Yesterday I just couldn't bring myself to really care about much of anything, let alone my calorie intake. However, I did track my calories and I managed to stay under 2,000, which I didn't think was going to happen. It was a gray and gloomy day once it stopped snowing and I just wanted to be cozy and warm and eat cozy and warm things. I made chili and cornbread for dinner. The chili wasn't too bad for me (lots of protein), the cornbread wasn't great for me, but it's one of my favorite things ever, so whatever. It's the weekend, I let myself have it. And I didn't drink much water yesterday. It's so much harder when it's cold.
Today is Sunday and it is a new day. The sun is shining and I have things to do. I am setting some goals:
Drink 3 bottles of water
track calories - keep it under 1400
Paint the laundry room cabinet doors
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Snowy Sunday
I love the snow! It's been snowing here quite a bit already this year. It's been snowing since yesterday morning so we have a lot! Today's goals are:
Don't order pizza from Pudge Brother's Pizza (I already am looking at the flier they sent us yesterday.
Stay within my calories.
Drink 3 bottles of water.
Don't order pizza from Pudge Brother's Pizza (I already am looking at the flier they sent us yesterday.
Stay within my calories.
Drink 3 bottles of water.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
It's a Saturday and I am posting my Goals!!
Today's goals are as follows:
Drink Water
Make good food choices
Track
Get some exercize (walk etc.)
Tomorrow we are having an after birthday party for Ryan and Samantha, so my dad and Kelly and Rio can sing them happy birthday! Yay it should be fun, but I am making a carrot cake and am really looking forward to it!
Drink Water
Make good food choices
Track
Get some exercize (walk etc.)
Tomorrow we are having an after birthday party for Ryan and Samantha, so my dad and Kelly and Rio can sing them happy birthday! Yay it should be fun, but I am making a carrot cake and am really looking forward to it!
Friday, November 13, 2009
Reunion Weight
So I thought at the reunion I weighed way less than I do right now, but I logged into my-calorie-counter.com to get the measurements of the first time I measured myself and my weight pre reunion was 234! That was about a week before reunion, so I might have lost a few more pounds but mostly I am back there! Whoo hooo!
Friday Weigh-In
So, my weight today is 174.0, the same as it was on Tuesday. So, it's not a loss, but it's not a gain. And considering all the factors I have decided it's a victory. I've been really trying to stick to the healthy lifestyle this week and feel like it went pretty well. However, I did start my period this week and kind of went off the deep end at the beginning of the week. And there was Texas Roadhouse, which, while I didn't go crazy, it's still not the healthiest thing ever. So anyway, I'm ok with my weight today (not a permanent thing, but just for today). I feel good today.
Goals for today:
drink water
track calories, keep it around 1200 for the day (pre- girls night)
Have fun and eat delicious stuff but don't go totally crazy at girls night
chew gum while I make cheesecake for girls night (Mallory - feel like a road trip? 7:00 at Lori's. Be there! Just kidding. Kind of.)
Goals for today:
drink water
track calories, keep it around 1200 for the day (pre- girls night)
Have fun and eat delicious stuff but don't go totally crazy at girls night
chew gum while I make cheesecake for girls night (Mallory - feel like a road trip? 7:00 at Lori's. Be there! Just kidding. Kind of.)
Friday Weigh In and Adjusted Goal
This morning my weight was 232.0 That's down 3.6 pounds from last Friday and 17.2 pounds over all. Whoo hooo!
So apparantly I am retarded. When I set my goal of 2 pounds per week by December 18th I mis-counted the weeks, it's not 7 weeks like I thought it's 6 so that means I added two extra pounds in there. I am still setting 221 as my goal but if I only make it to 223.whatever I am still letting myself have Christmas. LOL!
Today's goals:
Drink Water
work out
Count Calories & Track
So apparantly I am retarded. When I set my goal of 2 pounds per week by December 18th I mis-counted the weeks, it's not 7 weeks like I thought it's 6 so that means I added two extra pounds in there. I am still setting 221 as my goal but if I only make it to 223.whatever I am still letting myself have Christmas. LOL!
Today's goals:
Drink Water
work out
Count Calories & Track
Success
“Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
~ Mark Victor Hansen
I came across this quote this morning and I really liked it, it fits right in with what I have been thinking about success. So this is my thought: I think that success is doing your personal best and having the drive to stick to your goals long enough to make a difference.
I have struggled since I quit working with feelings of inadequacy, fear, and anxiety for various reasons. We don't always manage our money the best. I spend too much time on the phone or computer. I don't keep my house as clean as I would like. I don't do "projects" with the kids. I don't work with them on their letters as much as I would like.
When I was working, I was successful. I mean you know, not like business woman on wall street successful, but GOOD at my job. Then when I quit working it was totally the opposite. At first I felt like I wasn't contributing (which I wasn't monetarily) and I felt guilty if I wanted to spend money on me. I am pretty much over that part of it, however I feel like I am not very good at staying at home my house is never clean enough, I am fat, the laundry is never done, the kids watch too much tv, blah blah blah. When you are working in a job, you have a set of tasks and expectations when those expectations are met, you have success. Not so with being a stay at home mom. The tasks are a work in progress not a finish line to be reached.
So, we are thinking about sucess. What would success look like to me? Is it a perfectly clean house? Because I could have that I am sure. For me that would come at too high of a cost. For me I would have to spend most of my time cleaning. Cleaning and cooking, cleaning and cooking. The kids wouldn't get read to as much, they would watch more tv, they wouldn't do as many fun projects or outings. Is it losing weight? Not strictly. I want to enjoy eating, be able to enjoy friends and family, love the flavors of the food I eat. I don't want to eat dry chicken and protein bars alone in the quest to lose weight.
So, I think that for me, in this stage of my life this is the definintion of sucess:
Working toward my goals, balancing my priorities, being concious of myself, while doing my personal best each day and sticking with my plan long enough to attain my goals.
Let's face it, some days my personal best is laying on the floor watching the kids play and eating m&m's. And I think that's OK. What makes the difference is what the next day looks like. Does it spiral into, "Oh well, I already screwed my diet so I am going to eat fast food and chips and regular soda" Or do you say, "Yesterday I took a day for myself because that was the best I could do yesterday. But today is a whole new day and I can make better choices." If you make better choices and don't spiral into depression and eating it's success.
I started thinking about this because I wanted to come up with a magic number that would mean I had succeeded in weight loss. The thing is that I don't know. My first goal is to be under 200 pounds and that will be SUCCESS! But I won't be done. Weight loss will be a lifelong journey for me. Even if I feel happy at 175 pounds or 160 or 150, I will have to be conscious of it forever. It's just the way I am. I have to balance my love of food with my health. And that will be success.
So, for today for now, I am succeeding. I would love to hear what the rest of you think about this!
~ Mark Victor Hansen
I came across this quote this morning and I really liked it, it fits right in with what I have been thinking about success. So this is my thought: I think that success is doing your personal best and having the drive to stick to your goals long enough to make a difference.
I have struggled since I quit working with feelings of inadequacy, fear, and anxiety for various reasons. We don't always manage our money the best. I spend too much time on the phone or computer. I don't keep my house as clean as I would like. I don't do "projects" with the kids. I don't work with them on their letters as much as I would like.
When I was working, I was successful. I mean you know, not like business woman on wall street successful, but GOOD at my job. Then when I quit working it was totally the opposite. At first I felt like I wasn't contributing (which I wasn't monetarily) and I felt guilty if I wanted to spend money on me. I am pretty much over that part of it, however I feel like I am not very good at staying at home my house is never clean enough, I am fat, the laundry is never done, the kids watch too much tv, blah blah blah. When you are working in a job, you have a set of tasks and expectations when those expectations are met, you have success. Not so with being a stay at home mom. The tasks are a work in progress not a finish line to be reached.
So, we are thinking about sucess. What would success look like to me? Is it a perfectly clean house? Because I could have that I am sure. For me that would come at too high of a cost. For me I would have to spend most of my time cleaning. Cleaning and cooking, cleaning and cooking. The kids wouldn't get read to as much, they would watch more tv, they wouldn't do as many fun projects or outings. Is it losing weight? Not strictly. I want to enjoy eating, be able to enjoy friends and family, love the flavors of the food I eat. I don't want to eat dry chicken and protein bars alone in the quest to lose weight.
So, I think that for me, in this stage of my life this is the definintion of sucess:
Working toward my goals, balancing my priorities, being concious of myself, while doing my personal best each day and sticking with my plan long enough to attain my goals.
Let's face it, some days my personal best is laying on the floor watching the kids play and eating m&m's. And I think that's OK. What makes the difference is what the next day looks like. Does it spiral into, "Oh well, I already screwed my diet so I am going to eat fast food and chips and regular soda" Or do you say, "Yesterday I took a day for myself because that was the best I could do yesterday. But today is a whole new day and I can make better choices." If you make better choices and don't spiral into depression and eating it's success.
I started thinking about this because I wanted to come up with a magic number that would mean I had succeeded in weight loss. The thing is that I don't know. My first goal is to be under 200 pounds and that will be SUCCESS! But I won't be done. Weight loss will be a lifelong journey for me. Even if I feel happy at 175 pounds or 160 or 150, I will have to be conscious of it forever. It's just the way I am. I have to balance my love of food with my health. And that will be success.
So, for today for now, I am succeeding. I would love to hear what the rest of you think about this!
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