Risty's Diary (Christina)

How does the time go by so fast? It's been over a year since I last came on! It was my intention to keep on going that last time, but I got overwhelmed with the lack of time I had. I still feel that way but something's got to give. I've gained back the weight I've lost plus a couple pounds and I can't keep doing this. I don't want to be fat and out of shape any more. My kids deserve better than that and so do I! I'm going to start using myfitnesspal again. I start tomorrow and that's that. I hate how a had another fat birthday for my baby (who is now 2). I'm going to have another fat Christmas, another fat birthday, another fat birthday for my oldest (she will be 4), etc. I hope to end this crap and at least NOT have another fat summer. I mean I won't be at my goal by then, but I'll damn well be better than now! That's the plan, I hope I can get out of my lazy funk and just DO IT!
 
Risty! So glad you're back--How are things? How's the house situation? Can't believe how old your babies are now--Where does the time go? xo
 
Hey! Thanks for popping by! Yeah I can't believe my kids are that old now! By house situation, I guess you mean with living with my sister. They finally moved out and its been so much better. But she won't talk to us, or even my other sisters for that matter. Whatever, nothing I can do about her problems. I have sent her random texts, etc.
She won't write back. Not even to my other sisters. She wouldn't even look at me the last two times we accidenly ran into each other. She needs to get some help because nothing that happened would warrant this reaction. Any how..... that's her issue though.

So i actually started logging my calories, yay!!!!
 
Hi Risty, We started out in WLF about the same time. Sweetie, don't beat yourself up so much about the past. Coping with small children is bloody hard. You do the best you can & sometimes that means just getting through the day, however you can. Your job sounds good. Having stability & benefits counts for a lot. Before you know it, you will have accrued days or hours that you can use when appointments come up. In the meantime your husband should be able to if necessary I would think. Good for you, logging calories. I've been slack lately & am trying to get back into it. If you want an extra "pal" on MFP I'm CateAussie xo Cate
 
Hi Cate, thanks for writing! It's definitely harder losing weight with 2 small children, than without! I definitely have a hard time not thinking about gaining my weight back and if I just didn't, then I could be where I want to be! I'm going to try to shift that thinking more into.... I've lost 60 lbs before, I can do it again! I need to, and I want my kids to have a healthy mom.

Day 1: Stayed at my calorie goal for the day, yay!
Went on the treadmill, doing the rolling hills program (speed goes up and down) level 2, burned 210 cals.

Not bad for day one!
 
Sorry I haven't been on the since Monday! Tuesday I went over my calories, but it wasn't too bad, I didn't go over maintenance but went over my goals by 500 something. We went to the theater and saw Interstellar and it was good! So of course we brought snacks and whatnot. I didn't exercise that night because we got home past midnight!!!! lol

Hana - I am going by what MFP tells me to, lol. Basically I set my MFP to my current weight, etc. I put I wanted to lose 2 lbs a week. I also put my lifestyle as sedentary as I have a desk job. And even though I have kids, I still sit on my butt a lot! Any how, so I set it to sedentary so that when I exercise, I use my HRM and have a more accurate reading of what calories I burn and enter that into MFP, then so I don't go below the calorie goal I get those calories extra to eat. I did it this way because I may not exercise every day, so I don't want to be eating calories for if I'm active according to MFP and I'm not... ya know?

So, with all that, my goal from MFP is 1200 calories, and then if I burn any from exercise then I make sure I eat more on those days because I don't want to dip below 1100 for sure.

For Tuesday, since my goal is 1200 and I went over by 500 something, it ended up being 1700 something total, which isn't too bad for going over. It's just under maintenance I think. I have to calculate my BMR and everything all over again to see what that is.

Overview so far:
- Monday: Stayed within my calorie goals and went on the treadmill (rolling hills, lvl 2, 39 mins)
- Tuesday: Went 500 over calorie goals and no exercise
- Wednesday: Stayed within my calorie goals and did 30 mins of DDR (man I can't do it like I used to, but I will get better!)
- Thursday: So far, calories are looking good. Planning on doing DDR again tonight.
 
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You are having a good week!

I saw interstellar this week too, I thought it was pretty good, although it was quite long! Did you enjoy it?
 
Anna - I was having a decent week until tonight.... Ugh! My hubby lost his contract and it's done at the end of the month so we were going out to dinner one last time (hopefully... because now we won't be able to afford it) and the kids wanted to go to this buffet because they LOVE the crab legs. Any how... I didn't go for seconds like I always do, but I did have too much and ate some of my kids leftovers. Plus a tiny bit of dessert. So my calories are blown for today! But we told the kids we aren't going there anymore and hopefully we stick to not going out anywhere else. On that note, I WILL be going to Hunger Games this weekend and I"m so excited! We don't get to go out to movies often but that one I just have to go to. Interstellar I thought was good! I don't mind long movies as long as they keep me interested and it definitely did! I thought it was crazy, haha.

So yeah, today, write off for calories, bleh! And now I have a massive headache and I don't know why. Stress? From all the crap I ate? I never have enough water but I don't usually have headaches so I don't think it's that. I don't know.

I'm going to try and workout but I feel so sick from supper and my headache is killing me. I did take tylenol but it's not helping. So I may just relax tonight and do a longer workout tomorrow.

Today was a not good food day, but I'm not going to let it derail me.
 
So yesterday I did well, stayed within my calorie range but didn't exercise. I ended up babysitting a 2 month old from 9 pm - just after 2 am. I love babysitting that little baby! Doesn't help my baby fever, haha.

Today my daughter went to a birthday party and since she's little, we all stayed obviously! But man, the food was so good, they ordered from this restaurant I haven't tried yet and it was japanese food.... damn, I can't not eat that stuff. I don't have it often and it's one of my fav's. But not only that, she made all these different desserts/squares, so I had to try them. Went over my calories by near 600 (estimated). So tonight, as I wait for my kids to fall asleep, I get comfy and lazy. Once they were asleep, it took everything I had to get my ass off this computer chair and workout. I made myself because of that party! I originally planned on doing my recumbent bike for 30 mins, but partway through (and I give credit to the music I was listening to) I got super pumped! So I added 15 mins, increased the level a few times. Near the end of that I still felt like I could keep going, so I added another 15 mins, more levels, went faster. It was AWESOME! So I burned 371 according to my bike.... man do I ever need a new battery for my HRM (and to find the chestpiece part of it!!!! AHHHH!!!!) So, I didn't burn all the extra calories I ate, but I burned a bunch. So it puts me to only 195 cals over, give or take. I'll take it!
 
Buffet headache from the MSG I would imagine. It happens to me. Pretty bad headache and kind of flushed face and fidgety feeling.

Good job working off the extra calories!
 
Hi Quercus, thanks for posting! Yeah that does make a lot of sense. Dumb buffets. We used to go to those A LOT but now it's rare. I don't want to go at all though because I just can control myself enough at those things.

So today is on track for calories. I am going to the Hunger Games movie this afternoon YAY!!!!! I will be bringing snacks, I already entered them into MFP and I'm fitting them into my calories for the day. I know they are bad calories, but at least I'm fitting them in and not making them extra.
 
Hahaha, Clarissa, this is going to sound dumb, but being on my recumbent bike I can watch music videos so I was watching those bad lip reading guys.... they are SO funny. They take video clips or music and change it so it looks like that's what the video is saying/singing. My favourite one is the Michael Buble -Haven't Met You Yet one.... they changed it to Russian Unicorn. It's awesome. I also like the Bruno Mars/Lady Gaga/Jay-Z mix they did and it's called Morning Dew. Bruno Mars is easy on the eyes too! lol... a while ago I youtubed epic music and I really like this one mix in particular. I'll post a link to it. They put the music to different clips of games/movies but I just listen to the music for it. I love epic type music! I'll post the links to them all!

Russian Unicorn:
Morning Dew:
Epic Music 2012 mix: (I especially like the song at 21:44 and listened to it over and over, haha)
 
I found buffets to be nice when I was doing the low-carb thing, I'd just get steamed veggies and gobs of unbreaded critters. Now that I'm watching calories, I avoid them. It's been awhile since I've gone, too, so that works out well.

I see you have an almost-4 year old, how old is the younger one? Haven't read your whole diary, obviously.
 
Hey John! Yes, my oldest will be 4 at the end of January and the other one just turned 2 (on Rememberance Day!) Very close in age!

Just a quick update... no exercise yesterday or today because I babysat last night and again tonight (Until 2 am!). Yesterday and today I went over my calories a bit, but by under 200, so it's still within a deficit.

Lost 4 lbs since last week, woo!
 
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