “Greener selection. My daughter used dark green salad which we also buy prepackaged.
When I was halfway finished with my burrito, I felt full. It was mentally hard not to finish it, because, well I don’t know why. I think because it is a habit to finish food and stuff myself and it tasted good. But I gave the rest to my middle son, who loves to eat and was probably going to get seconds anyway.
I am so excited at my weight loss and energy. This is amazing to me. 2 days ago, I added an extra exercise session to my daily routine. In the morning I took at power walk around my neighborhood, in a different area than usually. I took my baby with me.
Lessons I’ve learned are:
You can’t be perfect, you just have to get out there and move. For example, I don’t worry about matching, looking cute or even wearing exercise clothes. I just make sure I’m wearing something that is comfortable to move in. I also don’t even worry about my hair being too cute. If I didn’t let go of looking cute, I’d never find the time to exercise with 3 kids, a dog, a husband, a business and volunteer work. I believe that once my exercise routines are a habit, I’ll be able to work into my routine looking cute while exercising, but for now, it is best for me to make sure I exercise at all costs.
Another thing, I feel so good when I exercise. My mind is clearer, I’m more focused, and I feel excited about accomplishing tasks. I also feel very thankful towards God when I exercise because I get to marvel in the beauty of all of the trees and flowers and animals that he has created. I also get to be thankful that I live in a nice neighborhood and that it is a safe area to walk around.
Yesterday, I had a busy day, so I didn’t get to eat much: Here is my day:
8am Worked in my home office
During this time, I fed my baby a mini bagel from Trader Joes with small amount of cream cheese and real fruit spread; I was too busy to stop to eat. I did grab a banana to bring with me as well as broccoli in a little zip lock, an orange and a couple of bottles of water to take with me on the field trip. I certainly didn’t want to end up at Taco Bell starving. Plus, I only packed $10 for me and my 2 kids to eat. (I knew the field trip was going to be to Taco Bell and I was very anxious to see what I could do to make healthy choices while surrounded by high calorie, low nutrition foods. I assumed I would eat a bean burrito. And try very hard to limit myself to just one. My eldest is about to graduate 6th grade in a few weeks and my middle child is going to have several end of the year celebrations, so I will be at several school functions with foods like pizza, ice cream, etc.)
9am at my kids’ school by name to chaperone a walking field trip-this was my morning walk.
10am shared a banana with my 2 year ld. I ate most of it.
11am Taco Bell
I ate the broccoli first, before I ordered my food.
I also drank ice water from Taco Bell
I looked up bean burrito calories on the Taco Bell guide and was shocked: it was around 340 calories for 1 burrito. So, I ordered pintos and cheese and a taco. I think each item had around 150. But an amazing thing happened, when I was halfway done with the beans, I felt full. I ate them very slowly and drank lots of water with it. But I couldn’t believe it. To make sure I didn’t eat my son’s burrito-since he has a tendency not to finish food, and I have a tendency to take bites of their foods, I ordered it with onions, I hate Taco Bells onions. And I gave away my taco to one of the kids. I figured, if I’m not hungry, I shouldn’t eat it.
Worked in home office
1:15pm I finished the beans
Worked in home office
2pm I did feel kind of tired/hungry, so I had some green tea with honey
5:45pm I ate a whole orange-man, it tasted good. Food tastes better when you eat to live, rather than living to eat.
Went on bike ride with my 3 kids and my friends’ child. I wanted to see if we could bike to my new favorite fresh food grocery store-Trader Joes, and we could. I also looked to make sure that they had bike racks. The ride there and back was probably at least an hour worth of exercise time.
I have been trying to find ways to incorporate exercise into things I need to do.
8pm Dinner
HM Burritos
HM crock pot pinto beans
carne asada-I only used a small portion of meat, about ½ to 1/3 lbs so there was less meat than beans. I put the meat in the crock pot about halfway through the cooking time. The meat was from Trader Jo’s.
Green Salsa from Trader Jo’s-about ½ bottle in the crock pot
Into the crock pot, I also added:
-A few cloves of garlic,
-1 whole onion
-1 whole bell pepper
Whole wheat tortillas-from Trader Jo’s
I encouraged everyone in the family to add their choice of veggies to their burrito. I used an iceberg romaine salad mixture. It comes prepackaged and is called “Greener selection. My daughter used dark green salad which we also buy prepackaged.
When I was halfway finished with my burrito, I felt full. It was mentally hard not to finish it, because, well I don’t know why. I think because it is a habit to finish food and stuff myself and it tasted good. But I gave the rest to my middle son, who loves to eat and was probably going to get seconds anyway.
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