Healthy You Check - In

Well as I said in my previous post ....I AM BACK!!! Like I said it's been a few hectic weeks and that is why I wasn't blogging or active about weight loss but now that the pressure and stress is lifting I am ready to get back to getting fit , and healthy and losing this weight!! I haven't had much energy lately but I am starting to eat right again, take my vitamins, and herbal remedies and I am starting to feel somewhat better :)

As I think I said on this blog before I had lost my job due to my boss getting laid off and the company closing down and that is the first thing that stressed me out because I lost my income in a matter of a week and a half and I didn't know what I was going to do ....I tend to panic which isn't the thing to do! So losing weight was the furthest thing from my mind, and that is why I just had to take a break. The good news is I got my income back pretty quickly by opening up a home daycare in my home ....I had been thinking about doing this for quite some time but I wasn't sure about it but I thought that taking a chance couldn't hurt since I was already out of work.

Well I put an ad up on craigslist and within a week I had seven children enrolled with me :) I am now making more than what I was making as a nanny and it's doing what I love the most and that is taking care of children :) It's a challenging job but it has it's rewards as well!! So now that stress is gone , new stressors have taken it's place , which is just life! But I am ready to start losing weight once more :) I am not sure how much I have gained to be honest with you because I have been to afraid to get on the scale to look but I can tell I have gained with the way I feel. I will be weighing in tomorrow morning to see where I am at, and I will blog about that later.

For now I want to get back on track with :

* Drinking at least 100 oz. of water daily

* Eating healthy foods , low carb, and high protein.

* Take one step at a time and don't get frustrated with myself.

* Take all vitamins, and herbal supplements.

So wish me luck everyone!!! I will be visiting blogs this week , not sure how many I can visit but my goal is to visit at least 3 blogs per day on my lunch break (when the kids are napping). Take care everyone and Happy Losing!!!

I am Back & Getting Back on Track

Well I am back everyone!! It's been a hectic few weeks and that is why I haven't been online blogging here , nor have I been visiting any blogs , just to hectic with the loss of my job, the stress of starting a home daycare, and then being sick was just to much for me to handle or even think about weight loss. I have not been doing well with my diet , nor have I been really eating much therefore I have gained some weight and haven't been feeling well as an end result.

Now that the stress is starting to lift, I have decided to start again!! I am not a quitter and I won't give up until I have beat this and lost all the weight I want and need to lose :) It's going to be a long , hard road ahead but I know I can do this, and I need to do this for my health if for nothing else. I noticed since being off the high protein, low carb lifestyle that my asthma has been really, really bad :( I can hardly breathe at night , and during the day I have to rely on my inhaler to get through it and I really think it's because of all the carbs and sugar I have been eating latley. I never saw a difference before but I sure have felt the difference this time around , and this just motivates me even more to get back on track :)

I googled high carbs and asthma and found that high carbs and sugar aggravate asthma symptoms which I never knew before and I never thought to look it up in all the years I have suffered from breathing problems. I was diagnosed with asthma as a kid , around age 6 years old and I have been on medications ever since but I did notice when I cut the carbs out , and ate high protein, fruits, veggies, and lean meats that I could breathe easier and I used my inhaler and medications less. But with the stress, and eating bad I am having to use my inhaler and medications alot more.

I just have a hard time believing that sugar and carbs can do that to a person with asthma and upper respitory problems but since experiencing it I now can believe it. They say seeing is believing , and I have seen and now I am going to change my bad habits. This just reconfirms to me that I need to get this weight off for my health and well being , and I need to eat right for my health and well being. I am sick of being sick, and tired, and fat therefore I am getting back on track today :) So it's no more bad carbs, and no more sugar for me!! Wish me luck!!

The Healthy You Check-In

Well I have got to keep my butt out of that fridge!! Today has not been a very good day for me and I ended up eating out of emotions and that is something that I thought I had under control but I guess I was wrong and now I just have to work way harder to get that under control. I found out yesterday that my boss is losing her job , therefore I will be out of a job as of next Wednesday so I am very stressed over that and I think that is why I just haven't been in the best of mood to count my calories and eat healthy :( But I have already told myself that tomorrow is going to be a better day and I am going to get right back up and NOT give up!!! I know I can do this , and just because I fell flat on my face today doesn't mean I should give up , it just means to get back up on my feet and keep on going :)

This past week was a good one , I lost a pound and even though I was hoping for a bigger weight loss I am happy with this one :) Losing weight has been hard for me so I am very proud of myself because this is my 5 th week into this and I have NOT given up ....which is a small miracle for me :) I am going to do this and NOTHING is going to STOP me :) My goals for this week are :

* Drink more water ...I am doing well with drinking 100 oz. per day but I would like to increase this a little to 120 oz.

* Say goodbye to the 340's for good .....this is a biggie and I am hoping to do this on my WI day this Saturday :)

* Take my vitamins everyday ...I have been really bad about this one and forgetting so I need to start remembering to take them right after I eat breakfast in the A.M.

* Staying positive with self-positive talk ...this one is going to be difficult this week due to my job loss but I am determined to stay positive because losing a job isn't the end of the world and there are other jobs out there :)

I hope everyone is doing good this week so far!! I promise that I am reading blogs , and as many as I can comment on I do , but with my job during the day it's sometimes hard but I am catching up :) Have a great week!! Happy Losing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Weigh In Day

Well today is my WI day and I am so proud of myself because I didn't step on the scale once this week so that is something because I am truly a scale addict LOL. Well I lost 1 pound ....which is better than maintaining or gaining so I am happy with that :) I thought I would have lost more than that but at least it's a loss and I am happy :)

I lost 8 inches off my body so maybe that is why I didn't see much of a loss on the scale, not sure if that can happen so that is just a wild guess!! This week I did very well with keeping within my calorie range and I didn't cheat once so I am happy that I achieved that this week. I know I will have bad days but it's those days that keep me from achieveing what I want to see on the scale each week therefore I tell myself "Michelle do you really want that piece of cake, it will keep you from your goals"....the positive self-talk has really helped me this week and I am going to keep using it as a tool to help me during those times of weakness!

I achieved all my goals this past week very succesfully ...here is the recap:

* I didn't give into cravings (woooooohooooo)

* I didn't give into emotional eating

* I stayed within my calorie range

*I drank all my water (100 oz. daily)

Overall I did well and I am proud of how hard I worked and achieved small successes :) Every week I lose is a small success in my eyes and it brings me that much closer to my Ultimate Goal of getting down to 250 lbs. by Jan. 1, 2009 :) Now if I get more weight off then great but if I only get the 100 lbs. off then that is a AWESOME SUCCESS!!!!!

The goals I have set up for this coming week are as follows :

* To say goodbye to the 340's once and for all ....,I know I can do this :)

* To get off at least 3 lbs. this week , if I lose more than GREAT!!

* Of course get more excercise in ( I have a hard time with this one but I am working on it).

So I think that all these goals are very achieveable and I will have SUCCESS!! Happy Losing everyone :)