In order to improve my health, I have temporarily stopped my diet for the day so I can recover with some good ol' vegetable soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. I had to take off today too because I still had a fever, but I think it's trying to break (for the past couple of hours I've been having those weird cold sweats and hot flashes...) and I just want some comfort food that always makes me feel better when I'm sick.
Three days of being miserable AND keeping the diet up is a bit silly, and after I had my grilled cheese sandwich today at noon, I actually started feeling better.
I'm working on my vegetable soup right now, and am starting to perk back up. I'll probably sleep another 16 hours and we'll be good to go. I hope.
Oh, and if I gain 5 pounds from eating carbs and dairy for one day, I'll be massively surprised. Health over weight loss. Always.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Sick sick sick.
Whew, has it really been ten days? Sorry 'bout that!
I've been on and off sick with what has escalated into a miserable upper-respiratory infection, so I am off work today and tomorrow to recover. Went to the doctor today to get some meds (which I'll admit, I should have done sooner) and informed her about the diet and all... she said my lab work was excellent, so "why are you on a diet?" and I told her how much I weighed in April and that my BMI was 29. I also said, "we were toying with the idea of having a baby in the next couple years, and I didn't want to be overweight BEFORE I got pregnant." She concurred, and said, "Well, you're absolutely right. If you're at a healthy weight when you get pregnant its better for and easier on you and the baby. Plus, you'll be in the habit of eating well and making good food choices, so keep up the good work!"
For the record, no, we're not "in the market" to get pregnant anytime soon, but it's always a good thing to be prepared. God has a funny sense of humor sometimes.
Stats:
I've been on and off sick with what has escalated into a miserable upper-respiratory infection, so I am off work today and tomorrow to recover. Went to the doctor today to get some meds (which I'll admit, I should have done sooner) and informed her about the diet and all... she said my lab work was excellent, so "why are you on a diet?" and I told her how much I weighed in April and that my BMI was 29. I also said, "we were toying with the idea of having a baby in the next couple years, and I didn't want to be overweight BEFORE I got pregnant." She concurred, and said, "Well, you're absolutely right. If you're at a healthy weight when you get pregnant its better for and easier on you and the baby. Plus, you'll be in the habit of eating well and making good food choices, so keep up the good work!"
For the record, no, we're not "in the market" to get pregnant anytime soon, but it's always a good thing to be prepared. God has a funny sense of humor sometimes.
Stats:
- Week: 6 of 11
- Countdown: 38 days to go before the goal date
- Current Weight: 152
- Total lost (since April) : 25 pounds
- Total lost with MediFast: 19 pounds
- Jean size: 12's are pretty baggy, but I'm not quite in those 10's yet...
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Holy crap.
I totally just put on size 12 jeans from my sophomore year of college.....And they're NOT tight!!!
Check this craziness out:
Awesome.
Check this craziness out:
Awesome.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
14 inches!!!!
I am 14 inches smaller than I was a month ago!!!! (No, I'm not 4' tall... I mean smaller width-wise)
Weigh in today was 155...that's 15 pounds off! We're nearly half-way there, and I've got another 50 days to go.
I went in for my measurements today and am quite happy with the results! I lost quite a bit of lean muscle mass, but I'm almost positive it's because I was not allowed to work out for the first 3 weeks. I'll start walking again tomorrow and revisit the gym. Oh, and that 43% of fat I had when I started is down to 38% and my BMI is at 27 now. Yay for progress!
I will admit though, I had a rough week because I hadn't been feeling well. My throat was bugging me for the first few days of the week, and by Thursday I didn't have a voice anymore. I DID buy a frosty from Wendy's, and I did eat like, 4 bites of it. It made my throat feel eons better, but it tasted like paste and I just couldn't bring myself to finish it. Besides, I can't see spending $15 on a box of MediFast shakes when I know I'll only drink one of them. So I fudged a little, but it did what I meant for it to do, and I didn't binge or anything.
It's hard sticking to your diet when you don't feel good...but getting results sure does make you feel great!
Weigh in today was 155...that's 15 pounds off! We're nearly half-way there, and I've got another 50 days to go.
I went in for my measurements today and am quite happy with the results! I lost quite a bit of lean muscle mass, but I'm almost positive it's because I was not allowed to work out for the first 3 weeks. I'll start walking again tomorrow and revisit the gym. Oh, and that 43% of fat I had when I started is down to 38% and my BMI is at 27 now. Yay for progress!
I will admit though, I had a rough week because I hadn't been feeling well. My throat was bugging me for the first few days of the week, and by Thursday I didn't have a voice anymore. I DID buy a frosty from Wendy's, and I did eat like, 4 bites of it. It made my throat feel eons better, but it tasted like paste and I just couldn't bring myself to finish it. Besides, I can't see spending $15 on a box of MediFast shakes when I know I'll only drink one of them. So I fudged a little, but it did what I meant for it to do, and I didn't binge or anything.
It's hard sticking to your diet when you don't feel good...but getting results sure does make you feel great!
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
3 weeks down, 8 more to go.
Last week's progress pic:
The diet is going well. I'm down to 159.5 (that's 11.5 pounds off....18.5 if you're going with my heaviest weight) with my school clothes on and my blood pressure is "great" so all is progressing as it should. I haven't really lost a lot of "poundage" this past two weeks, but I sure noticed my clothes being baggy within the past few days. My size 16 jeans (that were tight at the beginning of summer) barely stayed up last Friday... a dangerous thing when one works in an elementary school. I felt like a little kid playing dress up. Check out that extra space:
Oh, and I wore my shorts the other day and nearly flipped out about how they fit---
...or should I say, "DIDN'T fit?!" Those things used to be tight on my thighs AND my hips....the picture doesn't lie. I literally had an extra 3-4 inches to spare on those beloved "only shorts in the world that have fit for the past 3 years."
The ladies at the clinic said they would measure me again on Saturday, so I'll let yall know all the stats after my appointment. They'll do that cool "in-body" thing too, where they use the sensor to find out how much fat I have and lean muscle and all that jazz. I'm kind of excited to see how much it changed just in the past 3 weeks.
Oh, and for the non-picture-taking record, the back fat is officially gone. And those annoying rolls I had when I sat down... history.
21 pounds left to lose!
The diet is going well. I'm down to 159.5 (that's 11.5 pounds off....18.5 if you're going with my heaviest weight) with my school clothes on and my blood pressure is "great" so all is progressing as it should. I haven't really lost a lot of "poundage" this past two weeks, but I sure noticed my clothes being baggy within the past few days. My size 16 jeans (that were tight at the beginning of summer) barely stayed up last Friday... a dangerous thing when one works in an elementary school. I felt like a little kid playing dress up. Check out that extra space:
Oh, and I wore my shorts the other day and nearly flipped out about how they fit---
...or should I say, "DIDN'T fit?!" Those things used to be tight on my thighs AND my hips....the picture doesn't lie. I literally had an extra 3-4 inches to spare on those beloved "only shorts in the world that have fit for the past 3 years."
The ladies at the clinic said they would measure me again on Saturday, so I'll let yall know all the stats after my appointment. They'll do that cool "in-body" thing too, where they use the sensor to find out how much fat I have and lean muscle and all that jazz. I'm kind of excited to see how much it changed just in the past 3 weeks.
Oh, and for the non-picture-taking record, the back fat is officially gone. And those annoying rolls I had when I sat down... history.
21 pounds left to lose!
Monday, August 24, 2009
PTA, First Day of School, and a hectic but frivolous lunch
162.2 -- nearly 10 pounds off!
Today was the first day of school, so I barely slept last night because my brain just would NOT shut UP about what I was forgetting (I don't know how I could though.... with it nagging me all night long) or what I needed to do and how I should explain my rules and what I did last year... ugh. Sleepless nights suck.
Anyway, so I get to school (at 7:30 mind you... Yours Truly has morning duty every single day, all year. Every morning will be an Amazing Race to get to work on time!) and once our assembly is over, I go to the lounge to get some water for my day. I walk in and see mass quantities of muffins, coffee, pastries, donuts, candy, and all sorts of other goodies I forced myself to believe were not real. I got my water and left the lounge without even pausing to examine the generous gift from the PTA. I kinda felt bad, cuz they spent all that money on things I could not in any way help them make disappear, but by lunch there wasn't much left, so I didn't feel SO bad.
Speaking of lunch, with all that stuff in the lounge you'd think a spare bowl would be somewhere. No. I had planned on having soup for lunch, and the cups were too small to make it work. I had to make a quick run to walmart. So I spent my actual lunch break racing through the aisles looking for a quick fix for the year, since I obviously couldn't rely on the teacher's lounge to support my new lifestyle, and found exactly what I was looking for in Correll. Yet again, basic is best. So I get my bowl, get back to school, drop off my purse, lock my room and head to the lounge. Once I get there, I realize "Where's my soup? ACK! I left it in the room." [long story short: katie runs back to classroom...realizes she left her keys in the lounge to save her place......yup, locked the door.... goes back to lounge, gets keys, goes back to room, unlocks door, grabs soup, relocks door and heads back (finally) for lunch. Yes, I washed the bowl before I used it.]
While sitting student-less in the lounge for a few minutes, another teacher walked in while I was eating my stupid diet-brand chicken noodle soup and opened up the donut box that was sitting RIGHT next to me.... I was ok seeing those delicious little bits of kryptonite but when she closed the box, that smell...... mmmh.
I didn't eat one though. And when another teacher came in and grabbed one (for both of us, hah. Dieting sucks, by the way.) I just smiled and took my bowl of murky not-really-chicken-broth and cleaned out the remainder of my lunch in the sink.
About an hour later, we passed in the hall again and she informed me that I should be proud of myself for not eating the donuts... "They weren't very good anyway." I told her she was just saying that to make me feel better, but she was pretty sincere when she said, "No. Really."
In about 5 seconds I went from being slightly bitter and envious to sympathetic and disappointed.
"Aw, she ate all those calories and they didn't even taste good. How sad."
Yesterday I was a rabbit, today I'm a diet snob. Tomorrow... well, at least I know I have a bowl to make my soup in.
Today was the first day of school, so I barely slept last night because my brain just would NOT shut UP about what I was forgetting (I don't know how I could though.... with it nagging me all night long) or what I needed to do and how I should explain my rules and what I did last year... ugh. Sleepless nights suck.
Anyway, so I get to school (at 7:30 mind you... Yours Truly has morning duty every single day, all year. Every morning will be an Amazing Race to get to work on time!) and once our assembly is over, I go to the lounge to get some water for my day. I walk in and see mass quantities of muffins, coffee, pastries, donuts, candy, and all sorts of other goodies I forced myself to believe were not real. I got my water and left the lounge without even pausing to examine the generous gift from the PTA. I kinda felt bad, cuz they spent all that money on things I could not in any way help them make disappear, but by lunch there wasn't much left, so I didn't feel SO bad.
Speaking of lunch, with all that stuff in the lounge you'd think a spare bowl would be somewhere. No. I had planned on having soup for lunch, and the cups were too small to make it work. I had to make a quick run to walmart. So I spent my actual lunch break racing through the aisles looking for a quick fix for the year, since I obviously couldn't rely on the teacher's lounge to support my new lifestyle, and found exactly what I was looking for in Correll. Yet again, basic is best. So I get my bowl, get back to school, drop off my purse, lock my room and head to the lounge. Once I get there, I realize "Where's my soup? ACK! I left it in the room." [long story short: katie runs back to classroom...realizes she left her keys in the lounge to save her place......yup, locked the door.... goes back to lounge, gets keys, goes back to room, unlocks door, grabs soup, relocks door and heads back (finally) for lunch. Yes, I washed the bowl before I used it.]
While sitting student-less in the lounge for a few minutes, another teacher walked in while I was eating my stupid diet-brand chicken noodle soup and opened up the donut box that was sitting RIGHT next to me.... I was ok seeing those delicious little bits of kryptonite but when she closed the box, that smell...... mmmh.
I didn't eat one though. And when another teacher came in and grabbed one (for both of us, hah. Dieting sucks, by the way.) I just smiled and took my bowl of murky not-really-chicken-broth and cleaned out the remainder of my lunch in the sink.
About an hour later, we passed in the hall again and she informed me that I should be proud of myself for not eating the donuts... "They weren't very good anyway." I told her she was just saying that to make me feel better, but she was pretty sincere when she said, "No. Really."
In about 5 seconds I went from being slightly bitter and envious to sympathetic and disappointed.
"Aw, she ate all those calories and they didn't even taste good. How sad."
Yesterday I was a rabbit, today I'm a diet snob. Tomorrow... well, at least I know I have a bowl to make my soup in.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Worn out
My classroom is almost done, and boy am I tired. I worked all day Friday (didn't get home till after 9PM) and yesterday I had rehearsal for 12 hours. The diet doesn't work so well when you get 2 hour meal breaks.... I fudged a little and had two salads, but I don't think extra veggies will hurt. Extra meat might, but not veggies. I weighed in this morning at 163.4 so I'm 8 pounds lighter than I started. Whew! It seems easier now... my weakness has always been friend chicken (in any form) and when we went out to eat yesterday I noticed someone else eating it and caught myself thinking, "Blegh. That doesn't EVEN seem appetizing."
I see it now. MediFast is slowly turning me into a rabbit.
(nom nom nom)
I see it now. MediFast is slowly turning me into a rabbit.
(nom nom nom)
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