BB1-Trigger Foods Challenge Week #2

The challenge:

Ok...so last week's challenge was INSANE! I have never felt like I have done so well because of the thought "Brianna will KILL me if i eat this and we have to run a mile!" It really worked! YAY! Anyways, so I got on the scale on Saturday morning and I had gone from 204.2 to 200.6...WOOHOO! In 5 days, I was able to lose that! Now comes the fun part...keeping it going momentum wise...and making up for Saturday's calzone, 3 glasses of wine, ice cream (a reasonable amount) and a rum and coke for a celebration party with some friends moving to Kansas! Good thing the challenge started back up today :) 

So this week: its the same challenge but we're gonna step it up...every mess up=1 mile AND 50 lunges at the workout! 

With that being said, my trigger foods have changed a tad:

ramen

cookies

brownies

candy

ice cream 

pizza (unless homemade because Matthew and I make some hardcore healthy pizza)

Fast Food 

Alcoholic beverages: more than 1 beverage in a setting 

No 2nd helpings at meals 

For my goals with working out, I have realized that I need to get better at working out in the mornings where I don't have to be at work until 10am. Matthew got me the Jillian Michaels Body Revolution. It's 30 minutes a day 6 days a week of cardio...its nothing CRAZY, but I can do anything for 30 minutes! So my goal is to be conscious of working out and making sure that I get this done at some point during the day! I'm excited of how the progress is going! 

I have felt so much better about myself this past week and want to keep going! Matthew got me a new bra (because where I have gained weight literally all of them don't fit anymore), a new shirt for work and a new workout outfit for my efforts! Such a better way to reward than with food :) I am enjoying these challenges and I've started the healthy wage challenge to win $100 :) :) 

Let's get this goin :) 

BB2 on super challenge!

First of all, I want to reiterate what I said via text to BB1 earlier - I am SO proud of her for getting the blog back up and running. A few weeks ago we both fell off the wagon, but I didn't push her about it and wanted to see if she'd get back into it on her own.. and she did! It was all her idea to post on here, and I  LOVE LOVE LOVE that!

Anyway, getting into the challenge. Here is my schedule for the week:

Monday: Exam

Tuesday: study

Wednesday: study

Thursday: Final exam!

Friday: Weigh out of HealthyWage weight loss challenge. 

Prepackaged meals while I'm studying keeps me on track with foods like pasta, but we all know what my trigger foods will be: SUGARY SWEET SNACKS AND DESSERTS! Specifically:

Cookies, candy bars, kettle corn (especially the fresh stuff from Miss Cordelias, yum), ice cream (even the skinny ice cream sandwich I had to pass on tonight from my sweet boyfriend), fro-yo, powdered sugar (why do I do this to myself - i ate some straight from a bowl yesterday!), cupcakes (even though I'm going to attempt to make some birthday ones for a friend friday.. without eating any of them!). Fortunately, being stuck at home without most of these in my pantry or fridge means that I'm not going to have to work very hard to "stay away" from them.

Workouts will be the Zumba/Insanity/Jillian Michaels videos on MONDAY EVENING, TUESDAY EVENING, and THURSDAY EVENING.

We both agreed that when we see something like a cookie, we will immediately text each other about it. That will keep our hands busy long enough to get our brains in the right mindset to say NO to it. All it takes is a delay of a few seconds to keep strong!

I know how hard it is to jump-start a weight loss journey - that initial kick where you are craving sweets and haven't yet seen any results... it's miserable. I hope this gives BB1 the motivation to earn that successful feeling she's been missing for a while, and will boost her confidence to get her in the right mindset for a healthy lifestyle!

It's ON!!!

It's on!!!! 

Super Challenge Time

So Brianna and I had a nice little chat today...well mainly she chatted and I listened because I was the one doing the complaining of how miserable I was at my current weight/physical level and how I was struggling really bad finding the motivation to get back at it! So after some really, really, really, really tough love, a couple tears on my end (ok a few more than a couple because I know she (and my amazing husband) are right), and kind of a slap in the face...we have come up with a challenge!

This is it: 

Every single time Brianna and I eat one of our "trigger foods" during the next 5 days, we have to run a mile when she gets in town! *according to her, she is going to be veeeeerrrrrryyyy angry if she has to run 20 miles!* Also, to bump up the challenge too...every time I say that I feel like a failure we have to do 50 lunges! Needless to say, if I don't change my way of thinking, she is NOT going to like me at all!! 

What we are going to do is write down all of our "trigger foods" and when we eat them, we MUST mark them on a calendar! At that point, Matthew is to see it and tell Brianna, and then she will make me feel really guilty about it!!! And then the same goes for her and me telling James!

So this is what I have done so much far! I have put a couple friendly 'reminders' on my calendars and things I see each day! I'm attaching the pictures here!

My trigger foods are as follows:

cookies

brownies

cakes

pies

candy

ice cream

ramen

cheese (shredded from bag)

popcorn (more than 3 cups)

pizza

fast food

soft drinks 

I'm gonna ask BB2 to put her list of trigger foods on here and her thoughts regarding how we are going to work on this together! I need all the help I can get, because clearly I'm having some difficulty doing it on my own! Also, BB2 asked me when I am going to get my 3 workouts in this week...and I've had some time to think about it and this is what I have come up with: 

MONDAY: 6am spin class and walk at lunch

TUESDAY: walk at lunch

WEDNESDAY: 6am spin class and walk at lunch

THURSDAY: walk at lunch

FRIDAY: 6am spin class and walk at lunch

SATURDAY: 9:05 spin class

SUNDAY: 2pm spin class

*there is a potential for pop pilates/zumba on Tuesday and Thursday mornings depending on how things go!

If I don't get my butt back in shape, I'm NOT going to fit into my bridesmaid dress for Katie's wedding in 3.5 weeks and Kira's wedding in 2 months! 

BB1 peace out!