80 DAY WEIGHT LOSS QUESTION CHALLENGE! (text heavy)

11. Today you will be cooking for your whole family. Find a healthy recipe online that they will also enjoy and show them how tasty healthy food can be!

Well I'm the only 2-legged family member in my household, so I made some chicken soup (chicken carcase, carrots, onions, leftover stock and water) and after straining it I gave my 4-legged babies the chicken meat, carrots and some of the stock for dinner. I now have 4 very happy babies around me snoring gently as they process their healthy, tasty dinner

neat!

12. What is your least favorite type of cardio?

I only run, swim and dance for cardio and I enjoy doing all three. I've never tried spinning and nor do I have the inclination to, so perhaps that's my least favourite.

5. What is your favorite healthy food?

This tends to fluctuate over time. But, right now I am loving chicken and sweet potato drizzled with garlic yogurt dressing.

I'm going to skip ahead and answer this one straight away.... it's relevant to this very moment

27. Does your family support you in your weight loss? :

Sort of. My parents are divorced, and I've seen my dad once since starting, and my mom just kinda does her own thing. I tell her I want to buy something, i.e a different kind of milk or bread since it's healthier, then she will go off on me and start yelling about how theres no difference in milk or anything, making a big fuss about anything I say. Makes me want to ram her through the wall. And everybody else in our family is moved out or I don't talk to them at all. so I'm pretty much alone in this unless I go shopping with my mom, and I always wind up not getting what I wanted but something halfway there. It's extremely frustrating and the only thing holding me back from moving out of here and getting a job, ironically, is my weight. So I'm pretty much stuck.

13. What is your favorite type of strength exercise?

Nothing in particular, just anything that will give my arms definition (once I've lost more weight)

21. Do you focus more on getting lean and mean or tiny and fragile?

If those are my options, lean and mean. I’d like to be toned regardless of my weight. My shoulders and legs are pretty good even though you can’t see any definition because of the extra padding. I don’t know how my abs are but they feel strong. I think my arms are my non-tones spot.

6. What is your favorite unhealthy food?

Vegetarian pizza I think would take the cake, but their are plenty of close seconds.

28. What is your favorite type of snack?

Raisins, grapes, strawberries, and everyone's fav chocolate!

15. Write your current weight. Have you lost anything in the past week? If not, what are your plans for this week?

152. No, I've gained. The plan is to get back on track after I had a really bad week - up until then I had managed to lose 2lbs a week for 3 weeks so whatever I was doing was obviously working.

16. Which part of your body do you wish to change the most and why?

LOL, can I choose anything that wobbles?! But if I HAD to narrow it down it would be my back and upper arms. Living in a warm climate means cute summer dresses and strappy tops all year round, but I always cover up because I'm so conscious of the excess fat in those areas. I'm confident that I can shrink down my other wobbly bits, but these two areas are notoriously difficult to shift fat from.