Holding Steady

My weight has stayed the same this last week, which I am ok with, I am still 7 pounds lighter than I was a couple weeks ago & it feels good!

My big challenge for this week will be on Saturday. Its my wedding anniversary, and that means I get to go on a date with my hubby. This year we are planning on getting a babysitter and spending the whole day with each other, just the two of us. Don't get me wrong, this will be awesome for us, since we never do this, but that means eating out 2 times that day which will make it hard to stick to my plan. My hubby wants to go to the Olive Garden (his favorite) and I want to avoid that place at all costs. I can't go there and not completely over stuff myself with salad & breadsticks & I absolutely cannot go there without getting some kind of fattening pasta. Usually, if I go to Olive Garden, a wheel chair to help me get out the door would be helpful. So, as of now we have no set plan, but we will be out and about all day with each other, which will be awesome and a little bit of a challenge all at the same time. Wish me luck.

Posted by: 30by30 on 3/3/2010 at 10:55 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink

Woo Hoo!

My first week of fat free eating has gone exremely well. I'm down a total of 7 pounds!!! YAY! One lady that I work with even commented to me that I have been losing weight and whatever I'm doing is working. That totally made my day.

I have found myself craving sweet things but I have also found a solution. Sugar free Jell-O and fat free chocolate putting have put those cravings to rest for me, especially when everyone else in the house gets to have ice cream. It has been a struggle though, especially when my husband asks me what's for dinner & all I can think to make are non healthy things. I just want to give in and eat whatever the rest of my family is eating. One night this week, we did have Chicken fajitas and I did join in on those. I just didn't use the sour cream or any other fatty things. All that mine consisted of was the chicken, veggies, salsa & a little bit of hot sauce All fat free. I am going to have to find more meals like that where we can all enjoy what we eat & I don't feel guilty about it.

Here's to building up my will power and watching the numbers on the scale drop!

Posted by: 30by30 on 2/25/2010 at 10:04 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink

Good Start to new challenge

Finally the scale has shifted in the right direction! It's only changed a couple pounds, but at least its something. Today is the first day of my fat free journey for lent. So far, so good. I am not craving anything bad for me. In fact, I can hardly wait to eat my spinich & turkey salad with FF dressing for lunch! I think my biggest overall challenge is when I eat meals with my family. The kids, obviously need a little more substance in their diets, and my husband, well, he's in a category all his own. He basically lives on Mountain Dew, Fatty snacks, and prefers red meat and lots of it. Basically anything that I don't want to eat, he does, and he doesn't really want to give healthy a try. He comes from a family with extremely high metabolism. Yes, the kind that makes every fat person in the world cringe. Everyone in his family is super skinny and they don't work at it at all. They all eat 10 times more in one sitting than I ever have + eat whatever is left over on my plate + dessert & barely excersize or workout and they are all about the size of a toothpick. It makes me extremely self conscience & embarrased. So, tonight I have nothing planned for dinner, but I will probably end up having another salad and make the hubby & the kids something else that they prefer. This will be a tough journey, but today, I believe I can do it!

Posted by: 30by30 on 2/17/2010 at 10:36 AM | Comments (2) | Permalink

What's going on???!!!!

OK, I have decided to face the harsh reality that I will never reach my goal! I don't get it. I have been eating more healthy than I have in YEARS. Litterally salads with just a little tiny bit of fat free dressing, fruits, yogurt, veggies. Even making healthier meals for my family for dinner and still I gain weight instead of lose it or the scale doesn't move at all. I haven't even been buying fattening snacks when I go grocery shopping, or if my hubby wants something fattening for supper I eat very little of it. I just don't get it. I'm confused. What am I doing wrong? I have in the past had my thyroid tested (about 4 times) and every time it was on the low side of normal or borderline underactive. Is this my problem? Did it finally crap out on me? Or am I just completely hopeless?

I did decide that even though I am not the most spiritual person in the world, nor do I regularly make it to church on Sunday, but I do pray & I do call myself a Christian, I have decided to participate in Lent this year for the first time in my life. Guess what I have decided to give up. OK, I'll tell you... I have decided to give up all fattening foods & drinks.  That's right. No pop, no pizza, no chocolate, no candy, no greasy foods of any kind and more! I will probably live completely on Salad for 40 days, Unless I find some way to be creative in cooking. I know my family will not go along with this, so, it will probably be the hardest thing I have ever done, but I need to stick to my guns on this one. For dinner, they will probably eat something that makes me drool & I'll have to be the one to make it, but I will have to control myself and eat only what is good for me. All fats will be completely cut out, maybe that will make the scale move in the right direction!

Posted by: 30by30 on 2/11/2010 at 1:17 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink

Ashamed

It's been over a month since I've posted anything, mostly because I am ashamed and have lost pretty much all hope of accomplishing my goal. Not that I've given up trying, because I haven't. I am just not making much progress. I can't figure out why. I have taken the advice of one of my commenters and bought the 30 day shred workout. For 2 weeks now I have eaten nothing but healthy food (seriously like a rabbit) yogurt for breakfast, salad for lunch and healthy dinners, with healthy snacks such as bananas and other fruit for snacks & working out at least 3 times a week and I actually gained a couple pounds???? It is extremely frustrating. I stepped on the scale this morning and it finally went down a little. And I mean a LITTLE! Only .2 pounds. Not what I was hoping for, but its progress to say the least. I do have to say, that I do feel a lot better from getting much more exercise than ever before and although the scale doesn't show me results,  I feel better and I think my waist may have shrunk a tiny bit, A small enough amount that only I could tell, though.

Posted by: 30by30 on 1/19/2010 at 8:52 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink