No Sweets Week 2012!

So, not only have I been a bad blogger, but I've been a bad eater too. Like, I'm not even joking, I've been horrendous. My portion control is terrible, I've had zero self-control when it comes to eating sweets, and I've been snacking like a fiend recently. Thus, I've gained weight. (dur) I'm kind of ashamed to tell you guys how much it is, because its bad. So, my solution, a No Sweets Week 2012! This time it's not just a no sweets week. I'm working on setting up different days to have different themes so to speak to help me get back on track with eating right and exercising. So far, I've got Monday through Saturday. Monday is the straight up no sweets. I just can't eat any sweets. Sweets are definitely one of my major weaknesses. But I just can't keep up this current eating pattern. Tuesday is portion control. I mentioned earlier that my portion control has been out of wack. I just keep stuffing myself to the point beyond full and I have no idea why I'm even doing it. So Tuesday is dedicated to keeping my portions in check. (And in case you were wondering, these do stack. I.e. Tuesday, I can't eat sweets and I need to watch my portions.) Wednesday I wanted to make no snacks, but I get hungry between meals, its kind of a problem for me. ha ha. So instead I made Wednesday healthy snacks only. And I mean truly healthy and nutritious snacks. Not like grab a sugary granola bar and think, eh, its kinda healthy, good enough. I mean like fresh fruit and veggies kind of healthy. Thursday is find a new healthy activity day. I kind of have a tendency to get stuck in a rut when it comes to exercise. I always seem to stick to the same old, same old, and it gets boring... duh! When exercise gets boring, you just don't want to do it. So on Thursday, in addition to eating right and stuff, I need to find a new healthy activity. Friday is focused on eating only when I'm hungry. This one kind of goes along with the portion control on Tuesday. I've been eating when I am hungry, when I'm not hungry, and when I'm really full (which is completely ridiculous!). That behavior needs to end, hence Fridays theme. Saturday is no eating past 9:00pm. Another of my problems is eating really late and then sleeping, which everyone knows is an excellent way to gain weight. I do want this to go through the whole weekend, but I haven't thought of a theme for Sunday yet. So what I did with these were wrote them down on piece of paper and kind of made it into a poster. I'm hoping that will keep me motivated and keep me from forgetting (I regret to say that that has happened before). I like this idea (not to toot my own horn or anything, he he) because it addresses each of my bad habits and hopefully gets rid of them and helps remind me what eating correctly is supposed to be like. I know I have to make a change because I've worked far too hard to get to this point and just turn back to my old habits again. I'm really excited about this, and if any of you (if there are any of you, ha ha) want to do this with me, let me know in the comments. I'd love to know how it works for you. You may have to adjust your themes a little bit to suit your bad habits, but completely ok! Just write them down and STICK to them! It won't work if you don't, and it won't work for me if I don't. I'm hopefully going to be updating you guys regularly to let you know how it is going for me. Hopefully this will help me get back on track and lose some of my weight before I go off to school. I still want to rock a bikini! lol :)

Becoming a babe

Fair Food!

So, today we went to a fair. And as everyone knows, fairs are notorious for bad food. I'd like to say that I powered through and fought temptation, but I didn't. Yeah, yeah, shame on me. However, I don't go to the fair very often. (like maybe once every 5+ years or so). Part of my whole weight loss idea is to not deprive myself. When you deprive yourself, when you do allow yourself to eat unhealthy, you have a better chance of going crazy. I walked past a stand selling fudge and I really wanted fudge. I got one little square, ate it, and my sweets appetite was satiated for a long time. So I didn't eat very well today. But I was walking around all day. So that helped cut down on the feeling that I had just blown all my work. As far as exercise, all I did today was walking around at the fair. I'm not going to lie, my abs still hurt from the night I did Pilates (which I have to say is kind of embarrassing).  So I haven't wanted to do that much in the way of exercise. But I really shouldn't use that as an excuse. The fact that my abs are still sore a few days later give me motivation to get them back in shape and keep working toward my goal of rocking a bikini!

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New Start!

So, it's been forever. However, I now need some motivation to keep myself pushing towards my goal. So, I'm going to try to start posting on here again. Right now, I'm sitting at around 181 pounds, and I've gone up and down by about 5 pounds. I kind of wander, but seem to always stick around 180. I'm kind of thinking that that is where my body wants to keep me. But I want to go lower because my ultimate goal is to rock a bikini. I think that now I could get away with a bikini, but I don't want to just get away with it, I want to ROCK it. I bought a bikini as sort of a motivation tool, but I think that I need to perhaps put it on display to keep myself in the right mindset to eat healthy and get my exercise in. I started up my cardio kickboxing/Pilates/yoga routine up again yesterday, and I have the sore abs to prove it today. ha ha. But yeah, that's about all I have today, but I'm going to try to start posting regularly.