Success!!

I've had a great couple of weeks!! I stuck to my plan of eating more healthy food rather then foods low in points and it paid off. At my weigh-in last Wednesday I was down 4.8 pounds! I also worked out hard last  week, I did...

9-13-12 Thurs: Core class and step class
              Fri: Zumba
              Sat: Hiked for an hour
              Sun: Rested
              Mon: Lifting class, core class and Body Attack (2 hours total workout)
              Tues: Zumba
              Wed: Body Attack (sports inspired cardio workout, lots of running, jumping etc)
9-20-12 Thurs: Stationary bike for 30 minutes after going to the temple
               Fri: Zumba
               Sat: Hiked for an hour
               Sun: Rest
               Mon: Planning on Pump, CX Works and Attack

So all that combined with my healthy eating has made for a great few weeks.  I weigh in Wednesday night and hopefully I've be down a few more pounds.  I love this new way of eating! I'm focusing on fruits and veggies a lot. I made dinner almost every night last week as well and I know that helped. I made the choice to make dinner last Friday night before going out with friends because I knew after the baseball game we were going to watch that they would want to go get something to eat. I also knew it would not be healthy, and it turned out to be 5 guys. Case in point! I had a few fries and a diet soda and I was fine. I think there is something in me, maybe it's pride or maybe it's trying to prove to other people that I'm strong, but I get this high off of having willpower. I love when other people are eating something that I know I shouldn't be eating and I say "No". It makes me feel strong! Not that I starve myself or never indulge in anything, but I try to do my best when temptations come. Luckily most of the people in my life are supportive of it but some I can tell get a little annoyed with my new way of eating. Saturday night was a bit of a challenge. My friends all had stake conference except Myra and I (because we are now in a family ward in a different stake) so they all went to that and Myra and I went on a hike. I stayed up really late Friday night which meant I couldn't get my butt out of bed in the morning to go running. I was feeling really guilty all day about not working out so when Myra and I were trying to decide what to do while everyone was busy we decided to do something physical since she hadn't worked out either we thought we'd go on a hike. After the hike we met back up with everyone for a movie at our place but it ended up just bring a big food/talking fest. Everyone wanted ice cream so when we went to the store I found a brand of ice cream called Arctic Zero

that only has 150 calories for the whole pint!!! That's only 4 points! It was kind of expensive, but worth if for me to feel like I was enjoying myself along with everyone else. I got the vanilla kind and put fresh raspberries, blueberries and blackberries on top! It was so good and I felt great that I made a healthy decision when I could have easily chosen something unhealthy. Everyone else that night had ice cream and chips and candy bars but i didn't and I felt perfectly satisfied. I just keep telling myself that this is my life now. This is the way I'm going to be eating from now on. I'm not only doing this till I reach a certain weight or size, I've changed my life and I'm going to be a healthy person. With that mind set I feel good about things. I thought I would feel deprived, but I'm just learning how to eat and stay satisfied in this new life. It's a fun challenge actually. 

Little Set Back

Alright so I know I promised to be completely honest on here so I will tell you I haven't had the best month in regards to weight lose. I weighed in yesterday at 188.2. On the 29th of Aug I was 188.4 so I'm down...if you can even call it that. But definitely not the amount that I want to be down. At my lowest I was 180.4 (which I realized I told you wrong in my other post, 181 was not my lowest, 180.4 was) so that means I've gained 7.8 pounds back since May 16th. I've realized a few bad habits I have that I need to stop and hopefully it will help me get back on track.

1. I HAVE to track what I eat. As I've said before, I'm not good at it. I do good during the week but the weekends are really hard. My goal is to track EVERYTHING this weekend. I sat down and made a menu and a shopping list for this week so hopefully that will help with my goal.

2. I can't act like calories don't count if I don't write them down, or if I eat them Wednesday night after I weigh in. Thursday starts my "new week" with Weight Watchers so I consider Wednesday night my cheat time. Just thinking this way shows that I'm not fully committed to this way of life yet, even though it's been 2 years. I have changed a LOT of things about the way I eat and exercise but I'm still holding on to my favorite things from my unhealthy life (i.e. brownies). Not saying that you can't have this stuff every once in a while, but probably not 2-3 times a week :)

3. Just because I work out a lot doesn't mean I can eat what I want. This past week I did a kickboxing class Thursday, Zumba Friday, ran 6 miles Saturday, lifting class core class and cardio class Monday, Zumba and Elliptical on Tuesday and skipped yesterday. You would think that with all that working out I would have been down more...nope! I'm sure it's because I ate peach cobbler and cookies and m&m's and whatever else I thought I deserved. Besides cancelling out everything I just did in the gym it's also just stuff that should not be in my body. I have a strong healthy body and I need to treat it with respect. Junk food doesn't belong there. It's a temple and I need to treat it as such.

4. I need to stop hiding behind the same foods. Even if they are "healthy". I eat Progresso Light soup pretty much everyday for lunch. It's because I know that with 5 saltine crackers the whole meal is only 6 points (remember I have 29 points for the whole day) and for some reason soup fills me up GOOD, so I stick with that. Everyday. But I can't eat soup for the rest of my life. So with the help of a blog that I'll tell you about in a minute I got some new healthy ideas for lunches and dinners. Time to stop hiding.

I've recently been obsessed with a blog/tumblr called Undressed Skeleton (I have no idea how she came up with that name but despite the name, it's a great blog).

The address to the site is http://undressedskeleton.tumblr.com/

Her story of getting healthy and staying healthy is really inspiring. Every time I read it it makes me want to be a better person, a more healthy person. She has tons of recipes and workout ideas. I pretty much got all my menu ideas from her for the week. She's young but she knows her crap! :)

Also Pinterest has become my new best friend when it comes to getting healthy and getting inspired. I can find any workout I want from how to lose ankle fat to getting ride of earlobe chub ;) And there are tons of pictures and quotes to keep me motivated. I love it!!

Alright so I have my meals and workouts planned for this week and I'll keep you updated. I'm feeling very motivated today! Though I always seem to be motivated when I'm not hungry it's when my stomach growls that I go into survival mode where I don't care what goes into my mouth as long as I can shove it in in less then 3 seconds :) Wish me luck and please say a little prayer too!