Small Steps to Better Health

[Country Kids]

I've decided to journal my journey into better health and I hope others will join me!

Day 1

Weight: 156 lbs
Waist: 39 inches
Thighs:24 inches
Chest: 39 1/2

Drank a pepsi this morning. I know but I don't drink coffee and need a little pick me up in the mornings.

Walked with the kiddos about 1/2 a mile.

For snack I had a 1/2 pear (fresh) and a few slices of cheese off of the small block we buy.

Then we went outside for about an hour. In this hour I managed to drink 40oz of water! Gooooooo MEEEEE!happyface

For lunch I had a cheese quesidella (about 1/2 a totilla), 1/2 a green pepper and also a plum. I then managed to drink another 40 oz. in the next hour or so.

Dinner was chicken alfredo, steamed carrots with rolls. OK, I broke down and had another pepsi. Our air conditioner broke and it was so hot in the house.

After dinner I walked for maybe a mile? It might only be about 3/4 of a mile but better then nothing.

[Blackcat31]

Day 1

Weight: 165 lbs
Waist: 34"
Thighs:25"
Chest: 37"

I'm curvy & kinda short (I'm 5'3")

My issue isn't that I eat badly, because I don't. It's that I don't eat. period. I forget. I just don't feel hungry all day. I think my body goes into starvation mode so my metabolism is basically stalled out.

Yesterday @ breakfast (which I have been forcing myself to do) I had a fruit/veggie smoothie. Had 2 pieces of celery w/pnb @ lunch with 2 slices of white cheddar. For dinner; grilled chicken breast, steamed cauliflower & wild rice w/roasted red peppers. Drank water all day.

I walk daily w/the DCK's (2.5-3 miles) Last night went on pontoon & swam about an hour (not laps but swimming in the middle of the lake). Every night DH & I walk around our property, about 1.5 miles. I use my elliptical for 30-45 minutes each night.

I'm going to try & step up the eating & see what happens if I can focus on getting my metabolism moving a little bit anyways.

[Kiki]

Height-5'4" (I only put this because it really shows how much I NEED to lose)
Weight: 206 (I know. right?)
Waist: Unsure-will have sister measure
Thighs:Unsure-will have sister measure
Chest: 2 watermelons! :: :: I will seriously measure haha.

Breakfast-1 hard boiled egg, 1 slice whole wheat toast with 1 teaspoon PB.
Lunch-Whole wheat cheese quesadilla, cherries, celery sticks
Dinner-Ham cubes, scrambled eggs, green peppers, little cheese on the top
Drinks-1 12 oz cup of black coffee, and water. Lots and lots of water, I reuse my DH's Powerade bottles for water I think I had 5 yesterday.

Eating isn't my issue, it's the staying active part I really just need the motivation to get off of my rump after hours and DO something! We walk every day here, but I'm thinking of changing our walk time to earlier in the morning so we can stretch the walk a tad more.

[Oneluckymom]

ok, so I guess im on board with this better health thing....

current wieght: 139
Height: 5'4

Before I started my diet I was 150. Then I started my new lifestyle by cutting out all sugar and all breads and rice. Yes, even crackers and cereal. I also have stopped eating potatoes except an occasional sweet potato. Basically I cut out all bad carbs.

It takes a lot of perserverance but Im happy with my progress so far. I am now in the middle of my 3rd month of this. I have a very slow metabolism so Im planning on just staying on this road for the long haul. Now Im aiming at sticking to a workout regimine of some kind.

[Oneluckymom]

Ooopps, my meals for today:

Breakfast: 2 bolied eggs...didnt eat yolk, hot black tea made with milk and 2 teaspoons of pure honey, 1/4 cup of walnuts with black raisins, 1 white peach

Lunch: baked chicken thigh, 1/2 cup green beans, 1 pear

Dinner: hmm, not sure yet but probably wont be much different than lunch, .

[Country Kids]

Day 2

Breakfast-1/2 pepsi

Walked with the kiddos 1/2 a mile

Snack: Slice lunchmeat, 1/2 peach, wheat thins

Outside: 2 hours watering plants/yard/moving lawn chairs,tables, equipment to have son mow lawn

Lunch: Fried Potatos, Refried Beans

Dinner: Fish, Coleslaw, and a few fries

Water intake: 80 Ounces

Also Biked 2 miles in the evening

[Country Kids]

Day 3

Breakfast: Bowl of cheerios

Biked 2 miles happyface

Weeded a flower bed for my aunt

Snacked on no,no's

Drank 1 pepsi-I'm allowing myself 1 a day till I can cut it out totally

Dinner: Fried potatos, tortillas, refried beans (Kool-aid, was craving sweet)

Helped ODS water a friends plants
Biked 1/2 mile-1 mile this evening

Water: 80 ounces happyface

Evening Snack:Small dish of yogurt/one fresh peach-YUMMY

[Country Kids]

Day 4

I had taken weight and measurements last Sunday. I want to update weekly on this so here goes:

Weight:154 happyfacehappyface
Waist: 38-Measured it twice but wow can you really lose an inch in a week?
Thighs: 24 but becoming quite solid
Chest:39

Very excited about the changes! Keep following me on my journey!

[Kiki]

Day 2:

Breakfast: One hard boiled egg, coffee
Lunch: Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Celery, Water
Dinner: Chicken, Roasted Potatoes
Snack: Cinnamon Breakfast Muffin

Exercise: Mowed both front/back lawn in 95 degree heat! Weeded both flower beds, and the garden. (My legs were BURNIN BABY BURNIN UP!)

Water: Tons

[Kiki]

Day 3:

Breakfast: 2 slices whole wheat toast, peanut butter, coffee
Lunch: 1 cup home made mac n cheese, water
Dinner: Salad, ranch dressing, water
Snack: Skipped

Exercise: House work, lots of it. Up and down 3 flights of stairs multiple times for laundry baskets, I ran up them, not down I was too afraid of face planting. ::

[Oneluckymom]

Breakfast: 1 boiled egg, some pistachios, water, some walnuts with raisins

Lunch: so far, a bowl of black beans. water and then some tea

Exercise: 20 minutes on the elliptical and some tonning exercises

I have a ton of house work too

[Country Kids]

Day 4

Breakfast-Cornflakes

Biked 2.25 miles

Snack-Yogurt/Fresh Peach

Lunch-Avocado, green pepper, chips, 4 small slices of cheese

Dinner-Hambugers/chips

Biked-Around another 1/2-1 mile

Water-40? ounces Wasn't keeping great track
Pepsi-2 it was treat day

Bought myself 5 new sets of capri/shirts that can be dressed up or worked out in. My summer workout fits since we are on the go so much and outside getting messy. Hubs said go for it because he sees how hard I've been trying!happyface

[Country Kids]

Day 6

I skipped writing yesterday-

Breakfast: cheerios with sliced bananas

1/2 walk with the kiddos

Snack:Strawberrys, cheese, cheerios snack mix

Outside time:Relaxed

Lunch:Avacodo,broccolli, cheese, 1/2 bologna sandwich, a few cheetos,nectarine

Snack:fresh peach

Dinner:Stew, cornbread,kool-aid (a sweet craving)

Walked/ran: about 3/4 mile

Water:32+ oz

1 Pepsi in the morning