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Well I had gotten off track for about a week and a half. It started with finding out I was pregnant and I decided to try and lose 1lb a week instead of 2lbs a week which was a mistake. I stayed on track with calories but was lacking in exercise and I gained weight. Then my husband Jimmy got sick and was in the hospital and I didn't pay attention at all to what I was eating. When I weight myself yesterday I couldn't believe how much I had gained.

So yesterday I decided to get back on track. Then Jimmy's boss showed up at our house and laid Jimmy off. Jimmy had only been out of the hospital for 14hrs but I guess it couldn't wait. Our future is a huge question mark right now. I know that God will take care of us and provide for us but the not knowing what the future holds is hard. I want to stay home with my children and I came to the realization a couple months ago I was going to have to work part time at some point which is why I have plans to start school in April. But now I may have to work full time and it breaks my heart to think about being away from my babies that much.

Anyway I stayed on track yesterday and exercised as well. This morning I had lost half of what I had gained back so hopefully the rest will come back off just as easily. Today I've been upset a lot but I'm staying on track. I'm not going to let it get the better of me. God is on my side and he will see me through.

Change of Plans!

As most of you know by now I'm pregnant! So going to be changing things up a bit. My goals are going to have to change. First I'm going to try to lose 1lb a week in stead of 2lbs a week. Also I'm going to slow down on the running and will not be doing a 5k at the end of summer as I will be 7 months pregnant.

I've already been slacking on my exercise in the last week partly because I was sick with a bug for three days and partly because I've been using being pregnant as an excuse. But I realized I need to keep going. I don't want to gain the weight back and I'm plenty big enough that it will not hurt the baby if I lose weight.

No more excuses! I'm going to exercise today even though I feel bloated and my husband is sick on the couch. No more excuses!

weigh in and struggles

I've had a difficult week this week. I had many challenges and I can't say I was successful with them all. The last three days have been very busy. And I had many meals away from home. At times I made some good choices and other times I did not. I went over my calories on Sunday by quite a bit.

One on the reasons I went over Sunday was because I didn't do any exercise Saturday or Sunday. Yesterday I didn't make the best choices either but I did 45 minutes of exercise so I was able to stay within my calories.

When I get a little down is when I make the bad decisions. I'm going through some things physically and I could use some prayer over the next few days that things turn out OK. Also pray that I don't allow this to throw me off track anymore.

This week was not my best. I weighed in at  281lbs so I lost 2lbs this week. I'm happy with this loss because any loss is good and 2lbs is my goal every week. However I'm also disappointed in myself because I know I could have done better but today is a new day and I'm back on track.

lost since Sept. 2012    34lbs
lost since Feb. 5th     18lbs 
to go to first goal    8lbs
to go    101lbs

Weigh In Week 3

There isn't a bunch to said today other than I'm still battling a cold and it doesn't seem to have an end in site. Also although I had trouble a couple days early in the week with wanting to eat everything I got over it and had a great week. This morning I weighed in at 283lbs.

I've lost...
-5lbs this week
-16lbs in three weeks
-32lbs since September 1st, 2012
103lbs to go

Challenges Of Going Out To Eat

When going out to eat I always check the nutrition information on the Internet at home before I leave the house. I do this because I don't want to be shocked by the amount of calories in something when I get home and put it in my dairy. This also helps me plan ahead so I make sure I stay within my calories for the day. But sometimes it doesn't always work.

I knew we were going to Ruby Tuesday's for Lunch today so I went to there website so I could plan my meal in advance. They only provide nutrition information on a few lower calorie meals so if I wanted steak and potatoes I guess I would be out of luck. I picked a meal from there lower calorie menu and logged it in my food dairy before I left.

When I looked at the menu the shrimp scampi I had picked wasn't even on the menu. I asked the waiter and he said for as long as he has been there they have never had it. This was very frustrating to me. Luckily they had a few things on the menu that had the calories next to them. In my opinion there website should provide calories for all of there meals even if there 3000 calories because we have every right to know this information. I shouldn't have to ask a waiter for there nutrition information.

I ended up ordering the spaghetti squash marinara and it was amazing and only 260 calories.This was my first time eating spaghetti squash and I highly recommend you try it. I also order grilled asparagus and it was yummy also at 74 calories. I had half of each and the other half for dinner tonight. When I was there I also had three garlic biscuits that totalled 330 calories. I know that's a lot but they are so yummy and I just couldn't help it. No worries I will still be well within my calories for today.

ZUMBA!!!!



 

Just finished my first Zumba workout! I spent about 15 minutes just trying to learn a few moves as there are a bunch. I was already sweating worst than I do when I do my walking video so then I decide I better just try it. I no where near perfected it but I sweat my butt off. I'm still sweating 15 minutes later.

 

Our XBOX 360 got the red ring of death this morning and since we recently got out taxes back we decided to buy an XBOX 360 with KINECT. I wanted the Zumba fitness Rush game so I would have more options for my work outs. I think Zumba is my new favorite exercise! It is the hardest exercise I've tried by far but doesn't seem near as daunting. It is going to take me a while to get the moves down but it's a ton of fun.

 

Me after my workout holding my new game.

 

The game has a lot of different options. You can do a single song, a short class, medium class, or a long class and there are a lot of different songs to choose from. At the end of the song or class it tells you how many calories you burned. I love that there is no clock because when I'm on the treadmill I'm just going for a time. Dancing is so much more fun and time seemed to go by a lot faster because you have to concentrate so hard on what your doing. Even though Sunday is my day off I think I'm going to do Zumba anyway!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





The Honeymoon Is Over

The honeymoon is over and no I'm not referring to my husband. The newness of trying to loss weight is gone and it is becoming more difficult to fight my cravings. I'm still doing fine, I haven't fallen off the wagon. I'm still keeping track of my calories and exercising.

Part of the problem is I weigh myself everyday and I need to stop because it gets me discouraged. Yesterday I was happy with the scale and today I am not. I will try my hardest to not weigh myself again until Tuesday morning.

Another problem is I'm wanting to eat things that are not healthy and there is no way they would satisfy my hunger if I stayed within my calories while eating them. I had a ice cream bar today and although it tasted yummy I should have had something more filling for the calories because I'm starving right now and I'm out of calories for the day.

I planned on exercising 45 minutes today because I taught I needed to up my game. So around 5pm I started my walking video and 8 minutes in we had an unexpected visitor (my husbands uncle whom I had never met). So that cut 7 minutes off right there. Although I felt rude, after visiting awhile, I went down stairs to exercise. I went ahead and exercised when he was here because I knew if I waited any longer I wouldn't get my workout in and I'm already starting to have issues with staying motivated. I planned on doing 20 minutes but by 8 minutes my legs hurt really bad so I pushed and made it to 12 minutes. Then I got on the bike and did 5 minutes with my legs burning the whole time. So I only worked out for 25 minutes today. I'm not sure why all of the sudden my legs hurt so bad. Maybe it was because I did the walking video first and that is the first time I tried to do both in the same day. Hopefully next time I get on the treadmill my legs won't hurt as bad.

Even though the honeymoon is over I'm going to keep going. I'm not giving up! I will not go back!