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Well yesterday was Thanksgiving, and I hope everyone had a great day!! I decided to use yesterday as my first "cheat day," after a month of my weight loss plan. So far in the first 30 days I lost 11.8 pounds, so I feel like I deserved it yesterday.
The funny thing is, after eating no carbs for a month, I got full after a couple spoonfuls of different carbs. Haha. My husband told me it would happen!
The hardest part now, is opening the fridge to get food and seeing all the leftovers. I wanted to donate them to families who didn't get a Thanksgiving, and we did with some of it. But my son and husband wants leftovers so now I have to look at it..
Willpower is really hard to have when everything stares at you and taunts you in the fridge.
That's why I call this "Back on the Horse!" I had my day, now I have to get back to it. I'm still trying to incorporate more exercises but it's so hard. Yes, I'm 24, but being 388 pounds now, (even though from 399 :-) ) my body still hurts really bad to almost tears.
--Still haven't been able to do a walk more than taking my dog to the end of the street and back for the bathroom.. :/
I'm still taking stairs at work, doing THRIVE--which is giving me the energy and clarity to keep going, and any other random stretching and exercises I can do without hurting myself. I'm doing jumping jacks now, which are painful so I only do 15 a day, all that extra weight really hurts when you come back down, but I'm still truckin.
So everyone, let's get BACK ON THE HORSE and start telling success and goal stories for what we are planning to do between now and Christmas!
My goal-keeping up with the exercises I've been doing along with brisk walking in place for 15 minutes a day inside.
The funny thing is, after eating no carbs for a month, I got full after a couple spoonfuls of different carbs. Haha. My husband told me it would happen!
The hardest part now, is opening the fridge to get food and seeing all the leftovers. I wanted to donate them to families who didn't get a Thanksgiving, and we did with some of it. But my son and husband wants leftovers so now I have to look at it..
Willpower is really hard to have when everything stares at you and taunts you in the fridge.
That's why I call this "Back on the Horse!" I had my day, now I have to get back to it. I'm still trying to incorporate more exercises but it's so hard. Yes, I'm 24, but being 388 pounds now, (even though from 399 :-) ) my body still hurts really bad to almost tears.
--Still haven't been able to do a walk more than taking my dog to the end of the street and back for the bathroom.. :/
I'm still taking stairs at work, doing THRIVE--which is giving me the energy and clarity to keep going, and any other random stretching and exercises I can do without hurting myself. I'm doing jumping jacks now, which are painful so I only do 15 a day, all that extra weight really hurts when you come back down, but I'm still truckin.
So everyone, let's get BACK ON THE HORSE and start telling success and goal stories for what we are planning to do between now and Christmas!
My goal-keeping up with the exercises I've been doing along with brisk walking in place for 15 minutes a day inside.
Now just keep those left over out of your mind and ignore that they are there. You don't need them, you have your own healthy food to concentrate on. You have been doing such a great job, don't give up!
I am hoping to lose at least another 5 pounds before Christmas. I have lost a total of 30 since September, from 325 to 295. It would be awesome to see the 280s before the end of the year!
How about you? What is your goal for the month?
And about the leftovers, I made my husband take a lot of it to work with him for people who couldn't or didn't have a meal yesterday. Therefore we help out people, and it's not in the house. :-)
I was so excited to see a 2 in front of my number when I stepped on the scale! I had given up on ever seeing that again. Just proves we can do this if we really want to!!
My poor horse doesn't know if he has a rider or not ;-) I didn't pay any attention to healthy eating on Thanksgiving but had sort of planned it that way. Even at that, it wasn't hideous. Friday I did fairly well in sticking to eating well. Saturday though was my DH's birthday and it was a milestone one so we were both WAAAAY off the horse. Heck, we weren't even on the ranch. It was his favorite dinner from the way I used to cook, wine, pie, port and chocolate and and and. Again, it was somewhat planned but man, two days like that close to each other felt incredibly decadant!
In my dream world, I know the number I'd like to see on the scale by Dec 31. I think I'm OK though if it doesn't happen. As long as I keep my protein where it keeps me satisfied and keeps my energy level up, keep my net carbs at under 150 grams per day and try to run a bit of a calorie deficit every day I'll be happy. If I eat in a way that keeps me feeling good, the weight will take care of itself.