Fast

So, I am doing the Daniel Fast with my church. I am allowed to have fruits, vegetables and whole grains. I am on day 9 and have lost 5 pounds. It is a 21 day fast so we shall see if I can keep off what I lose after I add back in other foods like protein and dairy.

Whew!

I took off all the weight (2 lbs) I gained on vacation.

Now, to work on a dinner menu for this week that would be a compliment to my workouts.

Here I am again.....

Except this time, I have the support of my husband. Perhaps this year will be the year it comes off..........

Trying really hard.....

I did so bad over the weekend, that I was bound and determined to make some progress today (which I am), but my mind is telling me to eat more right now because I'm coming down from my weekend OREO high. Ugg!

Must get through the next few hours.

205....

Yeah, the scales totally went the wrong way. I am trying to walk on the treadmill everyday and watch my calories. I am also posting to Sparkpeople.com
I need to lose 6 pounds with a quickness because my reward for 199 is to go get my eyebrows waxed. If you saw them you might tell me to stop eating because I am in desperate need! :)

Biggest Looser

I know, 2010 and two years later and I weigh the same thing. But, my family after 5 years of asking, having finally ALL agreed to participate in our own version of the Biggest Looser.

Hopefully this gets us on the right track! Plus, I want the POT!

LOL

Around and around we go.

I wish I was focused and wanted to lose weight as much as I think I do. I often call my self names and feel bad about myself but it is obviously not enough to make me not eat that extra piece of cake. I am an emotional eater. The last couple of months have been tough emotionally. I keep gaining instead of losing.
Hubby has a video shoot in a couple of weeks so he and I are trying to limit sugar and white flour. Of course everything we have in our fridge and cupboards have sugar and/or white flour. Except for the fritos of course.
We are heading to the store tonight to stock up on some healthy food. I am afraid he will lose 20 pounds in the next two weeks and I will lose 2 weeks! :(
I am going on day 4 of 1500 calories a day. Wish me luck!

Wii Fit in September

I have challenged myself to do Wii Fit everyday in September for at least 30 minutes a day. So far so good!
Sept 1- 45 minutes
Sept 2- 45 minutes
Sept 3 - 30 minutes

I want to do it every day. :)

{TWD} Honey Peach Ice Cream

Woo hoo!! It is still Tuesday my time and I am posting.

Thank you to Rainbow Brown at Brown Interior for choosing this delicious recipe.

Things I learned from this recipe:
-I need an ice cream maker, I tried doing it by hand and gave up and went to bed. Once we got past the gummy layer on the top it was pretty good but still kind of icy
-I need a Kitchen Aid mixer....just because
-Nectarines are a good substitute for peaches and don't have to be peeled
-I should have washed out the ice cream container before throwing it in the trash to freeze this in instead of the giant bowl that is taking up my freezer at the moment

I thought this was pretty tasty as did both of my mini tasters. Hubby said "Oh! There's the peach!" It tasted vanilla to him with an aftertaste of nectarines but he said he liked it.

Will I make this again? Maybe but not until I get an ice cream maker!
Pictures to come. I taught my first class at the college I work at tonight after working a full day. So, I am tired.
Bake On!

Hi Karen

Okay, I started a kick boxing class. Not that foo, foo kickboxing in the regular gym. I started kick boxing classes at my kids karate academy. Okay, one the instructor is really cute (score), two, after taking the class I realized it was exactly what I've needed for the past 5 years (score) and three I don't have to worry about the kids because they are right there on the other side of the gym (score) and four, the boxing gloves they give you stink (minus score).....I'll have to look into buying my own.

So, the way I'm pretty much scoring all over the place....LOL!

Now, if I can only convince the dentist I don't need a root canal and the nutritionist chocolate chips really are good for you.

hello.....helloo.....helloooooooo

tap tap tap....is this thing on?
Yeah, it has been awhile since I have been over here. I joined sparkpeople.com and really like the food tracker and exercise tracker. Now if I actually did any exercise......

Yesterday I decided I was going to stay under 1600 calories and exercise. I made one of those goals which was the calories. I did great and I convinced myself that I would do the same today. Um....yeah. I woke up to sewage water spewing in my basement, had to call the plumber to rototill the pipe. So, what do I do? Play MarioKart and eat everything in sight. I feel cruddy, I can hardly breathe.
How the heck do I get motivated to actually exercise and not eat everything in sight?
Who knows.
Blah.

Motivation

This morning I went through some old clothes and pulled out a few pairs of pants, each in a different size. They are my motivation pants. Sometime in the next couple weeks I'm going to take pictures of me in each of these pairs of pants, and trust me, the 2 smaller sizes will not be pretty. But I need to have a record of what I look like, not being able to get those pants on and how it feels. Then, when the DO fit (and eventually are too big) I can look back and see how far I came and compare the feelings. It's hard to believe that these pants fit me at one time. I know I've gained weight over the years, I've seen the numbers on the scale increase. But since I've been overweight my entire life, it's like I can't see the difference - I just see fat. Don't get me wrong, I look back at high school and early college years pics and can definitely see the weight gain. In my head though, my body image is still the same. What do they call that? Body dysmorphic somethingorother. Whatever it is, I know it's a HUGE issue I have to deal with in order to be successful.

What does your weight do for you?

I came across this question when looking for some weight loss inspiration and it really got me thinking. What does my weight do for me right now?

It holds me back from doing things I want to do.
It lets me hide.
It gives me an excuse not to do things.
It lets me get away with comfort eating- I'm already fat so what's it going to hurt?
It allows me to be the introvert that I am - I just try to hide and not have to deal with people I don't know.
It allows me to fail - It gives me an excuse as to why I don't do anything with my life.

I also came across the couch to 5k program. I've seen it several times, but always thought, not me. I'll never do that, even if I lose the weight. Well, why the hell not? See, that's just using the excuse not to do things.

I think I'm getting ready to maybe finally do it this time. It's like I'm CONSTANTLY thinking about losing weight, how I can do it, what I need to do, etc. So I'm going to post more and hope we can all keep each other motivated. I've got some more posts lined up, but I've always been so bad at blogging we'll see if I actually get them up, LOL!

Oh, and you guys should post a list answering that question I started with. Good or bad, what does your weight do for you?

This Week

M-nada
T-nada
W-20 mins walking
TH-20 mins walking

Anissa's Log

M-nada
T-zilch
W-20 mins (so far)
Th-nada
F-nada
S-60 mins

Karens fitness Challenge Week of 10/12-10/18

10/12- 2 mile walk It took forever due to my children "riding" their bikes along with me. Bobby took them to the park though so I got about 15 minutes of heavy intensity.

10/13- Didn't happen we went to the new library instead.
10/14 -

10/15 - 30 minutes fast walk

10/16

10/17

10/18

OMG, I Can't Stop Laughing

I'm reading How to Eat Like a Hot Chick and while it's not really scientific, it is a light hearted way to look at eating. Yesterday, I ate like a hot chick.

Fitness Challenge

Ok ladies!
I don't know if you are keeping up with this site or not.

If you are, let's have a fitness challenge this week.
The challenge is to exercise 5 of 7 days for at least 30 minutes a day.
Post either in a new post or in the comments on how you are doing.

I am quite poor right now so the prize will be in how good you will feel at the end of the week!

Challenge starts tomorrow 10-12.

I'm glad to see your still posting here. We should have a motivational challenge.

Up for that?

I gained back what I lost when Tim was back.

ah crap

I seriously have to do something about the weight. I had some woman next to me at school (that I thought was a lot bigger than me) today tell me about a plus size consignment shop. That is way out of hand.