My back at 170 pounds!!! Butt fat is decreased too. Compare it to my back fat pic at 201 pounds:

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I did say I was going to list my meals. Ok:

Breakfast – Big bowl of oatmeal with applesauce this morning and cooked in peach mango juice. Yum yum yum. I licked the bowl it was so good, hell to the yeah! Glad nobody was around to see that tee hee! Water, big glass and more mango peach juice, small glass.

Snack – Baggie of carrots, green pepper, and celery. mostly celery. It was kinda blah. The tart of the celery played off nicely against the sweet of the carrots though. Water, big glass

Snack 2 – an hour later I had a fit! and felt like I had to eat something right then or else. I really hate that panicky feeling, what in the underworld! So I told myself, Look here Mercury you had a big old bowl of piping hot delicious filling oatmeal, then a big bag of carrots and celery and green pepper, you simply cannot be hungry. You are not hungry! But then my logical self got jumped by my illogical self who held me down and demanded that I eat something right now. What could I do, she was going to beat me up or something. So I thrust some emergency carrots in her face and she ate most of the baggie. Then she got quiet and went off somewhere. Man, if I knew where she lived I’d put her ass out.

Lunch – Veggie burger on wheat bread with sauteed onion, peas, and tater tots. I had enough peas to fit in my palm and enough tater tots to fit in my palm, which doesn’t seem like much but it was more than enough lunch. My illogical self started muttering but I ate slowly and calmly and talked her through it. By the end of lunch she agreed with me that lo and behold, a handful of tater tots was quite satisfying! but could she have more peas, please. No! I told her, you talk yourself into seconds on one, you’ll talk yourself into seconds on everything. Have some water.

Snack – I really want something sweet, but I don’t think I can handle that well just yet. I’m going to have some tomatoes and carrots. the tomatos were forced grown by a friend of mine and they taste about as blah as you’d expect tomatoes not grown in real sunlight to taste, but I think when I sprinkle a little basil on the slices they’ll taste better.

Dinner – Tofu Stirfry with rice!! I am having one small bowl…with about 10 pieces of fried tofu in it, LOL. Ok just 5, seeing as how I want to be 189 ASAP and all. Also includes broccoli, carrots, snow peas, onion, water chestnuts. Water, big glass, beer, 1 bottle

Dessert – a box of raisins, you know the kind you get to put in your kids’ lunches! and an apple. Water, small glass.

and water while exercising!

20-week Fitness Challenge: Pics!

We have a lot of running around today, going to a few events in honor of Dr. King. I’ve done my yoga and jumping rope and walked 4,102 steps, I am sure I will get the rest in during all the walking around today.

My psychological hunger seems to have abated a bit. I haven’t had to use emergency carrots in 3 days!! Not only do I not have the urge to eat some fattening food in the middle of the night, I am ready for sleep by my bedtime to want to eat. Yay!

The weight is coming off at a nice clip, roughly half a pound a day seems like. I weigh myself once a day in the morning and I’m glad I do because I don’t see a difference yet. I might have gotten discouraged if I didn’t know I have
actually lost 6.5 pounds so far.

I got into a sorta fight with one of my friends, she is doing some liquid protein diet shake deal and started on the 1st and has lost 15 pounds. Ok, so? It’s not a competition, I told her. She was all, yah but you only lost 6 pounds. I tried to be nice because this friend has insecurity issues and is always comparing herself to me and feeling she comes up short. Which is not my fault but I could tell she was really happy to be ‘better’ than me at something. So I just told her Congratulations and tried to change the subject. But she kept on and on about it So I told her Look Oprah went on a similar diet years ago and got to a size 8, then as soon as she started eating again she gained all that weight back and more because she hadn’t dealt with her issues with overeating and stuff. Ha! my friend said, I knew you were jealous! sigh. I said Call me back when you can talk like you have some sense and hung up on her.
Today’s Goals:
Walk 12,000 steps
1/2 hour yoga
15 minutes jumping rope
No salt added to food
Brush & floss after every meal
10 cups water, 8 oz
One serving meals, no seconds
Raw veggies snacks
Raw fruit dessert
Bedtime 10pm
weight loss by day 14 – 6.5 lbs

The Boy Bops have wrestling matches starting at 2 today so I will miss my Sunday spinning class. So I’m going to the gym in a few and do the elliptical and stationary bike instead…I’ll try to do the stuff I remember from class. This is cutting into my writing time, but I got up an hour early today and wrote to make up for some of it.

Mercury Man got me this heart rate/calorie monitor thing for my birthday! at first I was like What! um I really wanted some cute workout outfits, LOL. But then I tried it on and was amazed, and decided to keep it. It’s a belt thingy you wrap around your breast bone, that’s the actual monitor. Then it transmits the info to the watch! I like it because now I can know just how many calories I am burning during any activity and my heart rate, both resting and active. It keeps track of other stuff too.

Yesterday at the gym I burned 1372 calories!! I did the elliptical for 45 minutes, treadmill for 30 minutes at 5 mph, and the sit-down leg cycler, I forget what’s called, for 30 minutes. Oh my, I was through. I took a nap for about an hour when we got home, but felt fine for all my birthday festivities. I’m going to take it down a notch and just try to burn at least 700 calories a day in exercise/active labor.

Today’s Goals:
1/2 hour elliptical
1/2 hour bike thingy
No salt added to food
Brush & floss after every meal
10 cups water, 8 oz
One serving meals, no seconds
Raw veggies snacks
Raw fruit dessert
Bedtime 10pm
weight loss by day 13 – 6 lbs

It has gotten much easier to resist late-night snacking. Redirecting my behavior, doing something else has been extremely helpful. and having my emergency carrots to fall back on if I feel like I have to eat something helps so much.

For breakfast I usually have oatmeal with cut apples or raspberries. It is getting a little hard because oatmeal is one of those foods that is delicious hot, but gets lumpy and sticky as it cools. I like my food not so hot. oh well! I am learning. Smiling

Exercise has gotten easier. I went to spinning class yesterday and it was actually easier even though my legs were still sore. Today I am doing walking and yoga, and since I’ll be at home it will be a little harder to push myself to walk as quickly as I need to without the treadmill settings.

Today’s Goals:

Walk 12,000 steps
Yoga 1/2 hour
Drink 10 cups water
Raw veggies for snacks
Raw fruit for dessert
One serving meals – no seconds
week 1 weight loss: 3 lbs.

wooooooot

Well I just had a handful of chips before my nice breakfast of oatmeal with raspberries. But I am not sweating it because I am proud of myself for stopping at one handful. Chips are one of my trigger foods. I’m glad I ate a little because otherwise I’d be obsessing over them all day then probably break and eat half a bag late at night. This way I ate a little and was done, I don’t want any more!!

A friend of mine had to have surgery last month for an ulcer and she told me she went on and had a tummy tuck also. I was astonished that I felt a little jealous! when she told me…we have similar body shapes and are about equally overweight/out of shape. We had planned to work out a lot together and help each other through, and now she has a flat abdomen while I have at least 3 months before my belly looks like that. egads. But she is a sweetheart and very emphatic and she stressed that she still has food issues and still wants to work out with me after she’s all healed up.

Today another friend is coming with me to spinning class and it will take a lot of effort not to tell her about it. She is also friends with my friend who had surgery but they met through me and are not as close to each other. anyway. After class we’ll probably get something to eat, and if so I’m getting a salad or fruit bowl. I had digestive issues all day yesterday after eating eggs, yuck. It’s just easier for me physically to be vegan.

Today’s goals:
Walk 3 miles
Spinning class at 1pm
10 glasses of water
Brush & floss after every meal
Raw veggies for snacks
Raw fruit for dessert

I made it through the week. Today will be ok, no major temptations. In about an hour I’m going to spinning class, then meet with a trainer to go over the various machines and set a weight training plan, then swimming for about an hour. Then work rest of day until about 11pm, then bed.

Sunday might be rough because one of my friends is coming to spinning class with me…she likes to eat out a lot and will probably suggest we go eat somewhere afterward. If so I will suggest someplace healthy and then halve my serving and wrap up to take home immediately.

Goals for today:
Walk 12,000 steps
Spinning/cycling class
Meet with trainer
10 cups water
No salt added to food!
Raw veggies for snacks
Raw fruit for dessert
Brush and floss after every meal
One serving meals, no seconds

***Later****

It’s about 3:20 my time and since my day will end around 11:30pm tonight this is mid-day for me. Ok so we met up with the trainer and she was very nice!! Showed us everything we needed to do. They have this really cool system called FittLinx where each machine is hooked up to a main computer, then when you go for the first time to a machine you can put in your settings. Then after that all you have to do is log in your ID number and it’ll bring up your settings. Which is really cool because you don’t have to keep track of all that stuff yourself. It even monitors your range of motion and your speed!! which I really need because I have a hard time knowing/understanding that. This way I’ll know how to get the most effective speed for me.

I sat in the sauna which was really great because my legs were kinda sore from spinning class. Then I joined Brian and the Boy Bops in the pool.

Afterwards we went to IHOP!! I planned to order the fruit bowl but I decided to get pancakes and an omelette. It was so much, but I can tell my stomach is already shrinking to normal proportions because even as soon as last week I would have felt hungry again within a half hour and I still feel very very full, I don’t even want/need emergency carrots yet. I’m regretting going off my vegan diet though, I feel kinda ickey from the eggs. My body is so sensitive, egads. I bet if I ate meat (I haven’t eaten meat in 20 years) I’d probably have an instant stroke, LOL. I think I’m going back on the Vegan Path on my 35th birthday next week.

obstacles

my major obstacle is that I have trouble stopping when I am full. it’s like I have to eat until my stomach is distended. I am not an emotional eater so much as I just feel I have to pack in a lot of food, especiall at dinner, just because it is there. my dad survived the Great Depression and was left with a lot of food issues. He would always pile our plates with food and urge seconds. I did not learn about actual portion sizes until I grew up.

Today’s goals:

walk 3 miles
do exercise video
drink 10 glasses water
snacks raw veggies
dessert raw fruit

Dinner is going to be hard because it is Tofu Stirfry, one of my favorite meals. I will have one small bowl with rice. I usually have
3 big bowls. I will do it by redirecting my behaviour. after dinner I will immediately go for a walk. Then drink a big glass of water. Then emergency carrots if need be, and more water. Then I will work on some writing and do stuff for my biz. Then go straight to bed.

my motivation is that losing weight and getting fit will make me healthier. That is my primary motivation. my secondary motivation is that I will be stronger and feel able to do more things, like go on long bike rides with my husband or long swims with my daughter or play a long game of basketball with my sons.

I’m having a lot of psychological hunger though. I was just telling Mercury Man, I can’t be hungry! I just had a big bowl of oatmeal, grrrrr, with raspberries and brown sugar. But I still felt very hungry so I ate some emergency carrots (I keep a bag on my nightstand) and drank another big glass of water. Then I left the house and walked to the library!

I am very sensitive to salt meaning I bloat very easily when I add salt to my food or eat salty foods, my face and ankles especially will get very swollen. But my body responds just as quickly to no salt, too, here’s a pic from yesterday, compare it with the pics from my Kids back to school thread:

Mercury Man says he can’t see a difference but it’s very noticeable to me. Anyway! I had a full night’s sleep so I feel wonderful this morning. I almost pulled another all-nighter because I got all caught up in this book project I’m working on, but I forced myself to stop and go to bed. I am so glad I did.

Early birthday present from Mercury Man, he got us a family membership to the YMCA specifically to help me with exercise. and this way we all can go which is nice. So we’re all going tonight. I’m going to take a spinning class (ibop said she might do the class with me), then afterwards we’re going to swim for a bit. I’m a little nervous because I went to a spinning class a few years ago once and it was very intense. I am psyched about going though and actually looking forward to it. They also have yoga classes!! and a weight room and lots of other stuff. We’re going to go at least 3 times a week because I need to do my spinning workout at least that much. The boys also want to do karate and they have a class right before my spinning class starts, woooooot!