Where have I been?

Hey all!

Wow, it sure has been way too long! SO much has happened since I blogged last and it just feels like I am a different person. I have so much to share with you all. Lets get started!

First and foremost I want to let you know that while I was on this little hiatus I did lose weight. No, it wasnt a blogger running far away because I had gained weight. I actually lost. A LOT. I am now 170.8 and so close to being in the 160s its crazy. You heard that right. In the 2 months I was gone I managed to spare you almost all of the 170’s. Crazy what can happen when you are focused.

Which brings me to my second point. I have been so focused on weight loss for the last couple of months I have surprised myself. I believe I have actually fallen in love with going to the gym (shocking I know). This is what has kept me losing weight. That and all the wonderful clean eating that I have been doing.

Clean eating really becomes a way of life when you do it long enough. You no longer feel like you are depriving yourself, and the only reason you are turning that bagel down is because you know how bad it is going to make you feel afterwards. Its amazing what happens when your mindset changes.

The last thing that has happened that I want to share with you is this: for the first time in my entire life, I love myself. Yep, you heard that right. I love what my body can do right now. I love what my body looks like right now, and I love myself enough to know that I am worth all the effort I am making because I deserve to be happy.

Ahh what a weight lifted off of my sholders.

I have tons of wonderful things coming for the summer and the year to come on this blog, so stay tuned, because big things are happening!

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P.S. I will be making a piost detailing some of these things as I am traveling on Wednesday. I am so excited for all of the changes to come! 😉

Weight Loss Resolution: Revisited

Hello all!

Man has it been a long time since I have wrote on here. A few things have happened while I was away. My husband returned from a six month deployment and I have never been happier to have him home. Also, Christmas has already come and gone, and with that comes the new wave of New Year’s Resolutions.

Last year I made a New Year’s resolution that most do: to lose weight. In the true sense of the word I did achieve that. I lost 30 lbs in the past year and am really proud of that. So for this year I am going to make the same resolution, but with a little more fun.

I would like to at least lose another 30lbs this year. I know that may possibly sound like a low number to some people, and a high number to others. I have more than that to lose and I am enjoy8ing losing the weight slowly. I feel it is the best way. To reach this goal I have set out a couple smaller goals and objectives. They are

Start exercising on a regular basis. (4 times a week on average)

Limit eating out to once a week, or not at all.

Transition into completely clean eating. (I will be doing a post about what this means to me and the steps I am going to be taking to get to the point I want to reach.)

Cut down coffee habit to at least 3 cups a week, if not more. Replace these beverages with tea.

Meditate more!

Start practicing positive self talk.

Try Yoga!

Do at least one cleanse every 3 months.

This is the current list. I may add and/or omit things as I see fit as long as the reason for the add/drop is completely to serve the goal of me losing weight. I am excited for this coming year! I am also very excited to see what I can do with my body. Take care everyone!

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Hooray for November!

November. Its November. Oh how I am ready for this.

It seems that I have not been as attentive within the past couple months as I should have been. Looking back at my posts proves that. I haven’t been working out, haven’t fully committed myself to eating healthy, and my weight loss has suffered from that. I have been in the mid 180’s for wayyyy too long. And to be completely honest, I’m ready for it to be over.

So here is to a new month. A new beginning. It is a time to restart and reevaluate. That is what I am going to do today after I get out of work. I am going to go to the gym. And then maybe to Barnes and Noble, and then I am going to sit down and really evaluate what I am going to do to lose this weight. Obviously it hasn’t been losing itself. I need to do something, and I will do something.

I have been thinking about using the app GymPact. It is probably one of the most interesting apps I have come across. You make a pact to go to the gym a certain amount of days each week. When you don’t keep your pact and you fall short of your goal you get charged the amount that you chose at the set up of the app. (It starts at $5 and goes up by 5 dollar increments). But the upside is each week that you keep your pact you get paid by the people who didn’t keep their pact! This is absolutely brilliant! Who knew you could get a monetary reward for going to the gym!

I think that once I sit down and get a set eating/workout plan down I will be seeing results! They have to come eventually right?

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P.S. I will post my updated plan sometime this weekend so that you all know what my plans are!

Weigh-In Wednesday!

Hello All,

Today is wednesday which means it is time for a weigh in! I weighed in this morning at 183.6. I am ok with this. In fact I am happy with this. I have come to some very helpful realizations in the past week and I am really excited.

I have come to the realization and accepted that this is a process. This process may be slower for my body then it is for others. This process will be hard. It will be different for me then it is for anyone else on this journey because my body is unique. It is going to lose the weight at its own pace, and there isn’t really much I can do to expedite the process. I just need to sit back and let it happen.

That is not to say I need to stop trying. Because that is the exact opposite of what I need to be doing. I need to continue eating well and kicking my own butt in the gym, but I also need to stop expecting my weight loss to be comparable to others. Because it is MY weight loss. Not theirs. Mine. And their body may lose it much easier then mine. I need to be able to accept that.

So as long as I continue to lose weight, I pledge to be happy about it. Even if it is only .6 lb at a time. Its progress, and I need to be proud of that progress.

I hope that you all are having a wonderful day and week. ❤

Personal Challenge Update

Hey guys,

Its day 4 of my 7 day challenge and I am doing great. I have worked out everyday so far and have been eating really really well. I am feeling so much better and stronger. Its so crazy to me how different you can really feel.

Yesterday I think I killed it a little too hard in the gym. My legs are hating me this morning. It felt really good though. I have been going late at night to avoid the chance that someone else might be in the gym. My apartment complex has a super small gym, and I feel really uncomfortable when there are other people. But the awesome part about our gym is we also have raquetball coutrs. Not that I play raquetball but I can do drills that I remember from playing sports to mix up the workouts a little.

Overall I am feeling much better about my weight loss this week. Im hoping to put up a good number. Even a pound loss would be ok with me at this point. At least it would be progress. I will get out of these dreaded 180’s by the end of this month. I am determined!

I hope you all are having a fantastic week. I know I am. Look out for my weigh-in wednesday post coming up. Hopefully its a good one. ❤

I know that my desire to change is much much greater then ever wanting to be this way again. Lets do this. I have faith in myself.

Weigh-in Wednesday

Hey guys,

So I cant exactly say I am happy about this weeks weigh-in. I weighed in at 185.2 which is a gain from last week. I feel like I am stuck in a 185 lb. rut, and I know that it is all my doing.

This week I did not work out that much. I ran twice and played volleyball once. It just wasn’t enough. And for some reason I convinced myself that it would be ok to eat things like chocolate covered graham crackers with my Starbucks. Like Starbucks wasn’t enough or anything. So in the short, I sabotaged myself yet again for another week.

I need to do this. I need to focus. For myself. I need to be healthier. I will get there.  I know I will.

Something exciting did happen this morning though. I signed up to receive a free consultation from Carlyn from JustKeepSweating. It seems that she is starting a weight-loss consulting company and is doing free initial consultations. I am actually really excited for this. Not only that I get to talk to her on the phone, but maybe she has a fix for this fitness rut that I seem to be in.

At any rate I hope you all are having a wonderful week! ❤

Weigh-in Wednesday!

Hey all

I hope that you all are having just as good of a week as I am.

Today I weighed in at 184.8. Thats a loss of 1 lb since last week.

I would like to be able to say that I am excited about that number but sadly I am not. Thats not to say that I didnt expect it. I didnt work out last week (besides my one day of volleyball). I ate well, which is half the battle, but I really need to kick it in gear if I want to reach the 170’s by the end of the month.

So this morning I decided to start out right. I woke up and ran. I didnt want to. And I spent probably a good five minutes trying to come up with a good enough excuse to not run. None of them were acceptable.

I may have been late. But I rather be late for one class then be late for life. So I went, and boy, did I feel good afterward.

SO lets continue October in a great way! What are you going to do to change this month?

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Weigh-In Wednesday!

Hey guys,

Boy has it been a while since one of these. Like I have said if you have read some of my most recent posts, life really got in the way for me and this weight loss journey, but im not going to let that define me! I am going to continue to strive to be the best me that I can be. So without any more babbling…..

My weight this week was 185.8!

I don’t think you guys can even understand how happy I am for this loss. After all that has been going on I really was super worried that I would be gaining weight. With starting my new anxiety medicine I had a very good chance of gaining some weight. I seem to be unaffected by it though. Which feels AMAZING!

So lets set some goals for this coming week’s weight loss shall we?

I would really like to be down at 183 by next week. Not necessarily at exactly 183.0 but I would def take that if that was the case. Lets shoot for 183.8. That would be a total loss of 2 lbs which I think is realistic enough to be obtainable if I try hard enough.

So lets do this guys!

I also wanted to mention that my beloved sister-in-law has started a blog on here for all you lovely readers! Go check her out! She has an amazing plan that is listed and she is just starting out. I want her to see what a lovely weight loss community we have here! =]

Her site is carlaweightlossjourney.wordpress.com

Hope you all are having a wonderful week! I know I sure am! ❤

Let food be thy medicine.

Hey guys!

YAY, a second blog for the week! =] Today I wanted to talk about how critical eating properly is.

Many people have this distorted view of weight loss that they need to go kill themselves in the gym 3 hours a day 7 days a week. Yes, that will give you results. It will also make you terribly miserable.

Most people who have this philosophy eat whatever they want. They dont really watch their calories or what they are putting in their bodies. If you were eating potato chips then yes, you probably could go work out for 3 hours and work them off, but in the end you will be no healthier for it.

SO I pose this to all of you today. What you consume is the single-most important thing on your weight loss journey. I repeat MOST IMPORTANT THING! 

You can eat healthy and kill youself in the gym. And yes, you will probably see wonderful results. But the downside to that is 1) Eventually you will burn out or injure yourself and 2) You may not be able to maintain after getting to goal without continuing to work out so hard.

I say light to moderate exercise and good eating. You will feel happier, healthier, and you will be able to maintain at the end of this journey. Remember its all about lifestyle.

Hope you all are having a wonderful start to your week and look for my weigh-in wednesday post tomorrow!

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Weigh-In Wednesday #3

Hey guys,

Sorry Ive been rather MIA lately. Been busy and stressed out and that really isnt the best combination for me. Anyways…

My weight today was 187.2. Thats a loss of 2 lbs since last week.

I honestly cant tell you how happy I am about this! I felt really hopeless last week after my maintain. It wasnt too far into my weight loss journey and I already felt like a failure! But this week truly made up for it! I know that I can do this I just have to make small lifestyle changes and I will be successful! I can lose this weight. I can be happy.

I feel like I have a whole new level of motivation to complete what I have started. I feel very encouraged and empowered. Being at a healthy weight doesnt seem like such a distant dream anymore but rather an attainable blissful goal. And I am so stoked to embark on the journey!

Hope that you all are having a wonderful week! ❤