Day 6 - Ice Cream

This morning started with my normal coffee, english muffin and hashbrowns.  Lunch didn't happen til nearly 2pm when I went to pick up my son from school.  That ended up being a spicy chicken cool wrap from Chik Fil-A.  Unfortunately, the overwhelming urge for ice cream overtook me and we stopped at Lic's on the way home.  I had cookie dough ice cream on a sugar cone.  I think that I'm going to have to count that as dinner or I'm going to be way over my calorie goal for the day.

I'm about ready to shut my bedroom door and ignore the world.  Got a kid with an attitude, twitter that won't update to facebook and a stomach that is seriously digesting so loud I can hear it.  I think it's time to block out the world and try again tomorrow.

Day 5 - Not Bad

Today I spent most of the day babysitting my nephew, at my moms house, away from the cleaning and activities that I could have done at home.  On the upside, although my moms house is full of food, it wasn't full of junk so I ate some diced fruit around lunch time and then had subway around 2pm when X's mom got home.

Been hanging out online for a bit and found the Biggest Loser Facebook app that tracks your weight loss and activity by state and team if you want to set one up.  Signed up for that to try to get some more motivation to get moving.  It's only 6pm here so I'm going to head in and get in a short workout right now before I lose the willpower!

Day 4 - Withdrawals

Apparently I'd been eating more fat and sugar than I thought and coming down off that has been a real PITH (pain in the head).  I've had a headache for the last 2-3 days with the severity wavering from annoying to obnoxious.  So far it's not been bad enough to keep me in bed but it's really annoying.  I'm pretty sure it's a combination of sinus pressure from the weather, stress of losing my job and the change in my diet.

Today, I had a foot long turkey flatbread for breakfast, prunes for lunch and just had a McDouble & small fries that I'm counting as dinner.  That put me over my calories for the day but I was under yesterday so I'm not going to stress about it too much.  I think I really needed that extra fat in there to bring me down a little more slowly from my previous intake levels.

Other than cleaning and moving furniture I've not done any real work out so I hope that doesn't come back to bite me on Saturday when I weigh in.  I''ll be babysitting tomorrow so I'm not sure if I'll be able to get in any activity or not.  It's probably too cold to take the baby out for a walk and that's probably the only option at this point, but we'll see.

Feeling pretty could about things now, even though I'm still struggling to avoid tempation.  I need to frame and display my previous before and after pictures where I can see them frequently and remember.



Left is from 2007 around Thanksgiving/Christmas.  Right is from 10/02/08 when I was down about 88 lbs.



Day 3 Eating - Day 1 Unemployed

I had such great intentions for getting things done today.  So far, all I've done is sit at the PC and search for jobs, change all my passwords since someone hacked my email and reprogram my BB.  So far, I've eaten acceptably today but I haven't gotten any activity in.  I had planned to clean house and move furniture today but it didn't happen yet.  Hopefully, tonight I can get something in...even if it's only walking around the block.

I still don't think the job thing has hit me yet.  It just feels like I'm on vacation and that I'll be going back to the office shortly.  It's so weird!

Day 1 - 01/01/11

New Year
New Focus
New Me
Just woke up for real so that means stepping on the scale to properly log the start of the new year. I haven't stepped on the scale in a couple months and had no idea what to expect.
Starting Weight = 286.0 lbs
Yikes, that is my heaviest EVER! Must get back on track immediately.
Will take measurements and post those too. Gonna be an interesting year.
Katy