My Journey: Positive Outlook For 2013

I was going to skip taebo last night, but decided about an hour after eating that I should just get up and do it. I was bored and trying to find something to occupy myself. No better way to kill boredom than to have a good workout! I ended up doing the abs workout and burned 672 calories. I also walked to the super market with my mom earlier in the day. I didn't have my hrm watch on, but the last time we walked it came out to 363 calories so it had to be somewhere in that area. Not a bad day for exercise! :)

Weigh in this morning was 205.6lb. The next 5 days will be strict with food intake. Drinking protein shakes and having lots of fruits and veggies along with light dinners. I'm getting into this routine. Very healthy during the work week and a little more lenient during the weekend. I'm sure I'd lose weight quicker if I were stricter during the weekends too, but I want to live. :)

Hope you all have a great Monday!
 
Good luck for the week. I am also planning on getting back on track after the last 2 days of being poorly. Hardcore diet and exercise :)
 
It's not so much that I'm strict to make up for poor eating over the weekend, I just want to be good during the work week and then relax a bit more on the weekend. Even on the weekends lately I've been doing pretty good. My hardest day, which I originally thought of as my easy day, is whichever day I'm on the ocean. That's because we just don't know where we're going on our trips so sometimes getting off the boat to grab a salad or whatever isn't possible. I go with my mom and we'll usually run across the street to get some chicken tenders and mozzarella sticks to eat on the way home. By then it's usually around 7-7:30pm and we have about 1hr 30 min ride home.

This past Saturday was a bad one though. I'll freely admit that. Chinese food is a weekness of mine. I cannot resist having seconds of the chicken fingers with sweet and sour sauce along with the pork fried rice. MmMMmMMMmmmmmMmM.... SOUNDS SO GOOD!!! LOL

Oh well.. I've done a fantastic job today. My will power is getting stronger and stronger! I had my protein shake (strawberry and vanilla flavored), then I had my fruit/berry salad, a little later I had a bagel, and just now had some triscuit crackers. I don't know what I'm doing for dinner yet. I will be getting my taebo in though for sure. Now that I'm really starting to see and feel results I really don't want to skip it!
 
Did my abs workout last night. It felt great! I wanted to take new measurements last night, but forgot all about it until I was already in bed. I wasn't about to get up to do that. Maybe tonight I'll remember. I weighed in at 205lb this morning. I was hoping to be back down in the 204's, but no such luck. I'm so very anxious to get out of the 200's!!

No protein shake this morning. My stomach doesn't feel quite right today. Very blah! I'm hoping to still get my fruit down this morning . If it keeps feeling like this I don't see me hitting my calorie goal today. I can't force myself to eat when I feel nauseous. We'll see how it goes...
 
Great job with killing boredom with a workout! Sometimes I manage to kill boredom by reorganizing something in the house, but that's as close as I get to exercising, haha.

Oh, and the weather here in New England is finally feeling good, right? I was so over the heat!
 
Nice to see you Laura! :) Oh yes, the weather is MUCH more tolerable right now! I LOVE this kind of weather. :)

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So my stomach felt better and better throughout the day yesterday so I got my calories in. I didn't work out last night because I promised a couple of people that I'd make them humpback whale sculptures. I'm hoping to have one completed for Saturday. I spent a good few hours on one last night before giving up on it. My hands just didn't want to work. It came out way to big for the base and just looked funky. Will try again tonight if I have time AFTER exercising. I think my body could've used a break anyway. My back was a bit stiff and feels a lot better now.

This morning I weighed in at 204.4lb again. Maybe I'll be in the 203's tomorrow! That's a pretty exciting thought! :)
 
I work with polymer clay, the kind of clay that you shape and then bake it to cure/harden. I've done this for years, but took about 2 years off because of arthritis pain. Now I'm feeling better and getting back into it. I'm absolutely obsessed with whales so it only made sense that I started making them out of clay. The crew where I go whale watching really like them so I've promised to make some for them. It's good practice! :)

I posted a couple of pics here a while back... let's see if this link works... http://weight-loss.fitness.com/thre...Positive-Outlook-For-2013?p=867899#post867899
 
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You'll be sub-200 in no time.

Artistic type folks always impressed me. I couldn't draw, couldn't sculpt, couldn't build bird houses, or play music. I suppose I can dance a little, or then maybe not... :(
 
They are so beautiful Mandy! I think its so cool that you regularly spend time in your life on something you're truly passionate about... I feel like I'm always on the grind: work, school, chores, working out, spending time with loved ones... which is all great but I don't spend time doing things I truly love because I just don't have time... but that makes no sense... life is too short to not spend time on those things.

Looks like we could end up entering one-derland together hehe. Keep it up girl!
 
Hi lady!!!

Hope you are doing well! Ahh you are soo close to the 100s! I am so happy to see that. Hope life has been treating you well. Can't wait to go back and catch up on what you've been up to lately. :)

~Camila~
 
MrVee, I'm on the opposite side of that fence! I can draw half way decent and I can sculpt. I've always wanted to paint, but havent' mastered that yet. I cannot for the life of me dance. I have the worst sense of rhythm and just can't move my body right.

Slickzchik, I feel it's extremely important to spend time doing things you are passionate about. As you said, life is far to short to not enjoy it. I work from 7:30am-5pm Mon-Thurs and the 7:30-1pm on Fri. I have no time in the morning for anything and aside from Fridays, by the time I get home and workout, eat, shower, take care of the dogs, etc is pretty much bed time. The weekends I like to let loose and relax. That's where the ocean comes in. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the ocean! I would be so lost without it!

I think you'll be getting to the 19x's before me, but I'll be closely behind! :)

Camilla, honestly don't bother going back to read my posts since you've been gone. Not a whole heck of a lot has been happening. I did some bitching and whining, but then I got back on track and got happier. Weight loss and inches has started again. I'm a great place right now. How the heck have you been?

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Well well well... today I weighed in at my lowest since 4/20/13. I weighed in at 203.8lb! My all time low since joining this forum is 203 so hopefully within the next day or so I'll be at a new low and then shortly after that, I'm looking forward to saying goodbye to the 200's!

Another pretty cool little tidbit is that I started a new routine on 7/15. This new routine includes exercising 5 out of 7 days (although I've been trying to go 6 out of 7) AND counting calories along with just being really strict with what I eat (aside from my cheat day). On 7/15 I weighed in at 209.4lb so I've dropped 5.6lb since then. I know we're supposed to lose 2lb max a week to be healthy so I'm going to monitor it. If I continue losing more than that I may need to change things up a bit more, maybe by increasing my calories. For now I'm just enjoying seeing the number drop more and more every day. So excited this morning! :)
 
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:hurray: good for you Mandy. New lows are great. It might be quick loss in the beginning but it will probably settle soon. Don't worry about it too much but like you said just keep an eye on it.

I love the sculptures. They are very artistic. I'm a mathmetition. Not a single artistic bone in my body. Not one lol. I am impressed.
 
Thanks Angel. They're a lot of fun to make another great way for me to release some stress! Except for when my hands don't work like I want them to as was the case earlier this week!
 
Ok... I can't believe I'm doing this, but MrVee inspired me too do it. He's been posting before and after pics throughout his journey. I haven't done so yet. So here we go... (ugh, I cringe at these pics!)

Pic#1: On 8/27/11 - must've been at my heaviest at around 250lb.
Pic#2: Today in the same shirt as pic #1 @ 203.8lb.
Pic#3: Today in my normal kind of shirt these days (no more big baggy manly shirts for me! I shop in the girls section now!)
Pic#4: On 8/7/09 - not sure on my weight. This was a selfie for my Facebook page.
Pic#5: On 2/16/13 - around 217lb (another selfie for Facebook... lol)
 

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Mandy, congrats on the loss! It's so inspiring. It's so exciting to hit a new low. :D

This is unrelated, but your hair is the prettiest shade of brown.
 
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