Weigh In Wednesday: Weeks 4 & 5

Well I totally forgot to blog last week about my weight loss for week 4.  Probably because I didn't lose anything but gained 1 lb! YIKES  I knew this would more than likely happen because I really was not good about drinking my water or watching what I was eating.   So Week 4 my total weight loss was 5 lbs.

Week 5 I did do better with eating less but still not so great with drinking my water.  But I did LOSS 1 lb! So I made up for the 1 lb I gained back.  My total weight loss for 5 weeks is 6 lbs.  Not the greatest for 5 weeks but better than nothing I say!  I really really need to get better at eating better breakfasts.  I think that is one of my major issues as well.  I do pretty decent for lunch and dinner, but I eat snacks or not so good for you muffins and stuff like that for breakfast.  My goal is to start finding healthier breakfast options and making and eating them! And apparently I need to do this for my daughter too! I just love that my dad works at her school and is friends with her preschool teachers because some of the stories they tell him and in turn he tells me just make my day!  Today (after eating 1 1/2 gogurts and some pop tart minis) she tells her teacher that "my mommy never gives me enough to eat in the morning and I'm always starving!" She really is too comical! And that is what she asks for for breakfast! So maybe I need to start serving her 3 course meals for breakfast as well.  I do honestly think that my daughter will eat us out of house and home.  She could seriously constantly eat all day long and still be hungry!  And she has not one ounce of fat on her! She is all muscle!  I'm not sure what I would do without my baby girl! I just love her so much and she makes our lives so much better!

So here is to  hoping that Week 6 has another loss as well!
Happy Healthy Eating!

Weigh In Wednesday: Week 3

This past week I lost .5 lbs.  Not the greatest but at least I lost something! So I am down 6 lbs in 3 weeks.  I did have a few challenging days and know I did not drink water like I should be. 

Last Wednesday I just wanted to eat everything in site!  I was just hungry all day long.  Thankfully I was in Chesterton and too lazy to leave the trailer to go out and get junk!  I had only packed my sandwich for lunch, goldfish and some oranges so I couldn't eat too bad.  I did though on the way home have to stop and get gas and got a coffee cake from the gas station, but that really pretty much held me over till supper.  I am sure that I will have many more days like this throughout my weight loss and than my maintaining my weight, but I'm ok with that.  This new healthier eating is a lifestyle that I will have to (and want to) continue with so if there are some days I just want to eat bad stuff, I'll eat some bad stuff!  I'll just have to workout a little harder than to compensate.

So my goals for this week are to drink more water, really watch the extra junk that I am eating because it adds up faster than I realize and continue to work out 3 days a week.

Here's to hoping for more weight loss this week!

Weigh In Wednesday: Week 2

Week 2 of WW and working out went pretty good!  I lost another 2 lbs for a total of 5.5 lbs so far!  Saturday Brian, the kids and I went to the gym for the 1st time in probably 4 months for me.  It works out really nice because the kids like to go to "Gym School" (named by Emma's friend Ms. Morgan!) and Brian and I get to work out and shower afterwards while the kids have fun, play and color.  Even with eating a not so healthy meal of Creamy Raviloi and Chicken from Applebees Saturday I still managed to lose!  This week I have worked out on Monday and plan to work out Friday and Saturday as well.  We go to Memorial Health and Lifestyle and its such a nice, clean and great gym.  They have really nice, top of the line equipment, a cool workout monitoring system and awesome classes.  Going somewhere you like makes it alot easier to go too!  The people that work out there are really pretty good too.  There is a good mix of super in shape people and people that are working to get there!  I never go and feel that people are looking at me funny or judging me by how I look or what I can or can't do while I am working out.

This week the meal plan has been going really well and I'm still trying to drink as much water as I can and eat as much fruits and veggies as I can as well.  The one area I need to work on those are sides for our meals.  I am doing good cooking the main meal but really really bad making sides.  We love steamed brocolli and green beans, I just forget to pop them in the microwave for the 8-10 mins!  My goal is to cook better sides!

My motivational marbles just got 8 more moved to the LOST side!  What a great feeling that is to keep moving them over! 

Also if you look to the right side of this post you can see I now have a Weight Loss Ticker!  Each Wednesday I will be updating that as well with what I have lost! 



Weigh In Wednesday: Week 1

Well my 1st week down on my new diet down and I lost 3.5 lbs! WOO HOO.  Other than peeing all the time because of all the water I have been drinking, it did not go to bad.  Having the meal plan was my saving grace a few nights!  Wednesday I stayed a bit later at my friends picking up Caden and on the way home I so did not want to go home and cook dinner.  Most of the way home I thought of just stopping at McDonald's and getting us all food!  But I thought about my diet, all the hard work I had been putting in the last few days and all the stuff at home to make calzones, I decided to just drive home!  So glad I did because the Calzones were amazing and only took 30 mins total (that includes prep and cooking!)  Brian helped out and had the oven preheated and all the ingredients out!  Having all the ingredients all in one spot on my pantry helped!  We even ate out at Flat Top Stir Fry Saturday and that was ok on my diet!

I also made my Motivational Marbles jar!  Each little marble represents 1/4 lb, so I have 200 in there to represent the 50 lbs that I want to lose.  It was really satisfied dropping those 3.5 lbs worth of marbles in there!  I got the jars at the dollar store.  I like them but they are bigger than I really needed.  I was surprised that the marbles really don't take up much room!  One of the reasons why I decided to do each 1/4 lb.  The stickers and marbles came from JoAnn Fabric (my most favorite store!).  It was fun to make and even funnier moving those marbles over.

14 Marbles moved over! One Jar says "Pounds to Go" and the other jar says "Pounds Lost"

This week our gym membership starts back up so I'm super excited to start back up again.  I think I'll go Friday during the day with Caden, Saturday for either Zumba or Pilates and a little time on the treadmill!  Brian and I also need to figure out a schedule for during the week.  They have child care on Tuesday and Thursday nights so we will definitely go together on Tuesdays but on Thursdays Brian will probably just go with Caden by himself because I'm at Gym and Dance with Emma most of the evening.  Saturday mornings we will definitely both go together too!  Looking forward to going back, I have missed it and am ready to get back into shape!
Here's to next weeks Marble Move!!