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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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What made me decide on trying LA WeightLoss.

  • Posted on February 23, 2011 at 2:49 pm

One thing that would become to be a major change in my life happened 16 years ago.  I meet a guy who would become my husband.  He could see beyond my outer shell and see who I was.  He was the first person (outside of family) who cared to even try.  While my change of losing weight would be slow and long he stuck with me through it all.  After 5 years of marriage we started trying for a family.  With in weeks we found out we were pregnant!  That was the biggest high I had ever felt!!!!  However 9 weeks later that all came crashing down around me with the lose of the pregnancy.  Here came that depression bug again.  However Steve was right there by my side and after a small break we tried again and it worked!

This next pregnancy was not without its issues.  Several weeks into it I was having major issues.  I was in and out of the hospital several times thinking we were losing this baby also.  Then came bed rest for about 2 weeks.  That is something that helps an already overweight person that has nothing to do but lay around and graze on junk food.  After the bed rest I was told that I was on a lifting restriction for the next 7 months.  I might not have been able to lift boxes and help move into our new home but by golly I could open up a chip bag and eat, after all I was pregnant did that not give me the right to eat like a horse.  The weight was pilling up and I was blind to it.  When our beloved little daughter was born I was getting really close to that 300lb line.  WOW!  When she was 3 months old we took my sister-n-law and went to Cedar Point and a picture was taken of me and I was mortified.  It was at that point that I HAD to and NEEDED to make a change.  I suddenly was noticing how bad my knees, hips and legs were hurting.  I could not climb the stairs without becoming so winded that I had to stop at the top to catch my breath.

I finally sat down with Steve and said I gotta do something and I can not do it alone I NEED HELP MAJOR HELP.  We together decided that I was going to do the LA Weight loss program.  This in itself was a great thing and a bad thing.  When we went up there for the first time and signed up and I stepped on the scales for the very first time I thought I was going to pass out.  Those evil numbers said 276lbs.  OMGosh!  Having the baby only allowed me to drop 15lbs.  I was crushed, I was sad, scared, ashamed, depressed (again).  How could I have let myself get this way, how could I do this to my family.  I wanted to run across the street and get my Chick-fil-a.  After getting all my stuff that would kick start my “weight loss” we headed home.  I was trying to have a positive attitude about my new journey but I was having a hard time seeing the new future.

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