Thank God It's Falling Off

I am going to be honest with myself and all of you this week. It's getting hard! This has been my 4th week and I am struggling. I let life get in my way of reaching for the right foods and it's not fair to my body. It's also not fair to my family. I can't quit, I have to keep on trucking! I am not looking back and if I stumble I have to remember to get right back up. I have lost 5 lbs but I know it should be 10. Going to the gym, even though I feel AWESOME and my energy has been higher is not enough without the diet as well.

I will do better starting right now.

Thank God It's Falling Off

Man, I had such a busy day yesterday with Tay being sick and getting her ready for camp that I forgot to blog my TGIFO!

I will keep it brief, it was my third week and I feel fantastic! I think I have only lost 4 lbs but I feel amazing! I think I have gained some muscle because Lance says I look slimmer. I can feel it in my arms too!

So, next week I have decided to kick it up a notch. I work out three days a week with my team, but this coming week I am going to add 2 days of working out at home or at the gym as well. I plan on reporting EXCELLENT results next Friday!

*Oh, and at Moms Night Out this week I did not eat any bread at Outback, no cheese on my salad and I chose the Outback Griller Combo plate with steak and shrimp over a bed of rice with grilled veggies and pineapple. I normally would of chosen the rib eye, potato and bread! Small steps Julie, small steps!

Thank God It's Falling Off

Well, here goes my first official Friday, TGIFO, post! It is week two of my weight loss journey and while I have not weighed yet, I feel FAN-Flipping-TASTIC! I just realized that I have not had red meat since Monday, (BIG DEAL FOR THE JACKSON HOUSE) and I am still alive! I have made two dishes this week that I would normally put hamburger meat in and I used ground turkey or chicken instead and we all loved it! I attend my Team Weight Loss class three days a week and I will admit Wednesday I thought I was going to die because I missed Monday due to being out of town still and man, did I pay for it! Today was much easier. I am jogging 2-3 minutes at a time, at an incline I might add, and I am still alive! I feel leaner and taller. I feel more energy already, and I am sleeping better. This all comes down to healthy living. I wanted to share a typical day of my menu so you can see what I USED to do and what I do NOW.

OLD MENU

• Breakfast- uuuummm, nothing, or a Vitamin water. I was just not hungry, so why eat.
• Lunch- I was starving, so yes, let's eat! Vitamin Water, A Cheeseburger, Mexican Food, Box of Mac and Cheese, Fast Food 9 times out of 10.
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  Dinner- The Big one! Vitamin Water, Hamburger Steak and Gravy, Rib Eye, Pizza, Fast Food, Maybe some Chicken, always a starch, something along these lines. I always had one of these fatty foods, or I would pick a good meat and eat TONS of starch on the side.

(Do you see I ate no snacks, no vitamins and not alot of fruits or veggies)

New Menu (I will post what I did yesterday).

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  Breakfast- Water, vitamin, 1 blue berry waffle torn in half and I took 2 turkey sausage links and wrapped the waffle around each one and ate two little breakfast wraps! SO YUMMY!


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  10:00 A.M. 1 and only Vitamin Water for the day, I was running the roads but knew I needed to eat something. I ate 1 Spring roll (had shrimp, rice noodles, romaine lettuce and dipped it into peanut sauce) So yummy and the fatty part was the sauce, the wrap was practically no calories. (I will blog Spring Rolls next week)


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  Lunch 12:30- Met Lance for lunch at a Mexican Restaurant. Had a YUMMY chicken salad with a Catalina type dressing.


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  3:00 P.M. Banana


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  Ok, tricky part, knew we were eating dinner LATE with family, so around 5:00 I grabbed a handful of nuts and ate them.


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  Dinner 7:45- Spinach Tortilla Wraps with chicken and loaded with lettuce! SO GOOD! At a local Mexican Restaurant.


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  Bedtime- 11:00 had 3 crackers, 3 squares of cheese (precut squares) and a cup of 2 % Milk.

Ok, can you see the difference in my eating habits? I am eating all day long now and it's AWESOME! I feel amazing already and it's only been 2 weeks! I also entered a cooking contest at my gym tomorrow. The winner gets 12 weeks of free nutrition classes! Wish me luck!

"If you want to make a change in your life, Make a Change in your life"

Well, here we go again and this has to be the last time I say that. I am at the end of my rope and if I don't do this I am afraid I will only know myself as overweight and I can't do it anymore alone. I won't do it anymore alone. I have to take a leap and I pray that this time I will let God hold my hand the entire way. I was told a little over a month ago that my blood pressure was high at my well woman visit. It hit me like a ton of bricks but I did nothing about it. I also am at a higher risk for Diabetes because I had Gestational Diabetes with Cash and had to be put on insulin shots twice a day. I just keep on eating. I have to make a change and it can't be a quick fix, it has to be a lifestyle makeover and I have Lance on board too. I hate to say it this way but I looked at him last week and told him I was afraid one of us were going to have a heart attack and leave the other alone with the kids and I can't do that to him or my children. I have to do this now, not tomorrow! SO, drum roll please! We joined Lifetime Fitness, www.lifetimefitness.com and Lance joined a Boot Camp he will attend 3 mornings a week and I joined Team Weight Loss (here is a video you can take a look at http://www.lifetimefitness.com/team/index.cfm?strWebAction=video&intVideoId=9) and I will attend this class 3 days a week and workout on my own the other days. Here is a description of the class and if you guys don't mind I will be blogging every Friday about my journey and it will be called "Thank God it's Falling Off". My ultimate goal for my 5'3 body is to weigh 130 lbs (give or take) and to do that I need to lose 91 lbs. You do the math, I weigh TOO MUCH! HA!

So, here we go, I start Monday morning at 10:00 A.M. God Speed! ;o)

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