Risty's Diary (Christina)

Hey, been so busy I haven't been on but I've been calorie couting on myfitnesspal (using the convenient phone app!) I've gone down to 182! I actually was 175 but gained a few pounds over the holidays.
 
Well everyone, here I go again!

So it has been quite a while since my last post. I was doing really well losing weight and then got pregnant with #2. She is now 8 months old (in a couple days) and I haven't lost any weight since her birth. I keep fluctuating up and down the same few pounds. I haven't tried to lose weight either. And even though I'm breastfeeding I'm not losing weight because I eat/snack too much :p

Well, starting Monday (the 15th) I've joined a group and we are going to be doing the Focus T25 program. I'm nervous for a few reasons. 1 - It has been forever (really, forever) since I've worked out and I am SUPER out of shape. 2 - I fell and landed extremely hard on my knee a month ago and it still hurts doing certain things.

I am also really going to try and no eat out much. We joined this website with meal plans, grocery lists, etc. It's for a paleo diet but I'm not all for paleo. I like the ease in how everything is planned for you. I will do my own breakfasts for the most part because I have oatmeal, cereal, etc. to use up. Also, it's just way too much meat on this way of eating! So yeah!

Anyway, I hope someone will read this and give support because I know I'll need it!!!
 
So I'm feeling discouraged this evening and I haven't even started yet! We have begun to change our eating and so we have eaten out less the past few days (only once). So that's good! I'm just worried about my knee and how it will tolerate exercise. It doesn't hurt when I walk or sit, but if I'm sitting on my knees or sitting crossed legged then I can feel pain within my knee. I fell on it a month ago, could that just be a bruise still? I wish I had remembered to ask my doctor when I was there yesterday!!

My exercise program (Focus T25) will start on the 15th. I'm scheduled to do a yoga class with my sister on the 14th. For the rest of this week though, I may try and focus on my eating and clearing out the room where my recumbent bike is so I can actually use it. Damn the little space that we have! I need my own house! That's another topic though!
 
Yes very busy!!!

They aren't classes, but a DVD workout program. Someone I know is part of the Focus T25 challenge (everyone doing that same program for the first time, at the same time) and asked if I wanted to do it too. So I said ok. The workouts are 25 mins, which is perfect because I don't think I could squeeze in anything longer until the baby is older (and starts sleeping through the night). So hopefully it goes well!
 
So I started using MyFitnessPal again. It realy helped me before when I used it. It keeps me from putting some things in my mouth! But it also helps me see where I go wrong. Not only that, because I'm breastfeeding, I need to make sure I don't eat too few calories. I need to eat enough to make the milk, etc, so keeping track is very important for me until I'm done with breastfeeding. Or at least until breast milk isn't her main source of nutrients.

So far, I'm doing pretty good. Not the 100% healthiest choices (a hot dog, processed crappy cheese, etc) but I did eat some healthy things. Once the processed cheese is gone, I'm not buying it again. I don't want myself, or the kids, to eat that junk!
 
Argh, the time is nigh! I am quite curious about the Paleo diet... Off to google!

I think that exercise is a chance for a nice bit of me-time, specially when you are leaving the house to do it :)
 
I don't likee paleo diet completely. It's too much meat. What I do like is that they don't do grains. Now are grains good or bad, not really sure. I always thought whole grains were good for you, but who knows what to believe. The goverments say what's good with who is supporting them financially! So what's good, what's bad... it sucks. I read part of the China study and it has very strong points against animal protein. So if I had all the time in the world and not a picky toddler and eventually another picky toddler, I would go toward more of a vegetarian diet. I wouldn't not eat meat ever, but I would try to make most of my meals vegetarian with the odd meat here and there. That would be my ultimate goal. I've already stopped buying milk, and get almond milk instead. So that's one thing. I still buy the odd yogurt and cheese every so often. I'm not the biggest fan of meat anyway, but I eat it. So for the paleo thing, I am not really going to follow many of their breakfasts. I have steel cut oats (oatmeal, but not the quick oat stuff) and some cereals that I have to use up. So on days that I don't like the paleo breakfast, I will have oatmeal, cereal or a smoothie for breakfast instead. Once my cereal is done though, I'm not buying more... those are full of crap.

On to how horrible I did for supper. I went to a Japanese restaurant and did all you can eat! GAH! My hubby said he was craving it, we were out running errands and it was late and my daughter was hungry. It would have taken too long to cook the dinner that was on the plan. So yeah, I went over by 600 calories. Would have been worse if I didn't breastfeed because that burns 500 calories. If it wasn't for that I would have been over by 1100!

Tomorrow is a new day. I think the best plan is to not go out in the late afternoon so we don't get suckered into the whole, it's late, the kids are hungry, lets go out to eat.. trap. Also, when we go out at that time it messes up with the baby's afternoon nap (she tends to fall asleep in the car and falls asleep too early, which makes it hard in the evening because she's too tired). So yeah... do errands after dinner! And don't give into tempation when hubby says... man I want to eat this! That's the hardest!
 
I am exhausted today. Technically the baby slept better last night and I only had to get up twice, but every so often she would start crying. The crying only lasted a few seconds, but it would wake me up and then I'm laying there waiting to see if she will cry more, or go back to sleep. My toddler wasn't asleep until 10 pm, then she's up at 6:30 am. If the baby slept all night, that wouldn't be so bad, but... I'm not that lucky yet. I feel like it's hard to stay awake today!

Food is better today. I'll be glad with the European weiners are no longer in the fridge to tempt me. I don't even know why I want to eat them. Just thinking about what those things are made of is gross! But during the time, that doesn't cross my mind!

I'm nervous about starting the Focus T25 program. I will be doing it at like 10 pm since that's the only me time I can get! This is not going to be easy.
 
So I did better today with my eating. Stayed under my calorie goals, woo! Not the cleanest food choices, but not too bad either. One step at a time.

Speaking of step.... I smashed my piky toe this evening, OUCH! Like I need more injuries :p 3 weeks ago, slipping down the stairs and had a butt injury! No, it's not funny :p The bruise was massive (5 inches long by 2 inches thick!) The bruise is gone but there's a huge bump there still!! Also, 4 weeks ago, tripped over a kid in the mall. Seriously, I can't even make that up. The poor kid, her money went spilling everywhere. I was, at the time, carrying my toddler who was having a tantrum so I couldn't see that well in front of me, especially a smaller kid! Landed with all my weight and my daughter's weight on my one knee! I'm kind of worried about it as it hurts when kneel or sit cross legged. So I'm worried about certain types of exercises... I will see how that goes come Monday when I start my Focus T25.
 
I like the idea behind the Paelo diet... But, yup, as you say there is a lot of meat. I am totally in denial about where meat comes from though... Is it not groiwn on trees? Aside from the ethical view of it, eating that much meat is really expensive! It does seem like Paelo stops you riding the sugar rollercoaster.

I do think that there are a million different diets, and they all work well for some people, but everyone needs to find the one that will work for them.

Can you get an early night tomorrow and catch up with your sleep? You must need it! And stop injuring yerrself lady!!!
 
overtherainbow - Yeah meat is expensive! So that's another point. But I'm not the biggest meat person, so that's why I'm not really doing the breakfasts. Plus, I don't have time to cook like that in the morning with the 2 kids!!! lol... But it's making me eat more veggies, which is awesome! I had chard for the first time this week... was really good! You just sautee it in a bit of coconut oil, salt, pepper and cashews! Just cook it enough until it starts to wilt and done! Was pretty tasty, I'd eat it again.

So today I went and did this yoga thing with my sister. Every Sunday this winery hosts a yoga and brunch, so my sister convinced me to go with her. I stressed about it for the past couple days because of the baby. What if she was crying the whole time because I wasn't there? What if she was really hungry and needed to nurse? What if she wouldn't nap? AHHHH!!!! But I went. I nursed her just before I left the house. The baby was great! She only cried a little and that was when the older one had a tantrum and when she started getting really tired. So that was pretty good!

The yoga brunch was awesome! It was a lighter yoga (some parts were hard... the one part with a lot of downward dogs.... gah! I'm too heavy and my arms are too weak to hold myself up!!! I did it, but it was a struggle near the end). And don't get me started on planks... they are evil! But I think the yoga helped my knee! By the end I could sit cross legged without it hurting! So I think I'll try to do more stretches that will stretch my knee gently and hope it keeps helping.

So tomorrow my Focus T25 challenge starts. 10 week program! I did my measurements today and I'll weight myself tomorrow morning. I'll do my dvd's after the kids go to bed. I'm scared, I hope my knee can handle it... I hope I can handle the exercises to begin with!

Going to get the batteries replaced in my polar HRM so that I can keep track of how many calories I burn from the workouts as well!
 
Oeh Focus T25, I've got that lined up as well (gonna finish 30 day shred first offcourse).
Very curious to find out how you (dis)like it :)
 
Guideon - I'll let you know how it goes!

angel - thanks!

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So, my clumsy self got injured again. I cut my knuckle while cleaning my knife... oy! It didn't need stitches but it hurts! I hope I don't have to grasp anything for the workout tonight!

On a high note, I lost 4.4 lbs! The paleo thing (even though I am still eating some grains) has really helped. It's stopped us from going out for supper (and sometimes lunches) every day! I hope with all the exercise I'm going to be adding I'll continue to see the scale go down.

I'll have to check everyone's diaries tonight, don't have time right now!
 
I cut my knuckle while cleaning my knife... oy! It didn't need stitches but it hurts! I hope I don't have to grasp anything for the workout tonight!

On a high note, I lost 4.4 lbs!
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Hope that 4 lbs wasnt from blood loss ha ha
You are doning a good job keep it up and the results will get more and more noticable!
 
Oi, Risty, where are ya girly?

That's a great loss :cheers2:

Don't do anything painful with your knee, please. You only have one kneecap, and that kneecap is far more important than high impact exercise! So if you feel a tweak of pain, please stop. Because you can get skinny with good eating and yoga, weights, and crunches etc, without involving your knees at all.
 
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