November 2, 2009 by Christy
Well it is Monday again and that means it is time to hit the scale. I hopped on this morning and to my surprise it said 216!! Woohoo! That means down two pounds from last week. I did try harder a few days this week but then again some days I was completely off. Saturday was not too bad of a day. I wore the bodybugg the whole day and burned over 3300 calories. Sunday was another good day. I was on plan 95% of the day. We had a healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner. I made sheppard’s pie for dinner and it was fantastic. The husband did not even notice that I replaced 1/2 of the ground beef with 1/2 ground turkey breast. It was tasty. I also made some of Roni’s Chocolate Cookie Bites. Holy CRAP they are good. I highly recommend them for anyone that does not want to give up chocolate while they are eating healthy.
Oh I forgot to tell ya that we went shopping and picked up a bunch of healthy stuff. We are not tossing the unhealthy stuff but just working in more healthy stuff into our meals. This definitely helped my meal planning this weekend. We have salmon and healthy meatloaf on the menu this week.
Keep your fingers crossed that this is another good week for me. I will blog when I can. It is pretty busy so blogging is not always an option. But I am tracking my food and wearing the bodybugg.
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October 28, 2009 by Christy
Okay. So it is super hard to blog these days. I cannot access the bodybugg site or WordPress (my blog) at work…so I am falling behind. This past Monday I weighed in and found I was down 3 pounds. Although I want to jump up and down I realize I have a LONG journey ahead of me.
Today I sat down and looked back over some blog posts during my most successful period of weight loss. I used that to help create my grocery list for my next trip to the store. In all honesty I seriously have to start cracking down. Today I was getting ready and planned on dressing kind of casual for work. I was completely bummed when I realized that I only had 1 pair of jeans that fit well enough to wear in public. That really pi$$ed me off! Not to mention I felt like an UBER fat kid. So I took an immediate step away from the hypothetical table and had a talk with myself.
So…my grocery list is made and my gym bag will be packed. I will only be able to hit the gym 2-3 times next week and it will only be for walking on the treadmill, using the bike or elliptical but at least I am headed in the right direction. 1 pound a week is not hard but it is going to require some damn commitment on my part.
Here is a graph of the calories I burned last week on program:
Today’s food journal:
- Zone Bar (210 cal) and coffee (190 cal)
- pkg ramen noodles (580 cal) 2% milk w/ chocolate syrup (544 cal)
- Dinner: 4 oz chicken breast (187 cal), 2 cups broccoli (62 cal), 8 oz baked potato
So far this is just over 1900 calories for today. I made some bad choices before I had my little talk with myself…but once I saw what I was doing I got back on board and made a healthy dinner. Tomorrow should be a busy day for me so I am definitely glad to have the bodybugg on all day. I work 13 hours straight tomorrow. I will take my lunch and a light dinner to work and then probably have some popcorn when I get home.
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October 23, 2009 by Christy
Still here…somehow I am hanging on. I made a semi-good choice in the past few days that the ‘average fat kid’ would not have been able to pass up. Here is my food for since Tuesday…
Tuesday’s food
Breakfast
½ cup dry oats
1 cup water
½ cup applesauce
2T Parkey butter spray
AM Snack
Clementine
2 fun size 3 Muskateers
1 small pkg Nerds
Lunch
1 white hamburger bun
1 pcs American cheese
¾ cup sloppy joes
8-10 onion rings
PM Snack
4 pretzel rods w/ hot sauce
Dinner
2 cups green salad
½ cup tomato
2T fresh parmesan cheese
5 oz chicken breast
4T light sweet onion dressing
½ cup croutons
2 cups broccoli (baked)
3/4 cup carrot sticks (baked)
10 oz ginger ale soda
Late Snack
1 slice of Sicilian pizza (1/8 of pizza)
Thursday’s food
Breakfast
2 cups strawberry frosted mini wheats
12 oz 2% milk
17 oz cappuccino
AM Snack
slim Jim Beef Jerky – 150 calories
Lunch
chicken (canned) – 70 calories
rice -210 cal
frozen broccoli w/ cheese (green giant lite) 60 calories
fruit cup – 70 calories
Dinner
Macaroni Grill – small Caesar with 2T dressing, bread, 1 order lobster ravioli
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So I hopped on the scale this morning only to find that it read 216. This makes me think this weeks results are not going to be too accurate. There is no WAY that I lost 5 pounds in a week without much effort. But I have to tell ya that it is motivating. I am guessing that I was water logged or full of stomach materials (if ya know what I mean). Anyway Monday I will have the ‘official’ weigh in and will be able to see if I was able to hold the 216 that I have today. I know I have not completely tracked everything calorie wise. I cannot access the bodybugg site from work because it is websensed…SO…I try to do it when I get home but I never make it.
Friday’s food
Breakfast
½ cup dry oats
1 cup water
½ cup applesauce
2T Parkey butter spray
**I did not eat all of this because I was not hungry.
AM Snack
2 clementines
Lunch (from our cafeteria)
Cheeseburger
Chili cheese fries
1 Fun Size 3 Muskateer
Dinner (planned)
Salmon
Starch of some sort (couscous or potato)
Veggie
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October 21, 2009 by Christy
These past two days I was fairly on track. I did have a few slip ups here and there but I still think I was still able to make some progress these first three days back on track.
I have started planning my meals at least for the day each morning. I have not gotten back to the point where I plan a week of meals at a time.
On a positive note I think I am getting a lot of sleep these days. I have been fairly sleepy lately and ready to go to bed around 9-9:30 each night. I am drinking plenty of water each day and going out of my way to work in a little extra walking or moving.
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October 19, 2009 by Christy
Breakfast
- bagel
- 1T cream cheese
- 1 egg
- 3 pcs light bacon
- coffee w/ creamer and sugar
Lunch
- chili (home made) 1.5 cups
- 3T shredded mexican blend cheese
- 15-20 blue tortilla chips
- 2T spinach dip
Afternoon snack
- 1 fun size milky way
- 2 small boxes Nerds
- Plum
- 40 goldfish crackers
Dinner
- Chicken Breast (small)
- 2T cream cheese
- 2 pcs bacon
- 1/2 c green peas
- 1 baked potato (fist size)
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October 19, 2009 by Christy
Yup, it happened. I lost more motivation and then I dropped out of the blogmosphere. I have been thinking about eating healthy and getting back on track for a couple of weeks now. I just have not done anything about it. Well yesterday I had a fairly good trip to the grocery store and picked up lots of healthy stuff. I had a good chat with the husband about eating healthy and eating at home instead of going out. This morning I got up and made my lunch and breakfast then put the bodybugg back on. I have to watch my workouts though because I hurt my back at work somehow. I am on a muscle relaxer and anti-inflammatories. I might be able to get in some walking as long as I watch my impact.
Either way I am going to start eating healthy again. I have to say I was VERY disappointed when I got on the scale yesterday. I am sitting at 221 pounds. I cannot believe it. I wanted to throw up! I have a holiday ball on 18 December and I want to fit into a ball gown that I wore 20 pounds ago. I have some serious work to do. My heart is in the right place. I have ambitions to do great things but I just never seem to execute them like I want too. I have to kick the lazy bug out of me and get moving. I am probably going to revamp my bodybugg program. I need to look back at my menu’s and start creating menus for the week again. My best efforts and results were when I blogged, planned and worked out.
I want to thank Lola…she was the one person that sent me a message telling me to come back. When I saw it the other day I KNEW I had to come back and get healthy.
I have to admit that I might have be too busy to blog EVERY day but I will be here 3-4 times a week. My goal is to blog everyday that I work. But with school, work, house stuff, the husband AND the jewelry business I am a little strapped for time. But hopefully that means I also have too little time to snack
Next Monday we will have to see where the numbers fall. If I remember I will post my food tonight, otherwise it will be posted tomorrow.
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September 8, 2009 by Christy
So, in my half hearted efforts this past week I managed to stay the same on the scale. I guess that is a good thing, right. Not to mention this is the week before TOM so the ball was not in my court to start with.
I have just been busy lately and that is not helping my healthy efforts. I have recently taken on a hobby that has a potential income. I have decided to be a lia sophia (ls) jewelry salesperson. I will host shows and sell directly to the customers. Or the customers can skip the show and do a catalog ’show’. This just means they pass around the catalog/order form and don’t meet up for a party. Either way they do not have to go to a store. It is kind of like being an Avon or Pampered Chef rep…except that it is ALL about jewelry
I love jewelry
Can’t ya tell?
Don’t worry though. I will bounce back and get on track again. I need motivation and I am just not finding it. Maybe going back to the gym will help. I always felt good (and tired) when I did the gym.
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September 3, 2009 by Christy
Man how time flies! I did remember to weigh in on Tuesday but then I did not have time to update my blog. Sorry about that. I am at 212 so that is -1. Not much but it works.
I am off work Friday – Monday so I don’t know how great my loss will be this week. I seem to have been so busy with work and school that at one point I released the only way I was going to have anything to eat was by eating at McDonalds. The good news is that I did not order the super-duper largest size possible. I had a regular size meal and was proud of myself for making a good choice.
Anyways I have to get back to work…but I had released I had not blogged in a while and I did not want anyone thinking I had bailed
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August 31, 2009 by Christy
Belive it or not…I was so excited to tell my co-workers about my new car that I forgot to weigh in this morning. Don’t worry though. I will do it in the morning. I ate a lot of salty things yesterday so it might do me some good to wait another day anyways.
So today has been a 80:20 day of eating. So far I have been 80% good and 20% bad. I had a green monster smoothie (1 c spinach, 1/2 c canned peaches, 8 raspberries, 5 frozen nonsweetened cherries, 1 c skim milk) and some plain pancakes. Unfortunately this barely kept me full for 2 hours. I held out until around 10am and then I had a serving of goldfish crackers as a snack. Lunch was 3/4 of a single serving bag pf Ruffles chips and a lean cuisine meal. Wouldn’t you know it….two hours later I am hungry again. I have some veggies that I can heat up in a bit to calm my hunger. I don’t know what I will make for dinner tonight. We have some fish or pasta that I can make. nothing planned…that could be bad. But I know that I want something NOT salty so that my weigh in goes well.
Anyways…I will update tonight or tomorrow morning. For now…back to work and maybe sneak in some homework if I have some down time.
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August 29, 2009 by Christy
…and put a down payment on a new Volvo today!!! I am so excited about it. Here is what we are getting…. 2010 S40 Volvo R-Design (sports package). This is what it should look like…
And of course the husband wanted to upgrade the wheels….

Metallic black exterior w/ black & cream interior

Stylish, huh?
So it looks like we should have the car around the 2nd week in October. :-)
YAY!
Okay…now back to the health side of stuff. I have some graphs from earlier this week. I know I was busy and I just wantcha to know that I have not dropped off the bandwagon. I did not always wear the bodybugg…but I have accounted for my foods. I should still see some progress at the scale on Monday. I am sure it will budge a bit!

Today was a DAMN good day!

*Bodybugg was not worn this day...but I was very active
Tonight is really “Sinful Saturday” but I had to lead in with the news about the car. The X-Factor is back on again and we are glued to the TV on Saturday nights. If you have not heard of this show I am sure that you have AT LEAST heard of Leona Lewis (winner of the X Factor 2 years ago). Last year Alexandra Burke won…and she is almost as fabulous as Leona
Anyways it is an “American Idol” style of singing/talent show. I love it!
Eating was just okay today. I have stayed within my calories but I missed breakfast and knew lunch would be late so I had a donut…key words be ‘A’ donut…not 2 or 3…haha. SEE…I can have some self control every now and then.
Anyways I should get back to the tv. My show is almost over and I need to focus. More updates tomorrow.
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