Chocolate is My Weakness

This week I can finally start to try and get my routine down! I just talked to my "personal trainer" (aka my brother) and he gave me a worked out routine and a slightly more strict diet then I'm used to. I think the work out routine should be pretty easy and routine, but it's going to take a lot of control to stick to the diet. A lot of the diet is things I've been aiming for like portion control and less calorie intake. He also suggested only whole grain carbs. Apparently they last longer and aren't as "fast burning." The difficult part will be giving up sugary foods.

I love love love things with sugar! Chocolate is my weakness. A lot of times people will assume that's the main thing that women adore, but it's a little more extreme for me. As in, I can't honestly tell you the last time I went an entire day without some kind of chocolate. It's bad. I'd even go as far to say as it's an addiction. Maybe not just to chocolate, but to sugar in general. People can be addicted to caffeine and even exercise, so why can't I be addicted to sugar? Not saying I want to be addicted to it, but signs point close to it if ya know what I mean.

So I was planning on going back to school tonight, but it got late and my parents told me to go tomorrow. It's actually a good thing. I'm not too familiar with some of the machines my brother told me to use so I'm going to go to the gym with my dad tomorrow morning and explore. That way I'll be at a hospital gym where they can show me how to use all the machines and if I get hurt my dad will be right there and, well, it's a hospital gym.

One really annoying thing from today was that I had this horrible gas! I know fiber is supposed to be a big part of diets and stuff, but man oh man! This stuff is just ridiculous. I'll have to eat something with less fiber tomorrow morning for breakfast. Ya know, I really love breakfast. You can have so much variety in it! Yogurt, parfaits, bagels, grits, cereal, fruit, granola, whatever you want! It's said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Well, this is true. I was watching that MTV new reality show called "I used to be Fat," and one of the trainers explained it. You should eat within the first hour of being awake because you haven't been eating for 8 or so hours (or however long you've been asleep) and your body is HUNGRY! Even if we don't feel hungry, we are! It makes sense if you ask me. When I'm awake, if I go 8 hours without eating, I'm starving!

So anyway, I'll be starting a new work out routine that will put me in the gym about an hour every other day or so for those that volunteered to come with me. Pray I can be consistent and that I don't get too sore from the workout and that I don't get hurt. Oh, and pray I can stay away from sweets. Yeah, pray hard for that one!

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, and He does, so I can.

--Maggie Mae

Yesterday and then Today's Weigh In

So I was so tired I forgot to post yesterday...my apologies.

Yesterday was good. Pretty much just meals and no snacks.

I was thinking this week had been a good one. I exercised three days and ate much better, but when I weighed myself this morning and was incredibly unhappy. I had gained .2 pounds! Needless to say I'm confused. I told my mom and she said maybe I need to exercise more. Very true and a probable reason for the gain this week. So this next week I'm going back to Baton Rouge so hopefully I can ft a schedule going and plan my meals better.

My brother is going to help me out which will be really good. He's the closest thing I have to a personal trainer. He told my mom he has a regiment that will help me drop like 20-30 lbs in 6weeks! I have to do it correctly but still, wow.

So pray this week I can do better and not be discouraged.

I cab do all things through Christ who strengthens me, and He does, so I can.
--Maggie Mae

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Eating Out Just Needs to Happen Less for Me

I must admit I'm afraid these post are going to become mundane and boring.

Anyway, other than that slight fear, I would have to say today has been challenging. Lunch at a Mexican restaurant and then dessert at a coffee shop. Lots of calories. In fact by 3 this afternoon I had met my calorie "goal" for the day. Luckily the goal is tentative and as long as I don't eat more than 2000 calories per day I should be good.

Last week may have been difficult because of all the parties I attended, but this week has been difficult seeing all the "out-to-eats" I've been doing. Even tomorrow I'm having breakfast with a friend at La Madeleine. I think that once I get all of this eating out stuff done with(after tomorrow) I'm going to try to eat out only twice a month. It's definitely not too healthy and very difficult to order good food that's healthy out. Even the taco salad I ordered today was probably close to or more than 700 calories! Eating out just needs to be less. I even looked up the menu before I went so I wouldn't have to look at the menu. Most of the food wasn't even close to healthy. Eating out just needs to happen less for me.

Sad to say, this blog doesn't really have much to it. Not much happened today other than hanging out with my friends. I did decide that once my current prescription of birth control is up, I'm going to stop taking it. It's been making me feel sick lately so I'm going to go back to magnesium with chelated zinc to treat my woman problems. I don't know how that will effect my appetite or weightloss, but I know that it helps you retain water so maybe I'll lose a little because of it!

Well, two and a half days until the next weigh in. Let's pray I've been doing everything right and not underestimating calories!

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, and He does, so I can.

--Maggie Mae

Honesty is the best policy, or Is it?

Today was a new day. I was determined to make better decisions than I did yesterday and not eat as much chocolate or snack. I think it went rather well even though I went to IHOP and ate a lot there, I didn't eat that much the rest of the day. In fact, I felt really sick after we left. I'm starting to think my body is beginning to reject greasy foods like bacon or syrup and pancakes and stuff. I felt so sick. Headache, nausea, weakness. It was really bad. So I broke the "no nap" thing and slept for three hours. But I was sick, it won't be an everyday occurrence no matter what.

But there was a very emotional thing that happened today....My mom and dad decided to tease me about IHOP and say sarcastic comments about how it's not "in the calories" I allow myself each day or how "well that meal just didn't count, right?" It hurt. I hurt a lot and I made that very known. Everything in me wanted to curse and yell and scream. While I didn't eat because of it or anything, it just, hit a sore spot. My parents weren't being supportive. The people I want support from the most were being sarcastic and rude. My mom kept saying it wasn't being mean, but she didn't hear it the way I did.

Something else I'm learning is how much I respond better to positive feedback and criticism. I've never been one to like criticism but over the years I have grown from it and when presented correctly, I listen to it and actually put it to good use. My mom doesn't know how to do that. When I was on weight watchers, I lost ten pounds pretty quick. But then it just stayed. I was having trouble losing but at least I wasn't gaining. All she said though was how disappointed she was in me for not losing weight. Not "it's okay at least you didn't gain weight this week!" or "is there anything I can do to help?" or "it's okay just really focus and try harder next week. you've lost before you can do it again!" I don't know why she can't say that. I want the most support from her, yet it feels like I get the least amount.

Before you ask, "Well have you told her any of this?!" Yes, yes I have. Multiple times. She doesn't listen very well. Now don't get me wrong, I love my mom and everything, but her compassion and understanding needs help. Sometimes I question whether honesty really is the best policy when it comes to family. Honesty seems to just put a target over my heart and give my family a bow and arrow! I just wish I knew how to lie better....

So anyway......

Today was generally good as far as food is and calories are concerned. I was even sore today from walking two miles yesterday! It was nice. And when I say sore, I mean in my bad knee where the muscle is still strengthening again...

Well, tomorrow is Thursday and I have a lunch date with some friends at a Mexican place. Pray that they have a healthy salad or something, and also that I will have the will power to order the salad rather than the Chimchangas or burritos or whatever else while I watch everyone else eat whatever they want.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, and He does, so I can.

--Maggie Mae

Satisfaction [Not] Guaranteed

Men, you might not want to read this post as it has to do with some lady stuff ;)

Today was really not that great with changing my habits. I wanted so badly to just sit quietly and watch my normal shows on TV, but I couldn't. The overwhelming craving for chocolate fudge was, well, overwhelming! It's PMS week and the cravings are worst then normal. I'm on birth control to help with this kind of stuff, but this time it's just not helping quite as much.

I learned with Weight Watchers that when eating and planning your meals for the day, you need to make sure you're satisfied. I tend to be pretty good at this and learning small things to get better at it. Things like chewing really slow and deliberately. I even told myself earlier while eating the leftovers from the night before for lunch, that my mom would want some and I shouldn't eat it. It worked, but then I ate ice cream and fudge and then a little more fudge. Finally, I got aggravated enough to get off the couch and busy myself. I didn't eat for a good long time and even went walking with a friend(my knee didn't cooperate too well so I don't know how her walk was, but mine was strenuous...ha). I passed on getting a smoothie after, but when we walked out of TJMaxx, a lady was selling "World's Finest Chocolate Bars" for $2 and to help out the youth at her church, or something. I totally caved and bought some chocolate covered raisins. Don't get me wrong, I felt totally guilty, but it was just sooo good! I hate hormones. I may have been able to pass her by had I not had $2 and serious cravings, not to mention my hunger level was increasing.

I was still hungry two hours later when I got home. I wolfed down dinner and wasn't quite full, but I was satisfied for the moment. Then, as I was relaxing, I felt the craving for fudge creep back up. I ate a piece very slowly and forgot the craving for a while. I decided to take a nice long stress-relieving salt bath. It felt good, but I found myself hungry when I got out! I just don't get it! So, I had more leftovers and a glass of milk. Even as I type this I'm trying to convince myself I'm satisfied!

I wish food came with a "100% Guaranteed or your money back!" label. Or that there was a magical satisfaction pill or unsatisfaction thing that you could lose weight with. Yeah, there's lypo-suction, or however you spell it, but I'm not wealthy and can't afford that, or the dangerous and very serious gastric bypass surgeries that shrink your stomach. I just want something that will make me feel full and shut the cravings down right away! I've heard of gum working for some people, but I'm not a big gum person. I really don't know what to do about that. My flesh, literally, controls me more than my mind does. I think,"Don't eat it, you don't need it." But it just doesn't work.

I wish I had hormones that could be controlled better. Maybe I should ask my doctor about them.

Well, ladies and the men that stuck it out, pray for me. Pray my self-control can overcome my hormones for the next 2 weeks!

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, and He does, so I can.

--Maggie Mae

Support

Wow! Really just wow! Thank you guys so much for all the support! Really. People I haven't talked to in a while or talk to rarely are telling me they support me and are praying for me! not to mention my closer friends and family!

I really think this support group is gonna help, a lot.

This is gonna be a short entry BC I didn't have time to use a computer so I'm on my cell UT I promised to try at least once a day.
And...I have good news to report. I only ate 2 pieces of fudge today! I know that sounds odd but I have this sweet tooth and that tooth is addicted to chocolate and really likes fudge. My mom made all this fudge over the holidays and I have been eating it. But most of the time I'd take 2 pieces rather than 1 at a time and end up eating 4-6 pieces a day. Today I went to the box twice and took one piece each time. Its part of the "New Habit" thing. I just took one serving and ate it slowly. When it was gone, my sweet tooth craving had been cured. Well....at least for then. I did eat another piece after supper also, but just one. At a separate time. I'm probably addicted to sweets if ya wanna know the truth. But maybe by eating one serving once or face a day rather than two more than once a day, that addiction can be cured.

Also, I exercised. In the morning. Before I did anything else. And...I felt great the rest of the day! Granted my knee hurt a lot (still getting over surgery) but it was worth it and it will, in the long run help my knee out tremendously!

So its been a good start to the week. Keep praying and showing your support. =)

I can do all things in Christ who strengthens me, and He does, so I can.
--Maggie Mae

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New Years//First Weigh-In

I forgot to post yesterday so this is for today and yesterday..

It's 2011 and everyone around me is saying how absolutely wonderful it will be. I have to agree, I feel like it will top 2010 without even trying. Since it's a new year, everyone around me is also making their "new year resolutions." Ever since I can remember my New Year resolution was, "I will lose X amount of weight in this many months." Every year, that would happen, for about a week. I remember hearing once on the radio that anyone with extreme resolutions would break them after about 2 weeks. TWO WEEKS! That's why this year, I'm not making "New Year's Resolutions."

I'm making New Year's New Habits.

Habits are the entire reason why I have gained so much weight over the past few years. When I was overweight in like 6 or 7th grade, the doctor told me if I stayed at that weight, I would be at a relatively healthy weight for the rest of my life. Since then I have gained more than 60lbs. 60lbs in about 7 years. And most of that occurred in highschool. I would eat as I pleased and as much as I pleased.

I've heard before it takes like 21 days to make a habit and God-knows how long to break a habit.

So, here are the habits I plan on breaking:

1. Eating more than one portion at a time/meal

2. Sleeping in everyday//taking a nap everyday

3. watching so much TV

4. not studying

5. not exercising

and by breaking those main 5 habits, I plan on forming the opposite habits:

1. eating one portion

2. waking up no later than 9am 6 days a week//working out instead of napping

3. trying to watch between 2-3 hours of TV a day

4. studying a little everyday

5. trying to get to the gym at least 3x's a week.

Now I know some of this is a little hard to probably start a habit with, but I know it can happen. People have done it before. And, I don't promise to keep to these everyday. I feel like that is completely unrealistic. There will be a day that I can't make it to the gym or watched 4 hours of TV. I will mess up, but hopefully that won't get me down.

My life is no longer a checklist for what good I have done for the day or what bad I have done. I just want to do things without thinking about it.

So, let the habits began! And let my body feel weird if I don't make it to the gym 3x's a week or eat 2 portions of dinner.

So, in closing, I weighed myself today. The first weigh of the new year. The first of 2011. I didn't lost weight. In fact I gained .8lbs. I'm trying really hard not to let that get to me. I know I had 3 parties I went to and ate at all of them and the calorie count was definitely off. But I don't want that to be my excuse every week. I do believe it contributed, but if I had exercised, maybe it would have made a difference. Let's see what happens this week and today.

This is difficult, it always has been. Pray. Pray hard. Don't just pray I lose weight, pray God changes my mindset about food, that He helps me feel full and satisfied. Even pray that He speeds up my metabolism. Those are practical prayers. Thanks. =)

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, and He does, so I can.

--Maggie Mae