Hmm ... How does that work?

So I won again this week, but it didn't feel very earned. I did not loose any weight but I didn't gain, so while I guess that's a win, it's a bit disappointing after such a success last week.

I decided to lower the number of calories I'm allowed in a day to help offset that inevitable binge day I seem to keep having once a week. It may be tomorrow, I'm having beer n pizza with a friend, YUM!

Starting Weight: 218

Current Weight: 212.8

I will this week:

- eat better, less binge eating

- more exercise (even if it's just 30 mins)

- get things done .. Make a schedule and stick to it!

Winner!

So we completed the first week of "the game" and I am the winner!! Now we obviously are both winners loosing 2 & 4 lbs. ... But I did get more points ha! The prize I drew out of the prize jar was no AM dog duty for a week, hello luxury!

Overall, it was a good week. I could have stepped up my game over the weekend but we had a GREAT anniversary and loved all the food and surprises :-)

Starting Weight: 217

Current Weight: 212.8

This Week I Will:

- begin a winning streak 

- exercise more

- CELEBRATE MY BIRTHDAY!!

BDubs Fights Back

So apparently eating at BDubs after a work out was a BAD idea. I'm currently laying down with an upset stomach, while my fiancé "handles his issues" in the hall bath (sorry babe!)

Good news is it's been a decent week! I did really well tracking M-F, tracked nothing Saturday, and tracked after the fact Sunday. Overall, considering we had out of town visitors, I did pretty okay :)

Also, the man and I began a challenge against each other. You get points for different accomplishments, and whoever has the most points on Sunday, WINS!

Starting Weight: 218

Current Weight: 216.6

Goals for the Week:

- workout 6/7 days

- win the challenge this week

- take my lunch to work every day

- eat breakfast

My New Life in My Old Body

So it's been exactly 1 year since I posted last and man has my life changed ... 

1. I'm engaged to a wonderful man who loves all my perfect imperfections 

2. I'm living in another city and trying to find my way 

3. I'm working at a new job .. Part-time because I needed more free time to think about food ha!

4. The only one you all would truly want to know ... I weigh 218 pounds

Obviously my world is pretty great with the exception that I've gained back all the weight I lost +2. I won't sit here and say "I don't know how it happened". It happened because I got lazy and let fat lizzie run the show. But, I made a promise in my very first post .. I will get back up and try again when I fall. 

Dusting myself off took me a little longer than I'd liked it too ... But here goes nothing folks!

Starting Weight: 218

Current Weight: 218

Tomorrow I Will:

- exercise before or after work

- make healthy meals for Adam & I

- eat out & hangout with a bestie for dinner

Stresses and Dresses

So this weekend (well week) has been a whirlwind of emotions. A boy I helped babysit (because my friend was his nanny) passed away. I keep faith he is happier in heaven.
Now the point of that depressing story ... I went to put on a dress to wear to the funeral and couldn't zip it up all the way :( because I needed to get frustrated by that lol
So my goal for this coming week is to exercise more often to lessen my stress .... Maybe?

Starting weight: 216
Current weight: 190

Tomorrow I Will:

- enjoy the sunshine
- spend time with R before she leaves
- be greatful!

Nose Dive

So starting with dessert last night and into all meals so far today, I have taken a diet nose dive ha! All good tasting foods but bad for me foods. Dear cold stone - thanks but also screw you!

Tmrw is another day ....

Starting Weight: 216
Current Weight: 189

Tomorrow I Will:
- eat cleaner and healthier
- walk Harley in the pretty weather
- go grocery shopping to cleanse my food stock pile

Clean Eating

Well I hit a bit of a low this weekend ... I pretty much ate everything in sight and am sitting here not liking myself too much.

I think I'm going to take a note from my sister ... Eat things that have fewer ingredients and things with ingredients I can pronounce. Too many things have "extras" in them that don't need to be there!

Starting Weight: 216
Current Weight: 191

Tomorrow I Will:
- grocery shop for clean foods
- feed the girls at work
- walk/lift and try to feel better inside

I'm Baaaaaaaack!

I know, I know .... I haven't been posting. Shame shame! ....

Well now that this is over .... I will try and be better. Both at posting on here, and about my weight. I will admit I have stalled out around 188 and am a big disheartened. I will keep going forward, but I would be lying to say thoughts of "throwing in the towel" hadnt crossed my mind.

Starting weight: 216
Current weight: 188.2

Today I will- finish house chores and grocery shop for me and little H

Sorry for the Delay

Howdy Howdy folks! sorry for making you wait so long inbetween posts, I know how all 3 of you hang on my ever word ha!

This last week has been intense and WAY busier than I would hope a week to be. Did not do as well with food choices as I would have liked to but overall not a terrible food week. I really need to kick my exercise into high gear though, because that is looking sad!

I am excited because a co-worker and I are going to be doing the Shamrock walk the day after the parade in Downtown Indy, should be FUN! This also gives me a good goal again :)


Starting Weight: 216 lbs
Current Weight: 188 lbs

Tomorrow I will:

- spend an awesome day with my momma
- take little miss H for a walk
- make sure my foodie blog is ready to launch on Wednesday/Thursday!

Wellness at Work

So today was the kick-off of our workplace wellness program. Nothing too crazy yet, just a few simple changes:

1. we were all given pedometers .... one co-worker might try and make us all competitive about number of steps a day :-)

2. we were split in "groups" based on the answers we gave to a wellness survey before break

3. we will be having monthly "lunch and learn" sessions on different topics to keep us all in the know. next week is the first one and we will be discussing e-resources to meet our goals.

4. we will be publishing a wellness newsletter every month for the staff to read

*note: when I say "we" I mean a group of staffers that make up the wellness committee*

I have also sent out a little note to members of my group about walking for 30 mins at lunch (we get an hour) twice a week to help with our fitness goals (and keep our daily steps average high ha!). So far things seem like they will be fun .... although I do eventually want to find a way to make this competitive ... because that is who I am!! ha!


Starting Weight: 216 lbs
Current Weight: 189 lbs

Tomorrow I Will:

- walk 30 mins at work
- have dinner with the family
- work out with mom
- try not to go overboard at lunch (pizza, yum yum!)

2013 .. OH YEAH!

Okay ... 2013 and I are friends ... so far, ha! I have been having a great year, starting with a fun Great Gatsby themed party with awesome people, food, drinks, and games. Spilling over into a day with mom's pancakes for lunch, and then a day of lunch at Yats and shopping with the bestie while she's in town. Which of course leads to the unveiling of the goals:

1. Do one thing every week to make me feel special
2. Do one thing every week to make others feel special
3. Get to goal weight (I can feel the universe laughing/plotting as I type)

So far the weight journey isn't too shabby. Not as active as I should be but doing pretty okay calorie wise.

Starting Weight: 216 lbs
Current Weight: 191 lbs
Goal Weight: 130-140 lbs

Tomorrow I Will:
- get into the gym while people are at work so I can SUPER sweat
- have fun at wine night with my Theta loves
- start my work on getting tax stuff together and make my 3 budget options to show dad

2013

I have been thinking a lot about the coming year. I'm hoping to hit my goal weight, I turn 25, I will hit my 2 year anniversary of working for an awesome place, Harley turns 3 (or 21 lol), and I I will visit Vegas for the first time. As I think about the coming year of course I have to reflect on this past year. Lots of highs and lows, but I feel more and more like the me I'm supposed to become every day. So I have decided to make 3 large goals for the year and make a promise to myself that I will do one thing every day to get me closer to me goals. I've been tossing around a few ideas... And won't decide until Dec 31 but some of the ones I've been tossing around are:

1. Record/Remember more events
2. Feel more confident in my own skin
3. Make more dreams into reality
4. Be more adventurous
5. Love, Laugh, Live

Food has been hard while on break from work but not doing terrible. Harley helps by keeping me active even during the blizzards and snow lol

Starting Weight: 216lbs
Current Weight: 191lbs

Tomorrow I Will:
- have fun with my sister before she leaves
- clean and organize the apartment
- grocery shop with some of my Pinterest finds
- make a daycare plan for Harley for the next 2 weeks

5Ks and Cookies

So the 5K DID NOT kill me (although at times it felt like it might lol). I did enjoy the time with my family, and I did not hate the "alone" time as much as I thought I would. Yes I ran most of it alone because my brother in law was sick so my nephew stayed home with him. Which was sad but in a way nice, because the whole thing was at my pace.

So last night, during my "I Finished!" high, I decided to get back on track about my eating. I have been allowing too many snacks to slip through the cracks. Either I track them, but don't exercise enough to cancel them out, or I don't track them and secretly pretend they didn't happen.

So of course today we got two more gifts at work (chocolate covered pretzels, and cookies!). and I am sorry, I am not really the "just say no to desserts" kind of gal! Thankfully I had a sensible breakfast, a light lunch (beans, salsa, cheese, and blue corn chips), and plan to have a light dinner (not really that hungry .... just have to keep the boredom snacking at bay.


Overall .... feeling pretty shiny today!

Starting Weight: 216 lbs
Current Weight: 191 lbs (got my new scale to use ALL THE TIME)

Tomorrow I will:

- behave at lunch at McCalister's Deli
- run/walk 3.1 miles on the treadmill before picking up H at daycare
- have fun at work ... gotta figure out something :)

It's on!

Today has been a good day so far .... I was nervous about not being able to fill H's stocking this Christmas (yes I am AWARE shes a dog ha!) but today one of my co-workers shared a "groupon-esq" deal with me $25 for $50 at an online store PLUS a 25% off code PLUS FREE shipping and garunteed to get here before Christmas!!!! I am one happy momma!

This weekend will be fun as well ... my big sister, brother in law, and nephew are coming for a visit and to run a 5K as a family on Sunday. I will be participating, and I am NOT looking forward to this. I am NOT a runner, so I shall be walking, and while I am happy to do this for my mother (the organizer/master guilt trip artist) I have no want or need to be a "runner" or compete in atheltic challenges with large groups of strangers lol

Saturday though will be a highlight day ... I will be spenidng all afternoon/evening celebrating one of my friends as she preps for her big day (wedding of course!) which is one week from Saturday!! We will be having her shower in the afternoon, and then off to the bachelorette party at the Jazz Kitchen!!

Overall ... I lead a pretty charmed life folks .... now I just have to keep it a slimmer charmed life as I prep for VEGAS in May!!!!!!!!


Starting Weight: 216lbs
Current Weight: 191lbs

Tomorrow I will:

- have fun!!
- watch my calories as I party
- find a good about being in the 5K (other than time with my family since they will be .5-.8 miles ahead of me lol)

New Challenges ... New Rewards

So I am back attempting this "dating" business again .... I'm not terribly sure about this but I'm gonna give it my best shot lol Most of my uneasiness does come from this weight loss journey. It's hard when you know some people in the world still see you as "big" or "overweight" but all you want to scream at them is I LOST 25 LBS BITCH! lol

Other than that things are going well, loving the new apartment, and miss H is getting used to living away from grammy and grampy ha!

Also I am trying that 50 challenge thing again .. a little different this time, I got rid of the "no scale" section and that is not in my plan lol Also I made my own tracker sheet because theirs was not easy to mark progres son and actually see where I was.


Starting Weight: 216lbs
Current Weight: 187lbs

Tomorrow I will:

- eat a more protien rich breakfast
- talk a longer walk in the morning and after work rather than just at lunch
- I will get excited for my date ... thats right I have a date tomorrow evening *crossed fingers*

Size 12

that's right ... SIZE 12!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wore a SIZE 12 dress to work on Monday AND bought SIZE 12 jeans from Old Navy on black Friday!!!!!!!!!! (yes SIZE 12 will be in caps lol)

Feeling good ... not feeling great about my breakfast choice of the day (cold pizza) but it's my fault for staying up too late and not getting the sleep I should've ha!

oh well .... SIZE 12!!!!!!!!!!!!

Starting Weight: 216 lbs
Current Weight: 191 lbs

Tomorrow I will:

- Make breakfast
- Walk Harley
- Pick something fun to do for me (thats free)

I Survived Thanksgiving

well it is almost the end of Thanksgiving and I have SURVIVED!! I wish I could say I stayed under 1200 calories consumed, but let's face it, you wouldn't believe me ha! So here's the breakdown:

Calories Consumed: 1550
Calories Used (work outs): 222

So overall not too shabby! Thankfully I am surrounded by very supportive family members, that help me keep things in check, as well as not jusge me when I have a cookie (or 2). My mother even sat down with me tonight to try a new approach to eating that I read in my kindle sample of ëat this, not that". Since I know I want to hit 1200 calories in a day (plus exercise) I took 12 (well I ended with 13 or 14) pieces of paper with food that equals 100 calories (some a little less but 100 was the max). Basically the thought it 12 times a day I get to pull a piece of paper out of my "food baggie"and eat whatever it says. I broke my into 3 baggies, main foods, side dishes, and desserts/sweets. Of course the day wouldn't be complete without a curve ball ... on black friday we eat at cracker barrel, and I am NOT giving that up lol. So I looked at calories/fat/sugars/etc. on the web and chose the side portion of hashbrown casserole, and 2 scrambled eggs (right at 200 calories together) and this way, I stay in a safe range AND i get to enjoy the meal with my family not feel deprived. This also means I still have 10 more times during the day I get to choose foods from my baggies.

yes, I am anal retentive about food, money, and life, but thats who I am, I LOVE control in my life. Get on board ha!

Current Weight: 191 lbs (went to the doctor and realized our home scale was off)
Starting Weight: 216 lbs
Total Lost So Far: 25lbs (yay team!!)

Tomorrow I will:
- Shop till I drop
- miss Harley but know shes having fun with her uncle
- workout and burn at least 150 calories

*btw sorry I have been irregular in my posts ... life gets in the way ha!*

Update

Not much to say ... I'll let the pictures speak for themselves ..

Changes

So many changes lately ... Moving into a new apartment, getting Harley into a new daycare, and starting a new goal with a co-worker. I am pretty excited about all three!

The new goal is to loose another 10-15 lbs in the next 32 days (my company holiday party) and the reward will be wearing a beautiful dress I purchased from Madewell. It's gonna be tough since I need to at least loose 2lbs a week if not more, which for me means kicking exercise into high gear and being better about my "indulgences".

Starting Weight: 210lbs
Current Weight: 188lbs

Tomorrow/Today I Will:
- finish moving
- make a weekday routine for me and Harley
- plan out some healthy dinners
- make a savings account for my Vegas trip in May

Eating

So this week I have not been so great about eating ... and I don't mean eating healthy ... I mean eating at all. I haven't been eating breakfast because I keep sleeping in, and lately if I work late or have something after work I sometimes only have a banana or chex mix instead of dinner.

I need to actually eat, eat healthy, and eat on a schedule again ...

Starting Weight: 210 lbs
Current WEight: 190 lbs

Tomorrow I Will:

- eat on a schedule ... ever 3 hours
- hug Harley tight before she goes to day care for the weekend
- think of 3 kind things to do for others