Fresh Start

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Ok, I felt like I needed a fresh start and a new diary for a new year and a new effort.

I started 2008 at 151.5 pounds wanting to loose about 16.5 pounds but that was a bit unrealistic as I don't think I can maintain 135, 140 sounds more realistic and still very healthy. Instead I lost 9 pounds and then gained back 19 pounds putting me spot on 10 pounds heavier than I started the year. :puke:

When I think back on all the time, effort, stress, worry, self-consciuosness of 2008 in regards to my weigh it is such a waste. On top of that I am the mother of a beautiful two year old daughter and I dont want her adopting my bad habits or poor body image.

I really need to get it together this time. I will not waste another year worrying about my weight!

I am going for a slower, more realistic plan, a lifelong change this time. I am shooting for health goals with a weight in mind not obsessing (trying not to) over the scale. I am not going to do anything fad or obsessive, my goal is small measured changes.

One thing I have done right is continued with a regular workout regimen though it has been reduced lately I am still going. One thing I have going for me in 2009 is that hubby has gotten the news that his triglycerides are high so he is trying to be a bit more health conscious. Also, I think we have decided to postpone a second kid until 2010 so that gives me some time to concrete in some new habits.

2008 was a rough health year for me and right when I started having problems is when everythign went down the tubes. There will always be a reason to not control my weight so I need to learn to adopt new practices that will stay with me even when things are challenging.

Stats page to follow so I know where I start.
 
Weight: 162.0
Height:63.75
BMI:26.3

BMI Weight Status (American Centers Disease Control)
18.5 – 24.9 Normal
25.0 – 29.9 Overweight


Resting Heart Rate: (still haven't been able to get this just got a night light last night need new battery for my watch)

Size 12 (high side of that as not all size 12's fit)

Measurements:
Chest (just above line) 36.35
arm (widest part arm) 13
thigh (widest part left leg) 26
belly (belly button line) 34.5
hips/butt (widest part butt all way around) 45
 
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SO far so good. This year I am trying to help hubby and I make healthy long lasting changes. I bought a large amount assorted nuts last night (raw in shell so they take longer to eat and are still good fat and no salt). I also got carrots celery and cucumbers and will try to have a cut dish on top shelf fridge all time so it is in our mind to snack on at night. I am going to start making hummus again, maybe I can even hit on a fancier recipe DH will like. Snacking at night and sweets in general are our big downfalls.

I was thinking, that if I simply enforced the commen sense rules on myself that I do on my 2 year old daughter I wouldnt have a weight problem! (More on that later)

I also made a big pot of fish soup for lunch at work this week. I also have a container of cottage cheese and apples. This week for breakfast will be 2 eggs with salsa cheese and in a wrap, after I spark this I may just use 1 egg yolk.

My goal for workouts is to do jogging mon/wed/fri with spinning tue (if girl I like is there) and my variety class on thursday. I will sneak in weights wherever I can and I *might* try getting in some saturday time as well.
 
6 week challenge follow along

I have NOOOO idea how to do a google doc so the spreadsheet wont show on here butttttt here's best I've got unless someone can tell me how to do a google doc (which I would like despite not being in the challenge)


Mostly whole grains, no more than one sweet treat a day, when counting goal 1500-1800 calories a day (days I cant count I will guess but be VERY realistic in knocking myself), high protein.

YEAH moved to team sheet--see me on team 2
 
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You have some great plans there mom. I'm in the same boat, having lost most (though not all) of the baby weight only to put back about 10 lbs in the past year. I have a 2 1/2 year girl myself. Good luck with your goals and keep us posted on how things are going :).
 
Before Pictures, goodness help me

ok to prove (to myself) that I am serious here are my before pictures. I did not get in on the 6 week challenge in time, darn internet issues. I plan to follow along. Goodness I am glad this site is anon, I hid these not even wanting hubby to see them--somehow I think they are more a surprise to me than him.

My belly is always first to go (at least before DD) so my before and after 6 weeks should be pretty noticeable. I also took one of my upper thigh which has ALWAYS been my toughest area even when I was what I would now consider to be under my ideal weight they were a 'jigglefest'. I am not ready to post that one!



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trying to cut back on sugar today, it is always a withdrawl issue for me, not to disapoint I have a MAJOR headache today, I have taken liberal amounts of advil and had about 1/4 cup coffee to hlep, eating an apple now in hopes small amount sugar will help.

oatmeal high fiber bar
2eggs 2 whole grain toast
2 crab sticks 10 grapes
bowl light vegetable beef barley 1 small slice whole grain all natural bread
1 small apple
hot chocolate (homemade 1c2%milk2tbspsugar1tsbpcocoa)
1/2graham cracker
2/3cornish hen with rice and peas
3 prunes
 
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Planning!

VERY VERY proud of myself *pats self on back* not too often I do that.

I have a week's worth of breakfast and morning snack in fridge and my dinners pre-planned (that is fairly normal). The lunches this week will mostly be leftover dinners I suspect, I didnt feel like making a separate lunch to eat all week but normally with the dinners I am making (soups etc) there is plenty for DH and I to take to work.

I made a big pot old fashioned oatmeal in crock pot and portioned it:
1.2 serv oatmeal 1 walnut 1/5 apple 20 raisins cinnamon (will add yogurt to it)

baked a big egg quiche, left out the cheese and crust
1 egg+brocolli and spinach baked

then for dinners I made crock beans ahead adn browned (then drained) 1lb lean ground beef+1lb sage sausage, elbow macaroni (not whole wheat shame on me) these are the main components for all weeks dinners
rice and red beans
pasta fagiole soup
3 bean/veggie soup
goulash
then I will take all leftover components and make healthy mock enchiladas

I love doing my dinners this way, it can be with any main part that is cooked ahead beef, chicken what have you. This week is beans (2lbs meat will be just enough to make DH happy). It saves so much money and time its amazing plus nothing gets wasted.

I also put a list on my fridge of healthy snack ideas for DH and me.
 
Workout Tracking

So this is my plan for working out, I have been trying to get there for a while, I always end up missing a day but I guess that is why its called a plan and not a contract.

Running: 12 min/mile (jogging) 20 224
Walk/Jog > 10 min/mile 30 252
Spinning 50 477
Aerobics: Step: High Impact 50 700
20 min weights 20 75
Walk 17 min/mile 10 56


MWF I would like to work up to jogging 3 miles 3 days a week in the mean time I will do 30 minutes on treadmill or if my knees are bothering me I will do it on the eliptical

I need a new battery for my heart rate monitor but utnil then self help calculators say approximately this for my workouts so I dont have to spark them if I stick to plan.
MWF tread/eliptical + weights:250+75=325
T spinning: 477
TH variety class (bosu/ball/kickboxing): 500
walk on break @ work: 50


If I manage to make it in on a saturday I can do whatever I want. Sundays are my off day (alot saturdays are too) need more time for family so I only work it if its in early morning or during naps.
 
not to get all wrapped up in weight or anything (yeah right but trying). Scale says -2.5lbs today (that's in what 2 days) YEAH, now that TOM is on his way out of my life. Next month I vow to try and track when I gain and how much so it doesnt throw me for such an emotional loop, I also started some TOM retardant (BC Pills) so I am very happy to hopefully lessen his stay and effects since I will be doing a 3 month rotation thing:hurray::hurray:!

Up @4:30--check
going to gym--check
have lunch made--check
had tiny pre-workout snack--check
have lunch packed--check
have snacks packed--check
sparked my day to get a baseline idea--check
happpy to see that spark showed me 6 cals short of my goal which with adjustments and such should be right within!!!

I need to be semi strict with myself for around a week to break my sugar binge cycle and wear away my sweet tooth a bit, sugar is MY drug so its hard. Had just a bit of caffeine already to ward off that headache I know is coming my way, will deal with caffeine headache later!
 
Looks like your doing great, well done with ya planning. :)

I totally understand the caffeine headache problem.
 
Thanks for visiting, I am good at planning but not as much on follow through so stay tuned!

Well not bad overall today. I worked out really hard today, the drenched in sweat, everything worked out and now sore day that I love though I believe tomorrow I will be a bit more than enjoyably sore. I plan to spin tomorrow we will see if I can stick with it.

The day was super awesome but then I had a dumb lapse judgment, on my way out of the door at work (after successfully avoiding the office candy jar on my umpteen trips past it) I saw a plate of cookies left out. Not jsut ordinary cookies but chocolate chocolate chip undercooked goooey cookies and instinctively grabbed one, it was a broken one but still fairly large. I have no idea on calorie count for usre but net seems to think its around 270 so that is what I went with, I think its probably close. Then in car my duaghter was sooooo crabbby and a bit sick so I offered her a lifesaver (actually when loooking for a toy she spotted them) and then instinctively took 3 for myself--dummie I had eaten them without even a thought, those are the habits I need ot break, hopefully with this self reflection I can get there. Otehrwise all went well today, not really hungry for dinner tonight and DD being a handful so not much time anyway I had a couple bites soup (literally) and 1/2 piece of bread. Luckily with my oops earlier in teh day that puts me jsut at high end of my calories if I skip a before bed snack (habit I would like to do away with anyway).

ALl in all I am in calorie range and achieved my goal, if I dont count calories then I would have to bump myself for the cookie but since I did and am in I am ok LOL. Still not wanting to fill up that space with empties on a regular basis.

oh and the good part of that story is the coookie was to DIE for and I ssooooo wanted to get more because DH was running late and they were RIGHT there btu I didnt.
 
ok so I exported the challenge spread sheet and saved it to hard drive, too hard to type it all in here.

start weight 164
my total points 120 (not bad for 4 days late)
total weight lost 1.5
end weight 162.5
 
just messing around, I had some useful info in my old diary, I need to go get it LOL but I just had to start fresh. Oh by the way does anyone know how to get my titles to show on the blogroll, it only ever shows the boring name of my blog but not the titles.

anyway

BMR = 655 + (4.35 x weight in lbs) + (4.7 x height in inches) - (4.7 x age in yrs)
665+(4.35x162.5)+(4.7x66)-(4.7x29)=
665+706+310-136=1545

saw this formula in someone else's blog, I had similar on mine to figure out my caloric baseline needs. I call BS because when I stick to 1500 I loose alot weight. I am aiming for 1500-1800 right now and will adjust down as I go if I see fit. I put lightly active because I am a desk jokey however I do go to gym in morning 2-5 days a week depending but only for like 50-60 minutes. I suppose I should be happy to be on better side of that number, I would hate to be eating 1500 and gaining!
 
calories burned per 60 minutes

Calories burned per hour, by body weight

ACTIVITY 154 LBS

Aerobic dance 480

Outdoor bicycling (under 10 mph) 590

Indoor cycling (Spinning, hard effort) 733

Calisthenics 244

Cleaning 244

Eating (sitting) 105

Food preparation 175

Reading 91

Rowing, stationary 489

Running, 10 mph 1,118

Sitting (watching TV) 70

Sitting (writing, typing) 105

Skating, roller 489

Walking, brisk 265

Water aerobics 279

Weight training (light) 220

Yoga (Hatha) 175
 
up@4:30
going to the gym
packed lunch
packed breakfast
made green tea
oh yea, and mr. nice scale says 1.0 down from yesterday, hopefully it keeps its downward spiral going!


Trying to decide if my poor legs can take spinning or if I should just do a stationary bike on my own and read. Yesterday I set elliptical wrong and because I cover screen while jogging didnt realize it was on HILLS while I was running my normal pace. I never run hills because I get horrid shin splins and it really hurts my kness (like every time no matter the stretching) so yea 2 miles into it I realized why I was having a rough go of it LOL. Then I did a new leg workout for strength and I am SORE today.

Ok off to spark soreneess and see if I should play through it, I tend to be a glutton for punishment, sometimes too much so.

no pre-workout snack will be needed today (I dont think) since I ended the night on a healthful note and had plenty of protein yesterday. I think I have figured out that when I eat healthfully the prior day I dont need that pre-workout snack (which I dont like eating anyway and didnt used to need) but if I have not been maintaining healthy habits I need one or I get weak and my blood sugar dips at end of a workout.
 
Hey there:)

Well it looks like you are doing really well:)Im glad to see you back and I know you ahd a rough time last year with your health adn such:hug2:But im really glad to see you back and working at it and doing:D!

Ya know it is funny that we allow yourselves to binge and fail and eat bad things but we love our children enough to not let them do the same thing we do to ourseloves, sad really.

Im with ya abt the self image and such, we are raising gilrs. I want them to be proud and confident of themselves and their bodies and proud to be woman:)!It is hard when you cant say and do it yourself but you want it for your children.I think it is even more important while raising girls.
 
Cinderelly-thanks for stopping by, I definately think raising girls is tough--especially right now with all the bad clothing, images, role models etc. There is a good book (supposed to be) coming out later this year I am looking forward to reading on raissing girls I will have to look up title and post later.


WEll I was FAMISHED today, maybe it was the spinning class, I did good during the day but then allowed myself one chocolate candy but it only clocked in at 42 calories. I ate too much at dinner, we got home late so by time we ate I was starved and DH didnt want soup I had planned so I made a meal (goulash) I had planned for a day when I would have eaten lighter during bfast/lunch. I made garlic toast and had one which is what really nailed my coffin shut. Though honestly I am not beating myself up the day wasnt that bad, I most likely maintained or lost just a bit today.

My calories came in at 2400 but I worked out very hard today and walked extra before my workout and during the day. SUpposedly my BMR for moderately active 3-5 days a week moderate intensity workouts (looked it up today) is 2397.
 
interesting research

Well I got bored at work today so was reading a bit (because I was HUNGRY with a headache to boot!!)

BMI 26.1 overweight
BMR 1532 @ rest
Mod active (moderate exercise 3-5/week)=2375
Ideal weight 134 (115-154)--this calculater was lower than others I have used which said 140ish
Deficit of 1000 calories per day = 2lb loss/week=11 weeks to goal (140lbs)=last day of March (so probably April) if I avoid plateauing

2nd goal would be to determine if I want to get to 130’s and to FIRM UP

Would like to be in size 8 but a small/firm 10 would be good

Would like to be able to maintain without too much effort above reasonable eating habits and 3-4 days @ gym

With 3-5 days @ gym I could eat ~2400 calories per day and maintain, that’s ALOT
 
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