Bellaryna's Journey

Thanks Sweetiepea, Yarmiah and Kimberly for giving me such wonderful encouragement.
Special thanks to Sweetiepea for looking for me this morning at church to reinforce what she said here.
Last night was a veeeerrrry long night. I didn't get home until 4am and by the time I actually crawled into bed and fell asleep it was close to 4:30.
I had to get up at 8 this morning 'cuz I thought I had to teach the Preschool Sunday School class. Apparently there was someone else there to do it so I got lucky. In that I basically dropped my kids off at chuch and I came back home to sleep some more.
I have never done that in all the time that I have been working this weekend shift. Skipped church that is.
But I was soooo tired. I was able to get in a 2 hour nap. Woke up to the wonderful smells of my hubby fixing lunch. Chicken Fajita's no less!!! Yummy!
I weighed myself when I got up and I am .2 higher than my low weight.
So it would seem that counting the cals is the way for me to go.
As I tend to over estimate how much things are worth. Or rather I would underestimate things, then eat to much of something.
This week is going to be another busy one. Swim classes resume this week, Dh and I are going to go Steelhead fishing on Tuesday and my youngest's birthday is Thursday. Add into that the usual stuff around the house and my classes and you get an idea of just how busy it is around here.
Well I need to get heading to work.
Oh Joy!
NOT!
LOL
Especially after the night I had last night.
I'll chat at everyone later.
C-Ya!
 
I always overestimate or round up my cals. I do know when I haven't had enough.

Speaking of your dh, C'Man said that he was trying to sound like a cowboy this morning at church, but he said he thought he sounded like Bill Clinton! :biggrinjester:

I need to give him a call just to say, "Howdy Bill!" :D
 
Hi Dawn

I have just been catching up on all the things that you have been doing since I last popped by.

I agree with others that your Fit For Life gym classes sound so gruelling. I certainly could not do that kind of thing. I am sure that they will be causing you to build muscle and this will prevent you from making as much progress as you deserve on the scales. Dont worry if you feel that your weightloss is slowing at times. There is more to the story than just the number on the scale.

Having said that - I think that there is value in listing what you eat. It is very very easy to eat something that we know will sabotage our weight loss efforts and try to pretend that it didnt happen. As you concluded after your jam doughnut incident - such amnesia does us no favours in the long run because our bodies know what we have been doing and eating. No-one here will judge you for such incidents - we are too too prone to go there ourselves. I adore jam doughnuts. Within the last 10 minutes on the television there was a description of fingers of fudge with a chocolate dipping sauce that truly made my mouth water and me just want to eat it. Hubby has since hit the mute button because he could tell how much the notion spoke to me. No-one got to be obese by fantasising about how yummy a lettuce leaf with no dressing can be.

Immediate forgiveness is definitely the way forward from such incidents. Your weight is now only so slightly up from your low weight as makes no difference. Everyone's weight bounces around up and down from day to day. If you want to see how my weight bounces around - I post every day on the weigh every day club. Most people that post on there see as many days with gains as they see days with losses.

It is great that you had such a great family trip out at the aquarium last week and it is brilliant that your daughter is delighted at the prospect of a trip to a museum. You can be proud of the fact that you are raising your children with a thirst for knowledge in addition to the other positive aspects of their upbringing. I have commented before on you encouraging them to do exercise. Sadly many children as not nearly so fortunate.

Dont forget to eat your kiwi fruit. I am really enjoying mine. I bought some more yesterday as I know that I will not manage to limit it to one a day throughout the week.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Brandy~
Thanks for swinging by.......I keep meaning to go find your diary but as mine can attest I am soooo busy that I continually keep forgetting. LOL
I'll find you soon I promise!
Sweetiepea~
Welcome back to school! Ahhhh the joys of a quiet house in the morning.
I'll have to ask hubby what was up with the channeling of Ol' Bill! LOL
He was telling me how he was trying to talk to the kids in Spanish last week and how all they did was stare at him. hahaha Must be that early morning crowd gets to him.
Margaret~
As always I appreciate your stopping by and leaving me with some encouraging words.
I am quite sure that you are right about the gaining of muscle and the lack of downward action on the scale. I guess I got pretty use to the number going down on a daily basis and now that it is not it seems to be a bit disconcerting.
I have often thought I should post in the weigh every day thread. But right now I don't think that I could add another thing to my time. LOL
I really appreciate your kudos on my kids. They truly so seem to have a thirst for knowledge. Just this morning dd told me at least 4 times thank you for taking her to the aquarium. It makes me feel good knowing that she had such a good time and it only just adds to it knowing that she appreciates it as well.
The adding exercise into their daily routine is new for me so sometimes it does not go over as well as I would like. I was able to get that walk in the other day with the kids but was met with much resistance after about 10 minutes as they kept telling me "they were tired". I just kept on walking telling them that they were fine and they only needed to build up their endurance.
I am eating the kiwi's. Just haven't had time (or remembered to post about it) in the last few days.
I love the way they taste. Especially when mixed with yogurt. YUMMY!
 
I really had forgotten how much I enjoy kiwi fruit. Strange - but true. It was the same with pears. I only started eating them when we were counting fibre for a challenge and I spotted that they were pretty good for fibre. I bought a bag of pears that day and have been eating them pretty much every day ever since.

If you cast your mind back to the first day when you did any exercise - right at the start of your project. Although you were not nearly as big as me - I bet you were similar to me. I felt really quite exhausted pretty quickly. I did once round the block which would be a little over 0.6 of a mile. I felt proud of myself and had had enough.

Now I do about 5 of those as an afternoon filler after the main exercise of the day. The point is that your kids are starting off and will need to build up the stamina - just as we have done. The secret for them is just as it has been for us - to keep building on it and it will get so much easier it is silly. We know that we really benefitted from our exercise in those early weeks and your kids will be benefitting in that same way now. We didnt realise how well we were coping and it literally has transformed us. You are right to encourage them to keep it up.

I can understand that you simply do not have time to post on the weigh every day club. It is the same for me - in that I never get to visit nearly as many diaries as I would like. Having said that - it is worth keeping in mind that it exists for those moments when you think "why is my weight so odd that it keeps wiggling back up again even though I am being good". Seeing that it happens to everyone else is a great way of keeping things in perspective that a wiggle upwards is perfectly normal and we should focus on getting a medium term general downwards trend. I am sure that feeling good about how things are going is crucial for keeping us on track.
 
I don't blame you a bit for skipping church! I am sure God will understand. :)

If you need me to do a bit of extra exercise this week, just let me know--as soon as possible..lol...so I can work it in. :)
 
bikinibound said:
I don't blame you a bit for skipping church! I am sure God will understand. :)

If you need me to do a bit of extra exercise this week, just let me know--as soon as possible..lol...so I can work it in. :)
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Kimberly~
I am going to shoot for the 6 hours but I don't know if I will make it. So try to shoot for a little bit extra and as the week goes on I will let you know.
Thanks for the offer.
I hate to ask as I don't want let the team down ya know.
But since I was so tired today (I never did get a nap) I had a horrendous headache so never did go to my PowerCore class.
I am planning on going to all the rest of my classes this week which would put me at 4 hours with just those.
With the 20 minutes that I got on my Saturday walk that puts me at needing only a bit more than an hour and 40 minutes.

I am actually playing around with the idea of walking to the Ymca now that the weather is getting nicer.
Round trip that would be about 3 1/2 miles. The only snarl in that idea is T-Dawg (ds) may not want to walk that much. LOL But as Margaret said in the earlier post it only would do him good. Even if the first few times took a bit longer to get there. He would eventually build up the endurance and in the long run it would benefit him greatly.
If it is not raining tomorrow I think I am going to give it a shot.
 
The Food Diary ~ Day 3

Not the best of days food wise but it could have been lots worse. :biggrinjester:

6" ham & turkey sub from Subway (lots of veggies and very little mayo), 290cals
1/2 Single serving bag of Baked Lays Cheddar & Sour Cream chips, 65cals
1 macadamia nut cookie, 220cals
1 cheese stick, 80cals
1 lg banana, 110cals
1 kiwi, 46cals
:blush5: 6 slices of thin crust chicken supreme pizza from Pizza Hut, 1140cals

Total = 1951cals

For the record it was not easy for me to put down that I had eaten so many slices of pizza. But I did say that it was time for me to be honest with myself and with you guys.
 
Hi Dawn

I can well understand the 6 pieces of pizza. We have all been there and done that. We know that it doesnt actually help the weight loss project but we are only human. I have to say that as I read down the list I was thinking "I would be starving if I was eating that". Is it possibly the case that you would have eaten more healthily overall if you had eaten more before going for pizza. If I was starving I would probably have as much pizza as I could lay my hands on. If I wasnt starving I might be able to find a bit more self-control.

It sounds a great idea - you walking to the ymca with your son. You would gain the exercise time and it would be so healthy for you both. I hope that it is not raining and you give it a go.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Thanks Margaret for continuing to be encouraging even when I fall flat on my face!!! LOL :biggrinjester:
Yesterday was such a horrible eating day. I had only about 3 1/2-4 hours of sleep and when I am tired I struggle so badly with eating healthy. I had planned to eat eggbeaters for breakfast but there was a sink full of dishes and I couldn't even find my way to stove. Dh is wonderful in that on the weekends nothing is expected of me, cleaning and cooking wise. But on the same token usually it is all there waiting for me come Monday morning. :toetap05:
So I have to take the good with the bad.
Like I said I normally wouldn't have skipped breakfast. And I had scheduled things that had to be done or I would surely have eaten before lunch.

As far as the pizza is concerned I felt that at least I made a better choice in toppings and crust. It could have easily gone the other way had I chosen pepperoni's and the thick hand tossed crust. :ack2:

I doubt that I will be eating like that again. LOL
Since my tummy didn't feel so well after I overstuffed it! :piggy: LOL
And at least I did remember to fit in my Kiwi for the day. :hurray:
Thanks again.
Your encouragement means alot to me. :blush5:
 
Hello Miss sunshine!! Don't you even apologize for having a bad day! How often does that really happen for you?? Not often at all, you have done so darn well, and your TICKER is the Proof of that. One day every few months isn't going to sabotage your weight, we are all entitled to at least that. I think your doing fantastic, and with all the things on your plate, I'm frankly surprised you haven't had more bad days then you have, really you amaze me!! I agree with you on the counting calories, because I tend to do like Sweatpea and round up to make it easier, and then I realize I probably ate to low in calories, then I get upset about that. I'm really working hard at measuring out my cups this week, and making double sure I'm getting the right amounts and putting the calories as they should be. I will say this week since Aunt Flo showed up yesterday my appetite is next to ziltch and nothing sounds good, so I will probably be low for the next couple days then back to normal by Friday. I hope you are getting some good rest in today, you earned it!! Take care of yourself and rest, rest, rest my friend.
Love and Hugs!
Kim
 
Bella, we only need to get in 9hrs2.5min between the two of us. I'll be getting in at least 5hrs, so that leaves just 4hrs2.5min for you. It sounds like you've got that in the bag, but let me know if I should do more. :)

I agree with Margaret and Kim re the pizza. Your calories actually weren't that high despite the pizza, so don't worry about it. Don't beat yourself up, just move on and keep on going. :)
 
I think it was courageous and wise to be honest with what you ate. Being accoutable and learning from your habits will help understand and deal with possible quesitons in the future.

Awesome job!
 
Hey Bell. Even at 1950 cals, that's not so bad. Especially if you are eating well on the other days. It could be worse, ya know? You had two factors against you - not enough sleep and skipping breakfast. Both are diet demons. :p

Probably the salt will help to keep some water weight on your body, so get your fluids in! And, if I know you, you're busting your butt now - and I bet you're outside too cause it's been a beautiful day!

Well, I will chat with you later, got to go get ds from driver's ed. Will you hold my hand when he actually starts driving? LOL
 
The Food Diary ~ Day 4

Okay I was never able to get on here yesterday and I wasn't so good at writing everything down all day so I am just going to guess it all out.

3/4 cup Honey Bunches of Oats
1/2 cup skim milk
1 banana
1 1/2 cups of mac and cheese
med. sugar free, fat free white chocolate latte
muffin
3oz venison steak
1 slice of 35 cal wheat bread
2/3 cup corn
just shy of 16 oz of baby carrots
To the best of my knowledge that is everything.
 
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Thank you Ladybug for stopping in and dropping some of your encouragement on me. It sure does mean alot to me to know that there are people out there rooting for me to win at this game.
And look at you! As always your doing fabulous.

Yarmiah I really appreciate the candor of your statement about the honesty.
I wasn't proud of the fact that I ate 6 slices of pizza in one sitting. But let's face it if I was always honest with myself on what I ate I wouldn't be in this situation that I am on now.
So for me right now "Honesty is the best Policy"
I know that you guys will help me with that.

Kimberly Thanks for always being there to help me along. As far as the hours go I have 4 hours in currently. With my Fit for life class tomorrow I will be up to just about 7 hours, as I plan to walk to the Ymca. And when I do that round trip it takes about 70 minutes. Add onto that the actual class which usually takes me about 80-90 minutes.

Sweetiepea
Of course I will hold your hand when Mr M starts driving. The best advice I can give you though would be just keep your eyes closed! LOL That way it will seem more like a ride at Cedar Point then a trip in a handbasket to H. E. Double Hockeysticks!!!! hahaha
Thanks for the encouragement. And you were right. I was busting my butt. I was at my PowerCore class.
 
Kudos for busting your butt! :hurray: You're doing awesome this week on the exercise and the food--despite the pizza party..lol.

Good luck with the weigh in this week! :hug2:
 
I never had a chance to get on here yesterday.
I got in a whopping 3 hours of exercise yesterday. With that said once again I did not have a stellar day with the eating. I am not sure if it is the weather or if it is 'cuz I always seem to feel soooo tired lately that I am eating like crap.
I know what I need to do but it would seem that I just can't bring myself to do it.
I actually debated with myself yesterday on NOT going to my Fit for Life class. I didn't debate about it long. I just wasn't feeling very motivated that is all.
I did walk to the Ymca. Which is just about exactly 1 1/2 miles. One Way.
And it took me about 35-40 minutes to get there.
It was so funny when I got to the Y and the other people in my class were looking at me like I was nuts.
It was actually quite cold yesterday with the wind blowing pretty hard. But once I got it into my head that I was going to the Y I just made up my mind to walk there.
My dd walked with me! I was surprised. Since daddy was home she could have stayed with him but she chose to go with me. We actually had a very nice time chatting and playing alphabet games all the way there and back.
She even asked if we were going to walk again today.
Unfortuanately Wednesday's are my very very busy day and there was no way that I could fit the walk into the schedule.
I am planning on walking tomorrow with my ds.
I won't be on here much at all tomorrow as it is his b-day and we are of course having a party.
He is turning 5! I can't believe that he is that age already. When my hubby and I got married his son from his 1st marriage was the exact age as T-Dawg. And I look at T and then I look at Alex who just turned 17 and I can hardly believe the differences. I am sooooo not ready for him to grow up.
He is my last one so I think that I will be slightly lost come this fall when he goes off to school.
Even though I did ask Dh jokingly what was I going to do this fall when I was home all by myself. The first thing he said was I would be like a cat taking naps all the time!!! LOL and then he said seriously he expected I would be exercising more since I wouldn't be shuttleing kids along with me. Things like long bike rides and hiking on trails.
He is most likely right!
So anyhow I hope that everyone has a great day tomorrow!
I know that I will.
Ciao
 
Hi ya beautiful Bell. ;)

Wow OooO Wow! 3 hrs.

That's fantastic!

Awwww... Turning the big 5 huh? :grouphug:

I hope the party goes well!!

 
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