The slacker is back!

Ok I'm blogging again.  I've been bad.  I had committed to blogging every day but of course during Christmas and my school break, I slacked off.  I was eating whatever I wanted.  I gained 6 pounds back.  But I can proudly say that as of today, I have lost 20 pounds!  I dragged my ass to my little gym the apartment complex has and did 30 minutes on the treadmill and 15 minutes on the elliptical.  I hate the elliptical but I keep doing it because it makes my butt look good.  So I started grocery shopping and making menus by the week.  It makes it a lot easier to cook and eat healthy food.  My weight goal is 170 pounds, so that means I have 100 more to go!  It sounds like a lot but I'm not too worried about it.  They say it take 28 days for a habit to become permanent.  I feel like I'm on my way!

Day 16

As you can tell, I've been slacking on the writing. Though I have not exactly been slacking on being healthy.  My long weekend was characterized by good food, family and friends.  Not a lot of exercising but I only gained 3 pounds.  I have since lost 2 so I haven't been worrying too much.  I honestly feel as though this is getting easier.  I ate very well today but didn't exercise.  I have a heel spur and I am trying to rest it as much as I can and the rain boots I wore today on my errands didn't help.  So I couldn't do my time on the treadmill..  I'll try my best to keep up with the blog but seeing as I have my first experience with college finals in two weeks, you'll have to bear with me!

Day 10

Nine pound loss! Woot! Can you tell I'm feeling good?  I just had some garlic hummus with pita chips and celery for a little lunch before I go do 30 minutes on the treadmill.  Gotta keep up with the exercise so I don't gain any weight over this holiday.  I feel as though this might be getting easier.  So the plan for turkey day tomorrow is to get up and immediately do 30 on the treadmill and then head to eric's family's house for food!  I want to be able to eat without feeling guilty.  Especially since we will be having another meal on friday and the n saturday is my friend's baby shower.  Food everywhere this weekend!  Wish me luck!

Day 8

So I took the weekend off of blogging but I stayed true to eating right!  I'm really quite proud of myself.  I weighed myself this morning and so far I have lost 7 pounds!  Definitely made my day.  I know this won't hold true every week but I feel like I'm making real progress. I'm a little worried about turkey day though.  I'm actually having two thanksgivings.  One on thursday with eric's family and one on friday with my family.  I don't really want to go overboard two days in a row so I'm going to limit myself on thursday because friday I will be making all my favorites.  I'm feeling good, I hope it stays the week!

Day 5

Today was a real test for me.  I'm visiting my family and breaking out of my routine. I almost don't know if I can classify today as a success or a failure. All I ate today was cereal and fajitas at a local mexican restaurant.  I stayed away from the refried beans and cheese, sour cream and rice but I did eat the chips and salsa and flour tortillas with my fajitas.  I still don't really think this was a healthy day.  But tomorrow my sister is making me veggie pizza and hopefully I can continue refraining from shit food.  Yesterday i thought I had the cravings beat but I spoke too soon.  Last night I couldn't stop thinking of a nice cold piece of pumpkin pie.  If there had been some in my fridge I probably would have dragged my ass out of bed and eaten a whole pie.  It's frustrating!  And to top it off, I had a horrible dream that I ate a ton of shit food and couldn't stop!  I tried not to let it get to me today though.  I didn't agonize about eating the mexican food as much as I would have in the past.  I just did my best to eat as healthily as possible.  I'm slowly realizing that's all I can do.  Am I becoming more mature concerning food?  I certainly hope so. 

Day 4

I'm happy to say I have had no cravings today.  It feels good.  I made a nice healthy dinner of whole wheat spaghetti, homemade tomato sauce, and lots of veggies.  I sauteed onions, mushrooms, red, green and orange peppers in a little bit of olive oil.  I don't know if it was because I was hungry, but it was delicious.  It's nice to feel hungry again.  Letting myself get hungry before eating is something so foreign.  It's been too long since I actually felt real hunger.  That thought alone is enough to keep me on track.  Such a first world problem and its ridiculous.  I still can't say I like exercising though.  I did 20 minutes on the treadmill at my apartments gym.  It was entirely too cold to walk, which happens to be my preferred exercise.  The treadmill is boring but at least I have a place to exercise inside.  Wish I could find my Biggest Loser dvd though!  I know I'll find it someday but I may break down and buy another before then.  It is a great dvd.  I've been looking online and found so many recipes to try.  Skinny Crock Pot is a good site as is SkinnyTaste.  I resisted the urge to weigh myself today.  I don't want the scale to be the end all and be all of my life.  Don't get me wrong, when I see that number go lower I'm going to be happy.  But I need to keep reminding myself that my ultimate goal is health!

Day 3

As I'm driving to school this morning I could not stop thinking about how badly I wanted an egg McMuffin.  And this was AFTER I had already eaten breakfast.  Now I know its only been three days but I wish these intense cravings would go away.    I've always wondering if hypnotherapy would work. At this point, I would definitely try it.  Maybe I should try some aversion therapy.  I bet I could scrounge up a rubberband somewhere in my house and snap it on my wrist. I'm using this nifty app called My Fitness Pal to record my food intake and exercise.  I like it because it doesn't just show me the calories but the sodium, cholesterol, sugars, protein, etc. Which brings me to my current train of thought.  It is so very difficult and expensive to eat well in this country.  I now know that I need to purchase as much frozen veggies as possible.  Canned is ridiculously bad sodium wise. And there is sugar in everything!  I love cold cereal, always have.  But I'm going to have to pick my battles with that too.  I've already determined that I will have to make my own oatmeal.  The stuff in the packets (that I also love) is not even remotely healthy.  It is no wonder this country has an obesity epidemic.  It is so easy to eat those so called "convenience foods".  It guess the saying "if its too good to be true" could accurately describe this phenomenon.  My sister has my bread machine and I think I will try my hand at bread making soon.  I've also become this obsessive label reader.  I don't think this is bad but more often than not I put the product back on the shelf.  I could go on and on about the food issues in this country but I think I'll save this for another day as it only depresses me.  I felt pretty good today and I don't want to ruin it.  I couldn't help myself this morning and stepped on the scale.  I've lost 3 pounds so far, which undoubtedly influenced my positive mood! I walked my normal route around campus, stepping up the pace a little more.  Of course I also took the stairs to the fifth level of the parking garage.  I'll be glad when I start to get into shape!  And to all my lovelies who read this and shower me with your support, you mean the world to me!  I couldn't do it without you guys and I wouldn't want to!