Beth- Thanksgiving

So I lost a lot of weight!  I was down to 199.2- which I am sorry to say is still more than my after-baby weight but it is a big improvement.  I was very excited.  I also lost three or four inches...I'll have to check to be sure.  So I lost five plus pounds.  Yeah.  Boy I must've been bloated.

Unfortunately my diet wasn't lovely today.  Well I tried and I didn't do too bad.  I ate a healthy and light breakfast.  I didn't eat anything else until we arrived.  Even thanksgiving dinner wasn't so bad...but I ate more dessert than I should've.  But good news, my tummy told me to STOP.  And I did.

I also ate some bloaty foods: Cauliflower, diet coke.  But I drank a lot of water.  So I may've hurt myself some.  But it was most definitely my best thanksgiving ever.  And even though I slipped up at the end, I am going to do great tomorrow! I was careful to not keep the tempting leftovers or to freeze the other ones.  So Although I do plan on stepping on the scale tomorrow I refuse to be too terribly upset.  I just need a good starting place for the next thirty two weeks.

BETH Day 4

I did really well today in spite of making goodies for thanksgiving.  We'll just have to be careful, I think, to watch what we're eating.  I am excited to see the results tomorrow.  I did notice my milk was low which had me concerned.  I had Clarissa nurse a lot, but gave her half of a bottle too.  She was really upset even after her tylenol kicked in (teeth issues we think).  But my calories won't be as low in the following weeks, and it wasn't until the end of the day that we had a problem.  Chris is planning on making HIS stuffing.  He was going to do it tonight but since he's crashed on the couch beside me, I am thinking NO.  He doesn't cook very often, but wants to more.  Well.  I will probably have a happy entry in the morning.

Day Three

Well I survived! I weighed myself and I'd lost 2.8 pounds in two days!  I didn't lose anything in my hips, one in my waist, but 2 1/2 in my chest!  Well today wasn't nearly as hard as before.  I even didn't eat anything at Jesse's party.  That was hard...I love cake and ice cream.  I still want to eat often but I can ignore it pretty well.  Like now I want to eat but I know I won't.

Beth- Day 2

Okay I didn't even weigh or measure myself which I so intended to do. I have a raging headache, made slightly better by food or tylenol.  I've had three glasses of water but just regular water.  I will stick to this plan! I feel terrible. I doubt it is the diet though.  I'm just used to eating to make myself feel better.  I so want something else...anything else!  

Day One

day one, God made light when there was none.  Just kidding.  Diets suck.  I don't like sassy water.  Tastes like cucumber and sour something else.  Breakfast was good, lunch wasn't too bad, but I have a headache and I do not like tomatoes, even when they are little and cute.  The second half of the day was way worse.  I actually had to spit a prezel out of my mouth.  I don't know how it crawled in there.  I was making lunch for my daughters and poof.  Well I am now cold have a headache am tired and I am not looking forward to more yucky water.  What about the yummy water we buy at Hagen?  all well...I DO SO want to be thin, and water and tomatoes (and not eating whatever) are the only complaints with the food I have.

The Flat Belly Diet

Ok, so.  Today is the first day of my new diet.  I so want to go on a diet!  I feel huge, I weigh the most I have ever which stinks.  I have not enough energy to go around and so much stuff to do to keep up with cleaning, cooking, church plant activities, american heiritage girls stuff, marriage bonding, Cavy cleanup etc.  My feet hurt.  My back hurts. So.  I am afraid that I'll lose my milk since I am nursing, but it seems unlikely since this isn't an extreme diet (1600 cal a day) and I am sure I will be getting better nutrients that I otherwise would...my eating right now is not nutritionally sound.  So later today when it is not the middle of the night I will weigh myself and stuff.  Not sure if anyone will read this but me...maybe Chris.  So it's a four day "anti-bloat" so we lose the water we are retaining and see some quick results.  I am bummed about getting off of coffee.  I might have to actually get enough sleep.  Since I am writing this at two in the morning, clearly that isn't happening. But I had to grocery shop and then I was motivated to clean...well boy I am full of excuses, huh?  But I was able to talk to Brooke in Greece, so it wasn't all bad.  Ok.  Goodnight.

Why do I do this?

I got serious issues here, I am going the wrong way! From the last blog to today...I have gained 18 more pounds! So here are my excuses...no wait...not gonna do it! All I know is that my clothes are not fitting me anymore and I will not buy any more clothes at a bigger size. My boss/friend tells me routinely to turn things around....so I'm going to try again. I must say that when I got down to my goal weight in October 2006 I do remember being disappointed in how my body looked, but I did feel good. So I have always known that this has to be a lifestyle change but it is real hard, and I just wish I could eat what I wanted, when I wanted it. So the last time I weighed was this week sometime and I was 188, but who knows I may be 190 after that piece of pizza for lunch and nachos for dinner. I will record the official weight on Sunday (March 2nd) when I will officially start my DIET....should I have a goal date? My third daughter is due in 14 weeks...that's 3.5 months to pull something off...I have also committed to doing a half marthon July 4th (a walking one) and I am suppose to start training real soon....that is 18 weeks (4.5 months). Here's hoping! Oh I am going to do Weight Watchers Again....I do well with that!

Please join in keeping me accountable!

Lost Control and Got it back!

I guess the times when I want to loose weight I successfully convince myself that THIS TIME it will be about lifestyle changes. But what I really was doing was trying to prove something to someone, or impress someone. The last time I updated my blog I was 164, with only a few lbs left to my goal, well I did reach that goal but it was also in time for the conference I was attending. Well when you go on trips, away from a discipline life, you somehow get into this mindset that even your new lifestyle will vacation too. It should be ok to do this, but you have to pick yourself back up and get back on track when you return home, but that isn't what happen, in fact I can't really remember October - March. I can think of things that help me add all 22 lbs back, I was not too devastated when I got on the scale again and notice it, I knew I did it, but I still was disappointed with all the hard work I had put into it. I was frustrated that I may have to go through months to get back there. Then I skimmed a book, You on a Diet, by Dr. Oz he comes on Oprah quite often, and it started to make me think to try this lifestyle change again. This book wasn't a diet plan per se, it was more like, here is what your body does when you do this, or eat this, or eat too much, so on and so on. I was very interested, but I just was finding it tough to change my habit of eating seconds, eating fast, even it Beth was making healthy meals. I then went home to Texas, this does it too me every time, Boy do I miss Mama's cooking, and guess what...I didn't anymore for 5 days...I feasted and I feasted good. This was the point when I officially had gained all that was lost, so I got home and decided I just need to detox my body of toxins first before going back on my quest for a continous lifestyle change so one day when I went to Jamba Juice, the dentist recommended I take Alaina there for lunch, so I did. And guess what, they had a detox book there, so I bought and took it to my wife to read and she did, this was on May 2nd. After reading it, she said we should do it, so we bought a juicer. The day after Memorial day we started our detox/fast, I had planned on going on fresh juices slowly, like 1 a day for a week, then 2 a day for a week, and then all meals for a week, but Beth decided she was going into it full force and doing a 14 day detox/juice fast...I joined her. Today we are on day 13 and I am happy to say that I have lost 13 lbs, and Beth has lost more. Day 10 for some reason was hell for me, but I survived it. We have had lots of Jamba Juices on this detox and at the beginning I could finish their original size, and now I find it difficult to finish their small 16 oz. This has been like a natural way of getting your stomach stapled. We are about to embark on the end of this and I am amazed of the changes in how I feel. I don't need as many naps, I have clarity in thinking, skin feels different, I can go on. My will power was gone, and I really needed this detox to show me I still have it and now I have lost half of what I want to loose, and I did it in two weeks....it went by fast! So here I am at 170 lbs ready to loose 15 more lbs, which by the way will be helped by Beth and finally walking, but that is another blog....this one is really long!

Pictures: Face shots

September 11, 2005

May 06,2006

September 13, 2006

Pictures: Body shots

April 25, 2006

September 27,2006

New pictures taken

I have lost 96% of what I wanted to loose, and now I am on the road to building muscle onto what I have always known as a poorly defined body. I have always been weak so and I felt it necessary to take before pictures this time (with my shirt off-very rare for me) My wife thinks it is hilarious that I am taking pictures with my shirt off....so do I somewhat, but if I am going to work this hard, I want see before and afters. Another thing I have noticed is boy do I need some sun!!! Not sure I will post the pictures until I get much closer to where I want to look like, but I will post some pictures that show obvious weight loss. Enjoy....i guess?!?!?

Body Fat Measurement Report #3

I joined the gym a little more than 6 months ago and I can honestly say I have not been consistantly going like I thought I would. I also am not updating my sites like I thought I would either. Anyway, I called the gym to schedule an appointment to get my fat tested again-remember the first time I was 25.9% (unhealthy or obese --however you want to see--neither not good.) Well I am happy to report that I have dropped 4.5% since March to 21.4% (right in the middle of the acceptable range. So as I said with my first report, after I reach the acceptable range, I will then make it a goal to achieve the fitness range which is 14%-17.9%. Since my ultimate goal is 14%, and I have 7.4% to get there, I decided to try to reach an additional 3.7% body fat loss (half of 7.4%) in the next 6 months (next March). So the goal is to hit 17.7% by my 33rd bday.

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Weight Watcher's Report #2

I have lost 8lbs for the month of August....WOW! I am now 164.4 only 3.4lbs to get that 161 mark.

August 7th-171.6 a loss of 3.4
August 14th 170.4 a loss of 1.2
August 21st 167.0 a loss of 3.4
August 28th 164.4 a loss of 2.6

Total WW loss of 10.6lbs

People are noticing now!

Weight Watcher's Report #1

At the end of each month I will post the success of WW...here is what happened in the first week of WW.

I lossed a total of 3.6lbs...I am 175!

For my height weight watchers wants me to be at a maximum of 161. so two goals now....get to 161 and loose more body fat...stay tune.

Need more than the gym

Last week I decided to get my body fat tested since it had been since March. When i started the gym I was 183 (10lbs less than my heaviest ever). So I had lost 5lbs since then. Since it was only 5lbs since the last measurement. I knew it would not be much...I was right. I tested 23.9% ( a loss of 2%). I was disappointed that I had not utilized the gym to my full potential, but my trainer then asked, how are you eating? I reported that I hadn't really changed, and my weight has remained the same for at least a month. Of course I already knew this, but he had to kick me in the butt and remind me to eat right. So today I started weight watchers at 178.6 lbs and body fat % at 23.9%

March 13th, 2006 BodyFat% Measurment

My first official testing of my body fat was done today at Gold's Gym. The outcome was 25.9%. I was in the unhealthy catagory, And according to this website, http://www.healthchecksystems.com/bodyfat.htm, I am obesed! I like Gold's terminology better! My first goal is to make it to the acceptable catagory(18%-25%) and then work my way to the fitness catagory(14%-17%). My trainer says it is easier to go from 25.9% to let's say 20.9% than it is to go from 14% to 13%. Focusing on body fat loss is better than focusing on how much weight is loss. When doing weights your muscles get stronger, thus you may weigh more. It is also said that your muscles burn more calories when stronger. So this is the route I am taking. I am limiting myself to only 65 grams of fat daily, and along with the 4 times a week, hour long excercise at Gold's, I am excited to see where I am on April 13th. I am getting measured, next week, that should be shocking!

Calories Burned today: 500