4 lbs First Week

Wow!  I couldn't believe it.  I weighed myself on Thursday after my training session and I was down 4 POUNDS!!!  Yay!  I know the majority of it is likely water weight and and due to eating the right things.  I didn't make it to the gym as much as I would have liked.  Since my schedule tends to be so tight if something changes my gym time slot, it is REALLY difficult for me to fit it in.

As for the happenings around here, we were in "Icemageddin" warning with no actual Ice.  Including the kids being out of school Friday.  I had a buyer cancel an appointment, all the kids Basketball games were cancelled for the ENTIRE weekend.  So we cleaned house, had DD's birthday party, and now watching the Chiefs play in the playoffs.  I did survive the party.  My trainer said I could have pizza if I didn't eat the crust and I was only allowed cheese because traditional pepperoni is high in fat.  So I ended up buying turkey pepperoni, and added green peppers to my two slices of pizza, and like a little kid, I left the crust :)  Then I had a sliver (maybe three bites) of cake and a two bite scoop of strawberry ice cream to celebrate.  The real kicker was all the snacks and junk food teenage girls like to have on hand.  I only at ONE, potato chip.  ONE peanut M&M, and ONE tortilla chip with spin dip.  All said and done not too bad since we had 5 kinds of chips, 4 kinds of candy sitting on my kitchen counter all night.  I also put veggies and fruit out so that I could snack on and nibble on them when I walked by.

Anyway, today it's back to eating well and tomorrow is gym day.  Going to take DD with me so she can get some work out in as well.

Have a great night, and GO CHIEFS!!!!

A few pics of todays meal prep.

Egg Frittata

 Turkey bacon for my salads

Salad fixings

Sunday, January 8th, 2017

BUSY, Busy, busy day!  Or I could say weekend.  SB had four basketball games, and DD had one today.  So two yesterday, and three today.  Plus I went to the gym to get my 30 minutes cardio in (did the elliptical) before I get back to my trainer.  I plan to go again tomorrow for Zumba, which is one of my FAVORITE classes to take.

Food was good today.  Frittata for breakfast, italian style wrap thing with approved wraps, then yogurt with blueberries and a handful of peanuts for snack.  Lastly it was taco night at home so I made a fantastic taco salad.  It was really good, so I was happy.  Oh, almost forgot about dessert - apple and peanut butter :)

Anyway, that was the day.  Just taking the an easy evening.

Good night!

Saturday January 7th, 2017

Welcome to the weekend.  Today was a not horrible day, lol.  The day started out okay.  My MIL and her sister loaded the camper and left for Dallas on their journey to California.  We got up, had breakfast together, and they left.

I have been eating my egg Frittatas (Frittata recipe here) for breakfast for several days now.  I found the recipe online, and have modified it slightly to make more at one time, but basically the same.  Weird thing, I found that my kids like them too, and so did my MIL.  So the eight I made two days ago are almost gone.  What's with my kids liking my "diet" foods? :)

Here's the thing, I have learned that I do better with sticking to my meal plan and eating better if I am prepared, and have things easy to grab and go on the run.  So this afternoon my DD (Drama Daughter) and I made a few prepared foods to avoid getting hungry and making bad choices.  We made 10 pre-made chop salads (lettuce, spinach, mixed greens, ham, salami, bacon, boiled eggs, celery, green pepper, carrots, a little cheese) and 8 more breakfast frittatas.  I am still working on figuring out some sort of pre-made grab and eat snacks.  I'm thinking some sort of cheese, sausage, fruit, nut packs.  Would love other ideas if you have any.

The good thing about some of this prepared healthy foods is that my kids are getting excited.  My kids want to take my salads to school for lunches, and eat my eggs for breakfasts.  This is not a bad thing however it may change the quantity of how much I need to make each week :).

After the food prep was done, and cleaned up we needed to go to SB (Snuggle Bug, aka, my youngest son) basketball game.  He had two today.  One of them was rearranged which unfortunately rearranged my timeline to make it to the gym.  I was going to go prior to church at 5pm, however that is when the game was.  After the game, DD and KK (was Karate Kid, my oldest son, however he needs a new knick name since he no longer does Karate) and I went to church to see a good friend sing.  She has a spectacular voice.

Since time was of the essence, and church and Ball made it complicated to cook dinner at a reasonable time we went out to dinner.  This was my challenge of the day.  We went to my favorite mexican restaurant and I didn't eat ANY, not one, zilch, nada, none! of the Chips.  I ordered a fajita chicken taco salad and didn't eat the shell.  I used the salsa as my dressing and it was yummy.  Yes, I REALLY wanted chips and salsa, but I am on a stronger path to a healthier, slimmer self and well chips, although yummy, not in my bigger plan.

I've logged my meals on MyFitnessPal if you'd like to see where I'm at calorie wise.  If/when I find good recipes I will post them here.

Have a good night all, be healthy!

OMG I hurt EVERYWHERE!!!  Advil is my friend.  That is all I have to say about that.

I am working on behaving myself on my diet, which isn't easy since my MIL came to town and brought two boxes of homemade candy with her.  Ugh!  We didn't make any candy this year so I wasn't expecting it and oh, it looks yummy.  I've decided next year!  I will be in better shape at a better weight and be able have a piece or two.  So until then!

I need to get to the gym tomorrow.  I am supposed to do two sessions of Cardio before my next training session on Tuesday.  A minimum of 30 minutes each.  So I'm thinking 30 minutes elliptical tomorrow, and a class on Monday.

Can't talk long, got company.

I did it :)

So I made it through an hour with the trainer.  Gail is going to kick my butt in shape :)  She has also given me some nutrition advice and a plan to follow to boost my weight loss.  So I have spent part of the day figuring out how I can still cook for my kids and family as well as feed myself healthy.  Things like I can make chicken tacos for the family, and make taco salad (minus the chips) for myself.  Or Kids get pork steak, potato and salad, I just skip the potato unless I do sweet potatoes (which I'm sure will happen sometime).

The hardest part so far is fruit.  I simply do not like it.  So I have to learn to have some somewhere in my diet.  I am typically a salty person, give me veggies over fruit anyday.  Or in my old day, a potato chip over a candy bar.

I made some breakfast frittata things that you make in muffin pans, and refrigerate for easy heat.  I know myself well enough to know if it's not convenient then I won't eat it.  My Daughter and I were talking today about how we can pre-make salads to keep for lunches on hand.  I find with my job LUNCH is going to be my hard part.  Real Estate is a "meet for lunch" type of job.  Also, it's an on the go during lunch time type of job and well a drive thru is just too easy.  So I have to be prepared to grab n go now that I am officeing from home full time.

So far my food intake has been good.  Making Chili for dinner.

Talk to you soon.

Here goes nothing!!!

So I took new before pictures, UGH!  I hate that.  In my head I do not look like this.  In my head I'm not as thin as I was in High School, but not fat.  As you will see, I carry the majority of my weight in my mid-section, BAD PLAN!!!

Appointment is in an hour!!!  Here goes nothing!!!

Time to get serious

This is going to sound cliche but I'm ready to get back to serious.  If you have been here with me before, and you are seeing this pop up again it's because I have to get my weight and health under control.

In the last 1 1/2 years I've gained an additional 30-35 lbs.  AHHHHHHH!!!!!  Not that I want to make excuses, but to give you a little background.  I had an issue with my right foot.  I was dealing with Arthritis and it got to a point where i couldn't bend my big toe at all.  So 6+ months goes by (had to get through my final cheer coaching season) and I had it operated on.  Apparently I had bone spurs on the joint, and a part of one of them broke and was in the joint causing the lack of motion.  Surgery was December 2015.  Long story short, throughout the injury, then surgery, and recovery I gained a lot of weight.  Of course I could start exercising last Spring but with the weight gain, and added pain my motivation was FAR from where it needed to be for success.

NOW, I have met a fantastic personal trainer who works primarily with the Pilates Reformer machine which is a lower impact higher output program that I think I am going to love.  In reality even if I don't LOVE it, I've paid for it, so 12 sessions in here we come :)

My first session is tomorrow morning at 11am.  I am looking forward to it, yet a bit nervous.  I have a long history of putting effort in and not finding much success, or at least not the success I feel like I should have.

Wish me luck, here we go working on creating a MUCH LESSER ME!!!