Losing Amber - A Weight Loss Journal

I'm a 28 year old Mommy to two boys. I recently had my 2nd baby November 2006 and now I'm ready to battle the pounds and reach my goals. I plan to use this journal to post my successes and moans on the battle to a happier, healthy body.

Thursday, February 24, 2005

155.8

Yea, one more lb and I'll have a 10 lbs loss. Yesterday I was 157.2 or so I dropped a full pound. I'm still really wanting to get exercise in, I just haven't been able to get up early enough. So now I'm back to less than where I was when I had that cheat this time last week I think it was.

We go to the Monster Truck Jam this weekend and I will be darned if I cheat. I really want this weight loss!!!!!

Monday, February 21, 2005

158.2

Ok I'm a dorkfish. LOL. I was 158 yesterday and 156.2 the day before. I was on such a roll....sigh. They we ate with Bill's parents the day I was 156 and they had beef stroganof and potatoes and greenbeans. As not to be rude I ate with them. I tried to eat a lot of beans and just a little on the other and more beef. Then later on I had a chocolate debbie pie. The next day I was 156.2. Saturday Bill and I ate at Bob Evans and I ate pretty legal but the woman made us both a coffee drink w/some hot chocolate mixed in and again, not to be rude I drank it. She went out of her way to do it. My big mistake was that evening having 2 brownies since I never had them when Mom made them before. Poof Sunday I was 158. Sunday I ate good but I know I didn't get enough water. So at least I know its water weight and I'll get it off soon enough.

Friday, February 18, 2005

156.0

Yea!!! I can't believe it I dropped a whole pound yesterday. I was complaining because 157 was going down so slow and this morning, boom! I may hit my 2 lb a week loss this week anyhow. I'm 2 lbs away from loosing 10 lbs.

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Still hanging on

Still about 157.4. I'm a little dissapointed that I haven't lost much in a few days. I'm trying to figure out just what is causing it. I did have a diet soda yesterday and today I'm going to make a real effort for no low carb candy. I think if I ditch the low carb candy I'll start loosing faster. Today I also want to play around with Fitday.com and see exactly where I sit calorie/carb wise. It could be I'm not eating enough.....

Monday, February 14, 2005

157.6

Yeah I've been holding this weight about 2-3 days now. I had a few diet sodas yesterday and not quite enough water so maybe that's why. Its nice to see this downward trend. I'm 3 lbs away from having lost 10 whole pounds!!

The bad news is today all the temptation abound. I've totally gotten over the chocolate that sits at my front desk. This weekend Mom made brownies for Sunday school. She always gives us about 6 of them but I just can't have them. Brownies are one of my binge type foods. I'll eat one, then I'll come back later and eat another....like 3 a day or something like that. I told Bill to take them and hide them from me. He can eat a lot of junk but he's also the kind of person not to finish brownies like I can. THEN for Valentines day Heather and Gerry got us a goody box from The popcorn factory. I've seen there catalogs and I've always wanted to try stuff but I CAN'T now LOL. I'll have to hand it over to Bill and have him hide it.

And don't get me wrong I know life is about moderation but at the same time I'm doing soooo well. I have a personal goal of 140 by March 31st and I just can't cheat if I'm going to make it. I'm back in fat burning Ketosis after having been bumped out quite a while. Don't want to screw this up!! I can do this!!

Thursday, February 10, 2005

158.6

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Yea! Making progress. I did 2 bad things, had a diet Pepsi vanilla and a LC Atkins mint wafer. I want to irradicate the fake foods and I'm getting there. Today so far so good. And I've been exercising the last few mornings. I know this is bad but I kinda want to hold off on weight training because I don't want it to make me gain muscle weight. I might do it a little though because I know its good for me, just don't lift as heavy. I really want to reach my 20lb loss by my goal date.

Wednesday, February 09, 2005

159.2

Hah! Ok I'm just finally recovering from that binge I had last week. I've set a resolve to eat clean, by the book. I really want to give myself two solid weeks on induction clean. And I am going to incorporate exercise.

Last night I did about 16 min of my Tae bo tape. I probably could have stuck to more but Dylan was whining a little and I was tired. This morning I did a Gilad workout. I was a little dissapointed as it seemed with the commercials there was barely anything to it. I'll have to make sure I get in enough exercise...but its a start.

And even though my weight has been going up and down I do think I'm loosing inches. I wore my green pants yesterday and they were a little loose at the waist. Also my underwear doesn't seem so tight and my pantyhose aren't quite a struggle to get up and on.

Bill had me set a challenge and a date to loose 20 lbs by. Its going to be close but I picked March 31st. He said if I loose that by then he would take me to Polly Esters and I was kinda eh on that idea. While I think it would be neat I've never been into the night club scene. Then he said he would take me to get my nose pierced. Well until I get the Ok from Gerry and Heather I just don't know how they would feel about that. I'll figure out something though.

Friday, February 04, 2005

Bad me!

Well at least I've maintained, what turned into a small cheat the night before turned into an all day cheat. Damn PMS. At any rate pick yourself up and continue to move onward. At least I got the cereal thing out of my system and the...ah hem....donuts @@.

160.4, still not bad but no more cheats. I'm starting to become part of the atkinsdietbullitenboard.com, in hopes to joing their induction boot camp. They only run it every so often, its pretty intense, you have to have book knowledge and eat clean. I really want to do it so I eat cleaner, get these cravings gone. I'm going to start now but the extra reinforcement will help.

Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Back and forth and back and forth and.....

Yesterday was 159, today 160, not stressed, I just realize my period started today and fluctuations are due with that. I'm actually lucky she didn't bring a 2-4 lb gain like I hear some people complain about. Hopefully by next monday I'll have a weigh in of much less.

I've been craving cereal LOL. I think part of it is I watched Unwrapped last night and they did a thing on cereal. I do enjoy that....its about the only time I liked milk, besides with an oreo or Entemanns chocolate cake. Ah the memories of childhood ; ] Part of me wonders if this doesn't mean I need to try a few new things. The last few days I've been lazy about figuring out my carb counts. I need to start doing that again and maybe consider ongoing weight loss. I read part of ongoing weight loss is you get bored of induction and you feel ready for new foods. We'll see, I need to finish reading that chapter, then decide.