Vacation is over back to goals.

Wednesday thru Friday average 1400-1450 calories

Exercise 4 times

Wednesday Calories 1440

Exercise Upper Body 35 Minutes

Thursday Calories 1495
Exercise 20 Minutes Pilates

Friday Calories 1920
Walking 60 Minutes

Last week I did pretty well. I lost 3 pounds but this is of the 10 pounds I have regained over the last 2 months. I exercised all 5 days and averaged 1467.29 calories. Goals this week: Exercise Tuesday through Saturday. I am going to not allow myself to watch any of my favorite TV shows unless I have exercised. Eat healthier. I am going to count calories and will continue my food journal. Calorie goal 1400 average over the week.

Monday No exercise, Calories 1560

Tuesday 15 Minutes biking and stretching, Calories 1380

Wednesday 35 Minutes Lower body, Calories 1461

weekly average 1467

I have not been doing very well with fitness since I hit my big mile stone. I am now setting new goals. It is now time to get back in the groove. My biggest problem right now is lack of motivation. It seems like once I hit size 14 pants it was such a mile stone I seem to just settle here. I can not seem to stick to an eating or exercise plan at all.

I need to find motivation however, I need to exercise and eat better even if I can not find motivation.

Pratical Solutions
Exercise Tuesday through Saturday. I am going to not allow myself to watch any of my favorite TV shows unless I have exercised.

Eat healthier. I am going to count calories and start my food journal again.
Calorie goal 1400 average over the week.

I need to pray and find motivation. I can list a bunch of reasons yet none of them seem to be the right motivation. I need to find a new motivation.
New motivation:
since my goal is a quality of life filled with quality days of serving the Lord, attention to my body is key!

I will post daily my numbers

Monday no exercise calories 1413

Tuesday 30 Minutes walking calories 1729

Wednesday 47 Minutes walking calories Calories 1393

Thursday 35 Minutes Lower Body work out Calories 1309

Friday 20 Minutes Pilates Calories 1426

Saturday 30 Minutes Upper body Calories 1441

Sunday no exercise Calories 1560

Weekly average (figured daily) 1467.29

In 1996 PL and I ate low fat and exercised faithfully. I had lost most of my pregnancy weight from my youngest son. I was down to 138 with about 8-10 pounds to lose.

This is where my down fall began. I injured my ankle and could not exercise soon following that I became very ill, I had carditis which is water on my heart. I was on steroids for about 6 months and by the time this virus ran its course I was very prone to illnesses. Everytime I got sick it turned to bronchitis or pneumonia. This is where the weight began to creep on.

In 1998 I began my own business and due to stress and eating out all the time more weight piled on. By June of 1999 I was up to 208. I decided to try and lose the weight again. Started exercising and by October of 2000 I was down to 180.
I kinda bounced around for the next year between 180 and 190. In the spring of 2001 my health began to challenge me again. I was in constant pain and could no longer exercise. Over the next 2 years the weight began to increase omce again.

By the spring of 03 I had topped the scales at 222. I decided I had to do something even if I could not exercise I needed to get my eating under control. I began seperating my carbs and protiens and dropped my weight to 175 in July of 04'.

In July we realized my Mom's cancer had come back and she was not expected to make it through the year. With multiple trips to Texan and the stress of the loss of my Mom in September of 04' , by Jan of 05' I was back up to 204.

This is about the time PL was really doing great exercing, eating good and losing weight she talked me into trying the accountability thread here. I joined in July of '05 I was at 201. I was now able to exercise because in '04 I have a hysterectomy which alleviated the constant pain. With exercise and portion control I was abe to reach 185 by October 05'. From October 05' until March of this year I plateaued and bounced from 178-186 with reaching 173 at one time because of a stomache virus.

This is when I decided to reduce carbs and finally was able to break the plateau. Now it is April of 07' and I am at 170 with a total of 52 pounds lost. It has indeed been a long journey. I have learned I am very much an emotional eater and to continue in this journey I must give my cares over to our dear Savior and not allow myself to overeat. At times of success in this journey were times of prayer and devotions at times of defeat my eyes failed to look at our Lord and looked to other things to help with the pain whether it was physical or emotional. This journey was not only a journey of healing my physical temple but a Spiritual journey as well. I do pray daily about my eating. It is God's strength that has allowed this success.
Thank you Lord Jesus.

Now I am going to post some before pics. I was a tight size 22
All these pictures were taken around the same time in the fall of 02. I was at my heaviest of 222. The first pic is a scan of a scan that is why it is unclear.

This last pic is me at 170

These pictures are taken at 170.

I lost another 2 pounds. I am now at 170 another pound and I will be out of the 70's yeah.

I am still waiting to get my old hard drive added to the new computer so I can do a testimony of the journey in weight loss with pics. I still have at least 30 pounds to lose maybe even 40.

I do want to thank my dear friend Prairie Lady she has been my encouragement and has helped keep me accountable.

I am so excited I finally lost my 1 pound to make my total weight lost 50 pounds. I am going to post my pics and story in the next few days.

The ladies at 5 minutes for mom are giving away a dyson vacuum

Vacumm Contest

Dyson home site

Yesterday I did The Billy Blanks Boot Camp Mission one and boy was it a workout.  A Friend well actually 2 friends lent me some dvds and I am so excited to try another workout to keep these pounds coming off.

My next goal is to lose 2 more pounds then I will have lost 50 pounds. Wow I can not believe it. It has been a long drawn out process. (over 3.5 years)  My next goal would be another 3 pounds after that and it will put me under 170.

I am going to work and eat well and hope to see the scale move quickly.

I also am in a Local contets for weight loss and have until April 29 to do my final  weigh  in.  I know I probably will not win the contest because so far I have only 11 pounds during this contest however, I will still do the final weigh in.

Today I skiied on the Norditrack for 3.23 miles. It was a great work out. I am doing fine on my carbs.

Well, I have tried doing whole grain carbs and that just tore my tummy up. So the last 2 weeks I did my version of Atkins low carb induction phase. I lost 9 pounds. Yeah. I am going to continue this week. I am so hoping to drop under 170. I am at 174 now.

Goals this week:

20 or less carbs daily

exercise 6 days

Drink water, water, and water

Take vitamins.

This is a craft my dd and I made for a friends babyshower. It is easy enough for people like us with to uncoordinated hands.

As my struggle with my eyes continue my dh had an idea. He suggested I give plasma or blood and see if this relieves any leakage. Since the leakage is plasma. I went and gave blood today. I did okay better that last time 8 years ago but I was a little quesy and had to eat more than I wanted to to overcome the light headness. The ladies told me twice that it would be much easier for them to help me lay down now than try and pick me up off the floor.

I have yet to notice any difference. I may try plasma next time.

I received a letter from my retina doc this last week and here is the name of the disease he has diagnosed me with. "juxtafoveal telangiectasia"

Here I am again trying to get healthy. I have been eating better and exercising but the weight continues to stay firm. sometimes I want to scream. I am still about 40 pounds over weight.

I am setting newer goals and hoping this will finally move that scale.

Goals for this week:
Exercise 5 days
Drink lots of water
Cut high fruitose corn syrup
Cut hydrogenated oil
Cut white flour and eat only whole wheat flour
Limit sugar to 1 ounce of dark chocolate every other day as desired
Snack on Nuts
Eat nuts 20 Minutes before meals
Eat lots of veggies and Fruits.
Do not eat whithin 2 hours of going to bed
Post daily on my accountability board
Devotions Daily

I also entered a local contest called the Biggest Loser I have until April 29th to weigh in for my fianl weigh in. I really want to see some loss during this time. I would love to win a price. Which is cash and furniture.

I joined hoping to find the motivation to get back to exercsing after the holidays.

I did gain 5 pounds in Jan. Last week I lost that 5 pounds. Yeah!!

Happy New Years to all. I am copying and pasting my post from my other blog. Asking for those who feel lead to pray for me to pray.

I know it has been a while since I updated this so I thought I would drop by. Life is pretty much the same with not many changes.

I do want to ask for prayers. This last year I have been having problems with my eyes. There is fluid build up behind the retinas. I have been seeing one retina specialist until last month when I sought another opinion.

The new retina doc was able to diagnose my problem, unfortunatly, there is no successful treatment at this time.
My doc showed me his books and journals and then we compared those pictures with the pictures of my eyes. He is very interested in this condition and he studies to keep up with all the lastest techniques. His interest in this rare condition is stemmed from his mentor (a professor) who has been studing this since the first documented case in 1968.

I do not remember the medical name for it but here is an explaination:
The veins behind my eyes are leaking just as a spider vein in your legs would leak. However it is been unsuccessful to try and laser the veins behind the retinas closed as they would with spider veins in your legs. No treatment has been successful in helping this condition. It is very rare and even rarer to have affected both eyes.

This is the discouraging part. No treatment available.
If the fluid continues to build I will probably lose my central vision.
My right eye is the worse however, my left eyes has worsen since my last apoinment in November.

Yesterday was hard for me as I had to deal with this information. The thought of losing my vision is hard. As I trust the Lord and His care for me I do worry about what I may face in the future. My vision has been failing more and more this year. It is hard to read with my right eye now and if my left continues to follow suit I will not be able to read most things. My right eyes blurs night lights and if this happens to my left eye I will not be able to drive at night.

Although my vision is bad after exercising I am encouraged to continue to exercise as it will not cause any other problems. I just need to use wisdom when I exercise. For instance it would not be wise to exercise and then drive home at night.

I will try and explain the effects this has on me daily.

The fluid behind my eyes seems to wax and wain. Therefore my vision can be better at some times. After laying down or sleeping my vision is blurry (both eyes)for about half any hour or so. This is from the fluid building up while laying down. After being up for about 30 minutes my vision levels out. With my right eye always blurred (it is kinda like looking through water). Most of the time I can not read with my right eye. At first this was very annoying but now my left eye just picks up the slack. After exercing both eyes will blur I compare that to looking through slighly fogged glasses. This usually lasts several hours.

The vision in my right eye has been continueing to worsen since this all started last year. Except for about 6 weeks after I had gotten the steriod injection. My left eye had remained constant for the last 7 months or so but now it has began to worsen. The tests confirmed the fluid is increasing behind both eyes.

The other thing I have noticed this last week is that I seem to be losing my depth perception at times. I have not asked about this yet as it is a new sympthom.

At my last appointment my vision was not 20/20 in either eye. It was 20/40 in both eyes. Before the appointment I knew my right was better that day and my left eye was bad. Which showed in the eye exam as the appointment before my left eye was 20/20 and my right eye was 20/50. This vision is with my corrected lenses on.

Night driving will probably be the first thing I will lose. Right now my right eye blurs the night lights but my left eye compensates for it. (The miraculous things this body can do). I still drive at night but do avoid it right after exercsing.

The next thing I will lose will be the ablility to read print. I can read now but there are some things that I can not read like my Bible. I am able to read the Bible on the computer or on my PDA, which is how I do my devotions.
My reading ability of a certain text has to do with the size of text and more importantly the font used.

The loss of central vision will mean the loss of detailed vision. I will still maintain my perphiral vision so I will be able to still see to some extent. I do find comfort in this.


My prayers are for a complete healing. thanks in advance for your prayers.

Another week passes and the scale does not move.  I keep saying do not weigh, do not weigh, do not weigh and what do I do on Monday? I weigh! Of course the scale did not budge. I was so discouraged. How can I exercise like crazy, count calories and not see the scale move. I know my pants are looser than a few weeks ago yet the pounds are consistant. Sometimes I just want to scream.. It is not like I am close to my goal weigh I am at least 36 pounds away from it. I have reduced sugar, I drink a lot of water and I do a variety of exercise.

As I was moaning about the scale my husband mentioned to me how proud he was of me and that I was looking at things wrong.

I need to think of where I would be if I have not been exercsing and watching what I eat. I would probably be at least 30 pounds heavier than I am now. He said 30 pounds I say in all reality it would probably be more like 40.

So, for now that is where I will find my encouragement. I will draw strength from his words. Thank you Greg.

I am going to get back to posting on here. I have been faithful with exercise and eating pretty well. I need to work on my devotions.

I will update more today I have a few things to get done right now.

thanks for adding this to my blog

Lost one pound last week. Still up 3 pounds from weight in June. I still need to work on reading the Bible consistantly. I did well on exercise last week and not so good on calories

Goals this week:

Exercise 6 days with 4 days of Abs

Calories Average under 1600 With one free day

Bible Reading 30 Minutes a day

Monday  

Exercise: None

Calories 1723

Bible Reading 0 Minutes (not a good start)

Tuesday

Exercise: DDR 80 Minutes, Walking 13 Minutes

Calories 1432
Bible Reading 35 Minutes

Wednesday
Exercise 50 Minutes w/ abs
Calories 1728
(Wkly average 1627.33)
Bible Reading 35 Minutes

Thursday  

Exercise 122 Minutes with abs

Calories 1615
(Weekly Average 1624.25)
Bible Reading 35 Minutes

Friday
Exercise 68 Minutes no abs

Updated picture. It has been 9 weeks since  my last picture. I exercised 8 of the nine weeks.

I actually gained 2 pounds over the last 4 weeks but lost 2 inches. I hope tos ee the scale start moving soon. I will put it away for another 4 weeks.