I was so excited this morning when I stepped on the scale! 190! WOO HOO!
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I think I've been over doing it with the walking the past couple of days. Tuesday, Wednesday, and today I walked about 10,000 steps each. I have blisters all over my feet, I have a rash where my legs rubbed together when I was walking, and I am wore out! I just wasn't in a good mood today. I think that I am going to slow things down a bit. Maybe I will take 5,000 steps a day instead, and every now and then go for the 10,000. Maybe when I lose more weight I will be able to handle the 10,000 steps.
Other than that, I have been doing really well with eating. I am still following my rules that I set. I am still at 191.4, but hopefully I will go down more soon!
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My husband bought me a pedometer yesterday. It's a Go walking Sportline. It isn't anything too flashy... just a $10 pedometer, but it does the job. It doesn't work well when it is clipped on my side but it works pretty good clipped to my pants waist in the middle of my back. It still isn't completely accurate because it is so sensitive. There is a little metal hammer that knocks a sensor on the inside and you can hear it every time you step so that you know it is working. I get to see a round about estimate of how many steps I am taking on my daily walks.
My goal is to walk 10,000 steps a day. I figure I will split that into two and walk 5,000 in the morning and 5,000 in the evening. That way I don't get all worn out at once. I found a pretty cool website called http://walkertracker.com/. Here you can visualize your goal with graphs and widgets. I added my widget to this blog.
I weighed myself this morning and I have lost 6 lbs all together! Super exciting!!
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This woman on 1,000 Ways to Die on Spike Tv ate tapeworms to lose weight. She lost a lot of weight, BUT she died. Doesn't seem worth it does it...lol. Here's the link to the video... http://www.spike.com/video/die/3128459
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Today was a hard day for me. Aunt Flow visited me and with her she brought cravings for everything in sight and boiled blood in my veins! A combination not to be messed with. My son decided to throw a huge baby fit because he didn't get his way about something and I wasn't having it with the way I was feeling. I yelled at him and and he threw an even bigger fit. Then, my toddler stared to throw a fit too, so I sent them both to bed early. After that I wanted some wine, BUT I resisted! Tomorrow is my day for that and I am sticking to it! Cheers to SELF CONTROL!
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I attribute some of the weight I gained to eating way too much while I was pregnant. Everyone would tell me, "Girl, you are pregnant.... you're eating for two! Get your EAT ON!" So, I did! Bad Idea! After I had my daughter in 2007, I was 20 lbs heavier than when I started. I thought I looked awful! Now I look back at pictures of me then and I wish I was still 155 lbs! It sure beats 193 lbs!
I breastfed my daughter and that helped a little with weight loss, but it wasn't enough. I was so unsatisfied about my weight that I stopped breastfeeding my daughter when she was 5 months to go on Slim quick... you know... 6 ways to help women lose weight. Yeah right, they should have called that 6 ways to make a woman go absolutely insane! Maybe it was a bad combination of postpartum depression and the Slim quick that made me fly off the handle and break a window (lol) or maybe it was the start of my hypoglycemia. Who knows. What I do know is that I never touched another diet pill/ supplement again.
After that my weight slowly went into a downward spiral. I went on an anti -depressant for my postpartum and gained some more weight. After I stopped taking that, I tried many low calorie/ low fat diets. I joined a gym... 2 year lease... another bad idea of mine. I now pay $60 a month for mine and my husband's membership and WE NEVER GO! I bought an exercise ball, yoga mat, and rented exercise DVDs from Netflix. I tried the South Beach Diet TWICE. That one would have worked if I could have gotten past the 2 weeks of no bread, no sugar, and no alcohol. I even tried the Master Cleanse diet (lemon juice, blackstrap molasses, and cayenne pepper...YUCK!)
I know that this regime that I'm working with now is going to work so much better for me simply because I AM NOT RESTRICTED! The gym didn't work because it was too far of a drive and it didn't work with my schedule. Diets never worked because I don't like to be told what I can and can't eat. That nasty lemon drink didnt work because it tasted like SHIT! With what I'm doing here, all I have to do is practice portion control. I can eat pretty much whatever I want. I try to limit my sweets until Saturday. That is my "pig out" day. I don't drink any wine until this day also (everyboday that knows me, knows that I LOVE WINE). I drink TONS of water to help my kidneys flush the toxins. This gives my liver the ease to do it's job... metabolize fat. I eat LOTS of fruit! It satisfies my sweet tooth and it's healthy. Veggies are also a big part on my menu.
I've grown an appreciation for walking. I love walking up and down our little road because it's right by a creek and there is lots of shade. There is a lot more scenery than a gym's four walls. I also have re-discovered my passion for riding a bike. I rode bikes all of the time when I was little. Now I get to share this experience with my son who has just learned to ride his bike!
I'm excited and look forward everyday to obtaining my goal of weight loss!
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My weigh-in this morning was 193.6 lbs. I've dropped 3.4 lbs since last Thursday!! That's a start right? So what have I been eating? I've been eating pretty much anything I want in moderation and no desserts with the exception of Saturday which is my "off" day... I can eat (chocolate) and drink (wine) as much as I want on that day. I've been drinking water like CRAZY! I've had to pee like every 10 mintues! As for exercise, I've been walking a mile every morning with my mother in-law and after dinner I've been riding the bike with my son. Today I wasn't able to walk or ride the bike because it rained ALL DAY, but tomorrow is another day.
My energy is sky high and my attitude is determined. I am so into this goal right now and I am not EVEN thinking of stopping now!
