Leslie Week 6

I can not believe that we have been blogging for 6 weeks. 

I got to move my belt one hole over.  I can not explain how happy that makes me.  I now have to get a new belt because this one has a mark where it used to live. 

I am happy because my goal is to lose weight but not by cutting out carbs or doing a diet just by health eating and moving more.  I am happy with 10 lbs in 5 Weeks I weigh in on Thursdays. 

Weight Lose this week: 1 lb
Weight Lose so far:10 lbs

3 more lbs to get to one of my goal!!!!

I watch the Biggest Loser, some of the girls are close to the weight I am.  I hope to get motivation from them, now that the weight is so close.  I am also trying for Biggest Loser of the week for my contest at work.  This is my week.

My sons 5th birthday is tomorrow and his party is on Sunday.  Just got done making cupcakes for tomorrow, hoping I only eat one or two.  I love cake.

Exercise:  My exercise has only been moving more.  Walking the dog, playing with my kids more, and doing different things at home.  I hurt my back at dance last 2 weeks ago so I skipped last week, and I have to work tonight so no dance tonight either.  I really do love it and looking at myself in the mirror looking the way I do and not being able to do most of the things that I spent most of my life learning to do.  In such a short time I have done this to myself and now this the time to change.

Happy Blogging!!!

Leslie Week 5

Monday Funday at our house!!!

What a great and busy week!  I now have my shop all set up and we open Tuesday!  I am so happy this has been a dream of mine for a long time.  With that being said I feel great down 9 pounds so far in 8 weeks, I weight in on Thursdays.  I can not wait to keep up this healthy living.  I have had many temptations along the way and I do have something little once and a while but nothing like I would have done before.

Exercise:

I have not made going to the gym in my regular reteen yet.  I go to dance class once a week and that kick my butt.  I do a little at home, but I need to start going to the gym like I could.  By March I hope to have going to the gym in my schedule 3 Xs a week.  I wanted to start with cutting out the bad food that was the most important part for me.  Exercise will be added in soon.  Baby steps.

Weight lose this week: 1 lb
Weight lose so far: 9 lbs

Snacks:

A great snack is frozen grapes.  I know I like to freeze fresh fruits.  I love them.  It is a great snack.  Great for kids too.

Wanting to hit one of my goals this week.  Wish me luck.

Here is to a good week!

Leslie week 4

What a great week I had!!!

Weight lose this week: 3lbs
Weight lose so far: 8 lbs

I now have a store front for my business Personality!  I spent all day setting it up today.  Everyone will soon be invited to my grand opening.  My husband past his test, he is now a principal. ( looking for a job)

I have dance class tonight and have not been to the m this week crazy busy with everything else.  Eating right is the reason I am losing weigh and the fact that at my job I am always moving around.  I am so close to one of my weight lose goals already, I hope to hit it in week 5.

I can not count the number of times that I picked the right food, and did not eat what everyone else eat.  That is big for me.

I know I was going to be the first to miss my post day.

Leslie week 3

Lets start by saying down 2 lbs, 5 lbs so far. I'm happy with that number.  My new healthy life style is coming along slowly.  The working out is still my biggest struggle.  I feel so much better already, I do not care what the scales says,I just want to feel go.

This weekend was my husband birthday, yes I did have cake.  Moving on.

Went to the gym one time this week.  I RAN on the treadmill...I was so proud of myself.  Heading to dance class tonight for the second time for some "me" time.  Dance is a great way to get your heart beat up and it's fun!

I can not tell you how many times I had the chance to not eat the right thing this week.  Chil's food is just so good, but the guiltless items are not to bad either.  I also have been bring snacks to work, I pack snacks for the week then have a snack when every one else is eating chips or nachos.

WATER is my new best friend, I have been drinking half my body weight for the last 3 weeks.  Water really does fill you up.  I lost my voice for 3 days so some of the water was hot tea.  I will be happy to see the amount go down as my weight goes down.

Goal next week go to gym 3 times, dance 1 night.  Stick to entering my food in my fitness pal, lose at least 2 lbs.

Weight lose this week: 2 lbs
Weight lose so far: 5 lbs

Stay healthy!

Leslie Week 2

Let me start by saying I lost 3 lbs this week.  I have a long way to go, but it is a great start. 

I have been drinking water and cut down my coffee from 1 cup a day- to only 2 cups all week.  I do enjoy drinking coffee and may still have 1 on my days off I have not decided yet.  I make it at home and control what is put in it. 

Exercise:

The first week I focused on food, not exercise so much.  I did go to a adult dance class on Mon. night that was great.  I have not dance like that in 11 years.  Let me tell you it kicked my butt, my feet even hurt.  Dance class is every Mon. night, I plan on going if I do not have to work.  Something I love to do and a great work out in 1 (a little mommy time alone).  I did a little exercise at home, but did not hit the gym yet.  My plan is 3 days this week Mon. Tue. and Thur.  I work at night each of those days and my gym is open after I am done.  That is the only time that I can go when I do not have the kids.  Every week will be different. 3 days for the first week is good.

Food:

Like I said the first week I focused on food.  I work at a restaurant and can eat for FREE.  I only ate from the guilt less menu, I really did not mind it.  I also brought snacks for home, so I would not eat any thing bad.  One of my new favorite snacks are almonds they make them in BBQ and other favors.  It is just like eating BBQ chips, (or so I tell myself that).  I also tried veggie sticks for the first time, not bad either.  Putting blueberries in the freezer is also one of my favorite snacks and the kids love it too.  Like I said before, I am going for a healthy life style not just a weight lose diet.  I sub out different thing that we would normally eat with better choices.  We had steak, red skin potatoes and green beans, drink water ( no butter on the beans, changed to red skin potatoes).  When I want a snack at home I get a piece of fruit. 

I will also be posting about the Biggest Loser I am doing at work, but nothing was posted yet from last week. 

Weight lose this week= 3 lbs
Weight lose so far= 3 lbs.
Ready for a great week of healthy eating, exercise and weight lose. :)

Honey Moon 2004
Goal

 

Leslie Week 1

Hello, my name is Leslie, I am 31.  I have a great husband Jim and 2 little boys James 4 and Caleb 2.  I have been married for 8 years.  I am a manager at Chili's I work 50 hrs. a week around food that I can eat for FREE.  The bad part is I have worked there for 11 years and still like the food.  The good part is we do have a lighter choice menu.  I just have to make that lighter choice my choice.  I also leave my house at 2 for work and do not get home until around 1.  I do not eat dinner until 9:30 most nights.  I also own my own business Personality.  I hand paint my products in my basement most nights when I get home from work when the rest of my family is sleeping.  My husband is a teacher, so I get up with my kids every morning.  I do not have a lot of time for me.

 I was never over weight when I was younger, always just what I liked to call Big Boned.  All of the ladies in my family are over weight and I always thought to myself I am not going to let that happen to me.  The healthiest me was my second year of college, I was a majorette, I did Tye Bo 4 days a week, and drink most of my meals during the weekends but just burned it off.  Life was good. I started to gain after that, just a couple of pounds a year.  Then we got married, I was 23.  After being married for 1 1/2 years we started talking about having kids.  Will lets say something I thought that was going to be "fun" and "easy" was not at all.  It took us almost 3 years to have our 1st son.  I started gaining weight because I could not get pregnant.  Then when I did get pregnant I lose 25 lbs my first 2 months, then gained that back plus 15 lbs.  Brest feed lost some weight doing that, but when I stopped I never cut the extra that I was eating for the baby and before I know it I gained all that I lost back plus some.  My son was 18 months when I got pregnant again tried 3 times and magic happened.  I gained more with him and the same thing happened, just did not stop eating.

NOW is the time to stop the over eating and unhealthy life style.  I want to be the best mom I can be and I can only do this by living a healthy life.  I want to lose weight how every this is more of a life style change for me that I want to do for my family to stay on track for ever. 

I am going to do this by only drinking water I am trying 1/2 my body weight which is just under a gallon of water.  I have a gallon jug in my office at work that I fill to my red line and I drink out of that every night I work.  I have not drink the whole thing yet but everyday I drink more and more. 

I am also on a Biggest Loser team at work.  I know I said that I wanted to be healthy not just count pounds,  but I need to do everything I can, so I do not go back to my old ways.  Everyone at work knows that I want and need to lose weight so I have a lot of support.  I am the only over weight girl that works at Chili's.  I am doing the Biggest Loser with boys, but good supports also. 

I thank everyone for reading and I am looking forward to the great tips that I can learn and share.