Posts Tagged ‘Weight loss’

Since starting my healthy eating and exercise i have tried many different things to track my calories and exercise. The one thing that I knew was i needed something easy to use. I will not deal with BS when it comes to recording this stuff. I was reading a blog, I can’t remember which right now, and the blogger had posted her charts from LoseIt! I saw that it was for the iPhone and I immediately went to check it out.

OK the number one thing is it is totally FREE! It tracks calories, gives yo ua budget based on what you weigh, and how many pounds you want to lose a week. There’s a huge list of foods in the database for tracking. This app also takes into consideration your exercise and adjusts your calories for the day accordingly.

You can find most any restaurant in here and you can find something close to what you’re looking for if it’s not. You can also add your own foods in. I always pick a higher calorie amount if I’m guessing. An example would be I ate at a local fresh Mexican food place today and the burrito I ate was similar to one at Baja Fresh. I used the BF chicken burrito as a gague and added a couple calories just in case.

The exercise tracker has tons of different exercises and again, you can add your own as well. When you exercise and input it into the app it will adjust your calories accordingly.

You can set the app to send you reminders if you are forgetful and don’t record often enough. You can set it to email you daily and/or weekly reports of how you’re doing. The website has a great support forum as well.

I’m really just scratching the surface of the wonders of this great app. You should really try it for yourself. What can it hurt? It IS free after all!

My working out has been halted this week by the plague. OK, well it’s probably NOT the plague but it was strep throat. I went in to urgent care and they diagnosed me on Sunday. They had me stay out of work and everything. I was uber sad. I actually like my job. I guess I needed the rest though. I couldn’t swallow solid food for over 3 days.

This of course, means I’ve been off the gym routine this week. I go twice a week to my gym with my coworkers for a 45 minute workout that includes cardio and strength. I hadn’t been for a few weeks before that because one of the girls I go with is my boss and she’d been interviewing and was sick too.

This is one of the problems that i need to overcome in my weight loss and healthy eating goals. It is so easy for me to stop doing what I’m doing when something goes wrong. Yes, I know i mention this time and time again. This time I am going to do something about it. I know i needed to not be exerting myself and breathing hard with a sore throat but gym night starts back up next Tuesday. I’m going no matter what. If the girls can’t go I am going. If I’m tired, I’m STILL going.
So what is the one thing that you tend to do that messes with your healthy eating and weight loss goals? How do you overcome it?

I’m back with some great news and some thoughts for the week.
My Excitement!
I’ve joined up in the Biggest Loser Round 12 Challenge on SparkPeople!!!
I’m a Light Blue Bombshell!!
I am super excited.
I have actually purchased the new SparkPeople book as well and a review will come shortly.

My Thought
I was reading the chapter guide for the 1st chapter of the book and it asks a very good question that I feel is quite relative to my situation now.

How do you react to mistakes? Do you let them get you down and then stray from the path toward your goals, or do you shrug them off? What if you gave yourself permission to make mistakes, seeing them less as failures and more as learning opportunities that everyone goes through from time to time?

I am the type of person who lets my mistakes get to me and then I stray from my path. It’s an unfortunate cycle that has been repeated throughout my life. If I do something wrong I stop doing it. If I eat too much one day I don’t eat right the next. I let my side of the house get unorganized and cluttered and it jst stays that way. It’s all the same thing!
Today starts a new for me. I WILL give myself permission to make mistakes. I can eff up royally and it’s OK. It’s OK as long as I look at these eff ups as learning experiences and don’t beat the crap out of myself over them.

This is a new day, a new year and this is the time for me to get my crap in order. I will achieve my goals of eating healthier and exercising. Even if I don’t lose a POUND I will at least be making healthier choices for myself. THis is what’s most important.

I’m super excited!!

Today is my weigh day and I am down 3 lbs! Holy crap I miscounted earlier. I thought it was 2! I was so excited you have NO idea.

OK enough giddy like a teenager-ness here. This is todays vlog. I am a part of a challenge on the Walking/Leslie Sansone team on Spark People and one of the challenges was to make a vlog. I decided to take the plunge and do it. My webcam is not so hot so my plan is to reward myself for meeting a goal weight by purchasing a new one!

Here’s the video. Have a great day!

This is the first day of my new lifestyle. I’ve said it so many times before and each time I ended up falling off never to jump back on. I’ve put super glue on my shoes and have no intention of falling off this time. I will succeed.

What am I going to succeed in? I plan to lose 100 lbs by next year on this date. Some people may think this is impossible. I would have to disagree. If I change my eating habits and start exercising as I should be, there should be no problem with me losing the weight.

I’m starting out at 250 lbs. That’s a BMI of 43! Yes folks, I am what the healthcare profession would call morbidly obese. That’s a damn scary phrase right there. I don’t like it! But, the only way to change it is to start eating right and exercising.

I also have Type 2 diabetes. This came on when I was around 19. I had a 2 year stint as a heavy drug user. I wasn’t eating and maintained a weight of around 180. Once i got clean and started eating again I ballooned up to around 280 lbs! Since then I have come down to about 250 with the small changes in eating I’ve done. I eat veggies and fruits now, I eat more fiber and lean protein as well. It’s not doing enough though. I’m not LOSING weight I am maintaining at 250.

I am starting ShrinkingAmber because I need to get this weight off. I need to start being healthy and taking care of myself. I’m not getting any younger and there are a lot of things I want to do before I die. Being in a hospital all the time with issues related to my weight isn’t one of those things!

So this is the beginning.

My Stats

250lbs

43 BMI

Measurements

Bust – 50

Waist – 51

Hips – 54

Thighs – (left) 29 (right) 28

Calves – (left) 19 (right) 18

Upper arms (left) 17 (right) 16

Ready to go on this journey with me?