Nancy’s Weight loss Journey 5 Yrs & Counting

Today is a very good day.  I got in what I wanted.  3 mile run and 3 mile walk for a total of 6 miles.  Then I set a goal of 200 push ups but got 230 Regular push-ups in.

I decided not to go to kickboxing tomorrow.  I always have step and kickboxing Monday.

Instead I will walk to the gym which is 2 miles away.  Do upper body weights.  I normally wouldn’t do push-ups one days and upper body weights the next but I need to schedule it in this Sunday.   Then after that take my yoga class then walk back home.  This is my way of easing my way back into my vigorous routine.
Food wise was good! That is until after 7pm.  I guess this will be my high cal day for the week.

Accountability:

Pre run meal: 1 large banana 120

Breakfast: Asian dish with hard boiled egg, pork and rice meal 300

Snack: 5 dumplings PAM fried and steamed 100,1/3 cookie 40

Lunch: Bowl of chicken porridge 300, 2 rolls 300 and sunflower seeds

Snack: 1/2 apple 50, 1 Asian sausage and 1/3 cup rice 300

Dinner:1 bite of a burrito, 5 mini mini grahams, rice porridge with chicken 300

Day 9

Food Angel = kicking butt

Food Demon = 0

I AM SO HAPPY TO BE BACK FROM MY EXERCISE BREAK!!!

Thank you Lord for a cloudy southern California morning!  I set the alarm for a 5am banana eat and 6am run, but the darkness made it all too easy to sleep till 6am eat and then go for my run at 8am.

I had every intention of doing my 4 mile run then 2 mile walk but my butt cheeks wouldn’t have it.  I did my warmup  1/2 mile, my stretch and then started jogging.   I backed off the last mile run and just walked it.  Came home cooled down, stretched and I’m all good.

All in all 3 mile run and 3 mile walk in.  I’m back baby!! OH YES!!!

No it’s time to eat, nap then off to enjoy my Saturday.  OK SUNHSHINE YOU CAN COME OUT NOW!  I’m done.

My next mini goal today is to start getting my push-ups in and do some upper body weights at home.   Just 200 regular push-ups.

Another mini goal for today is to continue eating sensibly and not be tempted by the junk my sis is going to make or bring in.  Having her visit, my nephew, Rod’s son makes this place a full house.

I do a lot of online banking.  Thank God I have that to monitor my account.  Last night I checked my account and saw a charge I did not authorize.  They gave an 800 number.  So I called it.  The first thing it did - asked you for your credit card information.  Hel* no I’m not putting my cc number in.  So I kept punching O until I got a hold of a CS rep.  She also tried to get my personal information.  Hel* no!  I asked her what industry and type of business are they running? 

Turns out to be an online credit card report monitoring service.  Ahhhhhhhhhh NEVER SIGNED UP or authorized one.  I told her I need this removed now.  So after talking to her and 3 other people WHICH AMOUNTED TO NADA!  I asked for her boss!  You know what her answer is right? *She’s not in* BULLSH** I know the game.  I work in Sales myself.

My game plan is to get to my bank and get a new checking and credit card.  I hope this is enough to prevent further charges from this company. 

BEWARE!!!!!!!!  Check your accounts daily!  They are out there to defraud you!!!

I didn’t get a good night.  I’m running on about 4 hours of sleep right now.  I’m not hungry not thirsty.  I have a lot of personal issues to address at the moment.

I will do my best to get online and look to you all for a source of laughter and inspiration.

:) 

What a day today!  I do hate my ultra emotional days.  So glad it’s almost over and the weekend is that much closer.

Gonna get my head taped up and back in one piece.  I’m glad I have you guys and this place to vent away.  Not every day is rosy and cheery on this journey.  I’m glad I have a place to let it out and laugh.  Although laughing didn’t come too easy as I was so busy with work.

My baby is coooking for me!  I love his home made from scratch Kenyan chicken dish.  Yummy!  I have to say he took today a lot better then say when we first met.  So here he is chopping vegetables and chicken away.  Can’t wait to eat it.  And it’s healthy too!  The aroma is making me salivate. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I can’t wait for my routine to get back to normal.  I do appreciate everything so much more.  What’s the saying?  You don’t know miss it until it’s gone.  Well I do know now!  I plan on getting my run and weights in.  Getting my IPOD ready for my run.  Planning to just jump back and do my 6 mile run.  Whoooooooo hoooooooooo!

ACCOUNTABILITY:
BREAKFAST: 2 pints of fresh strawberries, a few goji berries, 1 cup of coffee

Lunch: 1 vegan salad w/ poppy seed dressing, 1 steamed thigh lettuce wrap with my home made Asian fish sauce and peanut dip,  handful of raw dark chocolate *NICOLE!!!!*

Snack: 1/3 organic corn bread ?, 1 cookie 90, a small serving of Khmer Beef sour soup & couple bites of rice

Dinner: Tea, Rod’s Kenyan chicken dish w/ veggies and rice

May repeat dinner one more time before  9pm hits
Vitamin: Yep
water: 100 in so far

Food Angel = Wins Day7

Food Demon = 0

93 more days to go to my new coach purse

2 more days till my Sunday run and weights :)  Can’t wait.

WHAT DOES PMS AND MY SCALE HAVE TO DO WITH EACH OTHER?  THE ONE I’M NOT SUPPOSE TO GET ON?  THE ONE I’M NOT SUPPOSE TO VISIT TIL JUNE?  What did your girl here do? 

 YAH - WHY THE HELL DID I GET ON IT?  I mean the sane Nancy would go on be miss positive and oh the world is rosey and pink and happy.

TOLD you PMS and her friends were visiting.   They made me jump on that stupid scale….see if I was to do it everyday I would just hang myself!

3 FREAKIN’ LBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  HOW THE HELL DID I GAIN 3 LBS!!!!!!!!!

I have been diligent with my food.  I know I’m not exercisig for 7 days this week..just 3 more days to go and back at it.

See, if I wasn’t on my game all the time I’d understand a stupid gain.  But come on now - what have I not done?  I’ve done every freakin’ thing in the exercise book!!

Let me see, eat the right amount of calories, eat my fiber, my fruits and veggies and I exercise like I should.  I drink my water 120 oz on average, take my vitamin….. the thing I am lacking is sleep. 

HHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAA!  See - I’m so frustarted with me right now. 

I’m begining to feel destined to be at this range.  To look at the bright side of things (normal sane me talking now) realize that a size 7 is healthy.  I’m healthy I’m toned up.  My Rod doesn’t want me skinny - I think that’s what it is.

MAYBE MAYBE MENTALLY I WON’T ALLLOW MYSELF TO LOSE WEIGHT BECAUSE I’M AFRAID MY HONEY WON’T BE ATTRACTED TO ME? 

I DON’T KNOW… I think I’m going to go cry in a corner somewhere.

Maybe by this evening I will get a hold of my emotions and get back to being happy happy.

WHERE IS JIM (GYM) WHEN i REALLY NEED HIM.

Missed out on a lot of blogs.  Sorry will do what I can today.

The only sprinkles I want to see is from a fairy’s wand as she blesses me with a size 5 skin tight outfit. 

Ah sprinkling little powdery dusts,  using blogs to promote their websites and telling us to mind our own business when we tell you losing 20 lbs in 2 weeks is rediculous - yah right!  See, all you advertisers - don’t come on to our website and our community this very tight knit community to sell or promote - JUNK!!

I thank my friends Karin, Angel, Chris and number of others who came out and in less then 20 minutes flat got one of these no good MONEY HUNGRY a$$wipes to go away.

You don’t care about us!  All you want is our money!  So yah - I’m going to make it my business and let you  know that you are not welcome.  You take one step to the right - I’m in your face!  Take 3 to the left - yep my claws are out.

And when I see more - oh yes baby - I’m on you like an Asian girl on her white rice!!!

 SEE YAH - AND HATE TO BE YAH

I don’t care if you lost 20 lbs in 2 weeks you know why?  Because you will gaine 30 in 1 week!

LOVE THIS COMMUNITY!!!!

Anj and I have been emailing back and forth about our struggle with this whole journey.  For us we’ve been at this almost 5 years for me and going into 2 years for Anj.  We struggle with this like no tomorrow.  There are days we don’t want to do this.  There are days we want to give up altogether.  Guess what though?  We’re not!  We have each other as good examples of how it should be done, can be done and will be done.  This week we partnered up.  We are taking a Thelma and Louise moment.  We are not going to worry about exercise, about food (per say) and jus taking a mini break.  Sunday is return day for me and Anj is back on full force Monday!  We are coming back stronger then ever!   

Last week we both started losing focus.  I started losing focus mentally and physically.   There comes a point where all the talking, tweaking, trying to eat right just get dang old to my  own ears.

I feel like how much more can  I do this?  Then over the weekend I found my mojo again.  I need a break and took it.  I love love food so much!  But like all loving relationshi there’s a dark side.  That’s what this week is about.  Focusing on my food issues and hoping to come out on top of my game.

 ANJ - DEDICATED TO YOU MA! LET’S DO THIS ALRIGHT?  WE GOT IT GIRL!!!!  THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!

Food goal:

Breakfast: goji berries, coffee, nectarine and apple

Lunch: 2 steamed chicken thigh - 1 cup of lettuce w/ honey mustard

Snack: 1 cup fresh pineapple, sunflower seeds

Dinner: leftover chicken (PAM) stir fry w/ onions and green beans, rice

Day #3 of 7 no exercise vacation - I  miss you guys!!!

Please dear God - please help me stay on plan.

Rod is having a ton of fun with the new computer.  See the picture - that’s his thought of my behind.  NOW, I know I lost a lot of it….just nice that this reminds him of me from the back end.  Well it’s better then being compared to his favorite car the SUPRA.

You know I love to exercise!  It’s my second love outside of my family.  I mean to me it’s my addiction.  Screw the food give me my exercise.  Well, as I sit on my second day of “exercise vacation” I realize something - I am always always always hungry when I exercise.  With two days in a row of no exercise I see that my hunger level has leveled off.  I have greater control and not always prowling for food.  This also happened the last time I took a break in Dec. 

So my  question to myself and to those who are/have experienc this, what should I do when I return to my routine?  I will have to figure out how to balance food as fuel for my workout as well as daily life.  What I can not do is to continue to eat “out of turn”.  Meaning I need to eat nutritious food and really focus on getting more bang for my buck.  Hahhh can’t wait for the move in June.  I know that is the only time I can take 100% control of what comes in and out of my house.  Over the weekend I realized that I can’t change the past nor control the future.  The only control I have is the present.  I am going to win one meal at a time.   That’s where I’m taking this.  I have to.  There is no way I will overwhelm myself over food.

Today at this very moment I am missing my Step, kickboxing and yoga Monday combo.  I can almost do the routine in my head.  Oh well, just need to enjoy my time off.  We have Rod’s son here spending quality time with him. 

Food log:

Breakfast: 1 large Fuji apple, 2 cups of coffee w/ cream only, dried gogi berries 240

Lunch: 2 steamed chicken thigh w/ honey mustard dip 300

Snack: 2 pcs of nan (Indian flatbread) and 1 sv of fresh pineapple, 5 Doritos, 1 bite of aisan dessert 270

Dinner: Stir fried (1/2) an onion & chicken, stir fried (3 svs) green beans & chicken and rice and snacked on sunflower seeds during movie 240 + 350

 Water - plenty in 130 oz

Day 4 of 100 Personal challenge

Food Angel  = looks like a winner - oh yes she is!!!!!

Food Demon - kick back you are not wanted!

96 days to a new Coach purse

I feel I have to wipe everything I know about weight loss from my head.  Who do I know is skinny and looks good?  My honey!!!!

Today I ate differently.  Because I’m not exercising food intake takes on a whole different meaning.  I’m not eating to fuel my work out for the next week.  I’m eating to stay within’ a claorie range.

Rod suggested I eat a lot less food, healthy food but less then I eat now.  We got up and ate a large banana for breakfast.   That’s it! Ahhh so not me!

We left for LA to have lunch with his family.  We didn’t eat till 4pm.  Waiting that long to eat is new for me.  But you know what?  I feel fine.  We had a large spread of good food and I ate very healthy.   I skipped out on the fries, the potatoe salad except for a few bites…loaded up big time on the Casear Salad but barely used any dressing.  And of course ate the bake chicken.  Dessert was all fruit.

It’s almost 7pm and I am still full.  Will probably eat one dinner and no snack tonight.

When I was eating with my African family I learned something about their culture.  They don’t eat as often as we do.  In fact they may only eat 2 meals a day, 3 the most.  Not only that they don’t obsess over food the way I do.  His cousin, who just came from Kenya not 5 months ago says that he doesn’t understand why Americans eat the way they do.

My lesson for today, for this week of no exercise I will not have any snacks.  I will focus on 3 full  meals.  3 square meals of 400 to 500 calories each.  It’s going to be for 7 days only.  Once I start exercising on Sunday I will go back to my snacks.

Also, no process food, no simple sugars and no salt unless it’s already in the food.

I’m going to look to boyfriend for help with this.  He knows of my obsession with food.  Actually addiction to food.  I need to break the cycle.  I hope the next 7 days I can do this.  No!  I know I can do this!

Finally after waiting for weeks we have a brand new HP computer with all the bells and whistles.  Rod’s mom got it for us as a gift; that was nice of her.  I still have my old system which runs on WINDOWS 2000.  This baby is mine for buddyslim use.  Now I can go back and get a nicer IPOD because downloading won’t be a pain in the you know what.

NO GRAZING PERSONAL CHALLENGE

DAY 3

FOOD ANGEL = 3

FOOD DEMON = 0

97 DAYS TO A NEW COACH PURSE

ARE YOU EXERCISING TOO MUCH? THE FACT ABOUT OVERTRAINING

The typical signs of overtraining include:

• Insomnia
• Achiness or pain in the muscles and/or joints
• Fatigue
• Headaches
• Elevated morning pulse
• Sudden inability to complete workouts
• Feeling unmotivated and lacking energy
• Increased susceptibility to colds, sore throats and other illnesses
• Loss in appetite
• Decrease in performance

If you experience any of these symptoms, it’s a good idea to visit your doctor to make sure nothing more serious is going on. If it is simply overtraining, what causes it and what can you do to avoid it?

The cause:

The cause of overtraining is simple. You’re not resting enough and/or you’re doing the same exercise too much! Your body needs time to recover and, don’t forget, you muscles will grow when you give them enough time. Doing the same workout day after day can also lead to overtraining, boredom and possible injury. If you’ve determined you’re a candidate for overtraining, read on to find out how to avoid it.

The most important thing you can do for yourself when you experience overtraining symptoms is to rest. It’s better to take a week or so off from exercise and come back fresh than to permanently injure yourself! 

In the last year since I joined buddyslim and back to weight loss and this journey I think I did it properly.  I increased my exercise at a good rate and back to 5 days with about 11 hours of exercise a week.

Every few months I take a 1 week hiatus from my routine.

Well today is the day I do it again.  As much as I want to go work out, Rod and I decided it’s best to take the one week planned vacation from exercise today.  Then next Sunday I can start back stronger then ever.

Why one week?  The article above made that suggestion as well as many other articles I found.

I am completely terrified of not doing it for this long but I have to remember to be mindful of my body.  It’s asking for a break.  SO I will do it.

So for the next week my game plan is to focus on eating.  I’m used to eating about 2000 calories a day.

Well not this week.  It’s down to 1200 and 1600 calories.

Last night  I did well.  I ate some snack at the movie - an apple and a few pieces of candy, that was it.  So the score?

Food Angel  = 2

Food Demon = 1

98 Days to a new COACH BAG!

AS ROD SAID TO ME: “YOU WILL SEE I AM BETTER THEN JIM (GYM)”  ROFLMAO