Natasha's Diary: In it to win it...

Yeah, I've actually been a C.N.A. for 7 years, or at least worked doing that kind of work... I just tried to give it a shot working in corrections. Blah blah blah... Never again!!! It's great being a C.N.A. because no matter which area you work in you make a difference in someone's life... That's my kind of work!!! :)
 
She kept up on her CNA cert by keeping some part time hours working for a home health care company for a few years. Just enough hours to keep the cert... until she realized that the bank job was stable enough and paid well enough not to worry about it.
 
I have a few friends doing Home Health, I hear it pays pretty good as well as giving you that warm fuzzy feeling from helping folks out lol. I got my CNA but never used it, joined the Navy :patriot:, now I'm a LVN going for my RN but the math is kicking my tail! me>>>> :boxing: <<<<math lol
 
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I'm Baacckk...

Okay, so I've been gone for way too long... Where the heck is everyone?! Well, some major life changes came into play. First of all, I moved to Thornton, CO from Walsenburg. My husband actually got offered his old job back in Denver, which just kinda gave us our hint that it was time to get out of that town!!!:driving: I'm a stay at home mommy and I just watch a friends kids on the side. It's been pretty good. I have not lost any weight...:banghead:(bad girl) I don't actually know what my weight is now because my scale got broke in the move and I haven't actually been motivated to get another one. But first thing tomorrow, I'm going out to buy a new one!!! I'm gonna kick this weights ass!:boxing: Can't stand being like this anymore... So that's pretty much an update on what's going on in the great life of Natasha.... Be back tomorrow with the results on the weight info... :ack2: :seeya:
 
Natasha.... :hug2::hug2::hug2: So glad to see you back!!!!!!!!

Did I forget you... Pleeze!!!! You think I would do that? We'll touch base hun, I'm glad you're around!
 
March 1, 2009

Thank you Karl n Anne, I'm so glad to hear that you all haven't forgotten me. Wow Karl, there are alot of people gone since I was here last huh?!? Well, glad to be back...:sifone:
So today I went and got my scale:hurray:... weighed myself... 262 lbs.!!!:ack2: UGHHH! I put all of my weight that I had lost last time back on except for those 3 lbs. Well, I'll take that though, at least I was graced without the 3, right?;) So, I didn't eat so great today healthy food wise (really need to go shopping), but I didn't eat my usual portion size, so it's kinda balanced out, right? Besides, I don't want to completely cut out all the bad stuff (it's really good to be bad sometimes!:reddevil:) As long as I do it in moderation.... So, here's my foods for the day, I'll put the accurate calories after I visit fitday...

Breakfast: 1 orange- wasn't really hungry.
Lunch: 1 Grilled cheese with some left over potatoes
Dinner: Baked Pork Chop with a green salad w/fat free italian dressing
Dessert: Here was my worst of the day 1.5 cups vanilla icecream w/3 tbs of chocolate syrup....(bad girl, but at least it's all gone now- finished the last of what was left) so lets see what the damage is in fitday & then I'll edit this to put in the calorie count.

Total Damage for the day 1,477 cal.s but they were pretty empty ones. I didn't do nearly enough fiber and vitamins were also very low. So, I have obviously really got to get some better food in this house!!! Going to Walsenburg tomorrow to see my mama, I'll be back on Tuesday, but will try really hard to log in while I'm there. If not, I will post all of my info when I get back... (yes I'm taking a notepad to track everything..) It's all about accountability.. the more honest we are with others and ourselves, the less of a chance we have of cheating!!!
 
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Moderation

Hello. I'm new, but not so new ... I've tried and failed and tried and failed to lose weight in the past. But, I think I'm on a very strong path to a healthier, happier me.

With food, sometimes I feel like an addict. One little, granule of sugar touches my tounge and I'm off on a binge. I'd love to get to a place where I was able to have a taste of something "sinful," but I'm really afraid it's going to set me off track. Right now, I'm counting calories and planning out my meals, journaling and ... ugh ... It's a lot of effort.

Anyway, I glad you're back ... and, I'm back ... even though I was never really there. Hopefully, we can help each other out by sharing our experiences.

Best Wishes,
A
 
Hey Natasha! So glad you're back!:hug2: :D
I know you'll do great this time! Keep us posted, and I'll check in with you :)

<3
Anna
 
Back from the Burg

I'm back from Walsenburg. I got back so late last night that there was no way I could possibly post. I did pretty good when in Walsenburg. I didn't eat the healthiest foods, but I made sure my calories stood below 1600 calories both days, so I made it work for me:) Oh man.... there's really no place like home. It was nice to see my mama though. I know I'm 25, but I'm still a mama's girl, probably always will be. So tomorrow I will start officially working out. We just decided to hold off until we got back from Burg because we knew there was no way we would do it down there for those 2 days. My husband (who doesn't need to lose any weight...) is going to work out with me because he knows how much this is bugging me. What a wonderful husband I have :) :) :) I couldn't be happier to have him in my life!!! Well until next time :seeya:
Natasha
 
Thanks for the encouragement!

I think it's wonderful that you're getting support from your husband! After all, he is your partner. I'm glad all is going well in your world! Keep up the good work. :D
 
Thank you to all who have visited my diary and have been so encouraging. :) Well, lets see, I have been eating a better choice of foods, just way too much of them :puke::puke: I really need to start measuring my portion sizes and sticking to them. So that's the plan for this week. i'm going shopping on Monday for all fresh items and am yet again going to have to clean out my cupboards. I don't think my husband quite understands how hard it is when he has junk foods right there in my face... Food is just like any other addiction ya know... and when you want something you know is horrible for you, you will try to be good and turn to the good foods and just go way overboard on them. So we are both going to go shopping together on monday since that is his day off, we're going to organize the cupboards, and he understands that he has to keep his junkfoods out of the house... period. So for now, I've been trying to be good, but not as good as I should or could be doing. i have however been working out on my balance ball, that big ol ball makes it all seem so easy, but I have to admit, I'm really really sore from doing the exercises on it :blush5: So I'm at least making some efforts to get my big ol butt back into gear!!! ahhhh! I'll get there, I have to for myself and my family!!! Until tomorrow :seeya:
Natasha
 
:waving: Natasha!! Welcom back. It's good to hear that you are right back on track. You can do this. You have a wonderful Husband for joining you. Keep positive and dont forget to drink your WATER!!
 
March 10th, 2009

Today was a good day. I think I did great on my calories and I have been doing very good lately actually... Just been super super busy. So lets see, I've still been working out on my balance ball every other night. I think I'm going to actually try to do it every night since I'm not as sore from it now. And I have been walking when I can. The weather here has been wierd (only in Colorado can you have all seasons in one day)... so I've just been doing my best. I've cooked my chicken breast for my salads for the week and have put them in portion sizes in baggies, so I'm good there, also I did do grocery shopping and got alot of healthy and great foods and ingredients... so it's on now!!! :flame: Thank you everyone for your positive words of encouragement. It's really great to have my WLF friends there to support me, and I hope that I could be as supportive back to you. I'll post my foods and calories below for the day, and my info for fitday... Oh yeah, I lost 2 lbs!!!! :hurray: So excited about that.

1 cup lowfat vanilla yogurt with frozen strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries
chicken breast salad with 1tbs ranch
wholewheat penne with tomato sauce
4 oz steak
handful of lowfat animal crackers with 1 cup 2% milk
Total calories (drumroll).... 1483 (pretty darn good)
I am actually going to aim for less than 1420 since that is the recommendation for me to reach my goal within a year, so I'll have to really tweak my eating habits. Until tomorrow :seeya:
 
You're doing great!

You have a really great attitude! It's very positive! Keep it up!

Thanks for your words of encouragement on my diary! :) I'm am so happy this forum exists! It's very helpful and motivating.

:hurray:
 
3/11/2009

OOOOHHHHH... I was a very bad girl today and without really giving it much effort. :ack2: It all started with not sleeping well last night, pretty much only slept about a half hour... I don't know why, just felt anxious or something for some reason, so I ate breakfast at about 7 a.m., ate a snack at about 11:30 a.m., and went back to sleep at about noon (my son was at grandmas today). Well, by time I woke up, it was 6:45 PM!!!:rant: I had to rush to make dinner (chicken tacos and spanish rice) because my husband would be home in about 45 minutes, all the time, I'm cleaning my house too since I didn't do CRAP all day, took a 5 minute shower (new record), and had dinner served at 7:45 pm. Now ordinarily, I would have ate lunch at about 1 or 2 pm and would have had dinner for myself and my son by 5 pm.... But, that was all down the drain, so I ate 2 tacos and 1 cup of spanish rice with all the fixings (at first), but I waited an hour and still felt like I was starving, so instead of eating an apple or banana or something, I go back for ANOTHER 2 tacos and MORE spanish rice and scarf those down. By this time it's about 9:20 or so. I try to settle down for the night, but I still feel VERY hungry or muchie-ish, so I make myself a pb&J sandwich with 2 cups of milk... oh man, I really blew my calorie count today.... 3,067 CALORIES in one day!!! :puke: I feel so sick to my stomache right now even typing that. I guess we all have our good and bad days and today was a VERY BAD day!!!:reddevil: So now I've scared my sleep away again, but I'm going to try to lay down again in a little while. I just feel so stuffed!!! And on top of everything else, no balancing ball or anything today!!! :banghead: :rant:
:chillpill:
Okay, so tomorrow is another day and I will stick to my guns tomorrow and not go overboard... I know what I have to do and what i have to stay away from, soooo.... start fresh tomorrow and let go of today, just had to get it off my chest . :)
Until tomorrow :seeya:
 
3/12/2009

I'm posting this a day late... but oh well. It was a VERY good day. I was very low on the calories though. Maybe a little too low. It's all good though. I was just really tired and chose sleep over food ;) So I only did 1,261 calories. Whoo hoo :hooray: I'm making sure I put my foods into fitday before I actually eat anything for that day now, and it seems to keep me more under control. I've also started taking vitamins, so that should help with the energy and for my needed nutrients for the day :) I'm going to be very busy today. I have 101 errands to run it seems!!! It will be good though. Less time to sit on my butt n watch tv and get tempted by those oooohhhhh so naughty foods!!! I'll update ya later with what's went on today!!! Have a good day everyone! :seeya:

Natasha
 
Hey Lady, doing good I see! I'm usually too tired to even think about eating when i get home in the mornings but I wake up feeling like I'm starving, you didnt have that problem on 1200cal?
 
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