Blog Post written on My Fitness Pal Nov. 13. 2011
The last blog post I wrote on this site was in March of this year. Then I sorta drifted off again. I currently reside in England and my husband is currently deployed. As summer fastly approached I kept thinking I've got to lose this weight before I go home to visit family. That did not happen.
Then my husband left for his 6 month deployment. He won't be back until sometime after the New Year. We've been married 12 years and this is our longest deployment yet. After he left I got busy trying to get the house organized and ready for us to be gone for 5 weeks. I never got it to where I wanted it, but I tried.
The whole time I kept thinking about losing weight. This thought had become my constant companion. Not to long ago I read a quote that said, "Never give up on something you can't go a day without thinking about". Needless to say that hit me. I'd spent so much time "thinking" about losing weight that if that's all it took there'd be nothing left of me! Sadly, it takes a lot more than thinking. It takes action.
I left Missouri to return to England on September 2nd. The night before I had been packing and preparing for our return. With all airlines having a weight limit on suitcases I began weighing ours to make sure the kids and I were not over. Before I finished I thought I might as well see how much damage I'd caused myself over the summer. I'd been outside a lot, swimming a lot, and very active. However, I also ate out a lot at all the places I had missed.
I didn't get mad. I didn't cry. I didn't ignore it either. I simply "let it be". I was miserable. I had wanted to lose weight not gain it and here I was at least 5 pound heavier than when I'd arrived.
The thoughts that started running through my mind then were, "Okay, let's get back home and get this taken care of. Let's get back to eating right". As if I really know what that is! I've been spending a fair amount of time learning about food, so I am improving, but when I first had that thought - yeah, I didn't have a clue.
What I did know is it wouldn't be Pepsi, Sonic, Dorritos, Ice Cream (which I'm not a big fan of anyway), Olive Garden, Wine, Bread, and most certainly not PIZZA. I arrived back in England on Sept 3rd. My neighbor that had been taking care of things for me was ever so kind and stocked my fridge with 8 cans of Pepsi...
I drank every one of them within in that first week or less. Then I bought NO more. I have not had a single taste of Pepsi since. I have not even had a glass of Iced Tea since that first week. I have had possibly 4 Sprite's in between that time and now. I have had 2 lemonaids. I have had more water than I ever imagined myself drinking. I also drink 1-2 Spark drinks a day, which is an energy drink from Advocare. A company a good friend of mine turned me on to.
I needed a game plan and so I set out to get one. While visiting a friend in Ohio she introduced me to Advocare. She told me all about it. I sampled the Spark and I thought this is somewhere I can start. This is a plan!!! So I ordered the 24-Day-Challenge package.
On September 26th I weighed in at... 157.4. I'd lost since leaving Missouri, but 2.6 lbs is not a lot. I wanted more. I started the 30-Day-Shred. FYI: it is very hard to keep up with a workout routine at home and on your own. Trust me, I've tried it, repeatedly! Everyone says give up that gym membership and do it at home, but unless you can actually DO it at home - then don't give up the gym.
September 28th, my Advocare box arrived. Yeppie!!! Time to put that plan in action. I began the 10 day cleanse, the first part of the 24-day-challenge. As day 11 approached I realized I'd read the instructions WRONG! I'd been taking all the vitamins with the cleanse!!! Therefore I felt as if I had failed.
I was so upset. My friend had lots 12 lbs during the challenge and her husband 14. Everyone I know had great results and loved the products. I felt like an idiot for not reading everything all the way through before diving in.
However, I felt GREAT!!! And I was losing weight! Even though I screwed up the simpleist thing! The Spark drink gave me the caffine I needed to keep me away from the Pepsi (and migrains) as well as the energy I needed to keep moving forward.
I decided to join the Advocare team and get the products that I wanted and needed at a cheaper price. I feel as if the vitamins/supplements give me the things I need that perhaps I'm not getting from my foods. Try as we may, we will never get exactly what we need from all our foods. They are far too processed these days.
I feel good and I know it's because of the changes I am making. This is in no way a sales pitch because I believe you could take all the products in the world that you want and you might see a difference, but if you are not making healthy lifestyle changes along with whatever product you are using...then how much can those products truly help?
If I sat around drinking Pepsi and eating Doritos and Pizza - I'm not sure how much Advocare or any other product would be able to help me.
I want to get the most out of my money, out of whatever I buy, food, vitamins...you name it. I want to get the very best out of it and in order to do that I've had to make some major personal changes. Changes that will stay with me, whether or not I take any products. Know what I mean?
Do you enjoy helping someone who does nothing to help themself in return? Don't know about you, but I don't. As a matter of fact it pisses me off.
My weight chart looked like this:
September 26 - 157.4
October 3. 153.60
October 10. 154.8 -urgh!
October 17. 150.8
October 24. 148.2 - YES!
October 25. 149.6 - It was around about here that I realized I had to do more. I had to help myself. I wasn't doing my workout routine every day. I was slacking off and I knew it. I needed help and I had to get it myself, for myself.
October 31. 147.4
November 4. - I did not weigh in this day, but it is an important date in my life. It's the day I began HIIT class. High Intensity Interval Training. I go Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Sometimes I have to convince myself to go, but the women of that workout group hold me accountable and I love it. My body complains about it, but I just tell it to shut up.
November 7. 145.4 :) My current weight. I weigh in every Monday morning, so tomorrow will tell me how I did this week. The thing is, I'm actually expecting a gain. Not because I believe I've made bad food choices, but because I have worked out hard and intensly since the 4th. They say muscle weighs more than fat. I've no idea if I've began to build muscle or not, but just incase I have, a gain will not surprise me.
Would I like to see a loss? Oh yeah! I've a goal to reach that seems to drive me a little harder than anything else ever has. I want to knock my husband dead! I want to see his jaw hit the floor in January. He had NO idea, NO clue that I've been working out, trying to eat right, or lost any weight what-so-ever! I plan to keep it that way until his return. I just hope I'm as close to 120 as I can get in a healthy way.
I know I may not reach 120 and I am actually okay with that. I know muscle weighs more than fat and as long as I am fit and toned then I don't care if I only get to 130! But I want to look HOT when I pick him up.
To all of you out there, good luck on your journey and keep moving forward. The power to beat this, is within YOU. Dig in and find it.
~T~
The last blog post I wrote on this site was in March of this year. Then I sorta drifted off again. I currently reside in England and my husband is currently deployed. As summer fastly approached I kept thinking I've got to lose this weight before I go home to visit family. That did not happen.
Then my husband left for his 6 month deployment. He won't be back until sometime after the New Year. We've been married 12 years and this is our longest deployment yet. After he left I got busy trying to get the house organized and ready for us to be gone for 5 weeks. I never got it to where I wanted it, but I tried.
The whole time I kept thinking about losing weight. This thought had become my constant companion. Not to long ago I read a quote that said, "Never give up on something you can't go a day without thinking about". Needless to say that hit me. I'd spent so much time "thinking" about losing weight that if that's all it took there'd be nothing left of me! Sadly, it takes a lot more than thinking. It takes action.
I left Missouri to return to England on September 2nd. The night before I had been packing and preparing for our return. With all airlines having a weight limit on suitcases I began weighing ours to make sure the kids and I were not over. Before I finished I thought I might as well see how much damage I'd caused myself over the summer. I'd been outside a lot, swimming a lot, and very active. However, I also ate out a lot at all the places I had missed.
The scale read 160.
The thoughts that started running through my mind then were, "Okay, let's get back home and get this taken care of. Let's get back to eating right". As if I really know what that is! I've been spending a fair amount of time learning about food, so I am improving, but when I first had that thought - yeah, I didn't have a clue.
What I did know is it wouldn't be Pepsi, Sonic, Dorritos, Ice Cream (which I'm not a big fan of anyway), Olive Garden, Wine, Bread, and most certainly not PIZZA. I arrived back in England on Sept 3rd. My neighbor that had been taking care of things for me was ever so kind and stocked my fridge with 8 cans of Pepsi...
I drank every one of them within in that first week or less. Then I bought NO more. I have not had a single taste of Pepsi since. I have not even had a glass of Iced Tea since that first week. I have had possibly 4 Sprite's in between that time and now. I have had 2 lemonaids. I have had more water than I ever imagined myself drinking. I also drink 1-2 Spark drinks a day, which is an energy drink from Advocare. A company a good friend of mine turned me on to.
I needed a game plan and so I set out to get one. While visiting a friend in Ohio she introduced me to Advocare. She told me all about it. I sampled the Spark and I thought this is somewhere I can start. This is a plan!!! So I ordered the 24-Day-Challenge package.
On September 26th I weighed in at... 157.4. I'd lost since leaving Missouri, but 2.6 lbs is not a lot. I wanted more. I started the 30-Day-Shred. FYI: it is very hard to keep up with a workout routine at home and on your own. Trust me, I've tried it, repeatedly! Everyone says give up that gym membership and do it at home, but unless you can actually DO it at home - then don't give up the gym.
September 28th, my Advocare box arrived. Yeppie!!! Time to put that plan in action. I began the 10 day cleanse, the first part of the 24-day-challenge. As day 11 approached I realized I'd read the instructions WRONG! I'd been taking all the vitamins with the cleanse!!! Therefore I felt as if I had failed.
I was so upset. My friend had lots 12 lbs during the challenge and her husband 14. Everyone I know had great results and loved the products. I felt like an idiot for not reading everything all the way through before diving in.
However, I felt GREAT!!! And I was losing weight! Even though I screwed up the simpleist thing! The Spark drink gave me the caffine I needed to keep me away from the Pepsi (and migrains) as well as the energy I needed to keep moving forward.
I decided to join the Advocare team and get the products that I wanted and needed at a cheaper price. I feel as if the vitamins/supplements give me the things I need that perhaps I'm not getting from my foods. Try as we may, we will never get exactly what we need from all our foods. They are far too processed these days.
I feel good and I know it's because of the changes I am making. This is in no way a sales pitch because I believe you could take all the products in the world that you want and you might see a difference, but if you are not making healthy lifestyle changes along with whatever product you are using...then how much can those products truly help?
If I sat around drinking Pepsi and eating Doritos and Pizza - I'm not sure how much Advocare or any other product would be able to help me.
I want to get the most out of my money, out of whatever I buy, food, vitamins...you name it. I want to get the very best out of it and in order to do that I've had to make some major personal changes. Changes that will stay with me, whether or not I take any products. Know what I mean?
The products out there on the market can only help us so far. We have to be willing to help ourselves.
My weight chart looked like this:
September 26 - 157.4
October 3. 153.60
October 10. 154.8 -urgh!
October 17. 150.8
October 24. 148.2 - YES!
October 25. 149.6 - It was around about here that I realized I had to do more. I had to help myself. I wasn't doing my workout routine every day. I was slacking off and I knew it. I needed help and I had to get it myself, for myself.
October 31. 147.4
November 4. - I did not weigh in this day, but it is an important date in my life. It's the day I began HIIT class. High Intensity Interval Training. I go Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Sometimes I have to convince myself to go, but the women of that workout group hold me accountable and I love it. My body complains about it, but I just tell it to shut up.
November 7. 145.4 :) My current weight. I weigh in every Monday morning, so tomorrow will tell me how I did this week. The thing is, I'm actually expecting a gain. Not because I believe I've made bad food choices, but because I have worked out hard and intensly since the 4th. They say muscle weighs more than fat. I've no idea if I've began to build muscle or not, but just incase I have, a gain will not surprise me.
Would I like to see a loss? Oh yeah! I've a goal to reach that seems to drive me a little harder than anything else ever has. I want to knock my husband dead! I want to see his jaw hit the floor in January. He had NO idea, NO clue that I've been working out, trying to eat right, or lost any weight what-so-ever! I plan to keep it that way until his return. I just hope I'm as close to 120 as I can get in a healthy way.
I know I may not reach 120 and I am actually okay with that. I know muscle weighs more than fat and as long as I am fit and toned then I don't care if I only get to 130! But I want to look HOT when I pick him up.
Operation: Knock Him Dead is in full swing and I just pray I can keep the momentum going.
Therefore, the kids & I are going skating today. Tuesday, I hope to meet with a personal trainer. And Saturday - the kids and I are doing a 5K...just gotta keep moving, you know like that song off Madagascar......I like to move it, move it! :)
~T~
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