I have a hard time keeping up with blogging. Found a site to host a blog and I can write it on the go. I will be blogging daily about fitnes and food in hopes to lose the last 20 pounds before my 40th bday in January.
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So my mantra for the year has been…”Fit by 40.” My birthday is in January so I have about 3 months till my deadline. I started out at 272 pounds (5′9″). Weighed in today at 192. So 20 pounds to go and 3 months to get to 172. Problem is I have been so off track lately. I was down to 188 and with in about a month I gained almost 5 pounds. I have done this before. I have come really close to my goal only to let it slip away and go back to being fat (and in most cases fatter). I think I might need therapy or something. Where’s Jillian Micheals when I need her? She would yell at me and make me work out hard until I broke down and discovered why I do this to myself. I’ve done the math…13 weeks till my birthday. That’s about a pound and a quarter a week. I know it’s possible to do. For some reason I’ve lost my mojo. I know what I need to do to get there but I am having so much trouble staying on track. The last 20 pounds are going to be a fight!!!
I made a video about my journey with PCOS and weight loss.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEugSir3Emc
Maybe I’m a little wierd. I have always liked collar bones. I think on a woman they look really pretty framing the neck. So, for so long I didn’t have any. I had them but they were coverd with my fat. Now after 80 something pounds I can see them. I noticed them in a photo that someone took of me. No one but my Buddy Slim friends can appreciate the fact that I can see my collar bones. (Skinny people don’t get it.) It’s the little things like seeing your collar bones or shopping for clothes in the “regular” department stores that keeps me plugging along on my weight loss journey. Thanks for letting me share!
So many people ask me…What is Crossfit? Is it for anyone? Can I do it?
CROSSFIT IS…
a way of life
blisters on my hands
sweat and tears
sore muscles
a daily challenge
helping me reach my goals
making me see myself in a whole new light…
I love my Crossfit family and look forward to working out every day.
Check out the website http://www.crossfit.com/ and see if there is a Crossfit gym in your area.
Well I have been using my bodybugg for 3 straight days. I wanted to report in about what I like and don’t like about it so far.
We all know that calories in and calories out are really the simple bottom line when it comes to weight loss. Well, the Bodybugg is the perfect tool for keeping track of it all. I put the Bodybugg on my arm in the morning. It automatically starts to monitor me. Throughout the day I input my calories consumed on the bodybugg website. This has been pretty easy as most of the stuff I eat is already in a huge data base and easy to find. Only a couple of items have not been there and I had to enter them manually. But now they are there for good so it it really easy. At the end of the day I plug my bodybugg into my computer and it downloads my calorie burn into the information. Then it shows me how many calories I have consumed and burned. Each day so far I have had a deficit of calories…which is the point. One day I plugged in and there was not a deficit. So I put the arm band back on and went for a walk/jog on my treadmill. When I plugged back in I was right on track.
When I started the program I inputed a bunch of things like weight, height, body fat. Then I set some goals. If I keep a deficit going like I am then I will hit my goal of 165 by mid May. My only negative comment is that there is no display on the device to see your calories burned as you work out. They want you to buy an addition watch ($79) which you are able to see the calories as they happen. What is cool is that when I plug in my calories burned the display comes up as a graph. I can see the times I was most active like working out and cleaning the house. They show up as a really high spike on the graph. Also noticed that when I work out in the a.m. my rate of burn throughout the rest of the day is generally higher then when I don’t workout in the morning. Interesting and fun. Really keeping me on track. So save your money because at $179 (Costco.com, comes with a year website subscription) it’s not cheap. But I think I will be the tool that helps me get the last 30 pounds off.
Just wondering if anyone here uses a Bodybugg? If so, what are your likes and dislikes about it? Santa is bringing me one for Christmas.
Thanks
I notice a lot of people blogging about what they eat and I love to read them. I am always curious of how others eat and what they eat. But I have noticed a pattern. Many people are eating low calories. Which of course is a good thing when trying to lose weight. But when I read “what” they are actually eating it all makes sense why the weight is not coming off. A low 2,000 calorie diet rich in Koolaid, pasta and Twinkies is not going to get the same results as 2,000 calories of fresh clean food. Yes it’s low in calories…but what are you doing to your body?
My car is supossed to run on premium gas only. I can put regular gas in it. But it will run terrible and not get good gas milage. Not to mention the fuel lines will start to get clogged up and it won’t run effieciently. The same is true for your body. The better quality food you put into your body the better return on your health you will get.
Try to eat fresh foods. My rules are as follows…
Nothing from a box, can or a bag. As much organic as possible (especially the things you eat the most of.) If it has too many ingedients or you can’t pronounce some of the words…don’t buy it! Try to get back to food in it’s purest form. I lost my first 40 pounds just by switching out all my bad stuff for fresh foods and organics. Try to make these changes to your food choices and you will see the results on the scale.
Work out as hard as you can. That’s what I try to do every time I go to the gym. If I am going to pack my kids up and drive there. Then I am going to make every minute of my hour+ count.
I met a lady at the gym. She says that she has seen me working out. Asked me a bunch of questions about how much weight I have lost. Every one wants to know my secret recipe. Then she begins to tell me she has been coming for 6 months and hasn’t lost any weight. “There must be something wrong with me,” she says. I said in a nice-ish way…”if you eat too much food and work out while reading a magazine, then that is pretty much what you are to expect from your weight loss.” (Mind you this is an able bodied 30 something lady whom I see quite often so I know what she is doing , or not doing, at the gym.) So we part our seperate ways and I think she will pretty much hate me for my brutal honesty. Well, 2 days later she came up to me. She said…”Thanks for what you told me the other day.” I really am eating too much and I hate working out so I don’t try very hard.” She informed me she is keeping a food journal and leaves the magazines at home.
So…put the magazine, or book, or text messaging down while working out. You should be too sweaty and out of breath for that kind of nonsense. That is part of the recipe for weight loss.
Friends ask me all the time, what I eat on a typical day. I thought I’d share. I try to eat “Clean.”
Here are some of the main rules I try to follow…
1. Organic almost always especially on the things I/we eat the most of!
2. NO or minimal processing (nothing out of a can, box or bag when possible)
3. Don’t eat ANYTHING white! Whole grain, sweet potatoes and brown rice.
4. If I can’t pronounce an ingredient on a label, I don’t eat it.
5. Food shoud not have more than 5 ingredients in most cases.
6. No soda…ever…not even diet!
This is what I ate on Monday…
Breakfast:
Ezekiel Bread toasted with organic almond butter
1 organic hard boiled egg
coffee
Snack: raw nuts
Lunch:
Salad
Organic baby spinach, almonds, cucumbers with boiled organic chicken breast.
Balsamic vinager dressing.
Tea
Snack:
fruit (organic Fugi apple with a tbsp of organic peanut butter)
Dinner:
6 oz organic New York strip
2 cups of organic green beans
1 cup of organic sweet potatoes
after dinner I ate about 6 little tangerines.
I drink a ton of water throughout the day.
I work out at least an hour sometimes more about 5-6 days a week.
I lost my first 45 pounds just adhering to this type of diet. I only added exercise to the equation in March.
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