Yes, Inches!!! Size DOES Matter ...... for some things.
This week the progress I made was in inches! We did circumference measurements 2 weeks ago and checked up on them this week. There was no difference in neck, chest, upper arm or calf :(
There was, however, differences in forearm, waist, hips and thigh.
In 2 weeks I got rid of ........
1 inch off forearm
1 inch off waist
1/2 inch off hips
1 inch off thigh ...... for a grand total of
3.5 inches off my body circumference!
That's a huge deal in just 2 weeks AND I ate what I wanted for Thanksgiving and even cheated throughout the weekend (the trainers are not happy about that).
Another learning this week, if you cheat all weekend long (especially a 4 day weekend) it's sooooo much harder to get back on the wagon. I've struggled all week and have noticed a difference in my the way my health feels, my body aches, and I don't have much energy.
One "cheat meal" is okay. A weekend of bad food choices, and I pay for it.
I am happy to know that I now take up 3.5 inches less of my personal space :)
Have a great weekend and do as I say, not as I did and eat clean - you'll feel better if you do.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Monday, November 26, 2012
Thanksgiving
What a wonderful time of year. Friends and family gather and reflect on all that they are thankful for. There are lots of hugs, laughs and of course food. This year I spent Thanksgiving in Los Angeles all weekend. I had a invites to a few different homes and spent the evening with one of my best friends and her family. It was lovely. She is a fantastic cook and her family is so warm and wonderful that anytime spent in her home is treasured.
Since I did not do my usual Thanksgiving trek to Arizona, I decided that I had to make one of the pies that I would have had if I had been with the Fullerton family - Dark Chocolate Pecan Pie. This pie is not on any meal plan, much less a plan designed to lose fat. But, hey, it's Thanksgiving and part of Thanksgiving is to feast and be thankful for the bounty. This pie is a bounty of calories and I'm glad I got to have some and share the rest with everyone else. Another bonus to going to another home for the feast :)
I knew that I would over indulge on the bounty, after all Linda is an amazing cook, and so I stuck to the meal plan earlier in the day and reserved some of the calories for the feast. When dinner was served, it was buffet style so there would be room for everyone at the table without having to juggle large dishes of food. This is my dinner plate:
Mostly romaine salad, a couple of bites of stuffing and potatoes and a medium slice of turkey breast with one homemade roll. I am the kind of person that will eat my weight in homemade rolls, especially on Thanksgiving. I did have a second roll during dinner and I was done. I chose to eat the salad first and since the 'roughage' was filling, I didn't feel the need to eat much more. Yay!!!
[Note to self, eat a large amount of salad before the rest of any feast and you will have no need to be rolled away from the table like usual.]
On to dessert! I did not taste the pie I made as I made it so I had to have some of it. I also LOVE pumpkin and HAD to have a piece of pumpkin pie so I cut small pieces of each:
The family dog got a big bite of the pumpkin pie - little stinker - and this is how much of the rest I ate:
On any other day of my life, I would have finished the dessert and had seconds. And that would be after eating my weight in rolls, potatoes and stuffing. I blame the coaches and trainers at ABS Club LA! They have ruined me, at least the old me, and turned me into a more health conscious person. In just 3.5 weeks I have lost 10 pounds (7 of which is fat) AND altered my feasting habits. Thank you to everyone that is supporting me and encouraging me.
This is a very hard transformation. I did 'cheat' a few times throughout the weekend. Mostly because I didn't plan ahead and didn't have good snacks and meals on hand when I was hungry. I'm still learning and this is a lifestyle change not a temporary fad. I'm so thankful to everyone for their support. I'm really trying not to let you down.
Just a note to leave you with.
It is tradition of the family I joined for Thanksgiving feast to pass around a bucket filled with slips of paper. Everyone takes their own slip and reads the question then shares their answer with the family. Here is mine:
The recent passing of a young friend of mine has greatly increased my gratitude for the love, support, hugs, kisses and plethora of friends and family that I have. Not everyone in this world has even one good friend or relative they can call and I have many. Thank you for that.
What is something that happened this year that increased your gratitude?
Since I did not do my usual Thanksgiving trek to Arizona, I decided that I had to make one of the pies that I would have had if I had been with the Fullerton family - Dark Chocolate Pecan Pie. This pie is not on any meal plan, much less a plan designed to lose fat. But, hey, it's Thanksgiving and part of Thanksgiving is to feast and be thankful for the bounty. This pie is a bounty of calories and I'm glad I got to have some and share the rest with everyone else. Another bonus to going to another home for the feast :)
I knew that I would over indulge on the bounty, after all Linda is an amazing cook, and so I stuck to the meal plan earlier in the day and reserved some of the calories for the feast. When dinner was served, it was buffet style so there would be room for everyone at the table without having to juggle large dishes of food. This is my dinner plate:
[Note to self, eat a large amount of salad before the rest of any feast and you will have no need to be rolled away from the table like usual.]
On to dessert! I did not taste the pie I made as I made it so I had to have some of it. I also LOVE pumpkin and HAD to have a piece of pumpkin pie so I cut small pieces of each:
This is a very hard transformation. I did 'cheat' a few times throughout the weekend. Mostly because I didn't plan ahead and didn't have good snacks and meals on hand when I was hungry. I'm still learning and this is a lifestyle change not a temporary fad. I'm so thankful to everyone for their support. I'm really trying not to let you down.
Just a note to leave you with.
It is tradition of the family I joined for Thanksgiving feast to pass around a bucket filled with slips of paper. Everyone takes their own slip and reads the question then shares their answer with the family. Here is mine:
What is something that happened this year that increased your gratitude?
Thursday, November 15, 2012
"Bad Hair Day"
When I was in college and feeling sad, lonely, frustrated, or any other negative emotion, I'd call my mom. She got many of these phone calls my Freshman year and quickly deemed them "bad hair days". Many many years later, we still call our low days, "bad hair days". Today is a bad hair day for me. I was notified yesterday of the passing of a young friend of mine. She was a wonderful person and so very sweet. It saddens me that she has left this world for a better one and yet I am happy for her that she is in a better world.
Hearing of her passing has triggered many emotions beyond the sadness of her departure. She, like I, was a single woman who carried extra weight and was hopeful of finding a life companion. I'm sad that she didn't find that person while here on Earth and I as reflect on that, it creates some angst about my own situation. I worry that my weight could cause serious mental and physical heath issues that may keep me from living to a very old age. My weight already keeps me from living the active life I desire, I don't want it to keep me from living all together. These are feelings that I have reflected on constantly since hearing of my dear friend.
This week in general has not been such a great week in my journey. I have continued to exercise daily, eat properly and get as much sleep as possible. I also feel like I'm not doing enough, yet when faced with the challenge of doing more, I really don't want to. Like I said, it's a "bad hair day". I just have to muddle through and pray that it gets better. I'm so glad that I have people around me that love me and support me on this journey. It's "bad hair days", like this, that I lean on them for their support.
I want to throw in the towel but because the world knows what I weigh, it makes it that much harder to stop the progress.
Thank you for your love and support.
Hearing of her passing has triggered many emotions beyond the sadness of her departure. She, like I, was a single woman who carried extra weight and was hopeful of finding a life companion. I'm sad that she didn't find that person while here on Earth and I as reflect on that, it creates some angst about my own situation. I worry that my weight could cause serious mental and physical heath issues that may keep me from living to a very old age. My weight already keeps me from living the active life I desire, I don't want it to keep me from living all together. These are feelings that I have reflected on constantly since hearing of my dear friend.
This week in general has not been such a great week in my journey. I have continued to exercise daily, eat properly and get as much sleep as possible. I also feel like I'm not doing enough, yet when faced with the challenge of doing more, I really don't want to. Like I said, it's a "bad hair day". I just have to muddle through and pray that it gets better. I'm so glad that I have people around me that love me and support me on this journey. It's "bad hair days", like this, that I lean on them for their support.
I want to throw in the towel but because the world knows what I weigh, it makes it that much harder to stop the progress.
Thank you for your love and support.
Monday, November 12, 2012
Update - Week 2
I must first apologize for my lack of diligence with the blog. I am missing the tech gene and Erin is busy enjoying her husband being home from deployment (yay Mr. and Mrs. Schurtz).
I have made up for it in my diligence with the program and my journey to getting rid of 100 pounds of fat in one year. More videos will be posted as soon as I get my tech gene turned on :)
This is not an easy journey, by any means. I have struggled. I have argued with my coaches, gave them the evil eye (if looks could kill), even punched one (by accident) a few times during our training sessions.
I had a particularly bad time last week. Along with the stress and frustration of getting a 400 page book read and a report done in 3 days, I had to endure mother nature AND the election. All of the stress and frustration was getting to me and I really wanted to have something comforting to eat (aka chocolate). I didn't have the coaches put chocolate in my meal plan because I can go with out and usually deal just fine. NOT last week! I called and after a passionate discussion with one of the coaches, I enjoyed a trick-or-treat size kit-kat dipped in peanut butter :)
I had my cheat meal last weekend and planned to go hydro biking for my cardio on Sat. Due to weather, hyde-biking was cancelled and truth be told, I did not do anything to make up for my cardio.
Today's weigh-in/ analysis had my only dropping 2 pounds of fat. That extra 30 minutes of cardio probably would have put me at 2.5 like I was the week before. Now I have learned.
So far, I have dropped from 274.8 to 267.2 in two weeks. 7.6 pounds total. 3 pounds was water and 4.6 pounds of fat.
Here's looking at another week of fat dropping workouts and meal plans.
Recipes and videos to come soon.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Day 3 - Halloween!!
Starting this program the week of Halloween, my FAVORITE holiday of the year, SUCKS! I want CANDY!!!!!! And yet, I am refraining. The only thing that keeps me holding on is the fact that I get one cheat meal a week and I am having a Halloween party on Saturday. I'm holding out until Saturday to eat what I want, including - but not limited to - Peanut Butter cups and fun size snickers bars.This is sooooooo hard. I have to find the strength to hold out until Saturday night. I don't know where I'm going to get it, but I will.
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