Went to the gym 1st time in forever

Good morning fellow bloggers,

I just wanted to write a short post. 

I went to the gym last night and walked a little over a mile on the treadmill.  It was all I could do because I am just starting back.  It was hard to find the time but I know I need to start getting more active.  After work there was traffic, I had to go to the grocery store and that was crowded then putting everything away at home, and then to the gym.  I wasn't feeling hungry before so I ate when I got back but it was on a plate the size of a dessert dish because I was trying to limit my food at that time.  Does anyone work out?  Do you eat before or after the gym?  I actually prefer working out on an empty stomach unless its a walk around the neighborhood then I would eat and walk after dinner.  I know its good for digestion and stuff.  I have decided I would like to shoot for my long term goal of losing 100 lbs.  I ideally I would like to lose 10-15 lbs per month but I know it slows down after the first hurdle is passed.  Right now I am my all time high of 230 lbs. : (  My ideal weight should be between 118-150 so I would like to be somewhat in the middle at about 130 if possible.  When I was in my early 20's I was 125 so I should think its possible knowing I have a medium body frame.  I am always posting what I wish and my goals, but I always struggle with making them happen.  But its become severe enough that I can't have children until I lose weight so I should look at this as doing it for my future family right?  Its sorta depressing.  I wish someone could just be my personal chef and my personal trainer.  Wouldn't that be the easy way?  HHEHEHE!

Have a great day everyone!

Well what to say....

Well, what should I say....

I don't have much to write about because after following the carb cycling for a bit, I feel off the wagon as I normally do.  Got to stressed from finishing school, helping my husband work, and doing all the millions of other duties a woman seems to always have to do!  Its never ending right?  It seems like I never get a chance to sit down unless I am at the office working.  I actually enjoy coming to work but its the one place that seems to be quiet which I need on occasion.  So even though I haven't followed the carb cycling plan still, I haven't been eating much for dinners because I never seem to be too hungry.  I use a dessert size plate to eat on and stick to that.  As soon as I can get things together and go to the grocery store Monday, I will be back following the guidelines (hopefully to the T).  I get pretty bored with foods though.  I hate bring my lunch to work because I prefer it to be fresh right out of the oven or frying pan.  Chicken and stuff like that just isn't yummy left over in the microwave because its too dried out.  I don't care for the low carb wraps too much because well I just don't like the taste.  I don't like the salads unless they are super fresh too because the lettuce tends to get wilted or begins to taste weird after its packed in my lunch container and kept in the fridge here at work.  What do you guys take for lunch to work that actually tastes good?  I need to work on breakfast better too now because I have a totally different schedule.  I started waking up at 5:30 am in August because my hubby and I are taking care of our niece now so she can go to school where we live instead of back home in PR.  Its been a big change because I am not a morning person and I definitely am not that hungry that early in the morning.  I guess I will have to boil some eggs and bring some microwave ready bacon or turkey bacon to work.  I know I will get tired of the egg but I could eat bacon everyday with no problem (hehe).  High school starts so early at 7 am here, I don't see how anyone can learn that early especially teenagers who like to sleep til noon most of the time, but those are the rules. 


Anyways....looks like I found something to say haha!!

Great to be back, I missed following all of you guys and writing to keep myself accountable.  I hope coming back to the blog will help me stick to eating right again.  I would love to lose those 80 lbs I need to lose.  I recently saw the People magazine ad about those people losing 100lbs and if figure if they did it and they were all about my weight, then I can do it.  I know there are others following the BFC that have had great success because you guys never gave up.  If I could just stick to it and do some exercise then I know I can achieve my goals (my dream of being skinny) again!

Have a great day making healthy eating choices everyone! 

Been MIA for almost a year now....but I am coming back

Hey bloggers!! I don't know if anyone out there is still around or not.  I was gone for almost a year.  I may have posted some during that year but not much at all.  I am coming back in August : )  I started the carb cycling plan that Jorge came out with and lost 7 lbs. during the first week.  I don't expect myself to lose that every week but it was a shock for my body so that is why I lost up front so much.  I want to blog again for accountability because it helped me so much in the past when I originally lost 25 lbs with BFC (the original).  There has been so many additions or different versions added to the original plan.  I have been missing the past year because I went off the BFC and I went back to school full time on top of working full time.  I just didn't make time for blogging.  But now with graduation only four weeks away, I am anticipating coming back to blogging about my BFC journey.

I really enjoy the carb cycling plan a lot.  Its by far been my fav version of the BFC.  The only downfall I have reached was the weekends make it hard for sticking to the plan because being at home more and watching what the kids and my hubby and his brother eat are brutal during these beginning times.  During the week when I am busy with work and school after work, I don't have time to watch what they eat so its better.  Saturday and Sunday this past week, I did cheat with some extra carbs unfortunately.  But hey I lost the 7 lbs. and I am pretty darn proud of myself.  Now onto week two and more lbs to come off I hope.  So far I had my morning eggs, turkey bacon, handful of cashews as my snack and getting ready to eat my salad.  But really I am not even hungry yet and its 1 pm.  I will wait a while and try to eat some of it at least.

My goal is not to cheat anymore no matter what stress I am under or what laziness I feel or what temptations I may have!!

Sorry I have been busy!!

Hey girls, sorry I have been so busy lately.  School work, working, doing mine and my hubby's own business stuff, cooking dinners, etc.  I never find time to write on this blog anymore.  I haven't even got a chance to barely read anyone elses.  I am sorry guys that I have been so absent.  I am trying to eat as best as I can during these busy times.  I have found that I need it to be super duper simple.  So I was at the grocery store last night and I went through all the Michelena lite, smart ones, and lean cuisines that are under two carbs and under 5g of sugars.  I found a lot of yummy ones' so I got lunches for work this week.  Breakfast, I still need to think of how to make it fast because I don't even have time to make eggs.  I like boiled eggs but not for breakfast.  Any ideas?  Dinner is the one meal I usually have time to cook.  Last night I made one of the best dinners ever.  Pollo en Fricasse. MMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!  I highly recommend it if you haven't tried it.  Just have to make it BFC friendly which I actually didn't check to see if it was.  But I didn't put anything too bad in it.  Anyways if anyone can pass along quick ideas for meals that work for them, that would be super awesome!!


Have a great day girls!! BFC POWER!!

Monday...just another one of those days

Well hello everyone!!  How was your weekends?  Hope they were well.  Mine was fantastic.  I went to the Women of Faith conference with my mom and my friend and her mom.  I recommend it highly if it ever comes in a city near you.  I think there were approx. 10,000 women there.  It was full of singing, laughs, and even tears, but I loved every minute of it.  I ate fairly well, but they did provide lunch both days of the conference so I ate what they provided.  

Today I ate Egg Mcmuffin for breakfast, chicken salad for lunch and pork chops with a little rice and peas for dinner.  I of course could have done with out the rice. : )  I left my HCG drops in the car Saturday so apparently per that diet, it says the drops become ineffective once left in high temps.  I would imagine it being in the mid 90s for the weekend, it was even hotter in the car.  I was pretty pissed off since I paid $35 for the bottle of drops, but maybe that was telling me that I should just do the good old regular BFC eating.  I don't know why I always try to lose weight faster.  I guess I just want it to magically come off.  I did well on the HCG diet, I lost about 6 lbs. in just 3 days, but I don't want to spend more on drops just to forget them in the car again on accident.  That gets to expensive.  So I pulled out my old BFC menu and I am back to it.  

School classes start Monday and I am excited and nervous.  I already got my syllabuses for the first two classes so I am getting in order and need to get a new computer this week.  Because my laptop has about had it.  The charger doesn't like to work right and of course a few other buttons on this thing.  I have been shopping around and I really like the Gateway All in One computer.  Anyone else gotten a new computer recently that they like and could recommend?

Well good luck everyone!!   

Day 1 Back on track

Well ladies I weighed myself this morning and it says 2 lbs. lost.  I think...  I got a regular scale and not a digital one this time because my digital ones' keep breaking.  Maybe that is a sign lol!!  Nah probably not, but I just bought a $10 good old fashioned scale instead of the $50 digital one's.  Trying to save money. Anywayssss.... ;)


What else is new for me?  Not much....hubby has been busy working working working which is good.  Getting lots of jobs so that is awesome.  People of course are slow to pay when their jobs are finished though which sucks big time.  Either that or they want 30 days to pay if they are a business.  Us being a small business, that makes it hard but if we don't allow the time then that business will go somewhere that does.  So ya know sometimes you gotta bare with it. 

I have had a little bit of a hard time starting back, but I will get on the wagon again eventually and not have any issues I hope.  I felt very exhausted yesterday and had a headache from the new eating plan again.  I will get use to it.  Maybe it was just because it was another bored out of my mind day at work.  Its busy one week here at the office then its dead as a doornail other days.  But as of August 22nd., I will have more to do with my time since I am returning to school to complete my Bachelor's.  I am finishing a Bachelors degree in Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on business and social science since that is what the four years of college that I have already taken transfer.  If all goes as planned, I will be able to graduate in July 2012. : )  I only have about 10 classes to take and I am taking four fall semester at Liberty Univ. which is in VA, but I am doing the distance learning.  Wish me luck!! Hope I am still smart, lol!! Its been like 6 years since I have been in college.  Wow didn't realize its been that long til just thought about it now.  But I wanna complete this before having babies. :)  I plan this to be a busy year.  Diet, College, then planning babies!! hehe!!  Lots to accomplish. 

Yesterday I ate:

Egg scrambled and bacon for breakfast
Grilled Italian chicken breast and romaine salad with chopped tomato for lunch
4 medium strawberries chopped up with a little truvia sprinkled on top
Stir fry chicken breast with onions, broccoli and a slice of tomato
I did have some pringles and crackers mixed in for dessert because I was starving from not being use to the new eating quite yet.  I will get there though. : )

Im back!!

Hey everyone!  I am back finally...sorry I was away so long.  I had a very busy summer.  My nieces were with me and my hubby and well lets just say we were running running running.  But last week they returned home with their mom in Puerto Rico to start school this week.  It was wonderful to have them, but I did fail on the diet quite a bit while they were around.  But as of this past weekend I started back on my healthy lifestyle.  Luckily I only gained about 7 lbs. over the summer so that should fall right back off, probably even this week. 

I miss you girls!  Sorry I feel off the wagon for a while.  I know I shouldn't have, because I would probably be nearing my goal by now if not already.  Bummer, but hey it's my fault and no one elses.


Look forward to reading your blogs again : )

I am still here....

Hey girls!! I am still here, just been so super busy with my friend that I haven't had time to do much of anything else.  I am still maintaining my weight, but I know I have been bad about blogging lately.  I hope after this weekend everything will get to normal again.  We found a potential good car, I hope for her.  We gotta take a mechanic friend to go look in a little while to check under the hood.  I have been helping her and her kids going to school and picking up for daycare everyday and helping go to the store etc etc.  I been running around a lot and when I get a free moment I just wanna relax and I don't think about blogging.  Especially about foods right now.  I just don't want anyone to think I gave up or forget about me.  I miss you gals!!  I haven't even got a chance to read a lot of your blogs lately either.  : (

Hope you all are having a great weekend!!  Finally its been warm enough to swim in our pool, so I might try to take a dip in the pool today.

Week 17 --- I can't focus :(

Well here it is week 17 of the Belly Fat cure and I am not happy with my eats this past week.  I eat good for breakfast and lunch and fail at dinner time.  I haven't been to proud of myself this last week and I can blame it on things being different in my house, but I know the real reason.  It is just me being lazy and giving up.  But I don't wanna give up, I felt so much healthier and more energetic when I ate healthy.  I have been feeling depressed and can't get out of my funky mood.  I am trying really hard for the sake of myself and diet.  I feel depressed for my friend and her situation.  I know its hard for her.  I feel sad for my hubby who I guess isn't happy with the difference in the house, yet I feel kinda happy for having my friend around.  She helps me cook and clean while I am working and I enjoy our talks and fun things with the kids.  It does stress me a little bit, but I don't mind really.  I use more energy up now then normally, but I do it because I would do anything for a friend or family in need.  Anyways, I am also a little depressed about my hubby's job and his idea of spending vs. saving.  He basically doesn't save anything at all.  He wants to watch the HBO pay per view fights, hang out drinking with his friends.  He wants to live the fun life instead of the responsible life.  My husband is like a child I guess you could say haha!! He is 33 going on 16 or whatever you wanna say.  Just gets on my last nerve.

Thank for listening to the venting.  I promise I will stop trying to complain.  It just like this is my diary and it helps me get it all out.

Week 16 Trying to stick to it

Well today I followed my diet pretty well until dinner time.  I have been feeling sorta tired and a bit stressed lately.  I couldn't wake up this morning for some reason.  Coffee didn't even help.  I was just in a brain fog all day.

Today I ate:
B- Egg Mcmuffin
L- Salad with turkey and cheese using romaine and iceberg lettuce mixed with a small packet of ranch (BFC safe)
D- Rotisserie chicken with a side of macaroni and cheese (probably should have chose a veggie instead)  I was just tired and drained so I didn't cook, just ate what was easiest.

Its going to take a little while to get into a routine now that things have sorta changed.  Not a routine with eating, just with the daily tasks.  Like my schedule is a little different and waking up earlier and having several things to do when I get home sorta makes me exhausted and then I choose not the best options.  I seem to have lost weight last week, but not enough to make me happy.  I am going to try to be more strict in the future here with this eating.  I don't need to let anything get in the way.  I know you all are always saying the same thing too.  Its just I feel tired and a bit sad lately.  I am trying to get out of my funk and pep up a bit.

Wish me luck!!

I am back in action! :)

Hello everyone!  Finally I am back in action!  Sorry I had to take a week off from blogging.  I had an emergency with a best friend of mine.  I don't need to go into the details of her private life, but what happened was major.  It was sad and I feel for her.  Lets just say her boyfriend/fiance was not the person she thought after four years of being together and a sudden 360 happened in her life.  She has two young kids so she had to move out suddenly.She now lives with me until she can get things situated in a new fresh start of her life.  Yesterday she found a job, so I am excited for her for that.  I know she was so happy to get a job after looking for months and months.  My life got rearranged a bit, but I would do anything for my dear friend because I know in return she would do the same for me.  I like having my friend around, it makes it fun for all our crazy conversations we have.  hehe!! We share some great laughs together.  I don't mind helping her with her kids either, I just know I lost a little quiet time in the house, but to see them all happy makes it worth it. : )  I have been waking up a little earlier then normal to take them to school because I live just outside of their school district where they use to live, but what is the since to change schools with only 3 weeks left.  So I volunteered to drive them.  Anyways enough about that.  Just wanted to fill you all in on where I had been.


I missed reading blogs and posting everyday.  I missed my friends! : )  But now I am back to posting.  I didn't eat perfectly, I will not lie, but I think I ate very low calorie because I have been so busy lately...I hardly had time to eat for meals and just haven't been in the mood to eat like normal.  But one positive note, no weight gain.  I actually lost 1 lbs.  I have been at 197.8 forever!!  Now I am down to 196.4 which is not much loss, but its something.  Now I am getting back into the swing of things and trying to eat as good as possible.  There are now bad snacks in the house to tempt me because kids love those snacks so the will power test will be in play for me big time now.


 Wish me luck!!  Missed you all!! I will get back to posting now on all your blogs too, sorry I haven't gotten to post much this week, just haven't had time to read everyone's blog.  :(

Today my eating includes:
B:  Egg, sausage mcmuffin with coffee
L:  Salad with lite ranch, turkey, cheese, and a little crouton
D:  Spaghetti bfc portion style and side salad or a veggie

Be gone for a couple days....

Hello all!! Just want you girls to know I haven't posted for a bit and won't be able to much this week.  I am helping a friend with a very very big issue.  Its been rough on her and she needs my emotional support so I don't have much free time to blog this week and still a little shaken up myself from the news she told me.  I am still trying to BFC as much as I can.  I did mess up and have two thin slice pizzas yesterday and some soda, and I can't justify the why.  I just was to stresses to care about eating healthy.  My goal was just eat something.  Today I am eating healthy and will continue just won't have much time to blog.  Will fill you all in later.

Keep on BFCing girls!! We are all doing great!!

Week 15 --- I am starting to get peeved!!!

Well I am officially starting to get peeved!!  I lost nothing again so for 3 weeks I have been stuck at 197.6  I was at one point 197 even but its really making me mad.  I want to start losing again and this plateau is irking me big time.  I figured I would plateau later towards the end but not now.  :(  Booo hooo!!  I am very tired of seeing the same number on the scale.  But still I will not stop!! Don't worry gals.  I will not give up.  I will power through and make that scale go down again.  I just wanted to share how peeved I was, lol!! I needed to wine I guess.

Easter was nice, but there was lots of food.  I tried to only get one plate of food and I believe everything was okay to eat.  Not positive, I may have gone over slightly.  But we had things like smoked ham, very small helping of potato salad, squash casserole made with only bfc approved ingredients, deviled eggs, and well I did have one small helping of strawberry pretzel salad (it was my bday celebration with family as well as Easter).  So I did fudge on that part. 

Today I ate:

B - Uncle sams 1/2 cup with vanilla almond milk (unsweet) with one sliced up strawberry + one truvia sprinkled on top

L - Cow pal cheese stick, tuna and light mayo on a pita bread

D - left overs smoked ham, squash, deviled eggs


I wanted to share one ymmy thing....

I made coffee this weekend and it was the yummiest way I have ever had it so I thought I would share.

1. one cup of coffee
2. one truiva
3. cinnamon
4. unsweet almond vanilla milk
5. one squirt of whip cream

TASTES just like cappuccino!!! mmmm but sugar free!

Well this week I am starting Zumba so wish me luck that I have a weight loss after this week is over or I might scream! ;)

Week 14 (Day 4 & 5)

Good morning, afternoon, evening!! Whichever it is for you all :)  I would like to say a BIG thank you for all the wonderful birthday wishes from everyone yesterday!!  Thank you girls!! Your all sweet hearts =)

In response to Sheryl's post.  I am glad you found the pitas at Walmart. =)  Now I will have to venture over to my Super Target and look for that smuckers sugar free jelly made with Truvia.  I would love to have some jelly on my toast!!  I just haven't wanted to buy those nature hallow preserves online yet.  I do order a few things, but not much.  I prefer to save and just buy what I find in stores.  Cause I don't like to pay shipping.  Thanks for the pointer.  I will definitely go to Super Target next week.

I hope 28 is the year for me, and my goal of a successful weight loss! : )  I really do!  @Helen, I didn't have any candles on the one piece of cake.  hehe!! All I bought was some vanilla cake slices at Walmart and happened to eat one piece when all my friends were over the other night and called it my bday cake.  I told hubby and friends not to buy a whole cake because then it would stare at me and say "Eat ME, Eat ME" haha I couldn't have that happen.  ; )  I have will power but not that much to see a whole cake on the counter and not eat little slivers here and there and then find myself have finished it off completely. lol!!

What I ate yesterday and so far today:

Thursday
B-2 eggs scrambled with cheese and 3 slices of pre cooked bacon + coffee with the usual truvia and creamer

L-Baby spinach salad with cheese, like 6 croutons, and one small packet of ranch (I always ask for extra at Wendy's if I ever go there and that way I use one packet on my salad that I make from home-only has 1 g of sugar - 100 calories in packet) and then I high my high fiber wrap with pieces of rotisserie chicken mixed up with about a tsp. of mayo.  Lunch was delicious!!!

S- few pringles (plain)

D- Rotesserie chicken pulled apart with a little mayo on some bread, (I was lazy - didn't sleep good the night before and by the time I got home from work I was to lazy to cook)  I should haven't had the carbs at night, but it stayed in the limits for the meal.

Friday
B- Uncle Sams 3/4 cup with unsweet vanilla almond milk with one packet of truvia and one large strawberry chopped up on top of cereal.  + coffee

L- Rotisserie chicken pulled apart on high fiber wrap with a little mayo

D- no ideas yet....I am thinking about finishing this rotisserie chicken up and having a green veggie for tonight


Walmart has great prices of a whole cooked Rotisserie chicken so Tuesday I bought two at $4.98 each and been eating on it a couple nights this week.  Its just as cheap to buy a uncooked chicken as a cooked one and saves time too.  Makes for quick simple meals and you can eat the chicken a variety of ways.  For me, I like simple.  I do like to cook but mostly just on weekends because when I get home from work, I like to make quick things and then relax or finish the many chores I have with keeping up with this house.  Those are the days I miss apartments.  Apartments = no yard work, no pool maintenance, etc etc.  All this added stuff sometimes get a little hard.  But hey when I lose more weight, I am hoping I have more energy to keep up with all this stuff on top of the inside cleaning and maintenance.

Happy Easter Weekend everyone!!! If anyone is traveling, be careful....the coppers were out this morning on my why to work checking for speeders big time.  There were too many to count.  So I am sure it will be like that on highways everywhere.  Be safe and have a wonderful weekend!!

This picture is from September 2009, but I just took my measurements as of right now (April 22, 2011)  I saw Rosalie's picture and figure I should go by measurements vs weight loss all the time.  I measured everything I could think of that will shrink, lol!!! I meant to say pooch, not pouch.  Didn't feel like going to edit the pic again. hehe!!

Day 3 - Week 14

Well hello all!!  :)  Didn't get a chance to post yesterday because it was my birthday!! =)  I turned 28 so only two more years to 30 which my husband's friend seems to think is the perfect age.  Not sure if he is right or not.  I would say 25 is the perfect age because then you can pretty much do anything.  Like rent a car, get a hotel room without a huge deposit (guess the think the young ens are going to trash the rooms)-we aren't all like that, but I do remember having to put a $500 deposit on a hotel room in Panama City, FL when I was 21.  Craziness I say!  Anyways just memories hehe!!  Yesterday was a great day after I got home from work.  Well it was nice int he morning too!  My hubby put some flowers on our bed so when I woke up I saw roses and tulips.  He always got a big huge heart balloon.  And my card said "see you facebook wall, love you!" Lol!! Guess he knows I am addicted to facebook.  haha!! I will post a couple pics to share.  When I got home my friends surprised me and she brought her two kids.  They came right as I was coming home from work.  Her little boy gave me a flower and her little girl gave me a little cute make up bag and they wrote the sweetest card.  I am so happy to have wonderful friends like them.  :)  I don't have many close friends, that even live close, but this couple is so sweet!!  After they left my hubby said get in the car we are going somewhere.  We showed up at a store and he got me an Ipod dock for my ipod.  I was so surprised cause I thought we didn't have money to get a present and I told him don't worry.  But he saved and surprised me because he doesn't often do that.  But after our last fight we really talked and both decided to work on our ways.  So now I am happy to say....I am so happy with how sweet my hubby is, and I know through thick and thin we will always be there for one another. =)  I don't mean to sound all mushy or anything just wanted to share. 

What I ate: (Wednesday)

B- Sausage, egg, and cheese with english muffin
L- Taco Bell taco supreme (with in limits)
S- one vanilla slice of cake very thin no icing (it was my bday- so I wanted a tiny slice of cake)
D- Pork tacos with sour cream, few tomatoes, cheese and lettuce (my hubby took me out for my bday to mexican)  Mmmm it was yummy!!


Today I am eating super low carbs because all the carbs I ate yesterday.  Just trying to even it out. ;)

Week 14 ( Day 2)

Well today was okay.  I didn't eat bad today.  Ate pretty healthy like a new day and a new week has come.  The weekends mess ups are just in the past now.  I saw Rosalie's newest video on you tube and just thought it was so cute!  She is such a nice person to give all this guidance.  Thank you everyone for the really sweet comments on yesterdays post.  All comments are so great to read and makes me feel like I really have a team of friends there for the support.  Thanks a million!!  If I could give you all hugs I would.

Well work has been stressful sorta today but luckily by the end of the day everything got figured out.  I went grocery shopping after work because there were a few items I needed but sometimes I just like to try new stores and wonder around to see what new things I can find.  I found a couple things today.  I know some bloggers have posted these items before, but just thought I would share again in case anyone missed them.  

Hansen's found new flavors since I have last purchased.  Ice Tea and Fruit punch found at Walmart for $2.78 and made with TRUVIA 

Joseph's Pita Bread only $2.08 at Walmart and all ingredients are BFC safe

Smuckers Natural PB only has 1 g of sugar per 2 tbsp.  which is great !  Just thought I would share.  All ingredients are approved and found this at Walmart too.

Today I ate:

B- Egg Sausage Mcmuffin with coffee 

L- Baby spinach salad with small serving of ranch (approved dressing), topped with fat free cheese, with a side of fiber one cottage cheese plus three stalks of celery.  Also I had a low carb wrap with smoked ham and pepper jack cheese.  All with in the BFC approved limits : )  Sounds like a lot but trying to eat a bigger lunch to stay more full. 

D- Rotisserie chicken (lemon pepper) with side salad and green veggies

Hope everyone had a great day!  

Start of Week 14 (weigh in day)

Well I am sad to report no weight loss again this week!!!  That is two weeks I have stayed at 197 :(  What a bummer!  But hey I am not giving up until I reach my goal.  NO matter what it takes, I WILL SUCCEED!!

New goals:
Eat better on the weekends (more regular meals)
Drink more water
Eat more fiber rich carbs


I had a very busy weekend and didn't eat like I was suppose to.  I went to an Italian restaurant with my grandma and there was hardly anything I could eat except maybe a side salad.  So I ate  baked veal roma I split it into three meals so I just ate a small bit.  I am not sure of the counts.  Sunday at a friends house I probably ate a little over my carbs because I was starving from not eating breakfast or lunch. <---my own fault, crazy me!! I need to eat something little whether I am hungry or not because later I know I will go on a eating binge.

Well today this is what I ate:
B- Egg Mcmuffin with coffee
L- Angus Bacon and cheese wrap
D-Carne Asada (two pieces) with a few corn tortillas, homemade avocado salsa, pica de gallo.
***I won't lie, I ate something awful today (a snickers) ahhhh!! I fought with myself like crazy about this, but I did it and I know it wasn't a wise choice.  I blame PMS for craving chocolate today.  I thought I was over cravings but driving home from work, all I could think about was CHOCOLATE!!

Well I will post more later, but I tired tonight and a little depressed about not losing weight.

Week 13 (Day 4) Happy Friday!!!

Well hello everybody!  Happy Friday! : )  I know I am happy the weekend is almost here, just gotta work a couple more hours and its pretty slow for a Friday.  I am manning the office by myself today because my mom and dad decided to take a vacation day and go up the North Carolina for the weekend.  So I am glad nothing to crazy is going on so far.  There is still time left in the day so better not say to much about that or I will be jinxed.  Well me and hubby made up.  He missed me and not talking for a 24 hr. period made him realize.  We sorta agreed to both be better about things and he said he just said what he said in the heat of the argument.  I just gotta learn how to do the famous task of making him think he is the one that made certain decisions even though it was me that made the decision.  LOL!! You know the famous trick they say all women should learn how to master.  haha!! Trick you man into thinking it was his idea in the first place and you should never have a problem.  Except on certain men, its easier said then done, lol!! For example my husband who thinks he wrote the book on life and how your suppose to do certain things.  He is easy going for the most part and likes things simple, but there are a few specifics that he has a very strong opinion on.  Any advice from some of those women who have been married for years on mastering the secret trick?  hahah!! It may never be able to be mastered by me, but I sure as heck will try.  Just gotta be sneakier hehe!!  Haha found some silly pics!!  

This is me planning my secret plan to master the secret trick that every wife should know!!! Muahahaha! (evil laugh)

Planning for my secret Ninja spy attack!! (LoL)  These really are just silly pics, just felt like being a little funny today.  I don't really practice how to plan attacks against my hubby.  hehe!!

I wanted to share a couple things I found the other day.  First some carb swaps, not sure if I shared this link before that I got from the email club.  Made me think of it again when I posted a response to Katie's blog yesterday.  http://jorgecruise.com/storage/BFC_PRODUCT_SWAPS.pdf 

Just a small little list of extra carb swaps and drink swaps.  It might help with some more ideas for some.

Also I am fans of a bunch of facebook low carb and low sugar pages.  There are so many out there and there is one called. https://www.facebook.com/#!/ToneItUp

On there info page they have a blog plus an email club you can sign up for too.  I signed up a while back and they have some interesting things.  While we can't have some of the fruit they recommend, we can have a lot of other food stuff they use.  Plus they have tons of free work out videos on their page and blog.  I would kill to have a body like that.  Hehe!! Maybe one day.  They are a tad too skinny in my opinion, but hey I wouldn't mind getting close to that.  Anyways just thought I would share.

While on youtube, I saw some videos of people posting in with the above blog, because they had some type of contest and you get to win free stuff.  That is another cool reason for being part of some of these facebook pages.  So I heard about this peanut butter.  Sounded interesting.  So thought I would share.  May just be easier to find a low sugar peanut butter in your local store, but most the time I can't find a peanut butter that only has one gram of sugar or less in it.  So this would be a good option.

http://www.bellplantation.com/

Also here is another link I found.  I just was finding lots of cool stuff yesterday.  : )  WOhoo!!
http://www.vivalowcarb.com/Departments/Baking.aspx  (lots of great stuff at this site)  This is actually the link where the PB2 is located for sale, but check out the rest of the site lots of low carb and low sugar stuff.  I know there are tons of low carb sites out there, Amber mentions one store in particular on here blog.  http://www.carbsmart.com/
(This is a good site too, but the Viva Low Carb site seems to be with other options as well and somewhat cheaper on some products)



What I ate:  (yesterday - Thursday)

 B- 3 eggs scrambled with cheese, 3 slices of pre cooked bacon (that oscar meyer kind that you just microwave) since I am always in a hurry in the mornings, high fiber wrap (12g fiber) with melted cheese plus coffee + 2 SC  (I took the advice and added back some carbs)  I probably will lose just as good this way and stay more full)

L- Wendy's chicken nuggets (10) with ranch sauce and side garden salad with tomatoes and carrots picked out.  Unsweet tea with truvia

D- 8 oz. of tilapia cooked with a little olive oil, butter spray and adobo (I love this spice!!!)  Its good on EVERYTHING!  plus I hate one medium steamed zucchini tossed with some braggs for flavor.


Well I hope everyone has a lovely weekend!! Remember don't cheat over the weekend, that is usually my hardest two days of the week with the healthy eating, but we can do it!!

Week 13 (day3)

Well I am going to go ahead and write while I have time because tonight at home probably won't since we only have one computer and my hubby is always on it.  I don't feel like talking about the hubby topic again in great detail.  Seems to just ruin my mood for the day.  We still aren't talking, I am waiting on him to come around when he wants to.  If he truly loves me after saying what he did then he should come to me.  That is my main thought.  Anyways new topic.

I have been trying to do low carb this week like (atkins low carb induction phase) but still following BFC of course.  Its just my weight has been staying at 197 but guess it has been some bad food choices and stress too.  I just want this weight to come off faster so I can feel better about myself because everything else right now sorta feels blah in my life.  I mean I have good days and bad days, but I would like to have more good days.  I am going to start living for just "me" now and no one else.  I am going to finish my Bachelors degree hopefully by the end of next summer and my goal is to be 140 by Christmas or hopefully sooner.  Right now this low carb eating is super easy.  I don't feel like I am about to bite off my arm any more because I think I have hit the point in the diet where I don't have cravings anymore.  I mainly just eat the bad choices when I am lazy or feeling blah.  So now that I kicked the cravings, I need to learn to kick the emotional eating.  Like today I had to force myself to eat, I wasn't even hungry, but I know I need to eat.  I am like this almost every day.  Its really strange.  Let me ask a question...  Do you think we have a calorie minimum?  I mean eating low carb makes the calories sorta low and I have read a lot of articles about starvation mode.  If we don't eat enough do you think our bodies are just going to hold onto everything thinking it needs it and then we won't lose weight?  I wonder if this is true.  What are your opinions?  A lot of articles say starvation mode for women is under 1200 calories for the average woman.  Somedays I eat like only 1000 calories so I wonder if my body just holds onto the food.  Maybe I should make sure I eat over 1200 calories everyday...

Well here is what I ate today:

B- 3 eggs scrambled with cheese + 3 slices of bacon (that precooked kind) + coffee + 2 SC

L- Spinach salad with spritzer dressing (that light spray type dressing-not bad), topped with 1/2 cup fiber one cottage cheese, one slice each of turkey and smoked ham, and 5 slices of cucumbers.  I had to force myself to eat a good bit of this because I just didn't want to eat.  Not because I don't like, but it was making me gag as I tried to force myself to eat, because I felt full.  Strange I must say cause I hardly ate anything today. 

D- If I can eat, I will plan to have a baked piece of Cod and some steamed asparagus with butter + 2 SC after dinner + One A Day Women's Vitamin (trying to be good about taking vitamins now too)

Well again and as always thanks for reading!! Wish you all the best when choosing your BFC approved foods and hope you have great will power. : )

Week 13 Day 2

Well all I can say is ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! (that is me screaming!!)  First let me start by saying, this day is hell!!  Complete hell!  I really need to vent so get prepared girls.  First my day was crazy crazy busy.  Everyone seemed to be calling my name.  Then I was late getting our company deposit to the bank and on the way back to the office there was a pot hole and in that pot hole was a big bolt just waiting to stick in my tire.  Ugh!!  So I had to go get that fixed because if it fell out then I would get a major flat.  It was starting to lose air really fast.  Luckily all my company's customers are car shops.  So I went to my favorite one that does lots of business with us and they fixed it for free luckily.  So at least one good thing.  But then when I got home I wanted to talk to my hubby and first thing in the door, I was talking and then he ran up stairs and said "hold on." Well I thought he was coming right back, but he was upstairs watching tv and on the computer just chilling.  I was like I was in the middle of talking with you about my day and you always seem to ignore me.  I don't know if that is true, but I feel like I can never be heard.  Am I suppose to just always leave him alone, like never talk with him about my day?  Well I told him I never feel like I am heard or cared about like with the topic of conversation I wanna say.  He told me all I was doing was starting to cause a fight.  Which wasn't true.  I was just hurt by him always ignoring me.  Its nothing new.  If he is even listening its because he is pretending and can't really tell me what we just talked about.  Well when my hubby gets mad he can't hold in his anger and just wanted to leave, well I didn't want him too because he needs to learn to talk.  Maybe I am wrong with all of this.  Maybe I am crazy to write all this blah blah blah, but I need to vent to someone who will listen.  I can't call my parents cause if we make up then they will hate him for being like this to me, so its hard when you don't have any super close girlfriends.  I have one really good one, but I hate to bother them.  I don't know.  Well this time he said something about being tired of my nagging and pushing all the time that he didn't want to be married anymore.  I don't know if he just said it out of anger.  But then it hurt me and I said I  didn't want to be married either because he treated me like crap and it didn't really matter whether I was here or not.  IT got me to thinking and doubting as we do when were stressed.  Like do I really wanna stay married if we always fight like this?  Or am I just terrified to start over again?  Will I find anyone better?  I don't know if I am over thinking or what...I mean this fight it worse then it sounds I guess from what I just typed out, but I really don't know what to do.

Well  I just needed to vent so thank you!!  Hopefully we will have made up soon and I can report good news,  but honestly I am getting tired of crying to myself and being so depressed trying to fall asleep so I don't know what to do this time really....

What I ate today:

B- 3 eggs scrambled with cheese + 3 slices of bacon + coffee
L- Spinach salad with fiber one cottage cheese, cucumbers, tuna mixed with mayo, and a little helping of ranch
D- Hamburger patty with veggies on the side (that is if I can eat it) because right now I just wanna sleep and wake up in a new day of happiness.

UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! AH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!