Well hello Mr. Stairs

So today was another soda free day! I haven't really been craving it so much and I am finding it much easier this time. My biggest down fall today was snacking... there is always food around at work and I have a hard time just telling myself no. But I'm letting it slide, and going to work hard at it tomorrow. Tonight's dinner was a little much for me, steak, baked potatoes and lightly sauced corn. I would have been fine if I had stopped with one baked potato and stopped adding the sour cream!

Today I found what I was looking for, it was right under my feet and I didn't even know it. You know how they say if you stop looking for love it will find you...introducing Mr. Stairs. I recently moved into an apartment with two flights of stairs leading up into my apartment, 25 steps total plus the 8-10 steps I take in the small hallway leading from one flight to another. Well my plans to see GYM this week have fizzled so I thought why not use what I have. I set a timer for 10 minuets and just started going. Up and down, up and down, up and down. I should have kept count of how many laps I did but I'm just not that smart....yet! So before I know it I'm out of breath and started to sweat....wait from walking up and down steps!? I run into the kitchen thinking my 10 minuets should be up but NO...there are still 3 more minuets left! WHAT!! How out of shape am I? I'm making this my goal that I can work up to 10 minuets.... here's my picture of the day... one flight of my steps!

Breaking up with diet coke and picture #4

So I decided that my biggest love affair is Diet Coke. I would drink this stuff for breakfast if I could...who am I kidding I have done that! I thought buying smaller cans at the grocery store would help curb my addiction but I would just end up buying one for lunch or one on my way home for dinner. I have tried to break this habit two other times and did really well for almost 2 months and then I got a little taste and I haven't look back. I know I need to change it now so I have decided to call things off with Diet Coke and took my chances with water again... I had left water once and wasn't sure if he would take me back. We are taking things slow today, I had 3 glasses today and will try for one more before bed. The only ill effect is that he just doesn't get along with my bladder... I have to visit the bathroom 3 times as often while dating water! But I guess you have to take the good with the bad in relationships right??

My picture for today was my dinner for tonight... I found a good recipe that helps keep portions in control...meat loaf in a muffin tin... LOVE IT! I promise tomorrow will not be a picture about food...obviously I love food way to much :D

Day 3 of pictures!

So today was a pretty successful day and stuck to my eating plan except for two cookies at work...those holiday treats are still lingering around! I came home and tried some exercise videos on-line but I just couldn't get into it. I tried to stand as much as possible today, and moved around with my children whenever I had the chance. I forgot my water bottle but did manage 3 glasses of water with my lunch! I allowed myself a glass of sweet tea with my dinner but I'll stick with water for the rest of the night.

Here is my picture... Sparkrecipes! I am signed up on www.sparkpeople.com and this site has saved me many many times! This page didn't only help me with tonight's dinner but helped me plan the rest of this weeks meals... THANKS!

My food

While I lived at home with 5 other people I had learned to stash away my own healthier food because some people just didn't get it! Even though it's just me and my boyfriend I find my self doing the same thing! I have one drawer in the fridge that I keep my own healthier snacks and we split the cabinets into sides. He has also committed to being healthier but this is about my break up not his :D

Last night I made the break from 3 pairs of jeans...they didn't hug me the way I needed to be and who doesn't want to be hugged :D Instead I traded them in for one pair of much younger (11s!!) who liked to hug me ALL over! I got many compliments on my upgrade and I think these one's will stick around for a while!

My old fling gym called me today but I'm just not ready to see him yet... it's been MONTHS and every time I make plans to see him I get so nervous, anxious and what if people I know see us together!! I am determined to see him at least once this week and I want to work hard at making our encounters LESS awkward for me.

Another fling...boy I have a lot of them.... Mr. Scale. I was seeing him multiple times a day! As soon as I woke up, as soon as I came home from work, before going to bed...and during the weekend it was up to 5 times a day! Now some people will say that was overkill but I had to make sure that I was keeping things consistent but there were plenty of time he was just awful to me! I had a very serious talk with him last night and we decided that we should try once a day...then down to once a week and then I would like to stop it at just once a month. He was shaken, he even refused to work with me for a couple minuets....but I know it's best for me and him!

Here is my pictures of the day.. My healthy drawer in the fridge

Pictures!

So here are the pictures!! I decided that doing body shots by myself is nearly impossible (thanks babe for the help!) So this is how I will post pictures. Every 1st of the month I will post full body pictures, front, side and back views. Everyday I will post a picture of something I am doing to get healthy...the food I'm eating or buying, the workouts I am doing or something that inspired me. Here we go....

New Year New Blog!

So I FORGOT that I was even suppose to being blogging about my break up until I decided what one of my goals for 2011 would be! I want to start a picture blog, where I take a picture EVERY day for a year. Weather I am feeling good, sick, or just plain BLAH, I want to take pictures to help track this year. The good, the bad and the ugly! So let me catch you up on my break up with fat!

As of this morning my friend/enemy or as I call it my frenemy the scale had me at 148.7lbs! That's right I officially broke up with 150, but over the last couple of weeks we see sometimes at night before bed...what I can I say, I just can't get over 150 yet! I was able to go out shopping and grab a medium in a top and a...wait for it.... A SMALL!! Now I guarantee this was miss labeled or something because there is NO way it's a true small! I am okay with that, but it's given me great motivation for reaching a REAL small.

I recently moved into an apartment and the first couple of weeks went really well, but now that life has caught up with me I have NO energy to cook or go to the gym. It's difficult to just get through the day sometimes and when I come home grabbing fast food is much easier for me. So it's become another item on my addiction list: McDonalds, french fries and diet coke!

As of right now I can stop the McDoanlds and MAYBE the fries but I just can't give up my diet coke, I am NOT ready for that break up. I tried it once and it left me physically ill! But I know one day I will be strong enough to leave that abusive relationship!

I will be taking my FIRST picture of 2011 very shortly and posting it here as another post.... let's see what 2011 looks like :D

Where have I been?

Well it's a hard questions to answer :D

I recently started working full time again and have been thrown some major curve balls by that thing called life but I am working through it all. My breakup has been going FANTASTICLY and I am currently down to 155lbs--which is just about 2lbs shy of losing 20lbs since really starting this journey. Now I look back and see I have been at this for almost a year, but have taken time off for various things that are just life and can't be avoided. Sometimes I am disspointed that I haven't lost more but it's more then that number on the scale.

I had to dump MULTIPLE pairs of jeans, and trade them in for younger ones, and it's true....the younger the better. Many of my shirts were asked to leave my closet and not return, I'm finding I acutally like ones that cling a little more.

I am running still, and hope to complete another 5k in the next upcoming weeks, and have found a true love for just being healthy. I like being able to walk by a mirror and not cringe at the things I saw, but now a smile can come across my face and I know starting my breakup was the best thing for me :D