Progress Update - 152lbs

Start 158 Current 152 Goal 108

Still on track, scales still moving in the right direction.

You would not believe how insanely healthy I've been eating. It's scary, really.

The amazing thing is that I am FULL all day long and pretty much eat whatever I want for dinner. And yes, even have the occasional brownie or piece of candy. I'm not following any particular diet plan, at least not one that's written in a book somewhere. At the moment I'm just following my own ideas about what's good for ME.

Maybe when I get a month or so into this (successfully) I'll sit down and write out exactly what I'm doing. For the most part though it's just A LOT of fresh fruits and veggies.

Keep your fingers crossed for me!

Progress Update - 154lbs

Start 158 Current 154 Goal 108

4 pounds lost in 11 days. Not bad I guess but of course I wish it were more.

Dieting around family

Women who are trying to diet around their families have my sympathy. I have only my husband to deal with and I find that difficult enough. I can't imagine how hard it must be once you add children to the mix!

I do just fine on days that GolfGuy works. I get up, walk or work out and prepare and eat my smoothies just fine all day long. When he gets home in the evening I have a halfway healthy meal ready, we eat and then I head out for another walk.

But on GolfGuy's days off :: sigh :: I think it would be much easier to just give up. GolfGuy wants to eat out for at least one meal (and he does deserve a treat!) so there's temptation. He has to have all kinds of snacks and pastries around, and he's not into my smoothies so I'm cooking, cooking and cooking. Temptation, temptation and more temptation...it can be hard to resist. And even if I do resist it can get tiresome cooking for him and making smoothies for me.

It would be much easier if GolfGuy would just decide to jump on the bandwagon and eat healthy with me, wouldn't it? He says that he will IF I can find a diet book/program that we can both agree on. Of course, we've been looking for that "perfect" book for at least two years now!

I could get discouraged but I think I'll reach my weight loss goal for the week tomorrow. The falling numbers on the scale - they're keeping me going!

Blueberries, blueberries & more blueberries

Publix had a sale on fresh blueberries so guess what kind of smoothies I had today? They were pretty tasty but I miss the strawberries & mangoes from a few days ago.

GolfGuy & I went to Longhorn for lunch (I had a $5 off coupon) so I had half of and 8oz steak and steamed veggies. Not too bad there but I was bad and had a little of the fresh baked bread. Yum! Dinner was a Florida avocado with a few saltines. Very tasty & surprisingly satisfying.

Even with the steak I managed to stay under my calorie limit for the day. I'm proud to say that I'm on target for hitting my weight loss goal for the week!

Happy 4th of July!

My "diet"

I don't actually believe in diets. Not that they don't exist (in fact there are far too many of them) but I just don't think that they work. Being "on" a diet means that you eventually go "off" the diet, usually in some unplanned way. Just by starting a diet you're just setting yourself up for failure eventually. I think instead you have to make up your mind to adopt healthy eating and exercise habits for life.

If only it were that easy, right?

Anyway, here's my daily plan (based on nothing but my own limited knowledge and personal preferences):

1. 5 to 6 small meals per day
2. The majority of those meals will be raw fruits and veggies
3. Limit meat consumption in all except the final meal of the day
4. Walk, walk, and walk some more
5. 30 min of exercise
6. 8 hours of sleep

Of course I reserve the right to tweak the plan as I go.

Getting my act together - Tennis shoe edition

One of the things I'll be doing to help me lose weight is to get in those 10,000 steps a day that everyone recommends. So of course that means I needed new shoes!

Seriously, my old Mizuno Waveswere great shoes but I've worn them out and I can't afford a new pair right now. Instead I've replaced them with a cute pair of less expensive Ryka Women's Lotus Running Shoes.

I've never owned a pair of Ryka's before but I have heard good things about them. They are very cute (with flowers!) but I'll have to see how they hold up. I tend to be pretty rough on the heels of normal tennis shoes (hence the need for the expensive Mizuno's) so I'm curious to see how the less expensive Ryka's perform.

I'll let you know how they do after a few days of pounding the pavement.

July goals

Okay, so I'm not only in for July's NaBloPoMo but I'm also going to double down and set a weight loss goal as well. Not only will I post on this blog every day this month but I will also lose 10 pounds. Oh yeah, I know I'm crazy!

I have no heart for self discipline but here we are. And because I always need a visual aid (and even numbers):




So, for July from 158 to 148 (or less) pounds. Goal to be achieved mostly by sensible eating, walking each evening and random exercising. I will be held accountable by my DAILY or more postings to this blog.

Prepare to be bored!

It's a sign

...of what, I don't know. Staten Island Chuck, a fearless groundhog, bit Mayor Bloomberg.

Did the animal mafia put out a "hit" on Bloomberg for cutting funding to local zoos? Maybe so.

Groundhog Day

Over the Rainbow

The Israel Kamakawiwo Ole version always cheers me up. Here's wishing you a great 2009.