Jen's Diary

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Thanks, guys! Glad to see that I'm not the only one low carbing it. Sorry to tell you all that summer vacation has officially started and you all are stuck with me now. :D My days will be much more flexible and relaxed now.


I went to the gym yesterday with my mom to show her around. So I'm kind of sore today. I plan on taking the dog for a good walk later, so that'll be my exercise for today. Tomorrow Chef and I are going to look at where we might have the wedding. It's a couple hours away, and we'll most likely be gone most of the day. Should be a fun day!

I'll try to visit diaries tonight or sunday. :)
 
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That biscuit bit made me giggle. I LOVE biscuits, but I haven't had one in forever. At least I'm not allergic to them so I can have them again some day.

You and Chef have fun tomorrow.
 
I could never low carb, I think I would die.
It just reminded me of this Archer episode moment
[video=youtube;fP7NkXh7HbA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP7NkXh7HbA[/video]
Except instead of drinking, it's carbs, and instead of hangover, it's withdrawal! Haha
 
Such a hardship having you around more Jen! NOT!
Hope you & Chef had a fun day xo Cate
 
haha! Thanks, everyone! :)

Yesterday was fun. We went and checked out the town we will probably have the wedding in. Love it! Within a few minutes of being there we were both like..."we need to move here". lol. It's adorable! They happened to be having a little festival this past week, and the hall that we were thinking about renting had a little model train show going on. So we went and looked at trains and looked at the hall. We also looked at a couple outside spots in case we end up having the wedding outside. Which we would both prefer if the weather cooperates. Sometimes it's really nice here in the beginning of October and sometimes it's snowing, so it could go either way. And it could always rain, so we need to have a backup plan.

We did a ton of walking yesterday, and I did pretty good on my diet too. Today I've been really good food wise, but not a whole lot on the exercise front. I did some arm exercises, but that was it.

6 lbs down so far.
 
211.6 this morning.

I took the dog for a couple walks yesterday and did some arm exercises. Diet wise I'm sticking to the low carb. I've lost a lot of weight this week, and haven't felt hungry once. It is the weirdest feeling, because I'm usually always hungry in the evening. I've actually had to make myself eat several times just to make sure I get enough calories in. Never thought I'd say that... ever. haha.

Today I'll be taking the dog for a long walk and something else .. not sure what yet, maybe pilates or yoga. I'm feeling much better lately from not eating so many carbs, so moving around is not as dreadful as it was before. :)
 
I always think walking the dog is going to win me a calorie burn but I'm usually a lazy dog walker. Today...she ran circles around me while I laid in the tundra and sunned myself...lol!
 
Well I weighed in at 210. 8 this morning. The scale is still going in the right direction. :)

Not much to report. Still doing low carb. Been pretty busy the last few days, but managed to get a few walks in at least. Next week I need to get serious with the exercise.

Goal for this coming Friday: 208 lbs (175 lbs would be better, but I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen. haha ;) )
 
I'm glad things are progressing nicely for you Jen. Walking is great exercise I think & I should be doing more of it. Serious exercise hey? What do you have in mind? xoC
 
210.4 this morning.

Thanks, MrVee! :)
Cate, I just need to start going back to the gym or doing pilates regularly. Something for toning, instead of just walking/cardio stuff. :)


The wedding hall is penciled in for October 10th. Eeeeeek! We're waiting on the contract to sign, but it's pretty much ours. :) I never thought when I joined this forum 6 years ago I'd be marrying someone I met on here. haha. So weird how things work out sometimes. Chef is doing good right now by the way. He hasn't updated lately because he's busy either working or coaching baseball. He's having a lot of fun with that. :)

Ok...need to get serious with some goals because I can't afford to goof off between now and October. I have 15 weeks to lose 35 lbs. That's 2.3 lbs a week. Doable... but I'm going to have to stick to the plan. I would love to lose 40, but I'll be happy with 35 or whatever gets me into a size 12 casual dress that would work for the wedding. Right now I can squeeze into a size 14 pants, but they are snug. So I have work to do! Like, lots of work to do. haha.


Goals...

Jun 27: 207 lbs
Jul 4: 205 lbs
Jul 18: 200 lbs
Aug 1: 196 lbs
Aug 15: 192 lbs
Aug 29: 188 lbs
Sep 12: 184 lbs
Sep 26: 180 lbs
Oct 10: 174 lbs

I also took my measurements a few days ago. So I will also be checking my measurements regularly in case the scale isn't cooperating. I'm sure that will happen at some point.

Let's DO THIS!
 
Thanks, Mystic! I hope so too! :)

Thanks, Cate! Love that pic of us! :)


209.4 this morning.

Well today has not gone as planned at all. My mom wanted to go grocery shopping at a couple places, so that was like a 3 hour ordeal. We still need to figure out what we're doing for dinner, and pretty soon, because we have possible severe weather tonight with a good chance of tornadoes. Not exactly sure where we will be going if we do get some, but we will definitely not be staying in our upstairs apartment. lol. Hopefully it turns out be nothing, but the weather map does not look very nice right now.


Carbs and calories are good so far today. Had another drop on the scale this morning, so I'm happy about that. My appetite has gone down so much. I'm hardly ever actually hungry anymore, and when I do eat it doesn't take much to fill me up at all. My craving for sweets has gone down quite a bit. I usually just snack on nuts or cheese if I want something, but I try to not eat too much cheese. I've heard it stalls some people, and it doesn't agree with my stomach very well anyway.

Ok.. that's enough for now. I better get some work done, before we get blown away. lol.
 
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Hope the weather wasn't as predicted. We had funnel clouds around my city yesterday I think. We have never had a tornado IN our city, but we have had them around the city.
 
Thanks, guys. We're fine. :) The weather ended up shifting south of us. All we had were thunderstorms, thank goodness. Southern Michigan got the brunt of the storm, and a town a couple hours south of us did have a tornado. We do get tornadoes every 5 or 6 years. We just had one touch down last year, so I guess it just wasn't our turn this time. I love storms, but tornadoes... no. lol.


209.4 this morning.

I was up early this morning. My daughter is taking a summer robotics class for the next 3 days. I still don't think I'm quite awake. I'll probably post again later when the brain fog has lifted. lol.
 
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