My Never Ending Story

maggie_degroat

maggie_degroat

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Well i guess it is time i should start a diary. i decided to change my life on Feb. 16, 2009. so far i am down 14lbs but want to lose alot more. i find as the days go by it gets harder and harder to stay on, it doesnt help that i go to work at luck time i will be stitting in the break room while all my co workers are wolfing down taco bell, sub way, wings, all that crap and there i sit with my low fat, low cal. meal ..grr then after work i hit the gym then i get pumped up only to come home at 9pm to see my fiance sticking up my house with some sort of bad food. and as i sit there i have to tell myself NO NO NO. and then i get cranky.

If i am not stricked with my self i will cave and give in. once i cave in i wont stop. i will binge. well let me fill you in on what i usually have.

breakfast. depends on the mood i am in sometimes i have to force it, never was a breakfast person... i will either have a slim fast if i am rushing otherwise i will have a bowl of the special k lowcarb cereal with slim milk.. yummy. for morning snack i will have a pear or some strawberries. luch i try and mix it up like salad with grilled chicken or a chicken casadea homemade only 150 cal. or a piece of pizza which i either make out of a whole wheat tortilla or a frozen one i found at the store which is made with whole wheat and even has flax seed in it. there really good.. or i might have broccoli ..
then because i am at work and on my feet all day i dont get a break to sit down for my afternoon snack or dinner so i work and nibble at the same time. snack i might have some raw veggies or some wheat thins.. dinner time is our busy time. i have to sneak over for a nibble every once in a while so sometimes i make it light like a yogert or something i can throw in the microwave. then an hour and a half later i am at the gym... i am on a routine exercise plan that the trainer at the gym gave me. i just home i can stick to this. i just wish that i had more time in my days that i can cook a good healthy meal and be able to sit down and enjoy it.
 
Well yesterday was ok.. i was very busy at work you would think with all the stuff i do there always running around i would be a size 2. but no. all i had for food was for breakfast i had a bowl of special k and then for lunch i had made a chicken salad on whole wheat pita bread cut that in half and had one for lunch and one for dinner and in between those meals i had some nuts(almonds) and then after work i went to the gym, now i wanted to mix things up a bit and i skipped my weight training and just did an hour and a half of cardio. came home and had an orange. now if i am doing something backwards or wrong please give your advice
 
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:waving: Maggie! Welocme to the forum. It looks lik eyou are on a Great path. You are keeping strong and motivated. I would have already gave in on all the bad foods. It's a learning process. I know all your co-workers are eating that greasing, yummy bad foods. But that's okay if you are the only one eating the right foods. Remeber what they are eating and how much of it. All that harm to your body. But then again it's all about portion controll.

Your trainer has you on this plan for now to get your body going and loosing. You'll soon beable to make your home meals and make them mmuch more healthier. Good luck to you and Stay Positive!! And dont forget to drink your WATER!!!
 
thanks jelly belly, but i did fail.. today we went to the texas road house and i ended up having the smallest amount of steak with a sm side of mashed potatoes and broccoli. the waitress says to me why dont you get a bigger size cause by the time there done cooking it , it will be child size. um yeah i looked at her and said thats the whole point. now any other time when i was on a diet and i cheated i felt guilty. but the weird thing is this time i didnt because i didnt cheat with a greasy burger from mcdonalds or something deep fried. so afterwards i went shopping picked up more healthy food stuff.. yummy. and came home and did my taebo and let me tell you, billy blanks kicked my ass. i have not done taebo in 9 years. now i know its gonna take some time to get use to the quickness and the hardness of the dvd but i will do that on the weekends that i am not in the gym. its just that going to the gym 7days a week is starting to bore me so i feel i should change it up a bit. it was kinda weird though cause as i am in the living room kicking and punching air my fiance and both my boys are looking at me like.. um your not going in speed with them.. my oldest kept saying.."mom this is boring" lol
also i bought a trim belt thingy it is suppose to help absorb water around your tummy. after my workout i took that off and the sweat just slid off of it. there was more sweat with this workout then i get from the gym. so i am thinking i should wear it while i am at the gym. anyways
i bought that whole wheat flat bread i am going to try and make a pizza tomorrow. debating on pinapple and ham or something else. does anyone know if i cook them then let them cool down if i can freeze them that way it will be easy to bring to work with me...
 
well today was not that good of a day. i had alot of running around to do. i did buy my self 2 new pairs of sneakers one for the gym and just another for everyday use. then i had to go food shopping picked up some intersting stuff, picked up a rotissery turkey some fat free 0 cal. ketchup and some other stuff. came home and made my pineapple and ham pizza which i ended up not liking i didnt like the flatbread at all. i took all the skin off the turkey and carved it all up.. all white meat and put into a container. i really like the pita bread so i am thinking turkey sandwhich tomorrow. also picked up some fruit and veggies. so i think i am good for the week. i wasnt able to get to my work out today but i did pick up a new workout dvd.. latin dance workout. sounded fun so hell i can learn how to shake my rolls and melt them at the same time. hitting the gym tomorrow.
 
It was such a nice day out Yesterday, today it looks like its gonna poor. well i weighed my self today and it seems like i am not losing all that much. i only lost another 3 lbs. well its a new week and i guess we will see what happens..
 
not what it is today but i am just not feeling so good. i am dreading work and i am dreading the gym. but i know that i have made a commitment to go so i just need to suck it up and just do it. i am hoping to lose 3 lbs this week. i just feel that i have hit a stump. i watched the biggest loser last night and it looks like not many of them did a good job. i could not believe my eyes that mandy gained a pound. i really think Ron should have gone home he should have gone a long time a go. i think he is the reason why they keep losing there challenges. and i just can not stand him or helen. helen thinks she is the boss of the group. grrr. this show is pissing me off and i can not stand Jillian she is so cruel. anyways i am off to work, hopefully i have a good day..
 
omg today was horrible... i was so busy at work that i barely got time to even think. i work in a pharmacy and today my boss was off and the had this pharmacist who has only been working for the company for 2 days today being his second day. we are a busy place and this guy didnt know anything yes he has been a pharmacist for 20 years but he has only had 8 hours of training on our program he didnt know anything. i felt like a chicken running around with its head chopped off. so now tomorrow my boss is off again and we have a pharm on the go which is a pharmacist who works for an agency that cant ring reg. or lable a bottle or even put a script in and they make 40 times more than me and us techs do all the damn work.. grrrr. so anyways i had a slim fast for breakfast and all i had time to have today was a fiber 1 bar and a damn yogert... well after work i went to the gym to blow some stress. and i thought i would be hungry but i am not.. ohwell. dreading tomorrow.... :(
 
Hi maggie! Congrats on your 3lbs. YAY!!! You should be proud. I love my Billy Blanks dvd's. I use to do them a couple years back. And that whooped my butt into shape fast. I still have them. I think I will give it a try this weekend. My hubby met Billy Blanks just two-three weeks ago. Billy Blanks went to visit the troops in Afghanistan. I was soooo jealous.

Sorry to hear about your bad day. You should just jog it off :) And you did at the gym. Good for you. Because you didnt let the stress get in the way of working out. So you are on the right track. Keep Positive.

Keep your head up and your feet moving. have a good night and dont forget your WATER!
 
so today was a fun day. I took the day off from work, which i indeed needed. so i went tanning which i dont do often i only go a few times a year just to get a base tan right before the summer hits. anyways i met this girl that works there and she was talking about tanning and all that stuff and as she is talking to me i could not stop staring at this girls teeth i have never in my life seen such white teeth before they were perfect. so when she was done talking i said to her, i have to know how do you get your teeth so white..lol... she turns around and picks up a box of the listerine strips and says she puts one on the top teeth and one on the bottom and she wears it while tanning.. so i tried it and today i did it again and i am amazed at how much whiter my teeth are. even my brother noticed.... just thought i would share that, anyways after tanning i decided to treat myself to the nail salon now i really am not into getting the tips and all i have done it in the past and just dont like the feel of them plus with working in the pharmacy i am always using my hands. plus my nails are long enough so i had a manicure done and had them pain the french tips.. there cute and girly.. so then came home had a ceaser salad with grilled chicken chilled for a bit and went off to the gym. did the treadmill for an hour and burned 507 cal. and did my normal workout. i feel good today. tomorrow i am going easter shopping get that out of the way and pick up some more food for next week.. i have lost some more weight. i am not gonna post a new ticker untill Monday..... now that i have babbled on about everything i am gonna get going..hope everyone has a healthy weekend.
 
i updated my ticker today and i lost another 3.5 lbs. which i am happy about. today is my one month down so not bad for a month. i am actaully glad today is Monday. i didnt lose anything over the weekend, for some reason i do better during the week while i am at work. i was really hoping to it the 20lb mark but hey i'm only 1 lbs anway. i'll make that or more by next week. i took friday off but still went to the gym burned 500 cal. on the treadmill which is good. plus with all the running around i did. and my workout. didnt go sat. or sun. had way to much stuff to do around the house. def. hitting the gym after work all this week.
i slit my finger open last night with a piecee of glass from a clock. i never seen so much blood come from a finger before. i was gonna go to the hospital, but i am not a needle person specially if its going into the tip of my finger so i just cleaned it up wrapped it and i am good to go. i prob. could have use 2 stiches. ohwell. good luck everyone and a another new week in your new life.
 
56.5lbs to go. i know i can do this. i look at the number and in a way it seems very simple but i know that it will be hard but i am so focused on what i want i know i will not have a problem with making my goal. yeah it may take a while but that ok. i know what i want and i will get it....
 
yesterday went good i went to work and was very busy moving around. my main boss in the store i work at had the nerve to ask me if i wanted to stay late, ah i looked at him and sain, um no i have plans, and a commitment to the gym. he says well dont you want to make some extra money..lol.. i looked at him and said again sorry but i rather go to the gym and work on losing another pound then work extra hours. i know if i would have stayed then they would try and talk me to staying untill 10pm and my gym closes at 9:30 and i would have never made it there then i would have felt guilty. so i went to the gym did my usual. had to wait around for this guy who looked like he was in way better shape then me spend 20 mins. on a machine lifting 5lbs. he was just sitting there taking his damn time looking around. and he was prob. 23 thin as can be. and of course his mom well i am asuming it was his mom on the machine next to him just sitting there with her head phones on and her bottle in her hand. doing nothing but sitting there, i only had 2 machines left to do and they were occupying then with there asses. so there i was just standing there trying to wait patiently for them to get a move on with it.
now i can tell that the young guy was on the lazy side cause his mom asked him to go file his workout paper and he actually was wining about having to walk the 20 + feet to do it. i just wanted to say suck it up stop your whining. well the mom got bad and threw her bottle to the ground.

i am looking foward to today. cause i know that each day i am one more lb closer to my goal. this morning i ended up having a pita turkey sandwhich in stead of my slim fast only cause in the after noon i am so busy at work i only have time to snack. so i usually just bring me some fruit or a yogert or something..
 
today was just like any other day, i just switched it up a little. instead of having a slim fast in the morning i decided to have my turkey pita sandwhich for breakfast, which didnt make me feel like i stuffed myself at dinner. well tonight my fiance came into the bathroom and stepped on the scale. he weighed in at 185lbs now he is taller and looks really thin sorta lil gumbie thats my nick name for him, so i was like ok well he let me get on the scale and never before would i really weigh myself in front of him. so there i was staning on the scale waiting for the numbers to apear ...185lbs. lmao.. we are the same weight yeah of course he alot more streched out then i am but hell i am doing it i fropped 20lbs in a month and 1 day. i think that is pretty damn good. and i am ready to lose the remaining amount of weight to reach my goal.... god i love life right now...
 
It's really nice to see you are enjoying your new lifestyle and not stressing over it. It's really inspirational to read your story. :p
 
thanks Mikey!! I see your new here so welcome. you will find alot of interesting idea on this site. at first i didnt think i was gonna stick around but now i find my self on here before and after work just brousing reading peoples stories which helps incourage me to want to push myself further....
 
today was not such a good day.. for breakfast i had my turkey pita sandwhich, luch a fiber bar, snamck strawberries the around 5pm i had a yogert. i was so busy at work and just felt like crap all day. i didnt feel up to going to the gym, i felt like i hadnt ate in days. so i swore i would not eat past 6pm but i gave in and got me a 6inch turkey sub from subway, wheat bread with lettuce tomato and lite mayo. i know it's not a bad food but i really did not want to eat past 6 knowing that i didnt make it to the gym, i think with all the running around i did today i burned what calories i did eat and my body just needed it. ohwell, i am not gonna beat myself up over it. i know tomorrow is going to be another busy day with inventory tomorrow night ugh......
 
i woke up feeling like a lump on a log today. i guess just in one of those moods. had a turkey pita for breakfast. i need to change things up a little. i wish i had more time to prepare meals that will boost my energy and my metabolism. any ideas????? anyone!!

i have been doing so good with keeping on track but now i feel like i cant do it. i think it's because i am under alot of stress at work and at home...

today is just an all around crappy day, it's raining and cold outside and days like this i just dont want to do anything. i will be going to the gym tonight so maybe that will help me feel better.
 
last night by the time i got to the gym i was not feeling good, got on the treadmill and half way through i felt like i had to pee so i got off went to the rest room and nothing, so got back on the treadmill and 5n min. later the feeling came back..so to make a long story short i rushed through the rest of my workout not feeling good. got home still nothing i think i am coming down with either a blatter infection, kidney infection or whatever. but this morning when i woke up i was able to go. not sure what that was all about. TGIF i have to be to work at 12 last night we had our inventory of every single bottle in the pharmacy so i know the shelves are trashed. so thats what i get to do all day is straighten up shelves while trying to do my every day work. then hitting the gym after work tonight. not sure if i am going to work out tomorrow i might just switch it up and go roller blading instead. need to pick me up a helmet today not sure what happen to mine.

this morning i ended up having a slim fast instead of the pita, i have noticed since i was having the pita for breakfast i found my self eating late at night, can be doing that.
 
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