Yesterday I did a count of my calorie intake. This was incredibly eye opening for me. Over the course of the past couple years I have found I am cutting my portions down. I do tend to get more full quicker at times, which has been an interesting change to notice.
Now, I am counting calories for at least the next 30 days to get a better idea of what it is I am consuming. Just paying attention to this has been very eye opening. I counted calories one night last week. With just TWO Oreo cookies with 3 tablespoons of whip cream was 500 calories! That is a third of what we should eat in a day. I normally have many more Oreos than just TWO!! I also love, love, love, love beer....ooohhhh....yummy, yummy beer! With one beer, the Oreos, and what I had for my meal was close to a 1,000 calories. When we are to have roughly 2,000 calories a day in our diet, this is a substantial amount of calorie intake for our day.
I wanted to try and cut back on fast food, fried foods, soda and establish how I eat and work out super hard to get the weight off. I have been battling two stupid pounds for three weeks...THREE weeks! I contacted my best friend, Di, who is brilliant (don't believe me, meet her and you will change your mind). She gave me some very good tips and advice last night on what I should do to get those two pounds, plus eight of its friends gone.
Bread/wheat, get rid of it! I have done this before, and it was very effective.
Sugar, cut it back substantially, or even better yet, get rid of it completely.
Dairy, cut it back. I am from Wisconsin and dairy runs in my blood...I gotta have my cheese!
Di is currently on day 3 of a 30 day detox...she said she is miserable. Since misery loves company I am quite seriously debating on joining her. I won't be able to give up dairy. I will take that extra lil lovin' on my hips to keep my precious, delicious dairy around. I will try to cut back, but I know me well enough that I am at peace with keeping dairy around to keep me somewhat happy. However, starting Monday, along with my next 30 day fitness challenge II, I am probably going to eliminate wheat and sugar. *gasp* Oy vey with the poodles!! Although, if it can kick start this weight loss to a better level, then I am willing to do what it take to get there. I have loaded a fitness app onto my phone which Di recommended to me: My Fitness Pal. I already loaded in yesterdays meal and workout. We shall see how things go over the next 30 days and whether or not I have dropped ten pounds by August 16.
Then I will have 16-20 lbs to lose by the beginning of December to keep myself on track. I am giving myself permission to be able to gain 5 lbs over the holidays. That way IF I do gain that weight during the holidays it is something I am expecting and not end up getting discouraging. Then when the new year hits I will only have around 10 or so pounds to work off in 2016. Once that is accomplished, the major task will be keeping it off and maintaining it. That will be a learning curve I will have to re-establish in my life as it has been a while since I have been in that position. Ug, that makes me sad.
When I moved to Nashville seven years ago (I cannot believe it has been seven years) I was in the best shape of my life! I was proud about my body and excited by its curves and my health. I had made peace with the fact that my ideal weight is 165, even though that number sounds so high. In high school I really wanted to weigh 135 lbs, I had read in Seventeen magazine for my height that was the weight I should be. Thank goodness for Ms. Hunt who helped me discover that was not a healthy body weight for my height and build. The least I have ever weighed is 145 lbs. I was around a size 9, constantly sick, no energy and ultimately an unhealthy and unhappy person. I'm not sure when I finally became at peace with me, but I owe a lot of credit to my best friend, Di who helped me get to that place.
The last time I worked this hard to get into shape we were discussing goal weights. I wanted to weigh 150lbs and she said no, absolutely not! I suggested 155 lbs and she still said no. I was incredibly discouraged as I was not hearing what I wanted to hear, yet she knew best and she knew it!! I love her confidence! We got to 160 and she said she would compromise, but would prefer 165. That number seemed so high to me, and it still does. However, she is absolutely right! When I hit 165 I no longer had the desire to weigh any less. I bounced between 160 and 165 and I loved my size, my weight and how my clothes fit me. Now, I am striving to get on track to getting back to that goal weight. I don't know if it is possible, but I am not going to give up until it happens. I have these fun and beautiful clothes that I am dying to wear again. I want to be happy when I look at myself in the mirror. There is much thanks which I give for the happiness, joy and peace I have in my life and my heart. Now if I can get my health and fitness into alignment it will allow me to look in the mirror and be glad for what I see. Instead of the constant daily reminder that I have allowed life to get in the way of my health and well being.
One step at a time to reach this goal. I'm curious what results I will see by December.
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