25 by 35!!
 

A few weeks ago I set a goal for myself...lose the last 25 lbs by the time I turn 35 years old. So far I'm down 8 lbs :thumbsup:

I seem to have forgotten all my healthier ways. Time to figure out what is going on and get back on track. I suspect there will be journaling and maybe some meditation. Oh.... not doing those things may have something to do with not taking care of myself.

Thanks for helping me work through this. :)

I *HAVE* to get back on track... we were doing so good making our morning superfood smoothies and eating right. I even managed to give up Diet Coke, but we've fallen right back into old habits. And we're planning on Ft Lauderdale over spring break so I don't have much time! :blink:

I'm back on track for the 2nd day! I can do this!

To a Healthy Life and Prosperous New Year
 

So as most of you know I am very physically active. I do triathlons, marathons, and lots of cycling.

Well at this time of the year its now the "Off Season" alot of us become lazy because of the holidays etc. I have a horrible sweet tooth. I am planning on keeping it at bay.

I am having some major surgery at the end of this year. So as my plan is, I will be taking probably most if not the entire season off of training in 2013.

So with that being said, my coach and no nutritionist is going to be setting up a meal plan for me.

I just started this new system yesterday and so far I am feeling more energized.

It's the Paleo Diet "Caveman Diet" I am on a modified version due to medical reasons. The goal is to keep me lean but lose as much body fat as I can.

I am going to start a transformation album so everyone can see my progress.

Good morning healthies!

It has been a while since my last confession...oh, wrong venue!

I really have nothing to confess-well actually I do. As I have posted, it had (note the past tense "had") been at least 9-months since I had any sweets, of any kind, at all.

I had the weirdest thing happen last night! Things are going great for me. I am finally getting the hang of my new job, I have a new potential love in my life-a truly wonderful butch lesbian who is crazy about me-things in general, are going smoothly right now.

I had bought a couple of tins of those Danish butter cookies, put Christmas cards on them and bows to give to a couple of my neighbors. These neighbors had brought my trash cans up from the street for at least 3-months, without bring asked, after my surgeries earlier this year.

The cookies had been sitting on my dining room table for two weeks. I had not even noticed them until last night.

All of a sudden, last night, I started to obsess about them. Tried all of my tricks to change my thought patterns to think of other things and I just had to have a cookie!

I ripped one tin open and like the sweets addict that I am, probably ate 6-8 of them before my brain kicked in again and said: "WTF, these don't even taste that good, stop it".

I put my robe on and put them in the trunk of my car.

I can never, ever, buy or bring sweets in my house!! Now, I am working on breaking that thought pattern of total fail for doing this and getting right back on track.

What usually derails me (by history) is not a one-time of going off the rails but the aftermath of feeling so badly about it! I am working on putting it in perspective (a one-time fail does not mean giving up or berating myself until I feel hopeless and do it again).

I still have 12-pounds to go. Sounds so easy but after losing 50, for me: they are the hardest.

My body holds onto fat with a death-grip.

Now I have to buy another damn tin, put the card and bow on it and give them to the neighbors today. The open tin will go to work for the employees or if I am tempted again, I will have to fill it with water and throw it in the trash.

Confession over. I feel better now.

Sylvie I am so proud of you. I think of you often for inspiration. {{{Hugs}}}

(f)

25 by 35 update!
 

So I'm down 10 lbs with 4.5 weeks left :cheesy:

It'll be tough around Christmas time with the family...but hopefully my willpower doesn't run out!

I am here to pat myself on the back. :) I am eating healthy and getting in some exercise, in spite of events attempting to dissuade me.

I did indulge in Sprouts vanilla sandwich creme cookies last night but stopped when the need for them eased. I think I ended up eating six. It felt good to 'hear' my need, find a solution, and then 'hear' when to stop. I call this progress.

Now if only I had this type of control of the events pulling me in other directions.......

Guess I shouldn't eat them two at a time. LOL

Progress comes in many forms. Today I put on some jeans I have not worn in a while due to how tight they felt. No grunting, no sucking in the belly.... Score one for me. :nixon:

I love fitting into jeans I haven't worn in a while. I mostly wear sweat pants this time of year and my clothes loose. But I was going through old clothes trying to find stuff to wear and BAM! They went right on!

I'm having a hard time juicing when its chilly out. I'm still doing it but not as much. I'm looking for comfort recipes that use a lot of veggies, spices, no grains. I took cubed lamb, cooked it in ghee, added lots of curry type spices, coconut cream, keffir lime, mushrooms and then emptied a few packs of organic mixed veggies. It was really good and the sauce full of flavor. If anyone has any recipes for filling foods using small amounts of meat but huge amounts of veggies will you send them to me?

Someone told me yesterday that coffee increases cortiosol levels and if you stopped drinking coffee you'd drop weight. I majorly cut back and noticed all kinds of differences but damn do I miss coffee.

since i don't smoke anymore, i don't drink as much coffee. morning and occasionally during the day. decaf. i'm going to try the veg soup and lettuce for a while. til christmas lol.

I just can't do salads so much in winter. I love them and eat them all the time when its warmer. I grew a bunch of sweet potatoes over the summer and I've been eating these. I'm pretty much sticking to protein and veggies but love sauces and such. I love roasting veggies too.

i love sweet potatoes! roasting veggies!

I'm not really loseing much at the moment,I had gotten back down to 255 when I got the last back injection in november so I picked up a a couple of pounds.What i've noticed is my body is compacting in lots of places back,legs,butt and chest plus lots of arm muscels and upper back from diffrent exersises with weights.AS many crunchies,sit ups,power leg lifts i'm not loseing as much as I would like in the old gut...bugs the crap out of me for shure..I am doing cardio nearly every day of some kind.My pcp wanted mt to go on this diet of 750 calories or less wich I told her I would have more problems if I did that is why I dont cut my intake down so low.I tryed it once and had lots of blood sugar problems along with near total wipe outs that left me sicker than a dog.I'm on high protine,veggies as much as I want of the right kind,some fruit spareingly,water till i'm sick of water so I put some lemon juice in it to give it some taste or use cristal light.I do have a couple of diet sodas a day and often dont drink all of them.What I do have is way mopre energy and stamana to do what I need to do so I know something is working.

I've decided to be realistic, and make my goal to stay under that 200 lb. threshhold over the holidays.

Also, to make sure that I eat healthy, and limit sweets. I am not completely restricting myself though....because I need to live like this for the rest of my life, and don't care to make my holidays miserable.

So far, so good.....196 and holding.

:rrose:

Just for giggles....this was the first post in this thread....back in January 2011....almost 2 years ago.

My goal for the year....lose 35 lbs.

I didn't accomplish it, although I made baby step changes, ate healthier, felt better, exercised more, felt even better....

Fast forward almost 2 years.....and GUESS how much I've lost overall....yep, you got it....about 35 lbs. :)

Just goes to show that there's value in making changes, even small ones, and hanging in there. It took me twice as long as I wanted.....but I'm here.

Woot woot for me! :cheer:

I'm not sure. I'll look. I was mixing half decaf but still had trouble with coffee. I think the process of removing caffeine is really unhealthy. I have been drinking Numi age earl grey and its really yummy. In fact I;m getting use to tea. It has caffeine but doesn't bother me like coffee does.

I really mess up the moment I start on anything sweet. The holidays are hard for me. I'm not eating any diet food. I'm just not eating a lot of bread, rice, pasta etc which is my weakness. But I am allowing pasta once a
week. Like I said I can't get into salads but the other night I wilted some baby greens and tossed some beans and even a boiled egg in it. It was yummy.

I eat at least two eggs a day right from my coop. I'll eat them for breakfast or dinner. Spinach omelets, anything I an add veggies to. I eat a lot of mushrooms when I'm watching my weight. The big one for me is totally staying away from anything processed. Thats why stews and chunky soups work so well for me. I am busy. I can throw stuff in the crock pot and munch on it throughout the day. I always have leftovers.

oooooo thank you

25 by 35??
 

As of today I'm down 15 lbs :clap: I've got 2.5 weeks until my birthday. I probably won't make my goal of losing 25 lbs. But....20 is now the new 25!! I'm shooting for 20 folks!

(((((Andrea))))) I can relate to everything you've said here.

Please remember that YOU are so worth it!!! (Something I need to remind myself of daily...)

As a no-caf person for 6 years now, I try to stay away from decaf too. It is supposed to be much more unhealthy than regular coffee (google/processing). Also, decaf has caffeine in it, sometimes a lot of it. I splurge on something decaf (meaning about 1/4 of a cup at most) when I'm dying for it but that's a rarity. The hardest part of no-caf for me is not having chocolate but the mind and body adjust with time.

My life is about to have some structure and consistency back, so I'm hoping to really start focusing on my health including healthy eating and adequate exercise. I'll be back in my own house in a few days, and I have a treadmill, elliptical and bike there, plus I just had a cortisone shot that is addressing some of my pain issues.

One of the things that I plan to do starting on the 2nd is a one-week holistic whole foods cleanse. It's NOT one of those purge (aka poop your brains out) cleanses - it's a careful balance of whole foods that work together to reset your system, and is one that several friends have followed and loved. I'm hoping that it will help me pull away from sugars and other craving foods, get me back into eating the smaller portions that my body's good with when I give it the chance to not be stuffed full every day, and more. There's a small fee for getting the information but it includes support from the holistic health counselor who developed the program.