The last few days I have been bad. We got a new manager on my team and so I made cinnamon rolls on Monday night for his first day on Tuesday. Well ever since that day I have had a hard time sticking to the clean lifestyle. I have not worked out once yet this week either. I need to get back on track TODAY! I am down 12 pounds and have 18 more to go for my goal. Just got t keep working hard to stay on track.
This is going to be a long road. I have to stay strong and continue on my healthy path. I do well at work but when I get home it has been getting harder and harder. I have to stay strong. No more cheat meals. NO more skipping the exercising.
I WILL SUCCEED. I WILL NOT FAIL!
Loves,
Mo
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Monday, March 10, 2014
Been cooking more and more. . . .
Since I have started to eat "clean", I have been cooking more and more. Mostly to prepare for the week ahead when it comes to breakfast. It is easier to make many different options to breakfast over the weekend than to eat the same thing every morning. Reasoning is because I don't have a lot of time in the morning to make myself the breakfast I want to have. When I am allowed to anything I want for breakfast makes breakfast the favorite meal of the day.
I know many people have a hard time even eating breakfast but with this new lifestyle it is amazing. I make sure I eat breakfast every morning. Which a lot of studies have said that people that eat breakfast in the morning weigh less than those who don't eat breakfast. High School was that way for me. No breakfast at all, no time to have it when you are busy socializing in high school. That is how it was for me though. Plus over the years I have noticed that it is easier to skip my breakfast than my over meals of the day.
Anyways, I cook every night now. Some nights it has been hard to come home from work and working out to cook. But it has been good. Keeps me from sitting on the couch and watching TV.
Now I just need to find some more recipes to see what else I can make than the few 5 I have. I have been browsing for some and there are a lot of clean recipes that take a lot of prep for. I need some with not a lot of prep time or ingredients to help in my quest.
Now that I have been cooking more and more, I have been wanting to learns a lot of new recipes. Not all clean but still recipes that have been handed down from my grandma. Right now I am making Cinnamon rolls from scratch. I am a little excited because I am taking them to work to get the real critics for how well I made them. I may start making cinnamon rolls more and more. It has come to my mind that it is easy to make though time consuming.
If anyone reading this has any clean recipes/dishes that are good, please comment below.
Thanks a bunch!
Mo
I know many people have a hard time even eating breakfast but with this new lifestyle it is amazing. I make sure I eat breakfast every morning. Which a lot of studies have said that people that eat breakfast in the morning weigh less than those who don't eat breakfast. High School was that way for me. No breakfast at all, no time to have it when you are busy socializing in high school. That is how it was for me though. Plus over the years I have noticed that it is easier to skip my breakfast than my over meals of the day.
Anyways, I cook every night now. Some nights it has been hard to come home from work and working out to cook. But it has been good. Keeps me from sitting on the couch and watching TV.
Now I just need to find some more recipes to see what else I can make than the few 5 I have. I have been browsing for some and there are a lot of clean recipes that take a lot of prep for. I need some with not a lot of prep time or ingredients to help in my quest.
Now that I have been cooking more and more, I have been wanting to learns a lot of new recipes. Not all clean but still recipes that have been handed down from my grandma. Right now I am making Cinnamon rolls from scratch. I am a little excited because I am taking them to work to get the real critics for how well I made them. I may start making cinnamon rolls more and more. It has come to my mind that it is easy to make though time consuming.
If anyone reading this has any clean recipes/dishes that are good, please comment below.
Thanks a bunch!
Mo
Monday, March 3, 2014
Update 3/3/2014 - One month in.
It has been one month since I have started the new routine. It has gone well so far. I have not been overwhelmed or exhausted from it. The new schedule works well with work and when Jon is gone at work.
What I do. . .
Diet/new lifestyle: I eat anything I want for breakfast nothing is off limits. Then I eat "clean" for the rest of the day. Meaning nothing processed. It involves a lot of cooking but I am getting good at making up some meals. Plus since I don't buy all the processed food any longer, my grocery bill is smaller. Other than I do have to go shopping more often. I go every weekend. Though it doesn't bother me. I don't spend as much time at the store because I know what I need. Rather than spending 1 to 2 hours making sure I have everything, I only spend about 30 minutes. Natalie sure likes not spending that much time at the store either. :)
Work out Plan: I have an amazing co-worker whose boyfriend who wrote me up a personal work out plan. He just gave me the days but gave me the option to switch them around to meet my schedule. It has worked out well so far. My local community fitness center offers day care for one hour free for members Monday- Thursday. Those days I am able to go and get in any cardio in I need to. I count my indoor soccer games as my free day. But then have a lifting list for 4 days out of the week. Which I can do every lift/strengthening exercise at how with my free weights and resistant bands. I have also tried to do some xtend barre classes when Jon is home. Makes it nice to mix it up.
I have successfully lost about 10 pounds, the health way. I hope to lose the rest by the 4th of July. We shall see. Wish me luck. :)
What I do. . .
Diet/new lifestyle: I eat anything I want for breakfast nothing is off limits. Then I eat "clean" for the rest of the day. Meaning nothing processed. It involves a lot of cooking but I am getting good at making up some meals. Plus since I don't buy all the processed food any longer, my grocery bill is smaller. Other than I do have to go shopping more often. I go every weekend. Though it doesn't bother me. I don't spend as much time at the store because I know what I need. Rather than spending 1 to 2 hours making sure I have everything, I only spend about 30 minutes. Natalie sure likes not spending that much time at the store either. :)
Work out Plan: I have an amazing co-worker whose boyfriend who wrote me up a personal work out plan. He just gave me the days but gave me the option to switch them around to meet my schedule. It has worked out well so far. My local community fitness center offers day care for one hour free for members Monday- Thursday. Those days I am able to go and get in any cardio in I need to. I count my indoor soccer games as my free day. But then have a lifting list for 4 days out of the week. Which I can do every lift/strengthening exercise at how with my free weights and resistant bands. I have also tried to do some xtend barre classes when Jon is home. Makes it nice to mix it up.
I have successfully lost about 10 pounds, the health way. I hope to lose the rest by the 4th of July. We shall see. Wish me luck. :)
Sunday, February 9, 2014
What it finally took to get my motivation going. . .
Yes, it has been over a year since I have blogged. Honestly it was hard to compose a blog a on phone when you don't have a home computer. Last year I really didn't stick to my weight loss goal. Reasons was because Jon and I were trying to get pregnant and I calmly thought "why loss the weight when I will just gain it all back with a baby."
I was able to get pregnant in August and was extremely excited. We had a lot of vacation time in October that was when we told everyone we were expecting. Well we went on a cruise with some good friends after going to Disneyland with family. Jon and I were getting on the plane to Texas. And I starting bleeding. I was only 8 weeks. Then we made it to Texas, our friends picked us up and I was wondering what was going on. We had only gotten an hours rest on the plane and were extremely tired. We headed to Galveston and the bleeding increase with some cramps. I had a hard time eating anything. I call my doctor in Utah and she told me to go to the ER. Thank goodness that there was a hospital close to the port for the cruise. I arrived at the ER at 6:30. They put me on fluids, took blood and urine samples, did a pelvic exam and ultra sound. It was the worst experience ever. They never kept me up to date. Kept me waiting and never answered my question. After the fluids I was feeling better and felt like this miscarriage will go naturally. We left at 2:30 with some antibiotics, directions and the doctor saying I was doing the wrong thing and should stay overnight. I didn't feel I need to stay overnight for observation. I was truly miscarrying and no one could stop it.
We got on the cruise ship with our friends. Went through all the regular instruction stuff and I tried to eat but didn't have the appetite. During the safety meeting I was in and out of sleep. We finally was able to get to our cabins. It was a little hard dealing with a miscarriage on a cruise ship. I was emotional, sleep deprived, and had not eaten for 24 hours. Jon and I went to bed instead of going to dinner.
To make the story short. It was hard to miscarry but on a cruise ship it helped me emotionally. I did have some moments of crying and not understanding. I did call Angie to talk to Natalie during a break down. But I was able to come to terms and was able to relax with Jon and amazing friends. I have promised Jon that we will go on another cruise in a year or 2 were I was not going through something that we could not have fun. I was even able to get in the water. It kind of sucked.
We got home, I went to the doctor and was told that I didn't do anything to miscarry, it was a genetic problem with the fetus. Then I was told we have to wait a month or 2 to try again.
We tried again in December. I became pregnant, but miscarried yet again. It is more called as a Chemical pregnancy. Jon and I then decided that the possible reason why I could not hold a pregnancy it because of my weight. I had heard stories of people having the same problems. Not being able to hold a pregnancy until they lost some weight.
That is where I come to my new weight loss goal. Jon and I have decided that we are not going to try again until I am at a certain weight. So far it has been 2 weeks and I lost a few pounds. Working out 4 days plus my indoor soccer games on Saturdays. Eating anything I want for breakfast but then eat clean for the rest of the day. I have a friend whose boyfriend almost completed the physical training degree until he changed it to a PT. He is going to write up a exercise plan I can follow. He was the one who actually told me to eat whatever I want for breakfast and then eat clean for the rest of the day.
So far it has been easy to flow this plan. I thought it would be hard to not eat bread or what not for lunch and dinner. But I found a lot of stuff I can eat were I can fight the cravings.
The last day I miscarried I was 208 pounds. I weighted this morning and am now 202.8 lbs. My goal is to reach 175. It will take a little while but I am seeing the healthy results. :)
Here it is to becoming healthy and fit again.
I was able to get pregnant in August and was extremely excited. We had a lot of vacation time in October that was when we told everyone we were expecting. Well we went on a cruise with some good friends after going to Disneyland with family. Jon and I were getting on the plane to Texas. And I starting bleeding. I was only 8 weeks. Then we made it to Texas, our friends picked us up and I was wondering what was going on. We had only gotten an hours rest on the plane and were extremely tired. We headed to Galveston and the bleeding increase with some cramps. I had a hard time eating anything. I call my doctor in Utah and she told me to go to the ER. Thank goodness that there was a hospital close to the port for the cruise. I arrived at the ER at 6:30. They put me on fluids, took blood and urine samples, did a pelvic exam and ultra sound. It was the worst experience ever. They never kept me up to date. Kept me waiting and never answered my question. After the fluids I was feeling better and felt like this miscarriage will go naturally. We left at 2:30 with some antibiotics, directions and the doctor saying I was doing the wrong thing and should stay overnight. I didn't feel I need to stay overnight for observation. I was truly miscarrying and no one could stop it.
We got on the cruise ship with our friends. Went through all the regular instruction stuff and I tried to eat but didn't have the appetite. During the safety meeting I was in and out of sleep. We finally was able to get to our cabins. It was a little hard dealing with a miscarriage on a cruise ship. I was emotional, sleep deprived, and had not eaten for 24 hours. Jon and I went to bed instead of going to dinner.
To make the story short. It was hard to miscarry but on a cruise ship it helped me emotionally. I did have some moments of crying and not understanding. I did call Angie to talk to Natalie during a break down. But I was able to come to terms and was able to relax with Jon and amazing friends. I have promised Jon that we will go on another cruise in a year or 2 were I was not going through something that we could not have fun. I was even able to get in the water. It kind of sucked.
We got home, I went to the doctor and was told that I didn't do anything to miscarry, it was a genetic problem with the fetus. Then I was told we have to wait a month or 2 to try again.
We tried again in December. I became pregnant, but miscarried yet again. It is more called as a Chemical pregnancy. Jon and I then decided that the possible reason why I could not hold a pregnancy it because of my weight. I had heard stories of people having the same problems. Not being able to hold a pregnancy until they lost some weight.
That is where I come to my new weight loss goal. Jon and I have decided that we are not going to try again until I am at a certain weight. So far it has been 2 weeks and I lost a few pounds. Working out 4 days plus my indoor soccer games on Saturdays. Eating anything I want for breakfast but then eat clean for the rest of the day. I have a friend whose boyfriend almost completed the physical training degree until he changed it to a PT. He is going to write up a exercise plan I can follow. He was the one who actually told me to eat whatever I want for breakfast and then eat clean for the rest of the day.
So far it has been easy to flow this plan. I thought it would be hard to not eat bread or what not for lunch and dinner. But I found a lot of stuff I can eat were I can fight the cravings.
The last day I miscarried I was 208 pounds. I weighted this morning and am now 202.8 lbs. My goal is to reach 175. It will take a little while but I am seeing the healthy results. :)
Here it is to becoming healthy and fit again.
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