My Weight Loss Journey

Monday, May 18, 2009

My Weight Loss Broken Down!
I keep track of everything by using excel. Every 2 weeks I do a weigh in and measurements. It really keeps me on track and motivated, I think keeping it at 2 weeks is the right time frame. Once I hit my goal I will still keep weighing in just to make sure I don't go off track.

Week 0 - 220 (This is before I started keeping track)
Week 1 - 192
Week 3 - 187
Week 5 - 185
Week 7 - 180
Week 9 - No weigh in or workouts / migraines
Week 11 - No weigh in or workouts / migraines
Week 13 - 174
Week 15 -171
Week 17 - 166
Week 19 - 163
Week 21 -160
Week 23 - 156
Week 25 -154
Week 27 - 150
Week 29 - 149
Week 31 -143
Week 33 - 137
Week 35 - 136
Week 37 - 133
Week 39 - 131
Week 41 - 130 Pounds - Goal Met!
Week 45 - 125 Pounds - Goal Reinforced!
Week 50 - 120 Pounds - Wedding Weight Reached!

So far it has been 41 weeks (287 days / 9.5 months) and I Have met my Goal!

It wasn’t easy nor was it painless but I will never look back. I remember thinking when will I reach my goal? When will I be at that weight? Will I ever stop dieting? Please know that it goes so fast and it will move faster the less you focus on it. Eat clean and move and you will see changes. This is your marathon to run and you MUST pace yourself. It’s a Hard run but once it’s over the medal you will wear will be one of the greatest achievements of your life. An accomplisment that no one will be shy to mention.

As for giving advice, you may not like what comes out of my mouth but it’s my experience. I struggled, experimented, sweat, and cried over my weight loss. I understand what it feels like to crave and know how hard it is to turn down birthday cake. I remember going out to dinner with my fiancées parents and not eating a single thing on my plate. Although I respect we all have different pain we experience. Therefore when I give advice I give it with my full heart and only the need to help others with their weight loss marathon.

  

  Member Comments About This Blog Post:

ANGELZM21 12/20/2009 5:04PM

You look great!!! What an inspirational story!

COLD_GOLD 11/2/2009 12:49PM

great story! congrats on being a sp motivator!

WORDGRRL71 10/29/2009 5:25PM

Hi: i guess I couldn't find how you got the weight off, eating clean for sure; do you eat six meals a day? Also, I was curious about your fitness routine, and how you started out, specifically, because I can see how great you're doing now....

EVRLNGFOO 10/29/2009 10:43AM

great blog! you make some very valid points. those are some impressive weigh ins! i am wondering since you had them at the top of your list but never mentioned them again, do you still get migraines? i'm wondering if losing weight, or changing your eating habits helped you out with them. i used to get some severe headaches, not sure if they were migraines, but i gave up soda as my new year's res and haven't had one since.

SAMMYGIRL35 10/28/2009 3:52PM

Thank you for sharing I think you are soooo inspiring. Congratulations on your accomplishments.

RENZRYD 5/19/2009 3:34PM

Thank you for sharing bits of your life with us. Also, warm thoughts for your wedding this weekend, you will make a beautiful bride.

My Fiancée’s Doc Analogy

Thursday, January 22, 2009

I went to a physician recently with my fiancée and he said something really cleaver about weight loss. When describing how our bodies work he used the analogy of a typical savings account. Our bodies are like savings account he said, sometimes we make a deposit sometimes we make withdrawals and its up to us to make sure our checks and balances are always in check. When our deposits become too great we have to take consideration to make a withdrawal. Unfortunately in real “financial” life, it’s much easier to withdrawal then deposit nevertheless I thought it was a great analogy.

  

Will women ever be satisfied with their body? Are you? Am I?

Thursday, January 08, 2009

So Are you? Have you reached your goal and are you happy yet? I reached mine and I'm happy but I must admit I found several more areas that need improving. Its as if the fat was covering those flaws and now they are exposed. Will I ever be statisified? It seems sinful to be ungrateful for what I have been blessed with. I can walk, talk, run, scream, see, smell and so much more. Shame on me for not waking up every morning and realzing that.

Vanity is a bitch but a reality we have to deal with every day we age.

Here is a quote from a website I found. It brought up an interesting point of view. I included the site for obvious plagerism reasons and if you want to read the article.

"Something is fundamentally wrong with the female body and it’s natural to be unhappy with it.

It’s not just natural teenage insecurity either. In our society, adult female bodies are treated like mistakes that continually need correcting. It’s too smelly, it’s too hairy, it’s the wrong shape, it’s the wrong colour. We’re seen to be badly designed somehow, needing extra stuff to make them okay. Being unhappy about your body is often presented as one of the essential personality traits of women, if we believe what society tells us. I’ve heard many times suggested, often humorously, that in the darkest ages of humankind, women were whining to their caveman mates, ‘does my bum look big in this loincloth?’ Silly yes, but there’s also a subtext that says it’s something women have always done and will always do. We just instinctively hate our bodies, and, we are brought up to believe, with good reason"

Read on, she explains what she means by this!

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2001
/04/teenagers_and_cosmetic_surgery

  

  Member Comments About This Blog Post:

ELFITZPA 1/12/2009 11:28AM

I never thought about it, but it's so true!! Just think about guys getting ready to head to work - they shower, dry their hair with their towel, put on some clothes, and walk out the door. We have to blowdry and style our hair, put on our make-up, and pick an outfit that hides those "flaws" as best as possible. We'd be so much happier if it was the norm in our society to live a little more simply, a little bit more like men!

Success in the Kitchen

Thursday, November 20, 2008

YEA!
I must share this with everyone. I made success in the kitchen and just in time for the holidays. The recipe is one that is usually on every table during the holidays, Banana Nut Bread. This recipe omits SUGAR, OIL and BUTTER. Its brings in FRESH bananas, with their loads of potassium, Agave, which is loaded with nutrients, Honey, Unsweetened apple sauce, which apples have loads of important nutrients that our bodies require! To top it off, I used Coconut oil to "grease" the pan. The nuts were plain, NOT fried or cooked in a way. So Good and So Wholesome. Oh and the best part, the flour is Whole Wheat. Now you can do this Organic or not, up to you. Never the less, it’s delicious and a very guiltless snack! I will add the recipe and PICS to my cookbook. Keep your eye out for my Dairy Free/Sugar Free Fudge ALL NATURAL, No sugar substitutes; I'm still working out the kinks. Also I'm working on a Dairy Free/Sugar free Cherry pie on a Dairy Free/Sugar Free Crust. Wish me Luck!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!
Elle

  

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CUCUYO 11/22/2008 9:38AM

Your Banana Bread sounds awesome. I will definitely make it soon. For Thanksgiving I am going to my best friends, and I think this will be an incredible munchee. Thanks.

Life List

Friday, October 31, 2008

Why Not? Make a Life List and put some perspective in your life.

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Grow stronger in my faith with God, become a better Christain and an overall better person.

Make sure the man I love knows I love him with everything I am and will always love him.

Respect God’s creatures and make sure to uphold their honor when they can’t do it themselves.

Know that I have to take care of myself in order to take care of others. If I’m broken I can’t help anyone else.

Smile even though it hurts, for it could be my smile that helps another through their pain.


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Run 10 marathons in my lifetime. One marathon for each year I was overweight.

Never smoke another cigarette again, regardless how tough life gets.
(January 26 2009 – One year Smoke free)

Enjoy a bikini a way every woman should, without guilt, and feel great.

Travel to Europe with my honey, enjoy the sites, relax, be stress free, and have fun.

Climb a mountain, not sure which one, doesn’t have to be huge, but I just really have to climb one.

Shoot someone with a paintball gun, Got shot with one, never got over it and am still waiting to shot someone (particular that same person).

Move from my current state to Georgia, buy a couple acres, have a farm, grow my own food, live off the land, have children, nice small home, and be the all American southern family.

  

  Member Comments About This Blog Post:

CHANCE0719 10/31/2008 12:52PM

Hello! I saw you post on the DONE lifelist board. What an awesome idea with the marathons! I also love the bikini one. I've decided that I am buying and wearing a bikini next summer no matter how much weight I lose. (I was heavy as a kid and have never worn one.) We won't be young forever!

PAULAB_CPT 10/31/2008 10:26AM

Sounds like a good plan to me!!!! I gotta work on mine!!!!