Monthly Archives: June 2017

Hello!!!

I can’t seem to get past this hump! Hovering at 129. The gym! I need to get back to the gym. More so so I can just get active again. I know weight loss is mostly diet. Exercise is for health and feeling better.

The stress we are experiencing around here waiting for my husband to be done with work is really ridiculous ????

Fear is probably the biggest driver. When this is all we have ever know, what is next is completely unknown. 

But I have to say I’m super proud of myself. Not once have I gone off track since Memorial Day! I just haven’t ???? I have goals that I hope to reach by my birthday at the end of August and cheating will not get me there ????

Ok have a great day!! I need to make my shopping list and get my day going.

6 days left ????????????

I grabbed some pictures this morning for a progress/accountability post. It’s funny, now POST vacation it’s coming off MUCH slower than before vacation. It’s rather pissing me off actually LOL

I’m back down to 128 and some change and my middle ‘feels’ pretty good, but that damn scale ???? I think I need to get back to my salads for dinner. Going to look at my days leading up to my vacation vs the days after. I KNOW I have been eating different foods now than then, so don’t let anyone tell you a calorie is a calorie 😉

And my progress chart.

UPDATE: This is an average day BEFORE vacation. I will make a list so I can get these foods back in the house today.

Still on track with the Experiment. Still losing weight while eating 2000-1500 calories a day, that according to the “Math” should not be happening.

I am not exercising yet, we will be adding that in soon. We are about 9 days away from my husband being done with his job and then we will start hitting the gym together.
I had been telling my husband over the weekend that I used to feel like life was happening TO me. That I was not actively guiding it anywhere. We were sitting at the beach when this revelation came over me. I feel so much more confident and in control of my life and prepared to handle things that come my way.

I have spent some time over the last few days planning our future. With my husband leaving his job and use going down to one income for a while I needed to make sure we were going to be good for our long term goals. Also when we move we want a big house. One that is the same size as the one we have or larger. We want a single story as it will be our retirement home and who knows if our knees would hold out to get up and down stairs. Also my parents and Mother In Law will be spending time with us and I know their knees would not like going up and down stairs. So a single story, 4 bedroom, 3 bath home with an office and a pool. I’m not asking for much 😉 There are several for sale in the area we are looking right now – BUT what will there be in 10 months? I can only hope!

Anyway – I have looked at my pension, our Social Security, ROTH’s and 401k’s – I have a budget that will allow us to live without worrying that we will become a burden to our children. All of this information has made me relax about so many things. I own about 5-6 web addresses that I will be letting go when they are due for renewal in July and then a couple of others as they come due throughout the year. I no longer feel like I need to have something separate to pay for my future.

The company I work for is pretty solid. World-wide diverse company. I have much room for growth – STILL even after 20 years and I suspect I will be fine for 17 more to get me to retirement. Will SS be here when I get to 67? I have to assume it will and work with that as the plan until it’s not. BUT we do have a meeting with our financial guy next month to address how to add to our ROTH and 401k’s properly incase it’s not.

Life is now to be lived and not always looking for my next grind to make sure I have money for the future. I am LIVING life. Looking ahead to our future and loving it. I hope to get a retirement job at Walt Disney World. I would love my Husband to get one when we move down there 🙂 Great Benefits! Free park passes and such! We have plans to bring all the kids down for our 30th Anniversary in 2019 and free park passes would help make THAT a little less $$. 🙂

OK well that is where I have been. This blog will not go away. I enjoy writing too much. Need some place to get these creative juices out 😉

I added a few elements to my chart because I am a nerd. 🙂 I also have a predicted weight at 1500 calories and then a dashed line at 2000 and at 1500 on the chart. As you can see yesterday fell below the 1500 – Not intentional, but after work I cleaned my house and was not hungry. I had a few drinks with my hubby out by the pool and then came in and had a small dinner and then off to bed.

I am curious about how the low carb shells might be effecting me and my scale loss. I started eating those again after we got back from Hawaii and I can’t seem to get the kind of momentum going that I had before we left. SO I have been trying to keep them down to a minimum..but it’s not so easy 🙂 I guess I stop buying them for a while and then it will be easy.

Well – still going strong on my experiment – fully keto and no cheats. I am planning a carb night for the weekend of June 30. Our life change is that my Husband is leaving his retail job. I shared that in a picture a while ago, but you had to want to read it to know that LOL I plan to go out to dinner to celebrate our next step – Weekends off! Normal M-F life! AND if he does not get something at his corporate office he will be taking the summer off. Two months at home to lounge by the pool and take care of yard things here to help with the prep to sell the house next spring 🙂

Well that is all I have for now. You have a great Day!!!

Are you a stress eater? I AM!!!! My one friend is a stress anti-eater LOL I wish I was like her.

I want to fall into all of the foods that would not be good for me. This would not be a planned carb up day. This would be giving into my stress and letting it drive me to make bad decisions. I am not giving in.

I measured some nuts and logged them. I MAY end up eating over the 2000 calories and my Macro’s may end up skewed! BUT I will not fall into a pile of sugar and starch!!!!

Still losing! But my brain is not happy with almost a half a pound a day LOL – That is pretty significant by the way…but I want MORE! 🙂 I want to be back to where I was when I left for Hawaii. I don’t regret one single thing I did in Hawaii. I just want to be back to where I was so I can keep moving down and reach those birthday goals. I thought I was going to end the day yesterday at like 1500 calories. But I got hungry and had a snack and still ended the day very near 2000.

Chart is below

I have plans to move toward a Feasting and Fasting plan for nutrition. I have been reading the before mentioned book – The Obesity Code by Dr Jason Fung and as soon as I have the spare cash I am buying his book on Fasting. Life SHOULD be celebrated with food! It has since the beginning of time. But life has also had periods of fasting. It’s healthy and I need to figure out how to best implement it in my life. If you have been reading my blog long you know I HATE to feel hunger. So I need to better learn to recognize real hunger from my tummy being used to getting fed all the time LOL

So how does fasting make sense when I was just talking about killing my metabolism by eating low calories for so long. Seems the science is living at daily starvation calories is different than fasting. And No I won’t lose my muscle 🙂 Your body does not actually start using it’s muscle for energy until you are at or below 4% body fat and I am wellll over that LOL

I have to say I have been lax in my blasting routine. I did finally get back to it on June 1st last week. And Sunday, after I mowed the lawn I sat out in the sun for heat and blasted my legs 🙂 I got a couple bruises and some very tender spots. I know I have so much more to break through. But this was awesome – get sunshine and stay warm. Don’t need to sit in the bathtub and sweat. I can sit by the pool and sweat 🙂 My husband also needs a day off so he can help me with my back. I can only reach so much and still don’t have a girlfriend to help me. SOON maybe though, I have a new friend that is talking about buying a blaster…maybe she will get well versed in how to use one and help me with my back and the back of my thighs 🙂

Still a work in progress – but looking pretty good for this summer.

Have a great day!!!!

Hello!

So I just wanted to pop on and post my chart and a copy of a Facebook post I just posted.
Life is Changing for the better this summer!!!!

Forgot my picture I took this morning ????

Experiment is 100% on track “:)

I didn’t drink at all last night so my overall calories came in a bit under 2000 LOL I am sure they will hover around the 2000 calorie mark throughout this fun. Sometimes over sometimes under. Almost out of the 130’s again!

This is what my macro’s look like for today. 🙂 I know most people would see 195g of fat and freak the F out. But that is where I get my energy. The only thing your body NEEDS is fat and protein. Your body can convert protein into glucose where it needs it.

On a related but not directly topic. Today starts a “Heart Butt Challenge” on the Fasciablasters page. I need to get my video made so I can enter 🙂 and then I need to blast and exercise and submit 30 and 60 day video’s for progress and final results. I will grab my pictures while I am making my video. So along with my nutritional goals, I will be working on the booty! Target ???? LOL.
Have a great Day!!!

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