Bellaryna's Journey

*Hang in there sweetie!*

I know all about the 'blah's!' :smilielol5:

My dental issues caused my sudden stop w/exercise and my eating routine.

Doin' better now so I have to dust off my exercise bike and get back to walkin'. lol

Hope things will get less-busy 4 ya so you can have 'time' 4 YOU!

:hug2:

<3 ya - Stacy
 
Get on that beast, baby--and I don't mean your husband!! :smilielol5:

Make some Dawn time b/c you sure do deserve it. You know I'm one of your biggest fans..lol. :eek: Flashbacks of a Stephan King novel/movie. :D What was the name of that? Kathy Bates played the psycho fan.
 
Jeez Louise!
You people are going to think that I have ditched ya for sure!
Truth be told I haven't had time to get on and update the ol' diary but I have "lurked" around and read up on everyone else's. LOL
Things are going good here.
After this week things should slow down here for a while. My special project for the YMCA will be done tomorrow and Upwards Basketball ends on Saturday.
After that is a week in sunny (okay maybe not sunny but at least warmer I hope) Tennesee. Be spendind Spring Break down there with the family in tow.
I love TN. Most of our time there will be spent in the Smokey Mountians National Park.
Walking trails and mountains and such! LOL
I would much rather spend my time with nature taking my chances with the bears than spend it in the touristy trap towns in the area that we will be visiting.
Weight has been going well. I got all the way back up to 208 something or other. After getting ahold of a book about clean-eating (basically if GOD didn't make it you don't eat it) last Tuesday and giving up bread, I have lost 4 pounds and am actually back down to the 204.6 that is on my ticker.
I am hoping to keep this trend up. Though I did have a slice of bread Sunday with my breakfast and 1 slice of pizza tonight for dinner. Though I would have been much happier eating something else. Meaning it didn't even taste that good. And I definately wasn't craving any more of it.
I have been keeping an iron fist on my food and it seems that it is working. I am hoping that since things are slowing down I will have more time for me. Working out and such.
Kellie (trainer girl) is thinking of offering one of her PowerCore classes in the mornings on Monday's and Wednesday's. If she does that I am soooo there.
Right now my fam is waaay to important to me to give up my time with them in the evenings. Besides I would much rather get the torture over early in the day! LOL
Well I just wanted to pop in here real quick to let everyone know that I have not quite gone AWOL yet. Though my kids may drive me there someday! HA!
I will check back in as often as possible.
At least I will be lurking for sure since I am waiting for Bikinibound to pop out her papoose.
Catch ya all later.
 
SweatPea said:
Watch out for dem bears in da smokey moutns! :D

I wish I could join you!
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Wish you could tag along too! As for them bears I plan to use them as leverage for when the kids are whining about how they can't walk anymore cuz' they are "tired". Figured I would have daddy double around back behind them and make growling noises. Think that will get 'em movin? hee hee

pastelroses said:
Boo! :seeya:

Your upcoming trip sounds sooo nice! Great job on the 4 pound loss, hun!! See you around!
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Hey there you!!!
Glad to see ya around!
Thanks for the kudos on the 4 pounds. Now lets just see if I can manage to keep it going.
 
Sooo twice in one week! Aren't you guys lucky! hahaha
Things have been going well here. Today was the first day since last Tuesday that I really allowed myself to eat any sweet/bread things. We had small group bible study at my house and I served up mini-brownies and mini-chocolate chip cookies. For the most part I stuck with the veggies and the fruit. This was the spread that was offered up:
Watermelon, grapes, carrots, cucumbers, bellpeppers, cheese, pepperoni, crackers, the mini cookies and brownies and chips with salsa. Oh and venison summer sausage. Yummy!
I had a large plate of veggies, a few crackers with pepperoni, some cheese, a slice of watermelon and maybe about 8-10 mini cookies/brownies. I know 8-10 sounds like alot but they were actually mini-sized. That and I have not allowed myself to have anything not made by God for the last 10 days. Figured that one meal wouldn't kill me. As well as I did not feel well for most of the day so did not eat much all day long.
Weighed in at 203.8 the other morning and am hoping to get a good number tomorrow. Since I will be getting 8 hours of sleep I should see a good number for sure.
Still having that urge to get out and run and was actually going to attempt to run the track at the YMCA this morning when I was done with work but ended up going home early not feeling well. Mostly from taking Nyquil last night and then not getting enough sleep. Came home and slept until 12:30pm. Which is totally unlike me. Even if I am tired I don't usually sleep away an entire afternoon.
Okay so if I am going to get that 8 hours of sleep I talked about then I need to get off of this thing before it sucks up to much more of my time.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Later Gators!
 
Mamaz2ndbaby said:
Bella, what's the name and author of the book you mentioned?
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Sorry I have not gotten back with you before now. We only got back from the vaca late on Saturday.

The book was called "The Clean Eating Diet".
I believe the authors last name was Resco? You can google the title and most likely find it.
 
I haven't been around to much lately.
Was on vacation for most of the past 2 weeks. And even though there were times that I could have gotten online, I chose not to.
Now I know that I was only bullcrappin' myself with that excuse. LOL
I have been using my vacation as an excuse to eat like a pig :piggy:.
I am not even sure how much weight I have gained. Since I haven't been on the scale in a few days.
I do know that it must be pretty significant as my jeans are very very tight now.
Where as before they were just a bit snug.
Now I feel like I can barely sit in them without feeling like I am being cut in half.
I have also noticed that my upper thighs have "grown" as well.
Sigh.
Funny thing though........
my next door neighbor told me this morning that I looked like I had lost some more weight! hahaa
Either he can't recall what I looked like the last time he saw me or he needs to get his bifocals checked!!!! hahaha
So now that vacation is over I am going to try my bestest to get back to the way things were before vacation. I was doing so well.
I always find it hard to get back into the groove of things. But now I really have no choices. As I refuse to go out and buy new clothes for the summer and I absolutely refuse to NOT be able to get into my jeans this coming fall/winter.
I have said before that I have been playing around with the idea of running.
More because it just keeps coming up in my head.
So I think that I am going to give it a go. Starting Monday (the reason for Monday is my youngest bday is tomorrow~Friday the 3rd~ and we are having a party on Sat....might as well get in one last hurrah, cake and ice cream wise that is),
As I was saying starting Monday I am going to go back to the "no bread/sugar thing". As well as I am going to give running a go. I figure that I will start out real slow, just running until I can't anymore than walk some. When I feel I can run again I will run some more.
Dh seems to think that with that system I could be running and actual mile in no time at all. Of course I wouldn't be running no 4 minute mile but he thinks that I could "actually" finish it.
So that is what I am going to do.
Count cals,
restrict bread/sugar,
run/jog/walk.

My new goal will be this~
I would like to lose 1 pound a week.
Meaning that at the end of April I should see a loss of 4 pounds.

I figured if I started out with a reasonable goal than I shouldn't have any problems hitting it.

And maybe just maybe I will actually over do-it. :)
 
Well today is the day.
Vacation is over.
I know that I shouldn't have treated my vacation as a free for all when it came to eating. And looking back there were so many opportunities that I had to eat better. There were some times where there was no other choices but for those times that I could have chosen better I could kick myself. Oh well what is done is done.
Now the only thing to do is get back to it.
So while looking around the net I was able to find a site that has music set to the Couch to 5k rules. Not all the music is my taste but I know enough of it to make it work.
I am going to post the site here in my diary as well as over in the general forum since I know that there is always someone looking for some kind of music program and this one is easy to use and FREE! Which in my opinion is the best thing......hahaha.

As we "speak" sorta I am downloading all the weeks that I want to have and when it is done I will be heading off to the YMCA to give it a go. Add to that my trainer friend Kelly did decide to do her PowerCore class in the early morning so I will finally be able to get back to that class. Which I have been missing greatly. And then of course there is the Zumba classes that I can attend for free......there is that word again!!!! LOL :smilielol5: I really think I can do it this time. I am feeling the old me returning. The one who got this whole ball of wax rolling in the first place.
Watch out, cuz here I come!
 
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Gained 7 pounds over vacation.........:ack2:
Now weigh in at 213.6 which overall puts me up 27 pounds since April of last year. Shameful I know. *Shaking head* All that hard work and I just threw it out the window.
Honestly I am up a size but refuse to buy bigger pants so currently should be wearing an 18 to be comfortable but I am *:hug2:* squeezed into my 16's. Hardly able to breathe but I figure that will be a good reminder to not overeat.

So here is the plan:
Log food over at the DailyPlate every day! NO EXCUSES!!
Stay with-in the cal count that the DailyPlate gives me for losing one pound a week.
Put into effect the Couch to 5k plan..........starting TODAY!!!
When Kelly gets those classes going, attend them. NO EXCUSES!!!
Drink lots and lots of water.
Clean Eating............if God didn't make it I ain't gonna eat it.
And most importantly keep a photo log of my progress.
I really believe that had I been doing a better job of that last year I might not have let myself gain the weight back. Because in my head I still saw myself as "the big girl". Having no pictures of myself at a healthy weight I have a hard time "seeing" myself smaller.
So there it is.
I will post a beginning pic soon.
Ciao for now.
 
:smilielol5: Welcome Back!

Just read your your entry in my diary. ;)

This is neat that it's Day 1 for both of us! :hug2:

I will weigh in soon..(Only been up a little bit bc hubby and I did not sleep well..He's sick..)

I'm sure I have gained as well! (sorry about your 7 lbs hon.)

Cory had company and they wanted tacos and mexican rice.. :ack2:

I had NO self-control!

I have had holiday candy type junk as well. :rolleyes:

You're not alone sweetie..Remember, I was up over 20 lbs. Sept '08'..
Sept '07' when I joined here, I was 179 lbs.

WE WILL REACH OUR GOALS!

:grouphug:

*Hang in there.*

<3 Stacy
 
I did make it to the YMCA.
Didn't get to do the whole Cto5k though. :( Even though I really really wanted to.
By the time I go to the Y I only had about 20 minutes to workout and that was cutting it close to say the least, since I had to get over to the school to pick up my kids!
Am proud of myself though as the thought did enter my mind that there wasn't enough time to get in a full workout.
The thought went a little like this:
~ Hmmm not enough time to get the whole thing done and pick up the kids on time. Could just take the kids with me to the Y, but then they don't open up the kid care until 4, and by that time I need to be getting dinner around. If I wait until after dinner there will be a slew of people there, don't want to work out with a huge crowd. I guess I could just wait until tomorrow.........
NO STOP THIS NONSENSE!!!!
I said I would start this today and today I will.
So what if I can't get the whole workout in. It will be a start at least.~
And that is how I got to the Y and only did 20 minutes of fast walking/jogging.
By the way........the jogging wasn't that bad.
Not bad at all.
:seeya:
 
Good for you Bell! I haven't done any exercise as of yet - oh wait does 5 min. of yoga count with kids at school? :)
 
SweatPea said:
Good for you Bell! I haven't done any exercise as of yet - oh wait does 5 min. of yoga count with kids at school? :)
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You betcha it does! Now just add some more time too it!!! LOL
Getting ready to head back up there so that I can actually say that I ran the whole thing. Gonna start from the beginning.
Wish me luck!!
 
Welp I am getting ready to head back out to the YMCA to finish/complete the Couch to 5k that I started earlier today.
I think that I am going to just start all over from the beginning.
Hope I can make it thru.
Later Gators!
 
Hey Bell!

I just looked up the couch to 5k program. It says you only have to do it for 20 - 30 min. are you going for the 30 min.?
 
SweatPea said:
Hey Bell!

I just looked up the couch to 5k program. It says you only have to do it for 20 - 30 min. are you going for the 30 min.?
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Well the music program that I found on line has it set for about 25 minutes.
So I guess I am right in between where I need to be.
 
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