This chica has been so freaking busy at work that I haven't had a second to update. So, the good news is that I'm still doing good on my diet. Although I have to admit, I'm a little frustrated that my weight loss has started to slow down.
So, drum roll............wait for it...........I weighed in today, and I'm now 197.4 lbs! That is a total of 31.2 pounds lost since I started my weight loss on December 18th! Three months and 31.2 lbs. That's not bad, but it could be better.
The truth? I haven't been exercising like I should be. I have every excuse in the book...I've been working A LOT, I'm tired, the baby has been sick, I've been working at home. But the honest truth is that I'm honestly just tired and haven't felt like it. I'm trying to get recommitted to exercising and I know if I do that I'll jump start the weight loss again. But, I'm soooooooooooo tired! (insert WHINE here!)
However, for the most part, my diet is humming along just fine. I'm so used to drinking the shakes at work that I'm pretty good with it. Some days I get hungry, but most ofo the time, I'm so busy at work that it doesn't even bother me. Or I should say, I'm not hungry enough to cheat.
Everything is going pretty good in general though. I have been able to fit into a couple of pairs of pants that I swore off a few years ago and I LOVE IT! It's almost like having brand new clothes! I actually have five bags of clothes that I took out of my closet that didn't fit anymore because they were too small, so I am excited to dig through them and have new clothes to wear.
And, I know I'm just being a little vain when I say this, but I am really flattered by all the compliments I am getting at work. People are actually telling me that I'm looking skinny! Of course, I'm not really skinny, I still weigh 197 pounds. That's not skinny, actually, I'm still considered obese according to my BMI. F'ing obese! I hate that word!!!
Here are my stats:
Starting Weight:228.6lbs
Current Weight:197.4lbs
Weight Change:-31.2lbs (-13.65%)
Starting BMI:34.76
Current BMI:30.01
BMI Change:-4.75 (-13.67%)
Next Goal: 195 pounds by March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Compliments
I have to admit, I have received a lot of compliments at work for the weight I have lost. It seems like every day for the last two weeks, someone has come up to me and said, "Fancy, have you lost weight? You look so good." It's very nice to see that people are noticing. Some of the people have asked how much I've lost, but I have not told anyone at work how much I've lost; primarily because I still have a lot to lose to my goal weight.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Hallelujah!
Oh my God, Oh my God, OH MY GOD! I'm soooo excited!!!
I haven't been able to weigh in for a whole week. Work has totally sucked....I'm so busy, I have to schedule pee breaks (well, not really, but sometimes it feels like it). I don't use my scale at home because I'm no good at that AT ALL. My last 55 attempts at weight loss, I would weigh myself in the morning and if I had even a smidge of a weight loss, I would totally sabotage myself and would spend my day stuffing my fat face with chocolate, candy, chips and salsa, cookies, Jimmy John's, french fries, ummm, oh and maybe a donut if someone brought them in. HAHA!
Of course not all at one time, but I seriously would blow my diet every single day. I felt like every day I was waking up and starting my diet over and every day by about 4:00 pm I had blown it. I hated living my life that way and watching myself get fatterandfatterandfatter. I was busting at my size 18 seams and it sucked!!!
Okay, now for my good news! I OFFICIALLY HAVE LOST 28.2 POUNDS! Like I said earlier, work has been really busy and I haven't been to MWLC since last week Monday. Since then, I lost 3.8 pound, accomplished my weight goal #4 - lose 25 pounds and weight goal #5 - get to 200 pounds! Of course, I'm still a smidge over 200 because I "officially" weigh 200.4 pounds, but I am taking it!
I don't know what day I actually hit my mini weight goal of 25 pounds lost. That's one of the reasons why I like weighing in three times a week. I know some people can't handle that, but for me, it keeps me honest. Otherwise, I'm afraid I would cheat.
I think Weight Watchers is great, and once I get to my goal weight, I might try it, but I'm not sure. I can't handle weighing in only once a week. And I don't really like the classes really if I have to be completely honest. And I also have a hard time with having to look and calculate EVERYTHING I eat. When I tried it before, I found that I was always eating frozen lean cuisines because I hated having to add up ingredients.
Okay, after reading the above, maybe I won't join Weight Watchers after all LOL. Don't get me wrong, I know the program works, and I've seen a lot of people who've had amazing results, but it just doesn't work for me.
I guess the reason this diet has worked for me is because I've been just drinking the shakes three times a day and eating dinner. It's easy to follow and I don't have to think about how many calories everything is. I'll just usually make a bunch of chicken, weigh some out for dinner, steam some green beans, and I'm good. I have to admit that the hardest part for me is eating the carb I'm supposed to eat every day. I'll usually just have my 3 oz of chicken, green beans, 1/2 baked potato (sometimes) and that's my meal. Easy peasy.
It works for me because I'm not one of those people who needs a lot of variety in their meals. I could literally eat the same thing every day for a month. I might get a little bored with it, but not enough to switch. Especially if it was already cooked HAHA.
One of the things I have given up is table salt. I haven't put salt on any of my food since December. A lot of times my food is a little bland without it, but to be honest, I don't notice it nearly as much as I used to in the beginning. But one thing I DO notice is how SALTY some things are. I had a couple of chips the other day and I felt like my tongue swelled up because they were so salty.
WEIGHT GOAL #6:
I've decided that my next weight goal is to get to 30 pounds weight loss, which would be 198.6 pounds. I would LOVE to be able to do this by this Saturday, March 5th. That is only 1.8 pounds from where I am right now and if I don't cheat and I exercise, I should be able to accomplish this. Oooh, I hope so.
Well, I'm off to stalk some weight loss blogs, check in to the Healthy U Challenge, snag my 25 pound weight loss badge (YAY!), and go watch the Biggest Loser.
UPDATE: Check out my awesome 25 pound badge to the right ------>
I'm so proud of this!
I haven't been able to weigh in for a whole week. Work has totally sucked....I'm so busy, I have to schedule pee breaks (well, not really, but sometimes it feels like it). I don't use my scale at home because I'm no good at that AT ALL. My last 55 attempts at weight loss, I would weigh myself in the morning and if I had even a smidge of a weight loss, I would totally sabotage myself and would spend my day stuffing my fat face with chocolate, candy, chips and salsa, cookies, Jimmy John's, french fries, ummm, oh and maybe a donut if someone brought them in. HAHA!
Of course not all at one time, but I seriously would blow my diet every single day. I felt like every day I was waking up and starting my diet over and every day by about 4:00 pm I had blown it. I hated living my life that way and watching myself get fatterandfatterandfatter. I was busting at my size 18 seams and it sucked!!!
Okay, now for my good news! I OFFICIALLY HAVE LOST 28.2 POUNDS! Like I said earlier, work has been really busy and I haven't been to MWLC since last week Monday. Since then, I lost 3.8 pound, accomplished my weight goal #4 - lose 25 pounds and weight goal #5 - get to 200 pounds! Of course, I'm still a smidge over 200 because I "officially" weigh 200.4 pounds, but I am taking it!
I don't know what day I actually hit my mini weight goal of 25 pounds lost. That's one of the reasons why I like weighing in three times a week. I know some people can't handle that, but for me, it keeps me honest. Otherwise, I'm afraid I would cheat.
I think Weight Watchers is great, and once I get to my goal weight, I might try it, but I'm not sure. I can't handle weighing in only once a week. And I don't really like the classes really if I have to be completely honest. And I also have a hard time with having to look and calculate EVERYTHING I eat. When I tried it before, I found that I was always eating frozen lean cuisines because I hated having to add up ingredients.
Okay, after reading the above, maybe I won't join Weight Watchers after all LOL. Don't get me wrong, I know the program works, and I've seen a lot of people who've had amazing results, but it just doesn't work for me.
I guess the reason this diet has worked for me is because I've been just drinking the shakes three times a day and eating dinner. It's easy to follow and I don't have to think about how many calories everything is. I'll just usually make a bunch of chicken, weigh some out for dinner, steam some green beans, and I'm good. I have to admit that the hardest part for me is eating the carb I'm supposed to eat every day. I'll usually just have my 3 oz of chicken, green beans, 1/2 baked potato (sometimes) and that's my meal. Easy peasy.
It works for me because I'm not one of those people who needs a lot of variety in their meals. I could literally eat the same thing every day for a month. I might get a little bored with it, but not enough to switch. Especially if it was already cooked HAHA.
One of the things I have given up is table salt. I haven't put salt on any of my food since December. A lot of times my food is a little bland without it, but to be honest, I don't notice it nearly as much as I used to in the beginning. But one thing I DO notice is how SALTY some things are. I had a couple of chips the other day and I felt like my tongue swelled up because they were so salty.
WEIGHT GOAL #6:
I've decided that my next weight goal is to get to 30 pounds weight loss, which would be 198.6 pounds. I would LOVE to be able to do this by this Saturday, March 5th. That is only 1.8 pounds from where I am right now and if I don't cheat and I exercise, I should be able to accomplish this. Oooh, I hope so.
Well, I'm off to stalk some weight loss blogs, check in to the Healthy U Challenge, snag my 25 pound weight loss badge (YAY!), and go watch the Biggest Loser.
UPDATE: Check out my awesome 25 pound badge to the right ------>
I'm so proud of this!
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