Day 98 Insanity!! (& Weekly Weigh In)

Ok so my title isn't talking about me going insane (although with school I'm halfway there), I'm talking about the workout Insanity.  Have you seen this workout? It's the one that touts that you can lose a year's worth of weight in 2 months.  But seriously, have you SEEN this workout?  My husband & I were watching the infomercial yesterday & I was like "Ok, NO obese person can even DO this workout".  He said "Well you could do a version of it until you get better at it".  And I guess that's true, I guess you could work your way up to some of those exercises, but DANG they look soo hard.  I mean when you're using your body for resistance and you weigh 250 lbs or more, that's a LOT of resistance.  I mean I can't even do ONE regular push up so I know for sure I wouldn't be able to do half of those things in that video.  Still though, a year's worth of weight loss in 2 months sounds pretty good.  I would definitely say that workout video is NOT for me, although it would be great for my hubs who is already halfway to buff.  Speaking of my gorgeous hubs, we had a date night on Friday & I have some pics of the two of us :)  Wanna see? 



That's my hubs on the right, as you can see we I LOVE for us to match :)

This is my favorite pic, I wish I hadn't of cut half of my hubs' face off!

NOT my hubs ;)

 

 



This was such a fun night.  There is this band that comes every year and they play old school jams & we go & dance & just have such a great time.  I wish we had stuff like that more often. 

Anyhoo, time for my weekly weigh in.  I cannot believe it's been almost 100 days & yet I am still stuck around the same weight I've been.  This morning I was at 270.  It's that TOM so I expected to be up a little bit, plus of course I just haven't been as vigilant as I know I need to be, so this week was up some.  Looking at the fact that it's been almost 100 days really put into my mind how much time I've wasted these past few weeks.  100 days means I only have 265 days left of my self imposed 100 lb challenge!  I'm not going to beat myself up b/c that's not why I started this journey, but I am going to get back on my blogs & start reading more & getting some more inspiration. 

But for now this is where I am, 270 lbs. 

Hope everyone else is doing good!! 




Previous weight 268
Current weight 270
+ 2  lb
Total weight loss to date
-14 lbs

Day 15 Struggling...

Do you ever just have one of those days where you just want to eat everything!!!!!!  Well today has totally been one of those days.  Acutally when I think about it, yesterday was one too.  Fortunately yesterday I was able to control myself.  I only ate 1525 calories & I even managed to get in some exercise, and just to prove it here's a scary sweaty picture of me & my baby girl after we had done 20 minutes of a low impact aerobics workout we found on youtube.  :)

 

 

 

According to MFP (My Fitness Pal) that activity burned 204 calories, therefore my net calories were 1321.  I love seeing the difference that exercise can make.  And I'll be honest, I love knowing that I have the extra calories there IF I want them.  Of course, last night I didn't but whew, tonight may be a different story! Right now it's only 5:21 pm & I only have 503 calories left!! Of course if I do that workout again then I'll have 707 calories left.  I have to admit, I feel like I'm getting a little obssessed with counting these calories, in a good way, not in a crazy way.  I love the feeling I get from knowing that I am in control of how many calories I am putting into my body.  Even when I WANT to go crazy (like today) I still measured & tracked my calories.  I don't know what is up with today, I guess it's probably the weather.  It's NASTY out today, it's rainy & cold & I guess I just feel like bundling up & eating everything in sight!!  But, so far I've restrained myself.  I'm supposed to make pork chops & rice for dinner, but just one serving of that has 413 calories so I'm thinking maybe I'll just stick with pork chops & veggies.  I have a great recipe I'm going to try called buffalo cauliflower bites, & they're very low in calories so I'm excited about that.  I'll make sure to take a pic & post it on here tomorrow.  But for now I'll leave you with my food log from yesterday. 


Breakfast:

Liquid Egg Whites
Piece of turkey

Calories 75

Lunch:

2 Tostadas

Calories 255

Dinner:

Cabbage Casserole over rice (recipe from Katie)

Calories 485

Snacks:

SF Cherry Jello
Flour tortilla w/light mayo & turkey breast
80/20 Hamburger patty w/ketchup
Banana with 1 T. peanut butter (SO delish btw)
2 Ritz crackers

Calories 710

8 glasses of water
20 minutes of aerobic exercise -204 calories

Total calories 1525 minus aerobics 1321

Ok, well I hope you guys are having a better day than I am!!!


Blessings,

Day 8, football & Cougar Town...

Yesterday was another great day. I had a total of 1623 calories, which was 177 less than my max amount. Very happy about that, especially when I was able to include this into my day (or rather, very late night)

Medium caramel mocha coffee

Since you probably already know (or maybe you're not a sport's fan, so you don't know) my team won the National Championship AGAIN last night! Woowoo!!  Back to back baby #15, Roll Tide!!!

 

 

So, being from Alabama & living only an hour or so away from my hometown of Huntsville, my hubby decided that he just HAD to have the championship hat LAST NIGHT, which led to an impromptu road trip at oh about 9:45 last night.  My bargain was that if I road with him that he had to buy me a coffee.  That of course led to me scouring McDonald's website to see just what coffee I could fit into the calories that I had left.  And since I had quite a few, I could have gotten several different choices, but I settled on this one, knowing that I would have to drive the hour back from getting the hat & would need the caffeine, & also that I didn't want to go too crazy.  I have to say, it was quite yummy.  And I even had enough calories left over to get the whole milk version :)  Yay me.  I'm not really big into fat free stuff.  I go by the whole calories in/calories out thing, so if I have enough calories left to indulge in the whole milk version, then by gosh that's what I'm getting.

 

All in all it was a good day.  I wasn't hungry & I even got in all of my water, which I have now started tracking as well.  Now if I can just incorporate some exercise!  Do you think hours of playing this on my phone counts??

 

 

 

I'm addicted to it! 

 

And lastly, even though I know this isn't about weight loss, tonight is the premiere Episode of Cougar Town on its new channel!!!!!

 

 

 

 





 

 

Woohoo!! I LOVES me some Jewels & gang.  That show is so fun & upbeat.  I love happy stuff.  Happy movies are my favorite movies, they put me in such a good mood & I love this show for the same reason.  Plus, I mean how hot is 48 year old Courtney Cox!! I mean seriously, THAT is how I wnat to look when I'm 48, and dangit I plan on it!! 



Hope everyone is having a fantabulous week!!


***Update***

I decided to actually get some exercise instead of just SAYING that I needed to.  So I went for a bike ride & this was the result:

 

 

I ended up burning 216 calories, which isn't that many, but it's better than zero right?!  That's just one step in the right direction people.  :)

 



December 24, 2012

 
Ok I'll admit it, today was pretty rough. It really didn't start out that way. I had a Sonic deluxe burger w/mustard instead of mayo for lunch which was only 195 calories, then I came home from shopping & had a ham sandwich w/a little mayo & about 5 potato chips.







But dinner, whew wee, and we didn't even have a traditional Christmas dinner either, but boy did I feel STUFFED afterwards. Instead of the usual holiday fare our my sister & I decided to do soups. Her hasband made chili & I made taco soup. Now the calories in both of these are actually probably not that bad, they're probably quite good. Buuuuut, you add on the brownies and sweet tea to it & it probably wasn't so good.



I know I could have forgone the brownies, but honestly I just didn't want to. I am giving myself free reign for the next two days, but I did learn something. Tonight after dinner I was so miserable. I was so full and that feeling is so yuck. I have actually been loving the feeling I've had for the last week. It's a feeling of being satisfied but not stuffed. Not miserable. Not bloated. I have to say I like the other feeling better.

Here are some pictures from the party:

I can't wait to compare these to next year's pics!

Normally I would have my sister crop my stomach out, but I knew these would be good "before" pics

Tomorrow we go to my inlaws where there WILL be the traditional fare and though I am looking forward to it, I am going to make a goal to only eat until satisfied, NOT stuffed. I am going to take smaller portions of the things I want & forgo the things I don't want, not eat them just because they're there. I guess my goal for this week is just to maintain my 3 lb weight loss. That shouldn't be too hard seeing as I'm only giving myself 2 free days right?

I guess we'll see next Sunday.

Well, I hope that everyone has a very blessed & Merry Christmas. I am very excited about one special gift my sister gave me tonight and actually I'm thinking a little angel may have put a bug in her ear, because she bought me the book Reshaping it All by Candace Cameron Bure.



Not only is Candace a wonderful Christian role model, but this book is all about living your best, healthy life. I mean seriously, this book came at the perfect time. And the thing is, I hadn't even told my sister that I was embarking on this journey. Just the Lord moving in His mysterious ways. I can't wait to start reading it. I'll think I'll do that on the way to my inlaws tomorrw, that's a good 2 hour drive.

Ok, I'm off to play Santa & try to get some sleep before my baby girl wakes me up at the crack of dawn to open her gifts!!

Merry Chirstmas everyone.

December 19, 2012 (First set of pictures)

So yesterday was my first day of eating 1800 calories (I actually ate 1745 calories).  I weighed in at 283 lbs & I am going to take my measurements today.  I asked my hubby to take some "before" pictures of me & I can't believe I am going to share them, but I am.  You know what's funny?  When I look at those pictures I don't really think I look all that big.  Tiffany & I definitely have that in common.  I've never think I "look" big.  I know I AM big, but in my mind's eye I am smaller than what I actually look like.  When I look at these pictures I think the biggest thing that stands out is my lower stomach.  It is so big and hangs so low.  I'd have to say that that is my most hated part of my body, not that I hate myself by any means, I just hate that part of my stomach.  I am apple shaped & my stomach is where I gain/carry all of my excess weight.  The rest of my body is pretty porportioned.  Needless to say I would NEVER go out of the house showing what I'm showing in these pictures, but if it will encourage someone else, I am willing to do it!! So here goes my first before pics:





283 lbs. and yes I was tempted to suck in for vanities sake, but I refrained! Sizes are 24 for pants & XXXL (some XXL) for shirts.



 

I guess I could have actually smiled, but I felt a little silly taking these pictures in the first place.

Don't know why I can't make this pic the same size as the others!

 

 

Can you see the apple! I sure can.


 

So I started to track my calories using a notebook, but instead I thought I'd come into the 21st century & downloaded the app "MyFitnessPal" to my phone.  I am able to look up foods & just plug them into my daily food diary.  What I like about this better than the old written journal is that if I'm out to eat #1. I know how many calories I have left for the day & I can look the foods up immediately to know what will fit into my daily caloric schedule.  I think that's pretty nifty.  And #2 it tracks my weight & also deducts any exercise from "net" caloric intake & shows my weight loss (when I start to have one) on a cool graph.  All in all I like the app & I don't have to carry around my notebook. 

 

You want to know what I ate yesterday?  Well let me just pull it up on my phone & let you know :)

 

Breakfast:

1/2 c. oatmeal

1 boiled egg

220 calories

 

Lunch:

Beef bologna sandwich w/light Miracle Whip, mustard & pickles

1 pickle

245 calories

 

Dinner:

Beef stroganoff (homemade)

1/4 cup salad (It was all I had left)

1 tbsp Ranch dressing

580 calories

 

Snacks:

1 boiled egg

1/2 c. Vanilla Spice Eggnog

1 container of Great Value mixed tropical fruit

1 cup Frosted mini wheats w/1 cup milk

700 calories

 

Of course the snacks were throughout the day.  I am a big sucker for cereal at night.  I guess I just need to get a lower calorie type of cereal :)  All in all I did pretty good as far as calories were concerened.  Another cool thing about this app is that it breaks down the food into carbs/protein/fat & here was my breakdown for yesterday:

 

49% carbs

37% fat

14% protein

 

I'm thinking maybe I need to round that out a bit, but hey I'm new at this, I'm sure it will get better. 

 

Hope you're having a great day!!