Marie Does Healthy

I am horrible horrible. I have missed several days posting. Sorry readers. But there is good news among my horribleness.

At weigh in I weigh 226.2 Lbs. That is almost 9 lbs from my starting weight 2 weeks ago! I’m excited by this I feel the changes and I see them around me. Others have started remarking on them too. So that’s awesome feeling. My pants that were a couple sizes to big but fit comfortably still are now so loose they look like I’m wearing clown pants. Almost two of my legs can fit in one leg! I’m happy with all this and I’m feeling great!!!

So to keep up the progress I’m adding bike riding and walking more with my dog to my goals for the week. 

I have made beyond healthy choices lately and I’m so pleased. I’m not nearly a vegetarian at this point as I have not be eating meat and have been opting for full veggie options for dinners out. Knowing that means I need to up my protein intake a little then and probably a bit more carbs as I have been burning fat and I haven’t been eating very much carbs at all. So I’m going to find some healthy bread options and try and make myself eat peanut butter sandwiches a couple times a week at least. This is my goal for next week and on though. I’m a picky peanut butter eater. 

Ok. So I’m proud of myself and I’m only 6 lbs from my first goal!!! I can do it! I hope in 2 weeks I’m going to say “Hey first goal achieved!” :)

I didn’t forget to blog today on purpose!! Sorry!! Will make it up tomorrow double time!

It feels like my ribs are severely bruised. Yesterdays workout did something to my core. That just makes me smile though cause I love the day after pain. I know it means I’m using muscles I normally don’t and I don’t know how to be anything but happy about that.

So today was just a day. Didn’t eat much at all unfortunately. Seriously slept 90% of it. Oops. But tomorrow is workout day 2 on Wii Active 2 and I think I’ll be complaining Saturday about that. YAY! I did a couple of leg lifts already today. I love them so much what can I say.

That’s it for now!

Finally worked Cardio into my day. Wii Active 2

229 calories burned in 26 minutes. Not bad at all. I felt it. 

The program sets days for me to work out Sun, Mon, Wed, and Fri are my Cardio days with the program. :) So I’ll give you progress on that on Friday. It’s a “9 week program” I am pretty excited. I know it will give me results. 

I ate salad-ness today and enjoyed it immensely!!

Anything else? I can’t wait for 2 weeks from now and weighing in. I have a feeling this is all gonna show. <3 I hope so at least. I’m feeling utterly positive right now.

I’m going hiking on Saturday with my mom and dog. I can’t do too much cause my Asthma and the mountain makes me wheezy. Still I’m excited for that too. My dog will love it.

I ate my salads today and some ramen with egg. I slept about half the day.  Nothing remarkable to say. I feel pretty sour tummy today. 

Tomorrow I have to be more active so I’m not going to even do my leg lifts tonight or push my body a little. Just rest and get feeling better. Or so I help.

So today I woke up weighed myself read for an hour and went back to bed. 

230.8 LBS by the way. 

I’m happy with the way this is going. I ate salads today. Delicious. I may eat just a little more before the day is over. Spinach hopefully. Delicious.

Really not much else to tell. My goal for this week is to introduce cardio into my routine. I have a lot of options. I may work up to my Wii Active 2 routines by the end of the week. I hope so. 

That’s it.

I still have not done any cardio besides cleaning and constantly moving. 

Ate my olive garden leftovers today and some of mom’s chicken n’ dumplings for dinner. Delicious. 

So since I don’t want to be long term on Cymbalta, even though it’s already helping with anxiety, in 10 days I’m going start dosing down. I’m warning about it now cause it will affect my life I fear. I’m told there will be headaches and intense nausea so just keep in mind when this starts happening I may forget to post or something. I’m trying though.

I would love to be in the mood to work out but apparently my exhaustion and hyperactivity at the same time is normal for the first week of pills. Tomorrow is weigh in and I will get to share my progress with you. I’m pretty excited. I’ve been doing toning exercises so I’m not completely being lazy.

I’m hoping by July I can be down under 200 lbs. That’s not far really but it’s only 4 and a half months away so we shall see! I got yummy salad fixin’s and grapes to snack on for the next few days. I am drinking water right now and trying not to feel sick. 

Anyway I hope everyone has had a lovely Sunday. I’m going to actually do some homework now like a lazy person. Yay school. 

Day 6 has come and gone. I actually ate! I went out to Olive Garden with my parents and ate a bowl of salad and about 3 bites of my pasta, seafood alfredo, before I got too full. Oh and of course a breadstick cause I couldn’t resist. Who can?

For brunch I had a salad also nothing too special just greens, peppers, tomatoes, red onions and some croutons for calories. I figure I’m burning calories and I’m barely eating so I might as well fuel up when I feel good enough. 

Oh and I did eat breakfast a french toast waffle. One of them. 140 calories. Wow. So all together it’s about 830 calories for the day. Wow still not up to 1200 and I was sure I would get there. Maybe tomorrow I will. I don’t think I could eat anymore today and be ok.

Onward to my arm exercises and leg lifts. I haven’t worked up to cardio yet. I guess I’m failing at that. Weigh in is Monday though!! I know I’ve lost some weight and I stepped on the scale today to just make sure I wasn’t going crazy. But I’ll reveal that on Monday just in case it’s a fluke. :)

Keep at it people. 

Today may be Friday to most but today is my Monday. It’s the only day I have to actually go to my school’s campus for class. A class I do not like. That being said it was hard to get myself out of bed. 

I can tell you now I did not eat very much at all today and that is not healthy at all but I don’t know what to tell you. I’m eating as much as I can physically can. I cannot even finish a Nature Valley Oats and Honey granola bar that I’m trying to eat now. I napped pretty late so I’m trying to make up for it by eating something. Even the thought of eating ramen at this moment makes me feel sick. Tomorrow I will force myself to eat a salad and some ramen. But at this moment I have to give up on today. I had fries which I ate with pato sauce. Delicious not at all that nutritious. I am failing at the healthy part of my blog aren’t I?

These pills cut my appetite severely. I mean even eating maybe 20 fries was hard for me. I can’t explain it either I’ve never felt this way. It’s just honestly hard to eat. 

I’m pushing through this granola bar to get 120 + the fries and salsa. Add a soda from earlier. I don’t even know why I drank it. I was just lazy. I’m bad. 

I thought about making myself eat some more food just now but felt my stomach turn at the options. So I’m just gonna leave it at that. Rather not be sick. 

At least I’m doing my crunches and left lifts nightly. I am determined for my body to eat the fat on my abdomen at the very least. Little baby steps. 

Day 4 wow. So the first few days zoomed by with not a lot of effort on my part. The pills I’m taking didn’t hurt me much today. I felt great all day. So with a few hours left I’ll tell you I didn’t eat 1200 calories like I’d like. I ate about 750 or so. Definitely not good enough. I’m trying to eat these french fries to get in a few more calories for the day. I’m not that hungry that’s the problem. 

I don’t want to be unhealthy with my calories but I can’t force myself to eat. I already tried twice today and ended up feeling way too sick to continue. If I had chocolate I could knock out some calories though. But alas there is none. It’s all good. 

Doing some more yoga-pilates mixture leg/ab exercises before bed. Posted some arm exercises that I definitely am going to start trying out. I’m feeling good right now. Monday I will weigh in and see if progress has made. I feel like it has. I know it will take more time to see the results I want but 220 isn’t far away and that’s my first goal. :) 

I’m optimistic right now.