New Years Resolution/Maew's Diary 2006

Wow!! Today my husband and I rode out bikes to breakfast and then for an hour after. For those of you around LA who know the valley, we rode from the 4 n 20 restaurant on Van Nuys and Burbank to North Hollywood Park at Chandler and Tujunga, then down to Riverside Blvd to Woodman Ave. It was more than an hour and we feel awesome!!!

This exercise thing is really great! I didn't really feel like getting up and riding in the cold, chilly morning. But just started my butt moving and getting dressed and now I am sooooo glad I did! =)

The restaurant we go to (4 n 20) has a whole healthy menu. I had Soyrizo and egg whites w/ wild rice. It was pretty good. And of course coffee and 1/2 piece of toast w/boysenberry jam ...mmmmmmmmMMMMmmmmmm.

Thanks for the help fluff, you're right and I also think it's easier for me to keep a lid on what I am eating through out the day and not go over on calories :)

Maew
 
hey maew!

would you believe me if I told you it'll get better? I really do think it will. Strangely enough, so far so good, with mine...at 15-17 I went thru that crap with my oldest, who's 21 now. I had the "imgonnaarguebecauseivefoundmyindependence' talk from him:mad: But I bet youve got the'mama' look! I use it under extreme circumstances. He tried pot once, and drinks a lil bit, not much, and always knows not to drive. He turned out just fine.

Daughter went thru it at 14-15, and somehow just chilled out at 16. I really enjoy my kids the best as teens....

my next son is 13. His voice is still high and cute, but my sister warned me that HED make me a grandma before my older son! oh lord, I hope shes wrong! Hes a comedian/charmer...and that's scary :eek: He grew an inch this last month, so Im hangin on TIGHT!
 
Today was my day w/ a Personal Trainer. And Oh my gosh did I just want to keep over and just lay there til my heart rate slowed down to a level that I could actually communicate. I had an hour session and though I do want to do this and be more fit (and unfat) these training sessions are hard!

Last time I saw her, I ended up getting nauseous and throwing up. But this time, I made it through the whole hour. And I did 20 minutes cardio before she got there (I am excrutiatingly<?> early through out my whole life)

My diet is the same as other posts. I did up my cardio in the fitness tracker because I was consistently doing more than my tracker goal for the week. And now my calories went up for the week too, so I can have low-fat ice cream tonight!!
WWwwwoooooHHhhhoooo!!!

I am not going to do any weight training at all tomorrow (normally do 15-20 min/day) to let my body rest. Will still do cardio.

Hey Kate - - thanks for the encouragement with the my "ohmygod *rolltheeyes*" teenage son. I think I learned a big lesson from all that. Maybe I need to listen to him and realize when he is getting really snooty and all attitudey that something is going on in his life and he needs me (us) My son is a great kid. He doesn't have friends that steer him wrong, he makes up his own mind about things. We know where he is all the time, and he doesn't have any problems checking in. He mostly does all his homework and chores (with a little reminder here and there) he gets decent to great grades and wants to attend Pepperdine U or UCLA for a pyschology degree.

But I remember being a teenager and how my mother just did not "get" it alot of the time. And how adults were slow and boring. I need to give him space to grow up, but be there when he is going through something. I just need to learn the signs.

Oh My God!!! It's another book I've written!! :eek: Why do you let me go on like this ;)

Thanks for listening and all the support, it really helps!

maew
 
Another day, another post :)

I have to confess. Today for lunch I had a chicken sandwich from FatBurger. No Fries though!!! And the chicken sandwich was only 400 calories, I steamed some asparagus and ate that first so I was full after the sandwich. I love FatBurger chicken sandwiches. I used to love their Skinny Fries. But I don't want to be fat, so I'll just stick w/ the sandwich.

Excercised today. I decided to up the intensity of my interval training because it seemed to be getting easier to get through - a good thing I guess. So I upped the resistance and strides/min. And it worked. Wasn't so easy anymore.

Ate my normal diet - other than the Chicken Sandwich. I am going out to lunch w/ co-workers to Houstons in Santa Monica, they have a seared Ahi Tuna that is just perfect for diets and delicious to boot.

I keep getting compliments from people at work, and not just on the weight loss - 15 lbs so far - but for sticking with it. They see me preparing my breakfast every morning and steaming my veggies at lunch and both my snacks (seems like all they see me doing is eating :) Feels Nice.
 
I am taking the day off of work today :D but I went down to my gym anyways (it's 2 blocks from work). I really thought hard this morning about not getting up and just going back to sleep, but I promised myself I would do this everyday and I always make sure I keep my promises to others, so why not to myself. And once I actually got up from bed, it was easy. The hard part was just the initial act of getting up. I feel better too about myself for keeping that promise.

I did cardio for 90 minutes today. I did my normal interval training on the elliptical, but then decided to see if I could just keep going at a steady pace for another 30 minutes straight. And I did!!! :eek: I was awful tired, but it felt good. Then I worked my legs for another 20+ minutes w/ reverse crunches and crunches while you hold your legs off the floor (120 total crunches).

I had breakfast right next door to the gym, egg white omelete w/ veggies and a small bowl of oatmeal w/ 1/4 cup of cantaloupe. I even took 1/2 my omelete home w/ me 4 snack later. I will probably make a tuna wrap w/ non fat mayo and low carb/low calorie tortilla for lunch and I am not quite sure about dinner, but it will have a salad. :)

Maew
 
Hello,

I am feeling much better today. I was so sick last Monday when I went to work, it was absolutely horrible. I took off Tues and Wed to get better so I didn't go the gym, but I got back on track on Thursday and I worked out hard this morning. I changed up my cardio on the elliptical. The machine has a weight loss setting where for 4 minutes the resistance is less and then goes up for the next 4 minutes, then back down. I have set the lower resistance at 3 and I stay at 130+ strides and the higher resistance at 8 at 140+ strides but for the last minute I increase the strides to 150+, so it is almost like I am running. This is really intense interval training.

I also worked out my lower body for about 1/2 hour and did my crunches (reverse and clamshell).

Then I decided since I do not have to be to work all that early today, I would take a sauna for longer, but I got a magazine and started reading in there and only lasted 7 minutes! Way too hot!

Kept up my diet today. Even though a co-workers husband brought in bb-que ribs and chicken. I just said I was full, I had just finished my lunch, and every body stood around eating and saying how delicious it was and the smell was divine. But I didn't have any. Eventually everybody got full and went back to their offices and the smell went away. So I feel pretty proud of not indulging. Yeah Me!!!

I am down to 201, also! But the weekend is coming up and they can be pretty rough sometimes as far as making sure I eat 5 small meals throughout the day.

Maew
 
Hello Again.

Well, I have been very busy at work and logging on everyday has gotten harder and harder.

But, I have been working out every day. My weight seemed to kinda fluctuate this week. I hit 200 on Saturday but then it went up to 203 and now is going back down. I tend to think I am gaining muscle. My diet has been very good. I am keeping in my calorie range every day and drinking like 14 cups of water a day. That is all I drink now. I quit drinking coffee, just because it was hard to make sure I drank enough water.

But all in all things are well.
 
Well its Monday, Presidents Day, and my weigh in day. 199!!!! I am not in the 200's anymore!!! Yeah!!!! And I even cheated a little this weekend.

Family came up from Temecula and I had a couple of Bloody Marys. I haven't drank much of anything besides water for the past 6-7 weeks, so I was feelin pretty good.

But we went walking for a couple of hours on Saturday Downtown LA and I had a really light lunch at CheeseCake Factory ( Seared Tuna Tataki Salad) and about 1/3 of a slice of cheesecake with hubby. And Cold Stone last night, although I did mix the Rasberry Sorbet w/ Peach Ice Cream and had fruit mix ins -not pie filling, real fruit- blackberries and strawberries. So I figured it was much, much better for me than if I had gotten 2 kinds of ice cream and candy mix ins. And it was absolutely delicious!!! Even my 15 yr old son liked it.

But I don't feel guilty, I know I cannot eat and drink like that everyday, but it was good to let loose just a little. Now I am back to eating properly again (notice I didn't say "diet")

I am having a wee bit of a problem drinking all my water that I need to on the weekends. I will have to make a consernate effort to correct that.

Thanks again for listening.

Maew
 
Well today is another normal day, worked out, ate well, logged on.

I have to share with you, I was at the gym yesterday, after my workout and I was stretching. A woman, a stranger, came up to me and told me she could really tell I was losing weight and to keep up the good work. I thanked her and she left. I wanted to cry. For Joy! Is 22 lbs that noticable? It was also confirmation/affirmation to keep going, that I am on the right path.

People have been commenting for the past 2 days about how much weight I have lost and how great I am doing. And it feels absolutely wonderful!!!

I realize now none of you are reading my posts and people on this website don't give much support to those who are actually doing what they need to do and acheiving their goals, but you know what? It's not about you. It's about me! And completing this program/stages. And one of my goals was to post daily and write/type in my journal every day. And I am doing what I need to do, and I feel great!!!

I will be able to lose the weight and keep it off too. I feel sorry for those of you that don't care enough about yourselves to take care of yourselves. I read a post recently where the person had consumed 4500 calories that day. 4500!!!
I'll bet none of those calories came from fruits or veggies. That is absolutely outrageous to me! But to each their own, that is their Hell and I appreciate the fact that it is not mine.

Maew
 
maew said:
Well today is another normal day, worked out, ate well, logged on.

I have to share with you, I was at the gym yesterday, after my workout and I was stretching. A woman, a stranger, came up to me and told me she could really tell I was losing weight and to keep up the good work. I thanked her and she left. I wanted to cry. For Joy! Is 22 lbs that noticable? It was also confirmation/affirmation to keep going, that I am on the right path.

People have been commenting for the past 2 days about how much weight I have lost and how great I am doing. And it feels absolutely wonderful!!!

I realize now none of you are reading my posts and people on this website don't give much support to those who are actually doing what they need to do and acheiving their goals, but you know what? It's not about you. It's about me! And completing this program/stages. And one of my goals was to post daily and write/type in my journal every day. And I am doing what I need to do, and I feel great!!!

I will be able to lose the weight and keep it off too. I feel sorry for those of you that don't care enough about yourselves to take care of yourselves. I read a post recently where the person had consumed 4500 calories that day. 4500!!!
I'll bet none of those calories came from fruits or veggies. That is absolutely outrageous to me! But to each their own, that is their Hell and I appreciate the fact that it is not mine.

Maew
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Guilty as charged. Here is what I do....I post in my diary. I post in most diaries that are on the front page, and usually only the first ten or so. Its hard to keep up with every single soul who writes a diary, but perhaps I should try. But I did notice that if I wrote in at least a few diaries every day, that they would come visit mine as well! Tit for tat and all that. I also met a few folks just visiting in chat sometimes. I remember those best, I guess.

I want to be supportive! I really do! I want everyone here to succeed! I know that when you feel you arent getting enough support it can be disheartening. But I dont want to judge others for what is or isnt right for them.The best part about being here is that each of us has to choose what is best for us personally. I doubt any of us have been completely perfect from starting weight to ending weight. I know I sure havent. I HATE having to write down the amount I eat at times. NOT pretty. But I didnt get to 166 pounds because Im the epitome of good health! thats for sure.

Im glad that you have a strong resolve and are very determined! I think most of us who visit here are. Some stay some go, but it is great to come to a place where we can all share our struggles.
 
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