Getting Back at it

Well it's been a little while since I last posted but to tell you the truth not much has been going on with me.  I have been back to work now just a little over a month and so far so good. The good is I have really only been eating what I bring I have not gone out to buy much in the way of bad food and the only time I got food out was Greek and it was just chicken on the salad I told them I didn't want the rice or the potato and they just gave me more salad so that was really not bad at all other than what ever they put on the chicken before cooking it and I had no dressing on my salad. I have been getting a lot more urges to eat snack foods but I have been able to stay away for the most parts, I have bought a few things from my Dr.'s office to get me through the day if I have a bad craving but it's been ok, One bad thing is I have been drinking more coffee about 4-5 a day and I was drinking only 1-3 before at home now I am not really too sure if that is what has been making me retain water or what but since my last weigh in I have lost weight- (FAT) but I also gained or (RETAINED WATER) so when you look at my actual weight number I am breaking even now I am not going to say that I have been 100% perfect because I have been having some salty food and I know that will make me retain water as well but I am just hoping that I can get over this break because I have been bouncing around 192 -194 for the past few weigh in's and I only weigh in every other week so for a month I really have not moved much in terms of weight loss so I am feeling a bit stuck.

I have just started back a running this past week because I have found that with being back at work by the time I come home I am not wanting to go to the gym after I cook dinner and get the kiddies ready with homework and bath's so I started to run I get everyone all ready and then my husband just has to listen out for the baby while I go for my run, so far so good I ran for about 22 minutes and when I tracked it on map my run it said I did about 2.2k I'm not a runner by any means so I don't know if that’s good or bad, all I know is that I want to try to get further and further every time I go out and if not further maybe make it home sooner then I will change up my route when I get better LOL.

Like I said in my last post since I am playing in Mas this year I am hoping to lose at least 20lbs before then but I only have 6 weeks left  I am not too sure about that any more but I at least want to be out of the 190's I'll keep that as my goal for now.

Thanks for reading

XOXO

Summer Here I come

Well it's been two weeks since I have been back in my office and back hard at work well as hard as my job is going to get LOL but any way that hard work I do at work was really not my issue it was going to be with how I controlled my snacking and bad habits that can creep up when you do nothing but is all day at a desk. Well it turns out that it was not all that bad I did have a few slip ups here and there but when it came down to it I went for my weigh in this weekend and I was down 5lbs and it was all fat and man I was so happy since two weeks ago I was up 5lbs but it was a mix of fat and water so now for the next two weeks I have to be on plan 100%  and get my water back down to where it should be as well as lose a few extra pounds. My goal for summer is to lose another 20lbs at least but I say summer but my date that is important to me is August 4th so I really only have 5 more weigh in's left I am not too sure if that is even going to be really possible,. to tell you the truth I know it is really 100% possible it only works out to be a loss of 4lbs per weigh in but its going to be a matter of mind over matter type thing and just really pushing my self as hard as i can both in the gym as well as in my plan I can not afford to mess up in the next few weeks.

For those of you who don't know what August 4th is well it's Caribana 2012 in Toronto and this year with all my success in my weight loss I am going to play in the Mas and its going to be greaat I'm going to add a little picture in this blog if I can and just to let you know its not the one I'll be in my will look like a full swim suit not two piece but will still have all the great extras and I can't wait and thus I need to get in tip top shape.

Thanks for reading.

XOXO 

Last weigh in for March 2012

Ok so this weeks weigh in came and went and ......................... : ( I didn't make my goal that I was so 100% sure I was going to make. However Dr. Poon has told me that I did lose fat but gained a lot of water. So to be honest I did have a few drinks on the weekend as it was my friend's birthday but at this time I have TOM over to visit and that can also play a role in the water gain as well. As Dr. Poon said no damage done lol, so now I have to work extra hard this next two weeks to burn off all the extra water i gained and I was told just to drink a lot more so I will try that and hope it works. Having this stupid 2 lbs hanging over my head is killing me I just want to see 199.9999999 so bad LOL.
Well not much more to say so I guess this is going to be a shore blog.
Thanks for reading :) XOXO

Almost there

Well yesterday was weigh in day and................ I didn't make the 7lb goal :( but not all bad I did lose 4.5lbs and that was a mix of Fat and Water so I am still on track and very happy and that leaves me with even more excitement for my next weigh in because that means that I am going to 100% be under 200 and finally have reach that wondrous Onderland as I only have 2.1lbs left to get there. I am so nervous more than anything now since it is such a big milestone I am worried I will mess it up or something like I have always done in the past either by falling off track completely or going a day long bender and crash and burn. But what I am hoping is because I already know all of this I am already know how bad my destructive past was that I will be able to move on past this and run right on through.

On another note my sister has offically joined me on the same program I am on and yesterday was her first offical weigh in she is very happy and all exceited about this new journey and as soon as I get her to give me her blogger address I will post it here for others to follow as well. :)

Also after our weigh in Dr. Poon told us about this metabolic testing thing that we could do at the office he was offering it to my sister at first but then I told him that I had never done it either so he set us both up to do it at the same time. This testing was supposed to tell us if we had a slow normal or fast metabolism we would have to sit with a mask on our face for 10min and just breath normally so we did this after making a joke saying we already know were fat so does that not mean our metabolism would already be slow? The lady that was performing the test told us that it's not the case she said most people land in the normal range and other are slow she said it is very rare that they get people with fast. Anyway we took he test and yep we both have are you ready for this..... fast metabolisms what??????? How is this possible? I always told my husband that mine was slow that is why I could never lose weight and after talking with the lady she in fact told us that our weigh gain is mostly all from pregnancy's and since we never worked at trying I mean really trying to lose the weight before that is why we kept all the weight on and stayed fat lol so as she put it this is all good news as long as we stick to the diet and do slight exercise we should have no issues losing weight LOL ya will see about that. Oh wait it's already working LOL
One more thing that text told me was that I should with exercise I should be able to reach my final goal in 17 weeks wow I am so happy 17 weeks will bring me to July summer baby and man I can't wait to have a hot bod for summer LOL ROTFL.

Back to blogging

Well it's been so long since I have sat down and written a blog I really feel bad but I have been keeping my own personal journal as well as keeping vlogs but I have been slacking on the vlog to be honest. One good things is that I have kept right on track with the eating and working out and for me that is huge if I had stop logging my food and doing everything before I would have quit my program by now and I haven't. In fact I have met some huge goal along the way I have said good bye to the 230's 220's and the 210's and right now I am very close to Onderland as it is so greatly worded LOL and for me that is a big number I have only seen 198 one other time way back in 2002 and that was only for about 4 months and then I have since always been above 200 ever after.
So at my last weigh in in the office Dr. Poon has asked me to give him a 5 day eating diary so this is what has prompted me to get back to the computer and track everything it has also got me super worried since I have never been asked this by any other Dr. along my program and I have only had a few very small gains along the way one of which was during christmas and the other was due to water gain from meds so I hope he does not think I am cheating or something but he has also given me a huge goal for my next two weeks of 7lbs now that has me worried since I have not lost 7lbs since I started now part of me says I can so do this but I don't know if it is because I want this so bad because that would put me to 199.9 and I think that is why the Dr. set 7lbs as the goal but who knows.
I have been pushing my self hard at the gym but I have not been since i hurt my ankle so I have to get my butt back to the gym for this next week 100% or I am not going to lose anything, I am also going to start running with my sister this week we are starting tomorrow since we are planning on running a 5k in the warrior dash this summer so we better start training now or we will be in last place for sure LOL. So I hope with the combination of the gym and running with my sis I hope to knock the 7lbs out of the park. ;)

More than a little mad

Well today was my weigh in at the office and I was down 2.6lbs but lost 5lbs of fat so I am very happy with that.
But as I started talking with the Dr. he told me that my office I go to each week will be closing and moving to a new location and not just down the street or two blocks or anything they are moving to pickering now that is way far from where they aare at now. My Dr. told me that I can go to the new office with him and I can change my weigh in to one time a month and just come on a saturday at the end of the month each month. But I was not very happy with that as i need the weigh in that is what helps me get through my hard times I always just say oh no I cant have that I have to weigh in two days from now or something like that and if I moved it to once a month that would just not be good for me. So my other options are to go to a new office that is closer to me one would be in Brampton or the other is in Thornhill now the Brampton office would be my best bet its only about a minute difference than the wilson office that is closing but my Dr.will not be going to that office. So my only option is to get a new Dr. I mean I am not about to drive 40-45min to get to an office and weigh in no way.
So my next weigh in will be my last at my old office and as of that I will have to find a new Dr. and that is going to be a hard thing or me I don't want to get some jerk or hard ass but I don't want to get a softy either. I feel so blah right now and kind of mad.
One good thing that is going to come of this is that the new office has a support group and I am going to attend this and see what it's all about, I have only ever gone to meetings when I was on Weight Watchers and I loved my meetings so maybe that will be how this turns out, I hope (*fingers crossed*)
Well thanks for listening
XOXO

New Year new me

Ok so how many blogs and vlogs are going to start with those 4 words? Well for me this has never been more true. Although I started my journey at the end of last year I still have the most part of my weight to lose this year. By the end of 2011 I had already lost 40lbs, 31.8 of those lbs were lost since October when I started  the Dr. Poon so I think that's pretty good. Today was my first weigh in for 2012 and I lost 4lbs now there is a good and a bad the good is the scale now says 218.6 and that means I am now out of the 20's and I'm happy to see that, but my problem is I lost 5lbs of water weight and gained 2.8lbs of fat ??? What say that again? Man oh man that sucks but the Dr. was happy he said it's ok to gain over Christmas, I mean I was not thinking I was going to have any kind of loss for my first weigh in for the new year just because of Christmas and New Year but hey what can I say. So now I'm sitting here and I am thinking about my goals and my resolutions and this is what I have come up with I still have about 60-70 lbs that I want to lose so that is goal number #1 for my New Year new me I need to lose all of it by the end of the year. #2 I really really want to run a 5k I have started with a couch to 5k app on my iPhone and I really like it so again by the end of the year I want to be able to run a 5k. #3 for me is something I always strive to do but I just add it in every year I want to be the best mom and wife I can be and part of that will have to do with losing the weight so I can be here a lot longer for my 4 great kids and wonderful hubby.
Well cheers to the New Year and cheers to me.
Hope everyone had a great year and is heading in the right direction to have an even better New Year.
XOXO

Christmas and my update

Ok so I have not been keeping up with my blog I think it's because of my new found love for m Vlog its been good because I have been able to watch other people move along in their weight loss journey and it's been fun.
So I am trying to get my blog back updated, I missed my Birthday weigh in that was on Dec 08 and I hit my 30lb loss I even went over it I made 31.8lb so I was super happy about that so my official weigh in that day was 221.8 that mean I only have 22lbs to lose to be in One-derland I can't wait for that day to come I don't thin I could ever be More happy then when that day hits. I think that since it took me 8 weeks to lose 31LBS I think that it will take me about another 8 weeks to lose 22 just because I know I am not going to have any more 11lb losses or 8lb losses so I'm going to try for mid feb and see what happens.
No that being said I also have to account for the gains that I may or may not have for example last weeks weight in I weighed in at 222.6lbs and that is a gain of 0.8lbs not much of anything but Dr. Stephen was very happy about that because he said I lost 2.8lbs of fat but was up 2 something of water so he called it a loss but in my eyes I see it as a gain on the scale. This is where I find that scale at the Dr.s much better because after stepping on my scale at home and crying because of a gain I got there and it was a great loss so I'm thinking about getting one from the office. The Dr. also said that he would not be mad at a gain at this time of year he would even be  happy because he says he knows people are going to sneak a little big of treats from Santa so not too worry lol.
Anyway so this weekend was Christmas and I 100% cheated this weekend Saturday Sunday and even Monday today is Tuesday the 27th and I am back to normal but I did a sneak peek at the scale and I don't know why I wanted to torture myself but I did it anyway and ya I was up a lot so I am back on track as of today no more bad food and I hope I can flush everything out of my system before next week Thursday.
I went to a family Christmas party and I had all my aunts and cousins who have not seen me in a bit complement me on how good I look and even ask how much I have lost that felt so good I just want to keep that good feeling and lose the rest of what I want to lose that way I will feel good for the rest of my life. ;)