NeedToLose30
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Ok so this is my first post in my very shiny and new weight loss diary! Where to start....
Let's start at the beginning, not the very beginning, we would all be here forever....4 weeks ago, 4 weeks ago I started a journey that I am now bringing on to here. This is my weight loss, get healthy and fit journey. What prompted me to finally start this well over due journey was a friend. She offered me a free 7 day eating healthy challenge, and I took it. The first week, I cheated a lot, so I told her I would re-do it the next week on my own with her meal plan. That second attempt went better and help spark my determination. I lost 4lbs (mostly water) and a total of 3 inches, I knew I needed to continue. I was trying to jog a mile that whole week, each day doing a mile slightly faster, slightly more running until I did it, I jogged the whole thing! One mile in 11:17mins. Wow I was proud of myself, but what I didn't plan on was the pain, thigh bone pain, sort of like a shin splint, but in the thigh. That set me back a little, now what do I do?
As a side note, as you get to know me better, I am an all or nothing person, sometimes that is a good thing, and sometimes it is not. With trying to jog, it was not a good thing. Slow and steady should have been my plan, I had not jogged anywhere in 15 years, but in 1 week I was determined to do it. I shake my head at it now.
Anyway, after my jogging ended abruptly I was looking for a new workout, I didn't want to buy one, I have free weights, a recumbent bike, a treadmill, assorted bands and soon a rowing machine (yes I have tried this before...many times). I decided to check out youtube, and that's where I found my new workout! Now I am working on the 30 Day Shred level 1, I do it most days. I try to fit it in before work in the morning. I also got my husband on board with 1 hour walks in the evening every other day. This is all a little more tame then I originally started out with, but I think it will have more lasting power and a lot less injury. Yay me!!
But not all is good news....
Food, oh food how I hate you! Why does good for you food taste so nasty, and bad for you food scream your name?? Seriously, I try! And yes more often then not (let's say 75/25) I succeed in eating my allotted calories out of clean good food, but that other 25% of the time, well they cost me a lot! When I fail, when I fall off my eating good wagon, I fall hard. Like today, just one hour ago! I packed my lunch for work, boiled egg and cheese stick for snack, turkey breast mini wrap lunch, but what did I have? Pizza. I went to the deli and got a ham and mushroom pizza. Why? I have no idea, I just didn't want my lunch. My lunch did not sound or look good to me today. So I have fallen, and for me and my all or nothing attitude, this can once again spiral out of control. But I am taking control of it today. Today I start to do things differently. One mistake, one out of line food should not equal a crazy death spiral of calories, fat and processed junk! Not today!
Speaking of today, now that we are in the present and have a little info. about how I got here, and what I have done so far. Today started great! Woke up at 5:45am, had half a cup of black coffee, went downstairs and did my workout. Breakfast was my green smoothie (1c. spinach, 1c. broccoli and a scoop of vega one protein powder all blended up) and 20 oz of water. Then off to work I went and we all know what happened next...so from here, I need to deal with my mistake and move on. I will be dropping my afternoon snack, I don't really need it now as I am stuffed. I will go for my 1 hour walk with my husband tonight, and I will try to fit some other exercise in if I can before bed. <---This really depends on when I get my kids to bed, as I am also trying to get 8 hours of sleep every night which essentially means bedtime for me is around 9pm.....sometimes my kids, my boys specifically are not even in bed by then (they are 3 and 16 months - not the most cooperative sleepers). But even if I can't, at least I am not throwing the rest of my day away. Tomorrow will go better, I know it.
Let's start at the beginning, not the very beginning, we would all be here forever....4 weeks ago, 4 weeks ago I started a journey that I am now bringing on to here. This is my weight loss, get healthy and fit journey. What prompted me to finally start this well over due journey was a friend. She offered me a free 7 day eating healthy challenge, and I took it. The first week, I cheated a lot, so I told her I would re-do it the next week on my own with her meal plan. That second attempt went better and help spark my determination. I lost 4lbs (mostly water) and a total of 3 inches, I knew I needed to continue. I was trying to jog a mile that whole week, each day doing a mile slightly faster, slightly more running until I did it, I jogged the whole thing! One mile in 11:17mins. Wow I was proud of myself, but what I didn't plan on was the pain, thigh bone pain, sort of like a shin splint, but in the thigh. That set me back a little, now what do I do?
As a side note, as you get to know me better, I am an all or nothing person, sometimes that is a good thing, and sometimes it is not. With trying to jog, it was not a good thing. Slow and steady should have been my plan, I had not jogged anywhere in 15 years, but in 1 week I was determined to do it. I shake my head at it now.
Anyway, after my jogging ended abruptly I was looking for a new workout, I didn't want to buy one, I have free weights, a recumbent bike, a treadmill, assorted bands and soon a rowing machine (yes I have tried this before...many times). I decided to check out youtube, and that's where I found my new workout! Now I am working on the 30 Day Shred level 1, I do it most days. I try to fit it in before work in the morning. I also got my husband on board with 1 hour walks in the evening every other day. This is all a little more tame then I originally started out with, but I think it will have more lasting power and a lot less injury. Yay me!!
But not all is good news....
Food, oh food how I hate you! Why does good for you food taste so nasty, and bad for you food scream your name?? Seriously, I try! And yes more often then not (let's say 75/25) I succeed in eating my allotted calories out of clean good food, but that other 25% of the time, well they cost me a lot! When I fail, when I fall off my eating good wagon, I fall hard. Like today, just one hour ago! I packed my lunch for work, boiled egg and cheese stick for snack, turkey breast mini wrap lunch, but what did I have? Pizza. I went to the deli and got a ham and mushroom pizza. Why? I have no idea, I just didn't want my lunch. My lunch did not sound or look good to me today. So I have fallen, and for me and my all or nothing attitude, this can once again spiral out of control. But I am taking control of it today. Today I start to do things differently. One mistake, one out of line food should not equal a crazy death spiral of calories, fat and processed junk! Not today!
Speaking of today, now that we are in the present and have a little info. about how I got here, and what I have done so far. Today started great! Woke up at 5:45am, had half a cup of black coffee, went downstairs and did my workout. Breakfast was my green smoothie (1c. spinach, 1c. broccoli and a scoop of vega one protein powder all blended up) and 20 oz of water. Then off to work I went and we all know what happened next...so from here, I need to deal with my mistake and move on. I will be dropping my afternoon snack, I don't really need it now as I am stuffed. I will go for my 1 hour walk with my husband tonight, and I will try to fit some other exercise in if I can before bed. <---This really depends on when I get my kids to bed, as I am also trying to get 8 hours of sleep every night which essentially means bedtime for me is around 9pm.....sometimes my kids, my boys specifically are not even in bed by then (they are 3 and 16 months - not the most cooperative sleepers). But even if I can't, at least I am not throwing the rest of my day away. Tomorrow will go better, I know it.
