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Weight Loss: Falling Off The Wagon

May 25, 2010 By Becca Leave a Comment

The past few weeks I have been having a terrible time.  I have fallen off of the wagon.  I think in fact that the wagon is dragging me and running me over.  Today, for about the 100th time in the past 3 weeks, I am going to make an effort to jump back onto the waggon an bring it all back under control.  I have do ne so well and I just cannot throw it all away now.  I must continue on and be a success.

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Here is my action plan for the day:

  1. Eat breakfast.  I know it seems simple but I am not a morning person and I have tons or trouble getting up and eating.  I have already accopmplished this goal so I am happy to say that I can check this one off.
  2. Make a list of things to do today so that I will not be tempted to eat badly.
  3. Plan out meals for the remainder of this week.  I just know that if I can go into the rest of the week with a plan I will be more successful.
  4. Eat a healthy lunch.  I keep telling myself that this does mean not licking the peanut butter knife!  That is a really hard thing for me.
  5. Take the kids to the park and walk while they play.  This does not always go as planned but I will give it a shot.
  6. Look back at why I started this journey in the first place.  I am hoping that this will help me remember why I want it as well as show me just how far I have come.
  7. Think of one good thing about myself.  I will admit that I have been in a funk.  Perhaps some Pollyanna thinking will help to pull me out of it!
  8. Eat ice cream.  I kow this sounds rather odd!  I of course mean my Skinny Cow ice cream.  Ending a good day with a reward seems to keep me focused.
  9. Weight myself.  It has been about a week and I am sure that after this weekend I have gained about 10 pounds.  Sure some of it is water but you can only use that excuse for so long!
  10. Try… This is a big one.  I am going to remember that is at first I do not suscees… try try again!

I am off to what I am hoping will be a good day.  Let’s hope that the wagon slows down a bit so that jumping back on is a little easier.

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Weight Loss: How To Be Successful

May 13, 2010 By Becca 3 Comments
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I have been working on this weight loss journey for over 5 months now.  I have lost a total of 36 pounds!   With every pound I lose I feel a little bit more confident that I will continue to be successful.  Many people entering into a weight loss journey wonder how they can be successful.  I have just a few tips for those of you who wondering what the keys to success are.

  1. BELIEVE: I know it sounds simple but if you believe you can do it… you will.  I also think that you have to believe that you are worth it!  This is a tough step for many people who are trying to lose weight.  I wake up every morning and remind myself that I can do it.  I believe in myself.
  2. COUNT: This can mean a great number of things but for success it is important to discuss calorie counting.  Calorie counting is important.  It is vital in order lose weight that you burn more calories than you take in.  There are a few great sights with activity calculators that help to make this task easier.  Fitness Partner has a great activity calculator.  It is extremely easy to use.  All you need to do is enter your weight and the duration you plan to exercise into the calculator and a printable list of calories burned per activity will appear.  CaloriesPerHour.com also has an easy and wonderful calculator.
  3. MOVE: I know it stinks when you first start your weight loss journey but exercise is a vital part of success.  The more you move the more you lose.  In the beginning you may be able to lose without moving but the longer you are invested in losing weight the more necessary exercise becomes.  So get out there and walk if nothing else.  Do it alone, with friends or with the dog.  Just get out there and move.
  4. NEW: On this weight loss journey to a new you it is important to remember that you need to focus on new.  No I am not talking about clothing, although that is needed also.  The thing that needs to be new is your food.  It is important to switch it up some.  Studies have shown that people who eat the same breakfast every day become unmotivated.
  5. SUPPORT: It is important that you find some support.  This can be a family member, a friend, or even a stranger.  Yes I know that a stranger sounds unlikely but in situations such as Weight Watchers meetings many people find that there are people they relate to.  It is also nice to have someone removed from your life helping you with your journey.

I am still hoping to reach my first big goal… Lose  pounds by the time the kids are out of school.  I figure if the people on the biggest loser could lose 100 pounds in 17 weeks I can certainly lose another 14 pounds is 7 weeks.  It is an average of 2 pounds a week so I will have to work really hard.  I just have to believe, move, remember new, count my calories and most of all remember all of the wonderful support I have!

Becca

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Weight Loss Journey: Week 14

April 10, 2010 By Becca 1 Comment

This weeks weigh in was a nice change.  For the past 3 weeks my weight has been the same.  I have bounced back and forth.  It has been quite discouraging.  I decided to try to get back on track this week and it worked.  I lost 2.2 pounds this week.  This makes a total loss of 31.2 pounds so far in 14 weeks.  This is an average of 2.2 pounds a week.  I am still on track for achieving my first big goal.  This goal is to lose 50 pounds by the time the kids are out of school.  I have 19 pounds to go.  I will need to lose an average of 1.7 pounds from this point on in order to achieve my first big goal.

I have to admit that I cannot remember the last time the scale read the number it did this morning.  I am so proud of myself.  I wrote the wrong number in my calender this morning thinking that I was still 10 pounds heavier.  I was shocked when I went back and looked at the scale again.  I am feeling really good about it and it has inspired me to continue.

I know that I have not posted in many weeks.  I have slacked in my writing but not in my progress.  I am vowing as part of my re-dedication to this weight loss to post weekly again.  I would love to hear how you are all doing.

Becca

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Weight Loss: Week 5

February 8, 2010 By Becca 5 Comments
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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

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Weight Loss: Week 4

January 30, 2010 By Becca 5 Comments
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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?

January 29, 2010 By Becca 11 Comments

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

January 25, 2010 By Becca 1 Comment
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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

January 19, 2010 By Becca 1 Comment
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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

January 16, 2010 By Becca 3 Comments
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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

January 9, 2010 By Becca 2 Comments
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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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