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Friday, January 27, 2012
Well, yesterday I was able to avoid the run in with the bag of chips, but not today!! What can I say, I'm only human... No worries, I didn't empty a large bag, I only had a small one, and when I hit the bottom of the bag that was it, I was done. At least now I can put it behind me and move on!! I went way over on my calories though, and the fact that we had burgers for dinner didn't help... Home made burgers but still, those buns sure have a lot of cals in them!
On a more enjoyable note, I did yoga today, and for the first time in my life I finished it!!! I mean real yoga, not the stretch/yoga DVD I did twice this week. This DVD is mostly stretching and includes a few yoga poses, it's not yoga all the way. Still, since I did well both times I did the DVD this week, I figured maybe I could give real yoga a shot. My hubby gave me a yoga DVD for my birthday 2 years ago, and I never went past the initial 10 minutes before giving up and putting it back in the cupboard! Today I took it out and was determined to get to the end of it, no matter how difficult the moves were.
Well, it went super well!!! I did the whole thing, 56 minutes, and performed every pose and every movement! Of course it helps that I'm not as heavy as I was, so I was actually able to hold myself in position! I have a lot of work to do in the flexibility area but that too is much better than before! I'm so happy!! And I'm so sore!!! My back, my shoulders, my legs, my fingers, I can actually feel every muscle in my body!! Who knew that yoga would make me so sore?!! Well not me, because I never really gave it a chance until today!!
I am definitely going to do this again, and include yoga in my fitness program from now on! Once I can walk properly again, of course!!
As for my goals, well I didn't do great...
1- Exercise: I know today was supposed to be running day but we had terrible weather all day... yesterday I wrote that if the weather wasn't on my side, I was going to stay in and do another workout, and that's just what I did!
 
2- Track my food and stay within range. Max 1860 calories. Tracking done, 2574 calories...
3- Drink 8 cups of water: done!
4- 7 hours of sleep: almost, I'm 15 minutes short...
5- Meditate 10 minutes: done, and another 10 minutes coming at bedtime.
6- 3 veggies and 3 fruits: I had 3 veggies and 1 fruit...
7- Report my progress to the world every day by writing my accountability blog
Oh! I almost forgot! Today was weigh in day! 234.4 lbs, down 4 lbs from last week! That's 10.8 lbs gone since the beginning of my accountability plan 58 days ago! There's no doubt about it, this plan is just what I needed !!
Now is time to plan for tomorrow. It's Saturday again, the toughest day of the week for me!
1- Exercise: scheduled rest day, which I think will be appreciated after today!
2- Track my food. Exceptionnally 2000 calories and this time make it happen!!
3- Drink 8 cups of water at least
4- 8 hours of sleep.
5- Meditate 10 minutes at least
6- 3 veggies and 3 fruits. I will really focus on that tomorrow, and hopefully this will help me stay below 2000 cals...
7- Report my progress to the world every day by writing my accountability blog
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Thursday, January 26, 2012
I had a pretty good day. I actually don't have much to write... for once!! I really needed to rest today, and I did! I was pretty much useless until mid afternoon, then I regained life so that I was able to go for my walk. I wasn't even hungry most of the day, to the point where after dinner, I was below my lower calorie range for the day! I don't want to start not eating enough because this can do me no good. I got a little hungry at 9pm so had a small bowl of cereal and a fruit. I thought about having some chips, I certainly had enough calories left today to afford some, but I chose not to. I preferred to eat something healthier. I even told myself, if I'm going to put something in my body, might as well make it something healthy!
Hmmm... I really am making progress... cool!!!
As for my daily goals:
1- Exercise 45 minute walk: I only walked 34 minutes, but when I came back I did my 33 minute stretch/yoga DVD. Second time this week I do this DVD! I feel great when I'm done, I feel so tall!! It's a strange feeling!!
2- Track my food and stay within range. Max 1860 calories. Done: 1791 cals! Everything else is within range as well, proteins, fat, carbs, even fibers and salt!!
3- Drink 8 cups of water at least: Done!
4- 7 hours of sleep. I ended up sleeping only 6 hours last night. Maybe this explains that I was so droggy this morning...
5- Meditate 10 minutes at least: done this afternoon
6- 3 veggies and 3 fruits. DONE!!!
7- Report my progress to the world every day by writing my accountability blog
Score 6/7 for today! Not bad!
Tomorrow is weigh in day, I can't wait to see if I made progress this week. I worked hard, I hope it will show...
1- Exercise: Friday, running day. It started snowing this evening and we're also supposed to have freezing rain in the morning. If that's the case I may need to stay inside and do another workout... Otherwise, a 30-minute run is on the agenda!
2- Track my food and stay within range. Max 1860 calories.
3- Drink 8 cups of water at least
4- 7 hours of sleep.
5- Meditate 10 minutes at least
6- 3 veggies and 3 fruits. No excuses, like today. Just make it happen!!
7- Report my progress to the world every day by writing my accountability blog
The weekend is coming, hope everyone has a great Friday!
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
I had a loooooooonnnnnnnnnng appointment with the doctor today. Never in my entire life has a doctor spent so much time assessing my condition! He was with me for 2.5 hours!!! He asked me a gazillion questions and finally agreed that I wasn't ready to go back to work just yet. He's not sure what I have, but I need to rest some more. He gave me more time off, I have to go through a bunch of exams to try and understand why I'm so tired all the time and why I don't sleep well. He'll see me again in a month then reassess.
He was very impressed that I was able to lose so much weight "voluntarily". He really insisted on that word, "voluntarily"! No, I haven't been taking meds, no I never took appetite suppressants, no I'm not on any drugs ... Yes, I watch what I eat, yes I exercise, yes I try to face my emotions instead of eating them away. No, it's not easy everyday, but yes, I keep trying... Yes, sometimes I'm afraid I'll fall off the wagon again, but no, I don't let that fear control me. Not anymore anyways...
No, I don't have a lot of self-confidence, but yes, I determined that I love myself enough to try my best. I'm tired all the time, I feel weak and dizzy a lot of the times, and yes, I want to get better!
Is it really so hard to believe, or so hard to understand???
He seemed puzzled... then he moved on to the next topic!
Weird!!!
Anywoo... another day of accountability done. Today was hard because I had a lot to do, and I am really tired, so I did my best. I really lacked focus on the nutrition side of my journey. It's not that I indulged, it's that I hadn't planned, and so I went over on my calories and ate no freggies.
1- Exercise: 30 minutes of running done. Hubby came with me, it was nice to have a partner to run with!
2- Track my food and stay within range. Max 1860 calories. Like I said, I didn't plan in advance for today so ended eating too much carbs and totalled 2110 cals.
3- Drink 8 cups of water at least: Fine, I had 9 cups
4- 7 hours of hopefully restful sleep. 7 hours yes, goal met, but I woke up several times and was still exhausted this morning. I'll still take the emoticon!!
5- Meditate 10 minutes at least: done, and more coming at bedtime.
6- 3 veggies and 3 fruits: except for 2 slices of tomatoes I had none...
7- Report my progress to the world every day by writing my accountability blog
I try to learn something new everyday. Today's lesson: plan ahead, even if I don't feel like it or think it's not necessary. Always plan ahead!
Tomorrow's plan:
1- Exercise: probably just a 45 minute walk for tomorrow. I need to take it easy tomorrow.
2- Track my food and stay within range. Max 1860 calories.
3- Drink 8 cups of water at least
4- 7 hours of sleep. The doc increased my dose of Lyrica, which I take for chronic pain. He says at a higher dose it may improve sleep. It will be interesting to find out if it works.
5- Meditate 10 minutes at least
6- 3 veggies and 3 fruits. Absolutely no excuses will be tolerated! I have to be a little more firm with myself!!
7- Report my progress to the world every day by writing my accountability blog
Happy Thursday everyone!
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
This morning I went out to breakfast with my brother. It's an almost weekly rendez-vous we have. Restaurant-style breakfast are so high in calories, it's crazy. Now that I know though, I deal with it. So this morning, I MADE THE CHOICE to have 2 eggs with sausage, potatoes and toast. At least 1000 cals in one meal. At first it freaked me out, until I realized that after eating that, I'm not hungry again for a couple of hours. Besides, all the other choices on the menu have just as many calories and fat, some even worst. And I'm sorry, but the fruit and cottage cheese plate is like 15$ and is full of cantaloupe, which I do NOT like... I think it's abusive to expect people to pay 15$ for a plate of cantaloupe...
Anyways... focus here... I had a big breakfast, but then I was full until almost dinner time. I had a small snack, then dinner, and was able to make it all fit in less than 1840 calories. WOW! Major improvement from before.
Then I worked out, and did some jump rope, and now I am litterally STARVING!! I spent the last hour trying to figure out what I was going to do... Old habits, my first ideas involved eating crackers and other such snacks, until I remembered I have frozen strawberries and greek yogurt. There you go, I found my snack!
Unfortunately I have only 20 calories left to my day and eating celery at this hour is only going to make me hungrier and frustrated, so I am again choosing to have my healthy snack, and go over my calories by a bit. I figure it's better to eat a healthy snack than to go to bed on an empty stomach... so I'll just do that.
My point is, I am really starting to make choices and be aware of their consequences. This is feeling pretty good. I know, I could choose a lighter breakfast, but I don't want to. There!! I prefer to deal with the number of calories I consume, because after all, it's not everyday I eat such a big breakfast, and second, if I can't have a little bit of fun along the way, then this journey is just not going to be worth it!
As for the rest of my goals:
1- Exercise: I felt really sore after yesterday's intense step aerobics session, so I decided not to run today. Instead I did a 33-minute stretch/yoga workout, which felt absolutely wonderful! In fact, I wondered why I don't do it more often... I really don't have an answer! Then I felt like doing more, so I took out my jump rope, which had been hanging on a hook for almost a year, and did 10 minutes of jumping! Awesome!!! So 43 minutes of exercise today means one thing:
2- Track my food and stay within range. Max 1860 calories. Currently I am 1840 cals. I WILL have my snack, so will be up to 1973 cals. Okay with me!
3- Drink 8 cups of water at least: I drank 10 cups today.
4- 8 hours of sleep: nooooooo... I was in bed 7 hours and woke up what felt like a hundred times during the night...
5- Meditate 10 minutes at least: did 20 minutes, more to come at bedtime.
6- 3 veggies and 3 fruits. I had 3 veggies and 2 fruits, that's including the frozen strawberries I'm about to eat!
7- Report my progress to the world every day by writing my accountability blog
Not a bad day... there's room for improvement of course, so I'll be back tomorrow and will continue to try hard to meet my goals!
Wednesday's plan:
1- Exercise: back to running tomorrow, 30 minutes
2- Track my food and stay within range. Max 1860 calories.
3- Drink 8 cups of water at least
4- 7 hours of hopefully restful sleep.
5- Meditate 10 minutes at least
6- 3 veggies and 3 fruits.
7- Report my progress to the world every day by writing my accountability blog
I hope everyone will have a happy Wednesday!
Monday, January 23, 2012
I know I said in yesterday's blog that I was going to go for a 50-minute walk/run today, but honnestly I just didn't feel like it! It rained for a good part of the day, yes, yes, in January, so the ice and snow we had on the ground is turned into slush, there's water everywhere and I didn't feel like running outside. Plus, I ran yesterday, so I wanted something different. Then came the idea to do something I hadn't done in a while, step aerobics! It had been a few months so I thought, why not! I chose the toughest DVD I own, Kathy Smith's Power Step workout. It's an old DVD but trust me, it does the job!! It's 50 minutes long and you can do whatever intensity you want. I felt good, so I did the high-impact version!
Well... all this running I've been doing is apparently helping, because I did the entire 50 minutes, all with high-impact moves and jumps, and I survived!! In the past I would have a hard time sustaining the high intensity moves, but not today! However... my legs are killing me now! Actually, I'm sore all over! My shoulders and arms, my legs, my behind, my lower back, all sore!! But oh!! Does it ever feel good! I'm really proud of myself! SP's fitness tracker says this workout had me burn 992 calories. I thought it was exaggerated at first, but you know what? Maybe not!!
After working out I made dinner, steak, oven-baked sweet potatoes and glazed carrots. YUM! It looked too delicious, I had to take a picture!
When I looked at the picture I noticed I had filled more than half my plate with the sweet potatoes and carrots. More than half in veggies, nice! An improvement from before, when the veggies would only take a small corner on my plate!!
All this to say, I had another great day! Let's review my goals:
1- Exercise 50 minutes: check! As intense as running may be, today's workout was definitely at a higher level!!
2- Track my food and stay within range. Max 1860 calories: Done! 1841 calories! Carbs, proteins, fat and salt also within ranges!! Second day in a row I stay within all ranges!
3- Drink 8 cups of water at least: I drank no less than 12 cups today!! I just hope I won't be up all night visiting the bathroom!!
4- 8 hours of sleep: Well, I only slept 7 hours last night. To some this may sound like a good night, but not for me. I need at least 8 hours... Working on it!
5- Meditate 10 minutes: I did 20 minutes before bed last night, 10 minutes this morning and another 20 minutes in the early afternoon. I think this means goal met!!
6- 3 veggies and 3 fruits. I had 2 fruits, and I had all the veggies on my plate for dinner. 2 veggies at least. Missing one of each...
7- Report my progress to the world every day by writing my accountability blog
I must say, I am loving this! I feel good, I feel so much healthier than before. It's becoming easier and easier to meet my goals every day. So on I go!
This reminds me, I came across this inspirational quote this morning, very appropriate I think:
"Success doesn't come to you... you go to it." - Marva Collins
Guess which direction I'm headed?!! Oh yes, I'm drawing the map to success!!!
Time to plan for tomorrow:
1- Exercise: technically tomorrow should be running day. I'll see how it goes, if I'm really sore from today's workout I may just do some walking. If not, I'll run for sure.
2- Track my food and stay within range. Max 1860 calories. I really don't have an excuse not to make it happen!
3- Drink 8 cups of water at least
4- 8 hours of sleep. Early bedtime tonight, I need to rest my muscles...
5- Meditate 10 minutes at least
6- 3 veggies and 3 fruits. No excuses!
7- Report my progress to the world every day by writing my accountability blog
I'm feeling really high, can you feel it!!! I'm loving it!
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on your healthy choices and progress! 