Heather's Healthy Beginnings

Just wanted to pop in and say I haven't fallen off the face of the earth - I swear! Had to work the weekend then yesterday was just a stupid day and I've been tired and cranky. Kept track of my calories though! Although I haven't been to the gym since Friday!! Had weird mid-back pain last night which I was afraid to hurt further. So TODAY when I get home from what is SUPPOSED TO BE a half day (never know with this job) I'm hitting the gym. And I'm making a yummy salsa chicken slow cooker recipe with brown rice for dinner so should be a good day all around! (Key word being "should"!! :p)
 
Hey all. . . .

So this week has been horrifying. Between me being lazy and not going to the gym AT ALL for the past five days, and eating like crap, I gained 3lbs since my last weigh in.

Blah. I'm sure that I'll be out of the summer solstice challenge. Then again, this weigh-in, my recent mindset (PMS) and various other things have been very triggering in terms of my prior behaviors in starving myself, etc.

I'm determined to get back on the wagon again. The boytoy has lost 10lbs in 2 weeks and he is definitely on the right track. I'm just annoyed at myself. I haven't even been tracking my nutrition. Stupid crap. Ugh.
 
lol, the boytoy huh?? cute. Yea, I used to loose weight w/ hubby and although I was soo glad he was loosing, I was soo frusterated that I was only loosing 1/2 of what he was! Anyways, don't worry about those 3 pds babe, you can have those off in no time!!
 
Just be gentle with yourself, Heather. Why don't you treat yourself to a bunch of yummy summer fruits so that you can have something healthy and tasty to munch on? I know you're going to get those three pounds off soon!

Sophie
 
So OK. . . .first of all I want to say thank you to Korrie and Sophie for your encouraging words. They really meant a lot to me - I was feeling superbly crappy when I posted that this morning. I have since had time to think about it plus the mood swings are favoring me right now. I actually feel pretty good about the whole thing. I'm almost in a way hoping I'm out of the summer solstice challenge just because I probably shouldn't enroll into any challenges with the mindset I'm trying to obtain regarding my weight loss. I have certainly enjoyed my time being in the challenge, though. But it's probably best to just allow myself to do this thing gently and easily without putting pressure on myself.

So all that being said, I ended up having a reasonable day despite having a huge bagel for breakfast. I got home and was hellbent on getting exercise in so I swam for about 45 minutes. Awesome. Definitely kicked my own butt. I'm thinking maybe I'll start doing daily gym trips for a while until I can get it back together again - at least as much as I can without stressing myself. I just want to get back into the routine of things instead of obsessing over it. I want to get myself into a solid gym routine before I think about taking days off. However, I won't be going to the gym next weekend as the boy and I are going to New Hope to have our own 'engagement party' because our families (mine specifically) was severely dysfunctional during the time of our engagement. We've decided to celebrate ourselves. So we're staying at the same B&B that we were in when we got engaged and having dinner at the same restaurant. Awww. :) So that weekend is a semi-freebie - I'm going to TRY to watch what I eat, but you had better bet that I'm going to be eating the fresh cooked breakfast that the owners of the B&B make (three words: croissant french toast. oh dear GOD) and I probably won't be exercising that weekend, but that's ok. It's a celebration. :-D

So anyway, enough babble. On to today's values!

Calories: 1819
Carbs: 216
Fat: 63
Protein: 72
Sodium: 3188

Knew fat and sodium would be a bit high. . . .but again, it's ok. It's a process, and I'm just glad I got my exercise in today and ate a packed lunch. That's a lot when you have PMS and start the day out feeling like utter crap! :)
 
I haven't been the model poster recently. . . .but I'm trying to make posting on WLF and tracking my calories my serious goals right now. I've been doing well on the calories aspect, even on days when my intake sucked. So for the benefit of myself, I'm going to list the weekend's values and today's values just because I need to keep myself accountable. I'm proud to say I went swimming Friday, gymmed Saturday, rested Sunday and treadmilled today. I'm trying to put that back on the forefront of focus even if it means relaxing a bit on my nutrition just so I can get my exercise in. I had a minor setback which is ok as long as I keep myself on a continual path. And my path is for HEALTH, not for skinny. My mindset of skinny equates starvation so I can't think that way. I can't let the scale dictate my life. I can, however, put good nutritious food into me instead of crap, and I can help my body to function better. I need to remember that, and I've actually done a good job recently - gave myself a big pep talk on Friday after the PMS died down for a bit. So now I feel actually much better.

So here's the values:

Saturday
Calories: 2137
Carbs: 212
Fat: 83
Protein: 88
Sodium: 3188

Sunday
Calories: 1738
Carbs: 156
Fat: 68
Protein: 88
Sodium: 4239

Monday
Calories: 1226
Carbs: 147
Fat: 31
Protein: 47
Sodium: 812 (um, I don't believe this one - didn't factor in the sodium for dinner because the recipe didn't supply that info)

and that's all! I might have a little snack later tonight to make up for not so many calories today. I didn't eat breakfast because I had one glass too many of red wine last night and icky PMS stomach this morning and felt like crap. So that's where the calorie deficit comes in.

Hope everyone had a good Monday!
 
So tonight I'm going to hopefully play catch up in diaries. I'm sorry I've been MIA recently. I don't even really have an excuse to offer up except to say I've been a delinquent!

I have been going to the gym really well for the past week and doing not horribly with calories. I feel like the scale this week might be kind to me, but we'll see what happens!

I just have to say that as a side note I'm severely irritated at Quiznos nutritional information that they put on their board. It said that one of my favorite salads there - the Black and Bleu - is only 330 calories. So I joyfully ate a salad for lunch today thinking that it was only 330 calories. I looked up the nutritional information online and saw that it was ACTUALLY around 640 calories when you factored in dressing, the flatbread it came with and the actual salad ingredients themselves. What the hell. NOWHERE on the nutritional info did it say 330 calories. How do you figure putting that on the menu!?!?! I mean I was surprised that it was that little, seeing as there is beef and blue cheese as well as pieces of flatbread. But I never figured that it was double what they actually put on their stupid menu. Oh well, whatever.

So that's all for now. Hopefully I'm going to get around to diaries tonight but if I don't, forgive me! Hope everyone else is doing well. :)
 
Oh my god.

I finally did it.

Weigh-in today says *drumroll* 198.7!!!!!!:hurray::hurray::party::party:

Finally! So now I'm determined to continue this regimen. Regimen is basically no paying attention to the scale until weigh-in day, and focus instead on my consistent exercising and consistently putting my nutrition into sparkpeople. I knew this was the better way to go but I got sidetracked again by the whole numbers thing. No more letting the scale run how my day goes. It can be an indicator of the good work I'm doing, but no longer will I allow it to rule me on a daily basis. Hellllz no.

I also went clothes shopping the other day and discovered that I am now probably about a size 15. Not TOO bad. . . .I was 16+ the last time I went clothes shopping. I'm determined to go clothes shopping at least once a month - that's something I'm really bad at. I need to learn to start to work the sales and update my closet because I dress like a 50 year old instead of a 26 year old. Enough of that!

I'm feeling pretty good right now and I just finished up a super easy work week. Next week should be just about as easy - AND - *whispers* I might do some wedding dress shopping!!!! Yikes!!!!!!!! I'm so excited. :-D

Ok I have all my values for this week, I might input them into here if I get a chance, but this weekend the boy and I are staying in New Hope at the B&B we got engaged in and all that romantic fluff. :-D I'm so excited. So if I get a chance before we go, I'll definitely do that!
 
New clothes? And planning on a wedding? I'm even excited for you! I can't wait to be engaged to my boyfriend! But I want to get to my goal before my wedding. Well... Have an excellent weekend, and fun at the B&B!
 
Thanks so much Korrie!!! You rock! I bet you're going to be seeing onederland much sooner than you think!

So I can hardly believe it, but I was number one in the summer solstice challenge this week!! I haven't been number one once during the whole challenge. I'm certainly not number one in terms of total loss, but that was such a cool feeling!!!

This weekend was a cheat weekend. It wasn't HORRIBLE horrible, but definitely not good. But it was our celebration weekend so I'm ok with that. Packed my lunch for tomorrow and did some grocery shopping today so that we don't order food this week and we're all set for another week of healthy eating!

We stayed at the same B&B we did when we got engaged. . . .it was so much fun. Saturday night we had a mini recreation of the night we got engaged. We ate at the same restaurant which is supposedly the number one most romantic place to eat in New Hope. Then after dinner we went for a walk in light rain bcak to the spot where he proposed to me. It was so romantic and fun and just all about us. It's been a while since we had some just us time with no distractions. I loved it!!!! So if that means no loss this week, I'm ok with that. I feel really darn good - TOM is completely gone and I feel healthy and energized and - dare I say it - thin! My clothing is fitting better and I just feel good all around.

So tomorrow is "back to the grind" and then this weekend we have a wedding to go to. Le sigh. Weddings are fun and all but dear god they take a lot of time!

Hope everyone had a good weekend :)
 
Everyone is entitled to a cheat day every now and then. That sounds like such a romantic time! Hope tomorrow isn't too much of a bummer after coming back from a great weekend. *hugs*
 
Brandy - yeah this past weekend was definitely cheat time, and boy didn't we enjoy it!!! So I'm glad about that because I definitely do have times when I cheat and don't enjoy it. It is fun being engaged, I do have to say. :) I dreamed about it for so long and the way it happened was so perfect - for the most part. The way it was done was perfect, but personal stuff going on at the time kinda overshadowed it. But it's ok. The only scary part now is how we're going to pay for the silly thing!!! Less than a year to go and we barely have anything saved. But I'm happy. I'm sure soon you'll be engaged to your Dan as well. ;) hehehe

So today was surprisingly good! I went to the gym this morning and ran for a solid 20 minutes - 10 minutes each with a 5 minute walk in between. I'm at the 5.0 speed now, jogging about a 12 minute mile. Not amazing, but not bad either as even when I was a teenager I couldn't manage that!! So I think I'm going to focus on increasing my increments to maybe a 6.0 and then see if I can start running 30 minutes straight. We'll see what happens! I feel great about food, my values are shockingly good for today. Here's thus far:

Calories: 1434
Carbs: 187
Fat: 27
Protein: 67
Sodium: 2335

Not too shabby!!! I might give myself a little snack this evening. We'll see what happens!

*edit* Added an evening snack of fat free cheddar and sour cream chips. Seriously if anyone craves some salty stuff, they are it. Awesome!!! 75 cals for a serving and NO FAT. We're in love in our household. ;)
 
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Cheddar and Sour Cream chips are my downfall. I must find the fat free ones you speak about!!! Great totals for the day! And how awesome that you did all that running!!
 
Soooo today was an OK day. Gymmed it again this morning which was awesome. Did some serious strength training for my legs as well as 10 minutes of bike beforehand. I'm actually getting better at the inclined situp thinger where I can now do 3 reps of 10 on the lowest incline. I'm going to try for three reps of 20 before I increase the incline. Had three pieces of pizza instead of the two I had planned for, but I'm ok with that. Calories were like 230 over for the day, but oh well.

Values for today:

Calories - 1965
Carbs - 266
Fat - 55
Protein - 60
Sodium - 2936

And I'm gonna keep it short with that as the boy and I are watching Cloverfield and it's awesome!
 
So I have to say this week has been a banner week. I've kept to close to my calories all week long, gone to the gym every day thus far (although I'm thinking of a day off tomorrow as I'm feeling a bit physically worn out). This weekend we're going to a friend's wedding which should be a good time. Good friend of mine from college.

Ok and now quickly because I'm tired today and yesterday's values:

Wednesday
Calories: 1384
Carbs: 197
Fat: 39
Protein: 69
Sodium: 2680

Thursday
Calories: 1433
Carbs: 186
Fat: 51
Protein: 63
Sodium: 2474

Tomorrow is the final day for Summer Solstice. Good luck everyone!!!
 
Wow, your gym time is sounding wonderful! I'm so impressed with your dedication to keeping on track and now you seem to be firmly in one-derland! Yay you!

Sophie
 
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