Archive for May 9th, 2007

I’ve said it before, but I’ve never really struggled with my weight until the past year or two. I may have gained a pants size after having a baby but wasn’t worried, heck I got back into that same pants size after my second baby! But going up another size a few years later…not cool. Not fun and definitely not a good thing for my closet.

I’m also on day one for take off and so far so good. I’ve had some veggies, take off juice and a la lite bar (I know there is a lot of controversy surrounding the la bars, I’ll have to talk about that later). I’m saving my protein for lunch and dinner and look forward to whatever activity I do today. It’s storming here, a storm is just off the coast and it’s brought rain and win inward to us. So my activity will have to be indoors, maybe it’s time I jump back on that elliptical!

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My friend Tishia Lee posted about a May Day Weight Loss Challenge that is going on over at Tales from the Scale. It officially started yesterday but I was gone all day and not online except for a few minutes and that was after midnight!

The challenge is lasting until September 18, which is great because weight loss is a long term thing.

Let’s see, between now and Sept 18 is 19 weeks – it is said to lose 1-2 pounds a week to lose safely and keep the weight off, so between now and then one could lose about 38 pounds. My goal for this challenge will be to lose 30 pounds. My weakness is sticking to eating right – I did buy a new cookbook which I think will definitely help. It is hard to stick to the plan when you have a family to cook for and feed!

I need to also exercise. My goal will be to exercise three to four times a week – be it heavy house cleaning, yard work, walking, or the elliptical machine. I know that just a little activity will help and I also need to actually count my activity, realize that an hour of mowing and weeding the yard is burning calories.

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The past couple of weeks have been really hard – I haven’t been able to stick to my diet plan for a full day. I wake up easy morning starting great, eating well, drinking water, but by dinner time the plan is out the window.

So for the first time in two weeks I checked in at LA Weight Loss yesterday – and had a 3.2 (or maybe 3.4) pound gain. I’m not too upset since I’m sure some of it is water weight, but I am a little disappointed. LA has a, I guess you can call it a plan that is called Take Off – it’s a juice you mix with water and then follow a different eating plan for a couple of days. So I started today, it’ll get me back on track I know.

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