I can't wait till my wound heals up a bit more and I can jump into belly dancing =D And once I test drive that, I may find a class this summer to take!!

This summer, I'm going to try 1 thing new every month, exercise wise.

thats a really good idea cuts out the tedium and also you get to try new things and meet new people!

I think I'll do a real post =D Thank you to everyone who has commented; even if I didn't have much to say lately about weight or eating!


Let's see, I've been sort of blowing off my calorie goal, it's to much hassle and I rather not hold myself back while my wound is trying to heal. I've been trying to keep everything under 2,000 calories though, and there for a few days I slipped up and ate alot of sugary stuff. Right now I'm eating soups and dairy and meat. Meat isn't something I generally eat; considering my body goes into a hissy fit about it, but there are some cases where I will eat it. I've been trying to get my protein from eggs mostly instead of meat. Lot's of protein makes the body heal...hopefully.

Like I've said before, I'm waiting around till March 19th to start going back to the gym. I'm going to start off with an hour of a nice paced walking (probably around 3.0) four times a week. The next week I'll add another half hour to it. The third week I'll add another half hour. And the fourth week I'll keep it at 2 hours. That should give me enough time to get into the groove of things, get some activity in and keep me from gaining much weight.

I also plan to start out at 1,200calories, that doesn't seem like much, specially if you take into account I'm healing and exercising. But that will be the first week, the next week I'll up it to 1,250, the third week 1,300, and the fourth week 1,350.

After 4 weeks I'll start over. But I'll include the ellipitical this time and cut down my treadmill time, while upping the ellipitical. And I'll stay at 1,4000calories. (I've already figured out all my calories and such). The month after, of course I'll add weight training (the reason for the first two months is, the seats are hard and I can't sit down on anything remotely hard for the first month or so). I'll stick to my treadmill/ellipitical workout add in weight training and up my calories to 1,400. Depending on how much weight I lose, I'll either keep it there or go down again. It all depends. I could tweak it again.

This way may not seem to ideal to anyone, specially since I keep upping my calories, but my problem has always been that I eat to little, but not only do I eat to little, but I include junk food. And if I don't include junk food, I eat even less. Which gets to be a really bad habit for me, so I'll start adding GOOD foods and up the calories to keep up with how many calories burned.

Obviously the calories may change as I lose weight. I'll figure it out as I lose the weight and the count of how many calories I burn just living goes down. And I'll find a happy medium somewhere =D

I'm also going to start running this summer. I have a friend who wants to run with me, so yay!!

My one friend and I have been keeping up with blogspot.com. She's very leery about posting pictures of herself, yet she wanted a sure way to stick to losing weight. So I had started an account on blogspot for my own personal trackings, and I got her involved with it. She created an account, we upload pictures whenever we hit a good mark and we keep each other motivated. She lives in Texas right now, as I live in Pennsylvania and since she rarely comes up here, we thought this would be a good way to keep up to date with each other. I track all my calories on there. And she has lost around 5lbs so far. I'm very proud of her. She gained 45lbs in the last year and a half from her move down there, which is a lot of weight for her. She's skinny, but she wants to lose 10 or 15lbs and then tone.

I got my other friend involved in blogspot too with us, she wants to lose around 30 or 40lbs, so yay!! I hope she sticks with it and achieves her goal. I recommened this site to them, but one is scared of talking to people basically and the other is to busy to keep up. I'm sure they'll take a look or two =D

Sorry..that all was to the degree of a short story =(

I was looking through my pictures and found these two. Which just amazed me at the difference. I'm not sure if anyone else can really tell the difference, but I sure did. The one on the left is from when I was 15 and the one on the right was taken a few days ago, at 17

Attached Thumbnails

 

I don't eat Mickey D's. And I don't eat Wendys. And I don't eat Hardees, but I used to eat Arby's all the time. Why? Cause their meat isn't all dripping with fat and my stomach could with stand it. Then a few months ago, like 3, everytime I ate there, my stomach would turn on me. So I figured "My bodys had as much meat as it can handle, I'm stopping". So I stopped..and I switched to subway whenever I wanted fast food. Well, I was craving Arby's for some reason, so mom and dad stopped and got me a sandwhich, I ate it and good lord. That was the most revolting thing that I've tasted in awhile. The meat was so salty and it left this horrible after taste in my mouth and it wasn't as enjoyable as it had been and all I wanted was for that taste to get out of my mouth.

Screw fast food if that's what it's going to taste like. Ick!! I'll stick to my Subway club from now on =D

The funny thing is, awhile ago, around Auguast - October..what helped me lose the first 10lbs off my weight, was eating Arbys like once or twice a week. I wouldn't keep up with that or recommend that, but for some reason it worked in my favor. Now the stuff taste horrible and I'd perfer to stay faaaaaaaaar away from it. Which is good, cause I don't need it!!


I need to start back on the calorie counting band wagon. I need to straighten out my sleeping patterns and eat back down in my 1,300 calorie range.


Amazingly, today, I had 1,670 calories. Which is alot, but I didn't snack all day, the bulk of it came from the sandwhich. So I'm at least proud of that.

I also have been weighing myself these past few days; and I've been staying at 285/283 even though my calories have been higher

I've been having this real problem with feeling extremely bloated, but staying the exact same weight. And nothing is bringing forth this bloatedness, not that I'm aware of anyway.

I need to get back on track today, and maybe I'll go out for a walk.


Baking is a hobby of mine, and usually I don't eat any of it or I nearly eat all of it, but I made a three layer Boston Cream Pie for my family (and my brothers friends) and managed to not scarf down the entire thing. I had 2 small pieces (small width wise..the three layers didn't help much) and 1 small piece the next day.

Unfortunally my biggest downfall was the chocolate ganoche I have sitting in the fridge. I need to not do this often, the custard and gonache both had heavy cream in them, eep.

But today is a new day, and I'll restart. =D One step at a time.

I also have a pedometer that I think I'll dilly dally around with, go on a walk, see how many steps I take a day. It'll give me something to do.

Here I go, talking to myself again.

I ordered a small MP3 player that I'm going to load music on so I don't fall over bored at the gym when I go back.

And..I tried green tea. Can't say I love it, but I also don't hate it. I wonder if it will actually do anything. I'm more interested in it for the anti-oxident thing, I really couldn't care if it works for weight loss or not.

Today, I didn't eat anything, and I weighed myself...285 on the dot. If someone could possibly explain how you can eat so much, weigh 285. Wake up in the morning and still weigh 285??

haha i have no idea how that works huni. as for green tea i cant stand the stuff so good luck on that one - good for you for trying new things though that is afterall what this journey is about. wishing you a quick recovery, Sophie x

I don't know either....I ate 2200 calories yesterday, weight trained and am PMSing, and I weighed 142--down from 143 yesterday. Must be the gycogen stores...

Why The Scale Lies

Green tea tastes awful if you let it steep. Waving the tea over the cup of hot water is about the only way I can drink it.

How's the healing going? Are you taking arnica?

I've tried plain green tea before and it tasted aweful...this was green teach with peach, so it had more of a peachy flavor. It's not top choice for me, but I suppose if Iever wanna get down a cup or two it'll do =D


Wound -- The healing is going pretty good, it's a slow process, we think it's started to fill in (with new skin) but if it is, it's very little. I can finally sit down, feels good to not lay around all the time. I can walk around without getting sick too, so that makes my days a little less boring.

Foot -- We have no idea what's up with it. When they first did the X-Rays they said "Oh it's broken, blah blah blah" then we had to go back a week or so later and they told us "That was just an imperfection on the X-Ray, she just sprained her ankle very bad." Uh yeh, great going doctor. Grr. At any rate, it hurts to put pressure on my foot, I can walk on it, but that's about it. The top left side sure feels like something more is up with it then just a spraine...but they are the doctors. Heh.

It's such a sneaky frusterating thing! Thank you for the link, it was rather helpful


Congrats though, on going down a pound. It sure beats seeing the scale climb during the monthly. lol.

the celestial seasonings green tea with blueberry isn't bad -it's actually pretty good -even iced - it's one of the few green teas i've tried that has a strong flavor..

ah doctors -i've been going on almost 3 years - countless mri's xrays and the like to figureout what's wrong with my shoulder - its really fascinating how doctors who theoretically studied thesame thing in school can come up with vastly different diagnosis hope they find your problem fast -shoulder pain is liveable -foot pain stinks

Green tea with peach isn't so bad, and they make it with mango too. It takes the "blahhh" flavor out...sorta. Or you just wait for it to cool, close your eyes and count to three, then convince yourself that you're drinking something wonderful flavored. lol.

Thank you for your recovery wishes!! I'll put them to good work =D

They make it with blueberry?? That sounds pretty good. My mother has a box of Pomigranit tea setting around, that sounds like it should be good.

No kiddin? 3 years and they haven't come up with anything really? It sort of makes you wonder, what can they do that you can't rightly read in a book/look up online. Sure, you can't X-Ray yourself, but you know the pain and what's going on better then anyone. I hope they find it and can at least tell you for sure what it is!!

But I'll tell ya..I have tendinitis in my right rotary (spelling??) cuff, that one is painful at times. So I hear ya with the whole shoulder pain. It's no fun, at all.