Sunday, October 21, 2012

Heading to WW tomorrow

This seriously has to be the last time i have a do over, a first day etc.  Tomorrow morning after taking my son to school I will go for an offical WI at weight watchers.  I need to make sure that I go weekly and be accountable.

I will get back into exercise like I was before.  I will track what I eat and make the cleanest choices as possible.  I am tried of feeling so unhealthy.

Here is do the beginning of a challenge that needs to be done!!

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Breakdown

I am sure that due to my lack of blogging that one can tell I fell off the wagon.  I totally did a face plant and it took me a long time to get back up.  I was kicking and screaming all the way but then I realized I needed to get up.  I almost landed back on my face tonight but thankfully my husband walked in to the house which stopped me from eating what I was going too.

I did pretty good eating today.  I could have done a bit better but overall I am pleased with how I did.  I pretty much have my menu for the week made out.  It will involve some cooking on wednesday but being prepared with lunch foods really does help me stay on track.  I ran 3K today.  Tomorrow morning I need to drag my ass out of bed and try to do 5K.

Here is to eating clean again and to get back to my happy, healthy weight.

Friday, October 5, 2012

Feeling good

I had a great 2nd day and now we are getting towards the end of day 3 of being back on the healthy eating wagon.  I stuck with what I had planned to eat at work tonight and had nothing more.  That is a huge thing for me as I have been snacking so much on my night shifts.  I just need to come prepared and just fuel my body with what it needs not what my mind wants.

When I got up I was feeling sluggish and was debating on going for my run or not.  I laced up my sneakers and off I went for a pretty good 4K run.  I did have one walk break but I pushed myself to keep going to finish off at 4K which is what I had planned.  Tomorrow I need to get up at 7 and head in to the city to go to a bootcamp class at 8.  I am excited about going to my 2nd one.  I need to make sure that I go 2-3x/week. 

Mentally I am feeling awesome.  It is so crazy how much food affects my mood.  It makes sense though that I feel awful when I put crap food into my body.  I just need to remember this.

I really hope that I can keep this up and i know if I do that I will reach the mini goal I have before we go to Vegas :)

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Day 1 completed...on to day 2

Well I had a great 1st day to my "recovery".  I did have Kashi bars as a trigger food to avoid but I have changed my mind on that.  I need to keep kashi bars and diet coke as a food I can have once/day.  I think that will help if I limit myself with these foods.  If I find that it is not working and too much of a temptation I will remove these from my diet.

I was able to sleep in today since my husband is taking a personal day.  We started out on a run together but he didn't make it all the way.  I did 3K which is what I am supposed to do according to my training.  I can't remember if I mentioned this yesterday but I signed up for a race in March.  Around the Bay which is 30K.  I did it last year and will do it again this year.  I am starting my training now so that I will feel ready for this race.  I was not ready for it last year at all.

I had a very good apple last night.  Honey Crisp.  I don't have them too often and it tasted so good.  I will have to buy myself a couple of them to have.  I need to make sure I have enough snacks tonight at work. 

I will try my best to stay on this road to recovery.  I want to make it work.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

confession...and a new start

I was thinking of starting a new blog but I changed my mind and will just continue with this one.  I am sure that if anyone reads this blog they would know that I have many issues when it comes to food.  I am a binge eater.  I find that I eat even though I am not hungry.  I can eat large quantities of food and not even really taste what I am eating.  I tend to try and do this in privacy.  I even eat foods that are not a 10 in my mind when it comes to taste.  I need to change, and change now.

I really feel that it is an addiction that I have and I have not really been taking it seriously.  The last couple of days have been really bad.  I felt unwell both physically and mentally.  I had a breakdown yesterday and it made me realize that I need to change.

I know what my trigger foods are and i need to stay away from them:

Kashi bars - not that bad but when eaten in large quantitiees they are
trail mix
chips - any form of chips
popcorn
chocolate - any type of milk chocolate
candy
cookies- any type
any type of white bread, pasta, rice etc
muffins
popsicles
cake/cupcakes
I think that anything with sugar in it is a trigger food for me and I need to avoid it.  I know I won't be perfect with everything but really with the list of foods above I do not need them to sustain my life and will do my best to avoid them.

I am starting this journey today.  I will try to post daily about how I am doing daily.
Today I have started off well.  I went for a 4K run and then I came home and had some greek yogurt with strawberries, kiwi and slivered almonds.  For lunch I am going to have some trukey chili from the eat clean diet cookbook.  I am going to have to go and get some groceries today so that I will have lots of options for healthy snacks.

I am going to get back to my healthy, happy weight.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Tomorrow...

This has to be my last first day.  I am going to get myself back on track tomorrow.  I am feeling so gross and my energy is so depleted  I really want to get back to my happy weight and by me starting my first day every day and failing to stick to healthy eating is starting to affect me mentally. 

So starting tomorrow I will eat clean and start my daily exercise again.  I want to be in shape and I know that if I am good I will have the 15 lbs off before going to vegas!!

I WILL DO IT.

Monday, September 24, 2012

it has been a while...

I can't believe that August 6th was the last time i posted anything.  I am still trying to get this vegas challenge going on the right track.  Today will be day 2.  Yesterday I went for a 5K run and today was my first day at a new bootcamp class which was tougsh and lots of fun.  It reminds me a lot of J's class.  It was about 40 min long and you are going at full intensity the entire time.  My plan is to go back wednesday.  I don't think that I should do it 2 days in a row.  I will try to do 3x/week, and if it means 2 days in a row I will but for this week I will have some breaks in between.  Tomorrow will be a 5 or 6K run.  I am going to kick my butt into gear so that I look and feel good for vegas and that I get myself on the right track for reaching my happy weight. 

As far as eating goes I am going to count my points but choose clean options.  I need to stay away from certain foods;
trail mix, cookies, chips, candy, digestive cookies, regular peanut butter, graham crackers, etc.  I know what foods are clean and which ones aren't. 

Tomorrow we are going out for lunch for one of the girls at work.  I already know what I am going to have.  I am going to split it in 2 and have some for lunch and some for supper.  I will hopefully be able to get the NI and figure out the points value.  I also have a concert tomorrow evening.  Should be fun.

I have tried to space my meals out every 3 hrs so it meant I had a late lunch so supper won't be until 6 or 630.

Looking forward to getting myself back on track.