No matter how you feel, keep calm and workout!
Posted on 2 April 2012 | No responses
Sometimes, finding the ‘why’ isn’t the important part. Thinking too much about the why can spiral one into a internal debate and can be seriously DEmotivating. Each day is not always going to be a bouquet of flowers. Hopefully more days will than not. Today, was another day where I just felt ‘fat’, bloated and pregnant…Not pregs, just when I get so bloated it looks like I swallowed a balloon. What’s interesting is when I am feeling this way for some reason I feel like I need to eat heavy, large meals. Maybe to fill the space with something real instead of air? I dunno. Of course I am trying to figure out ‘why’ I am feeling this way today. Was it the fiber one bar this morning? Did I eat something that my system can’t process? Why, Why, Why? While sitting on the couch after work watching an always entertaining episode of Real Housewives of Atlanta, I decided to browse Facebook. My lovely trainers Tone it Up popped up on my feed and they were featuring before and after pictures of one of the member’s Brianna Sky. Now, if this doesn’t motivate you to get off your butt, your helpless. I couldn’t just continue to sit there in my bloated body listening to Nene Leakes run her gawd awful mouth. I had to get up. Got into some comfy clothes, jumped into my sneakers and I was almost ready to go. I opened up my Youtube channel and went right to my favorites and chose two of my favorite videos by Tone It Up. Both, from the 2011 Bikini Series. First up I chose the Sandcastle workout followed by the Bikini Strap workout. Let me tell you, by the time I completed the Sandcastle workout (15 mins) I was sweating!!! NO JOKE. These girls get you working quickly!
You don’t need a lot of space to work out. And, you don’t need a lot of time. So, you see there are no real reasons why you cannot fit in a workout. Only self sabotaging excuses. Below are a couple quick pics I took to show you how I quickly and easily rigged up my laptop on the coffee table so I could workout to the video.
Here’s to getting off the couch..cheers.
Carpe Diem…..Stephanie
Those darn Girl Scouts…
Posted on 4 March 2012 | No responses
They are at it again, it’s Girl Scout cookie season. I would be a complete fool to say that I am not eating any this year. I have already sampled Thin Mints and Savannah Smiles and they were every bite delicious. I ate way too many BUT – I COUNTED & TRACKED all the points. That’s what it’s all about folks. Whether you splurge or completely fall off the wagon, you must be accountable so you can visually see how many points are being consumed. I will not bore you with the details of my points consumption from yesterday (the day we brought home these gems). Needless to say, I am very happy with myself for counting the points. I’ve said before that ignorance is not bliss with Weight Watchers.
I will be earning some serious activity points this week to allow myself some more of these annual goodies!
happy counting!!!
xoxox
Weight Watchers forgive me for I have sinned…
Posted on 23 February 2012 | No responses
Oh boy, where do I start…? Since my last post on 2/12/12 I have fallen off the Weight Watcher’s wagon. Help me JHUD (Jennifer Hudson)! My funny little food experiment I blogged about sure wasn’t that funny. Since that time two weeks ago I have been the worst Weight Watcher member ever. Yes, I know shame shame. Even Life Coaches aren’t perfect. Hahah! That day literally through me in a downward spiral. I have not really counted my points, some days I counted some points and others not at all. Not only that, but I committed the cardinal sin of WW (my opinion only here) I have NOT GONE TO A MEETING OR WEIGHED IN…so not only have I totally eaten my stomach to look pregnant AGAIN. Oh goodness. I confess to you all, my muffin top has returned. And it feels like CRAP. Having rolls underneath your bra feels the worse. This I know, does not look or feel good.
…and this is why I’m fat.
Posted on 12 February 2012 | 1 response
A typical weekend day before Weight Watchers. I did an experiment on Saturday. A rather risky and expensive one at that. Expensive in Weight Watchers points that is. I did not count any thing I ate and ate like I used to before WW. I went the whole day as if I were not on the program. I woke up on Sunday and tracked EVERYTHING I put into my mouth yesterday. Shocking and telling! No wonder there are so many overweight people. Some foods seem harmless but really pack in the fat, carbs, and calories. Of course, most of my choices were terrible; but it’s all putting it into perspective. A reminder of where I came from.
The day started off great with a banana and coffee at my Weight Watchers meeting, where I went down again. 0.8 this week. A little less than a pound but I will take it. No complaints here.
Breakfast: banana, 0 points + creamer in my coffee 1 point + 1/4 cup of Pistachio nut meats (no shells), 5 points.
Went to lunch at Chic-fil-A. You can probably guess this is where the shit hit the fan. Here’s what I ordered.
Side Salad (w/sunflower seeds) & fat free honey mustard dressing, 3 points + Large waffle cut fries, 14 points + Large Strawberry Milkshake = 18 points.
Well that was an interesting lunch. My daily points range/allowance is 26. By the end of the lunch I had already eaten 30 points…holy hell.
In the evening we went to the movies to see Safe House. I LOVE me some movie popcorn so in good old fat days fashion, I ordered a small sans butter. There are about 8 cups in the small popcorn. Side note – this theater does not have ‘kids’ sizes or kids packs. So the popcorn was about 11 points + diet coke, 0 points.
After the movies, it was dinner time. Why start counting now right? We went to this great new little pizza joint called 800 Degrees and they have thin-ish style pizza. They are all personal size pizza’s (roughly 12) inches. I got the Pizza Bianca which was olive oil, garlic, mozzarella cheese, oregano and sea salt. I am guesstimating this to be about 20 points. After all, I did eat the whole thing. There was no way I was going to take some to go and allow a very naughty day carry over into Sunday.
Add all that gluttony up and there were 73 total WW points plus points consumed.
Now, here is a photo of a lady sitting next to me in the theater. I had to take this picture. This is exactly what I am trying to avoid by exercising like a maniac and being on Weight Watchers.
Weight Watchers week 1 & my 3 year blogiversary!!!
Posted on 5 February 2012 | No responses
What I re-learned during my first week back to the program…
- If you bite it you write it
- Do not eat if your physically not hungry
- Do not give into temptation before really thinking about it
- Know the points value of the food BEFORE you eat it
- Track everything…see #2 above
- Vegetables make great snacks
- Peanut Butter has TONS of fat
- Some foods are just not worth the points
Saturday is my meeting day and my first weigh in was a success. I lost 2.6lbs and could not be happier. Planning and counting are the keys to it all. And, maybe a bit of exercise!!! Looking forward to another week of planning and tracking.!!! Thankfully, I did not go to a super bowl party today…that would have been very challenging. Happy Blogiversary to me. 3 years ago today – Superbowl Sunday I started blogging!!
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