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Been A while

DLS — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:02:11 GMT

It has been quite a while since I've posted to my blog. I had hit a stall for the last three weeks "holidays". At least I didn't gain! But I was ready to see some weightloss again. So this week I have started really cutting the carbs and maintaining my workouts. I have already lost 6 more pounds according to the scales this morning. Yeah! That is 56 total on Atkins and 64 total since going low carb.

I have been trying to train to be able to run a 5K without dying. Yesterday I was able to run the whole 3 miles without stopping. Of course that was only on the treadmill so I will have to see about how it goes in the real world. It is harder for me to run on the track at the gym but I love being outdoors. The cold really makes it hard to breath though. I think once I am able to maintain my 3 miles a day on the treadmill without stopping then I will see how the outdoors will go. Of course I am in Georgia so this summer will be a killer too!

Well, that's about it for me this entry.
Hope everyone else is having a great new year! :-)

Edit: Scales were off I guess, according to the ones at the gym I only lost around 2 lbs. Still showing a 6 lb loss at the ones here at home that I use daily. Hmmmm, don't know which ones to believe. But nevertheless I feel GREAT!
I have GOT to get some new scales here!

No cheating! Well, not really.

DLS — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:04:26 GMT

LOL Okay the title is referring to the fact that although I went over my self appointed (aka inflicted) carb limit of 25 a day, I only went over a bit and ONLY with carb friendly stuff. I didn't once eat the "regular" stuff and I am the one that had to make it all!
I'll tell that was a true test of my will power!
I made cakes, cookies, haystacks, choco covered peanuts, date nut balls, and peanut butter fudge (thank GOD for the carb friendly PBfudge recipe!).

I am super proud of myself. I now have a visitor, TOM, is here, so I can't tell if I have lost any more weight yet but as of now I have lost 50 since "officially" starting Atkins and 58 since starting to cut back on carbs in early August.

I still have a bit more to go but I KNOW it is possible. I KNOW there is a way to finally get down to where I should be.

My cardiologist is so impressed with my heart rate, blood pressure and cholesterol numbers, and of course the weight loss, BUT she doesn't know it's from Atkins. I told her I was watching what I eat and cut out the junk. Not a lie, but I wasn't about to tell the veggie only eater that I am a baconator!

Wishing you all a happy new year and great success in 2009!!!!!

God Bless :NewDay

Not happy with the scale differences

DLS — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:43:32 GMT

I know since I use the same scale from week to week that I am able to keep up with my actual "loss" of weight but seeing as I had to have the paramed insurance nurse come out I figured I would get the low down on what my actual weight was!
Hers weighed me 8 lbs heavier! Then today at Target I weighed on 2 other, (one digital, one dial). On those I weighed even more!!!!

So, humph! I'm disappointed that I might no weigh what my home scales are saying.

I have tried calibrating them with my hand weights but I don't know if there is a certain weight above those where the dang things start going screwy!

BLAH :bang:

goal

DLS — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:17:49 GMT

I made my first goal! Forty pounds lost as of yesterday! So happy with my progress.

I have set a new goal of 10 more pounds but might set a new one when that one is met. I feel great at this size but can now see an even better size on the horizon! :NewDay

I am still on rung four and don't plan to move up any time soon. I am still staying around 30 carbs a day but most days under that. I will move up another 5 carbs soon I suppose to help make my menu a bit more interesting. Especially with the holidays coming.

Family is a bit sad that mom won't be getting her 4 boxes of chocolate covered cherries this year! I told the kids, hey, I have enjoyed too many of those guys and that's why I landed myself in this condition!
So instead they will get me a box of Atkins bars. (LOL I know you guys don't like those things, but they can be yummy and much better for me than choco cherries!)

Well, off to eat my bacon and eggs! YUM!!!

Donna

Almost there!

DLS — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:58:43 GMT

Well, as of today I have only 2 more pounds to lose to reach the goal I set for myself back on August 27th.

I am 38 pounds down now! Plus a couple months before starting Atkins I lost 8 pounds just reducing carbs and snacking. So holy cow, that's 46 pounds!!!!!!

I think I will set a new goal for myself because I'd like to lose a quite a bit more around my waist. I still carry a pretty good sized pooch that flops down (4 c-sections) that doesn't look good in jeans. LOL :lol: But I am proud of mysef so far and will just enjoy what I have accomplished so far! WOO HOO!

Happy Atkinning all! :dancing1

Blood Test

DLS — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:03:08 GMT

Okay, I didn't listen to the good doctor and have all my bloodwork done prior to Atkins but I had some drawn today. I should know the results next week I suppose.

The reason the tests were ordered (mostly looking at the thyroid) is because of an irregular heartbeat. I have always had heart palpitations but now my heart is pretty much constantly going nuts and I am so very tired all the time. So the doc said it could be my thyroid.

I have always been a very healthy person (not counting the fat of course). I have never had to be on meds for anything longer than an antibiotic so I am hoping that I won't have to start anything. I'm also concerned that if I do it will stall, stop altogether, or reverse(God fobid) what I have already achieved on Atkins.

Two Months of Atkins (almost)

DLS — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:59:04 GMT

Well, Monday will be 2 months since I started Atkins. I have lost 28 pounds. I love that! I weigh every Saturday morning and measure. This morning I didn't show a weighloss but I did lose 1 1/2 inches. However I keep losing it from my booty. I really don't want to lose it there. Too bad you can't just say TUMMY go away!!!!!

Well, at least its coming off!

Questioning my move to Owl

DLS — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:22:45 GMT

Well, I have been adding a bit more veggies for the last 2 weeks. Last week I lost four pounds. This week, nothing. Wondering what happened. I did add nuts just this week abut only two times and they were carefully measured. I think I will continue on this course with the veggies and nuts for another week and see if my body springs back into weightloss next week, maybe it just needs a little time to get used to the change. I am gonna watch a bit more carefully this week what I eat to make sure I don't go overboard with anything.

I have kept my exercises up. In the last two weeks a I have changed one thing. I have stopped walking 4 miles on Wed. I have added yoga for that day because I felt I needed a change and a break from all the miles. I do however still work on my abs and squats challenges on that day.

I'm almost regreting moving on to Owl but I will stick with it a bit longer. I really want to be able to eat a better variety of foods and be able to continue to lose (more slowly, of course) and later maintain my weightloss.

I am also gonna start adding a low carb yogurt into my diet. I want to watch it carefully so as not to stall completely or bring up any sweet cravings. The yogurt I have found has 3 net carbs and it does contain natural sugars from the milk and such so I will have to take it slow.

Anyway, that's me for now. Struggling again. I guess til I'm an ole pro at this I will continue to stumble and struggle to get through the stages like I should.

It's a good darn thing I signed up for the read the book challenge. That way I will be sure to catch anything I missed the first time reading the book.

Donna

Exercise routine

DLS — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:49:47 GMT

Well I have changed up my exercise routine a bit. I have decided to do the treadmill on Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri., and Sat. Now on Wednesday I do Yoga in the morning. I am also doing squat and ab challenges every day but Sunday. Sunday is definitely my rest day from exercise. Although I won't be doing the treadmill on Wed. I will still sometimes go on a family walk on Wed. We usually go about 1.5 to 2 miles. Nothing too hard for the kids.

The yoga this morning was hard on my back. I am having to do some of the alternate poses as my back won't allow for the proper way to do them. I sounded like Rice Krispies this morning! I was snapping, crackling, and popping all over! But I did it and it will only be once a week so I'm sure I'll live. :)

I just tried the flax meal "cream of wheat". It was very good but very small. I know I will be hungry in no time flat. I'll have a snack about mid morning.

Well, off to the shower and a walk this morning before school.

One month on atkins today!

DLS — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:33:33 GMT

Today is my anniversary! Yeah! One month and 22 lbs gone! Woo HOO! :dancing1 I weighed in this morning and have lost 22 total and another 3 1/2 inches! I'm STOKED! :guns:
I am so glad that I stuck with it. I am thinking of moving on to OWL but I don't want to lessen the 2 lbs a week that I am losing right now and I am satisfied with the foods I have so I might wait a little while longer.

Instead of the treadmill and weights today I worked my booty off outside. Hubby, daughter and I built a firewood little shed thingy. It is really cool. We need to put on the roof but that should be too awful hard.
It was a great workout especially since our yard is REALLY sloped and I was constantly up and down that thing, since the woodshed is way, way back there.
I liked it much better than the treadmill except I did break a nail, darn it!

Donna

Still bummed

DLS — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:05:21 GMT

Well, I weighed this morning. I was gonna wait until Sat. but I decided to go ahead this morning and weigh again on Monday. I guess Monday and Fridays from now on. Heck, I don't know. Either way I was disappointed. I was 179. Only 1 lb lost! It flirted with 178, but I won't count that. I really thought I had done better this week. I have even cut back on a lot of (don't fuss) veggies so I could cut some more carbs. But yesterday I barely hit 13 carbs total and I've been doing like that all week. On one day this week I had right at 20 carbs. And that was it. So I have increased my exercises, decreased my carbs, I'm moody, sad, irritated, grouchy, and just plain fed up! Is this where my fat :censor: body wants to be? Cause I sure as :censor: don't want to be!
I know there are times that we will lose inches and not pounds so much. I plan on measuring tomorrow morning. But I don't feel any more inches coming off either. I am still in the XL clothes I have always been in. Albeit they are a bit looser, I can't go down a size. I'm still right where I started on Aug 27th. Wow, that's a dang month tomorrow! And I feel there has been no significant change in me.
Hope this funk doesn't last to long!

Mood is all over the place!

DLS — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:33:28 GMT

Dang I am in some funky mood today. Or rather moods. I am up one minute and down the next. I just don't know what is up with that. I almost feel jsut plain DOWN. I have done most of my exercises today. I am about to go do the rest since dinner is done. I feel in a real funk.
And I want FOOD. I want everything you can think of that is full of carbs. Like cereal, hamburger helper (family had tonight), candy, cereal, chocolate anything, milk, and did I mention cereal? :bang:
I don't know if it is just because I am depressed about my husband being unable to find a job or if it's that TOM is finally leaving town and the hormones are still nuts, but I just want to scream, then cry and then eat a pint of bunny tracks ice cream!
Crap!:censor:

On the treadmill today.

DLS — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:53:12 GMT

This morning when I was on the treadmill I had my back door open and I could see my reflection in the window of the door. YUCK! I don't feel as fat as that woman looked! I have been feeling so wonderful that I couldn't believe that I looked so bad! I hope that the glass in the door was the kind that truly makes you look that "10 lbs" overweight. I think from now on I will just keep the dang door closed! I don't think I look that bad in the mirror so I really, really hope it was just the door!

Well, maybe it was just some really large woman standing behind the door and I was seeing her "through" the glass! Yeah, that's got to be it! LOL

Feeling good today

DLS — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:20:50 GMT

Well, today I am feeling good.

I don't think I have lost anything really but I do feel good. I am keeping up with my treadmill although some mornings I don't want to get up at 5:45 to get the workout done. But then by 7 when I wake the kids up to get ready for school I feel satisfied that I have done what I should. I have kept my promise to myself.

So even if I don't lose anything this week I know I am a healthier person for myself and my family and that makes all the early morning workouts worth it.

They are really being good about this whole new way mom eats around here. Although there are times when I think they feel sad for me that I can't have something like candy corn that they know I LOVE! But instead I will have a cream cheese cloud and I feel good about the choice I made.

I do my 10,000 steps on the treadmill but I have recently been getting them out for a walk in the morning either right before school or after a couple of subjects to get the ole brain juices pumping again. The walks are nice and the weather has really been lovely. I am looking forward to seeing all the trees changing and the smells of fall. We sometimes take our walks on the air force base here through the woods. We like to take some binoculars so we can look for different birds and other critters. We call that a "science field trip".

Soon Mark (dh) might have to move away to find a job in another town, possibly in Alabama. We wish he didn't have too but there is absolutely nothing here for him and money doesn't stretch as far as it used to when it was just the two of us or us with only one child.

Anyway, it's been a good day and I am glad with my exercise program. I hope I can be a strong enough person to continue with this like I know I should.

GOD Bless!

Donna:NewDay

Sneaky TOM!

DLS — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:06:06 GMT

Well, my final weigh in for the weigh no way challenge yesterday showed another 2 pound loss. I am happy about that. Thankfully there wasn't a gain! I am currently entertaining TOM who decided to sneak up on me yesterday. So maybe I lost even more than 2 lbs and he is hiding it! LOL :-) I hope so!

I went to the library and got some low carb cookbooks and I'm trying a new recipe today. And another one for chili this week (no beans). They book is always mentioning low carb pasta. I have never seen this fictional thing of which they speak! All the pasta in our stores seem to have at least 41g of carbs. Sorry, that's not LOW carb enough for me.

I know it's time for me to move on to the owl rung but honestly I feel fine right here and I don't feel the need to move on yet. I am just getting used to the idea of counting the net carbs only. In the first part of induction I would only count carbs, no subtracting of the fiber. So once I get the hang of this net carb business, maybe I will feel ready to move on up the ladder a bit. I really am looking forward the the nut rung.
I need to find macadamia nuts with no salt though.

Well, happy losing al!

Donna