I must be getting better at this whole update thing! I think it’s important to catelogue the last steps of my weight loss. It helps me understand where I came from and what I did to get here. And maybe it will help someone else.

Today I’m at 148.4! I have officially lost 46 lbs since my start at 194.4. It’s also been about a year since I started now.

Only 8.4 lbs to my goal weight of 140. I’m still doing Atkins, I had to go back to Induction because something in OWL was making me stall. And Canadian Thanksgiving and a day spent with friends with not many food options avail had me gain about two lbs back.

I also learned that a lot of people get a ‘beginner’s luck’ drop in their weight the first time they do low carb, so I don’t have to worry about my weight loss being too rapid. It’s actually at a really nice rate right now. I’m doing a modified version of Induction by stayinng close to 20 net carbs but I have little cheats. I do have whiskey and diet cokes (alcohol is a weight loss slower), I had a mini peanut butter cup a few days ago, I had one chip yesterday (yes I stopped at one!), and other stuff. And I’m still losing. It’s because I’m not letting MYSELF lose control with these little things.

In the past one thing always led to another. Now I eat right but savour the little treats when I have them. I’m still losing, I don’t consider myself being unhealthy because of how well I eat on a regular basis.

So let’s talk about exercise! I suck at it lately. Been doing a little bit of lifting here and there, working out on my ball. I always thought when I lost weight I would be able to touch my toes. I now only have a small pooch left on my tummy and my ribs stick out and still can’t touch them. I realized its all about FLEXIBILITY. So I am going to be self teaching myself some yoga. I’ve always wanted to do it, but it more of a “relaxing” way then a “quickly change poses” for a sweaty work out way. I downloaded a app for my iTouch and it gives a bunch of poses for free, a preset routine and you can set your own, as well as a calendar to mark down what you’ve done.

I’m going to start it today, wish me luck!

I find it so hard to update this thing. Maybe I should make it a weekly goal to update it just once. Before I was trying to do it just once a month and failed at that.

Update, update, update.

So what has happened since?

My weight has stalled over and over again. I got down to the 160’s and couldn’t get anywhere. I started weight training and that got me an invitation to the 150’s but I got stuck there too. The lowest I could get was 157.0. Then I started getting discouraged because I was frustrated with figuring out eating and bored of my weight training routine.

Just before I stopped doing my routine someone told me I inspired them because I had been doing it for a month, and I just felt horrible because I couldn’t even inspire myself. Maybe I was just tired of trying so hard all the time to keep my weight in control.

Then I got lazy, got up to 159 and was creeping ounce by ounce to the 160’s and I said ‘NO! There is no way I’ll go back there after I was stuck there for months!’ I decided I needed a new eating plan, something pre made that I could follow easily instead of trying to figure out protein, fat, and carbs I should be eating with weight lifting.

I saw a lot of success with Ideal Protein, but will not go that route as you have to purchase their pre packaged foods which mostly have gluten in them (I can’t have gluten products) and it looks like the same business model as LA Weightloss which after my first consultation with them I felt disgusted. (They told me if I bought the program that day, I would get a discount, and then asked me to ask my mom for her credit card when I said it was too much money)

But I did like the idea of ideal protein, it seemed logical. But then I saw Atkins and I had done that before but not with success as I was not weighing or carb counting, just eating approved foods for three weeks.

So I’ve been on induction for 1 week and gone from 159.6 or so down to 153.8 as of today. Because it’s so rapid and I only have 13.8 lbs left to goal I’m going to move onto Phase 2 which is OWL (Ongoing Weight Loss) because Pre Maintenance is when you have 10 lbs left. So, I need to slow it down because I can’t shoot all the way to goal and maintain just like that.

How’s that for an update after months of inactivity? *phew*

I like this thing, it’s nice to go back and read my posts and get a feel of where I was at that time. Though I should update it more, like once a week at least, at least I post once in awhile.

So how am I doing? I’m doing good still I weighed in at 166.6 this morning! I find the lower my weight gets, the slower it comes off. I’m pretty much losing a pound a week, some weeks I lose two. So what am I doing now?

I’m still eating gluten free, but I’m finding with the hot weather I’m indulging in iced treats a little more. I find frozen peaches covered in some yogurt is a nice way to fight urges. Also pretty low calorie I’ve stopped tracking my calories on fatsecret though. I find it easier to stick with if I just do a mental tally of what I’ve eaten, that way I know I’m within a good range. I had a slip up day where I unfortunately binged mindlessly on choclate covered coffee beans. What happens when you eat that amount of coffee beans? You puke. I haven’t gone nuts since then because I feel queasy now when I think about eating large amounts of food that is fairly unhealthy.

I’m trying to train myself how to run right now. I have been looking at c25k and some other stuff to get an idea of how to do so. I run on a treadmill so it’s a little difficult to speed up and slow down smoothly. Except I found this wicked old treadmill at my gym that has huge numbers for time and the speed up and slow down buttons are on the bottom corner. I’ve been speed walking for 2 min, then run for 2 min, and so on for 20 min, then I speed walk for the last 5. I’ve only done that a few times but my endurance is getting better. I decided to start doing it as I felt I wasn’t getting as good a work out and like my body was getting used to everything. I also am doing some weight lifting with a circuit they have at my gym. I must say I’m pretty proud of doing 30 reps at 115 lbs on the leg press.

Here’s to going forward strong and losing the rest of the weight! I’m already past the halfway point Almost 30 pounds lost now! (27.8)

As long as I come back once in awhile, right?

I’m still on track, lost myself for a bit on the weekend and went back to 176 after being 174 on Friday. I worked hard all week, lost the extra weight and am weighing in today at 173.2!

I wonder how much I would be at now if I hadn’t let myself go for those two days…

Either way, I’m ecstatic. I’m getting there so slowly, and if it takes me a year to lose another 20 pounds, then so be it. Eventually I will be healthy. Wow, 21.2 pounds lost. I can’t believe I’m here. I’m lighter than I’ve been in over 3 years. My fiance has never even seen me this light, though he has seen pictures of me when I was young and really skinny at 126 pounds, he agreed I look cracked out. With my body type, I looked like I was on meth and really odd and awkward at that age with all my dark make up, haha. But I also had no muscle and I was quite pale at the time.

Here’s to being toned, fit and healthy!

I’m trying really hard, I really am.

But because I got my period early and it’s now going on for a whole week, the scale is just not budging no matter how much I work out and how well I eat. It’s getting depressing. Plus I have less energy.

I tried having a bad food day to ‘reset’ my system a bit, I was eating so good that I think I may have caused myself to plateau early. I find eating bad food for one meal on one day will make my body think I’m back to my old ways, then when I eat right again and work out I should start losing again.

In theory. We’ll see by the end of the week. I’ll keep this updated as to how it’s going.

Thanks for all the comments by the way! Gluten free living is nice, I’m forced to eat healthy (well, I’m scared to eat gluten-free products because they use a lot of bad stuff to replace the gluten, it’s all high fat and high calorie).

Here’s to staying on track!

Yeah, I haven’t written in awhile. I definately have an explanation for it though.

The reason I started my weight loss journey was due to the fact that I wasn’t feel good, and hadn’t been feeling good for over a year. Feeling sick all the time, I thought this must be my wake up call. I ended up slowing down and eventually giving up around Christmas time due to the fact that I still felt sick even with the weight lost.

I even quit smoking because I was so desperate to feel better, to no avail. I quit eating tuna because I ate it often and someone mentioned I could have mercury poisoning and I still felt sick all the time.

Well, a bit ago I realized I have a gluten intolerance. My fiance’s best friend is the same way and I put 2 and 2 together based on his symptoms compared to my own. I went gluten free April 1st and have slowly been feeling better since. No more multiple trips to the bathroom or nauseous after eating toast!

So where does that leave me now? I’ve been working out for over a week now, and I’m down to 176 pounds

It feels great. I’m going to try and keep this thing more updated with my meals and what I actually am eating.

So my elliptical has gone kaput. The threading is wrecked on it. An attempt to jam it back together and work out again just lead to me on the floor again. I’ve been devestated for a week. I got down to 188 and my source of excercise was gone!

Then on Sunday we went to Char and Mike’s and played with the wii fit she got for her birthday. I wasn’t really impressed until I tried it, it’s actually a good work out, and it actually taught me some good things! My only problem was the fact you couldn’t queue up exercises, I explained to my friends, “How can you get a sufficient work out if your constantly going to the menu and choosing exercises, you need to keep going”

Then I heard about the wii fit plus that just came out, and it has that ability! Me and my boyfriend had some extra cash around, so I told him to give me 100 bucks, I would pick up the console and the board. It would be an early Christmas gift for us both. It’d be about 310 before taxes.

My boyfriend isn’t good with money.

He calls me and says that he’s right near my work and he’ll come meet me to help me carry it all. I think “Hmm okay..” 30 min later we’ve dropped 250 each after taxes on the console, the fit board, wii sports resort, an extra nunchuk, an extra remote, and 2 year warranties for the console and the board.

*sigh* I should have known. BUT… I checked my weight from those two work outs I did, the one on Sunday with my friends, and the one last night…

*drumroll*

Under 188

Tada!

More later

So due to the fact we had thanksgiving dinner on saturday, and I was sick all monday and sunday, I got a little off track with my weight loss, I got back up to 191. On Tuesday and Wednesday I really concentrated on my portions, elevator was out again at work so I used the stairs a lot, and got a bit of exercise yesterday. I’m down to 189 so that’s a good sign

But the bad news, I was working out on the elliptical last night, got about 10 minutes in when suddenlly…

*SMASH!*

One of the leg pedals just disconnects and suddenly I’m down on the floor. Luckily I was holding on and didn’t hurt myself! I guess a bolt came off, which my boyfriend found and didn’t know what it was for, so hid it away. He pulled it out and because it didn’t have that bolt on, some of the threading was damaged. He’s getting some tools from work today to fix it later tonight, we couldn’t screw it in by hand because of the threading issues.

*fingers crossed* I hope my elliptical bike can be fixed! This will be a serious hit to my goals if it can’t be :(  I ended up running up and down two flights of stairs back and forth five times, it made me feel like I finished my work out at least.

Wish me luck!

Haha, I found a good trick! I just insert image and put the link to the image

It’s been a busy week, and it’s been hard, but I’ve been sticking to everything for the most of it.

I worked out friday, then saturday noticed a pain in my calf, I must have strained it on the elliptical. Saturday night was thanksgiving dinner, I managed to keep the portions under control, but still had a slice of pumpkin pie. My mom possibly has the swine flu so I went to go bring her a plate of food, saw her about 10 minutes, didn’t touch her. Worked out Sunday, became horribly sick Monday. I have a sinus infection though.

So I couldn’t do my Monday work out and I was still down and out yesterday. So tonight after work, I’m definately working out to make up for it, and Thursday as well. I’ve gained back two pounds, but who would blame me? I’ve been sick and I’m sure neocitran is full of the sugar I’ve been trying to avoid.

Time to get ready for work!

P.S. Thanks for the help with the tag, my keyboard does set itself to canadian french sometimes, I don’t really understand your instructions because I did horribly in english, but I’ll get my boyfriend to help me out later Thanks again!

It’s been a week and I’ve kept up with everthing! No cheating, no nothing!

I’ve been working on portion control, only eating when I’m hungry. I even bought snacks to stop the dreaded between breakfast and lunch time. I wrote about this before, how I would always end up eating something around 200-300 calories before work as a snack, and then I would eat again before my lunch, and it was always chips because of the vending machine. I bought 80 calorie fruit cups, 100 calorie crack and cheese packs, and 100 calorie granola bars. I have a fruit cup before work, then one of the other two on my break. I was at 194.4 when I first weighed myself.

I weighed myself today, 188.0 I think I deserve to make a ticker for this blog! I can’t have one in the forums until it’s been 20 days so I’m going to make one here Yay!

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Edit: Looks like it’s not working, if anyone has any advice, it would be greatly appreciated