December Weigh In

I started this competition on Sept 1 weighing 241.5 and this morning Dec 1 I weighed in at 216.5 which means 25 pounds lost officially now. :) It wasn't an easy month and I'm sure this month will be even harder but so long as I continue to lose and not gain I will be happy.

Weight Watchers Magazine

I'm just a bloggin' away today. For those of you who follow Weight Watchers, Tanga.com is offering a years subscription to WW Magazine for just $2.99/year. Just thought I'd share because I'm sure there are interested parties besides me. :)

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Of course

I'm always a day late and a dollar short! I posted yesterday that I weighed in for the month at just under 20 pounds lost. This morning I step on the scale and am down to 221.3 which means 20.2 lost now! Yay!

November weigh in

I'm down a total of 18.9 pounds now. I really wanted to hit 20 pounds lost by weigh in but oh well. At least I'm heading in the right direction still. I love wearing clothes I haven't worn in awhile and can really tell a difference in my hips/legs. All of the walking/jogging is definitely paying off. I didn't have even one piece of candy yesterday and if you know me, you know that is a huge feat. I have a sugar addiction like no other but that's probably what got me to where I am today so I told myself none because I'm not sure I could just stop at a piece or two. I had a sugar free chocolate pudding cup with fat free cool whip and didn't feel the least bit deprived. I am looking forward to November and getting down under the 220's.

Sept 1: 241.5
Oct 1: 230.3
Nov 1: 222.6

Food or lack thereof

I'm starting to have to force myself to eat nowadays. I don't know what's up but I'm rarely hungry. I usually have to force myself to eat to make it over 1200 calories. I'm not sleeping well, usually have a headache when I get up, etc. It's probably just the stress catching up to me but I don't like it, not one bit.

I am really enjoying my Nutrition class. We had our second exam this morning and I only missed 1 out of 50 questions. Yay! :) This test was on lipids, proteins, vegetarianism and the digestive system. A few questions I had to make an educated "guess" on but I got them right. I'm learning a lot about health and what your body needs and that has helped keep me on track quite a bit.

I am getting burned out already with my food choices. Maybe that's why I'm not interested in eating much right now. I need to do some searching this weekend for new recipes and meal ideas. If anyone reads this and has a favorite breakfast, lunch or dinner I'd love for you to share with me! :)

Stress :(

My life has been stressful lately to say the least. It's nothing I want to share here but it's something serious and personal. I will say that I haven't turned to food to comfort me and that's a first. I am determined to be healthy and apparently that means nothing is going to stand in my way. I've even stuck with my exercise. Holy cow, what's gotten into me? Usually when life gets hard, exercise is first to go to the wayside and I eat everything and anything in sight.

My son had a birthday this week and of course everyone had cake and ice cream. I didn't even feel deprived by serving everyone and skipping it myself. It's my choice if I want a slice of cake but my will power was stronger than my desire for a sweet treat. I can't explain how awesome that felt.

I haven't had time to read up on this whole picture fiasco. I suppose I should find time to do that this weekend. Did I read that pictures are being required now? Anyone know when those are supposed to be turned in by?

October weigh in

I'm down 11.2 pounds this month. I'll take it!

Ouch

I completed 106 sit ups today and I can feel the burn already. Tomorrow should be interesting but no pain no gain, right?! I will be getting up early and getting 4 miles in tomorrow morn. Three more days until weigh in, gonna make them count!

200 sit ups

Today I am starting the 200 sit ups challenge. I'm a wee bit skeered cause my abs are mush after 3 csections but hopefully this will help tone what's left of the abs I have in there somewhere. If anyone is interested in joining me here's the website: http://twohundredsitups.com/

Tootin' my own horn!

I walked 10.8 miles this week and am down a total of 8 pounds now. I'm proud of myself and the sliding scale continues to fuel my motivation. One day at a time girls. We can and are capable of doing this! :)

It's looking up

Or I guess I should say down. As of this morning I've lost just about 5 pounds! Happy dance.

I wanted to blog this weekend but time just got away from me. My nutrition class is fun and I'm learning quite a bit about what your body really needs to function and the balance of nutrients you should aim for each day. It's been a stressful week but the last thing I want to turn to now is food. Do you know how odd that is for me to say? I'm such an emotional eater but this week I ran from the kitchen.

I'm thinking I should probably go take some pictures before I lose too much so that I have a good before picture. I really don't want to see it though so I've been avoiding the torture.

I hope everyone else had a good weekend. I promise to try and get around to other blogs this week. I commented on a few last week but I need to make it a priority to be supportive of others. I've enjoyed the comments others have left for me here. Thank you! It really does help.

Not so hot

I am not doing well so far. I start out good and do fine throughout the day but after dinner I am a snacking maniac... last night it was ugly. Where do I get the motivation to stay out of the kitchen? I need to make a rule of no eating after 9pm. Old habits are going to be hard to break. *sigh*

Nutrition 10

Tomorrow morning I have my first session in my nutrition class. I am pursuing my RN degree and this class is a required course, it just so happens that I registered for it this semester. Kind of a kawinky dink that this BL challenge came up at the same time! Woot! I hope that I am forced to take a good look at my diet and make necessary, healthy changes. It's time I focused on me and I think this class will help me make that a priority.

I want to make a list of daily/weekly goals and post them here as a visual reminder too. I weigh more now than I ever have in my life, including three pregnancies, and honestly to say that I hate the way I feel and look would be a severe understatement. Changes are going to be made and I know I'll feel so much better both physically and mentally once I get into a routine with exercise and logging the food I shove in my piehole.

I'm off to dust off and pack my backpack and make tomorrows lunches for the littles. I will pack myself a healthy snack to have on campus too, baby carrots sound good...

Welcome to my blog about the journey to a healthier and smaller me. I'm not much of a blogger but I'll give it my best shot. Don't be surprised if I end up blabbing about the cookie crumb I licked from the counter or how much I miss Dryers mint cookie crunch ice cream. Oh how I'll miss thee.