Janvier's Weight loss Diary

Hey Janvier:grouphug: I know how you feel! It is so hard once you get those cravings in your system again and you become comfortable with yourself that you lose your motivation to say no. I have gained 10 pounds since my shag and totally feel it everywhere! It's time to stop and take action and start tracking again! I noticed you wrote down your food log for a couple days and we need to start doing that again every day! I think we all go through times when we sort of give up to say but it just makes us stronger for next time. I'm feeling the strength come back and it really helps to see strong people like you getting it done every day! We know how good it feels to be eating healthy and exercising daily so let's do it - no more saying it. It's Monday and plenty of time to have a great week so let's kick some butt and get those pounds off for good this time!
 
Hey Janvier, looks like you had a rough couple of days but you're already making a come back and that's what I love about you. We have set backs some times but like Lisa said, set backs only make us stronger. So keep your head up and keep your eyes on the prize.
 
Lisa I am so glad your back, it is so good to hear from you! You are so right that it just feels so much better to eat well and workout, and I know that I can beat these cravings and really do this so your right, we need less talking more doing so I am back on board, we're doing this together!

Mrskt20 thank you for your post! You always know just what to say to make me feel better and push me to keep going! I am so glad to have you as my supporter, you are such a motivation for me because you are doing SO great and juggling your husband and kids and work when I only have me to take care of so your strength and determination really makes me want to work really hard for this! This is our year to get the weight off together and keep it off!


I didn't post my food plan yesterday, and Lisa your right I need to do it everyday to keep myself on track so here was yesterday...

Breakfast: Egg white omlette with sliced tomatos and grilled cheese sandwich (2 slices dempsters body wise bread 45cals/each with 1 slice ff cheese)

Snack: Apple and snack bag of cinnamon apple chips- so yummy! (40 cals)

Lunch: 1 pack Special K fruit crisps (they are new and delicious) 100cals and Campbells brown rice and chicken soup (about 180 cals)

Snack: Sprite Zero

Dinner: WW Smart ones chicken and veggie lo mein, cooked spinach and sauteed cabbage

Snack - 5 cal jello a mango....and then dried pineapple that was covered in sugar :banghead: I ate it and put the rest in the garbage...I was so close to not cheating.

Workout: None :banghead:


So I did better then I have been doing, even though i should have really pushed myself to workout but i'm in a "coulda shoulda woulda" mood today, so I will count it as my rest day and work out the rest of this week, and i slipped with the stupid pineapple but its now in the garbage and that was the end of my bad and sugary tempations, my house has only healthy things so i don't feel horrible, today is a new day and I am determined to do great! I have decided that i need to just stock up on fresh fruits and veggies to snack on when i get a craving. I bought the latest copy if Oxygen magazine on the weekend and it was really informative and motivating, i might subscribe! It had great tips for everything, working out and eating right and it said then when you are craving something your body is usually lacking something, so when you crave something sweet instead of getting cake or cookies get some fruit to give your body the right sugar that it needs, so thats the new plan. My birthday is this Sunday coming up and I really wanted to get this massive sugary birthday cake, assuming i would be at my goal weight by then, but since i'm not and I am trying to kick my tempations to the curb, i know eating cake will just bring them on stronger, so i decided to make myself 6 angel food cake muffins so they are portion controlled and they are fat free! So I think its a good alternitive. I am looking forward to the Biggest Loser tonight for more motivation to get my self together and finish this month strong! Here is my meal plan for today:

Breakfast: Grilled cheese and egg white omlette

Snack: apple and ff yogurt

lunch: Campbells chicken noodle soup and special k crisps

snack: apple chips- 40 cals and small spinach salad

Dinner: steamed veggies and WW smart ones

Workout: Hip hop abs, tredmill and elyptical
 
Awesome attitude Janvier! I know it's so hard to get the sugary temptations out of our system so I also stocked up on healthy snacks for that reason alone! More than I normally buy anyway and I think it will just take a week until my system is back in order and not asking for extra sugar.
That magazine sounds great - I might have to pick up a copy and read it when I want to snack in the evening.
Those special k crisps also look like something I would like to try - where in the grocery store did you find them?
I also love your attitude about your birthday cake!! But really I was told once that birthday calories don't count so indulge a little but drink some water with it and then jump right back in!
Glad to see you on here more! It's great to hear from you. Keep it up - you are not gaining that weight back this year!!
 
I think your totally right Lisa, I am giving my body a week and I think those cravings will be out the door, I am already feeling better about them actually! I didn't have a single craving yesterday, I ate well and wasn't hungry after meals, I felt like the old me! That magazine definitly helped me realize that all of this is so possible for us to do, I decided to get my subscription for sure. I like reading them while i do the stair stepper. I have also been finding such great websites with great recipies and tips and alternatives to snacks that are much healthier, you should check this one out: it has amazing and fun recipies and just little bits of great healthy info. I found the Special K fruit crisps in Wal-mart, its the only place I have seen it, in the aise with all of the granola bars, here is the website if you want to see what they are like:
I am sure you are right about the birthday calories lol, but I am now actually really looking forward to my angel food cake muffins topped with fat free whipped cream and maybe some fresh fruits! I will let you know how it goes.

So yesterday was great food wise- I ate everything I planned and nothing more....The down fall, by the time the Biggest Loser was over and I was getting changed to work out I got the WORST cramps ever- I think it is a lack of fiber in my diet lately, and Just couldn't even get into my workout clothes- I was irratated that it was another day spent not working out. But I am trying not to dwingle in the past, Its not like I just decided to skip it and do something lazy instead- so I am going to incorporate more fiber into my day, hopefully that will fix things and I will have 2 days to make up for tonight! So far my meals are going great today as well, here is the plan:

Breakfast: 1 cup of Fiber 1 Honey and oats cereal with 3/4 cup skim milk

Snack: Orange and ff yogurt

Lunch: strawberry and apple fruit bar and chinese rice noodle soup (170 cals)

Snack: spinach salad

Dinner: veggies and Lean cusine

Workout: Unsure but I will be working out and working hard!
 
So glad you are already feeling better - to tell you the truth I feel a lot better now than I did this morning and it's thanks to people like you who check up on me and remind me how far I have come and how much better I will feel once I accomplish what I aimed to do for the day.
Don't worry about missing the work out last night - you stayed within your calories so that is a great start - too bad about the cramps though. I'm sure tonight you will really rock it - I plan to too!!
Have a great day!
 
Janvier, thanks again for stopping by my diary - I had to peek in and applaud you on how far you've come as well! Girl, you are GORGEOUS... you were beautiful even at 180 and look amazing now! Keep your eye on the prize and you'll be there before you know it :)

As far as your fiber intake goes, have you considered a fiber supplement in the morning, at the very least? Then even if you don't have a lot of fiber in your diet for the rest of the day, you're covered. That and a lot of water, should do the trick.

Hang in there, can't wait to see you reach your goal! :hurray:
 
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So glad you are already feeling better - to tell you the truth I feel a lot better now than I did this morning and it's thanks to people like you who check up on me and remind me how far I have come and how much better I will feel once I accomplish what I aimed to do for the day.
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Your so right Lisa, It makes such a difference to have others in the same boat who can remind us to be happy for ourselves and to push eachother in the right direction.

So Yesterday started off great, I ate well all day long....my mom and I were going to make dinner together but she was going to stop at the grocery store after work, so while i was waiting for her to get home hunger was starting to get the best of me so I decided to snack on some cereal, I could see that it was about to get out of hand so I just ate dinner on my own to prevent futher snacking, so that wasn't too bad.
Once again I didn't workout last night, i ended up doing some late night grocery shopping for healthy snacks and fruits and just went home to late :ack2:...then to top it off I finally got home and had two huge bowls of cereal so that was annoying and i went to sleep extra full and uncomfortable.

On the upside, this morning I got up and went to the gym in my building at 6:30. I did 11 minutes on the stair stepper, elyptical and stationary bike. I burned 290 calories all together. I would of liked to stay longer but I couldn't get up any earlier and then I had to leave for work. But I was happy to finally be working out, and a little eye candy came into the gym before I left so that made it worth it too :drool5:

I stuck to my meal plan today and I am hoping I will do well tonight as well, I found some Weight Watchers indorsed caramel apple popcorn last night that I may try after dinner, so I may eat a light dinner to stay in my calorie range.
Here is what today looked like:

Breakfast:1 cup filber one honey granola cereal with 3/4 cup skim milk

Snack: Fuji apple and ff yogurt

Lunch: Special K fruits crisps and campbells chunky chicken noodle soup

Snack: apple chips, 5 cal jello cup, small spinach salad and big mug of green tea- this was a big snack lol

Dinner: Veggies and Lean cusine

Possible snack: WW popcorn

Workout: something anything- hopefully hip hop abs, tredmill and elyptical

Tomorrow is my day off WOOHOO!! This week has been stressful, but I will update since I finally have a computer at home.
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Chantelle you are such a sweetheart! You totally made my day after such an awaful and stressful day at work today so thank you for that! I am definitly going to take your advice and find a morning fiber suppliment, I started eating Fiber 1 cereal this week, but I would like a suppliment for when I want to have something else for breakfast and I will increase my water as well, thanks for the advice hun!

I am looking forward to us motivating eachother and losing this weight together for good!
 
This weekend was okay, I wouldn't say I cheated, I tried a lot of new and healthy and delicious might I add recipies, I might of eaten more of them then I planned but I didn't cheat with any thing like candy or chocolate or anything like that. It was my birthday yesterday so I skipped out on the birthday cake I wanted since I did put on some christmas weight plus some post christmas weight and am yet to get it off, instead I made angel food cake cupcakes which are fat free and I frosted them with fat fee whipped cream and strawberries. They were so good I didn't even miss a birthday cake! I had a nice quiet birthday. But I do want to try really hard this week to get back into my routine, I really really want to try to do a solid week of my routine. I was getting so happy and excited about my new body, I was finally getting some confidence. So I don't want that to get too far out of reach and really nip the gain in the bud and start again. I know I am capable of it, so I just need to do it! I am doing good so far, heres what it looks like:

Breakfast: 1 cup of special k granola with 1 sliced banana and 3/4 cup of skim milk

Snack: 1 apple and zero calorie energy drink

Lunck: special k fruit crisps and campbells chunky chicken noodle soup

Snack: Coke zero and maybe small salad

Dinner: sauteed spinich and WW smart ones

Workout: hip hop abs, elyptical and tredmill
 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!:grouphug: Sorry I forgot yesterday but I did remember at home on Sunday - I was thinking about those angle food cupcakes too! Glad they turned out good.
Last week wasn't one of our bests but it wasn't the worst either - just slowly warming up until we kick some fat this week! Glad you are still on track with eating - how's the exercise coming along?
I did cheat this weekend but I remembered how I used to be able to do really really well during the week and then not so well on the weekend so I'm hoping to have a really good week and then hopefully get back into that routine because it was working really well for me.
Have a good day Janvier!:waving:
 
Awwwww Happy belated Birthday! I hope you had a great time!!:grouphug: I hear you about getting back to your routine. It seems like I am having the hardest time getting back to mine but I am going to work very hard tonight to get everything just how I need it to make the rest of the week easier for me. Good luck for the rest of the week. We are going to blow this week out of the water......
 
Thank you so much Lisa and Mrskt20! You girls are so sweet!

You will be happy to hear that this week is going great for me so far! I really feel like I am back in the swing of things. I have been sticking to my meals and working out everyday! I was too busy to be on here yesterday so I will update what yesterday looked like as well as today:

Yesterday

Workout: 6:30am- 10 minutes on each- Stair stepper, elyptical level 10, and 2 different staionary bikes. I burned 365 calories I think and felt really good!

Breakfast: 1/2 cheese and chives egg beaters scrambled, 3 strips of extra lean bacon (60 cals for all 3!) and instant cream of wheat

Snack: apple and ff yogurt

Lunch: special k fruit crisps and campbells chunky gumbo soup

Snack: coke zero and small salad

Dinner: steamed coliflower, sauteed spinach and WW smart ones

Today:

Breakfast: 1 cup of fiber one honey crunch cereal with 3/4 cup of skim milk

Snack: apple and ff yogurt

Lunch: campbells chicken and mini past to-go soup and 100 cals of mini pretzels

Snack: special k fruit crisps and small salad

Dinner: veggie stirfry and WW smart ones

Workout: Hip hop abs and elyptical

I feel so much better this week, I am really pumped to keep going and see some results, I have 8 more day that I can workout before my surgery and I am going to work my butt off! I am trying not to go on the scale until the weekend, we'll see if thats possible.
 
:hurray:So glad you are back!:hurray: You cheered me up! The confirmation that you can get back to it makes me believe I can too. Good job on the work outs - it feels so good doesn't it? Why do we ever stop?
I tried that Campbell's chicken and brown rice soup for lunch today and really like it - I would never have tried it if I didn't see you eating it so thanks for that too!
Oh and thanks for the compliments in my journal! Your very sweet! And the advice about telling my hunnie - I liked your thoughts and think I will do just that - for the time being anyway - until I see a need to tell him. I just know he would come looking for me like I did him and then it wouldn't be the same.
Have a great day and keep it up!
 
Aww, I'm glad I cheered you up Lisa! Your usually the one who motivates me so its great that we can motivate eachother! Your so right, working out and eating well feels SO great! I have no idea why we stop and get sloppy with it, but we are on the right track now and thats what matters! I'm so glad you liked the soup! I'm sure you noticed I eat one almost everyday for lunch because they are so good lol.

So I didn't get a write yesterday, but I did well with food and I did okay with my workout, I only did 25 minutes of Hip Hop abs which seemed like not enough at all, but the point is that I worked out and stuck to my goal of working out everyday this week so far! Heres what my meals looked like:

Breakfast: 1 1/2 cups of special k red berries cereal with 1 cup of skim milk

Snack: apple and ff yogurt

Lunch: special k fruit crisps, special k ceral bar and fruit bar (was at a doctors appointment and had them in my purse and couldnt wait to go back to work to have my lunch, i was too hungry lol)

Snack: small salad and coke zero

Dinner: Veggie stirfry and WW santafei rice

Workout: 25 mins Hip Hop abs

Today:

Breakfast: 1/2 cup cheese and chives egg beaters, 3 strips extra lean bacon and special k blueberry fruit crisps

Snack: apple and ff yogurt

Lunch:special k bar and campbells chunky chicken noodle soup

Snack: fruit bar and small salad

Dinner: sauteed cabbage and ww smart ones (they were on sale and i stocked up lol)

Workout: Turbo jam

I am hoping to continue to be good this weekend, workout and eat well and drink lots of water. I weighed myself this morning for the first time in a little while and I lost 3 of the 4 pounds I gained! Woohoo! Down to 123 lbs, one more pound to go to get to my pre-christmas weight and 8 pound to go to get to my goal! Have a great weekend everyone!
 
You are doing great Janvier! That's the way you get back into the swing of things. You are going to be at your goal weight before you know it.
 
Happy Friday Janvier! Haven't heard from you in a while again - hope you are still on the wagon - I declare yesterday as my first day back on it - finally!!! I decided to go back to WW because that worked for me. So far into day 2 and feeling much better about the days to come. Have a great weekend and hope to hear an update Monday - good or bad we will get it back to good!!:waving:
 
Lisa and Mrskt20, you girls are so great! Thank you so much for checking up on me, you both are so motivating!

Lisa thank you for your encouragement! I am really happy to hear that you went back to weight watchers, I'm so glad that you are back to your plan, you are going to do so great! I really admire your determination. And I was so glad to see your message, I definitly fell off the wagon, but you made me feel good knowing that I have some support to get back on and stay on!

Mrskt20, I missed you too! You are such a great support system and huge motivation for me, and I am finally back and ready to get back to my goals and kick some weight loss butt with you!

So I have been away, I had my surgery last Thursday...It went fine, but it was two incisions that I have on my stomach and I have been very bed ridden. They fill up your tummy with gas to be able to see everything they need to see so I have been SO bloated and swollen and I know its only been a little over a week, but it was hard for me to go into surgery with a flat tummy that I worked SO hard for, and haven't had for probably 3-4 years and then come out the same day looking 4-5 months pregnant and I have NOTHING that fits me anymore! I got rid of all of my bigger clothes. Of course I wasn't allowed to workout and just laying home all day feeling sorry for myself got the best of me and I thought to myself I'm already looking pregnant, nothing fits so...I went all out and cheated, I ate a box- whole box of cookies in maybe 45 minutes one night! Uh...so I went to the hospital weighing 125, I was 129 this morning, but decided I'm tired of my weight bouncing up and down, I'm tired of the cravings and giving into them and I am tired of making excuses to not workout and I am sooooo ready to get back into my plan for good! My dad bought me a stair stepper for my birthday, so this morning I got up at 6:45am and went on for 30 minutes, I took it really slow because I still have my stitches and am still sore, but managed to burn 230 calories. The doctor said I can still workout as long as I take my time, don't do too much a day and don't over do it, so I'm going to be doing 30 minutes a day this week and add on to my workouts slowly. I packed a nice healthy lunch for my first day back at work and I really plan to stick to my meal plan and do better from here on out. I'm tired of whinning about doing better so I'm just going stop talking about it and just do it. I'm going to try my best to make some time to make sure I write out my meal plan here everyday to help me stick to it. Here is what today looks like:

Workout: 30 minutes stair stepper

Breakfast: ww pita with 1/2 cup scrambled egg beaters 270 cals

Snack: ff yogurt and an apple

Lunch: Campbells chicken noodle soup and 110 cal bag of smart food popcorn clusters

Snack: 3/4 cup of blueberries

Dinner: Lean cusine with steamed broccoli

Snack: Green Tea

Thanks again Lisa and Mrskt20 for your support, you are so motivating to me and always lift my spirits when I am down! We can do this and we WILL do this!
 
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So this morning I turned off my alarm when it went off at 6:45, and went back to sleep insted of getting up and going on my stair stepper....So I will have to do it after work. I stuck to my meal plan last night, when I started having cravings I made some tea! I have continued to stick to it so far today and will try my best to keep it up all day. I'm having a really rough afternoon though, I freakin hate facebook! I'm at work, not doing my work and decided to go on facebook...you know how its always suggesting things...well it did one of those your friends are friends with your ex things and I have never seen him on facebook before today, we were never freinds on facebook even when we were together and low and behold, there he was. Of couse I clicked on him... and he has a new girlfriend, hugging in pictures. I mean, I assumed from the day he broke up with me that he had someone else, he never admitted it, but I never expected him to admit it, he just wasn't the type, but when ever he would lie I would be able to see right through him, but there he is, with her. Its been a year since we broke up and I knew in my soul that he was with someone, but I don't think it hurt just having a gut feeling that he had someone like it does seeing it. I am so heart broken. I have been trying my best not to have an emotional breakdown at work...Just when I was learning to feel okay again. I just wish I never saw it. I'm not loving life right now at all, and I am a total emotional eater so I will really have to do everything in my power to not go home and curl up in best with a big box of cookies. Since the break up I have felt like I will be alone forever and will never get to be in love again and now I feel that x10. Sorry for venting.

Here was my plan for today:

Breakfast: 1 ww pita with 1/2 cup of scramble egg beaters

Snack: apple and ff yogurt

Lunch: 110 cal popcorn clusters and campbells chunky soup

Snack: 100 calorie mini pretzels

Dinner: Lean cusine and steamed veggies

Snack: Tea

Workout: 30 mins stair stepper
 
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