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Hi Crystal! Good to see you back and ready! To be honest I kind of fell off track and I am ashamed for it-- but I always look for the new day to come and start again! I hope to get more active with the coming warm weather but with the snow storms around here it has been hard. At least NERO season is back and I can be…

I know what you mean. For some reason the last couple weeks I havent been as dedicated to small and careful eating as I was and I have been slipping on my exercises too.. I dont know why, maybe its the continued cold here in Illinois and the anticipation to spring. I do know though that I want to get some jogging shoes and…

Jan 30 2013 Last Updated Weight: 178lbs, weight on 1/23/13 Current Weight: 178lbs. :( I'm not having very much luck here.. Last Measurments: Neck- 14.5 Waist- 42.0 Hips- 43.0 Current Measurments: Neck- 15 I sure hope this is wrong... Waist- 40.5 I sure hope this is right!! Hips- 43.0

If you want something small, I tried these yummy, healthy veggie bagels. Your choice of bagel-- though wheat is generally the best, you chop up or get a mix of some broccoli, cauliflower, thin sliced carrot slivers, and you use a base of a garden vegetable spread or light ranch and its amazing. Healthy, yummy, and filling…

Yes congratulations on his baptism! I have been doing relatively good. One of our cats had kittens so most of our attention during the day has been there, lol. My logging has been good and I am getting into quick 5 min exercises multiple times a day that work my abs and sometimes legs and arms. This saturday was a horrible…

The other day I got a garden bagel. It was a white bagel with chopped broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and cabbage on it with a light garden spread. So yummy and healthy!

Because your eating so few calories and exercising like mad without eating the calories you need to burn off fat, your body is pretty much in starvation mode. It keeps the food you eat so it has the energy to burn when you exercise, but in that way it doesnt lose weight but gains it. You need to eat the recommended…

I am so for doing this, but man I garantee that I can only do like 10 in 3 minutes. Lol. So I am way below average, but I think some pushups will be good for my upper body!

I lost one pound this week, yay! Lol, better then nothing at all. And I will be drinking my normal 10 glasses of 8 oz water today. I'll try to do more but lets go to the normal first!

I probably couldnt do this until we went shopping next-- and since my fiancee is the one working and just lets me buy the food, it would kinda be up to him. LoL. But I can sure try next time we go shopping in a week or two. I would have to plan for the occasion though!

What am I going to do to make this day not so depressing for me as far as BlueMonday goes?? Hm.. well I am going to eat healthy, do some cleaning, ab workouts and strength exercises and say "Scr-w You Blue Monday". Just because someone tells me that its a depressing day, or the most depressing day of the year DOESNT mean I…

Well today is no problem as far as planning goes! Saturday we have NERO at the lake which will be 6 hours of running around, mock fighting--what a work out! And then Sunday I will see if there is something I want to do that I have never tried before as far as exercise goes!! Cant wait!

Three down so far, and at least 7 more to go!

1. I love to get some carrots and celery and make some chicken noodle soup 2. I love to get some lemon pepper, some green and red peppers and make a nice stirfry 3. Frying chicken can be okay if you use the right oil and my family loves to have that. 4. You can also cook some the night before, get the ingredients and make…

The only weights I have are 1lb lol and that is if I can find them, not to mention I dont know how to log working on my arms since I mainly do cardio workouts, but am gonna look up ways to work on my arms without using weights and such. Should be plenty!

You also have to remember that when registering with MFP it asked what your day was like as far as a job. If you stood alot, sat down, did heavy lifting-- these things are also added into your calorie intake. I like to add food preperation in mine because my main day is sitting around pretty much and it reminds me that I…

I journal the "typical" because it is still apart of my daily workout. My "job" consists of sitting around the house with my three year old a lot so when I do some major cleaning-- which is only a couple times a week, and I spend an hour or so cooking, which the time generally varies each day depending on the meal, I like…

We were short on money this week so I planned our meals but they had to be bought from the Dollar store. One thing I realized is even though the dollar tree has filling meals for a dollar each, even just the boxed stuff, they make up for it n calories. Holy cow! So I am just going to have to watch what I eat during the day…

This one I can stick to, Haha! What has worked for me so far; Hm.. well I havent lost to many pounds but I sure havent gained a single one either, so I suppose I am doing something right. First, I used to drink Soda all the time like it was water. Now I have only a couple times a week at dinner if I have the calories to…

I am gonna try and do this one, but it might be difficult.We have two sets of stairs in our house-- Three stairs outside leading to the front porch and well, they are kinda covered in ice and snow still, and our very steep ones that lead down to the basement that well, heh, I am kind of afraid of.. but I will find some way…

Feel free to add me as well. I always love to encourage and chat, and I have a little one too so I know about the Mom stuff lol. I'm here for you!

I have the same problem with binging, but I keep some healthy foods that are low in calories and such in the house. Fruit salad, apples, celery, and I binge on those instead. I know its not the same for everyone but try going for the healthier and leaner stuff when you want to snack and not just for the good looking but…

I will admit I thought I was dreaming when I stepped on my scale this morning. For three weeks now I have not lost or gained a pound and now I lost 4 pounds in a week? My scale is a little harder to read since its a normal scale and not the new digital kind but it very much said 176 pounds! Lets just hope it wasnt an odd…

I could sit here and bad talk myself, its true. There are things that I need to work on more and more each day, but there are things that I can say that are good! 1. I have been doing very well at cutting down the amount I eat at big meals and eating healthier. I might not have lost a pound a week but I havent gone up any…

I usually do so much better too when I plan out my meals. But sometimes my boyfriend orders pizza last minute and man I can't resist it.. its so hard to stick to two pieces!! But you bet that I will plan this weekend out! I have our dinners planned from now until next saturday so I only need to plan out what to eat for…

Got it done! I was a little bit of a slacker on the planks but those aint no joke!!! Man I didnt realise how hard keeping myself up off the ground was! Plus I did some time doing crunches, bends, AB twists and stuff this morning and I will do some more throughout the day! I liked her, the woman in the video, very upbeat.…

No problem! I will do it when I first get up and Abbi is eating breakfast and watching her cartoons. I also want to get in some crunches and other AB workouts too. My yoga has a good AB section but I will have to get up way before my toddler to do that one, so that might be a maybe lol. Cant wait for day three!

I did everything on the list but 2nd Planks. I wasn't sure how to get that done, and I only made it to three Burpees. I just wasnt used to it, but it didnt take any time at all to do. My legs burned afterwards but I think that was a good sign. Its hard to put any of this in my exercise journal though because it doesnt have…

I will have to look up what some of these are, but I have it all written down and ready to go for tomorrow!

Here it is Wed, Jan 2nd, 2013. I don't have the right tape measure to measure myself so I am just going to go by the weight the scale says. So, my starting weight on the beginning of this journey is: 180 lbs. Goal: I don't expect to be down to my goal weight of 135 in only 50 days but I would like to see a significant…