Welcome to my Personal Fitness Challenge Day 13

Welcome to my personal fitness challenge day 13.  

Today over all was a better day.  It was my "Low" day, food wise.  Which is just a little more food than the "none" day.  The biggest bonus was the turkey chili my dad made last night which I had for lunch.  Wow was that filling and very yummy.  I am going to be looking for some more recipes to help me on my journey.  

My day started by getting up at almost 8 am which if you know me you know that is so weird.  I am always up by 530 am and usually earlier.  I made my green smoothie and headed to my workout at Team Fitness.

Wesley, Katherine and I worked out for just over an hour together.  I have to say it was the best workout there yet.  I wasn't exhausted but I could feel my muscles all day.  Great job Wesley!  You still didn't make me want to vomit yet though!  I know, I know, that's not the good way to lose weight.  I hear ya!  Speaking of vomiting I had tofu tonight for the first time for my white protein. Yuck, I would rather have Turkey twice a day for ever and ever.  How do you vegetarians do it!

I got my shopping done today for my next week.  Lots more veggies, turkey and chicken in the fridge now (no more tofu!)  I am now trying to figure out what exercise I will do tomorrow.  Hope its not raining, I might do the Lynn Loop.  That always burns a bunch of calories!

My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 12

Welcome to my personal fitness challenge day 12.

 

I consider myself successful because I ate no flour, sugar, dairy, red meat or alcohol.  It was a "none" day and it felt like a "none" day.  I feel like I was starving all day today.  I kept busy, I stayed on the program but tonight I am going to bed feeling hungry. 

 

My dad made this absolutely to die for dinner for the rest of my family, it was my weakest moment when I walked in the door and smelled the deliciousness in the air.  It looked just as good and everybody raved about it.  I could not tell you what it tasted like, but I imagined.  My Dad was so awesome though!  He thought of me too.  He made me the turkey chili that was on the food plan and had it all hot and ready for me so I would have something delicious too.  Thanks Dad!  But it is a "none" day so I have chili to look forward to tomorrow.  Going to bed hungry! 

 

I hope the little metal box in my bathroom is kind to me for my loyalty.  It has been selfish all week.  I have stuck to this plan and exercised and there has been no change since Sunday.  That is just cruel.  Oh well tomorrow is another day...   Looking forward to my Saturday workout at Team Fitness with my besties.  Hope they are having a better week than me!

My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 11

Welcome to my 11th successful day!  I am amazing myself at my will power.  I am not tempted to put anything no on my diet in my mouth.  I hope the little metal box decides to reward me tomorrow.  It has been a slow week.  I drank lots of water today and all my food except dinner.  I was at a buffet style dinner meeting and decided it was better to eat nothing than to try to pick and choose what was ok.  Now I am home and its after 9.  Instead of eating late I decided to have a few almonds and skip the rest. I don't want to go to bed with lots of food in my stomach.

 

I told my team at the CSSE meeting about the challenge and they were all high fives.  I love this group of people, they are all the kind of people that make you feel good and I appreciate that!  I now also have more fan's cheering me on.  I am so excited to be opening this chapter of my life.  Thank you Team Fitness!

My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 10

Welcome to day 10 of my personal fitness challenge.  Lots of challenges today but I still look back at it and consider myself as successful.  Today was a "High" day meaning I could have more food.  I started with my oatmeal and blueberries and the off to work.  Today was what we refer to as treat day which occurs every 2nd Wednesday. We all take turns bringing in sweet and savory treats.  I was going to skip it, but then I thought I would deprive myself of the social with my co-workers and I did not want to miss that.  I went and watched while they ate Pumpkin Apple bunt cake with Greek Yogurt and Spanipitica and a fantastic salad with yummy dressing.  I had black coffee and chatted with the girls and Erik.  None of them were really aware of my new Weight loss Challenge so I explained it to them and said don't feel bad that I am not eating, feel excited that I am working towards my goal.  Afterwards one of the girls Courtenay invited me to join their yoga group on Wednesday's at lunch.  Thanks Court!!  They were all invited to like the Team Fitness Facebook page and follow my progress.  Now the pressure is really on!

On to the next challenge, business lunch at the Thai House restaurant.  I love Thai food!  I ordered grilled Saba Fish (sauce on the side) with a side order of brown Jasmine rice plain, and lots of water.  I enjoyed the meeting, I left without feeling hungry but it wasn't the same Thai experience as the last time I was there but hey I felt good that I could walk out feeling successful.  Onto my meeting at District Hall complete with Cookies and Strawberries, Water and Coffee.  Thanks Kelly, you always take care of us!  I stuck to the black coffee and water.   I really looked forward to my dinner.  My son has been wanting what I eat all week.  We both had grilled salmon, sweet potato and salad.  He loved it and I thought it was pretty good too.  After dinner I went to the gym, not something I wanted to do but it was something I had to do.  Felt good.

My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 9

Welcome to Day 9 of my Fitness Challenge.  Today was another successful day.  I love being part of this group.  Nothing has waved my commitment to this challenge. I have not gone 9 days in a row without falling off the wagon in 5 years.  My biggest challenge is making sure I eat everything and drink enough water.  

This morning the little metal box in my bathroom rewarded me with 2 more pounds gone for a total of 9.1 lbs in 8 days. Shout out to Tristan as he encouraged me to work harder in our group workout on Monday and it helped!  Go team!

 I bought all the stuff for 3 recipes today.  Looking forward to a little variety.  My Dad is going to cook them all for me!  Got to love that kind of support.

The easiest thing to do in life is gain weight, and the hardest is losing it.  The secret to losing it weight is to never give up on your Goal!

My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 8

Well day 8 has come and is nearing the end and I am still going strong on the diet. Today was a challenge for me.  Started out strong, woke up made my food for the day and got to work.  As soon as I got there I realized I forgot my green smoothie.  Oh well I still have my apple and almonds and black coffee.  I had to head off to a site to conduct a near miss investigation.  No one got hurt but it sure could have been much worse. It took over lunch to get it done then from there another meeting to another meeting.  Managed to eat my 4 oz of turkey but no leafy greens.  Apples and Almonds, water and off to my workout, its just been that kind of day.

Great workout at Team Fitness tonight, I am really enjoying getting to know this group of people.  It really does add to the whole experience. All this working out is really making my muscles know they are alive.  They are constantly sore or tired.  I try to do some type of exercise everyday to keep burning the fat but I sure can feel the muscles I keep working.  Now I just need for my little metal box to start giving me the good news again.  Been kind of stalled since Saturday......

My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 7

Yeah!  It has been a long time since I have stayed loyal to an eating plan for 7 days in a row.  I feel so good about that.  Woke up this morning with a few sore muscles, that Saturday workout must have pushed me further than I thought.  Great job Sarah.  I also went to the gym today.  I had a few break throughs as I ran on the treadmill.  I think I am successful because I can see myself at the finish line this time.  I want it really bad.  I have basically given up so many food groups that I love and yet I don't feel deprived.  I could have any of it if I wanted to but I don't want it, what I want is success.  I found myself on the treadmill thinking, "I can do this, why did I spend so many years of my life wearing this fat suit?"  "I am doing this, I will be successful." After I pushed myself on the treadmill I did 10 minutes on the spin bike.  The spin bike was harder, I nearly quit after 2 minutes, but I kept telling myself if you really want this you can do at least 10 minutes, so that is what I did. I looked at the weight machines and thought, that will happen tomorrow at Team Fitness.  One week team check in tomorrow night.  The week went fast.  I am looking forward to the check in and working out with my team.