weigh 150 lbs

Once I weighed 215 lbs. I’ve been in the 170’s for over a year now and this has got to change! SO I’m amending this goal to have a due date!!!

weigh 150 lbs by June 1st 2009.
Jan 3rd: 177 lbs

soooo… 27 lbs in 5 months. totally do-able. And i will finally be able to happily wear a bikini this summer! woo!

This goal is a sub-goal of my other fitness goals for the year (run a 10k, do a sprint distance triathlon). I’ll be trying to achieve the weight-loss mostly through training and eating healthy, not through any kind of “diet”. My calorie consumption has to be enough to adequately fuel my training.

Good luck in 2009 everyone!

getting closer!

i cant believe i once weighed 215 lbs… wow.

I currently weigh 185 lbs (23 Oct 2008). I’m of a very sturdy frame (heavy boned), but even so, at 5’8” that’s a bit heavy. 150 would be quite reasonable – not skinny, but healthy.

I tend to eat a very good diet – plenty of fruits and veggies, whole grains, fish, etc., just too much of it.

I do not go to a gym, but get lots of exercise by virtue of normal daily activity.

Losing 35 lbs should take about a year, I think. But I guess it won’t happen if I don’t get started.

These days my focus seems to be on finding a job. Losing weight has become something I want to do but cant until I know Im finacially secure. I didnt pay my Lucille Roberts bill this month and October is approaching, another bill will be due soon. But money is tight and I havn’t even delt with whatever happens when you don’t pay. Not to say that I cant find another means to exercise if I want to but in honesty Ive lost motivation for this goal until Ive secured a job.

So I’ve had an off week but not that bad I dont think. I havn’t eaten anything that bad up until yesterday. I’ve been eating fairly healthy I just havn’t been paying too much attention to my portion size and I surely have not done one single bit of exercise this week. Mostly I just ate when I got hungry but the problem with that is this week I havnt sleept as much as I should or as much as I need to so eating whenever I was hungry meant eating more meals because I awake and not asleep. And for the record, its not insomneia I had a reason. I’ll be back to a regular sleep schedule this week and back to eating right and exercising.

I never calculated how many calories I should be taking in I always tried to keep it at about 1200 because I heard that going below 1200 will put you’re body into starve mode in which the body thinks its starving and therefore I won’t lose weight. I recently calculated that I could take in 1400-1500. I don’t wanna eat too little calories that I don’t lose weight. So my goal is to eat 1400-1500 cal a day and to burn 500-600 cal exercising. Also I gotta get more water in my system and Im gonna start drinking green tea as well.

Im still confident in that I havnt gained any weight. I’ll be weighing myself in about 2 weeks… I should see a lot of progress by then!

Ok so in a moment of weakness I ate 2 left over chocolate chip pancakes at 1 in the morning… because I figured if I didn’t eat them then they were just gonna go to waste… and I didnt want them to go to waste… along with chocolate milk with whole milk. Originally I was up and hungry so I was gonna get a yogurt so I didn’t have to be hungry especially since I dont usually go to sleep til 3-4 Am sometimes later. I ended up actually gettin a plum and then I noticed the plate with the pancakes and I gave in. Im prayin this weekend doesn’t gain me back any weight… I rather stay where Im at then gain! But then I don’t actually know how much I’ve lost to begin with… Im keeping 10 in mind but I dont actually know for a fact… Im goin to weigh myself next Sunday by then I want to have lost 15 lbs… so Im goin to contine to do what Im doing and use the secret of course… Lord help me!

I did good today. I went to the gym and burned 500 calories on the eliptical machine and the bike… yay for me :-). I bought lots of fruits today too.

Food:
Breakfast- bowl of honey nut cheerios with 2% milk- 300 cal.
Snack- 2 handfuls of grapes and cup of orange juice- 80 cal.
2nd Snack- 1 handful of grapes and half a plain donut- 200 cal
Dinner- whole wheat pasta with light sauce, and glass of orange juice.

Caloric gestamate: 900-1100 calories

Water intake:
2 bottles aka 4 cups… Im getting better. Tomm I’d like to get to 5 cups of water a day and ill be alright at that rate for awhile.

Im thinking of cheating on the whole not weighting myself and weigh myself on Sunday… just a thought, Im not sure yet!

So I finally took that walk today. I left my home at about 7:45 Pm and walked for 2 hrs… now that wasn’t the plan but I prechoose a location to walk to but I did not realize that walking there and back home would be so tiresome and long… half way back home my hips, legs, and back hurt. Im glad I finally went out and did some exercise but I think 2 hrs might be a bit much… but I do realize being sore is a good thing.

According to my pedometer I walked 9,706 steps, 9.18 miles, for 1 hr 43 min. (not sure if its true… the time seem about accurate because there was a portion of my 2 hrs that I was in a store).

Food:
Breakfast- a yogurt- 160 cal
Lunch- (what I shoulda had for breakfast) bowl of lucky charms with 2% milk and glass of orange juice- 400 cal
Snack- 3 handfuls of grapes
Dinner- Rice and beans and grilled chiken, and glass of gingerale.
Dessert- More grapes
Late night snack- all natural yogurt smoothie- 170 cal

My Caloric gestamate: 1100-1300

Water intake:
1 bottle aka 2 cups (working on gettin more in)

No exercise today not even the walk I suggested earlier… again Im not beating myself up about this.

What I ate:

Breakfast- nothing woke up way too late to eat breakfast.

Lunch- tuna sandwhich made with light tuna (in water) and light mayo on whole wheat toast and a glass of orange juice.

Dinner- brown rice with mixed veggies and some kind of chicken that I guess will fall under the grilled chicken categorey and gingerale.

Snack- a yogurt and another glass of gingerale.

Not so bad I dont think… my eating habits seem harmless, calories I would have to guestamate to be about 1000-1200… I still need to drink more water. My aunt is going grocery shopping and will be picking up the fruit that I requested. Tomm I go back to working out… Lord I hope I keep that promise. I will, I have to… Im slacking on the exercise hardcore and I really need to stop it. I used my arm as an excuse before but its much better now, I can handle exercise now… no more excuses remain.

Its been a week since I made the decision to drop the weight and become the sexy women I know I can be. I’ve been on diets on and off all my life but I always quit because I didn’t see results fast enough, I was weighing myself daily and getting frustrated. My birthday is in 2 and half months and I won’t weigh myself until my birthday. I probably won’t reach my goal weight by then but I’ll be a lot closer than I am now. I don’t want to get any bigger, before I know it I could gain another 50 lbs and be sittin at 300 lbs… no way can I let that happen. In the past 7 days I’ve worked out 4 days including today (finally using my gym membership at Lucille Roberts)... my body is sore but I take that as a good thing. As far as what I’ve been eating, small portions of healthy food and some junk food (key word some). I refuse to starve myself of the foods I love (its another key reason I tend to quit), I’ll just eat less of them. I started eating brown rice and drinkin 2% milk. I know I need to drink more water, and add more fruits and veggies and I will. I have no doubt that my tactics will work for me… I’ll be down at least 50 lbs by my birthday… I have complete faith in that.

I’m using this public blog as a motivating factor. I figure if I must share my progress with the world then I can not let the world down.

Goals: drink more water per day, start eating raw fruit as snacks instead of strained fruit cups, and start cooking my own dinner so that I know its healthy.

I promise to continue working out at least 5 days a week.