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Jan 6

Another day another…

I was wide awake at 7 this morning and by 730 I was headed to the gym.  I get there sign in head to the work out room.  All the treadmills are full.  My brain says go home come back later.  But I didn’t listen to that.  I put my stuff in the little cubby hole and headed for the stationary bikes.  I got new ear phones (see previous post) put them in my ears and away I road.  I just thru several songs on the mp3 player and as I rode along I laughed several times at some of my song choices:  I like to move it (which is a fav) Dancing Queen, Whip it, 1 2 step, several Prince songs, Just to name a few. It sunny that all the songs had a happy memory attached to them…made the ride very funny for me.  Then I worked out my core on the machines.  Tried to do an extra rep on each machine.  Figure I will up it every time I go and try to build more muscle.  One day at a time.  SO we will call this a win day at the gym.  Changing up cardio is probably a good idea every once in a while anyway right!

Got home and fried a pound of turkey bacon…No I didn’t eat it all. Only 3 pieces.  It was really good but now I have some for the rest of the week already cooked.  I can have on sandwich’s or salad.  Another win!  Had 3 scrambled egg whites also!

This weekend will be a test for me.  I had an aunt pass away and for as far back as I can remember the family eats when we are all together.  This will be my first test of will power.  I have my mind in the right place so good lord willing I can stay strong on the food front.  The second hardest part is knowing tat my aunt looks just like my mother that dies several years ago.  So it will be an emotional time as well and what happens during emotional times…I have been known to eat.  SO far I am doing good with this.  Like I said before I am luck to have the support group that I have in place this time because failure is not an option.

Busy weekend so I’ll try to blog when I can….Till Next time……

Jan 6

Drink more water

I am bad for this. If it is in front of me I will drink it.  SO I carried a bottle around with me most of the day.  I did better doing that.  Then I got to reading a blogs this evening and I see I am not the only one with this problem.  I came across one blog that had this interesting site  http://nutrition.about.com/library/blwatercalculator.htm it says:

Daily Hydration Calculator Results

A person who is 230 pounds
and is exercising for 40 minutes ,
is not pregnant,
is not breastfeeding,
does not live at a high altitude,
does not live in a dry climate,
drinks 0 alcoholic drink(s),
when the weather is not very hot or very cold,
and is not sick with fever or diarrhea should have:

119 ounces of water today, or 3.6 liters.

If you eat a healthy diet, about 20 percent of your water may come from the foods you eat. If you eat a healthy diet you can drink 95.2 ounces of water today, or 2.9 liters.

Water is an obvious source for your daily fluid needs. Other good beverages include milk, herbal teas, low-sodium broth, 100% fruit and vegetable juices. Soft drinks will also count toward your daily total of fluid, just remember that sugar sweetened soft drinks and fruit juices add extra calories to you daily diet that you don’t need, while drinking water may help you lose weight.

Well being that is what I wanna do…..I am going to drink more water because I need to!

With all of this being said I had dinner with a great friend tonight.  She is also making a lot of changes in her life and instead of our normal Mexican feast we had subway.  was a good choice.  Now the biggy I had spinach on my sandwich.  That’s right miss I am not going to eat that hit it out of the park :0)

Stayed under calories today and I am feeling good.  Parking in the back of the lot and walking a bit further to get to and from work.  Headed to the gym in the am.  Looking forward to it!

Till Next time…..

Jan 3

On the second day of change….

Wow day two and lets just say it was a tough one for me.  It started out really well.  Oat meal for breakfast. a 100 calorie pack for a snack, a salad with walnuts and blackberries for lunch, a couple little rice cakes, and then at 5 I was so hungry I could have chewed my arm off.  I grabbed some gum and that calmed the stomach till I got home at 730.  I gotta figure out a happy medium here for me.  I still have calories and I should have planned lunch different.  Any other day I can have like subway at 2 and not even be hungry really when I get home.

The weather didn’t help either.  It is snowing here so I don’t want to be out and what do I do, I don’t take the highway so I have to drive by like 20 Pizza places on the way home.  I was a good girl….I didnt want to be.  Fail on lunch but pass on driving by the Pizza places.

I still feel good about today I just need to find my happy medium.

On another note I may have a name for the tapeworm.  “Tippo.”  Tippo half tapeworm half hippo! Lol does that make him a hungry hungry hippo?

Till next time….

Jan 2

Day 1

Pretty productive day today. Went to the grocery and got stuff for lunch this week and got healthy snacks. got the laundry done and drank a lot of water today. I got on dads scale that only works half the time so I look forward to going to the gym and using their scale.
I fell good today had around 1100 calories…a little less but close to there. I didn’t feel very hungry today, that is a good thing.
I dug out the lunch box so I can pack tomorrow being I am working all day.
made veggie pasta for dinner. Added some garlic lemon chicken broccoli, cauliflower and carrots,k cooked with a little virgin olive oil. I’m not much of a veggie eater but it was pretty good.
I have decided not to carry anymore then a dollar with me in cash. That way I can’t use the vending machine.
SO mind wise I was good today. I even sat at my dads where the evil fudge brownies live and all the cookies that are still there from Christmas.
I did measure my body this morning. There is a whole lot of opportunity there for me to tone and lose weight. I tend to lose inches more so than weight and I am ok with that as well.
One day at a time and I must say day 1 went pretty well.
Gonna chill out and get ready for my first day back to work for 2012.

Till Next Time….

Dec 29

What would I do if I wasn’t afraid….

As I was talking with a co worker today about things I want to see change in 2012 she asked me a very interesting question……….What would you do if you weren’t afraid? I had no answer at the time but have been thinking about it since then. So here are a few of my thoughts on this:

-If I weren’t afraid of what people thought of me I would let people see the real me.
-if I weren’t afraid of failing I would already have my own studio and be doing what I love to do for myself.
-if I weren’t afraid to share my feelings with people they might actually know me better
-if I weren’t afraid of getting my heart broken I would let people closer to me
-if I weren’t afraid of the unknown I would be able to let go and not always have to know what will happen next.
-if I weren’t afraid of death I could accept the fact that I’m not going to be around forever and start telling people in my life what they mean to me(I have been working on this one)
-if I weren’t afraid of going places by myself I would get to see more things, ex. art museums, parks
-If I weren’t afraid of change I would have already finished school, stuck with my weight loss goals, being big I just kinda blend in stay out of the spot light. So now that I have a plan I’m going to change this :0)

There this is a good start to this list. At least all I’ll bore you with tonight ;0)

Till next time…….