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Weight Loss Success Can Be Had!

  • Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:54 pm

Today I got on the scales and I am another 3 pounds down! I started my weight loss journey in early March and I am 9 pounds lighter!! I am seeing or rather feeling a BIG change in how my clothes are fitting. I have been keeping track of how many miles I walk on the treadmill and I am up to 34 miles. That would put me just outside of Millersburg, Ohio if I walked from my house.

So what have I done differently? Well, I would have to say the biggest thing has been my choices. I have increased my activities (mostly walking). I have also changed my eating habits (this is the hardest thing for me). I don’t know about you but I get tired of “thin” folks or those that have never had any problems with their weight telling me or you what you need to do to lose weight. This drives me nuts!!  I want to here from those that fought their weight issues and WON!  Well I can at least tell you what I am doing and what is working for me. My hope is that I can be in some small way a help or inspiration to you.

If you can get yourself into the habit of choosing the right foods the easier it is in the long run. It even becomes easy when eating out. You don’t have to eat anything strange, you just eat normal everyday foods. I found that when you eat what is on your meal plan for the day you will find that you will start feeling full by the end of the day. Here is a sample of what I would have as a daily meal plan.

Breakfast:                    Snack:                      Lunch:                       Snack:                         Dinner

1- Fruit                                                           1- Fruit                                                             1- Fruit
1- Starch                                                         1- Protein                                                        1- starch
1- Dairy                                                          2- Veggies                                                       1- Protein
2- Veggies

This is what I put in those categories.

Breakfast:

1- small apple

1- 3/4cup Cheerios

1- 8oz glass of milk

Lunch:

1- small banana

1- 8oz Chicken Breast

1- 6 baby carrots

1- 1/2 cup raw Cauliflower

Dinner:

1- 3/4cup pineapple

1- small Potato

1- 1tsp of butter

1- 1/2 cup raw mushroom

1- 1/2 cup broccoli

1- Fish in Foil

For my snacks I have been eating Special K Bars (Chocolate Drizzle) or I get Nature Trails Fruit & Grain Bar (Apple/Cinnamon)

Here is the recipe for the Fish in Foil if you are interested.

1- fish (i use tilapia or salmon)(about 7oz)
1- Can’t believe it’s not butter Spray
dash of salt and pepper

Oven to 450
Wrap fish securely in a piece of heavy duty aluminum foil. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 20 minutes.

Open foil and spray with butter spray and add salt and pepper.

Bake uncovered until fish flakes very easily with a fork and is opaque in center.

While you may say there is no way that it is enough food but it really is. As you train yourself to not eat the junk but focus on the right food your body will adjust and soon you will find that you are eating the right amount. Trust me it worked for me before (till I blew it) and it is working again for me.

How else do I know it is working… I went clothes shopping the other day (gosh I hate that) and I came home with some REALLY REALLY cute tops and they were a size smaller! Proof to me that it is working!!

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Motivation to Lose Weight- Pictures are Worth Their Weight.

  • Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:56 pm

So I found while looking for other pictures 3 pictures that are probably the biggest motivational pictures that should really keep me on track.  If I can remember to take my motrin an hour before I get on the treadmill I can keep getting my walks in.  My ankle is starting to feel a little better until I step wrong or step on a big rock in the driveway.

I had said before that when I got pregnant with my first daughter I was around 240 pounds, well in this picture I was about 4-5 months pregnant and about 255 pounds.  This picture was taken in 2004 at a friends wedding.

 

I said that I just did not care about my weight at that time, I just said “I am pregnant and I can eat what I want, when I want.”  At least my makeup looked good in this picture.

My daughter was born in early 2005 and I was pushing 300 pounds.  (sigh).  I knew I was very heavy but I just turned a blind eye to it.  When I went back to my first dr’s visit after her birth, I heard them say the 284 number but I did a great job of not letting it sink in or bug me.  However when my daughter was only 3 months old my family went to Cedar Point and this picture was taken of me.

 

That is when my world came crashing down around me.  It was then that I realized that if I did not do something soon I was going to not be around for my daughter.  I was 280 in that picture.  The awful thing is that I got into one of them kiddie trains so I could ride something with my baby.  I am surprised that I was able to get in or out of it.

I was very depressed when I saw this picture and that started me off on my 1.5 year of LA Weight Loss.  I was 276 pounds when I started there.

When I completed that journey I had lost 77 pounds!  Here was my beautiful self after that weight loss.  While I thought I look great the world still looked at me as being massively overweight.

 

Unfortunately I let things stop me from keeping that weight off or even loosing more and I have now put 61 of that weight back on, well I have lost 6 of that 61!  I thought if I share this that will even be a stronger motivation than just talking about it.  Let me see what I was at one time and what I could look like again.  My goal is to have a new motorcycle and some drop dead gorgeous mesh riding gear!  But I will only do that when I hit my goal weight of 199 again.  This time I will keep losing weight even after hitting that goal!  Bring it on Amy wants a new bike!!!

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A Big Thank You to All Those Who Read and Comment on My Blog

  • Posted on March 18, 2011 at 5:44 pm


This is for all of you who read this and have left comments or whom have talked to me in person, this is a BIG THANK YOU! You are the ones that are keeping me accountable and going. However a few days ago I had lost my motivation to keep going. It is not on the food end that I am struggling with, I am doing pretty good with that. I just can not get myself on the treadmill. I missed one day because between running to doctors appt and working I ran out of time. But that one day I just could not get down there and get walking. HELP! This is not good. I know I am griping about my ankle that is hurting from a race I had with my 6 yr old. I lost that race. She is just way to fast for an old out of shape mom. So I pouted and missed that day HOWEVER the next day i said no more I want to drop the weight more than I want to be over weight. So I gimped down to the basement and got on the treadmill. I walked 3 miles yesterday at a nice easy 2mph. My ankle was sore but I had it wrapped. It felt so good to be back on the treadmill. Ahhhh. But the thing that topped it all off was that I climbed on the scales and it said I lost another 2 pounds!!!
It was my birthday and I did have a piece of birthday cake but it is ok because I can stay away from what is left! Today I was getting ready for work and when I put my belt on I was able to move it up 2 whole belt holes!!!! Oh I was doing the happy dance and was ready to cry! God is blessing me! I have a long way to go but I am on the right track and it will take me to the right place!

So far with my treadmill walking I have walked the same distance as from my house to the outskirts of Mt. Eaton, Oh!! 19.5 miles!

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McDonalds, Wendys, and Subway-Unhealthy for Baby and Me

  • Posted on February 27, 2011 at 9:54 pm

So yesterday was my major shopping day. I go to several stores to shop because of the prices (that will be another post another day). I made my list and stuck to it and filled my refrigerator and pantry. But while shopping and putting things away I got to thinking about what my “normal” week is for me. I get up, get myself and my oldest dressed, get breakfast in the oldest and get the baby up, changed and dressed, get in the car and head off to the bus, after she is on the bus I find myself heading up the road and right into the McDonalds drivethru. Why? Because it is easy and I don’t have to try to find something that the baby will eat and I don’t have to cook or make anything again. What kind of stupid thinking is that? I am feeding the baby and I crap instead of taking the time to make something that is worth eating and might actually be good for us. After we get home it is take of the house time and while doing this I find myself just grazing all day long. If Steve is at work I do not take the time to cook it is WAY more easier to let someone else do the work, so off to a drive thru we go. Kind of sounds like a song…. Hi Ho Hi Ho it’s off to a drive thru we go….. Wow what an unhealthy life I was leading and dragging my kids along for the ride.

Well this got me thinking about what I was eating in a week. When I would hit the drive thru at McDonalds this was my normal picks.

Egg McMuffin, Hash Brown and a small Diet Coke 450 cals (per their website)
Bacon Egg and Cheese, Hash Brown and a small Diet Coke 570 cals (per their site)
Big Breakfast and a small Diet Coke 740 cals (per their site)
Big Breakfast with Hot Cakes and a small Diet Coke 1090 cals (per their site)

Now that I take the time and look at those calorie numbers it scares me. Why? Because it was nothing for me to be there 3 times a week. When I was at home for lunch I usually just graze on what ever I could find, if I was at work more times than not I would go to Sub Way for lunch. Now I am a creature of habit and I always get the same thing there.

Foot long Turkey Breast and Ham on Honey and Oat Bread with Mayo, Mustard and cheese and a Diet Coke 690 cals (per their site)

If Steve was at work or I was at work I would head for Wendy’s or back to McDonalds for dinner. My dinner of choice was always

Quarter Pounder with Cheese, FF and a Diet Coke 890 cals (per their site)

or

Spicy Chicken Combo, FF and a Diet Coke 940 cals

Because of my being lazy and taking the easy way out of taking care of my health and keeping that weight off I was slowly killing myself or at least on a fast track to maybe becoming a diabetic and having heart problems. So today I am starting to turn my new leaf… I made breakfast for my kids and I before church that was pancakes and turkey bacon. I had 1 medium size pancake and 3 strips of bacon. That is fantastic for me, I love pancakes, I could eat a dozen of them. For lunch I made a fun kids meal and I only had a small bowl of it. Dinner I warmed up left over sloppy joe (1 sandwich). I was so very very proud of myself with my eating choices today. Water water water water….. I drank no pop today! Steve made some tea last night and when I made a glass of it today I started laughing because it was nothing but water with a scent of the tea!

I know that I am going to face lots of trials and situations with keeping away from the fast food. With my family and my wonderful friends and the dear Lord above I can do this and I WILL make it! I deserve it!!

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