Okay, so September was a wash. And now, in the middle of my period, I want to start fresh! Lol. My big thing for October is setting goals to allow myself to succeed! I'm trying to find the right printable to put in my planner, but in the mean time I am setting my goals here:
1. get back into counting my calories on my fitbit app.
2. walk 20 of the 31 days in this month!
3. Lessen soda, get back into water. I guess this means 2 diet sodas a week? Water otherwise. (yes, I know two might seem a little easy, but I've been suckling on 2- liters here at the house for a while, so it's gonna take some hard work to make this one happen.
4. Get me a job! Haha. Actually, this one might happen. A guy is gonna call me monday and then I might end up working thursday evenings for him. That's at least a good start. :)
Brit, I found one goal-oriented printable that sounded pretty good for you - it included a "when I feel like giving up, I will tell myself" section on the goal sheet. It might still not be the right printable, but its good to have a place to remind yourself of your motives!
http://justagirlandherblog.com/how-to-set-goals-that-youll-actually-accomplish-free-printable-goal-worksheet/
Anywhoodles, I'm off to do my morning walk, so check off my first day of exercise for October! Talk to you soon!
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Friday, September 11, 2015
Worse worse worse.. lol.
Man, this week has been a struggle for both of us. I haven't eaten myself out of house and home or anything, but my mental and physical health have been crap. I've been sitting around waiting for a call from a doc i've been interviewing with, and I got my sleep schedules screwed up, so I haven't left the house or even changed out of pajamas in 5 days. I generally go to sleep about 2 am, then have a nightmare and wake up at like 6 and then end up on the couch all morning and nap throughout the day while watching copious amounts of netflix. The only good thing was the napping has kept me from snacking horribly. But otherwise, I feel like crap and it's not good.
Tomorrow I'll be getting out of the house and going to a wedding, so at least I have a commitment with friends - but all my friends have been out of town this week, so I haven't had anyone to chat with or go to dinner with or anything social, so I've turned into this sad pat of melted butter on the couch, just laying around (which is something i've been on the brink of doing for 3 months, so it makes it that much worse).
Hopefully I can weigh in at a normal hour tomorrow morning and be able to tell what kind of toll my inactive week has taken on my body. Hopefully it's not too bad (i've still been counting my calories) but either way I'm going to get out and do something tomorrow. Baby steps, people!
Haha.
Tomorrow I'll be getting out of the house and going to a wedding, so at least I have a commitment with friends - but all my friends have been out of town this week, so I haven't had anyone to chat with or go to dinner with or anything social, so I've turned into this sad pat of melted butter on the couch, just laying around (which is something i've been on the brink of doing for 3 months, so it makes it that much worse).
Hopefully I can weigh in at a normal hour tomorrow morning and be able to tell what kind of toll my inactive week has taken on my body. Hopefully it's not too bad (i've still been counting my calories) but either way I'm going to get out and do something tomorrow. Baby steps, people!
Haha.
Bad bad bad....
Bad bad bad...that basically sums up the entire week! Not on plan hardly at all. I didn't do my first five devotional in the morning...I didn't get active at all and I didn't even think about whAt I was eating or how it made me feel! I'm pretty sure I'm about to start which explains this week...but it's just been bad! So I don't have any reporting back of the challenges from this week but I didn't want to not post!
excited to get my head in the game...for real this time!
So...I took down my weight and measurements as well as before pictures and I'm going to share them here! For me mainly, because it's motivation when I look at them...and now someone else knows these numbers too!! So without further ado...
Love always,
BB1
Saturday, September 5, 2015
BB2 recap! 9/5/2015
Hey Brit, so it sounds like you are getting a good start on working on your mental wellbeing so that the physical will follow! That's great! I have had some great successes in the past two weeks so it's time to detail those.
Diet - the 3 day juice fast/detox was a success! Even though I technically only made it like 68 hours instead of 72 - james was having terrible headaches so we had real dinner last saturday night instead of juice. But it did it's job of helping me get used to the normal signals of HUNGER from my stomach and reducing my (real and fake) sugar intake. I initally went from 214.5 to 209ish and then gained two back to sit at 211.5. I knew I would gain at least some back and possibly all of it back but I was pleasantly surprised instead. My following week with food was better also because I LISTENED more to my body and ended up losing a bit more, so that this morning I weighed in at 209.5. We definitely intend to do this again, although probably only for one day at a time.
Running- I promised myself I wouldn't slack so hard and I'd be able to run a mile today - well, I did run a mile at 14:27, but I skipped a lot of runs this week with my period, so it was definitely a struggle. I'd like to continue this challenge to myself to improve this time.
Overall I have had a lot of success, and James and I took a big cheat night tonight, so we will start fresh tomorrow. :)
Your challenge sounds great - I have been logging all my calories in my fitbit app, so I should be able to add on a bit of journaling in my head and try to make more conscious choices. :) I will start tomorrow and report back regularly!
Diet - the 3 day juice fast/detox was a success! Even though I technically only made it like 68 hours instead of 72 - james was having terrible headaches so we had real dinner last saturday night instead of juice. But it did it's job of helping me get used to the normal signals of HUNGER from my stomach and reducing my (real and fake) sugar intake. I initally went from 214.5 to 209ish and then gained two back to sit at 211.5. I knew I would gain at least some back and possibly all of it back but I was pleasantly surprised instead. My following week with food was better also because I LISTENED more to my body and ended up losing a bit more, so that this morning I weighed in at 209.5. We definitely intend to do this again, although probably only for one day at a time.
Running- I promised myself I wouldn't slack so hard and I'd be able to run a mile today - well, I did run a mile at 14:27, but I skipped a lot of runs this week with my period, so it was definitely a struggle. I'd like to continue this challenge to myself to improve this time.
Overall I have had a lot of success, and James and I took a big cheat night tonight, so we will start fresh tomorrow. :)
Your challenge sounds great - I have been logging all my calories in my fitbit app, so I should be able to add on a bit of journaling in my head and try to make more conscious choices. :) I will start tomorrow and report back regularly!
Recap and catch up!
Hello there again! It's me! This past week has been insanely busy! 10 hour days at work and late nights at home make for a not so easy week when it comes to eating and exercising! I did however get at least 10,000 steps every single day Monday through Friday just at work alone!! Which is like 5 miles ;)
Anywho...kind of to sum up where I am at the moment. I have started taking the first five minutes of my day and beginning it with scripture and quiet time with God. This is something I felt I needed to do and there is an app on my phone called first 5 and it lets you set this nice pretty alarm sound and you touch it and the devotion opens up. This is really helping me set the tone for my day which helps keep me focused!
I haven't had a chance to watch any videos from Netflix but my Plan is to watch some each day on my lunch break to help me get my mind wrapped around what I. Really need to be doing to fuel my
Body! So with that being said, I have decided that the month of September I am really going to focus on my food and diet. What this means for me is that I am going to take care to plan my meals and really pay attention to how each food fuels my body! I've also looked up several detox smoothies that I want to try for either breakfast or lunch during the week! Something to just help me flush the toxins out! I am really going to focus on watching the gluten and sugar intake for sure...but I will allow myself one cheat meal per week! :)
As for exercise...I'm not really going to focus on that this month other than trying to be more conscious about being more active at home...aka not just sitting down! There are plenty of things to do plus some cute little toddler loves to run around!
Emotional wellbeing and me are still struggling but I really feel as my frost five minutes of my day starting out with God has a really helped me! I plan to continue that and really just actively trying to remember I am a beautiful woman that God created...yes I have flaws and things I don't like about me but I am working to change that one day at a time!
Challenge time! This is something I really wanted to do for myself this week so I figured we can do it together! I want us to kee a food journal! Every meal, snack, what we fdrank etc. but the kicker is...I want us to actively think about and jot down with each meal/snack how hungry we were and how we felt after eating (as in how did it make our body feel...more energized, satisfied, sluggish, etc.) I'm
Hoping this will help me (and you to bro) to really be in tune with what we are eating, why we are eating it and how it makes us feel!
Write back wth your thoughts :)
Friday, August 28, 2015
BB1-reporting in :)
Alrighty, so since it took a bit for me to get in the blog, I'm going to post from last week now And then post for this week later this weekend! I'm struggling, real bad. So here goes nothing!
Exercise-this is something that I actually 100% despise! I hate to sweat. I don't like to smell. I especially don't like to struggle at things and be out of breath or feel like I can't keep up with my husband or others! So I need to find something that I enjoy and like and will stick with doing!
Eating right-it's not as hard as it used to be! However it is still a problem!! I love to eat and I love food! I really feel as if I need a time to be able to do a total body cleanse and Start fresh! I just have to find time to do that? Maybe Labor Day weekend (Saturday and Sunday). As for trim healthy mama, to define it simply is...do not eat carbs and fats together in large quantities, stay away from gluten, and no refined sugar! There are of course exceptions for these things because let's face it...if you can never have a piece of cake again it's just not gonna happen! Haha so what this looks like for me is...I have to plan out my meals and eating times (as we are supposed to eat every 3 hours or so). I need to make a chart, print it out and keep it with me :)
Emotional wellness-
Well we all know I struggle hardcore with this because I actually legitimately hate to see myself in the mirror, hate to see my self in pictures, or even my reflection. It makes me sick to my stomach! :( so I am working on finding a way to love myself, but it is really hard for me! One thing I know I need to do is spend more time in the Word and more time in prayer. This is something I have let slip by the wayside and I know it has a huge affect on me daily. So as for a plan, I'm not really sure!
Stay tuned for another post later :)
BB2 here, Aug 28th
Hey y'all! This post is two-fold: I am giving an update on last week AND I'm posting the netflix list I have been watching to help me keep strong during this darn juice fast. (it's day two of 3.5 - I'm quitting early sunday night because dad is coming into town). The whole point of this juice fast is to get myself out of the habit of consuming too much sugar/fake sugar and salt, and so far it's helping a lot.
SO, part 1: UPDATE.
My challenge was three-fold: there was a component of exercise, eating right AND emotional wellness.
1) My exercise goal was to be able to run a mile without stopping at the end of 2 weeks - September 5th. SO far that's been going well, I've actually jogged a mile 3 times this week. But it took 15:03, then 14:33, then 14:27, so now I'm working on continuing this goal and not stopping, and ALSO cutting down on my time.
2) My eating right goal was the 3-day juicing fast. And so far that's a success. Tomorrow morning we are going to the local farmers market - we actually have some leftover tokens (our farmer's market has its own currency for credit card users) so we are gonna go spend it on some kale and whatever other veggies look good, and then we will hit Aldi for everything else. :)
3) My emotional wellness goal was definitely the hardest. My motivation is to find a sustainable diet that takes away the idea of a "diet" and "restriction" and a focus on feeding my body what it needs, because then I don't have to count calories. Part of retraining my emotional wellness is watching all these netflix documentaries - which admittedly seem a touch propoganda-based, but honestly they aren't trying to sell me a brand of food so it feels so much better than getting on a nutrisystem or slimfast or whatever that appeases to just my sugar-receptors. I deserve to live in the body I want, and I can only blame myself for sitting around and gaining weight at every opportunity. I am the one who wanted a family sized box of fruit by the foot (lol) or bags and bags of sugar gum to keep me from eating other bad foods. So this detox is hopefully going to help me change my taste buds and my attitude. Hopefully.
Part 2: Netflix:
So far, I have watched several documentaries and I'm gonna give a synopsis of those, as well as a list of "to be watched" documentaries.
Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead - an australian guy with an autoimmune disorder (chronic urticaria) goes on a juice fast while traveling across america and meeting people. He gets weekly blood tests and is able to get off the immunosuppressant that he's been taking for his disorder, and he says a lot of nice things about juicing. If you go to rebootwithjoe.com, then you can read further on his philosophy - he doesn't recommend a 60-day juice fast for most people, but he does advocate for a 3 or 5 or 10 or whatever day detox to help you get the micronutrients you need and break your chains from the bad foods.
Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead 2 - Joe Cross is back 5 years later with an update on how he's been doing, how some of the americans he met in the first documentary are doing, and some more traveling and juicing.
Fed Up - Katie Couric narrates this look at America's addiction to fast food - in particular, childhood obesity and how it mirrors the battle against tabacco from 30 years ago. There are several families featured, and it's so depressing to watch moms picking up "low fat" cheez-its and snackwells and everything else for their obese children because they "must be healthier" and then watching the documentary talk about how much more sugar is in these things. :(
Hungry for Change - a really good look at dieting and how the food industry caters to the "diet" marketing and whats really in diet foods and how the body is addicted to these things. It has the guy from Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead, as well as a couple of other famous people who lost weight and kept it off by changing the way they think and moving to a more plant-based diet.
TO BE WATCHED: Food Matters, Forks Over Knives, Vegucated, and basically anything else I see on netflix. I am trying to brainwash myself out of an addiction to processed, oversugared foods.
Brit, I'm gonna let you issue challenges for next week maybe? I'm still continuing on most of this weeks challenge with the juice fast and and the running. So I am just gonna continue on this and see what you come up with! Feel free to look back on some of our old challenges and recycle!
SO, part 1: UPDATE.
My challenge was three-fold: there was a component of exercise, eating right AND emotional wellness.
1) My exercise goal was to be able to run a mile without stopping at the end of 2 weeks - September 5th. SO far that's been going well, I've actually jogged a mile 3 times this week. But it took 15:03, then 14:33, then 14:27, so now I'm working on continuing this goal and not stopping, and ALSO cutting down on my time.
2) My eating right goal was the 3-day juicing fast. And so far that's a success. Tomorrow morning we are going to the local farmers market - we actually have some leftover tokens (our farmer's market has its own currency for credit card users) so we are gonna go spend it on some kale and whatever other veggies look good, and then we will hit Aldi for everything else. :)
3) My emotional wellness goal was definitely the hardest. My motivation is to find a sustainable diet that takes away the idea of a "diet" and "restriction" and a focus on feeding my body what it needs, because then I don't have to count calories. Part of retraining my emotional wellness is watching all these netflix documentaries - which admittedly seem a touch propoganda-based, but honestly they aren't trying to sell me a brand of food so it feels so much better than getting on a nutrisystem or slimfast or whatever that appeases to just my sugar-receptors. I deserve to live in the body I want, and I can only blame myself for sitting around and gaining weight at every opportunity. I am the one who wanted a family sized box of fruit by the foot (lol) or bags and bags of sugar gum to keep me from eating other bad foods. So this detox is hopefully going to help me change my taste buds and my attitude. Hopefully.
Part 2: Netflix:
So far, I have watched several documentaries and I'm gonna give a synopsis of those, as well as a list of "to be watched" documentaries.
Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead - an australian guy with an autoimmune disorder (chronic urticaria) goes on a juice fast while traveling across america and meeting people. He gets weekly blood tests and is able to get off the immunosuppressant that he's been taking for his disorder, and he says a lot of nice things about juicing. If you go to rebootwithjoe.com, then you can read further on his philosophy - he doesn't recommend a 60-day juice fast for most people, but he does advocate for a 3 or 5 or 10 or whatever day detox to help you get the micronutrients you need and break your chains from the bad foods.
Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead 2 - Joe Cross is back 5 years later with an update on how he's been doing, how some of the americans he met in the first documentary are doing, and some more traveling and juicing.
Fed Up - Katie Couric narrates this look at America's addiction to fast food - in particular, childhood obesity and how it mirrors the battle against tabacco from 30 years ago. There are several families featured, and it's so depressing to watch moms picking up "low fat" cheez-its and snackwells and everything else for their obese children because they "must be healthier" and then watching the documentary talk about how much more sugar is in these things. :(
Hungry for Change - a really good look at dieting and how the food industry caters to the "diet" marketing and whats really in diet foods and how the body is addicted to these things. It has the guy from Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead, as well as a couple of other famous people who lost weight and kept it off by changing the way they think and moving to a more plant-based diet.
TO BE WATCHED: Food Matters, Forks Over Knives, Vegucated, and basically anything else I see on netflix. I am trying to brainwash myself out of an addiction to processed, oversugared foods.
Brit, I'm gonna let you issue challenges for next week maybe? I'm still continuing on most of this weeks challenge with the juice fast and and the running. So I am just gonna continue on this and see what you come up with! Feel free to look back on some of our old challenges and recycle!
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