The challenges were both emotional and physical. January 2009, I had been working hard at work, at home with my family and on my weight loss all fall. I was tired and stressed from home and work life. I wasn't losing weight like I had in the last several months I knew it was time to face the food issue. I had made some changes but not enough to make a total life change. I looking at what Weight Watcher had taught me just a year ago, portion control. Ok, let's put this to the test for real this time. I also started a pilot program at work. It was basically teaching how naturally slim people eat and how they control their food. Like all weight loss plans you have to adjust to what results work for you, in my option. With the pilot program I had to write down everything I ate and how much I ate. But I also learned how to read labels and how to really taste my food. Can we truly say as Americans that we taste our food?
I know having a family and all the kid activities after work it's hard to do everything. So we have adapted to eating on the run. I'm so guilty for rushing my kids to eat. I've even made them eat everything on their plate. Why because we are busy and that's how I was taught to eat. I had to slow down and read labels. I really learned to taste my food. I did not know that dorito chips really did not taste as good as I thought. Funny thing is that the food that I thought tasted so good, it really isn't. I don't have cravings like I did before. I also learned over the next few weeks that sugar is evil. Just kidding, it's all good in moderation. I know you've heard that before. But it's true! I started look at portion size and sugar. I lost 3-4lbs a month up until the end of March.
March 2009, I had a goal by the end of the month I wanted to lose 3 lbs to make a total of 50 lbs and my weight 213 lbs. That goal was also a promise I had made to my trainer who was getting married the end of March. I had to stop training with her back in October because my husband had gotten laid off work for the second time in 2008. I knew she had taught me enough to do it on my own but I had to prove it to her and myself. The wedding day I weighed in and I had done it. I was so excited about the wedding. I knew she was going to be so proud of me. I was proud of myself. My husband was noticing me and really excited as well. This new confidence and pride was like a new high. My exercise continued and I changed it up every 6-8 weeks.
I was still wearing my old clothes. It wasn't pretty! I had no idea what size I was now. I had someone give me a gift card to go buy a new pair of pants. That was embarrassing to say the least. I went though and I'm glad I did. I went from a size 22-24 women's to a 18-20 women's.
Then April, May and June came and went with no weight loss. I didn't gain any weight but I didn't lose it either. What was going on? Maybe it was my sugar or sodium? What was I doing wrong? What did I change from when I was losing 5-7 lbs a month. Then it hit me...eating out. My husband had gotten a job a Luby's and been out of town for training in the fall. He's now back home and loves for us to come up there to eat. Even though I was eating fish and good veggies. It was the sodium and fat that they use in the restaurant that was hurting me. So I tried an experiment to see if that was my problem. I quit going for two weeks in July and I lost 5lbs the first week and another 3 in week two. I wan't to be under 200 lbs by the end of August 2009. Can I do it?
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