No Idea What To Do?!

So I just bought a pair of size 9 jeans and they are too tight!!! I feel like such a lard and on top of it I feel like a lazy failure!  I have no idea how I did this before and now I am struggling to get back into it. I worked out 3 days last week and not at all this week. I mean I still have the rest of the week and I plan on working out tomorrow. It is just way too easy to say I don’t want to do it today I would rather sit on the computer and play my sims game.  I have cut pop out for the most part and when I got home and tried on the jeans and realized that they were to tight I threw out a half full carton on ice cream.  My biggest problem is dinner. I am good all day until dinner and then I really don’t feel like cooking so we just order a pizza. I can eat half a pizza by myself! Which is what I did for dinner tonight, we did go shopping tonight and we picked up some chicken and beef so I will be able to make dinner for a while. But I don’t get home from work until 6:30pm sometimes 7pm and by then I don’t feel like cooking a meal. My husband is next to no help. He can eat what he wants and still lose weight. He lost 10 of the 15 that he gained back from the honeymoon.  We still have to take Molly for a walk tonight so I will get a little bit of a work out in tonight. But now I guess I have a goal, to fit into those jeans!

How Long has it Been?

Well it’s been a while since I last wrote. I am now happily married and I came within 1lb of my goal weight of 135lbs. Which made me very happy, I was able to fit into my wedding dress and it looked amazing. The dress actually fit perfectly, they didn’t have to take it in or let it out. However, as far as my weight loss goes I am having some trouble. See I gained about 7lbs on my honeymoon and I can’t seem to find the motivation to lose it. Now that I don’t have a wedding dress to fit into and pictures to look good for. My weight is bouncing between 142lbs and 139lbs and I can’t seem to keep it off or get any lower. I need help finding motivation to keep going and not gain it all back!!

Weigh In #11

I am now down 16lbs!! I lost the pound that I had gained over Christmas and I lost an additional pound, so that puts me at 138lbs! This is the most weight that I have lost in my whole life, I can hardly believe it.  The best part is that I am not using some fancy new diet; it is all just being healthy and working out. I am still able to eat the food that I love. I still eat pizza more then I should, but now I know how to go about it. I try to eat my fruits and veggies, I stopped snacking (and if I do need a snack I try to eat something healthy), I am working out more. I know that it is not going to just happen. It is hard work.  I still need to work out more. I was working out 6 days a week and now I am lucky it I do it 3 times a week. But I laid the foundation. I try to keep my calories about 1400 a day and I am still able to lose weight.  I have 3 more pounds till my wedding goal is reached, anything on top of that is just icing on the cake.  Oatmeal for breakfast, usually soup and crackers for lunch with maybe some fruit, and about 500 cals for dinner, and that is what I usually eat during the day. Once in a while I will have eggs for breakfast, but I am not an egg person. Lots of veggies and protein and you will stay full longer.  Only 4 ½ months till the wedding and 3 months till my fittings, hopefully I can make it. Wish me luck!

Tomorrow Never Comes...

So I am having a hard time getting back into working out. I keep saying to myself that I will do it tomorrow and I never end up doing it. I haven't worked out once since I got back from my mother’s for Christmas. I did workout at her place once the four days that we were there but that was it. I am starting to eat better again and to watch my calories again. I haven't been doing that either. I started that back up yesterday, I am hoping to get a workout in tonight but we will have to see. I will be getting home late the rest of this week. I know that that is not an excuse. I have 3 months to lose the weight that I need to lose for the wedding and with this attitude I will never do it. I know I have said in the past that tomorrow is another day and that you should never give up, however that does not mean that you should keep putting it off till tomorrow ( like I am doing right now lol). If you keep putting it off till tomorrow then tomorrow will never come and you will never reach your goal. The tomorrow is a new day is for if you are working on it and you happen to have one bad day. This is motivation to not give up just because you have had one bad day. But what I have been doing does not apply to that. I am putting it off and if I keep doing it, not only will I not lose any more weight, I will gain back all that I lost. There are no easy fixes if you want your results to last. Fad diets and such only lose the weight; they don't teach you how to keep it off. Working out and watching what you eat is the only way to do it and to have it last. I am not saying that you have to change everything that you eat, but you do have to work it in. I am allowed 1400 calories a day; if I want to eat candy or a pop I look at the calories in it and add that to my daily intake. I keep a little notebook with my all the time and I write down everything that I eat. It’s not as hard as it sounds. You just have to watch your portion sizes and the calories in those portion sizes. So to lose 1 lb. a week we need to burn 3500 calories, that is 500 calories a day. Its little things that add up, like having one less pop a day (or cutting pop out altogether), parking at the back of the parking lot and walking a little bit further, working out for an extra 5 minutes, taking the stairs, etc. They all add up, and you need to keep with it. You can't just do it for a week and give up if you don't see results right away. It is something that you need to keep at and not give up on. Keep trying it will happen. I also promise that I will keep trying and that I am going to start working out again.  I will do it tonight!!