Nancy’s Weight loss Journey 5 Yrs & Counting

Yep this was my dinner.  You would think with all the exercise that I do that I would resist fatty food right?  Nope, not me. 

My sister came to visit and she bought a ton of food from Mcdonalds.  What do I do?  Dove right in and ate one with happiness of course.  The act of eating it brought so much joy. Sigh Sigh

So couple hours later, between watching Biggest Loser and commercials, I’m in the kitchen making what was suppose to be stir fry shrimp - manifested into shrimp fried rice.  On top of that - my wonderful sister is making shrimp tempura.  What did I do?  Ate it and again with a ton of happiness.

I don’t feel too bad.  I didn’t eat alot earlier today because work was hectic.  The other good thing is I pushed away my fried shrimp dinner with rice left over and only ate 3 shrimp tempura.  Portion control?  Yes.  Was this a good dinner? Delicious but I should have stuck to my wonderful chicken and rice deal.

Hey, tomorrow is a new day!  I get a second chance to not eat like a pig. 

Morning all!

I hope everyone is having a great day.  I think I’m still a bit high off my workout last night because I’m happy today.  Screw stress, I’m going to live and be happy.

 Yesterday was the first time I’ve been to my Monday routine in about 3 weeks.  The welcoming was amazing.  People were happy to see me and happy that I’m there to bring back some power and energy.  But most of all they were telling me I lost weight in my absence.  True, lost only 3 but from their POV, more like 10.   

What did I do different in those weeks to make such an impact?  I changed my routine.  I incorporated Pilates, stepped up my strength by working in interval circuits and cardio blitz and I increased my calories. 

Now that my weight is coming under control I need another project to work on.  Organic food.  I do some gardening already because we do have an Asian herb garden.  The difference in lemon grass bought and lemon grass grown is amazing.  So I’m on a quest to star container gardening.  There is room in  my back yard but I’m not sure if I want to live there for more then a year.  Living here in So Cal, I have enough sun in the autumn and winter season to sustain a small garden.  I hope by next year I can eat all the fresh vegatables I want without the dangers of pesticide.  

Hi fellow buddies!

I did my 3 1/2 hour stint and I’m as high as a kite. Who needs drugs when exercise can take you to that euphoric stage?

Despite being down, no sleep and 2 coffee in for the day - I did it! I had so much fun. I was excited to be able to go to my favorite classes because my sister dropped my honey off at school. With the extra time I was able to get in my 90 min. of strength, kicked some crazy ass in kickboxing and did my advanced yoga. Yes, finally 2 yoga classes in a row and counting. I have one more tomorrow to finish the week. It feels so good to stretch after doing all the strength and cardio work.

I will pat my self on the back. Towards the end of kickboxing class our instructor challenged us to do chest push-ups; no girl push-ups - talking about perfect form push-ups! I did mine - 30 of them in two sets. I knew we would do more in yoga so I saved my tricep push-ups for class. Sure enough, we did tri-cep push-ups and with perfect form again! I thought my almost 3 weeks away from yoga would effect my push-ups but they haven’t. In fact, I’m stronger then ever. I credit the sets of push-ups I started doing in my office on days I knew I would burn them out in strength conditioning.

I feel great! I’m exhausted but happy. It takes endurance and energy to go that long but I knew to eat a lot of good food before my classes. It did make a difference.

Tomorrow I have another kickboxing and yoga combo before taking a day off. Then it’s back to elliptical, stairmaster and pilates to finish off my week.

Hey, if I can do it - You can too!!!!

I try to stay positive most of the time but the stress from life get’s the best of me.  I’m tired of being the only one bringing in an income.  Money is so tight.  I can’t remember the last time I actually spent a few dollars on myself.  I try to take care of everyone but sometimes I wonder, is it all worth it? 

Early morning, 2am,  I find my boyfriend in the car talking to his mother;  I’m tired and cranky; last thing I need is an argument knowing that in a few hours I have to be up for a long day of work and exercising.  So here I am trying to work but can’t because I have too many head hurting crap to deal with.  The lack of good sleep makes me irritable.  Basically what I get out of this morning’s “talk” is some stuff that jabs right at my heart.  I feel like I’m sacrificing myself for no reason. 

So I’m going to combat my stress the best way I know how - exercise and more exercise.  I’m going to eat a lot of good food today so I have the proper fuelt to energize the 3 hours I planned for myself - 90 min. of strength, 1 hr kickboxing and 1/2 yoga.   

I hope everyone is having a great Sunday.

I can’t believe it’s 2:30 pm already. I’ve been up since 6:45am; I had to be at the gym by 7am to get a good spot in my kickboxing class. We did an older round but it was a lot of fun. I’m glad I had a pre-workout tiny breakfast for fuel. Afterwards I went to a different gym for my yoga class. It’s been almost 3 weeks since my last yoga class and I can certainly feel the difference. I need to add that back into my routine. I was so exhausted; no way was I staying for an added Pilates class.

I’ve been home and just trying to watch what I eat. I bought some croissants from Costco - trying hard not to keep eating more then the 1/2 I’ve had with my lunch.

I hope everyone else is having a great day. I know I am.

Tomorrow I have a 3 hour workout session that I must prepare for with the proper diet today.

Have fun!

Great news! We finally have INTERNET service at home. HEHEHEHE.

I hope you all don’t get too sick of me. Ever since I joined in April I always considered myself a part-time Buddy. I couldn’t read every blog and make comments like I want-especially on the weekends. I couldn’t participate in the forums like I want. But now I can unless Rodney is hogging the computer. Not only that I started on sparkspeople a while ago– mainly for the information but quit because I didn’t have time to stay current with their info. I don’t like the forum or blog format that much but they have a ton of useful article and tools. For me it supplements what I get here on buddyslim. My place is here – I do love my friends and buddies.

Today I didn’t work out although I stuck with it and went to kickboxing last night. It’s my day off; wanted to go for a run I just felt too blah.

I didn’t eat too badly; but now I have no excuse to not keep my food journal. Will start again tomorrow – 100% effort. I’m just riding the waves of PMS and just battling the emotions that come with it. I have to be up pretty early tomorrow morning for my 2-hour workout with a couple great instructors. The kickboxing class I attend is full by 7:30am. Then I have a yoga class to close out the day.

Breakfast: 2.5 fried eggs w/ rice, ½ croissant, water
Snack: 1/4 noodle soup, ½ banana, 1 sv. Of chips, cheese off a slice of Caesar’s pizza – note did not eat the pizza J , water
Lunch: African tea, 1 corn on the cob boiled w/ nothing on it, 1 chicken thigh w/ rice, water
Dinner: 2 baked chicken thigh and rice, water

BTW, back to my normal intake of water. Whew, that was a crazy day. I wouldn’t be surprised if I gained weight due to water retention.

Weekend food lacks veggies and the good stuff that’s all in my office refrigerator. Just eating whatever is available.

Goal for the next couple of weeks: Lose a few more lbs. I have a baby shower of a high school friend I’m attending. There will be many many people in attendance who has not seen me since I lost this weight.

As noted in my earlier post, PMS is here for a visit - can tell my the bad attitude and crankiness.

You know how we retain water during this period - is it possible to be so thirsty as I have, drank 3 liters of water by 2pm, still be thirsty with another 1.5 liter by my side and not go to the bathroom more then 2 times today?

Typicall I drink 3 liters, but after my first 1.5 liters I’d have been to the toilet like 6 times.

My thing is - should I be worried if I continue to crave water and salt and not pee?

I was a little worried about the state of our site due to yesterday’s fiasco.  In the 6 months that I’ve dedicated myself to my weighloss and this site, the last month or so was at times too much for my eyes.  Yesterday’s craziness took the cake.  For the first time, I allowed what happened here to effect my greatest stress reliever - my workout.  I did not have the same drive, energy or enthusiasm I normally would for my 3 hours.   I do not like negative energy and for a while that was how I viewed BS.  The negativity caused by someone we will not mentioned turned this place into an unpleasant place to be. 

I was a little worried about what it was going to be like today.  Thank goodness!  It’s all back to normal.  I see new blogs from newbies and blogs from our regular peeps.  My weightloss sanctuary is back.  Thank you. :)   

Now I can turn my energy from trying to sort through drama to reading blogs that deserves attention. 

I guess PMS is finally settling in.  I’m not happy happy today.  Not too much going on other than eating right and getting my kickboxing fix in for the day.

It’s been a long long time since I saw the scale move.  Now that it is I can’t believe it. 

Yep, as of this morning I lost another lb.  Words can not describe how I feel.  I am giddy and just amaze that I’m there, I’m on the other side of my longest plateau. 

I have a lot of work to catch up on today but wanted to blog about my accomplishment.  There are so many people on here who believed in me and pushed me to keep going; they knew that it will happen and it has.

 So guys, don’t give up, don’t give in and just continue on with your journey.  You too can do it.  If the plateau Queen can get off her throne after 3 months, you can too.

Tonight I have a 3 hour night date with the gym - I have strength, kickboxing and Pilates.

Yesterday my little 5 yr old nephew had surgery.  His praternal grandmother, who have not seen me in 3 years didn’t recognize me.  She told my sister that I’m so tiny and asked how I did it.  The last time she saw me I hovered around 200 lbs. 

My pc is almost complete - I will soon have access to the internet 24/7.  Sometimes I feel left out because I can’t sign on to give and get support here on BS when I’m not at work.

Sooooo, you guys know from my past blogs that I’ve been at a plateau for almost 3 months.  I couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong.  I’ve pinned it down to my eating issues because I exercise like a madwomen.  But recently I was forced to change my eating habit and workout routine because my man and I only have one car.  I’m a creature of habit - if it wasn’t for this forced change I would continue on with my workout routine, eating and continue on with the plateau.

As the saying goes, everything happens for a reason.  As such, I can tell you the plateau is HISTORY for now!  Last week I lost a meesly lb But as of today I lost another lb.

I can tell you I’m pleasantly shocked.  The last two days I ate alot, alot of healhty and bad food.  I didn’t record it in my journal but I know that I ate around 1800 to 2000 calories per day.  Because my boyfriend had my car, I couldn’t get my workout in. 

The lesson learned is - change is needed, sometimes drastic change to jump start weightloss.  I needed to gorge a bit so my body was ok with letting go of poundage.  My routine is all screwed up now but it’s working to my advantage.  I guess it’s true, keep your body guessing is important to getting off a plateau.