I know it has been a very long time since I posted. I kinda lost my motivation because I wasn't moving very fast!
Well the Biggest Loser Program ended the beginning of April. I lost 16 pounds on the program and 12 inches overall from my body.... I wasn't very happy with the results so I stuck my gun and the best thing that came out of the program was my new friends. They are all such a great support for me. I made a few new ones also after the program was over. I kept my membership to the gym and worked out for 2 hours in the morning and 1-2 hours in the evening. Becoming addicted to a class called Body Attack!!! Check it out sometime. It's a Les Mills Class. Just google!
To date I am proud to say I am 192 pounds! Yep! That's right! Since my Dr. visit in Jan that is 34 pounds lost.
Last month I entered into another contest for an extreme makeover. I WON! One of the prizes was this 10 week program to Farrell's Extreme Body Makeover. It's a Kickboxing Resistance Band weight loss class. 45 mins a day 6 days a week. So stay tuned for updates from it!
Showing posts with label weight loss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weight loss. Show all posts
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Wheat Berry Salad with Red Fruit
Ingredients:
1/2 cup orange juice
1/4 tsp. salt
2 1/2 cups cooked wheat berries
6 tbsp. fat free raspberry vinaigrette dressing
1/4 cup chopped mint leaves (optional)
1/3 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup chopped pecans
2 apples, diced
Directions:
To prepare dressing, blend the orange juice vinaigrette and salt.
Put the wheat berries in a medium bowl. Pour the dressing over them and toss to coat. Set aside for about 15 minutes, tossing occasionally.
Add dried cranberries, pecans, and diced apples to the wheat berries and mix. Add mint leaves if desired.
ENJOY!
Pecans provide a wide array of nutrients that may protect your heart and arteries. In addition the whole grain wheat berries and fresh fruit are a great source of fiber.
Serving size: 1/2 Cup
Calories: 86
Fat 4grams
Fiber 2 grams
Protein 1gram
1/2 cup orange juice
1/4 tsp. salt
2 1/2 cups cooked wheat berries
6 tbsp. fat free raspberry vinaigrette dressing
1/4 cup chopped mint leaves (optional)
1/3 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup chopped pecans
2 apples, diced
Directions:
To prepare dressing, blend the orange juice vinaigrette and salt.
Put the wheat berries in a medium bowl. Pour the dressing over them and toss to coat. Set aside for about 15 minutes, tossing occasionally.
Add dried cranberries, pecans, and diced apples to the wheat berries and mix. Add mint leaves if desired.
ENJOY!
Pecans provide a wide array of nutrients that may protect your heart and arteries. In addition the whole grain wheat berries and fresh fruit are a great source of fiber.
Serving size: 1/2 Cup
Calories: 86
Fat 4grams
Fiber 2 grams
Protein 1gram
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!
Well we have had two trainings with the personal trainers this week. The first night wasn't bad we just did some fitness testing to see where we stood. I am a weakling!
Tonight was a whole different story. Tonight was our first training night. First let me say I lost 4 pounds in a week. If this stays the same at the end of the 10 weeks I will have lost 40 pounds. I am a little disappointed because I thought it was more. Did you know you can gain 1-2 pounds in a day and it go up and down. So 4 pounds is not to much for me.... So we have to work harder this week.
We also had another nutritional meeting. I wasn't very happy with it to be honest. We talked about why our nation as a whole is over weight. Basiclly 30 years ago people had to do more physical things in general. For instance look at cars... 30 years ago we had to use a crank just to roll the windows down. That burns energy! TV.... we had to get up to change the stations on the TV 30 years ago. Now we can sit on the couch. SO in 30 years our nation has over 25% of people per state that are obiese. Crazy!
Well I did learn this: Here is what you should do every day per the Biggest Loser Online:
5 cups of Fruits and veggies
4 bottles of water per day
3 meals eaten everyday
2 positive affirmations
(a statement that is declared to be true. i.e. If I fall off the wagon a day or 2, I will get right back on with
the next healthy choice.)
1 bout of exercise per day
If you haven't already keep a food diary. Try online at www.sparkpeople.com It's a good thing not to count calories but to see where you are strong and weak when it comes to food. Me personally I am weak around 5pm when I want to eat everything in sight! The trainer told me it's good to eat every 4-5 hours at a time. There was a study done on people who loosed weight and what works for weight loss. Here is what the common habits were between the studied people.
Low-fat diet, high-carbohydrate diet
Eat breakfast every day (within 2 hours of waking up)
Frequent self-monitioring of weight
High level of phyical activity(1 hour most days)
Consistent eating patterns across weekdays and weekends. (my problem)
Hope this helps some of you! On a side note. This morning I took a test. It was inside a machine called a Bod Pod www.bodpod.com If any of you get the chance to take this test do it! It shows your % of body fat and % of lean mass. Puts you in prospective for your body. The best thing is it shows you how many calories you need to loose weight. And it's personal to your body! It costs $35 here in Peoria to take the test so check it out if you can.
As always please let me know if you have any questions and if you would like to work out give me a call! Happy weight loss all!
Tonight was a whole different story. Tonight was our first training night. First let me say I lost 4 pounds in a week. If this stays the same at the end of the 10 weeks I will have lost 40 pounds. I am a little disappointed because I thought it was more. Did you know you can gain 1-2 pounds in a day and it go up and down. So 4 pounds is not to much for me.... So we have to work harder this week.
We also had another nutritional meeting. I wasn't very happy with it to be honest. We talked about why our nation as a whole is over weight. Basiclly 30 years ago people had to do more physical things in general. For instance look at cars... 30 years ago we had to use a crank just to roll the windows down. That burns energy! TV.... we had to get up to change the stations on the TV 30 years ago. Now we can sit on the couch. SO in 30 years our nation has over 25% of people per state that are obiese. Crazy!
Well I did learn this: Here is what you should do every day per the Biggest Loser Online:
5 cups of Fruits and veggies
4 bottles of water per day
3 meals eaten everyday
2 positive affirmations
(a statement that is declared to be true. i.e. If I fall off the wagon a day or 2, I will get right back on with
the next healthy choice.)
1 bout of exercise per day
If you haven't already keep a food diary. Try online at www.sparkpeople.com It's a good thing not to count calories but to see where you are strong and weak when it comes to food. Me personally I am weak around 5pm when I want to eat everything in sight! The trainer told me it's good to eat every 4-5 hours at a time. There was a study done on people who loosed weight and what works for weight loss. Here is what the common habits were between the studied people.
Low-fat diet, high-carbohydrate diet
Eat breakfast every day (within 2 hours of waking up)
Frequent self-monitioring of weight
High level of phyical activity(1 hour most days)
Consistent eating patterns across weekdays and weekends. (my problem)
Hope this helps some of you! On a side note. This morning I took a test. It was inside a machine called a Bod Pod www.bodpod.com If any of you get the chance to take this test do it! It shows your % of body fat and % of lean mass. Puts you in prospective for your body. The best thing is it shows you how many calories you need to loose weight. And it's personal to your body! It costs $35 here in Peoria to take the test so check it out if you can.
As always please let me know if you have any questions and if you would like to work out give me a call! Happy weight loss all!
Friday, January 21, 2011
OH! I am sore!
Well. We had our first nutrition class last night. It was pretty basic. Didn't learn much. We talked to our team mates and learned why they are part of the program. Found out a lot of the reasons are the same not only in our group but in general. Looks like the people who struggle in their weight have the same reasons as to why they got to that point in their lives as well as to why they are ready to start loosing weight.
We started the discussion answering 4 questions:
Here they are for you to take a look at
1. What elements do you believe have contributed to your current health status?
2. What have you tried to do in the past to improve your health?
3. What do you perceive as the barriers that have prevented you from attaining your health goals in the past?
4. How will your life change when you meet your health goals?
Class Topic last night was Behavior Change. I guess if you are going to be successful in losing the weight and more importantly keeping it off you are going to have to look at things in your life and change your Behaviors! SO TRUE!
We had a psychologist come and talk a little bit to us about how to notice what causes your current behaviors and how to stop and look at what needs to be changed. Here is what I learned:
All people have two minds. Analytical and Emotional. The best way to explain them is to think about yourself getting ready to go outside in the snow and make a snowman.
An Analytical Minded person will say "I need to put on my jacket, boots, and gloves before I go outside in the snow. Then I will need a shovel, button nose, and scarf to make the snow man. Lets Go!
An Emotional Minded Person will say "I remember when I was a kid and I made this cool snowman with my dad then we made snow angels and I had so much fun" Lets go!
Now she said in order to be in the right place a person should be in the middle of these two minds also known as the Wise Mind!
If you want to change something start to look at what emotion is attached to that thing you are doing. For instance for me I eat when I get bored. So for me to get in my Wise Mind I need to see that boredom means do something else besides eating! Easy enough said right! Well hope this little bit will help you in seeing some behovior changes that might be needed. So here is a challenge for you:
1. Write down your irrational thoughts through the day. (i.e. That piece of chocolate will make me feel better if I just eat one piece)
2.Write down what emotions cause you to eat.
3. Write down what your mood is for the day.
These three things should help you look at what your Behavior is towards food. Once you realize what you are doing then you can make the efforts to change them.
I leave you with one exercise thought:
If you really want to make an effort to loose the weight you MUST work out 4 times a day with getting your heart rate at your target heart rate for 45 minutes to 1hr. Here is what my trainer told me target heart rate is when exercising:
20yrs old 170 bpm (beats per minute)
25yrs old 166
30yrs old 162
35yrs old 157
40yrs old 153
45yrs old 149
50yrs old 145
55yrs old 140
As always if you would like to workout let me know and happy weight loss everyone!
We started the discussion answering 4 questions:
Here they are for you to take a look at
1. What elements do you believe have contributed to your current health status?
2. What have you tried to do in the past to improve your health?
3. What do you perceive as the barriers that have prevented you from attaining your health goals in the past?
4. How will your life change when you meet your health goals?
Class Topic last night was Behavior Change. I guess if you are going to be successful in losing the weight and more importantly keeping it off you are going to have to look at things in your life and change your Behaviors! SO TRUE!
We had a psychologist come and talk a little bit to us about how to notice what causes your current behaviors and how to stop and look at what needs to be changed. Here is what I learned:
All people have two minds. Analytical and Emotional. The best way to explain them is to think about yourself getting ready to go outside in the snow and make a snowman.
An Analytical Minded person will say "I need to put on my jacket, boots, and gloves before I go outside in the snow. Then I will need a shovel, button nose, and scarf to make the snow man. Lets Go!
An Emotional Minded Person will say "I remember when I was a kid and I made this cool snowman with my dad then we made snow angels and I had so much fun" Lets go!
Now she said in order to be in the right place a person should be in the middle of these two minds also known as the Wise Mind!
If you want to change something start to look at what emotion is attached to that thing you are doing. For instance for me I eat when I get bored. So for me to get in my Wise Mind I need to see that boredom means do something else besides eating! Easy enough said right! Well hope this little bit will help you in seeing some behovior changes that might be needed. So here is a challenge for you:
1. Write down your irrational thoughts through the day. (i.e. That piece of chocolate will make me feel better if I just eat one piece)
2.Write down what emotions cause you to eat.
3. Write down what your mood is for the day.
These three things should help you look at what your Behavior is towards food. Once you realize what you are doing then you can make the efforts to change them.
I leave you with one exercise thought:
If you really want to make an effort to loose the weight you MUST work out 4 times a day with getting your heart rate at your target heart rate for 45 minutes to 1hr. Here is what my trainer told me target heart rate is when exercising:
20yrs old 170 bpm (beats per minute)
25yrs old 166
30yrs old 162
35yrs old 157
40yrs old 153
45yrs old 149
50yrs old 145
55yrs old 140
As always if you would like to workout let me know and happy weight loss everyone!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
1 week to go!
Our kick off meeting is the 18th so I have just under a week before I start. I am getting really antsy! I have so many ideas but I just want to wait......
I have been off of pop for little over a week now! Boy was that hard to stop! I was talking to the doctor about it and the headaches. He said it just goes to show how dependant my body was on it. I switched to coffee in the morning to help with the headaches. And they are pretty much gone now. Oh and I love sweet tea. Which I will have to stop once I start this 12 week program.... So I have been searching for other things my pallet will like. I hate water! But I found Crystal Light strawberry. Then my brother found some Green Tea. Peach Mango Pineapple Green Tea is awesome! Made by Good Earth. Not to bad.
I started drinking a cup at night of Peach Detox Tea. Help to clean out the chemicals in my body. That way it will jump start my weight loss!
That's it for now. Will be in touch soon! Thanks for reading!
I have been off of pop for little over a week now! Boy was that hard to stop! I was talking to the doctor about it and the headaches. He said it just goes to show how dependant my body was on it. I switched to coffee in the morning to help with the headaches. And they are pretty much gone now. Oh and I love sweet tea. Which I will have to stop once I start this 12 week program.... So I have been searching for other things my pallet will like. I hate water! But I found Crystal Light strawberry. Then my brother found some Green Tea. Peach Mango Pineapple Green Tea is awesome! Made by Good Earth. Not to bad.
I started drinking a cup at night of Peach Detox Tea. Help to clean out the chemicals in my body. That way it will jump start my weight loss!
That's it for now. Will be in touch soon! Thanks for reading!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
My PRE thoughts!
Well here is my first post! I am sitting on the couch with my son watch the season premiere of Biggest Looser. I am in tears watching this show because I sit and think.... that's me! I am just like those FAT people on the show.
So here goes with what is going on. I have been asked to be apart of TEAM WOLF. The local country station had a contest and invited 2 men and 2 women to be on their team during the local competition of the biggest looser. I got a phone call yesterday with the details. Our first meeting is Jan 18th. I am so excited because this is going to be the kick in the butt I need to loose the weight.
Here are a few other things going on.... One month ago my weight was 225! I gasped when the doctor told me that! I thought I was closer to 200. I don't feel that big, but the scale doesn't lie! I went back to the doctor yesterday and I lost 5 pounds. I smiled a little but what is five pounds? It was only because the appointment was early in the morning and I hadn't ate yet! I am ready to start loosing the weight but I am trying to hold off since the competition doesn't start for another 2 weeks.... :-)
Thank you for joining me on my adventure. I could use all the comments and support you can give. I plan on posting everything here. From what I have learned from the trainers to what my workout was for the day. Again thank you for all your support!
So here goes with what is going on. I have been asked to be apart of TEAM WOLF. The local country station had a contest and invited 2 men and 2 women to be on their team during the local competition of the biggest looser. I got a phone call yesterday with the details. Our first meeting is Jan 18th. I am so excited because this is going to be the kick in the butt I need to loose the weight.
Here are a few other things going on.... One month ago my weight was 225! I gasped when the doctor told me that! I thought I was closer to 200. I don't feel that big, but the scale doesn't lie! I went back to the doctor yesterday and I lost 5 pounds. I smiled a little but what is five pounds? It was only because the appointment was early in the morning and I hadn't ate yet! I am ready to start loosing the weight but I am trying to hold off since the competition doesn't start for another 2 weeks.... :-)
Thank you for joining me on my adventure. I could use all the comments and support you can give. I plan on posting everything here. From what I have learned from the trainers to what my workout was for the day. Again thank you for all your support!
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