Hello everyone
I feel like I'm having computer withdraws :)
I'm going to try and get some fit tips up today. I miss getting them posted.
My wrist is getting a bit better each day. it still hurts a lot but not all the time there are many moments that I don't feel any pain in my arm...then I move my hand in a way that reminds me with a sharp pain that it's not all better just yet.. I am keeping the ice on it still and i keep reminding myself that it took almost two weeks of it getting a bit worse each day before i started icing it so I'm thinking it will most likely take about as long for it to get all better at the rate of improvement I am having each day. As long as I wake up each morning and it's a bit better than the morning before I know I'm still on the right track.
The kids and I are getting over the flu bug that passed through the house this week. I feel like I spent most of the last 4 or 5 days sleeping. Even when i was awake and getting things done around the house that needed to be done I was in a daze from the fever just doing the motions of what had to be done.
My daughter has been a great help this week. I don't know how I would have made it through without her help. Thanks Katherine!!!! Love you!!!
My son and I are pretty much over the flu bug and have not had any fever in the last 24 hours. I'm still weak from being sick but stronger than yesterday. :) My daughter is still in bed sleeping and will most likely be there most of the day. Her fever should break today as she's been running about 1 day behind David and myself.
I got on the scale today and weigh over 200 again :( but with not being able to work out and then getting sick I did expect it to be up a bit. I'm at 205 today but according the the scale and my notes the last time I was at 205 was march 19 and I have less fat and more muscle now than I did then. So even though my weight is up it's not as bad as it could be :)
This week I have had a lot of canned soup. I have a ton of frozen homemade soup in the freezer but wasn't feeling well enough to actually heat it up. Hubby picked up a lot of canned soup from the store on Monday or Tuesday and we have been eating it all week. Lots and lots of salt in the canned soups but they are very easy to just open and heat. Yesterday I was able to heat up some of the frozen soup :) The first part of the week it was just to heavy to try and lift. hubby will heat up a can of soup but will not touch anything in the freezer (other than ice cream)
Brenda keep up the good work. Slow but steady will always win the race. This weekend will be over before you know it :)
Mom, thanks for keeping close tabs this week. The kids and I miss you and are looking forward to when you will be here again.
Katherine, thank you bunches for helping out this week! I love you! Feel better soon!
I've got to be running. My ice pack is getting warm and my arm doesn't like me typing. I'll type again as soon as I can. :)
Friday, April 8, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
I'm back :)
Helllllooooo :)
I have missed being able to blog but my wrist keep getting worse and worse till it got to a point that typing was not really possible.
Today I am better but gonna have to keep this short as the typing is making pings of pain.
I finally went to the doc to have my wrist checked out. I waited till I couldn't use my hand and it started swelling up and the pain had grown to the point that it covered my hand to my elbow. Maybe I waited a bit to long. LOL
Turns out in inflamed the tendon that runs from my thumb through my wrist to my elbow. The doc gave me high doses of steroids. ugh! and told me to do ice therapy. Just the ice has been helping so much that she said I can wait and not use the steroids unless it stopped getting better.
I haven't gotten my workout and walk in the past few days as it was making everything hurt more. I'll get back on track as soon as my tendinitis has had a chance to recover a bit more.
I better get off the computer I don't like typing with one hand....it takes toooo long :)....I'll post again tomorrow if my wrist and hand are feeling up to it.
hugs to everyone!
Keep up the great work!
I have missed being able to blog but my wrist keep getting worse and worse till it got to a point that typing was not really possible.
Today I am better but gonna have to keep this short as the typing is making pings of pain.
I finally went to the doc to have my wrist checked out. I waited till I couldn't use my hand and it started swelling up and the pain had grown to the point that it covered my hand to my elbow. Maybe I waited a bit to long. LOL
Turns out in inflamed the tendon that runs from my thumb through my wrist to my elbow. The doc gave me high doses of steroids. ugh! and told me to do ice therapy. Just the ice has been helping so much that she said I can wait and not use the steroids unless it stopped getting better.
I haven't gotten my workout and walk in the past few days as it was making everything hurt more. I'll get back on track as soon as my tendinitis has had a chance to recover a bit more.
I better get off the computer I don't like typing with one hand....it takes toooo long :)....I'll post again tomorrow if my wrist and hand are feeling up to it.
hugs to everyone!
Keep up the great work!
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
I actually miss my raw food diet
I know, that just sounds silly!
How in the world would I actually be missing my super strict, can't eat anything but raw food diet?
It's like this, while on the diet I always felt light, now my gut feels heavy and blotted again.
On the diet I only ate when I was hungry even if that was eating once a day. Yesterday and today I have eaten when it was time to eat and I feel as if I have been eating to much. I have that over full feeling that makes me want to take a nap.
On the diet I had a ton of energy most days, yesterday and today I have dealt with the sleepy feeling I get many times after eating.
On the diet my whole family pitched in and was making more of their own foods. Hubby and my daughter were really supportive the whole week. By day 6 both were very ready for the diet to be over. Today I spent the normal many hours in the kitchen fixing 3 meals for everyone and cleaning up everything afterwards. Tons of time getting food and drink for whoever was asking for it at the time. Then picking up a lot of the dirty dishes when they were done. When I was on the diet I felt less like a maid than I have yesterday and today. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy doing things for my family, but sometimes I wish they would do more for themselves and not depend on me for things I know they are able to handle. I know David is to young to do a lot of the things for himself so I have to do things for him, but that doesn't mean that I should have to do as much for everyone that I do for the 3 year old. It's good to do things for yourself. Sometimes I feel like my daughter and hubby wait for me to do something for David then say, "While you are getting that (drink, food, or whatever) for David can you get me some too?" I know David has a hard time carrying his plate of food or cup of drink without spilling it so I delivery it to him. But I feel like it's not going to hurt the other two people in the house to come to the kitchen and get what I have fixed them without me having to make a 2nd and 3rd trip to where everyone is sitting. (OK...finished with that rant. LOL :) )
On the diet I felt like I had so much time to get a lot done. And I did get more than normal finished. I felt like I had hours added to each day. And now I see those hours are actually being spent in the kitchen.
I don't miss not having hot food on the diet, but I do miss the quick, you can make it in a few moments, blender meals I was eating.
I have noticed that since I finished the diet everyone is eating more of the salad I put on the dinner plates. This evening my daughter even passed on dressing. She said "What's the point of having a salad if you are just going to drown the goodness you get from it with dressing?" That was a really good point. :)
Tomorrow I am going back on a modified raw food diet. I felt better, sneezed less, had more energy, and more time. :) My mouth even felt better. While on the raw food diet I never had a sour taste in my mouth a few hours after eating (other than the onion day), but yesterday and today the sour taste is back. I really really enjoyed having a fresh feeling mouth. :)
Today I had a really great time working out.
My daughter was making my son a grilled cheese sandwich. (She can make them tons better than I can)
(She does help out a ton around here! She's a very good kid.)
I was doing my biggest loser workout. Today was the fit boxing type routine
I could hear the kids talking in the kitchen when my son says, "I'll be right back, I'm gonna go fight with Mom."
My daughter says, "What!?!?"
Son, "I'll be right back, I'm gonna go fight with Mom!"
In runs David to do the same punch and kicks that I was doing. He was laughing and having a really great time. A few moments later Katherine came in and started doing the workout with us. It was a 30 minute workout. The kids did the last 25 minutes with me. The kinect would bounce around the three of us focusing on a different person at different times. It was a LOT of fun. My score wasn't as good as it could have been but I know I got in the workout and the kids got in a workout also. :)
It was a cold wet day outside so the kids did not want to go for a walk. It was alright with me since we ended up playing with the kinect and were active with it. We had fun. And isn't that what being a kid is really all about? Having a good time with the people you care about :)
Over all today was a good day and I am looking forward to eating more towards the raw foods meal plan tomorrow. I love my family and if it takes three trips to the living room to get hot coco to everyone because I didn't get out a tray to do it in one trip ..... welll....so be it...everyone is happy with hot coco :)
How in the world would I actually be missing my super strict, can't eat anything but raw food diet?
It's like this, while on the diet I always felt light, now my gut feels heavy and blotted again.
On the diet I only ate when I was hungry even if that was eating once a day. Yesterday and today I have eaten when it was time to eat and I feel as if I have been eating to much. I have that over full feeling that makes me want to take a nap.
On the diet I had a ton of energy most days, yesterday and today I have dealt with the sleepy feeling I get many times after eating.
On the diet my whole family pitched in and was making more of their own foods. Hubby and my daughter were really supportive the whole week. By day 6 both were very ready for the diet to be over. Today I spent the normal many hours in the kitchen fixing 3 meals for everyone and cleaning up everything afterwards. Tons of time getting food and drink for whoever was asking for it at the time. Then picking up a lot of the dirty dishes when they were done. When I was on the diet I felt less like a maid than I have yesterday and today. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy doing things for my family, but sometimes I wish they would do more for themselves and not depend on me for things I know they are able to handle. I know David is to young to do a lot of the things for himself so I have to do things for him, but that doesn't mean that I should have to do as much for everyone that I do for the 3 year old. It's good to do things for yourself. Sometimes I feel like my daughter and hubby wait for me to do something for David then say, "While you are getting that (drink, food, or whatever) for David can you get me some too?" I know David has a hard time carrying his plate of food or cup of drink without spilling it so I delivery it to him. But I feel like it's not going to hurt the other two people in the house to come to the kitchen and get what I have fixed them without me having to make a 2nd and 3rd trip to where everyone is sitting. (OK...finished with that rant. LOL :) )
On the diet I felt like I had so much time to get a lot done. And I did get more than normal finished. I felt like I had hours added to each day. And now I see those hours are actually being spent in the kitchen.
I don't miss not having hot food on the diet, but I do miss the quick, you can make it in a few moments, blender meals I was eating.
I have noticed that since I finished the diet everyone is eating more of the salad I put on the dinner plates. This evening my daughter even passed on dressing. She said "What's the point of having a salad if you are just going to drown the goodness you get from it with dressing?" That was a really good point. :)
Tomorrow I am going back on a modified raw food diet. I felt better, sneezed less, had more energy, and more time. :) My mouth even felt better. While on the raw food diet I never had a sour taste in my mouth a few hours after eating (other than the onion day), but yesterday and today the sour taste is back. I really really enjoyed having a fresh feeling mouth. :)
Today I had a really great time working out.
My daughter was making my son a grilled cheese sandwich. (She can make them tons better than I can)
(She does help out a ton around here! She's a very good kid.)
I was doing my biggest loser workout. Today was the fit boxing type routine
I could hear the kids talking in the kitchen when my son says, "I'll be right back, I'm gonna go fight with Mom."
My daughter says, "What!?!?"
Son, "I'll be right back, I'm gonna go fight with Mom!"
In runs David to do the same punch and kicks that I was doing. He was laughing and having a really great time. A few moments later Katherine came in and started doing the workout with us. It was a 30 minute workout. The kids did the last 25 minutes with me. The kinect would bounce around the three of us focusing on a different person at different times. It was a LOT of fun. My score wasn't as good as it could have been but I know I got in the workout and the kids got in a workout also. :)
It was a cold wet day outside so the kids did not want to go for a walk. It was alright with me since we ended up playing with the kinect and were active with it. We had fun. And isn't that what being a kid is really all about? Having a good time with the people you care about :)
Over all today was a good day and I am looking forward to eating more towards the raw foods meal plan tomorrow. I love my family and if it takes three trips to the living room to get hot coco to everyone because I didn't get out a tray to do it in one trip ..... welll....so be it...everyone is happy with hot coco :)
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
I did it! Made it through the 7 day detox diet!
I did it! I made it through the 7 day raw food detox....sort of :)
My total numbers for the 7 days ended up being......
Drum roll.......
Lost 9.991 pounds of fat and gained 1.785 pounds of muscle!
Not bad for 7 days if you ask me!
I'm taking a break today then tomorrow I'm back on a sorta raw food diet. I'll do most everything but will add in hot water with lemon and hot soup. And I will eat more raw vegs and fruit to keep my calorie count higher than last week.
Yesterday My daughter said that since at midnight it really was the next day would it be possible to have a crab night after midnight. I thought about it a lot and the fact that I really didn't need to eat just before going to bed and the fact that I had been eating raw vegs all day and had only had 98 calories total at that point.
In the end crab night won. We waited till after midnight so it was 'after' the last day of the diet.
i learned another great thing about the detox diet. After having a bit of butter my nose started running and I started sneezing. I knew it was an allergic reaction to the butter but I hadn't really put all the sneezing I had been having this winter to a food allergy. I was thinking it was something in the house. So dairy is going back on the can't have at all list for me for a while. :) I know I will feel tons better in the long run. :)
The past several days I have had a hankering for a really good steak. I have a lot of grass raised organic beef in my freezer that was actually raised by someone I know. It's great meat, but I'm not a great beef cook. Today hubby took the family to a great steak restaurant and I got my fill if juicy yummy correctly cooked steak. We split one smore brownie between the 4 of us. Hubby, daughter, son, and myself.
had a lot of fun even with my son being himself. :) There was a 2nd level at the steak house and every few bites my son wanted to go up and then back down the stairs. (We were sitting right next to them)
I'm thinking, "The restaurant is almost empty being late lunch on a weekday, and the movement during the meal can't be bad for me." So I would go up and then back down the stairs with him. it keep him happy and I didn't feel like I had to rush to get my food down before he jumped out of his seat. We would both have a few bits and then off to the stairs.
I do think my hubby was a bit embarrassed by it all but he was really surprised when i didn't order a ton of food for myself and then proceed to engulf it all. It was funny when the brownie came out and he said, "Are you suppose to eat that?" and my daughter said, "She can today, but she can't tomorrow." I said she was correct. He smiled and enjoyed his treat. My daughter know I had already been planning one free day but then back to the nose to the wheel first thing in the morning.
Today has been another of the colder drizzle rainy types of days here so we didn't go walking around the block. I'll have to check my step numbers after the little one gets to sleep so I can see how much walking I'll be doing in the hallway tonight.
Yesterday we were busy running our weekly errands but had to drive to most of the places so we were only getting in the extra steps from parking in the parking places as far from the doors as we could. In the end I was around 200 steps short of getting in my 10,000.
I feel great today other than a running nose with sneezing. my tummy is over full still from lunch but I'm a happy camper. :) I am ready to hit the diet grind again in the morning.
I will be adding in an extra 30 minute workout tonight before going to bed in hopes of helping all the meat I had today digest a bit better.
I'm hope everyone has had a GREAT day!
Keep loving your body and your body will love you back.
When we give our body the attention and good food it loves it will give us good health and lower doctor bills in return. :)
My total numbers for the 7 days ended up being......
Drum roll.......
Lost 9.991 pounds of fat and gained 1.785 pounds of muscle!
Not bad for 7 days if you ask me!
I'm taking a break today then tomorrow I'm back on a sorta raw food diet. I'll do most everything but will add in hot water with lemon and hot soup. And I will eat more raw vegs and fruit to keep my calorie count higher than last week.
Yesterday My daughter said that since at midnight it really was the next day would it be possible to have a crab night after midnight. I thought about it a lot and the fact that I really didn't need to eat just before going to bed and the fact that I had been eating raw vegs all day and had only had 98 calories total at that point.
In the end crab night won. We waited till after midnight so it was 'after' the last day of the diet.
i learned another great thing about the detox diet. After having a bit of butter my nose started running and I started sneezing. I knew it was an allergic reaction to the butter but I hadn't really put all the sneezing I had been having this winter to a food allergy. I was thinking it was something in the house. So dairy is going back on the can't have at all list for me for a while. :) I know I will feel tons better in the long run. :)
The past several days I have had a hankering for a really good steak. I have a lot of grass raised organic beef in my freezer that was actually raised by someone I know. It's great meat, but I'm not a great beef cook. Today hubby took the family to a great steak restaurant and I got my fill if juicy yummy correctly cooked steak. We split one smore brownie between the 4 of us. Hubby, daughter, son, and myself.
had a lot of fun even with my son being himself. :) There was a 2nd level at the steak house and every few bites my son wanted to go up and then back down the stairs. (We were sitting right next to them)
I'm thinking, "The restaurant is almost empty being late lunch on a weekday, and the movement during the meal can't be bad for me." So I would go up and then back down the stairs with him. it keep him happy and I didn't feel like I had to rush to get my food down before he jumped out of his seat. We would both have a few bits and then off to the stairs.
I do think my hubby was a bit embarrassed by it all but he was really surprised when i didn't order a ton of food for myself and then proceed to engulf it all. It was funny when the brownie came out and he said, "Are you suppose to eat that?" and my daughter said, "She can today, but she can't tomorrow." I said she was correct. He smiled and enjoyed his treat. My daughter know I had already been planning one free day but then back to the nose to the wheel first thing in the morning.
Today has been another of the colder drizzle rainy types of days here so we didn't go walking around the block. I'll have to check my step numbers after the little one gets to sleep so I can see how much walking I'll be doing in the hallway tonight.
Yesterday we were busy running our weekly errands but had to drive to most of the places so we were only getting in the extra steps from parking in the parking places as far from the doors as we could. In the end I was around 200 steps short of getting in my 10,000.
I feel great today other than a running nose with sneezing. my tummy is over full still from lunch but I'm a happy camper. :) I am ready to hit the diet grind again in the morning.
I will be adding in an extra 30 minute workout tonight before going to bed in hopes of helping all the meat I had today digest a bit better.
I'm hope everyone has had a GREAT day!
Keep loving your body and your body will love you back.
When we give our body the attention and good food it loves it will give us good health and lower doctor bills in return. :)
Monday, March 28, 2011
Made it through
My numbers for the day
BodyMedia FIT data for March 27, 2011
Calories Burned - 3033
Calories Consumed - 218
Total Activity - 1:36
Moderate Activity - 1:30
Vigorous Activity - 0:06
Steps Taken - 11044
Sleep Duration - 7:57
Lying Down - 9:13
Sleep Efficiency - 86%
I got in my steps:)
I did have a bowl of very hot clear broth made of soy, sea weed, leeks, and water this evening.
I was having a pain in my back most of the day that I wasn't sure was a muscle spasm or a kidney problem. this evening I was hungry and I know drinking something hot would relive the pain for a bit if it was a muscle spasm. I know I was only suppose to eat raw food but I really didn't want to wait 24 hours to find out if the pain was from my kidney or not. 24 hours for me can mean the difference between drinking cranberry juice to fix the problem or 2 weeks of antibodies.
The soup only had 50 calories and my calories for the day were less than 200 so I didn't have a problem having a meatless broth to settle my worries about what was going on. The soup relived the pain so I know it was only a muscle spasm. It also gave the enough energy to get in a great workout. :)
Next week I'll have to be careful with my calorie intake and where it is coming from so I don't just regain everything I lost this week. I'm thinking a few days of around 1000 calories should help my body bound back to having more than a few hundred calories a day. I'll be keeping mostly raw foods but adding in lean meats (cooked), hot soup, and my lemon water.
The heart monitor proved that yes I am not getting my heart rate to high during my workouts but is drove me crazy having the strap around my chest during my workout. I thought it was just a watch type band I would be wearing. I didn't realize there is also a band I have to around my chest. It's not easy keeping a chest band in the correct place when you have a large chest. I'm going to try and see if I can return this one and find one that is just on the arm and not strapped around my chest.
That's all for tonight folks :)
It's time for me to get some wonderful sleep :)
Sunday, March 27, 2011
The funny things people that love us do
My hubby can be sooo funny sometimes.
For years he's been hounding me about my weight and bring home newspaper articles about different diets or weight loss surgeries. Most have been for 'quick fix' pills that I'm unwilling to try and the surgery....that's not even an option to me.
When I first started getting really strict with my diet he was sceptical. After a few months he said he could notice a difference but said I still had a long way to go.
Recently he's has not bugged my about losing weight and has stopped bring home diet info. What he has started doing is bring home newspaper articles about people having heart attacks and strokes and dieing while exercising.
Yesterday before going to the store to pick up a few things I told him I was going to pick up a heart monitor to wear while working out. He asked why and I told him if he's worried I'm going to kill myself working out the best way to keep that from happening is to just monitor how high my heart rate gets and then if it starts going to a danger level I can just decrease the level of the workout. He didn't say anything for a bit then, "What makes you think I am worried about that?"
I told him from the change in the articles he brings home. He just said, "Ok, whatever you think is best." Then he went back to watching his TV show.
I know from knowing him over the past 20 years that means he's very happy that I listened to him without him having to ever actually say what was bugging him. I'm getting better at reading what he is trying to say. It's takes a lot of work but the peace it keeps around here is well worth the time it takes to try.
I know he loves me...he never says it much (and then it's only when I pretty much force him to say those three simple words)... instead he shows it with some of his actions. :0)
I'll get the heart monitor set up and use it when I workout this evening and whenever we are going on a brisk walk. I know it's can't hurt having it on and I might be able to use it to get in an even better burn by knowing right where my heart rate is during my workouts. Everyone has a fat burning rate....if you go higher it's most likely will burn muscle and lower gives you toning but not as much of a burn.
I also picked up some different wrist weights while out yesterday. I can't try them yet as my right wrist is still really really sore from sleeping on it with the weights on the other day. I think the bruising has caused things to swell up a bit in there as my thumb is bugging in the way that feels more like a nerve with pressure on it than anything else. when I was talking to my mom she pointed out that will all the sports related injuries and surgeries and physical therapy resulting from broken bones, dislocations, back and neck problems, torn muscle and ligament, bruised bones, etc... that I most likely am going to be able to tell the difference in the types of pain on myself and that she doesn't recommend getting an xray at this time. It feels more like a bruised bone, muscle, and pressure on the ligaments. the only thing that will heal that is time and giving my wrist a rest. I have been watching myself and not doing the things that have been making it yell at me. i have changed up my workouts to not include the things that was causing an increase the pain. And I've even been careful about picking up my son with my right arm. I really think in 4 to 7 days it will be much better and I can go back to normal activate with my arm. I am left handed so it's good for me that it's the right wrist hurt. it was a reallllllll bummer when I hurt my left elbow and had to do everything with my right arm till the cast was removed.
That's all for now. Keep up the great work everyone!!!!
For years he's been hounding me about my weight and bring home newspaper articles about different diets or weight loss surgeries. Most have been for 'quick fix' pills that I'm unwilling to try and the surgery....that's not even an option to me.
When I first started getting really strict with my diet he was sceptical. After a few months he said he could notice a difference but said I still had a long way to go.
Recently he's has not bugged my about losing weight and has stopped bring home diet info. What he has started doing is bring home newspaper articles about people having heart attacks and strokes and dieing while exercising.
Yesterday before going to the store to pick up a few things I told him I was going to pick up a heart monitor to wear while working out. He asked why and I told him if he's worried I'm going to kill myself working out the best way to keep that from happening is to just monitor how high my heart rate gets and then if it starts going to a danger level I can just decrease the level of the workout. He didn't say anything for a bit then, "What makes you think I am worried about that?"
I told him from the change in the articles he brings home. He just said, "Ok, whatever you think is best." Then he went back to watching his TV show.
I know from knowing him over the past 20 years that means he's very happy that I listened to him without him having to ever actually say what was bugging him. I'm getting better at reading what he is trying to say. It's takes a lot of work but the peace it keeps around here is well worth the time it takes to try.
I know he loves me...he never says it much (and then it's only when I pretty much force him to say those three simple words)... instead he shows it with some of his actions. :0)
I'll get the heart monitor set up and use it when I workout this evening and whenever we are going on a brisk walk. I know it's can't hurt having it on and I might be able to use it to get in an even better burn by knowing right where my heart rate is during my workouts. Everyone has a fat burning rate....if you go higher it's most likely will burn muscle and lower gives you toning but not as much of a burn.
I also picked up some different wrist weights while out yesterday. I can't try them yet as my right wrist is still really really sore from sleeping on it with the weights on the other day. I think the bruising has caused things to swell up a bit in there as my thumb is bugging in the way that feels more like a nerve with pressure on it than anything else. when I was talking to my mom she pointed out that will all the sports related injuries and surgeries and physical therapy resulting from broken bones, dislocations, back and neck problems, torn muscle and ligament, bruised bones, etc... that I most likely am going to be able to tell the difference in the types of pain on myself and that she doesn't recommend getting an xray at this time. It feels more like a bruised bone, muscle, and pressure on the ligaments. the only thing that will heal that is time and giving my wrist a rest. I have been watching myself and not doing the things that have been making it yell at me. i have changed up my workouts to not include the things that was causing an increase the pain. And I've even been careful about picking up my son with my right arm. I really think in 4 to 7 days it will be much better and I can go back to normal activate with my arm. I am left handed so it's good for me that it's the right wrist hurt. it was a reallllllll bummer when I hurt my left elbow and had to do everything with my right arm till the cast was removed.
That's all for now. Keep up the great work everyone!!!!
Day 6 going well
Today is day 6 just one more day :)
I'm doing good today.
Feeling a bit tired but over all I am feeling much better than I did 7 days ago.
I made up my own smoothie recipe today
3 kiwi
2 large red tomatoes
1/2 pint yellow cherry tomatoes
2 stalks celery
1 mango
1 cup water
blended everything together
it made about 6 cups
I ate about half of it
There was a bit to much tomato. I think it would have been better with a bit less tomato. I do think it will make a good base for fruit smoothies so I froze the leftovers in ice trays. I can put a few cube in with fruit to add a few extra vitamins.
Today I chopped and froze a ton of the vegetables I bought for my diet so they wouldn't spoil. It's great having fresh frozen vegs in the freezer as it makes it really easy to whip up a stir-fry or soup. A lot of my prep time is in the cutting.
It's cold and wet outside as it keeps wanting to rain but it's just misty. We went ahead and took a walk. It wasn't as long as sometimes but we still added some extra steps.
Currently I have to take 2000 more steps today to meet my daily goal of 10,000 steps.
I still need to get in my workout but am planning on doing it as soon as David goes down for the night.
My face looks better than it has in a while. The lump under my are that I was worrying about is getting better just like the doc said it should :)
I am sleeping much better, and overall am feeling great. I haven't had to take my allergy meds all week and this is big time flower blooming spring time in Texas. That's a major bonus to me. I don't like taking any pills unless I just can't get out of taking them.
I think the 7 days has been worth it and am very glad I gave myself the challange. :)
I'm so proud of my friend Brenda! She has been dealing with type 2 diabetes for a while. She has been working really hard at eating better and getting moving. After her most recent blood work her doctor was very happy to inform her that she no longer has diabetes! Hip-Hip-Hooray for Brenda!!!!!!
I'm doing good today.
Feeling a bit tired but over all I am feeling much better than I did 7 days ago.
I made up my own smoothie recipe today
3 kiwi
2 large red tomatoes
1/2 pint yellow cherry tomatoes
2 stalks celery
1 mango
1 cup water
blended everything together
it made about 6 cups
I ate about half of it
There was a bit to much tomato. I think it would have been better with a bit less tomato. I do think it will make a good base for fruit smoothies so I froze the leftovers in ice trays. I can put a few cube in with fruit to add a few extra vitamins.
Today I chopped and froze a ton of the vegetables I bought for my diet so they wouldn't spoil. It's great having fresh frozen vegs in the freezer as it makes it really easy to whip up a stir-fry or soup. A lot of my prep time is in the cutting.
It's cold and wet outside as it keeps wanting to rain but it's just misty. We went ahead and took a walk. It wasn't as long as sometimes but we still added some extra steps.
Currently I have to take 2000 more steps today to meet my daily goal of 10,000 steps.
I still need to get in my workout but am planning on doing it as soon as David goes down for the night.
My face looks better than it has in a while. The lump under my are that I was worrying about is getting better just like the doc said it should :)
I am sleeping much better, and overall am feeling great. I haven't had to take my allergy meds all week and this is big time flower blooming spring time in Texas. That's a major bonus to me. I don't like taking any pills unless I just can't get out of taking them.
I think the 7 days has been worth it and am very glad I gave myself the challange. :)
I'm so proud of my friend Brenda! She has been dealing with type 2 diabetes for a while. She has been working really hard at eating better and getting moving. After her most recent blood work her doctor was very happy to inform her that she no longer has diabetes! Hip-Hip-Hooray for Brenda!!!!!!
And the winner is....
And the winner is...sleep
I decided to go back to sleep. Ended up increasing my SE to 86%
it's to cold to garden at the farm so we'll go next week.
Now to tackle my day:)
I decided to go back to sleep. Ended up increasing my SE to 86%
it's to cold to garden at the farm so we'll go next week.
Now to tackle my day:)
the start of a new better day :) Day 6
Last night I had a great night's sleep! According to my armband I had 5.22 hours of uninterrupted sleep. I just sleep sound. I don't think I have had that long of uninterrupted sleep at one time since I started wearing my armband. I actually ended up with a Sleep Efficiency of 87%!
My numbers from yesterday-
BodyMedia FIT data for March 26, 2011
Calories Burned - 3496
Calories Consumed - 373
Total Activity - 2:38
Moderate Activity - 2:30
Vigorous Activity - 0:08
Steps Taken - 16648
Sleep Duration - 5:12
Lying Down - 6:07
Sleep Efficiency - 85%
New Personal Best
This morning my scale says
total weight 192.8 was 203 on last SundayNew Personal Best
This morning my scale says
bmi- 31.1 was 32.8
BodyFat %- 44.8% (86.27pounds) was 43.1% (87.49 pounds)
Skeletal Muscle %- 24.3% (46.8504 pounds) was 25.7 (52.17 pounds)
Resting Metabolism- 1604 was 1660
Body Age -56 was 58
Visceral Fat Level-9 no change....but in the middle of the week it showed 8 which was great
According to today's numbers since Sunday I have lost mostly water and muscle and only 1 pound of fat.
I am sleeping better than I have in years and that's a lot to say for me.
It makes having to weigh the muscle loss with the increase in sleep very hard. Is it better to have more muscle or to have a better nights sleep? My resting Metabolism is lower which could be accounted for from the less muscle.
Tomorrow is the last day of the 7 day detox so I will go ahead and finish it but haven't decided if I will be going on it again or not. I will wait and see what happens next week when I slowly add back in enough calories to my diet to get back to an acceptable level of calories. If I gain everything back then I will not be on the diet again. If it turns out to be a great kick start to losing weight I will go ahead and repeat the process monthly till I reach my goal or till it isn't working anymore. I will wait about 7 days after the detox is over to decide what will be best for me.
If it's not to cold outside this afternoon (had a cold front move in last night) we will be going to my sister's farm to help plant the garden. She has horses and the everyone will have a great day. If I were not on my diet we would grill chicken but today I'll be bringing my own raw food snacks.
Everyone have a GREAT day!
I'm the only one awake and debating between going back to sleep for a bit or getting in my workout early. Logic tells me I should go ahead and get in my workout now so I can tackle the rest of the day full on. I'll let you know who wins next time. :)
Saturday, March 26, 2011
I made it through the day :)
Today was the hardest day for me by far!
I have just been feeling out of sorts and way to grumpy. I think a really good nights sleep will make it all better. :)
Sometime this afternoon I had a slice of tomato but wasn't hungry. I was hoping it would help make me a little less ba hum bug and less grumpy. I didn't really work.
I was feeling all sort of our of it ...still thinking it's from getting so bummed over the scale this morning.
I decided to take a long walk in hope of it making me feel better. By the time we got home I was drinched with sweat and stunk like an onion. I have reached a personal best with my steps today :)
A bit later i started feeling ba hum bug again but I really wasn't hungery. But in hope of getting a boost of energy I made a smoothie.
I had a green smoothie but was unable to finish the whole thing. I think I will start making 1/2 the recipe and then if I want more make some.
Green Power Smoothie
Ingredients:
1 cup of water
2 mangos
1 ripe peach
big handful arugula
big handful kale leaves
big handful parsley
Directions;
Blend all ingredients together at high speed.
Made 6 cups. I was able to finish about 1/3 of it.
This would have been better if I liked arugula better or had added a bit less arugula. It was really like drinking lettuce!
I am really missing hot soup and lemon water. I"m looking forward to the first day off my 7 day detox and a hot bowl of meso soup :) or some other veg soup.
This week I have learned I was eating much more than my body really needed and I really shouldn't eat onion. I have also learned many great raw food recipes that we will be using again. Some of them (I think) would make some yummy hot soups. I really really like hot soup. Even when it's hot outside. I like a lot of clear broth and the warm feeling of hot soup or tea. That's just me :)
It feels good to know I made it through today even though it was by far the hardest day for me. Up to now it's really been quite a breeze. (And boy have I been very happy over how much easier this has been than I had expected.)
I'm off to try and get a full nights sleep. I think I will feel much much better in the morning. :)
Keep doing a great job everyone! Our bodies will love us even more for taking care of them.
I have just been feeling out of sorts and way to grumpy. I think a really good nights sleep will make it all better. :)
Sometime this afternoon I had a slice of tomato but wasn't hungry. I was hoping it would help make me a little less ba hum bug and less grumpy. I didn't really work.
I was feeling all sort of our of it ...still thinking it's from getting so bummed over the scale this morning.
I decided to take a long walk in hope of it making me feel better. By the time we got home I was drinched with sweat and stunk like an onion. I have reached a personal best with my steps today :)
A bit later i started feeling ba hum bug again but I really wasn't hungery. But in hope of getting a boost of energy I made a smoothie.
I had a green smoothie but was unable to finish the whole thing. I think I will start making 1/2 the recipe and then if I want more make some.
Green Power Smoothie
Ingredients:
1 cup of water
2 mangos
1 ripe peach
big handful arugula
big handful kale leaves
big handful parsley
Directions;
Blend all ingredients together at high speed.
Made 6 cups. I was able to finish about 1/3 of it.
This would have been better if I liked arugula better or had added a bit less arugula. It was really like drinking lettuce!
I am really missing hot soup and lemon water. I"m looking forward to the first day off my 7 day detox and a hot bowl of meso soup :) or some other veg soup.
This week I have learned I was eating much more than my body really needed and I really shouldn't eat onion. I have also learned many great raw food recipes that we will be using again. Some of them (I think) would make some yummy hot soups. I really really like hot soup. Even when it's hot outside. I like a lot of clear broth and the warm feeling of hot soup or tea. That's just me :)
It feels good to know I made it through today even though it was by far the hardest day for me. Up to now it's really been quite a breeze. (And boy have I been very happy over how much easier this has been than I had expected.)
I'm off to try and get a full nights sleep. I think I will feel much much better in the morning. :)
Keep doing a great job everyone! Our bodies will love us even more for taking care of them.
My scale lies! and "Real' French Fries
My scale lied :(
Today it shows my over all weight loss from Sunday has dropped 8.2 pounds but it also shows that I have gained no muscle :( It says I have lost 2.19 pounds of fat and lost 3.18 pounds of muscle and lost 2.83 pounds of water.
I'll wait till tomorrow and see what it says tomorrow.
But regardless of what the scale says I am sleeping better.....last night my sleep efficiency was 85%! Really good for me!
It's possible that it will show things very different by Sunday but I'll just wait and see.
Yesterday I had onion. I like onion but know from many different allergy tests that I am allergic to it and really should have replaced the onion in the recipe with leeks. Leeks taste just like a mild onion.
After eating and getting a tummy ache I realized I shouldn't have eaten the onion....but that's what I always say after eating a yummy onion :)
It is possible that the numbers on the scale are being effected by the response my body is having to the onion. I'll have to wait a few days to see just what is what. Today is day 5 of my 7 day diet so it's almost over. I'll finish it up and then take a review of the final results as well as take into account how I am feeling next week ....If my weight pops back up then I will know I really just lost a lot of water. bummer :(
My numbers from yesterday
I am quite bummed by the scale numbers today but I have to remind myself that eating the onion yesterday could be causing the confusion in my body today.
After all about 2 minutes after getting on the scale I thought it must have had a bad reading and so I got on the scale again and it said I had lost another pound of muscle. I know that's not possible to do in 2 minutes so I have to go with the theory that the onion has caused a bigger response in my body than I expected.
I'm also bummed today about my wrist still being to bruised and hurting to much for me to even think about trying to wear my wrist weights yet. it feels like I might have bruised it all the way to the bone. :( I bet I will NEVER fall asleep with them on again!
I did get in my walk yesterday and over 14,000 steps yesterday as well as my toning and yoga yesterday. That's something to be happy about. Yesterday I was flying on cloud 9 thinking I had lost over 14 pounds of fat and today I'm having to keep myself motivated and not getting totally bummed out over what the scale says. I have to remember that my weight is down from 203 to 194.8 since Sunday and down from 217 in January.
Today will be a challenge keeping myself motivated and not throwing in the towel saying it's not worth the work. I know I can keep my chin up and keep going. I just need to wait and see what the scale says in 48 hours after the onion reaction is most likely over.
If I can make it through today without throwing in the towel I know I will be able to achieve my fitness goals.
Here's to making it through the day. :)
Yesterday I wasn't hungry all day till around 6pm. Maybe it was just because I was soooo excited about losing over 14 pounds of fat and I was looking forward to how much I would lose by the end of the week. Or maybe it was that the detox diet is working and my body is actually resetting and getting rid of a lot of the yuk built up in there. I don't know. I'm just going to try and push through at this point and see what happens next week.
Yesterday I made 'New Gazpacho' for dinner
Ingredients:
2-3 ripe medium tomatoes, or 1 and 1/2 pints of cherry tomatoes ( I used 3 tomatoes)
5-6 sun-dried tomatoes (soak 1-2 hours in advance)
1/2 red bell pepper
1/2 cup fresh basil, chopped
1 cup cucumber
Juice from 1 lime
1/4 cup chopped red onion (optional) I used a whole red onion
Directions:
First blend the tomatoes and sun dried tomatoes. Then add in the other ingredients in the order listed, blending just enough to be soupy, but still chunky.
Try: Sprinkling your favorite sprouts on top for texture and a shot of added nutrients. ( I added sunflower sprouts)
It made 6.5 cups of cold soup. I was not able to eat all of it as it had to much onion making it a bit to spicy. It also hit my tummy like a brick giving me an upset stomach for a bit.
Ok now that I'm finished being bummed about my scale numbers this morning I have to tell you about something that made me really smile yesterday.....
The night before my son had asked me to make him some french fries but I didn't want to cook any so I had bought the kids fast food french fries.
Yesterday morning my son asked me if I could make him 'real' french fries. I asked him if he wanted some more Jack-in-the-Box fries and he said, " No Mom! I want some REAL french fries! You have to make them because they taste better!" Now how in the world could I refuse making him some fries after that!?!?
I planned it so I was making the fries while I was drinking my meal so that I wouldn't be tempted to eat any.
I also made them the way I use to when my daughter was younger. I never fried anything then as I was trying to keep her healthy....not sure when I fell off that bandwagon!
David helped me cut up the sweet potatoes with the potato cutter. Then we put them in a bowl and put a tablespoon of olive oil over them. We mixed them around to they all had a light cover of olive oil.
We put them on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper (really keeps things from sticking) and baked them for 30 minutes at 370 degrees...(you have to watch and when they get crispy on the outside they are ready) it's always around 30 minutes for the size I cut the potatoes. They say crisp as long as they are warm but get soft when cooled off. The kids like them both ways.
David was VERY happy to have his 'real' fries and I was very happy I was able to make them without eating any of them. :)
Shortly after he had his fries he went to bed for the night and there were a few fries still on his plate in the living room where he had been eating. I asked my daughter to please please pick up the plate as I didn't know if I could make it all the way (about 8 steps) to the kitchen without eating them. She smiled, laughed and picked up the plate....and ate the leftover fries. this morning the kids have already asked for more fries cooked the 'right way'
Turns out that frying the fries over the past year wasn't as special as I thought. The kids like the baked ones better. My daughter made a comment about how she has always said,'My mom might not be a great cook but she makes the best french fries in the world."
Baking them with so little oil and using sweet potato rather than white potato really does make them very very healthy and I think I need to start making them much more often. :) I had forgotten how much she really enjoyed baked fries.
So that's my bummer day and my great day...my kids have done it again...after typing about the fries I'm feeling much better and am ready to tackle the day again! :)
So I'm off to spell check and then make those sweeties some more 'REAL' french fries. :)
Today it shows my over all weight loss from Sunday has dropped 8.2 pounds but it also shows that I have gained no muscle :( It says I have lost 2.19 pounds of fat and lost 3.18 pounds of muscle and lost 2.83 pounds of water.
I'll wait till tomorrow and see what it says tomorrow.
But regardless of what the scale says I am sleeping better.....last night my sleep efficiency was 85%! Really good for me!
It's possible that it will show things very different by Sunday but I'll just wait and see.
Yesterday I had onion. I like onion but know from many different allergy tests that I am allergic to it and really should have replaced the onion in the recipe with leeks. Leeks taste just like a mild onion.
After eating and getting a tummy ache I realized I shouldn't have eaten the onion....but that's what I always say after eating a yummy onion :)
It is possible that the numbers on the scale are being effected by the response my body is having to the onion. I'll have to wait a few days to see just what is what. Today is day 5 of my 7 day diet so it's almost over. I'll finish it up and then take a review of the final results as well as take into account how I am feeling next week ....If my weight pops back up then I will know I really just lost a lot of water. bummer :(
My numbers from yesterday
BodyMedia FIT data for March 25, 2011
Calories Burned - 3290
Calories Consumed - 186
Total Activity - 1:22
Moderate Activity - 1:20
Vigorous Activity - 0:02
Steps Taken - 14340
Sleep Duration - 4:50
Lying Down - 6:03
Sleep Efficiency - 80%
I am quite bummed by the scale numbers today but I have to remind myself that eating the onion yesterday could be causing the confusion in my body today.
After all about 2 minutes after getting on the scale I thought it must have had a bad reading and so I got on the scale again and it said I had lost another pound of muscle. I know that's not possible to do in 2 minutes so I have to go with the theory that the onion has caused a bigger response in my body than I expected.
I'm also bummed today about my wrist still being to bruised and hurting to much for me to even think about trying to wear my wrist weights yet. it feels like I might have bruised it all the way to the bone. :( I bet I will NEVER fall asleep with them on again!
I did get in my walk yesterday and over 14,000 steps yesterday as well as my toning and yoga yesterday. That's something to be happy about. Yesterday I was flying on cloud 9 thinking I had lost over 14 pounds of fat and today I'm having to keep myself motivated and not getting totally bummed out over what the scale says. I have to remember that my weight is down from 203 to 194.8 since Sunday and down from 217 in January.
Today will be a challenge keeping myself motivated and not throwing in the towel saying it's not worth the work. I know I can keep my chin up and keep going. I just need to wait and see what the scale says in 48 hours after the onion reaction is most likely over.
If I can make it through today without throwing in the towel I know I will be able to achieve my fitness goals.
Here's to making it through the day. :)
Yesterday I wasn't hungry all day till around 6pm. Maybe it was just because I was soooo excited about losing over 14 pounds of fat and I was looking forward to how much I would lose by the end of the week. Or maybe it was that the detox diet is working and my body is actually resetting and getting rid of a lot of the yuk built up in there. I don't know. I'm just going to try and push through at this point and see what happens next week.
Yesterday I made 'New Gazpacho' for dinner
Ingredients:
2-3 ripe medium tomatoes, or 1 and 1/2 pints of cherry tomatoes ( I used 3 tomatoes)
5-6 sun-dried tomatoes (soak 1-2 hours in advance)
1/2 red bell pepper
1/2 cup fresh basil, chopped
1 cup cucumber
Juice from 1 lime
1/4 cup chopped red onion (optional) I used a whole red onion
Directions:
First blend the tomatoes and sun dried tomatoes. Then add in the other ingredients in the order listed, blending just enough to be soupy, but still chunky.
Try: Sprinkling your favorite sprouts on top for texture and a shot of added nutrients. ( I added sunflower sprouts)
It made 6.5 cups of cold soup. I was not able to eat all of it as it had to much onion making it a bit to spicy. It also hit my tummy like a brick giving me an upset stomach for a bit.
Ok now that I'm finished being bummed about my scale numbers this morning I have to tell you about something that made me really smile yesterday.....
The night before my son had asked me to make him some french fries but I didn't want to cook any so I had bought the kids fast food french fries.
Yesterday morning my son asked me if I could make him 'real' french fries. I asked him if he wanted some more Jack-in-the-Box fries and he said, " No Mom! I want some REAL french fries! You have to make them because they taste better!" Now how in the world could I refuse making him some fries after that!?!?
I planned it so I was making the fries while I was drinking my meal so that I wouldn't be tempted to eat any.
I also made them the way I use to when my daughter was younger. I never fried anything then as I was trying to keep her healthy....not sure when I fell off that bandwagon!
David helped me cut up the sweet potatoes with the potato cutter. Then we put them in a bowl and put a tablespoon of olive oil over them. We mixed them around to they all had a light cover of olive oil.
We put them on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper (really keeps things from sticking) and baked them for 30 minutes at 370 degrees...(you have to watch and when they get crispy on the outside they are ready) it's always around 30 minutes for the size I cut the potatoes. They say crisp as long as they are warm but get soft when cooled off. The kids like them both ways.
David was VERY happy to have his 'real' fries and I was very happy I was able to make them without eating any of them. :)
Shortly after he had his fries he went to bed for the night and there were a few fries still on his plate in the living room where he had been eating. I asked my daughter to please please pick up the plate as I didn't know if I could make it all the way (about 8 steps) to the kitchen without eating them. She smiled, laughed and picked up the plate....and ate the leftover fries. this morning the kids have already asked for more fries cooked the 'right way'
Turns out that frying the fries over the past year wasn't as special as I thought. The kids like the baked ones better. My daughter made a comment about how she has always said,'My mom might not be a great cook but she makes the best french fries in the world."
Baking them with so little oil and using sweet potato rather than white potato really does make them very very healthy and I think I need to start making them much more often. :) I had forgotten how much she really enjoyed baked fries.
So that's my bummer day and my great day...my kids have done it again...after typing about the fries I'm feeling much better and am ready to tackle the day again! :)
So I'm off to spell check and then make those sweeties some more 'REAL' french fries. :)
Friday, March 25, 2011
Day 4 - Can't belive the amount of fat I've lost!
Day 4 of detox
Everything is going great and I feel great!
I was really shocked by my numbers when I got on the scale this morning...down another pound but the bigger picture is stunning to me!
Since Sunday....I have lost 14.54 pounds of fat! and gained 5.04 pounds of muscle!
My body age is down to 52 :)
My resting metabolism has increased from 1681 to 1684
I'm just so very excited about how well this detox is going!
I have been doing really well with getting food out for the rest of the family and staying on track but last night was a real challenge. My daughter made herself a kemper snack sandwich and boy do I love fish. I wasn't hungry but it smelled sooooo yummy. If I hadn't already convinced myself I will only eat when hungry this week I would have so given in to the craving to get one of those sandwiches myself. By instead I went outside where I couldn't smell the fish till she was finished eating.
Later my son really really wanted me to fix him some homemade sweet potato french fries. I knew there was little chance that I could stand over the stove fixing one of my fav snacks without eating some. So to keep from having to cook I told the kids to load up in the car and I'd take them to get Jack-in-the-Box fries.
The were so happy. David got his fry fix and I was able to pass on eating any of the stuff they were eating in the car on the way home. :)
I made it through the day without having anything other than what I was suppose to eat. :) I'm soooo proud of myself!
Right now I'm thinking that until I reach my goal fat percent I will do the detox diet one week out of each month. and next month I am going to premake and freeze meals for the family before hand. Then all I have to do is heat things up and add a salad to make each meal. That's do-able for me....and I will be sure and not make any of my fav things. I wouldn't want to have to smell them heating up while on my diet. :)
We didn't get to walk yesterday since my son filled just wanted to play in the backyard in the sand and water. I was 102 steps short of my 10,000 but we did get a LOT of work done in the yard and we are one step closer to being ready to plant.
My numbers for yesterday
Everything is going great and I feel great!
I was really shocked by my numbers when I got on the scale this morning...down another pound but the bigger picture is stunning to me!
Since Sunday....I have lost 14.54 pounds of fat! and gained 5.04 pounds of muscle!
My body age is down to 52 :)
My resting metabolism has increased from 1681 to 1684
I'm just so very excited about how well this detox is going!
I have been doing really well with getting food out for the rest of the family and staying on track but last night was a real challenge. My daughter made herself a kemper snack sandwich and boy do I love fish. I wasn't hungry but it smelled sooooo yummy. If I hadn't already convinced myself I will only eat when hungry this week I would have so given in to the craving to get one of those sandwiches myself. By instead I went outside where I couldn't smell the fish till she was finished eating.
Later my son really really wanted me to fix him some homemade sweet potato french fries. I knew there was little chance that I could stand over the stove fixing one of my fav snacks without eating some. So to keep from having to cook I told the kids to load up in the car and I'd take them to get Jack-in-the-Box fries.
The were so happy. David got his fry fix and I was able to pass on eating any of the stuff they were eating in the car on the way home. :)
I made it through the day without having anything other than what I was suppose to eat. :) I'm soooo proud of myself!
Right now I'm thinking that until I reach my goal fat percent I will do the detox diet one week out of each month. and next month I am going to premake and freeze meals for the family before hand. Then all I have to do is heat things up and add a salad to make each meal. That's do-able for me....and I will be sure and not make any of my fav things. I wouldn't want to have to smell them heating up while on my diet. :)
We didn't get to walk yesterday since my son filled just wanted to play in the backyard in the sand and water. I was 102 steps short of my 10,000 but we did get a LOT of work done in the yard and we are one step closer to being ready to plant.
My numbers for yesterday
BodyMedia FIT data for March 24, 2011
Calories Burned - 3071
Calories Consumed - 409
Total Activity - 1:26
Moderate Activity - 1:24
Vigorous Activity - 0:02
Steps Taken - 9898
Sleep Duration - 8:10
Lying Down - 10:15
Sleep Efficiency - 80%
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Best Smoothie yet!
Today I waited to get hungry....and waited...and waited....
got a ton of stuff done in the yard and house ...but still not hungry
At around 4 pm I had a chance to get in my biggest loser workout and just as I was about to get started my tummy said....grumble grumble. I didn't really feel hungery or starved but my tummy was talking to me.
Since both kids were busy and I had a chance to get in my workout alone I decided to wait till after working out to eat. I drank a ton of water during my great workout and was actually hungery by the time I was finished.
I made today's breakfast smoothie
Today's yummy smoothie:
3 medium ripe peaches or nectarines ( I used 4 plums since my hubby had picked out plums when I sent him for nectarines)
2 large bananas
8 leaves of dark green kale (it said to remove the stems but I like the stems so I left them on...just chopped em a bit before putting them in the blender)
this is all the recipe calls for ....then blend everything together
I had a bell pepper than needed to be used today so I added it to the smoothie ( I did leave in the seeds because they actually pack a LOT of flavor)
The kids had just made fresh mango ice cream and there was 1/4 of the mango left so I tossed it in also... I didn't want it to go bad.
I blended it all together and boy is it yummy!
All together it came to 409 calories and made 3 full 16 oz cups.
I've finished about half of it and am sipping on it as I am blogging.
With all the raw dark green kale it has to be loaded with iron and many other good things for our bodies!
If my daughter hadn't seen the kale go in she might have liked it but when she tasted it she said it was eating a banana with a gross aftertaste of kale.
My son (after yesterday 'dirty' smoothie) was not willing to try it. He did finally agree to smell it and said it really smelled good but he really didn't want to have to actually taste it.
I'm feeling great and by mid day the only thing that hurt was my wrist...but that's not the diet's fault...that's from me forgetting I had on wrist wights before falling asleep.
My head feels clearer than in a very long time. I will try and get more and better sleep tonight as I know it really will make this 7 days even better.
Till next time......everyone keep up the great work!
got a ton of stuff done in the yard and house ...but still not hungry
At around 4 pm I had a chance to get in my biggest loser workout and just as I was about to get started my tummy said....grumble grumble. I didn't really feel hungery or starved but my tummy was talking to me.
Since both kids were busy and I had a chance to get in my workout alone I decided to wait till after working out to eat. I drank a ton of water during my great workout and was actually hungery by the time I was finished.
I made today's breakfast smoothie
Today's yummy smoothie:
3 medium ripe peaches or nectarines ( I used 4 plums since my hubby had picked out plums when I sent him for nectarines)
2 large bananas
8 leaves of dark green kale (it said to remove the stems but I like the stems so I left them on...just chopped em a bit before putting them in the blender)
this is all the recipe calls for ....then blend everything together
I had a bell pepper than needed to be used today so I added it to the smoothie ( I did leave in the seeds because they actually pack a LOT of flavor)
The kids had just made fresh mango ice cream and there was 1/4 of the mango left so I tossed it in also... I didn't want it to go bad.
I blended it all together and boy is it yummy!
All together it came to 409 calories and made 3 full 16 oz cups.
I've finished about half of it and am sipping on it as I am blogging.
With all the raw dark green kale it has to be loaded with iron and many other good things for our bodies!
If my daughter hadn't seen the kale go in she might have liked it but when she tasted it she said it was eating a banana with a gross aftertaste of kale.
My son (after yesterday 'dirty' smoothie) was not willing to try it. He did finally agree to smell it and said it really smelled good but he really didn't want to have to actually taste it.
I'm feeling great and by mid day the only thing that hurt was my wrist...but that's not the diet's fault...that's from me forgetting I had on wrist wights before falling asleep.
My head feels clearer than in a very long time. I will try and get more and better sleep tonight as I know it really will make this 7 days even better.
Till next time......everyone keep up the great work!
Feeling better :) Gonna make it through day 3
Day three is turning out to be great. Getting my energy and ready to tackle the day.
Time to go outside and work on getting the garden ready to plant and the pool ready to swim in. I can't wait for swimming! I love love love to swim!
Time to go outside and work on getting the garden ready to plant and the pool ready to swim in. I can't wait for swimming! I love love love to swim!
Day 3 and still kicking :)
Happy to report all is well today. Feeling a bit grumpy but thinking it's from the lack of sleep last night.
I fell asleep at 9 and was sleeping really well but had forgotten to remove my wrist weights before going to bed. I woke up around 11pm in a LOT of pain. Removed my weights and I had really bruised up my right wrist as I had been sleeping on it.
I'll not be wearing them today as my wrist still hurts quite a bit.
After I woke up, my moving around woke up my daughter, so I wasn't able to go back to sleep till much later. I don't like to go to sleep when the kids are awake.
I did get a total of 8 hours and 10 minutes of sleep at 80% Efficiency but I'm am still tired and feeling a bit blah and grumpy this morning. I"m looking forward to the day when I can get 8 hours of sleep all at one time again :)
I have been posting little bits on the raw food sight under 'maryh journal'
At this point I really would recamend everyone trying this diet for the 7 days. It really seems to get your body in the fat burning mode and it's really really nice for me to not have food cravings.
My daughter told me yesterday my behind is getting smaller. :) Later in the day she said my thighs are getting smaller. :) I can't see it, but it makes me happy to know someone can. :)
My body fit numbers for yesterday
I fell asleep at 9 and was sleeping really well but had forgotten to remove my wrist weights before going to bed. I woke up around 11pm in a LOT of pain. Removed my weights and I had really bruised up my right wrist as I had been sleeping on it.
I'll not be wearing them today as my wrist still hurts quite a bit.
After I woke up, my moving around woke up my daughter, so I wasn't able to go back to sleep till much later. I don't like to go to sleep when the kids are awake.
I did get a total of 8 hours and 10 minutes of sleep at 80% Efficiency but I'm am still tired and feeling a bit blah and grumpy this morning. I"m looking forward to the day when I can get 8 hours of sleep all at one time again :)
I have been posting little bits on the raw food sight under 'maryh journal'
At this point I really would recamend everyone trying this diet for the 7 days. It really seems to get your body in the fat burning mode and it's really really nice for me to not have food cravings.
My daughter told me yesterday my behind is getting smaller. :) Later in the day she said my thighs are getting smaller. :) I can't see it, but it makes me happy to know someone can. :)
My body fit numbers for yesterday
BodyMedia FIT data for March 23, 2011
Calories Burned - 3154
Calories Consumed - 306
Total Activity - 1:11
Moderate Activity - 1:10
Vigorous Activity - 0:01
Steps Taken - 13848
Sleep Duration - 5:47
Lying Down - 7:16
Sleep Efficiency - 80%
Last night I had a really bad dream... I had eaten a chicken breast and then was really beating myself up over not being able to stick to a special diet for just 7 days. When I woke enough to realize it was just a dream I went back to sleep and fixed it to where I made it through the 7 days and had great success. :)
I'm not hungry so I'm waiting on breakfast like the diet says to. 'Eat when hungry not just because it's time to eat'
Guess that's about it for this morning.
Everyone keep up the great work!
Oh! I almost forgot...My weight is down 1 pound today from yesterday and it all came from fat. My total weight now is 196.6 .
Once I reach 182 I will be going off of my body fat % and not my weight. I would like to get it down to 23% without losing any of the muscle I currently have and actually building more muscle. I'm not sure just what the weight will be as the programs on the computer say it could be anywhere from 130 to 150 pounds.
My current bodyfat % is 41.9% which is down from 49.6% in January.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Yummy Smoothie Dinner
Around 4 pm I got hungry :)
I made a Green Action Smoothie
1 mango
1/2 pint (1 cup) raspberries
3 handfuls greens of your choice (I has spinach)
1 cup of water
Directions: In Blender
Blend mangoes with water, add raspberries and greens, and blend until smooth.
It made a LOT of smoothie. Filled two 16 oz cups. There was more than I could drink at one time. The kids didn't want to try it as it didn't smell yummy. My daughter finally did try it and said it might be better cold. David wouldn't try it at all. He said it looked dirty. But he did have a lot of fun helping me blend everything. :)
The kids are resting munching on carrots. We started our walk but David tripped and skinned his knees and hands and wanted to rest a bit before going back outside. He's all cleaned up with transformers bandaids feeling better. :)
I made a Green Action Smoothie
1 mango
1/2 pint (1 cup) raspberries
3 handfuls greens of your choice (I has spinach)
1 cup of water
Directions: In Blender
Blend mangoes with water, add raspberries and greens, and blend until smooth.
It made a LOT of smoothie. Filled two 16 oz cups. There was more than I could drink at one time. The kids didn't want to try it as it didn't smell yummy. My daughter finally did try it and said it might be better cold. David wouldn't try it at all. He said it looked dirty. But he did have a lot of fun helping me blend everything. :)
The kids are resting munching on carrots. We started our walk but David tripped and skinned his knees and hands and wanted to rest a bit before going back outside. He's all cleaned up with transformers bandaids feeling better. :)
Yummy Lunch
I finally got hungry. Not real hungry but enough that I had lunch.
I didn't eat the breakfast on the diet but rather made up my own following the guidelines in the diet.
My son helped me make a drink in the blender with
broccoli, cilantro, tomatoes, celery, carrots, and water.
It was yummy and filled me up!
Both kids tried it and sid it was good :)
Now off to tackle the rest of my day :)
I didn't eat the breakfast on the diet but rather made up my own following the guidelines in the diet.
My son helped me make a drink in the blender with
broccoli, cilantro, tomatoes, celery, carrots, and water.
It was yummy and filled me up!
Both kids tried it and sid it was good :)
Now off to tackle the rest of my day :)
When will I get hungery?
Today my raw food diet has a really yummy sounding smoothie for breakfast. But it says that you are NOT to eat breakfast today until you are hungry. It says you need to get back in touch with your body and start eating when you are hungry and not just because it's time to eat.
Sounds great....I'm gonna try that.
Last night while falling asleep my tummy grumbled and I said to me..."I am so eating a ton of vegs for breakfast. if I'm hungry now I know I'm gonna wake up starved."
I was sooo wrong! I woke up feeling great but not hungry. I had a bit of a headache that is now totally gone. But I'm still not hungry. No tummy grumble, no food cravings, nothing! I have been drinking water waiting to get hungry so I can have my smoothie. It's after noon and still no hungry. I have a ton of energy and have been getting a LOT of housework done while waiting to get hungry....but still not hungry. I haven't felt this great in a very long time! My stomach doesn't have any pain....no heavy feeling, I feel light and ready to take head on any problem that comes my way. It's a really great feeling! But I worry that what if I have forgotten how to feel hungry? Then I remember I went to sleep last night feeling hungry and I knew the feeling then so I couldn't have forgotten how to feel hungry overnight.
I don't know what is going on inside my body but I will keep a watch for that feeling of hungry so I can get on to the next part of my diet. Until then I am going to keep enjoying this extra boost of energy I have and use it to get things done around here and play with the kids outside between school subjects. :)
for my diabetic friends....I gave my doc a call and she said that this diet is ok for a diabetic and will most likely help to level out your blood sugar but to change up the diet just a bit. She said no fasting the first day and that you will need to eat something every 2 hours while awake. And keep a close eye on your blood sugar levels. She said she has seen several of her diabetic patents do very well with raw food diets but a few did have to add a extra protein to keep the blood sugar levels stable. she also said that movement is really key to help keep blood sugars level during a raw food diet. She also reminded me that I really am on the line between being diabetic and prediabetic and if I had asked her before fasting she would have told me to skip that part but to follow the rest of the diet. yesterday when I saw her I was within an hour of ending my fast so she didn't bring it up. So does waiting to feel hungry count as a fast? or is it just waiting to be hungry?
My kiddos are calling me so I'm off to use more of this new found energy and to keep waiting on that feeling of being hungry.
Sounds great....I'm gonna try that.
Last night while falling asleep my tummy grumbled and I said to me..."I am so eating a ton of vegs for breakfast. if I'm hungry now I know I'm gonna wake up starved."
I was sooo wrong! I woke up feeling great but not hungry. I had a bit of a headache that is now totally gone. But I'm still not hungry. No tummy grumble, no food cravings, nothing! I have been drinking water waiting to get hungry so I can have my smoothie. It's after noon and still no hungry. I have a ton of energy and have been getting a LOT of housework done while waiting to get hungry....but still not hungry. I haven't felt this great in a very long time! My stomach doesn't have any pain....no heavy feeling, I feel light and ready to take head on any problem that comes my way. It's a really great feeling! But I worry that what if I have forgotten how to feel hungry? Then I remember I went to sleep last night feeling hungry and I knew the feeling then so I couldn't have forgotten how to feel hungry overnight.
I don't know what is going on inside my body but I will keep a watch for that feeling of hungry so I can get on to the next part of my diet. Until then I am going to keep enjoying this extra boost of energy I have and use it to get things done around here and play with the kids outside between school subjects. :)
for my diabetic friends....I gave my doc a call and she said that this diet is ok for a diabetic and will most likely help to level out your blood sugar but to change up the diet just a bit. She said no fasting the first day and that you will need to eat something every 2 hours while awake. And keep a close eye on your blood sugar levels. She said she has seen several of her diabetic patents do very well with raw food diets but a few did have to add a extra protein to keep the blood sugar levels stable. she also said that movement is really key to help keep blood sugars level during a raw food diet. She also reminded me that I really am on the line between being diabetic and prediabetic and if I had asked her before fasting she would have told me to skip that part but to follow the rest of the diet. yesterday when I saw her I was within an hour of ending my fast so she didn't bring it up. So does waiting to feel hungry count as a fast? or is it just waiting to be hungry?
My kiddos are calling me so I'm off to use more of this new found energy and to keep waiting on that feeling of being hungry.
I'm below 200 pounds!!
This morning I woke up and my headache is very mild. It could be contributed to the fact that I'm not taking allergy meds during my detox diet and it is spring here with tons of flowers and trees blooming.
Now for the great news!
I'm sooo excited!
The scale showed less than 200 pounds this morning! YEEPEE!!!!!
This raw food diet is working much better than I had ever expected. I really wanted to just get my body more clear of the meds I had taken but check out there numbers.
Before starting my total weight was 203.0 now it's 197.6 lost 5.4 pounds
but even better is where the weight is coming from
Starting fat-87.41 pounds
today's fat- 81.21 pounds =6.2 pounds of fat!
starting Muscle -50.90
today's muscle-52.56= 1.66 gain in muscle!
My body age that was at 58 is at 55 this morning
And the most exciting part for me...my visceral fat level (the amount of fat inside your ab around your organs) has dropped from 9 to 8. normal it 0-9 I was at the top side of normal but am very happy to see that the fat I'm losing is from the dangerous fat that is wrapped around my organs. This is the fat that causes all of the bad health effects. The less of this that you have the better.
So I'm dropping fat and gaining muscle and the fat is coming from all the right places. I'm sooooo happy!
One side effect I didn't expect...I am sweating a lot! And it's is smelly ...ugh....After my workout my son said' "Mom, you smell BAD!" I know he was right...I could smell me! UGH!
Now for the great news!
I'm sooo excited!
The scale showed less than 200 pounds this morning! YEEPEE!!!!!
This raw food diet is working much better than I had ever expected. I really wanted to just get my body more clear of the meds I had taken but check out there numbers.
Before starting my total weight was 203.0 now it's 197.6 lost 5.4 pounds
but even better is where the weight is coming from
Starting fat-87.41 pounds
today's fat- 81.21 pounds =6.2 pounds of fat!
starting Muscle -50.90
today's muscle-52.56= 1.66 gain in muscle!
My body age that was at 58 is at 55 this morning
And the most exciting part for me...my visceral fat level (the amount of fat inside your ab around your organs) has dropped from 9 to 8. normal it 0-9 I was at the top side of normal but am very happy to see that the fat I'm losing is from the dangerous fat that is wrapped around my organs. This is the fat that causes all of the bad health effects. The less of this that you have the better.
So I'm dropping fat and gaining muscle and the fat is coming from all the right places. I'm sooooo happy!
One side effect I didn't expect...I am sweating a lot! And it's is smelly ...ugh....After my workout my son said' "Mom, you smell BAD!" I know he was right...I could smell me! UGH!
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
I did it! Made it through day 1
I did it! I made it all the way to the end of the 24 hour fast.
For your first meal you are allowed any one fruit. They call it a mono meal. You can have as much as you want of one type of fruit from the list of approved fruits. I picked watermelon. I froze the leftovers for a base for a yummy smoothie.
Today went really well at the doctor's office.
It's a good thing I have already been working on getting healthy or I would have really gotten an ear full today.
My doc said "how in the world did you manage to get to 217?!? And Great job on starting to getting your weight back undercontrol"
Told her I had not been taking my thyroid meds but had already seen the doc taking care of my thyroid and had gotten back on the meds. And told her about the soda and junk food. She was shocked that I allowed myself get that far out of shape before doing something about it. Other than right after being pregnant I have been between 160 and 180 for most of the 10 years I have been seeing her. At least when I go in to see her. When my weight has been higher I tended to not go in because I really didn't want to get in trouble for my weight. Isn't that funny? Someone that is there trying to help me be as healthy as possible and I had been avoiding seeing her. I guess I just had to be ready to get back on track again.
Day one hasn't been bad. I have a headache that has slowly been building all day but I really expected one since anytime in the past that I have done a detox type diet I end up with a headache that lasts the first 2 or 3 days. the headache is nothing like the ones I get when my thyroid meds are too high so I think I will be just fine. :)
While at the doctor's office we went over all kinds of stuff. She is doing a total blood panel before giving the ok to keep taking the additional iron. she doesn't want to take a chance that there is something else going on that is causing the lack of energy and I end up overdosing on iron. The only kind of iron I can keep down is the stuff she prescribes at the compound pharmacy so it's just pure liquid iron in saline water. there's no additional additives. She explained that it is absorbed quickly and easily and it would be easy to get to much.
So Mom no iron for me for the next few days till the blood work comes back.
She was very happy that I showed her the raw food diet. The first thing she wanted to know was if it included eating raw meat. when I assured her there was no meat in the diet she went on to let me know that it is actually the best thing I could do right now while my GI track is healing. She even told me that because I am working hard at getting my diet cleaned up and going on a raw food veg and fruit diet she is going to wait before having any more test run other than the complete blood workup. She really feels that by keeping a clean diet my GI track will be able to heal itself and I will not require having a lot of unfun maybe painful tests run when most likely in the end they will just come back that I just need to eat a better diet. I'll be following up with her as I progress. I am to call right away if I happen to have any more bleeding but she really thinks that as long as I am paying attention to what I am doing I will not have anymore bleeding. :)
And FYI...my doc was really really happy that I gave her a typed list of things I wanted to cover in our visit at the start of the visit. She read over the list and covered them in the order of importance. I had forgotten about one of the things on the list but she brought it up at the end of the visit. :) I was so glad! I had a little bump under my arm that had been bugging me and I knew was nothing but just needed to hear it from a doctor. I was right the bump was nothing and the doc expects it to clear up on it's own as my weight and circulation keep getting better :)
My numbers for the day
I didn't get in my 10,000 steps because I didn't get in my walk. After going to the doc appt we went to WholeFoods to get the organic vegs and fruits I will be eating this week. Well, just the ones I didn't already have in the refrigerator. Also needed to pick up sun-dried tomatoes and coconut water....not milk...water...for the smoothies. (it was great not getting home until my fasting time was over...I had yummy watermelon before putting away the vegs. I most likely would have worn a hole in the floor at home waiting for the fast to be over)
WholeFoods had some deli meals fixed that are the same as if I were to cook something in my kitchen..no additives or preservitives...fresh not frozen ...they just have to be heated in the oven and then they are ready to eat. I got some to fix for dinners so my hubby doesn't starve this week. Actually I got 2. They are $10 each which isn't bad for a meal when I only need to add a salad for him to have a well rounded healthy meal and I don't have a lot of dishes to clean up. I fixed him one tonight and I'll fix another one tomorrow. I told him I could go get some for the rest of the week if he wanted me to but I wasn't gonna spend $70 on dinners without knowing they were actually gonna be eaten and my refrigerator would not hold them with all the green leafy vegs in there. That stuff really takes up a LOT of room! But when you open the refrigerator there is a display of bright colors and it really looks yummy. It reminds me of when I was younger and really trying to take care of my body. Between times of starving myself or doing the binging and purge ....there were actually a few years while under close doctor care that I was really really trying to be healthy and get over my eating disorder behavior. It didn't happen over night and I had many relapes but today I can say I am able to diet and workout without hurting myself. I no longer am 'dying' to be thin :)
My hubby and I have a bet running....he thinks most of the stuff is going to end up going to spoiled, I said it will get eaten. I'll let you know who wins the bet. :)
It's 11:30 and I want to get in a good nights rest getting ready for tomorrow. I would also like to get up before David so I can get in a workout without the extra 40 pounds of weight :)
So night to all...or GOOD MORNING....(because I know it will be morning when some read this)
Keep up the great work!
And THANK YOU!!!! tons for those that are able to leave comments. I love getting them. I am trying to get my settings fixed so that everyone can leave a comment. If you find you are unable to leave a comment and there is something you would like to tell me please click on the little envelope at the end of each blog and it will send me an email....hopefully...if I have the setting correct. :)
God Bless Each and Everyone of You!
For your first meal you are allowed any one fruit. They call it a mono meal. You can have as much as you want of one type of fruit from the list of approved fruits. I picked watermelon. I froze the leftovers for a base for a yummy smoothie.
Today went really well at the doctor's office.
It's a good thing I have already been working on getting healthy or I would have really gotten an ear full today.
My doc said "how in the world did you manage to get to 217?!? And Great job on starting to getting your weight back undercontrol"
Told her I had not been taking my thyroid meds but had already seen the doc taking care of my thyroid and had gotten back on the meds. And told her about the soda and junk food. She was shocked that I allowed myself get that far out of shape before doing something about it. Other than right after being pregnant I have been between 160 and 180 for most of the 10 years I have been seeing her. At least when I go in to see her. When my weight has been higher I tended to not go in because I really didn't want to get in trouble for my weight. Isn't that funny? Someone that is there trying to help me be as healthy as possible and I had been avoiding seeing her. I guess I just had to be ready to get back on track again.
Day one hasn't been bad. I have a headache that has slowly been building all day but I really expected one since anytime in the past that I have done a detox type diet I end up with a headache that lasts the first 2 or 3 days. the headache is nothing like the ones I get when my thyroid meds are too high so I think I will be just fine. :)
While at the doctor's office we went over all kinds of stuff. She is doing a total blood panel before giving the ok to keep taking the additional iron. she doesn't want to take a chance that there is something else going on that is causing the lack of energy and I end up overdosing on iron. The only kind of iron I can keep down is the stuff she prescribes at the compound pharmacy so it's just pure liquid iron in saline water. there's no additional additives. She explained that it is absorbed quickly and easily and it would be easy to get to much.
So Mom no iron for me for the next few days till the blood work comes back.
She was very happy that I showed her the raw food diet. The first thing she wanted to know was if it included eating raw meat. when I assured her there was no meat in the diet she went on to let me know that it is actually the best thing I could do right now while my GI track is healing. She even told me that because I am working hard at getting my diet cleaned up and going on a raw food veg and fruit diet she is going to wait before having any more test run other than the complete blood workup. She really feels that by keeping a clean diet my GI track will be able to heal itself and I will not require having a lot of unfun maybe painful tests run when most likely in the end they will just come back that I just need to eat a better diet. I'll be following up with her as I progress. I am to call right away if I happen to have any more bleeding but she really thinks that as long as I am paying attention to what I am doing I will not have anymore bleeding. :)
And FYI...my doc was really really happy that I gave her a typed list of things I wanted to cover in our visit at the start of the visit. She read over the list and covered them in the order of importance. I had forgotten about one of the things on the list but she brought it up at the end of the visit. :) I was so glad! I had a little bump under my arm that had been bugging me and I knew was nothing but just needed to hear it from a doctor. I was right the bump was nothing and the doc expects it to clear up on it's own as my weight and circulation keep getting better :)
My numbers for the day
BodyMedia FIT data for March 22, 2011
Calories Burned - 2871
Calories Consumed - 228
Total Activity - 0:53
Moderate Activity - 0:53
Vigorous Activity - 0:00
Steps Taken - 8789
Sleep Duration - 5:52
Lying Down - 6:51
Sleep Efficiency - 86%
I didn't get in my 10,000 steps because I didn't get in my walk. After going to the doc appt we went to WholeFoods to get the organic vegs and fruits I will be eating this week. Well, just the ones I didn't already have in the refrigerator. Also needed to pick up sun-dried tomatoes and coconut water....not milk...water...for the smoothies. (it was great not getting home until my fasting time was over...I had yummy watermelon before putting away the vegs. I most likely would have worn a hole in the floor at home waiting for the fast to be over)
WholeFoods had some deli meals fixed that are the same as if I were to cook something in my kitchen..no additives or preservitives...fresh not frozen ...they just have to be heated in the oven and then they are ready to eat. I got some to fix for dinners so my hubby doesn't starve this week. Actually I got 2. They are $10 each which isn't bad for a meal when I only need to add a salad for him to have a well rounded healthy meal and I don't have a lot of dishes to clean up. I fixed him one tonight and I'll fix another one tomorrow. I told him I could go get some for the rest of the week if he wanted me to but I wasn't gonna spend $70 on dinners without knowing they were actually gonna be eaten and my refrigerator would not hold them with all the green leafy vegs in there. That stuff really takes up a LOT of room! But when you open the refrigerator there is a display of bright colors and it really looks yummy. It reminds me of when I was younger and really trying to take care of my body. Between times of starving myself or doing the binging and purge ....there were actually a few years while under close doctor care that I was really really trying to be healthy and get over my eating disorder behavior. It didn't happen over night and I had many relapes but today I can say I am able to diet and workout without hurting myself. I no longer am 'dying' to be thin :)
My hubby and I have a bet running....he thinks most of the stuff is going to end up going to spoiled, I said it will get eaten. I'll let you know who wins the bet. :)
It's 11:30 and I want to get in a good nights rest getting ready for tomorrow. I would also like to get up before David so I can get in a workout without the extra 40 pounds of weight :)
So night to all...or GOOD MORNING....(because I know it will be morning when some read this)
Keep up the great work!
And THANK YOU!!!! tons for those that are able to leave comments. I love getting them. I am trying to get my settings fixed so that everyone can leave a comment. If you find you are unable to leave a comment and there is something you would like to tell me please click on the little envelope at the end of each blog and it will send me an email....hopefully...if I have the setting correct. :)
God Bless Each and Everyone of You!
Almost finished with my fasting
Still doing well. Keep going to the refrigerator and opening it so I put cold water in there. :)
Talked to my mom and have her blessing to do the 7 day raw food detox :)
Thanks Mom! Love you!
She knows how steroids effect my body and feels it might help to get things back in check.
She's a nurse so what she says counts.
She also said to be sure and take my iron so I don't have to worry about it getting low this week.
Will do :)
It's time to go get ready to the doc for my check up from the er visit.
I've made a list of things I want to ask her and be sure and get info on at the visit. printed it out to give to her. I'm thinking it will help the visit go faster and I will know I got in the questions I have without forgetting any of them.
I'll also be taking a copy of the diet in so she can review it just to be sure it's ok. Another great idea of my mom.
Talked to my mom and have her blessing to do the 7 day raw food detox :)
Thanks Mom! Love you!
She knows how steroids effect my body and feels it might help to get things back in check.
She's a nurse so what she says counts.
She also said to be sure and take my iron so I don't have to worry about it getting low this week.
Will do :)
It's time to go get ready to the doc for my check up from the er visit.
I've made a list of things I want to ask her and be sure and get info on at the visit. printed it out to give to her. I'm thinking it will help the visit go faster and I will know I got in the questions I have without forgetting any of them.
I'll also be taking a copy of the diet in so she can review it just to be sure it's ok. Another great idea of my mom.
Raw Food Diet-first full day
Woke up this morning feeling fine.
My weight is down 2.6 pounds from yesterday and according to the scale it's all water weight. Finally getting rid of some of the water weight I packed on while taking the steroids. :)
I have a bit of a headache but it's not bad. I'm drinking a ton of water and looking forward to getting finished with my 7 days. :)
My weight is down 2.6 pounds from yesterday and according to the scale it's all water weight. Finally getting rid of some of the water weight I packed on while taking the steroids. :)
I have a bit of a headache but it's not bad. I'm drinking a ton of water and looking forward to getting finished with my 7 days. :)
Monday's Body Media numbers
I'm having a hard time sleeping.
I keep thinking about the golden brown Cornish hen waiting for me in the freezer for next week.
I forgot to post my numbers from Monday.
I keep thinking about the golden brown Cornish hen waiting for me in the freezer for next week.
I forgot to post my numbers from Monday.
BodyMedia FIT data for March 21, 2011
Calories Burned - 2964
Calories Consumed - 493
Total Activity - 1:08
Moderate Activity - 1:06
Vigorous Activity - 0:02
Steps Taken - 11667
Sleep Duration - 6:26
Lying Down - 10:35
Sleep Efficiency - 61%
I had forgotten to put my band on after uploading the data so now it's back on and I'm gonna try and lay back down for a bit. Dreaming about hens will not break my diet....just actually eating one would. :)
Monday, March 21, 2011
Starting my 7 day Raw Food Detox Diet
Tomorrow is the first day of my 7 day raw food detox diet. I have decided to go with the plan I located on the 'Raw Food Divas' web sight. It's free and they send you daily emails helping you along as well as a complete forum where you can talk to other people on the diet. I don't know if I will actually take advantage for the forum but I am totally taking advantage of all the free info. They do sell a 7 day meal planner that takes all of the guess work out of what to eat and puts it all in black and white (with color photos) and very easy to follow daily recipes. It's $12.95. After buying it I realized all the info was in the 80 some odd pages of free stuff I had printed out, but it is nice to have it all in one place. And having the recipes is really nice! Their web sight is http://www.therawdivas.com/
You enter your email and then they send you a link to the web sight with a special password and log in name for you. You also start getting your daily emails right away. In the forum you can access all of the emails that will be mailed before you get them so you can get an idea of what is expected right away.
The first day of the diet you go 24 hours with nothing but water. (they say diabetics should not do the 24 hour fasting before starting the diet) It starts at 6pm one evening till 6pm the next day. Since I have fasting blood work to do tomorrow at 3:30 I decided tonight would be as good as time as any to get started,...after all...I can only have water till 3:30 tomorrow anyway so I might as well take a few more hours to get the detox diet going.
It says to start eating more raw foods with your normal foods for the week before starting and that on the day before the fast not to eat a bunch of junk food. And to remember it's not like you will never eat that food again...it's just 7 days. :) I really think I can do just 7 days. :)
Today I was getting ready for this evening and planning out my meals thinking I would have a light dinner around 5. I lost track of time and when hubby came in looking for dinner it was already 6pm. Oooops! Then I thought....it will be fine....it just means my 24 hours will be over sooner and I can have some fruit and vegs as soon as I get finished with my blood work tomorrow.
My calorie intake for today was very low since I didn't get in dinner or my afternoon snack....493.
I'll be keeping a very close eye on the scale this week to be sure I am only losing water or fat and not losing any muscle.
The plan says it's very important to keep exercising during the 7 days so that you don't lose any muscle while on the diet. After the 1.4 pound drop in muscle after taking 3 days off from working out and still pulling lower calorie days I know for a fact that I must be sure and get in my toning exercises this week :)
My wonderful daughter wanted to cook dinner since she knew I wasn't able to eat dinner (or maybe she just wanted to cook). I was super happy to let her do the cooking. :) I have told both my daughter and hubby I'm doing this diet but I don't expect them to not eat cooked food for the next week. hubby is being very supportive and that makes me very happy! Katherine's Cornish hens are smelling really yummy and I'm looking forward to having mine next Tuesday :)
I'll keep everyone posted on how this 7 day detox works.
The reason I decided to go on it is because I was having to take steroids for 2 weeks and it got my body a bit wacky. Whenever I take some meds I get out of whack feeling tired, and just blah ho hum. The best way to get things back to normal is to eat really healthy for a week or so and then ...boom...back to normal :) When I was not eating healthy I didn't brother eating better and just keep feeling like poo for a month or so because I was feeling that way before taking the antibodies or whatever the med was. Since I had been feeling soooo great just before getting sick I really want to get back to that full of energy and ready to go feeling as quick as I can. Rather than wait several weeks for the steroids to get fully out of my system I decided to do a quick detox diet and hopefully get back to the point that I can do more than my light workouts again. :)
Well, here's to taking a chance that I can find the will power to finish this 7 day plan. I know I can do it...even if my daughter thinks I have totally lost my mind. :)
And you know....several of these recipes that came with the meal plan are going to make great snacks for the kids and me for many years to come. :)
I'll be sharing what I eat each day but already know that my total calories for each day will be a bit low. I really am thinking that it will be OK as long as I keep in the toning exercises and keep a close eye on the scale and my total pounds of muscle. If I find I am losing muscle I'll stop the diet. :) I don't want to hurt myself trying to get healthy. I did that enough in my 20's when I weighed in the 120's and thought I was fat and needed to get smaller. Now I want to show myself I can get fit and be truly healthy at the same time :)
You enter your email and then they send you a link to the web sight with a special password and log in name for you. You also start getting your daily emails right away. In the forum you can access all of the emails that will be mailed before you get them so you can get an idea of what is expected right away.
The first day of the diet you go 24 hours with nothing but water. (they say diabetics should not do the 24 hour fasting before starting the diet) It starts at 6pm one evening till 6pm the next day. Since I have fasting blood work to do tomorrow at 3:30 I decided tonight would be as good as time as any to get started,...after all...I can only have water till 3:30 tomorrow anyway so I might as well take a few more hours to get the detox diet going.
It says to start eating more raw foods with your normal foods for the week before starting and that on the day before the fast not to eat a bunch of junk food. And to remember it's not like you will never eat that food again...it's just 7 days. :) I really think I can do just 7 days. :)
Today I was getting ready for this evening and planning out my meals thinking I would have a light dinner around 5. I lost track of time and when hubby came in looking for dinner it was already 6pm. Oooops! Then I thought....it will be fine....it just means my 24 hours will be over sooner and I can have some fruit and vegs as soon as I get finished with my blood work tomorrow.
My calorie intake for today was very low since I didn't get in dinner or my afternoon snack....493.
I'll be keeping a very close eye on the scale this week to be sure I am only losing water or fat and not losing any muscle.
The plan says it's very important to keep exercising during the 7 days so that you don't lose any muscle while on the diet. After the 1.4 pound drop in muscle after taking 3 days off from working out and still pulling lower calorie days I know for a fact that I must be sure and get in my toning exercises this week :)
My wonderful daughter wanted to cook dinner since she knew I wasn't able to eat dinner (or maybe she just wanted to cook). I was super happy to let her do the cooking. :) I have told both my daughter and hubby I'm doing this diet but I don't expect them to not eat cooked food for the next week. hubby is being very supportive and that makes me very happy! Katherine's Cornish hens are smelling really yummy and I'm looking forward to having mine next Tuesday :)
I'll keep everyone posted on how this 7 day detox works.
The reason I decided to go on it is because I was having to take steroids for 2 weeks and it got my body a bit wacky. Whenever I take some meds I get out of whack feeling tired, and just blah ho hum. The best way to get things back to normal is to eat really healthy for a week or so and then ...boom...back to normal :) When I was not eating healthy I didn't brother eating better and just keep feeling like poo for a month or so because I was feeling that way before taking the antibodies or whatever the med was. Since I had been feeling soooo great just before getting sick I really want to get back to that full of energy and ready to go feeling as quick as I can. Rather than wait several weeks for the steroids to get fully out of my system I decided to do a quick detox diet and hopefully get back to the point that I can do more than my light workouts again. :)
Well, here's to taking a chance that I can find the will power to finish this 7 day plan. I know I can do it...even if my daughter thinks I have totally lost my mind. :)
And you know....several of these recipes that came with the meal plan are going to make great snacks for the kids and me for many years to come. :)
I'll be sharing what I eat each day but already know that my total calories for each day will be a bit low. I really am thinking that it will be OK as long as I keep in the toning exercises and keep a close eye on the scale and my total pounds of muscle. If I find I am losing muscle I'll stop the diet. :) I don't want to hurt myself trying to get healthy. I did that enough in my 20's when I weighed in the 120's and thought I was fat and needed to get smaller. Now I want to show myself I can get fit and be truly healthy at the same time :)
What a Great Day!
Today has been a great day.
Woke up rested not feeling tired and was able to get in my workout without getting a headache. :) This means my thyroid med level if finally back to the correct level. :)
We had a busy school day. David got involved in his preschool PBS computer program and just keep going and going. The only thing that got him to stop was telling him we needed to go outside to play and get in our walk. He went out had a lot of fun but went right back to the computer as soon as we got back in. He has finished a level in French, logic, Seasons & Weather, Reasoning & Problem-Solving, and preschool Geometry. It's great to see him having so much fun while learning.
David wanted pancakes with muffins and bacon for breakfast. I got the bacon cooking then David helped me mix up the yummy gluten free pancakes and yummy whole grain gluten free apple cinnamon muffins with flaxseed. He had a blast. David seems to enjoy food that he helped cook more than anything I cook for him. :)
Katherine was working on her computer math program and was determined to reach the next level of the lesson she was working on. She worked really hard for over 2 hours on just math and achieved her goal. GREAT JOB Katherine! My daughter's least fav subject in school is by far math so anytime she puts in extra time on math I get excited :)
Katherine is now busy cooking her latest creation. I asked her to write down the things she does as she goes along so I'll have a recipe. She's making Cornish hens stuffed with apples and rubbing all sorts of spices on the inside and outside of the hens.
Since I've started the first part of my raw food diet I told her I'll be freezing mine and eating it in 7 days :) I can't wait. It looks great!
Woke up rested not feeling tired and was able to get in my workout without getting a headache. :) This means my thyroid med level if finally back to the correct level. :)
We had a busy school day. David got involved in his preschool PBS computer program and just keep going and going. The only thing that got him to stop was telling him we needed to go outside to play and get in our walk. He went out had a lot of fun but went right back to the computer as soon as we got back in. He has finished a level in French, logic, Seasons & Weather, Reasoning & Problem-Solving, and preschool Geometry. It's great to see him having so much fun while learning.
David wanted pancakes with muffins and bacon for breakfast. I got the bacon cooking then David helped me mix up the yummy gluten free pancakes and yummy whole grain gluten free apple cinnamon muffins with flaxseed. He had a blast. David seems to enjoy food that he helped cook more than anything I cook for him. :)
Katherine was working on her computer math program and was determined to reach the next level of the lesson she was working on. She worked really hard for over 2 hours on just math and achieved her goal. GREAT JOB Katherine! My daughter's least fav subject in school is by far math so anytime she puts in extra time on math I get excited :)
Katherine is now busy cooking her latest creation. I asked her to write down the things she does as she goes along so I'll have a recipe. She's making Cornish hens stuffed with apples and rubbing all sorts of spices on the inside and outside of the hens.
Since I've started the first part of my raw food diet I told her I'll be freezing mine and eating it in 7 days :) I can't wait. It looks great!
Sunday
Today I woke up ready to take on the world.
I had not done any of my biggest loser workouts since Wed and so I was happy and surprised when I stepped on the scale and it said I had lost 2 pounds. Yay me! Not so fast...after the body analyzer was finished I realized that 1.4 pounds of what I lost was muscle! Really! I can lose it that fast if dieting but not working out? I guess so! I was determined to not miss anymore workouts while cutting calories as I only want to lose fat and gain muscle.
My hubby got on the scale this morning...first time he has even gotten on one of the body analyzer scales. It took several tries go get him to hold the hand things correctly but after a while we were able to get a reading. He is out of shape but not as bad as me...already knew that....he just thought he was in better shape than he actually turned out to be.
The part that got me down 'a bit' was that this scale will show you the age of your body taking into account how fit you are. I am 41 but my body is at 58 years...eeks...my hubby is 33 years older than me but he came out with a body age of 56! Dang....he's been in and out of the hospital so much over the past few years ...losing one kidney and the other one failing but he's still comes out with a younger body age than me by 2 years! Shoot!!! I decided...I better really get on the fast track to getting in shape or my 'old' man is gonna outlive me!
I wanted to try a new workout with the EA Active Sports2 but after 2 hours of trying to get the heart rate armband to sinc with the xbox and not getting it right I decided to just go ahead and do my Biggest Loser workout. I hadn't done the fitness test for the start of my new 4 week challenge yet so off I went to get it done. I had finished about 15 minutes of it when my son came in and saw me doing one of his fav exercises and he wanted to join it...which is no problem when I'm working out but during the test it will cut off the test if the kinect thinks I'm not doing the exercise correctly. It's really hard to get the green light to go off when you have a 3 year old climbing on you. :) My hubby was trying to get him to go play outside with him so I could finish but I said not to worry about it as I'd just finish without the program. David had a blast and I did get in a workout...just failed to get a very good score on the fitness test. I'll redo it in the morning before he wakes up.
Today I did really well with my diet.
Had left overs from last night for breakfast, chicken with broccoli, green beans, and tomatoes.
Lunch was vegs, and dinner was 2 breaded catfish fillets with a salad. total calories for the day...1451
My wrist weights were hurting this evening ...not like a sore muscle but like a bruise so I took them off and it looks like cleaning out the pool with them on was a bad idea as my right wrist was a bit bruised. I removed them for the rest of the day.
We didn't do our walk today but did spend lots of time outside working on getting the pool ready to swim in, getting the gardens ready to plant, and we have one of those old time push mowers that runs only by people power. I mowed the front lawn followed with a bit of playing basketball, catch, and tag with the kids.
While I was taking my shower after all the sweaty outside activity I noticed that while soaping up my upper back I could actually feel muscles there! I'm excited to be able to tell that I'm losing some of the fat off my back to the point that I can actually feel muscles under my skin again :) I don't know if it's from wearing the wrist weights the past few days or all the biggest loser workouts...but which ever one it is I'll be keeping up doing both. ...I'll just be careful about wearing the weights when I am doing an activity that requires a lot of wrist movement until I am able to find a set of weights that don't limit my movement.
My numbers for today: (my sleep time is adding in yesterday's nap on today's sleep time :) )
Today had been a very good day and now I'm thinking it's time to go lay down and pretend like I'm asleep until I actually do fall asleep.
Keep up the good work everyone. One step at a time...your dreams will come true...just keep positive and positive things will come to you :)
I had not done any of my biggest loser workouts since Wed and so I was happy and surprised when I stepped on the scale and it said I had lost 2 pounds. Yay me! Not so fast...after the body analyzer was finished I realized that 1.4 pounds of what I lost was muscle! Really! I can lose it that fast if dieting but not working out? I guess so! I was determined to not miss anymore workouts while cutting calories as I only want to lose fat and gain muscle.
My hubby got on the scale this morning...first time he has even gotten on one of the body analyzer scales. It took several tries go get him to hold the hand things correctly but after a while we were able to get a reading. He is out of shape but not as bad as me...already knew that....he just thought he was in better shape than he actually turned out to be.
The part that got me down 'a bit' was that this scale will show you the age of your body taking into account how fit you are. I am 41 but my body is at 58 years...eeks...my hubby is 33 years older than me but he came out with a body age of 56! Dang....he's been in and out of the hospital so much over the past few years ...losing one kidney and the other one failing but he's still comes out with a younger body age than me by 2 years! Shoot!!! I decided...I better really get on the fast track to getting in shape or my 'old' man is gonna outlive me!
I wanted to try a new workout with the EA Active Sports2 but after 2 hours of trying to get the heart rate armband to sinc with the xbox and not getting it right I decided to just go ahead and do my Biggest Loser workout. I hadn't done the fitness test for the start of my new 4 week challenge yet so off I went to get it done. I had finished about 15 minutes of it when my son came in and saw me doing one of his fav exercises and he wanted to join it...which is no problem when I'm working out but during the test it will cut off the test if the kinect thinks I'm not doing the exercise correctly. It's really hard to get the green light to go off when you have a 3 year old climbing on you. :) My hubby was trying to get him to go play outside with him so I could finish but I said not to worry about it as I'd just finish without the program. David had a blast and I did get in a workout...just failed to get a very good score on the fitness test. I'll redo it in the morning before he wakes up.
Today I did really well with my diet.
Had left overs from last night for breakfast, chicken with broccoli, green beans, and tomatoes.
Lunch was vegs, and dinner was 2 breaded catfish fillets with a salad. total calories for the day...1451
My wrist weights were hurting this evening ...not like a sore muscle but like a bruise so I took them off and it looks like cleaning out the pool with them on was a bad idea as my right wrist was a bit bruised. I removed them for the rest of the day.
We didn't do our walk today but did spend lots of time outside working on getting the pool ready to swim in, getting the gardens ready to plant, and we have one of those old time push mowers that runs only by people power. I mowed the front lawn followed with a bit of playing basketball, catch, and tag with the kids.
While I was taking my shower after all the sweaty outside activity I noticed that while soaping up my upper back I could actually feel muscles there! I'm excited to be able to tell that I'm losing some of the fat off my back to the point that I can actually feel muscles under my skin again :) I don't know if it's from wearing the wrist weights the past few days or all the biggest loser workouts...but which ever one it is I'll be keeping up doing both. ...I'll just be careful about wearing the weights when I am doing an activity that requires a lot of wrist movement until I am able to find a set of weights that don't limit my movement.
My numbers for today: (my sleep time is adding in yesterday's nap on today's sleep time :) )
BodyMedia FIT data for March 20, 2011
Calories Burned - 3147
Calories Consumed - 1451
Total Activity - 1:20
Moderate Activity - 1:18
Vigorous Activity - 0:02
Steps Taken - 12632
Sleep Duration - 7:57
Lying Down - 11:08
Sleep Efficiency - 71%
Today had been a very good day and now I'm thinking it's time to go lay down and pretend like I'm asleep until I actually do fall asleep.
Keep up the good work everyone. One step at a time...your dreams will come true...just keep positive and positive things will come to you :)
Saturday
Saturday went pretty well here.
We got in our walk but I didn't get in any toning exercises other than wearing my wrist weights.
We make the walk a rather brisk one and actually logged 5 minutes of VA time :)
Some of the places on our walk has little cul-de-sec that are not very long....about 3 houses on each side of the straight part and then 4 around the circle at the end. Today for the first time I was able to jog from the start of the cul-de-sec to the circle around the circle and back to the starting point without stopping :)
Yay me!
Only draw back was by the time I got back to the stopping place my head was pounding with the type of headache I only get when my thyroid med is a bit high.
I did manage to jog down the 2nd one but then had to stop due to the feeling my head might just blow up any moment.
Not wanting to make the headache last longer I decided it was best to not do my biggest loser workout and to drop back down to the half dose of my meds. I was thinking it was an early warning sign to me that my thyroid levels were getting a bit high. Turns out I most likely was right. I was wide awake all last night. (another warning sign that my levels are to high)
Also because I ended up taking a nap for several hours Saturday afternoon. Finally around 6 am I just laid down and closed my eyes ...around 6:30 I looked at the clock and I told myself I was going to just lay here thinking relaxing things till I heard someone else getting up or until I fell asleep. It worked as several hours later I woke up rested and ready to go. I didn't take my pill Saturday night and again on Sunday morning as I didn't want to have to deal with the mind blowing headaches that come with taking my full dose of thyroid med for very long.
I didn't manage to get in all of my steps but I was still able to manage eating less than I burned :) only by 423 calories but a deficit none the less :)
My numbers for Saturday
We got in our walk but I didn't get in any toning exercises other than wearing my wrist weights.
We make the walk a rather brisk one and actually logged 5 minutes of VA time :)
Some of the places on our walk has little cul-de-sec that are not very long....about 3 houses on each side of the straight part and then 4 around the circle at the end. Today for the first time I was able to jog from the start of the cul-de-sec to the circle around the circle and back to the starting point without stopping :)
Yay me!
Only draw back was by the time I got back to the stopping place my head was pounding with the type of headache I only get when my thyroid med is a bit high.
I did manage to jog down the 2nd one but then had to stop due to the feeling my head might just blow up any moment.
Not wanting to make the headache last longer I decided it was best to not do my biggest loser workout and to drop back down to the half dose of my meds. I was thinking it was an early warning sign to me that my thyroid levels were getting a bit high. Turns out I most likely was right. I was wide awake all last night. (another warning sign that my levels are to high)
Also because I ended up taking a nap for several hours Saturday afternoon. Finally around 6 am I just laid down and closed my eyes ...around 6:30 I looked at the clock and I told myself I was going to just lay here thinking relaxing things till I heard someone else getting up or until I fell asleep. It worked as several hours later I woke up rested and ready to go. I didn't take my pill Saturday night and again on Sunday morning as I didn't want to have to deal with the mind blowing headaches that come with taking my full dose of thyroid med for very long.
I didn't manage to get in all of my steps but I was still able to manage eating less than I burned :) only by 423 calories but a deficit none the less :)
My numbers for Saturday
BodyMedia FIT data for March 19, 2011
Calories Burned - 2725
Calories Consumed - 2302
Total Activity - 0:49
Moderate Activity - 0:44
Vigorous Activity - 0:05
Steps Taken - 7995
Sleep Duration - 5:56
Lying Down - 6:46
Sleep Efficiency - 88%
Saturday, March 19, 2011
7 day raw food diet
I'm thinking about dong a 7 day raw food diet.
7 days isn't very long and I'm thinking I would be able to stick to it for 7 days. Really don't know if I could or even should try it for longer. I'll let you know when I start and how it goes.
7 days isn't very long and I'm thinking I would be able to stick to it for 7 days. Really don't know if I could or even should try it for longer. I'll let you know when I start and how it goes.
3-2-1-blast off :)
Today is a great day. I haven't gotten in my workout yet but it's still a great day!
I took yesterday off from working out but did still get in our walk.
I didn't log my foods but used the average food feature on bodymedia
I wore my wrist weights all day for the most part I really didn't notice them. Through out the day I would do little triceps exercises and today My arms are not sore :) The times I really noticed them were while brushing my teeth, picking up a fork (made that fork really heavy!), and typing ( makes me hold my hands in a different way so they don't hit the keys but I'm not getting bugged by it as much today while typing).
The rest of the day I really didn't noticed them at all if it were not for the fact that my arms were sweating under the bands.
I realized that I actually do have a lot of fat on my lower arms. I don't know why I didn't notice it before, I noticed the upper arms getting bigger because my sleeves were getting tighter. Noticed my hands had gotten a bit bigger as I have not been able to take off my rings since last summer. But never really noticed my forearms till yesterday while wearing my weights and noticed the muscles popping out and a bit of fat hanging off the bottom. Bet it will be back to normal by the end of my 30 days of wearing these wrist bands :)
My numbers for yesterday ( I didn't list the Calories Consumed since I didn't actually log my meals)
My hubby has been much more supportive recently. I think a lot has to do with I stopped making demands and started trying to explain my point of view in a nice way...and I have been really trying to listen to what he is trying to say. Recently I'm trying a new way of talking to him.. he'll say something and I will repeat back what I think he just said...or what I think I understand he's trying to say....I'm finding about 90% of the time I have totally misunderstood what he's trying to say. and the same goes when he repeats back to me what he thinks I'm trying to say. We are working on being able to talk to each other without getting frazzled and just walking out of the room without ever getting out what we were wanting to say. It's making for less tension in the house which is great for the kiddos :) Everyone seems to be happy more.
He hasn't been giving the kids any junk food (he's been letting me do it lol) and the only things he has been bring in the house has been things I have ok. He's really trying...I think....So last night I decided to let him off the hook and ordered pizza.
Being Friday during Lent means no meat but his fav pizza is all vegs without meat. My daughter wanted the spinach pizza so I didn't even have to bring up it being Friday ....everyone got just what they wanted.
I did have the topping from two slices. I don't really like what the crust does for me after eating it so I opted to only have the toppings which was a lot of vegs.
Everyone was happy. No one was bickering and there was peace in our home :)
I have learned that I need to lighting up a bit on my hubby and not try and force him to do everything my way. I need to be a bit bendable and try and allow him to have a voice (at least sometimes) :)
I"m trying not to be such a control type person and to allow his ideas be considered. It's one of the things I've been working on for several years. It just seems like recently it's finally starting to click in place :)
Today I'm happy. I am NOT tired! I'm not a bundle of energy but I'm not tired. I'm getting better :)
Here's to reaching all of our goals one step, one hour, one day at a time :) WE CAN DO IT!
I took yesterday off from working out but did still get in our walk.
I didn't log my foods but used the average food feature on bodymedia
I wore my wrist weights all day for the most part I really didn't notice them. Through out the day I would do little triceps exercises and today My arms are not sore :) The times I really noticed them were while brushing my teeth, picking up a fork (made that fork really heavy!), and typing ( makes me hold my hands in a different way so they don't hit the keys but I'm not getting bugged by it as much today while typing).
The rest of the day I really didn't noticed them at all if it were not for the fact that my arms were sweating under the bands.
I realized that I actually do have a lot of fat on my lower arms. I don't know why I didn't notice it before, I noticed the upper arms getting bigger because my sleeves were getting tighter. Noticed my hands had gotten a bit bigger as I have not been able to take off my rings since last summer. But never really noticed my forearms till yesterday while wearing my weights and noticed the muscles popping out and a bit of fat hanging off the bottom. Bet it will be back to normal by the end of my 30 days of wearing these wrist bands :)
My numbers for yesterday ( I didn't list the Calories Consumed since I didn't actually log my meals)
BodyMedia FIT data for March 18, 2011
Calories Burned - 3268
Total Activity - 0:51
Moderate Activity - 0:51
Vigorous Activity - 0:00
Steps Taken - 11598
Sleep Duration - 5:37
Lying Down - 6:30
Sleep Efficiency - 86%
My hubby has been much more supportive recently. I think a lot has to do with I stopped making demands and started trying to explain my point of view in a nice way...and I have been really trying to listen to what he is trying to say. Recently I'm trying a new way of talking to him.. he'll say something and I will repeat back what I think he just said...or what I think I understand he's trying to say....I'm finding about 90% of the time I have totally misunderstood what he's trying to say. and the same goes when he repeats back to me what he thinks I'm trying to say. We are working on being able to talk to each other without getting frazzled and just walking out of the room without ever getting out what we were wanting to say. It's making for less tension in the house which is great for the kiddos :) Everyone seems to be happy more.
He hasn't been giving the kids any junk food (he's been letting me do it lol) and the only things he has been bring in the house has been things I have ok. He's really trying...I think....So last night I decided to let him off the hook and ordered pizza.
Being Friday during Lent means no meat but his fav pizza is all vegs without meat. My daughter wanted the spinach pizza so I didn't even have to bring up it being Friday ....everyone got just what they wanted.
I did have the topping from two slices. I don't really like what the crust does for me after eating it so I opted to only have the toppings which was a lot of vegs.
Everyone was happy. No one was bickering and there was peace in our home :)
I have learned that I need to lighting up a bit on my hubby and not try and force him to do everything my way. I need to be a bit bendable and try and allow him to have a voice (at least sometimes) :)
I"m trying not to be such a control type person and to allow his ideas be considered. It's one of the things I've been working on for several years. It just seems like recently it's finally starting to click in place :)
Today I'm happy. I am NOT tired! I'm not a bundle of energy but I'm not tired. I'm getting better :)
Here's to reaching all of our goals one step, one hour, one day at a time :) WE CAN DO IT!
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Completed 4 week biggest loser challange
I've started three blogs today but have yet to get one finished. ...now I'm gonna sit and finish something :)
I finished my 4 week biggest loser challenge today and have been trying to decide if I wanted to change up to a different program or go for another 4 weeks.
In the past 4 weeks I have lost a total of 4 pounds. :)
Since January I have gone from a pants size of 24 to 18 and a shirt size of a tight 2xl to being able to wear xl tshirts that aren't tight around my belly
I've lost a whole inch from my neck :)
I'm thinking at this point I will keep doing the biggest loser workout as it is working even though it's not overnight. Wouldn't that be nice?!....workout out once and everything is back in place! :)
I am going to do a few small changes and as soon as my energy level is back to normal I'll be adding back in more cardo workouts. For now I'm going to try and get in at least 3 cardo workouts per week. Yesterday when I tried it ended up wiping me out for the rest of the day. But this morning I felt better knowing I had pushed through and gotten it in as well as our walk.
my stats for yesterday
I'm tired today but it's getting better each day. Our daily walks really make me feel better.
Today I have not worked out other than our walk and doing the final challenge on the biggest loser.
So far I'm gotten in a bit over 11,000 steps for the day.
My daughter and I have started doing the Mind and Body Connection game on the Kinect. It's a lot of fun and it really does work out your brain with all the math and logical problems you are asked to do. My three year old loves doing the logic and memory games. It's become something fun the 3 of us can do and I like that it helps my daughter work on her math skills while she is having fun. I like that it makes me think :)
I'm adding it in as part of my 'official' daily workout.
I've noticed that since I've been losing a lot of fat off the back of my arms the skin isn't toning up as fast as the fat is going so I have developed those nice wings on the back of my arms. The only way (other than having it cut off) to get rid of the wings is to tone tone tone. I've decided to start wearing 1 pound weights on my wrists during the day and do triceps exercises throughout the day. It will help the back of my arms to tone and firm up quicker. At my age (41) there really isn't any reason why I can't get the back of my arms toned...it just might take a lot of work...but in the end I won't feel like I'm about to flap away when the wind blows :)
So for the next 4 weeks my workout plan is
1- biggest loser on the kinect (working out on the light level currently) 6 days a week 30 minutes/day
2-Mind and Brain Connection (10 minutes when I'm playing by myself and longer when the kids are playing with me)
3- Walk every day getting in at least 10,000 steps per day
4-do a light cardo 3 days a week and work up to doing cardo 6 days a week again
5- Yoga after each biggest loser workout...either with the program or just on my own...the stretching really helps to make me feel better and I'm not as sore the day after a workout when I end it with yoga.
6- wear 1 pound wrist weight during the day (but not while cooking...can't handle the thought of raw meat getting on them by mistake)
7- find time each day to spend 10 minutes just relaxing....thinking about how I can improve my life and keeping notes of the ideas I come up with then implementing those ideas
Since I have had to lower my workout level from hard to light I have noticed a few things....
First I don't get the Vigorous Activity that I was getting in at the hard level
Second- I am not having to modify the workouts while going along i can keep up with the trainers.
3rd- the program isn't getting onto me for not keeping up it's giving me positive reinforcement and telling me how great I'm doing and to keep up the good work (this is good for me...I like hearing the tv say "just like that! you are doing it like a pro! rather than 'I know you can do better!, Get your leg higher!, you need to dip lower, or my least fav-'don't quite on me now poodle!" --don't know why they put the poodle thing in the program but I realllllly don't like it when the tv calls me a poodle! :)
4th - When I workout at the lower level I'm not feeling like my head is going to blow up from the blood pumping so hard. I am able to keep up and get the right form and still sweat buckets without getting my heart rate so high I feel like I could explode. I'm guessing that it's not really good to get your heart rate that high a lot anyway...but I might be wrong.
5th- Since I'm able to get in the correct form while doing the exercises I'm noticing my muscles are reacting to the workouts quicker and I can actually feel my stomach, leg, arm, behind, and back muscles working
I'm thinking it is better to take it slow and get it right rather than trying to go faster and not being able to keep the correct form. If you are doing an exercises and you can't keep the pace so you are only half doing the correct form you are only working out half of the muscles you are intended to workout....you are going to end up with less benefits.
So here's to the start of a new 4 weeks and reaching our goals!
We CAN do it!
If you have a DREAM, THINK about what it will take to get your DREAM, and then DO IT! You CAN have EVERYTHING you DREAM when you are WILLING to put in the WORK to make your DREAMS COME TRUE.
I finished my 4 week biggest loser challenge today and have been trying to decide if I wanted to change up to a different program or go for another 4 weeks.
In the past 4 weeks I have lost a total of 4 pounds. :)
Since January I have gone from a pants size of 24 to 18 and a shirt size of a tight 2xl to being able to wear xl tshirts that aren't tight around my belly
I've lost a whole inch from my neck :)
I'm thinking at this point I will keep doing the biggest loser workout as it is working even though it's not overnight. Wouldn't that be nice?!....workout out once and everything is back in place! :)
I am going to do a few small changes and as soon as my energy level is back to normal I'll be adding back in more cardo workouts. For now I'm going to try and get in at least 3 cardo workouts per week. Yesterday when I tried it ended up wiping me out for the rest of the day. But this morning I felt better knowing I had pushed through and gotten it in as well as our walk.
my stats for yesterday
BodyMedia FIT data for March 16, 2011
Calories Burned - 3280
Calories Consumed - 2191
Total Activity - 1:52
Moderate Activity - 1:51
Vigorous Activity - 0:01
Steps Taken - 13943
Sleep Duration - 6:16
Lying Down - 7:30
Sleep Efficiency - 84%
I'm tired today but it's getting better each day. Our daily walks really make me feel better.
Today I have not worked out other than our walk and doing the final challenge on the biggest loser.
So far I'm gotten in a bit over 11,000 steps for the day.
My daughter and I have started doing the Mind and Body Connection game on the Kinect. It's a lot of fun and it really does work out your brain with all the math and logical problems you are asked to do. My three year old loves doing the logic and memory games. It's become something fun the 3 of us can do and I like that it helps my daughter work on her math skills while she is having fun. I like that it makes me think :)
I'm adding it in as part of my 'official' daily workout.
I've noticed that since I've been losing a lot of fat off the back of my arms the skin isn't toning up as fast as the fat is going so I have developed those nice wings on the back of my arms. The only way (other than having it cut off) to get rid of the wings is to tone tone tone. I've decided to start wearing 1 pound weights on my wrists during the day and do triceps exercises throughout the day. It will help the back of my arms to tone and firm up quicker. At my age (41) there really isn't any reason why I can't get the back of my arms toned...it just might take a lot of work...but in the end I won't feel like I'm about to flap away when the wind blows :)
So for the next 4 weeks my workout plan is
1- biggest loser on the kinect (working out on the light level currently) 6 days a week 30 minutes/day
2-Mind and Brain Connection (10 minutes when I'm playing by myself and longer when the kids are playing with me)
3- Walk every day getting in at least 10,000 steps per day
4-do a light cardo 3 days a week and work up to doing cardo 6 days a week again
5- Yoga after each biggest loser workout...either with the program or just on my own...the stretching really helps to make me feel better and I'm not as sore the day after a workout when I end it with yoga.
6- wear 1 pound wrist weight during the day (but not while cooking...can't handle the thought of raw meat getting on them by mistake)
7- find time each day to spend 10 minutes just relaxing....thinking about how I can improve my life and keeping notes of the ideas I come up with then implementing those ideas
Since I have had to lower my workout level from hard to light I have noticed a few things....
First I don't get the Vigorous Activity that I was getting in at the hard level
Second- I am not having to modify the workouts while going along i can keep up with the trainers.
3rd- the program isn't getting onto me for not keeping up it's giving me positive reinforcement and telling me how great I'm doing and to keep up the good work (this is good for me...I like hearing the tv say "just like that! you are doing it like a pro! rather than 'I know you can do better!, Get your leg higher!, you need to dip lower, or my least fav-'don't quite on me now poodle!" --don't know why they put the poodle thing in the program but I realllllly don't like it when the tv calls me a poodle! :)
4th - When I workout at the lower level I'm not feeling like my head is going to blow up from the blood pumping so hard. I am able to keep up and get the right form and still sweat buckets without getting my heart rate so high I feel like I could explode. I'm guessing that it's not really good to get your heart rate that high a lot anyway...but I might be wrong.
5th- Since I'm able to get in the correct form while doing the exercises I'm noticing my muscles are reacting to the workouts quicker and I can actually feel my stomach, leg, arm, behind, and back muscles working
I'm thinking it is better to take it slow and get it right rather than trying to go faster and not being able to keep the correct form. If you are doing an exercises and you can't keep the pace so you are only half doing the correct form you are only working out half of the muscles you are intended to workout....you are going to end up with less benefits.
So here's to the start of a new 4 weeks and reaching our goals!
We CAN do it!
If you have a DREAM, THINK about what it will take to get your DREAM, and then DO IT! You CAN have EVERYTHING you DREAM when you are WILLING to put in the WORK to make your DREAMS COME TRUE.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Who's got hairy legs?
Yesterday I was way to tired....wasn't able to even get up to get to my appt so I called and had it changed.
Doc said to increase my thyroid med to the full dose to see it it helps with me being just sooooo tired recently.
Today I woke up feeling much better and was able to get in my biggest loser workout. Today was a light yoga workout. Got all the way through it but now I feel like I could sleep for hours. Today is one of those kind of days that I wouldn't mind if my son wanted to take a nap in the middle of the day because I would so take a nap at the same time :)
Yesterday I had to shave my legs......to much info....maybe..... but I'm excited about it...here's why
I haven't had any hair on my legs to shave in a very long time. Nice...yes...but not the reason why. My blood circulation in my legs isn't always the greatest and when there isn't enough blood flow you aren't able to grow hair on your legs.
So although it's nice not to have to worry about shaving it's not nice knowing the reason is because something isn't right.
With all the walking we have been doing it has increased the blood flow enough to support hair growth again. :) More blood flowing to my legs and feet is such a very good thing. I don't have to worry about what if I step on a piece of glass and the cut isn't able to heal. Not I can relax a bit and know that I really am going in the right direction even if I have been feeling like I could sleep all day.
So I'm gonna keep walking and working out as best I can and I'll keep trying to get my diet right and I'll keep losing that extra fat because I know in the end I'll live longer and be happier and my life and the lives of those around me will just be better :)
Doc said to increase my thyroid med to the full dose to see it it helps with me being just sooooo tired recently.
Today I woke up feeling much better and was able to get in my biggest loser workout. Today was a light yoga workout. Got all the way through it but now I feel like I could sleep for hours. Today is one of those kind of days that I wouldn't mind if my son wanted to take a nap in the middle of the day because I would so take a nap at the same time :)
Yesterday I had to shave my legs......to much info....maybe..... but I'm excited about it...here's why
I haven't had any hair on my legs to shave in a very long time. Nice...yes...but not the reason why. My blood circulation in my legs isn't always the greatest and when there isn't enough blood flow you aren't able to grow hair on your legs.
So although it's nice not to have to worry about shaving it's not nice knowing the reason is because something isn't right.
With all the walking we have been doing it has increased the blood flow enough to support hair growth again. :) More blood flowing to my legs and feet is such a very good thing. I don't have to worry about what if I step on a piece of glass and the cut isn't able to heal. Not I can relax a bit and know that I really am going in the right direction even if I have been feeling like I could sleep all day.
So I'm gonna keep walking and working out as best I can and I'll keep trying to get my diet right and I'll keep losing that extra fat because I know in the end I'll live longer and be happier and my life and the lives of those around me will just be better :)
Monday, March 14, 2011
Today has been a great day!
What a great day today has been!
Got in our walk and then the kids and I ended up staying outside playing ball with some of the other kids in the neighborhood.
It's spring brake for the local school kids so there were lots of em out today :)
I'm so glad I'm taking the time to get back in shape. Today I was able to run after the ball, try to catch it (even got it a few times) and throw the balls around with the kids for around an hour without getting so tired and out of breath that I had to stop early.
I did ok with my meals today but not great. My calorie intake was a bit low but after last night I'm thinking that's not such a bad thing. It will all een out in the end.
I did have an ice cream cone for breakfast...300 calories not bad calories wise but not real healthy...but lots of calcium :) gotta find the positive in everything ....it helps to keep my mind from getting overwhelmed and coming to a stall. For me if I get overwhelmed it can take days, weeks, months, or even years to get started again. I have to be careful when I run into a bump and chose if I need to go over it, around it, or just straight through it. If I know I have already reached my limit of stress from bumps sometimes it's best for me to just let it go for a bit till I know I can handle getting through things without causing my head to become overwhelmed and shutting down for a bit.
back to my meals :) I do tend to ramble at times :)
I didn't have a morning snack....I didn't plan my meals today so it had an effect on what I did eat.
For lunch I wasn't hungry ( still a bit of tummy ache from the ice cream) but knew I needed to eat something so I had a handful of peanuts.
By the time dinner rolled around I was feeling better and opened to refrigarator to decide what to cook and the vegs were looking yummy calling my name so I made a stir fry with turkey breast ( Few weeks ago I cooked a whole turkey and put meat chunks in the freezer for when I wanted em. Dark meat and white meat in seperate bags), garlic, olive oil, summer squash, and spinach. Served it on top of a bed of lettuce and cucumber and 1 tablespoon of Olive oil and balsamic organic vinaigrette. It was filling and yummy to me! and only 273 healthy calories
I did drink a LOT of water today...I stopped counting at 100 ounces
my total calorie intake has only been 837 for the day so I will be eating some lettuce with cucumber and a bit of the dressing after I finish my blog. I went ahead and logged in the food so I can have my numbers for the day.
I did reach my goal steps today. :)
We did get in a brisker walk today but it didn't get high enough to get to the VA range.
Here's my numbers for today
Getting ready for tomorrow. have an early AM appt but I'm gonna try to get up early enough to get in my morning biggest loser workout before hand.
The current biggest loser challenge I'm working on ends on Thursday. I haven't reached all of my goals but I have gotten stronger! And....:) I can put on an xl shirt without it being to tight around my tummy again :) Yeah! I can feel muscles in my arms, legs, back, and stomach that I haven't felt in a very long time. My kids are happier and so am I. My hubby even said he was starting to be able to tell I"[m starting to get smaller. :)
I still really can't see any difference. But I can feel the difference and I can tall that my clothes aren't as tight. :)
Everyone keep up the great work..... and always remember
If YOU can dream it, if YOU can think it, YOU CAN DO IT! :)
Got in our walk and then the kids and I ended up staying outside playing ball with some of the other kids in the neighborhood.
It's spring brake for the local school kids so there were lots of em out today :)
I'm so glad I'm taking the time to get back in shape. Today I was able to run after the ball, try to catch it (even got it a few times) and throw the balls around with the kids for around an hour without getting so tired and out of breath that I had to stop early.
I did ok with my meals today but not great. My calorie intake was a bit low but after last night I'm thinking that's not such a bad thing. It will all een out in the end.
I did have an ice cream cone for breakfast...300 calories not bad calories wise but not real healthy...but lots of calcium :) gotta find the positive in everything ....it helps to keep my mind from getting overwhelmed and coming to a stall. For me if I get overwhelmed it can take days, weeks, months, or even years to get started again. I have to be careful when I run into a bump and chose if I need to go over it, around it, or just straight through it. If I know I have already reached my limit of stress from bumps sometimes it's best for me to just let it go for a bit till I know I can handle getting through things without causing my head to become overwhelmed and shutting down for a bit.
back to my meals :) I do tend to ramble at times :)
I didn't have a morning snack....I didn't plan my meals today so it had an effect on what I did eat.
For lunch I wasn't hungry ( still a bit of tummy ache from the ice cream) but knew I needed to eat something so I had a handful of peanuts.
By the time dinner rolled around I was feeling better and opened to refrigarator to decide what to cook and the vegs were looking yummy calling my name so I made a stir fry with turkey breast ( Few weeks ago I cooked a whole turkey and put meat chunks in the freezer for when I wanted em. Dark meat and white meat in seperate bags), garlic, olive oil, summer squash, and spinach. Served it on top of a bed of lettuce and cucumber and 1 tablespoon of Olive oil and balsamic organic vinaigrette. It was filling and yummy to me! and only 273 healthy calories
I did drink a LOT of water today...I stopped counting at 100 ounces
my total calorie intake has only been 837 for the day so I will be eating some lettuce with cucumber and a bit of the dressing after I finish my blog. I went ahead and logged in the food so I can have my numbers for the day.
I did reach my goal steps today. :)
We did get in a brisker walk today but it didn't get high enough to get to the VA range.
Here's my numbers for today
BodyMedia FIT data for March 14, 2011
Calories Burned - 2777
Calories Consumed - 913
Total Activity - 1:18
Moderate Activity - 1:18
Vigorous Activity - 0:00
Steps Taken - 11427
Sleep Duration - 5:27
Lying Down - 8:15
Sleep Efficiency - 66%
Getting ready for tomorrow. have an early AM appt but I'm gonna try to get up early enough to get in my morning biggest loser workout before hand.
The current biggest loser challenge I'm working on ends on Thursday. I haven't reached all of my goals but I have gotten stronger! And....:) I can put on an xl shirt without it being to tight around my tummy again :) Yeah! I can feel muscles in my arms, legs, back, and stomach that I haven't felt in a very long time. My kids are happier and so am I. My hubby even said he was starting to be able to tell I"[m starting to get smaller. :)
I still really can't see any difference. But I can feel the difference and I can tall that my clothes aren't as tight. :)
Everyone keep up the great work..... and always remember
If YOU can dream it, if YOU can think it, YOU CAN DO IT! :)
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