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.
Friday, September 11, 2015
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 :)
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