Weight Loss: Week 5

On Saturday I completed 5 weeks of my weight loss journey.  I am happy to report that I lost another 2.8 pounds.  That made a total loss of 20.2 pounds in 5 weeks.  I am so excited about my continued success.  Weight is something I have struggled with my ENTIRE life.  It is something I have never been able to let go of.

Many people who are successful say that you have to loose weight by letting go of your past.  I have thought about my head a lot this week.  Time and time again I thought about excuses.  I am full of excuses and have been for MANY years.  The thing that got me thinking about these excuses was watching The Biggest Loser last week.  A woman, Miggy, had her appendix removed and the very next day walked 14 miles!  All I was thinking while watching was that I would have used that surgery as an excuse.  I would have given up.  I guess that is what got me thinking.  In the past I have used so many things as excuses.

As a child and teenager I was a dancer.  I LOVED TO DANCE!  I took classes 6 days a week.  It made me so happy.  I was fit and truely enjoyed it.  I still miss it to this day.  When I was 14 I hurt my knee and never danced again.  My parents took a conservative approach in treating it.  I stopped dancing and did nothing physical for a year.  In that year betweem 14 and 15 I gained over 100 pounds.  My weight has been an issue for me ever since.  I also spent years using my knee as an excuse.

When I was pregnant with Abigail my pelvis separated.  I cannot begin to tell you the pain.  I spent about a month in the hospital and could not walk without crutches for about 6 months!  After a lot of time if healed but is arthritic.  For years I used my pelvis as an excuse.

Two years ago I shattered the first three metatarsals in my foot.  It still hurts to this day but has become another excuse.  I cannot walk right.  I am forever in pain.  It is swollen and ugly.  It is still just another excuse.

If this woman Miggy could walk 14 miles after surgery, why do I use excuses.  I am pretty sure that I am not alone in my excuse using.  I think that we all do it.  This week I am going to try and eliminate my excuses.  They have been holding me back.  They have made my body and mind unhealthy.  They have to go.  What excuses do you use?  How will you overcome them?

Becca

Please do not forget to join my facebook group Becca’s Belly Busters.

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Weight Loss: Week 4

So here we are.  I have put in 4 whole weeks and actually not cheated at all.  I am so happy with my progress.  I have stayed committed and made achievable mini goals.  I am oing to go and get my hair cut in the next week or so.  I am thinking that I may even do highlights.  That was my reward for loosing 5% of weight.  I have lost a total of 17.4 pounds in just 4 weeks.  My goal for February is to loose 10 pounds.  I think that it is a little ambitious but it is a goal and if I do not meet it I can always try again.

Success is wonderful.  It has helped me to believe that I can accomplish things.  It is something that I am really enjoying!  I am hoping that by the summer I can be 50 pounds thinner.  I think that it is a realistic goal.  One that I can achieve and it will make it much easier to have the fun I want to have this summer.  Swimming in my sister in laws pool will be a great exercise.  I think that I will be there every morning if she will let me.  A quick swim then off to my day!  We will see how I am going by that point.

All in all I am still enjoying this weight loss journey.  It has given me some confidence that I have been lacking for quite some time!  Weight is something that has always held me back.  I am breaking free from the weight and all of the things that have made me this way!  Weight is not just about eating.  It is about all of the demons in your head.  I think that I have shut those demons up for the first time in my life and it is liberating.

Don’t forget to join Becca’s Belly Busters on facebook.  I would love some more company!

Becca

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GoWear Fit: Is It Worth It?

I stumbled across the GoWear Fit and was completely lost.  I have never heard of it… Have you?  I am wondering if it is all worth it.  I did some research and discovered some very interesting things about it.

1. You wear a band on your arm and by measuring all different things going on in your body it can tell you how many calories you are actually burning all day and night.
2. It calculates the amount of calories you are taking in.
3. You down load all of the information onto your computer and you are on your way.

According to GoWear Fit there are 3,500 calories in a pound of body fat.  So in order to loose a pound you have to burn 3,500 calories more then you consume!  Although this sounds like a lot even writing this post is burning calories!  The GoWear Fit system is a little price.  The cheapest I found it for was $179.  I would love to try it and give a review.  Perhaps the GoWear Fit gods will read this and let me try one out.  I think that this would be a great tool for my weight loss journey.

Do any of you have a GoWear Fit?  I am interested in hearing how it all works.

GoWear Fit

Becca

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Weight Loss: Week 3 Weigh-In

On Saturday I finished week three on my weight watchers, weight loss journey.  I lost 1.8 pounds this past week for a total weight loss of 13.0 pounds!  I am just so proud of myself.  It has had ups and downs this week but I am still working hard to become a healthier, thinner person.

Because I have so much to loose I do not notice a difference quite yet.   I know soon it will start to look like I have actually lost weight.  For now I am just trying to concentrate on how wonderful I have been doing.  I am a few days into week 4 and still plugging away!  I am little the little engine.  I started three weeks ago saying, “I think I can” and now I know that I have to power to make positive changes.

So, I am hoping for a larger loss this week.  This is not because I am selfish but because I had gotten my “friend” on Friday and it is typical that I gain 5 pounds of water when ever my “friend” pays a visit.  So I figure I could end this month with a total loss of 15+ pounds.

As many of you know my entire extended family have been working on this together.  It has been nice.  I started a private group just for us on facebook and supporting one another is really working.  In the past 3 weeks the the 6 of us have lost over 60 pounds!  We have lost a child!  Well you know in a matter of speaking!

Rob has been making so super delicious meals.  I am hoping to start to take pictures of our dinners and post recipes so that you can all share in loosing weight and eating great too!  It is out of this world and has made it all tolerable.

As I plug ahead I think of all I have done well in the past three weeks.  I hope to et better about water this week.  I think that each week that is my goal and each week I do not meet that goal.   Perhaps this week will be the one.  May all of your weight loss dreams come true!  I will write again soon!

Becca

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Weight Loss Journey: Week 2

I did not post on Saturday because I was so busy this weekend having fun.  All in all I had a great weight loss journey this week.  I weighed in on Saturday and I lost another 5.6 pounds.  That is a total of 11.2 pounds in two weeks!  I am feeling quite proud of myself.  I am still very into a healthy life style.  A healthier me should mean a thinner me.  It should also mean a happier, easier moving, more fun me!

Week 3 and 4 are when my weight most often plateaus.  I am so worried that this will happen again!  I have been doing well thus far and I so want my success to continue!  I have been preparing myself mentally for a plateau.  I figure that it is a chance for my body to adjust to my weight loss.  I have been doing this with weight loss journey with weight watchers in mind.  I have not joined yet and am thinking of waiting until I begin to have some trouble.  I think that weight loss is something that from time to time you have to trick your body.  This means that we have to switch things up when we hit our plateaus.  I think that if I make it past the next two weeks I will continue until my health and weight goals have been met.  I hope that you are all having success in you goals.

Becca

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Wii Fit Plus: Bicycling Game

I was lucky enough to get a Wii Fit Plus pad and game for Christmas.  I have been working on using the Wii fit pad to help me in my weight loss journey.  So yesterday I decided to click on the bicycle  game within the Wii Fit Plus game.  Trust me… NEVER… EVER click the bicycle game.   At first it was a lot of fun.  The faster you run on the Wii Fit Pad the faster your bike goes.  I was having a lot of fun.

That is until I figured out you have to find flags.  It is not like you have to find 4-5 flags… You have to find 13.  I ran in place for 9 minutes total and thought that I was going to die.  I would have quit if it were not for Abigail…

Me:  I CANNOT do this…

Abby:  Sure you can mom don’t be silly…

Me:  I think I am going to die

Abby:  Just get it done mom

Me:  Perhaps I should just reset the Wii

Abby:  Come on mom you have to finish what you started (who taught her that and why did she listen?)

Me:  I hate this

Abby:  You will love it when it is over… just come on mom…

And so I did finish and I did not die.  It stinks when your kids throw what you tell them back into your face!  TRUST ME WHEN I TELL YOU TO STAY AWAY FROM THIS WII FIT PLUS ACTIVITY!!!!!

I know you will all try it but trust me…

Becca

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Weight Loss: Week 1 Overview

I think that for my first week of weight loss, I did great.   I had a few really emotional days but I handled them well.  I weighed in today and lost a total of 5.6 lbs this week.  That is a 2% loss!  Not bad for a week.  I think that I did well with so many things this week:

• I ate well and did not obsess over food.
• I only weighed myself once ( I tend to do it 100000 times a day)
• I was able to get though 2 VERY emotional situations without reaching for food.
• I exercised 4 days this week!
• I stayed in communication with my supports.
• I had a Girl Scout leader meeting and served 90% healthy food.
• I have posted almost everyday with my progress.
• I have believed in myself.
• I have not let others actions determine my success.

All in all I think that I am well on my way to success.  In just three more weeks this should all begin to develop into healthy habits.  I am not saying that it has been the easiest thing every.  It has been easier then I had thought that it would be though!

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Weight Loss: Day 4

I had another wonderful day on my weight loss journey again.  I am sure that you are all getting a little tired of hearing about it but it went quite well.  I was serious about exercise today and walked outside in the 15 degree weather again.  I took the older two girls with me and we had a nice time.  We walked a little more then a mile together.  In addition to that I did the Wii fit for 45 minutes today and burned 385 calories.  I had a shake and 1/2 of a grapefruit for breakfast, a chicken salad for lunch and the most delisious Honey-Mustard chicken for dinner with some rice and a

salad.  I am not sure if I ate enough today but I only ate when I was hungry.  I am sure it will all catch up with me tomorrow.

All in all I am feeling pretty great.  I guess that in a lot of ways I am feeling proud of myself.  I am believing in myself.  It is something I have not felt in a long time.  I have still not weighed myself.  I will weigh in on Saturday when we hit one week in.  I am hoping for good things to happen.  If the scale disappointed me with no weight loss, I will know that it is not because I have not worked hard this week.  I have agreed to be patient with myself.  I did not gain all of this weight in a week and I will not loose it in a day.

I also started a facebook group where anyone is welcome for support, recipe ideas, exercise routines.  It is a place where we can all come together and loose.  The group is Becca’s Belly Busters.

Becca

The honey-mustard chicken was wonderful so I posted the recipe click here.

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Weight Loss: Day three

Well here we are with the third day down.  It seems as if this has all been too easy.  I am usually much more obsessive by now.  I have usually weighed myslef about a million times by now.  I have usually eaten some chocolate by now.  As I stated yesterday, this seems different.  It is not motivation that I have.  It is just that I know I need this.  It is that it feels right.  So here is how the day went

I went for a walk with Abigail and our new dog.  It was better then I had expected.  I lived through it and because of my new shoes my foot that hurts ALL of the time.  It all went so well that I chose to walk again this evening.  I will be waking up again tomorrow to repeat my walk.

As far as eating today I did wonderfully.  I had a shake for breakfast, a chicken sandwich for lunch with fruit and pretzels and tuna caserole with salad and broccoli for dinner.   I think that all in all that is a wonderful day.

Tomorrow is day 4.  I am proud to say that I have my meals all planned out and that I am ready.  I hope you are all doing as well as I am.

Becca

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Weight Loss: The Second Day

All in all I think that today was a great day.  I was able to stay on my plan as far as eating, I almost drank all of the water I should have, and I am feeling overall happy.  I know that to some two days in is nothing but for me it is everything.  This is a journey I have take before.  It is a journey that I have yet to complete.  I cannot tell you the number of times I have worked at loosing weight.   I have joined Weight Watchers many times, I have tried the South Beach Diet, nutritionist led diets and the list goes on and on.  It is more times then I wish to count. It is not the programs that do not work.  It is that I do not work the program.

It is odd.  This time it all feels different.  It is not that I am pumped up on motivation or anything.  It is not that I have some huge reward waiting for me if I am successful.  It is just different.  This time I am just doing the best I can.  I am easing into loosing weight.  I am making my getting healthy a family afair.  Not that I am discussing dieting with the kids or anything.  I think that discussing dieting is wrong with children.  They so often become obsessed.  I have told our girls that we have been eating very bad lately and that for the new year we will be changing all of that.  They have been great about it.

Thanks to my mother-in-law I am now the proud owner of Sketchers Shape-Up sneakers.  I am adding a small walk tomorrow morning.  I have invited Abigail to come with me on Monday’s and Friday’s.  Emma is expressing interest but I do not think that she is going to want to get up early and walk in the freezing cold.  I guess we will see.  Her days are on Tuesday and Thursday.  Wendsday will be my alone day.  I wanted them all to be alone days but the more I thought about it the more I realized that if this was going to be a family change the girls would also have to be involved.

Day two is in the past now and I am anxious to move into day three.  I think that tomorrow I will take a before picture.  I think of all of the people who are successful and they all have their before picture.

Becca

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