Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Aww Pregnancy!

I can't believe how much this pregnancy is taking out of me! With my son I didn't get morning sickness until about week 9 and had pretty good energy all the way through. This time not so much! According to the calculators I've used when I found out I was only about 4 weeks along, putting me at 6 weeks now. I've been nauseous for about 3 weeks now, and will be until around 5 or 6 and then it'll ease up and then all I do is eat until I go to bed it seems like! I am so tired too, I haven't workout for over a week:( it makes me sad! I know I just need to and am hoping that tomorrow I'll just get up and do it! I finally had a decent eating day today and if I can just keep on with it I know I'll be ok and won't let the hard work I've put into losing all the weight I put on last time go to waste. I have gained a bit and am even up a pant size...ugh but I think most of that is from bloating and also because I haven't been working out. I just don't wanna gain the 40+ pounds I did with my son. If I could just keep to the 15-25 recommended pounds I would be so happy with myself. I have such a long way to go so right now I'm just thinking one day at a time...or at least trying to. I'm still really early on and not even to the 8 week mark which was when I lost the last one. I'm just hoping everything will be ok. I am going to a new doctor this time and he can't see me until the second of January so I'm hoping everything is on track and will be ok, also that means I'm not 100% sure how far along I am. And we haven't told most our family yet, just because I wanna be further along before we do...we are thinking Christmas will be when we tell them:) Anyways this is kinda a weird post but just whats been going on with me!

Friday, November 18, 2011

Going into Maintenance

So for about the next 9 months I will be in maintenance mode:) I found out last night I am Pregnant! Which explains alot about the tiredness and having no energy and feeling like crap. I am way excited about it though, yeah it would have been nice to hit my goal before this happened but I'll just have to work my hardest to not gain to 40ish pounds I gained during my last pregnancy and be alot more active during this one. I think that way it'll be easier to get back into losing weight after wards alot easier!! I will still update though:) From what I've been told you need an additional 300 calories a day for pregnancy, until about 6 months and then your suppose to add 100 calories every month after that. So for right now I'll only be eating around what I would be if I was trying to maintain. As far as exercise the doctor said I can do anything I was doing before just not alot of heavy lifting. I plan on using my treadmill alot, and on days I have energy doing the low impact versions of my dvds. I did 30 day Shred 2 days ago and I'm still so sore, of course I was going full blast during it but I know now I shouldn't to it like that again for awhile! We haven't announced it to all of our family/friends because we want to wait till I'm alittle further along until we do, but knowing its mostly people from MFP that read this I knew it would be ok to post it here! Just remember if your my friend on facebook...shhhh! I'll be due sometime in the middle of July:) so here's to the next few month of staying healthy while being pregnant and not giving in to all my cravings!!

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

The 8 People Who Will Ruin Your Attempt to Lose Weight

I found this on a site and laughed my head off, so I thought I'd share:)

It's damn hard to lose weight and just generally get in shape. Americans are getting fatter every year, and 80 percent of people who lose weight gain it all back. Why does it seem so impossible?
Part of the reason is willpower and genetics, blah, blah, blah, but a big part of it is other people. Here are some of those often well-meaning monsters you must overcome in your battle to get healthy.

#8. People Who Think They Are DoctorsTell other people that you're trying to get in shape, and inevitably, someone will chime in about how calorie counting is a waste of time and it's all about carbs, or superfoods, or "muscle confusion," or some other magic bullet that renders all other aspects of getting in shape moot.
These people aren't doctors and don't even play them on TV, but they still authoritatively dispense advice about how our bodies were made to handle all-meat diets or all-grain diets and outline detailed eating schedules they claim will
trick your body and increase your metabolism.
What happens is they read a blog or watched Dr. Oz or a P90X commercial, and are now regurgitating their confused recollection of it as if it were fact. They don't remember half the details, they just remember how excited they were to find out something boring they previously took for granted (eat less and exercise more and you lose weight) was really untrue, and something unexpected and exciting was true in its place! This is, after all, Cracked's secret to success.
Strangely enough, it seems to afflict moms more than any other segment of the population, probably because women are more interested in health news, and moms are more interested than any other population group in giving advice and meddling in people's lives (their kids' lives, specifically).
If you can't tune these people out, it can really take the wind out of your sails when you're starting out on a simple diet and exercise regimen and don't see much progress at first (which is normal), and start to doubt if you're on the right track. With people spouting specialized theories at you about how weight loss "really" works, and why what you're doing is never going to work, it's pretty easy to just stop going to the gym the first day you feel tired.

#7. People Who Are Cartoonishly Supportive About Body Image
Everybody knows that society is oppressing us with ridiculous standards of body image, especially when it comes to women, and that we all need to do our part to reverse it by making normal-sized people feel confident in themselves and stop them from thinking they are fat.
That's totally correct, but all good things can be taken too far. Some people think that it is always 100 percent wrong to ever admit anyone is fat and have a confused notion that to ever agree with anyone that they are overweight is to become one of society's oppressors. If someone who is actually overweight says, "Oh man do I need to lose some weight," these people's knee-jerk reaction will be, "Oh no! What are you talking about! You're totally fine the way you are!" without even looking at them.
This happens the most when someone is just slightly overweight, like by 25 pounds or so, because that segment of the population -- slightly overweight women -- is the one we think needs the most coddling in terms of self-esteem, the most prone to spiraling into self-hate and anorexia at the slightest provocation. For some people, body image is a very sensitive thing, and a lot of tact is needed, but many people are actually capable of talking about being overweight as a matter-of-fact problem, like if their roof was leaking or their car broke down.
It can be a bit condescending when this kind of handle-with-care attitude comes from people who should know you really well and know you're not a fragile flower who needs any comment about their appearance addressed with gentle euphemisms and patronizing reassurances.
In practice, it's a big pain in the nuts when people exchange meaningful looks when you order a salad for lunch and tell you with misplaced concern that you're just fine and try to pressure you into getting a burger. It might be appropriate concern in the case of an actual anorexic, but not for someone whose doctor has told them they are 30 lbs. overweight and their cholesterol is in the danger zone.
#6. People Who Take Food Too Personally
Food isn't just food in our culture, or in anyone's. Weddings always come with banquets, family get-togethers on Thanksgiving and Christmas are centered around elaborate meals with specific dishes, birthdays require cakes, big political and business deals are made at power lunches, and first dates are almost always about judging the other person's restaurant behavior.
So yeah, food means more than food to everyone, whether they know it or not. Again, some people take a normal thing too far and become absolutely dogmatic about what food means. If we don't have a Thanksgiving turkey this year it's not a real Thanksgiving! If Grandma doesn't make her secret cranberry sauce recipe, Christmas is ruined! If someone doesn't eat your birthday cake, they don't really care about your birthday! This can only mean they wish you were never born!
So if you're on a diet, or you have food allergies, or you're a vegan, and you have to turn down a slice of someone's birthday cake, some people can take it as some kind of personal statement against them. Even worse are the birthday police, where it's not even their birthday, but they feel obligated to get offended on behalf of the birthday person and sometimes jokingly pressure you with, "Oh come on, it's Eric's birthday. He only has a birthday once a year."
The problem is that the 40 people in your department at work might have birthdays up to 40 times a year, and 40 days of cake (plus holidays and anniversaries and weddings and cruises) can really do some damage to a diet. And if I eat Eric's cake but not Jane's cake, that's going to send even more of an unintended social message.

#5. People Who Never Think It's Good Enough
Everyone knows about the stereotypical Asian parent that sees their kid's straight-A report card and asks, "Why no A+?" This kind of joke is apparently very funny to people without such parents but just depressing and straightforwardly true to people who have them.
Well, you get the exact same kind of people when it comes to getting in shape. Tell them you're going to stop drinking soda and drink only water, and they'll say, "That's not going to do anything, you're still eating burgers for lunch and playing
video games all day." Tell them you're going to take a half-hour walk at lunch every day and they'll snort derisively and say, "You know the amount of calories you burn in one walk isn't even enough to make up for one banana, right?"
Pretty much nobody outside of movies ever switches lifestyles overnight, suddenly cutting fat from their diet, exercising five times a week, quitting video games and TV, swapping pasta for quinoa and steak for tofu. Almost everyone who's successfully turned their weight around started out with one "useless" change, like exercising once a week or subbing water for soda. (I put "useless" in quotes because dropping
one extra large soda can save you 500 calories just like that.)
Losing weight after being fat for a long time seems like a monumentally impossible task, like climbing Mt. Everest, or in some cases, a flight of stairs. Either way, going from the way you are to being a "normal" weight can sometimes seem like a ridiculous fantasy. That's why when you succeed with changing one tiny habit, it can change your whole perspective. It's not this monstrous solid mountain you have to overcome, it's just a big pile of stones, and you just easily picked one up and moved it. It's not about heaving the whole thing aside with some supernatural effort, it's just about moving one stone at a time. And the first one wasn't so bad, so you're stoked to grab a couple more.
That's why when a "friend" says, "Ha ha, you dipshit, what good is that one stone going to do you?" you want to clock them. And maybe you should, that will burn a good five calories.

#4. Overly Spontaneous People
Sticking to an exercise/diet routine depends a lot on planning and routine. Some plans have a once-a-week splurge worked in, maybe a Pig-out Friday to let the pressure out, so you can get back to the grind on Saturday. If you're taking exercise classes -- martial arts, boot camp, yoga, pole dancing -- you might only be able to go certain days of the week.
Spontaneous people can throw this all out of whack. Friends who call you up and ask if you want to go out to dinner in the city -- and it turns out their reservation is an hour from now. Or friends who just came from out of town and forgot to tell you ahead of time, but they're leaving tomorrow. Someone who just realized it was so-and-so's birthday and "we have to do something." Or maybe parents that drop by unexpectedly with home-cooked dinners because "you're so busy."
Once in a while, spontaneity is great, but too many free spirits, helpful parents and poor planners in your life can add up to four pig-out nights a week, a month of missing kung fu classes and a completely sabotaged diet.
#3. Family Members Who Are Not On A Diet

The people most in a position to ruin your diet without meaning to are family members that aren't on a diet. They don't have to be sadists who keep going, "Mmmmmmm," while eating burgers in front of you. Even if they're totally supportive of your diet, there are just logistical problems.
Say you want to go out for breakfast, and they want to go down to the local greasy spoon diner because you can all objectively agree they have the best breakfast in town, with the bacon and the eggs and the omelets and what, no dish under 2,000 calories. Maybe you could get away with ordering a bowl of fruit but the waitress would look at you funny and the fruit would smell funny and appear to be about 10 days old.
On the other hand, the places that meet your diet plan are places like Subway, and forcing a spouse to eat at Subway with you counts as domestic abuse in many states.
If you cook at home, it's not really practical to make separate dishes for each person, so in reality, you pretty much get to go vegetarian with your spouse or your spouse doesn't go vegetarian. Even if you're just cutting fat, you can't cut the heavy cream out of just your bowl of clam chowder and not the rest of the pot. (Note: If you can think of a way to do this, please let me know.)
It's not completely impossible to switch to a healthy diet without your family taking one for the team and sacrificing some delicious foods from their diet, but being able to do it usually takes some convoluted planning or just black magic.
#2. People Who Make Fun Of Your Stupid Exercise Routine

I'm not saying it's wrong to make fun of people for doing Jazzercise, Tae-bo, Zumba, yoga, powerwalking, soccer, pole dancing fitness or martial arts as an adult, and we as Americans have a duty to come up with humorous quips about our friends' manhood or coolness or funny-looking neon-colored exercise gear, in order to save our declining mainstream sports.
But if your friend is a perennial couch potato who's finally found the motivation to exercise through country line dancing aerobics, after failing to stick with jogging, walking, MMA and any other cool-people-acceptable exercises, you might want to think twice about whether you might be sabotaging his last chance to not die early of heart disease.
Or if, hypothetically, your doughy, physically inept girlfriend takes up kung fu, maybe you shouldn't greet her with, "Oh look, it's Jackie Chan!" and pretend to be scared of her. Because she might unleash a spinning tornado kick at you. And miss, and hurt her back, and then she can't exercise for two weeks. Is that what you want?
#1. Delicious People

Personally, I was making a lot of progress in my weight loss over the past week, ever since that big biohazard emergency. I guess the mandatory quarantine has helped keep out distractions so I could really focus. The weight has literally been falling off of me, like in actual chunks of flesh, which is a little weird, but I guess that makes sense, how else would fat people get thinner?
The only problem is that lately I just keep running into really delicious looking people, just really pink and fleshy, with brains that just melt in your mouth. They have to be like, a million calories. I guess I just need to start avoiding bunkers and fortified buildings entirely, since they're always chock full of tempting, tasty-looking people.
Damn these people, it's their fault I can't go anywhere these days. Well, that and the fact my feet fell off.


Saturday, November 12, 2011

Curbing IceCream Cravings with...

Smoothies!! I am in love with smoothies right now:) A few weeks ago I found a mix at walmart and decide to grab it and try it. Its the Sunrise Growers-Pure Fruit Smoothies Strawberry Banana, it says you only have to add water to it but I like it better my way lol, because I like to have ice in mine and I sometimes add extra stuff in like this...
Ingredients:
1/2 package of Sunrise Growers Smoothie Mix
1-2 TSP. of Frozen Orange Juice Concentrate (Optional)
1/2 Banana(Optional)
6-8 ice cubes

Instructions:
*Put everything in the Blender and blend it on the drink/puree setting.
*Pour into a cup and enjoy!!

Nutritional Facts:
*With Optional Items (Makes about 16oz.)*
Calories: 215
Fat: .2g
  Saturated Fat: .1g
  Trans Fat: 0
Sodium: 6mg
Potassium: 624.1mg
Carbs: 48.9g
  Sugars: 40.4g*
Protien: 1.5g
Vitamin C: 93% of DV
* Only 5g of White Sugar, all other is from fruit.

*Without Optional Items(Makes about 10oz.)*
Calories:150
Fat:0
Sodium: 5mg
Potassium: 240mg
Carbs: 36g
  Fiber: 2g
  Sugar: 33g*
Protien: 1g
Vitamin C: 70% of DV
*Sugar is all from fruit.

Picture isn't the best but gives you an idea


Friday, November 4, 2011

October Stats

Here are my stats for October
Goal 1: Burn 20,000 calories~ burned 21,308 Calories!!!
Goal 2: Exercise 2,000 minutes ~ Exercised 1,975
Goal 3: Lose 5 pounds ~ Lost 0....ugh

So I did well on the calories part and fell alittle short on the minutes, but still did ok. As for the weight I know its due to not eating well. I'm back upto 182 yuck!! But I know I can get it off If I just work hard enough and get my eating under control.
Here are my goals for this month!

Goals For November:
Goal 1: Burn 20,000 Calories
Goal 2: Exercise 2,000 Minutes
Goal 3: Get back down to 175 or lower

P.S. I'm loving my Bike and Treadmill...its so nice just to have something in the house to do while watching tv and that isn't to hard on my knees, I'm just loving it!!!

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Home Gym!!

Today my hubby surprised me with a Treadmill and Exercise Bike! They are early Christmas presents, but instead of them just sitting in the box till then he decided he'd let me have them now. I'm very very happy about getting them! Now I have something to do when I don't wanna do my dvd's or the elliptical, and it'll be so nice to have this winter!! I now have a little home gym in the back of my kitchen...its kinda a tight space due to not having alot of space in our apartment but it works. And my equipment isn't the "best" or "name-brand" stuff but it does its job. Oh and the best part was he got both for $150-and they're brand new!!! I'm so so so so excited right now for this. I'm hoping it'll help me get out of my funk. I'm actually going to go hop on the treadmill now:) ^^Weights, Xl Glider, Ab Glider, Elliptical, Treadmill, Bike