Still 206?

Seriously? SERIOUSLY? STILL? Even after I did not eat the pizza, did not eat the cookies, have poop that is freaking green, pooped enough for two grown men yesterday, and drank nothing but water and only 1 small cup of coffee for breakfast?

*sigh* I keep telling myself don’t give up, but half of my brain is like F THIS while the other half says to keep on pushing.

I’ve even cut out cheese! I haven’t had any cheese since Saturday…

I’m about to live off of lettuce and water….

Today breakfast was two hard boiled eggs with a cup of coffee.
Lunch is a big salad with butter bib lettuce, bean sprouts, green onion, yellow peppers, and some shredded carrot. The dressing is the kraft lite toasted sesame dressing.
Dinner is going to be steamed broccoli and chicken.

I just don’t get how the scale shifted up then stopped? I’m over a week away from TOM…

Yeah… I don’t want to encorporate exercise until I hit phase 2.

I went around online and there were actually a lot of people in my position, but it seems most of them didn’t have much to lose. I’m TWO-OH-SIX. It’s not like I only have 10-20 lbs to lose, I have more like SEVENTY to lose… I was hoping to lose 9 lbs and so far am down two :’( Unless some miracle happens, I don’t see myself losing 7 lbs in 5-6 days at this rate…

GRRRR…

I think that when phase 2 comes around I’m only going to allow myself to choose either 1 fruit or 1 starch a day, and then add in exercise and see how that goes.

*shrug* My body is stubborn. My friend thinks its because I was already eating pretty healthy which is why I’m not seeing a big difference vs. someone who was eating crap then started the diet, she thinks my two pounds is two legitimate pounds and not just water weight. I can agree with that.

Confused Monday

I thought I did well? I’m not sure what is going on… but today I was 206.

Seriously? After all my eating at home, only drinking water, following the diet pretty much to a T (I really don’t think carrots are gonna hurt me), etc.

I did wake up feeling constipated, but after breakfast I cleaned myself out…

So yeah… still frustrated but refused to give up.

Made that for dinner, hardly ate today, had a sugar free pudding cup for dessert…

WHILE my coworkers today feasted on chocolate chip cookes (I didn’t even have ONE), and my husband’s friend came over with PIZZA (I had none)…

This is hard Seriously I’m trying to be good but it’s frustrating when the scale is laughing at you!

ETA: Maybe I’m not eating enough? Put in my calores to MFP and got 1100 calories, 49 grams carbs (all from veggies), 58 grams of fat (all good fats), and 90 grams of protein.

Going to try to up the calories tomorrow. Or see what happens on the scale tomorrow.

Sunday Salad!

I’ve been eating well, haven’t eaten out since that Friday, and the weight must have been water weight because it is back down, I’m hovering around 205, so that makes me feel better. Makes me feel like my hard work hasn’t been for nothing!

Today I made this for lunch/dinner (mostly cuz we went to the movies and it was so long that we ended up not eating lunch until after 4:30 pm). Butter bib lettuce with bean sprouts, carrots, green onions, grilled onions, grilled zucchini, cucumber, grilled marinated pork (recipe coming up), with a bit of a spicy gochujang paste as well as some lite sesame dressing.

The recipe for the pork I found here at Kalyn’s Kitchen:
Grilled Pork Kabobs with Spicy Peanut Butter, Sesame, and Soy Sauce Marinade

It wasn’t spicy at all for me, so next time I’d definitely up the red pepper flakes. I’m not sure if this is a paleo friendly diet? But I love that website, it’s giving me so many inspirations for different foods for the South Beach Diet. This week I’ve bought a lot of foods to eat that will be more asian inspired. SINCE I cannot get enough of Asian food, I’m definitely excited about this upcoming week

For hubby I took all this and put them in tortillas, I asked him if he liked it, and he said it was alright, but then proceeded to eat THREE burritos lol! Course then he confessed it was really good lol! :p

I’ve got enough leftover veggies to make a big salad for tomorrow- yay!

I’ve also got snap peas and shrimp, and the plan is to make this:

Soy Grilled Shrimp with Asian Veggies

I know carrots aren’t really allowed on phase 1, but I doubt carrots are what made me fat in the first place! I’m also going to add bean sprouts to it and I bought some Tofu Shiritaki Noodles. This is probably going to be tomorrow’s dinner while tomorrow’s lunch will be today’s leftover’s.

And Breakfast? Well my friends, FIRST I thought “I’ll just make some hard boiled eggs, BUT that’s so boring for me! So then I thought, I love deviled eggs, why not just have deviled eggs for breakfast?!

So I had some leftover avocado (half), some leftover goat cheese, green onions, greek yogurt, and mashed it up with the egg yolk, and then put all 10 halves together in 2′s and wrapped each “pair” of eggs to take to work next week. That should solve my breakfast dilemma for next week, and it’ll probably only be around a 150-200 calorie breakfast, but it’ll be FULL of protein

Off to make my lunches for next week!

206?

Dangit. Don’t understand that, I’ve been nothing but good.

Only two things I can think is 1- I had a little tiny bit of beef jerky last night, and 2- I did eat out for dinner, and while my dinner was romaine lettuce, steak, black beans, sauteed peppers and onions, avocado, and a sprinkle of cheese and salsa, maybe they used a lot of salt to cook my food?

I was seriously hoping to see at least 204 today.

Just affirms how you never know what’s in food you do not prepare yourself!

Today the plan IS LOTS OF WATER and no eating out. I already made some bacon and eggs for breakfast, and lunch and dinner will be eaten at home again. I’m going grocery shopping today for more food supplies I need!

Day 4: Poop Watch

Yes it’s that time again my friends, when Bee tells you the color of her poo. FYI it’s normally brown… lol. But yes, now it’s GREEN, and actually a dark green color lol. Just tells me I’m eating PLENTY of veggies.

Day 3 went off without a hitch, it gets easier amazingly. I think going cold turkey on all sweets (except my 1 packet of sweet and low with my coffee and half pump of creamer) makes a big difference.

Someone on 3FC posted about how they are quiting dairy because it’s not good for PCOS. So I was like what the heck? I looked into it more, and apparently milk has something called “Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1)” but the person was speaking about all dairy. And I was like where did I miss this? I always read about PCOS and things, I’ve never heard this about not eating dairy! So the more I researched the more information I found, but looking through ACTUAL research sources I found this (I don’t trust .com sites when it comes to this type of information):

Dairy foods other than milk (ice cream, yogurt, and cheese) did not have an association with IGF-I. It is possible that either IGF-I in cows’ milk or a substance in milk that stimulates endogenous production of IGF-I is inactivated during the processing of milk to ice cream, yogurt, or cheese.

So I guess all I’m trying to say is that I’m going to continue to eat my yogurt and cheese because I love Greek Yogurt and adore cheese

And as for today’s weight? 204.5! WOOT! So I’m basically just 1.5 pounds over the weight I was maintaining, and then I’ll be 3-4 lbs away from onederland. YAY!

Today this is what I’ll be eating for dinner:

Lemon Salmon With Lima Beans

That’s one thing I love about the internet, I’ll google two main ingrediants (in my case salmon and lima beans) and 99% of the time a recipe comes up that I like!

I went through my blogroll, sad that some people are gone, but I guess that’s the blog life eh? Sad that ONE PERSON who I used to comment on all the time has made their blog private (no not you Didi) and though I posted to them here, and tried emailing, they never responded to me I THOUGHT WHAT WE HAD WAS SPECIAL!?!

PS- Laura I tried commenting on your blog it says: “Commenting is Temporarily Disabled” so I’m wondering if you changed a setting on your commenting?

Day 3

206.0.

Now I’m sure some of this is water weight. But still seeing the number creep down is making me HAPPY

Tonight for dinner I’m having lean ground beef with chopped up zucchini and tomato sauce Probably with a sprinkle of parmesan cheese. OH YEAH!

I swear coffee has become my treat because to me, coffee is as good as chocolate, and if I can’t have chocolate at least I can have my coffee!

I can’t believe it’s already Wednesday, 2 more days until the weekend! Okay 2.5….

BTW if I haven’t commented on your blog yet no worries, I’ve got tons of blogs opened up in my browser at home, and slowly going through them

Day 2

So weighed myself today, 207.5, dang lol. But then again I think my body hasn’t gone into shock yet.

Today I am getting the beginnings of the “where are my carbs?” headache, so now it must be working. I just realized I should check to see if I’m in ketosis! Probably very light, if at all.

I won a raffle at work for free Martial Arts Lessons (it was a raffle for multiple prizes), but the place is pretty far from me, so I don’t think I’m going to do it, and it doesn’t include a uniform, so yeah… who does martial arts without a uniform? I’ll probably end up looking silly next to everyone else, not to mention probably pass out during the lessons. Me balance?! RIGHT! I have fallen over doing lunges! lol. I’m just going to see if someone else would like it, probably someone who lives up in that area (it’d be a 45+ min drive for me one way).

Tonight I’m making BBQ chicken (with a rub) and asparagus.

Back to Basics

So I’ve felt for some time that 1- I have regained weight, and 2- I’ve just been pretty much eating WHATEVER I want. Including pastas and white bread and so on.

I told my friend I’m pretty sure I’m above 210 now… So I found my scale, and decided that today I was restarting my south beach diet and would not weigh in until then. It was my husband’s and MIL’s birthday the past weekend, and I wasn’t even gonna try to not partake in the festivities.

So Saturday I went shopping, I bought veggies and everything else I needed to go back to phase 1 of SBD.

And this morning I weighed in at 208. So not as much as I thought I gained, but a gain nontheless.

I’ve also started retaking prenatal vitamins, and hubby and I have upped the *cough* “US” time in order to procreate. I know I’m overweight, but I spoke with my doctor, she said she’s not too concerned with my weight, and that many women continue to lose weight during pregnancy and still have a healthy pregnancy. It’s kind of weird to have “US” time on a sort of schedule, but that’s what you got to do I guess!

Today so far so good. Here’s my day breakdown:

B: 1 serving of Egg “casserole.” Eggs, spinach, green onions, red onions, turkey breast, red peppers, and a sprinkle of reduced fat cheddar cheese.
L: Large salad with red leaf romaine, avocado, cucumber, cauliflower, sprinkle of cheese, lite blue cheese dressing.
Snack: 1.25 cups of edamame (within the shell)
D: Grilled fish with onions
S: 1 tbsp peanut butter

I’ve drank a ton of water because I won’t lie, while I have no headache, my body is screaming “CHOCOLATE!”

Now I’m off to get my lunch ready for tomorrow! I hope you are all doing well. I will be checking up on you all in a minute!

What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling.

That’s how I feel now. That even thought 191 was my lowest weight, and I’ve gained, I refuse to give up.

This weekend eating was okay. I could have been much worse. I have been snacking a lot, but on healthy things.

Today I cooked up food that I will be eating during the week. I cooked up a cup of quinoa that turned into 2 upon cooking. Half of that I used to make a “chicken friend quinoa” and the other half I will use to make a quinoa salad. I found this recipe:

I also started a 30 days squat challenge. FIRST I had to figure out the proper way to squat, then I had to start with 30 squats… They almost killed me, but I want to do them!

Getting back into the groove

So far haven’t gone to the gym much, BUT I have been concentrating on eating as healthy as possible, even if at times it’s in bulk…

This is today’s menu! And yes, I have a hankering for some cauliflower and cucumber so that is my lunch lol. But dinner I can’t wait for! Quinoa, and then going to cook my tilapia in a foil packet with veggies, I love how moist and juicy everything is when you cook it in foil AND clean up is easy! And I love MFP telling you how you’ll do weightwise if you continue to eat the way you are

I’m also taking the prenatals again

I wanted to go to the gym this morning, but our friend came over last night, his dad was in the hospital by our house, and so he came over and stayed till pretty late. Of course you can’t say anything because your friend’s dad is in the hospital (he had a stroke) so we were there. He wanted pizza, so we ordered it for him (I didn’t eat any), and we just kind of talked and helped keep his mind off things until he decided to go home. But man I’m exhausted! I figure sleep is more important than the gym (and I’d be worthless at the gym tired). I’ve got my gym stuff packed and am going to get the gym in tomorrow. At least I’m eating healthy