Cabbage Soup Diet: Day One

Well this week has gone ok... I went to the gym a few times (not as many as I should have) and didn't eat the best but didn't go over board with eating badly. Jarrett left yesterday morning to go to Joplin, Missouri to help build houses for the tornado victims. I'm so very proud of him because he is giving up his spring break to help others, but I'm also very sad because he will be gone for 9 days! One of my triggers for overeating is being lonely, bored, or sad and I knew that I'll probably be all of these things while he is gone! So I made a plan that will help me during this time. I decided to do the cabbage soup diet while he is gone. I have done it once before and it wasn't so bad. It is only for one week and each day has a plan of what you can eat as long as you eat the soup at least once per day. Today is my first day and it's fruit and soup day. So far so good because I love fruit! I've been wanting to do this diet for a while buts its hard when he's home because then I would be tempted to eat what he's eating and having to cook two different meals is no fun so this is a perfect time! I'll detox and lose the water weight to kick start my motivation again. I also have picked out the project I'm going to work on while he is gone... A quilt for our nephew who is turning one in a few weeks! :) and I have work and a few friends I know I can lean on if I get bored. So there's my plan and I'm hoping I can stick to it! We will see!

Back on Track!

I fell off the wagon for a few weeks! Although I worked out a little and tried to not eat to horrible I know that I was obviously not doing my best. There was a family situation and wedding planning that I let get in the way of my goals and I let them be my excuses for not doing the things I needed to do for my self. Well, I'm back and ready to get back to the gym and eating right! I will be planning out my menu for the week and making a weekly schedule of things that need to be done. I work much better being organizd and I think that's where I lost it the past few weeks! I will now being weighing on Monday's so I have no excuse to eat bad over the weekend and tell myself I have the whole week to work it off. So here's to a new week back on track! :)

Catch up from last week

So its been a week since i have posted and i must say that i didnt have the best or worst week last week. So i guess it was just ok. I made it to the gym 4 days of the week which is pretty good but my goal is 5 or 6 days a week. Also my eating was not the best and i was very bad about tracking my calories. i did have pretty good meals at dinner however i was not counting calories so i know that i was not eating the correct potions. That being said here is one of my healthy meals! it was so yummy! It was a chicken taco salas that had pinto beans, lettuce, tomatoes, green and red bell peppers, onions, and one crunched up taco shell. its pretty low in calories (i think under 300). This will defiantly become a regular dinner in our house. Oh i almost forgot it also had lime brown ice on it which is the same rice from chipotle but with brown rice not white. so very good!

As for the weekend... not good health wise, but I did have some positive things happen! First of all i went shopping for a new pair of jeans to wear to a night club and took a chance and went to Forever 21 to find jeans which I do not EVER try to do! i love that store for their shirts and accessories but have never tried on a pair of jeans for fear of the sizing being off and making me feel worse. Well i decided i would give it a try and im so glad i did! Just last week i found that i dropped a size so i was going to be ok with being one size bigger in the Forever 21 jeans but I wasnt!! I was the right size and they fit very nicely! THe next positive thing from the weekend was stepping out of my usually routine and connecting with an old friend and hanging out with a different group of people. Jarrett and I were invited to a surprise party for my best friend from high school that i have not been in touch with much. We were going to the house of a mutual friend then going to a night club/bar in roseville. I do not usually step out and hang out with people i not in touch with any more for fear of being awkward and not connecting any more. I also was very nervous about going to a club because I am not a dancer and being insure about myself i hate trying to get all dressed up and looking like the skinny girls that go to clubs. But feeling sexy in my new jeans and very confident we went and had a great time! I realized sitting with the same people on the weekends and not doing much was becoming a funk for us and stepping out of our comfort zone was the best idea to change things up! Not only did i feel great i danced a little too! I will post some pics in my next post.

Ok sorry this was such a long post! I look forward to a better week with eating, counting calories, and meeting my workout goals! I started off the week right with a great work out after work and now im going to bed so i can get up in the am and go before work! Goodnight!

It's been a few days

I haven't posted in a few days! I guess it's because I was in a bad mood and not counting calories or working out over the weekend so I felt I shouldn't post anything. I'm not going to let that stuff get me down any more though and ruin a whole week by having a few bad meals over the weekend.

Yesterday I didn't make it to the gym for my 5:30am workout and had so much to do at home after work so I used my house cleaning as my workout. I got in some cardio vacuuming and mopping, did some calf raises while doing the dishes, and I few arm exercises with household items. Not a gym workout but I felt good knowing I at least burned more calories then normal. I was able to get to the gym this morning though and even got jarrett out of bed to go with me! Last week I started a workout routine that I knew I could stick to and didn't involve exercises I didn't know how to do. It also has 3 levels for when I feel ready to advance. You can find the workout at http://weightlossandtraining.com/freeworkoutroutines-women. It seems kind of silly because they compare it to celebrities but it's actually a really good workout. I'm still on the first step and I think I will stay there for another 3 weeks. It's a good site for weight loss tips and training.

I am a day behind on making goals for this week and I think since I didnt do as well on my goals as I would have liked to and know I can I want to just try them again this week. So I will not post any more weekly goals until next Sunday. Also I forgot to weigh in last week because my scale wasn't working on Wednesday. Im going to change my weigh in days to Fridays so on Friday I will have a new weight (hopefully at least 3lbs down!).

Weight loss vases

I found this awesome idea on pinterest (one of my guilty pleasures) and knew that this would be an awesome motivator! There are to vases (i guess i didnt need such big ones) and in the to lose vase you put a marble for each pound to lose and as you lose weight you move the marbles to the lost vase.Im a visual person so seeing this everyday and moving marbles over to the lost vase will be very rewarding! :)

Anyways I'm going to try to get up at 5am again for the gym! Im going to try to get Jarrett to come with me too so i dont have to see him sleeping soundly while im dragging my butt out of bed. Wish me luck. I got pretty tired in the afternoon but it was nice not having that do to after work. Goodnight!

Early morning workout!

I am not a morning person at all! That being said I got up at 5am and went to the gym! :) it felt good to follow through with something I wanted to. I'm going to try to start getting up and going before work during the week that way I have more time in the evenings to get things done.

This morning after getting dressed I felt skinny so I thought I would take a picture! It's not any where near where I want to be but I love that I'm already feeling better mentally and physically! :)

First post!

I'm very excited to start blogging about my weight loss! I have never blogged before but I feel with this experience I wanted to have a place to keep all of my thoughts, experiences, struggles, and all that in one spot... and I felt like I was abusing Facebook with all of my posts about the gym and weight loss! So here goes nothing!

I started my journey on January 2, 2012... I know it may sound like its just a new years resolution but this is much more! I have had struggles with my weight for a very long time but when I moved to Chico in 2009 to attend Chico state I really gained most of my weight. I've started diets and exercising so many times before but for some reason a few weeks ago something just clicked in my head that made me determined to do it this time! My fiancé, jarrett, is usually the one who gets me started and then eventually we stop, but this time is different! I think it was when I was shopping for an outfit for new years eve and of course couldn't find anything I felt comfortable in. Looking at the pictures the next few days i saw how cute all my friends looked and I was just in jeans as usual. Also, with my wedding being about six months away I knew I didn't want to look like this in my wedding pictures! My fiancé and I joined a gym that week and I have been going 5 days a week for the past 3 weeks! I can say that I really do enjoy it. I love the way I feel after I work out and it keeps me from eating all of the crap I was used to eating because I don't want to ruin a good workout with bad eating habits. I have had more then I few hard days already with wanting to "cheat" but I've been fairly good. The weekends have been the hardest for eating healthy. Friday and Saturday nights we want to go out with friends and maybe have some drinks which usually leads to late night snacking.

It is going to be a challenge everyday but I am very committed to my goals and I'm not going to let one bad meal or bad choice ruin all I have worked for so far! I used to say if I messed up during the day well the day is ruined so I'll started again tomorrow or next week but no more! I will just have a good rest of the day and maybe workout a little more that day.

Anyways there is a little bit about me and what I'm trying to do! I'm hoping in the next few days to figure out the blog a little better and post my goals, long term and weekly, and weight loss!