This post is going to be a short one. The picture is of my marble jars that I started a while ago. Between the 2 jars there are 100 marbles. Each marble represents 1 pound and the right jar is all of the pounds I have lost and the left jar is what I have left to go! Today I had my oatmeal for breakfast with a cup of green tea. I had a baked pork loin for lunch with a sweet potato and have not had dinner yet but I think I am going to have a lean pocket. I worked out in the basement last night and I still have plans to workout again in the basement tonight. I have finished my 75oz jug of water and have only had 3 cups of green tea today.
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I had a great workout in the basement last night. I still have yet to workout today but I plan to do another basement work out sometime before bed. I need to look for another exercise bike so if anyone knows of one for really cheap or free let me know! I was up 3 different times last night letting my dogs out. They usually are good at sleeping through the night but I guess when you got to go, you got to go and none of them wanted to go at the same time Lol – To get to my point I didn’t get a good sleep so I ended up sleeping in until about 11:30AM. I got up and made a late breakfast/early lunch. I tried to make an omlette. Since I was eating a brunch I used 3 eggs instead of 2 and I had some green pepper, onion and mushrooms in it. Now like I said I tried to make an omlette. For some reason I have yet to master it! I can make scrambled eggs perfect and fluffy but I suck at making omlettes. I always burn it. Every time I look up different recipes and techniques that people do and I guess I just have to keep trying. Mine turned out all burned and gross today. I barely ate it and threw most of it away. I had 2 slices of wheat toast with it and I devoured those ha-ha. I have gone through my 75oz jug of water and today I had a great day on the green tea front! I lost count after my 6th cup. For dinner I had a sweet potato sliced up and fried with some extra virgin olive oil and a baked pork loin fillet. I don’t have too much to say today. I had a chill day. I didn’t do much. My Mom came to visit for a while and then I just farted around so I really need to get my butt in the basement and work out! Until tomorrow… I finally have my house almost back in order from my Halloween party/Halloween. I had a lot to pack away and find normal decorations that I crammed in different places. I have been doing little by little each day but today I really kicked butt. I had the tunes cranked up so it was a mixture between dancing/cleaning lol. I only have my sun porch to finish cleaning and then Halloween is officially over in this house; until next year! I still have plans to work out tonight in the basement.
I woke up and had oatmeal with a cup of green tea. I am about half way through my 75oz water jug and I had a can of healthy choice soup for lunch with some saltine crackers. Yesterday I took my last Centrum 21 multivitamin. I need to get more! I remember the day I got that bottle; I thought to myself that by the time I would finish off the bottle of 100 I would be somewhere great with my weight loss journey; and I am. I need to remember those little things. I need to remind myself every time I get discouraged about my weight now to not be; for there was a time when I only DREAMED to be where I am at right now. Yesterday after I posted my blog I went for a walk with 2 of my dogs to my Moms. It was COLD! I left the dogs at her house and walked home. I picked them back up later on. I made a veggie stir fry last night for dinner and had what was left over today for lunch. I made the veggie stir fry with my 0 calorie spray, onion, green pepper, mushrooms and I sliced up breakfast steak. For breakfast this morning I had a bowl of frosted mini wheat's. I am already through my entire 75oz water jug and then some. I have also had 3 cups of green tea. I had a great work out in the basement not too long ago for 30 minutes. Last night I was bad. I caved and had one of Michaels little debbie zebra cakes and then a small bowl of Michaels lucky charms. I missed dinner today but I had a piece of Michaels pepperoni pizza and 2 of his breadsticks that I had made him for dinner. I didn't exceed my calories but still! I need to learn better self control. I was so great with my will power in the beginning that I wouldn't even take a bite of anything that would be considered junk food! I think I need to get creative again with food and find new easy recipes to make for my diet. In the end yesterday turned out to be a good day. It really helped to write my blog; I felt much better after. My Mom had called me and got me out of the house. I showered and we went to town. She took me out to eat and it turned into a cheat day but that’s ok; it was Friday anyways (my normal cheat day). I didn’t really cheat that bad though. I had boiled cod, some french fries and some chips with salsa. I didn’t get to work out. Well...I could have but I just chose not to. I went grocery shopping too instead of going today. I am set for a while! I got some more eggs, wheat bread, 0 calorie cooking spray, green peppers, onions, pork loin filets, thin breakfast steaks, boneless skinless chicken breasts, lean pockets, healthy choice soups, mushrooms, saltine crackers, pickles (even though they are really high in sodium I still like to have one as a snack here and there) and last but not least I got a bunch sweet potatoes! I just realized that sweet potatoes are the same thing as yams; lol. I wanted to get some of this oatmeal I have been getting but I could not find it! I hope they get it back. I am happy to finally have some fresh lean foods again though. It’s been a while since I have had one of my veggie stir fries. It’s so nice having options in the kitchen again. I weighed myself again today and guess what?!!!! I lost 2 more pounds! I am beyond happy about it. No more 265; hello 263! I am now officially 75 pounds down! Yahoo! Now I just need to stop weighing myself until next Saturday. I get like that; where I can’t help but not weigh myself everyday until I see a change. I just have NO patience when it comes to stuff like that; I like to know the day it happens. I know it’s just a number and blah, blah, blah but to me it’s crucial that I stay on top of it otherwise the pressure wont be on me if I’m gaining. I plan to walk to my Moms for my exercise after I post this. No ifs, ands or buts about it. These past couple of days I have been writing my blog early and I have come to realize that I write more if I do it early instead of waiting until the day is over. For some reason I have more to say instead of just trying to get it over with due to me being tired and ready for bed. I hope I can keep it up but I think I a big part of it is being back into the swing of things. I think I finally have my groove back and I feel as if I’m almost 100% back in the mindset I need to be in. It is so easy for it to spiral out of control. I am glad I got the reigns back. I was extremely close to giving up. I had my oatmeal for breakfast with a cup of green tea. I just started on my 75oz jug of water and for lunch I plan to have some scrambled eggs with wheat toast. I am not sure what I am going to have for dinner yet. Until tomorrow :-) Have you ever had one of those days where you are feeling blue but don’t know why and you know that it is stupid to be sad but you can’t snap out of it?
I am having an off day. I haven’t cheated; I just feel down in the dumps. Part of me knows I should just go down in the basement to workout and take a nice hot shower after to get over it. Its 2:24PM and I’m still not dressed. I wish I felt the way I did a couple months ago. Everything seemed to be going so great. I don’t know what I am missing. This whole week I have been eating within my calories, exercising every day and trying to stay positive. I just wish I would get out of this funk! I go grocery shopping tomorrow so I will see about picking up some fresh healthy foods instead of these processed soups and lean cuisines I have been having. I need to go back to eating fresh, lean and green foods! Whatever is on sale I guess is what I will have to go with. Yesterday I have officially entered month 7 of my journey. I am not as far as I wanted to be at this point but the good thing is I have no time limit. As long as I don’t give up I will take as long as I need to. I don’t think I will be down 100 pounds by Thanksgiving like I was hoping. I would have to lose 27 pounds in 20 days and I just don’t see that happening. I weighed myself today and I know I shouldn’t have. I was going to wait until next Saturday due to my monthly visit but curiosity got the best of me. I am still at 265!!! I am getting so sick of seeing that number. I am actually relieved because I know I gained some muscle and I was hoping I wouldn’t hop on the scale and see something over 265. So I must have lost something and gained it back in muscle. I don’t know. I just hope the next time I weigh in (next Saturday) it will say 264 or lower! I will scream if I see 265 one more time after I have been working my butt off. 6 months down, 73 pounds lost… So far I have had my oatmeal for breakfast with a cup of coffee. I had 2 eggs and wheat toast for lunch and am half way through my water jug. I have not had any green tea yet. I have no idea what I am going to do for dinner. I will probably have a can of healthy choice soup because that is pretty much all I have left besides eggs and toast. I am not sure if I will take today as an off day for working out or not. I really, really don’t feel up to it but I know it might make me feel better. I am just having one of those me against the world kind of days. We will see, I guess you guys will have to wait until tomorrow to find out lol but I did have a great work out last night in the basement after I posted my blog. I did a full 30 minutes and broke my exercise bike for good I think. The pedal has been coming off and it came off again and I can’t get it to stay back on. I had to hop back on the treadmill to finish out my time. Right now; I need to quit feeling sorry for myself (even though I’m not quite sure what I’m feeling sorry for ha-ha), get up off the couch, put my big girl panties on and grab what’s left of today by the…. well you know lol. Until tomorrow... I have been cleaning most of the day and I still have yet to work out. I plan to go down in the basement after I post this. I had plans to go for a walk earlier with a friend but something else came up. I had oatmeal for breakfast with a cup of coffee. I have had 4 cups of green tea today and have gone through my whole 75oz jug of water. For lunch I had a lean cuisine and for dinner I had a bowl of cereal. I also had a snack of baked pumpkin seeds earlier. I am doing some much needed grocery shopping on Saturday. I plan to have a great workout tonight to blow off some steam. When I went to check my mail earlier I realized someone had smashed our mailbox! It’s our first encounter with vandalism. I don’t understand or see the fun in doing something like this but I am still fuming. My treadmill is going to get it!!!!! LOL – If only I had a punching bag. |
My name is Marilyn and I am 27 years old. I have been overweight for most of my life and on May 1st, 2012 I weighed in at 338 pounds. This blog is about my weight-loss journey.
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