DAY 30

I consider myself a “live-to-eat” kind of girl. I don’t eat because I have to. I eat because I love the taste of food. Food is a pleasure for me. I have found I need to find pleasure in healthy eating too. You don’t have to eat food that tastes like cardboard. It may take a while to find those things or may take a while to prepare those foods, but your body and mind will thank you later.

Have you ever seen a beautiful skinny women walking down the street and thought to yourself, wow I wish I looked like that. The second thought is what a @#$%&. You are probably laughing right now because you know I am right. If you aren’t laughing you are a better person than I. The other thought is I bet she has never eaten a cheeseburger. The truth is she probably does eat them, but only half a cheese burger and it probably only happens once a year.

You don’t have to starve yourself. Get some whole wheat bread or buns. Get some ground turkey, season it up and pop it in a pan. Next thing you know you will have a great tasting burger. Use light mayo, mustard, pickles, low fat cheese, grilled onions, tomato, lettuce and maybe a little avocado. Get some baked fries from the frozen section and you are good to go. You can still have the foods you love just modified.

Keep up the good work everyone!!

DAY 27, 28 and 29

Well, today is the last day of January. I didn’t meet my weight goal for this month. My goal was 10 pounds, but that’s ok because I still feel good about what I have accomplished. My total weight loss for January is…..8.6 lbs. My goal for the month of February is 4-6 lbs.  I am giving it a range this time to give myself some wiggle room. I have been doing Zumba a lot more than anything. I have found it gives me the best aerobic work out and burns the most calories. In addition, I’m still doing the Wii at least twice a week. It helps record my activities and has some great strength training exercises.

My husband and I have a friendly competition going on. He holds the number one spot for the “plank”. I am only two points behind him. Watch out J It is always good to have some goals to reach for and by us competing it helps me stay motivated to beat him. I will say, I hold the number one spot for “hula hoop” and “skiing high jump”. He pretty much kicks my bootie at everything else. If you haven’t seen my husband before, you should know he is good shape and very competitive. Good luck everyone for the month of February. If you have made any new goals let me know in the comments section below!

DAY 26

There is a show on MTV called “I used to be fat”. My husband and I have stumbled upon this show once or twice in the last couple weeks. In this show they follow a teenager for 110 days. They are assigned a trainer and teach them to eat right. It shows them exercising and eating healthy and changing before the cameras. The problem I have with the show is that these people are loosing 90+ pounds in 110 days. That is a lot of weight quick. This can’t be healthy. What is worse, loosing all that weight quickly or being obese? I would be interested to see the studies on this.

These people are working there tails off. They are exercising for 8-10 hours a day. There is no way I could would want to work out for 8-10 hours a day. I have to say they look great at the end of the show, but how quickly will they gain that all back? I hope they don’t gain it back but chances are they will because they lost it so quick. If you get a chance to watch it, let me know your opinion.

Wish me luck tomorrow with my weigh in. I am keeping my fingers crossed :)