My Journey to Beauty.

Sunday

To Eat
Breakfast
2 ham and cheese biscuits w/ butter (this is the one bad thing I allow myself to have on weekends, it's sooooo good)
Lunch
chicken wrap w/ teriyaki sauce
Supper
Small serving potatoes
one slice roast beef
tiny amount of gravy
Ok so at the end of the day (bout 6:30) I started feeling sick. I then realized that the calorie counter was saying I had only eaten 1200 calories today!! No wonder I felt sick, I was starving! So I crammed some carrots with dip down my mouth and man was that good!! I felt much better afterwards.
Exercise
NONE. But I don't feel bad cause I did 6 hard workouts this week, go me!
 
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Monday

To Eat
Breakfast
Whole wheat bagel w/ butter
Snack
4 almonds
Lunch
Roast Beef in Pita w/ honey mustard sauce
Snack
Apple
Supper
2 Tacos

Exercise
5 mins warm up
full body weight lifting (I always use free weights just so you know)
40 mins cardio (arc, rower, stepper)
 
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Tuesday

To Eat
Breakfast
3/4 Cup Smoothie
1/2 Whole Wheat bagel w/ butter
Snack
4 almonds
Lunch
ham pita sandwich w/ honey mustard sauce
Snack
Apple
Supper
Regular Donair

Exercise
1 hour spa ball class
1 hour riding my horse

Tomorrow is the weigh in/measurements. Oh I hope it's gonna be good. I can't really tell on my clothes cause I gained weight and didn't buy better fitting clothes so I mostly wore the one pair of pants that fit me or sweats. For work I wear elasticated waistband pants and a baggy top (dog groomer, normal clothes would have far too much hair stick to it), then I go to the gym and wear stretchy pants and shirt, then to the barn and wear stretchy pants and baggy shirt, then home and wear PJ's.
 
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I had my first monthly weigh in/measurements today. I am so proud of myself and so are my mom and dad.

My weight and measurements now are:
Weight 158, down 10 pounds!!!!

Upper Arm:11
Chest: 37.5 (down 1.5")
Waist: 32.5 (down 1.5")
Abdomen: 35.5 (down 3.5")
Hips: 40.5 (down .5")
Thigh: 24 (down 2")
Calf: 16 (one inch of muscle, ya)

Total inches lost: 9

So today

To Eat:
Breakfast
3/4 cup smoothie
1/2 whole wheat bagel
Snack
4 almonds
Lunch
Soup
Carrots w/ dip
Snack
1/2 granola bar
Supper
1 3/4 pita pizzas

Exercise
5 mins warm up (bike)
25 mins upper body weights
40 mins cardio (arc, rower, stepper)

Pics
Old Ones on the left, New ones on the Right
 
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THanks, Sorry I haven't updated in the last few days.
Thursday and friday I ate like normal.
Thrusday for exercise I only got in 5 mins warm up and 25 mins weights cause I had a nutrition session.
Friday I did a 45 min cardio step class.

Saturday.
To Eat
Breakfast
3/4 cup smoothie
whole wheat bagel w/ butter
Lunch
Pita sandwich w/ mayo
very small rice crispie chocolate square (christmas baking)
Snack
Orange
Supper
Small serving potatoes w/ sweet and sour sauce
Small farmer sausage w/ " "
Corn
Dessert
Very small piece of low fat 6 layer cake (can you tell we had company?)

Exercise
45 mins step class

Sunday
To Eat
Breakfast
Whole wheat bagel w/ butter
Lunch
Bagel Sandwich
Supper
We are going to a christmas party at a dinner theater but I will try to eat ok.
So here is what I had.
A few spoonfuls of soup (I don't like mushrooms and this was mushroom soup)
A bite or 2 of salad (I only like ceasar salad and this was not)
4 cheese tortellini (Luckily they came in 'lunch' sizes)
half a chocolate cake piece (came with the meal)
And I actually had coke. something I haven't had in a long time. Probably about one glass. Not great but I think it could have been worse.

No exercise today.
 
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Monday

To Eat
Breakfast
Whole wheat bagel w/ butter
Snack
4 almonds
lunch
pita sandwich w/ honey mustard
carrots and dip
Snack
almonds
granola car
Supper
salmon
small serving noodles with gravy
Dessert (ack!)
low fat 6 layer cake (very small piece)

Exercise
5 mins warmup (bike)
30ish mins wieghts
30 mins cardio (arc, stepper)

Feeling more down this last week. More cravings, sickish feeling, less get up and go for exercise. Hopefully it will pass!
 
Tuesday
To Eat
Breakfast
3/4 cup smoothie
1/2 whle wheat bagl w/ butter
Snack
almonds
lunch
pita sandwich
carrots and dip
snack
orange
supper
regular donair

Exercise
45 mins spa ball class
60 mins riding my horse
 
Wednesday

To Eat
Breakfast
ww bagel w/ bttr
Snack
almonds
Medium hot chocolate (eek)
Lunch
pita sandwich
carrots and dip (not very many)
snack
granola bar
supper
1 3/4 pita pizzas

Exercise
5 min bike warmup
25 mins weights (upper body)
40 mins cardio (arc rower stepper)
 
Thursday
My motivation and willpower is deffinately slipping, but I am still trying really hard and so far I haven't done too much to ruin my chances at losing weight this month.

To Eat
Breakfast
smoothie
1/2 bagel
Snack
almonds
lunch
soup
carrots and dip
snack
granola bar
supper
regular donair
dessert
1 small cluster

Exercise
I went to the gym with full intentions of working out, but realized while doing my 5 min warm up that my muscles were just to toast to do anything. So I decided to do some stretching then call it a day. I am hoping to get back to the gym today.
Rode my horse for 60 mins
 
Sorry I haven't been updating everyday.
I have backstepped a little bit
After Thursday I should have gone to the gym friday but I did not. I also had some of my mom's christmas baking.
I tried hard on saturday to make it to the last class of at my gym but I worked saturday (I don 't normally) and did not finish on time BUT I still could have just gone to the gym to work out but I didn't. I had chips and pop, I also went out to dinner. Tho I only had water to drink at the restaurant (6 cups or more!!!) I had a plate of pasta (tho this restaurant has way cut back on their sizes which is good.
Today I went to the gym for a 2 hour workout and ate well till the end of the day where I had 3 small cinamon bun type things and 2 chocolate/peanut butter clusters. GROSS.
I did do a little bit of dancing afterwards but not enough to make up for it.

I just really need to refocus and re-energize myself. I have cut back on my water intake which could be one of the reasons I have fallen off my plan. I gotta up that way back up again so I feel fuller and more energetic!!
 
Sorry I haven't been updating everyday.
I have backstepped a little bit
After Thursday I should have gone to the gym friday but I did not. I also had some of my mom's christmas baking.
I tried hard on saturday to make it to the last class of at my gym but I worked saturday (I don 't normally) and did not finish on time BUT I still could have just gone to the gym to work out but I didn't. I had chips and pop, I also went out to dinner. Tho I only had water to drink at the restaurant (6 cups or more!!!) I had a plate of pasta (tho this restaurant has way cut back on their sizes which is good.
Today I went to the gym for a 2 hour workout and ate well till the end of the day where I had 3 small cinamon bun type things and 2 chocolate/peanut butter clusters. GROSS.
I did do a little bit of dancing afterwards but not enough to make up for it.

I just really need to refocus and re-energize myself. I have cut back on my water intake which could be one of the reasons I have fallen off my plan. I gotta up that way back up again so I feel fuller and more energetic!!

You can do it! Think about the results you've already gotten and how adding on to those results is going to be worth EVERYTHING! You haven't really gotten to far off track so if you get back on now, I'm sure there will be no damage done!

It's normal for things like this to happen every once in awhile. I think the difference bt people who are successful at losing weight to those who aren't is successful people don't let things like this bother them too much and put it behind them as quickly as possible. Unsuccessful people never really move on and let even the littlest slip-ups throw them completely off-track.

I'd say you just got a little side-tracked :)

Oh yeh...I've been meaning to ask, what is a donair???
 
Thanks. I broke my bad eating yesterday so yay. Just gotta keep it up now.

A donair is beef in a pita with sweet sauce. It's really good.
 
well done!!!!

you are doing reaally well!

10 pounds in one month! great!!

keep it up. you've got a really good attitude!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

x
 
Whew, it's been a little while since I have written. I am not doing too bad overall but the little things are bumping me off track. There are a lot of christmas goodies hanging around. One leads to 2, 2 leads to 3 and suddenly I have eaten far too many snacks. I can't wait for it to be out of the house.
I haven't missed too many workouts. The cardio is what has been lacking, cause we have weights to use at home but I don't like running, specially not in the cold and snow and ya... We also went skiing one day so that was good calorie burner. I am gonna try to post pics. They were taken about 2 weeks after my initial pics (initial pics were taken 2 weeks into my weight loss and these new pics are 2 weeks after that)
 
So I thought I would post this.
I am usually at the gym about 1.5 to 2 hours.

Start off with 5 mins warmup, usually on the recumbant (sp?) bike.

We (my mom and I) head up to the weight area.
We grab 3-4 sets of weights. For ease of explaining it I will use my regular weight amounts. 10, 8, and 5 pound weights.

One day we do full body, then we do upper body then we do lower body (we sometimes switch those around. (So we do 3 days weights and 2 days step classes a week)

So for upper body we start off lying on a bench doing the chest press. we use the 10 pound weights and do 12 reps, we then immediately grab the 8 pound weights and do 12 reps then we do the 5 pound weights 12 reps.
We then immediately do a Dumbell fly. using the same method (10's then 8s then 5s)
We then switch back to the chest press and do the same method, then switch back into the fly.
Then we move onto the tricep curl using the same 10-8-5 method, then we do the bicep curl same methoe. Then back to the tricep curl, then back to the bicep curl.
We then do the lateral pull-downs. Both under-hand and over hand. using the same method (weights are usually higher for this than the other moves) we switch back and forth betweem over and under handed till we have done both twice.

I believe that is our entire upper body work out.

For lower body
Start off usually with abductors and adductors. These weight are 70-60-50. We do each move twice with 12 reps (everything gets 12 reps unless our muscles just won't let us)
We then move onto the step ups. (stepping up onto a weight bench). We do this with 10-8-5s.
We then do lunges with the same weights, then go back to step ups then back to lunges.
We then do the super squatter machine (we have just begun adding weights to that). We then do the plea squats and alternate back and forth till we do then each twice. we do the 10-8-5 method with the plea (I need to move up weights) and are starting to do the same method with the super since we now have weights we can add and remove.

That is our lower body work out.
Usually I am just drenched in sweat as I am doing my weights (specially with the legs), keeping my heart-rate up with the fast reps that we do.

We then go downstairs and do our cardio

usually we start with 20 mins on the arc trainer, that thing is just torture! Plus it's the longest part of the cardio. My heart rate according to the machine is usually in the 160's (within the recommended range for a person like me)
We then do the rower for 10 mins, I don't really feel a lot of cardio workout during this but I still think it's a good one to do.
Then we do 10 mins on the stairmaster. This one is pretty good. We also do a few minutes cooling out on this when we are done (or which ever machine we do last as we do alternate them to which evers is emptier and such)

We then finish off by doing some ab work (I have a back problem I have to sort out before I can actually do much ab wise tho) then stretching.
Then we head home! Yay!
 
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