Week 5

Well I missed posting last week I did weigh my self and everything I juts kept forgetting to get on here and post. I tried rollerblading last week for the first time in like 8 or 9 years and I did great on Tuesday I went out with my niece and nephew they where on there rip-sticks and we raced around I beat my nephew and everything.
Thursday everyone was gone and I thought I would go out around the neighborhood a bit again on my blades. I didn't get half way and I fell not too bad more of a sit down falls. But I though I should go back just to play safe being that I was all along with no one expecting me back home. So I went back to my house and decided to just take a few laps around my long driveway. I got once around my car and fell so hard right on my ass my head flew back in to the ground and my headband flew 4 feet behind me. It was bad and my ass still hurts like hell. So I didn't do much Friday or Saturday as far as working out because I really couldn't move at all.

So Sunday I went swimming after work and I’m still eating good. Today I was a little bad but I think I will be ok. I have lost weight so I’m happy about that. I’m over the 160 hump I was stuck at.

Height: 5’6”
Start weight: 175lbs
Current Weight: 156lbs.
Goal Weight:150-145lbs.

This is so true....

I found this and all i can say is how true.....
What gets your diet off track? There are numerous reasons why a person can never seem to lose weight and here are a few of the most common reasons why:

• You skip breakfast. Studies confirm people who eat breakfast lose and maintain their weight more than breakfast skippers.
• You go on starvation or fad diets which puts your metabolism in starvation physiology, shutting it down and making it even harder to lose weight. Or you may just feel deprived all the time which usually ends up working against you.
• You eat for emotional reasons. No diet in the world fixes emotional eating. Only by recognizing and acknowledging your feelings and the underlying needs will you conquer this form of over eating.
• You don’t plan ahead. "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." The healthy food items are not available and guess what choices you make?
• You don't keep healthy food in your immediate environment (including work and social situations). If your house has mostly junk foods around no one can resist tempting foods. If it’s there you will eat it. Even if you are buying these foods for your kids, do they really need these foods?
• You do not make your self a priority when it comes to getting healthy. The usual statement is you "don't have the time." You make the time for good health.
• And this is the hardest one to swallow. Are you simply just too lazy to do any of the work involved it takes to lose the weight?

In order to fix a problem you need to acknowledge it first.

Week 3

I weighed myself yesterday but forgot to post about it. I'm up to the same old back and forth between 163 and 160 but I hope this week I will be doing better.
I also found a cool web sight that helps out on knowing what nutrition food has.
http://www.nutritiondata.com/
Oh well best of luck once again....

Height: 5’6”
Start weight: 175lbs
Current Weight: 160lbs.
Goal Weight:150-145lbs.

week 2

Well here I am still the same. I have decided that I need to add other forms of exercise to my routine because I think I'm stuck at 162. I normally swim in 35-40 min sessions and I could increase them but I don't think I really want to do that so I am going to add a routine of aerobics in to my plan. So this week’s goal is 3 days of aerobics/ strength training and 3 days of swimming. Keeping everything in the 30min sessions for the week.

Height: 5’6”
Start weight: 175lbs
Current Weight: 162lbs.
Goal Weight: 150~145lbs.

Best of luck to everyone :-)

So here is things I eat that have helped in the 15lbs I have lost so far.

So here is things I eat that have helped in the 15lbs I have lost so far.
Lizz asked for it so I typed it up and thought I would put it on here too just because.

• Natures own 100% wheat bread (2 slices only 100 calories)

• Miracle whip light (75% less fat and calories mayo)

• Kraft delay selects 2% milk sliced cheese (hell you could do the fat free kind but I draw the line at things that have no flavor)

• Hidden Valley light dressing (yes it really tastes just like regular and with half the fat it‘s still bad for you at 7g of fat a servering)

• Kens’ light Honey Mustard (this is one of the best tasting dressings for the calories and fat)

• Kraft Fat free honey Dijon dressing (it tastes like coleslaw dressing to me so that’s how I use it)

• Oscar Myers 97% fat free hot dogs (aka turkey dogs)

• Dannon Light and fit 60 calorie servings Yogurt (they come in a 6 pack with 2 flavors)

• Land of frost smoked ham (thin sliced its really lean and you can eat 4 slices in one serving)

• Sugar free popsicles (15 calories for one and no fat or sugar)

• Campbell’s Chunky chicken noodle soup (regular you can eat the whole can that’s 2 servings for only like 220 calories and very little fat)

• Chiquita apple bights (I’m laze its just pre sliced apples)

• Fresh Express Salads spring mix (they sell it in a family size bag at my Wal-Mart that is a lot cheaper and it lasts me about a week but I eat it on my sandwiches too)

• Fresh Express Salads coleslaw mix

• Match stick carrots (I add a handful to my salads and coleslaw to give it something extra)

• Smucker’s Squeeze Reduced Sugar strawberry spared (its in a squeeze bottle and its great on a pb&j and toast)

• Jiffy Simply or Jiffy light (the jiffy simply has way less salt and no fate crap in it. I love it but I still has a lot of fat so I try not to eat it all the time)

• I can’t believe it’s not butter spray (its next to the butter but in a spray bottle)

• Canned Tuna in spring water (or the packs)

• Tyson canned white chicken (blue label: the Brest meat one has way less fat)

• Sun chips (you can’t eat a lot but they are a nice junky food)

• Nature Valley oats and honey granola bars (you can eat 2 bars for the same calories of 1 nutria-grain bar)

• Frozen in the pod edemamae (the steam in the bag kind is really good I eat this crap like pop corn with a little salt)

• Frozen Broccoli (it cooks fast and I will eat it with just about anything a little spray butter and salt and pepper)

• Canned Black beans (low fat and good with Mexican)

• GV’S natural apple sauce (it has no adder sugar I add a little spinda/ altern and cinnamon to it)

• Tropicana 50’ (its good OJ with half the sugar and carbs I get the one with the added calcium)

• Any other veggies and produce I want that week. I do avoid corn and potatoes unless I’m really craving them because they are more of starches than true veggies)

Time is just ticking away till Dragon*Con

Time is just ticking away till Dragon*Con and I'm still fighting the 160 wall. I got really bummed out this week because last Monday I was down to 159lbs. and I just jumped right back up by the end of the week. I have been swimming 3 days a week (45min. a swim or about 1100 meters) at the least. So I guess I just need to step it up and really start pushing myself.
My goal this week is 5 Days of swimming and 15min of strength training added to that at least 3 days. I'm still eating really healthy and all so I think I just need to work out a bit more.

Height: 5’6”
Start weight: 175lbs
Current Weight: 162lbs.
Goal Weight: 150~145lbs.