Schedules, disclaimers, and balancing acts!

I'm trying to remember if anything remarkable or worth mentioning happened today.

Well, I had a productive day to say the least. Did a photo-shoot (that's right, I'm a model in the making ;] ), cleaned and organized my room, and am ready for school to start tomorrow!

It was an okay day food-wise. I did fail at passing up the snack of Zaps chips (my very favorite type of potato chip) while watching TV. However, it was only a serving so I guess it wasn't a total failure. I made my lunch and went on a picnic with a dear friend and then made a not-so-healthy dinner. It was basically just a spanish rice mix. It wasn't horrible calorie wise but it definitely wasn't healthy. Tomorrow I'm making a nice chicken dish for me and two wonderful women I'll be leading a bible study with this semester. (If you wanna come along we'll be having it Tuesdays 7-9 at my place! Email, call, or text for more info =] )

Now, I want you to be aware, it is very possible and all the more likely that I will be missing posts more often now that school is starting. My days are long and filled, but if I get a spare minute I'll give an update. Weight will still be updated weekly for sure. So if the posts become more scarce, you can count on that one on Saturdays. Definitely going to try hard to get one up here at least once a day. It helps me to know that I have accountability and that I'll have to be honest at the end of the day with the people who read this blog.

One last thing, while planning my days for the semester, I have finalized my workout schedule for those that were thinking about working out with me. Here are my days and times:

Sundays 3-4, Tuesdays 3:30-4:30, and Thursdays 10:30-11:30 or 3:30-4:30. If you can come with me great! If you can commit and come every week, awesome. If you can come once in a blue-moon that's awesome too!

I'm excited about this semester. It's super busy and there's a lot going on, but I know God's in all of it and that just makes it better.

So, be praying I can keep up with this crazy life I'm living and that I can find the perfect balance of health, school, work, and play.

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

--Maggie Mae

Loss Isn't ALWAYS Bad...

It's commonplace for people to weep or mourn after the loss of a loved one or a dear friend. Well, today I rejoice for a loss. A loss of myself.

I lost weight this week. It was small but it was still weightloss and any weightloss is still weightloss. I lost .8lbs this week! It's almost a pound and it still thrills me! It's my first weightloss in this journey and I'm excited to share this with y'all!

Now for a confession, last night I had fro-yo.....with granola. It was delicious, but I knew it wasn't an "okay" thing to do and will not be happening every day by any means whatsoever. Good thing, when I went out to eat this afternoon for lunch, I ate a "lite" sandwich for around 500 calories with steamed veggies. I really only ate the broccoli but whatever I still ordered the healthier choice over chips or fruit with fruit dip.

Well, it's time to go get my workout on! The retreat made my soreness worse from playing kickball with my bad knee and falling on my butt really hard, but I'm a lot less sore today and am ready for another week of it! So here we go! On to the next week!

Pray I can lose more weight this week and continuously count calories and workout when I need to.

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

--Maggie Mae

Change in Plans

This just a short update. So far its been a good week. Exercising, eating small portions more often to prevent crazy hunger, and eating healthier foods.

Well I've kind of got my schedule firgued out. This means with eating healthy, class, work, and leadership I have planned my exercise days. I've only had a chance to ft to the gym 2 days this week with my new work out but I played kick ball yesterday. My brother told me to only do the program 3 days a week every other day. So I won't be able to go on Saturdays because of work so now the days are Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. This also means I'm changing my weigh-in day to Saturday. This will start next week. I'll go to the gym tomorrow and weigh-in tomorrow but also weigh-in on Saturday. Everything's going to work out great! All credit to God because He gave me this schedule and everything. Its gonna be grand!

So pray school gets off to a good start and so does everything else!

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

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Doing Well =)

Again, my apologies for not posting yesterday. It's just taking a while to actually get into the swing of being back and remembering to post.

Yesterday went rather well. I went to get groceries from Walmart and I feel like I got some good stuff. I planned my meals from yesterday til Sunday pretty much but I don't know that they'll stay that way seeing as my friend is cooking dinner(healthy) on Saturday for us and tomorrow I'll be on a retreat.

Great news though! Last night I had a little get together at my house and maybe a fire to do marshmellows and what not. Well, I only ate a few marshmellows, like not even a serving! I was so proud of myself for stopping myself. On top of that, my friend brought kit cat bars, aka Chocolate....I only ate one. =) I did eat way more Zaps chips then I should have, I will admit to that. I ate way to much there. But I was faced with so much temptation and I feel that while I didn't pass with flying colors, I did pass. Maybe like a C. HaHa.

More good news(not totally dealing with weight-loss but it could help with that). I got a job! Where? At a PJ's Coffee! I'm so stoked! I've always wanted to work there and my friend's aunt and uncle own it and they're hiring and she called me and asked if I wanted it! I know you might think,"Won't you be tempted by all the sweets and coffee things that they have?" Oddly enough, I don't eat the stuff while I work in a coffee shop. I volunteer in my college ministries coffee shop and I'm always fine when I'm there. I might have a Mocha or something but it's like one and with skim milk. I don't like to have too much caffeine so it's not hard to pass up. Also, I'd feel bad if I ate the stuff there. It's for the customers. Not me. So I'll be on my feet a little more. Out of the house away from my fridge, so maybe, just maybe, this job will help me lose weight!

My diet is going well too in spite of the party last night. I ate small meals yesterday and followed the "main food" with a granola bar. Like, I had a lean roast beef sandwich on wheat bun with light mayo and some cheese. Probably about 250-300 calories for that sandwich. But I wasn't totally satisfied. So instead of eating something unhealthy, or worse, I made my "dessert" a granola bar. I love love love granola bars so when I was shopping yesterday I bought 3 different kind. One has a little chocolate in it even! It's dark chocolate so it's better for you. This morning I made a ridiculously awesome yogurt parfait! Berries, lowfat yogurt, and granola. It was so much to eat! But it was super low calorie for the amount of food you get! Not to mention I got dairy, fruit, and grain in one sitting! I think I'm gonna even half the amount of yogurt. The serving is one cup, but it was hard to eat that. So I'm going to try a half of a cup next time.

This is great! I feel great right now! Well, I'm off to make the job thing official with an application and interview and whatever else! Then workout, which I'm actually looking forward to!

Pray I can keep up this streak!

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

--Maggie Mae

Work It Out!

Yeah, I know. I keep missing days. Yesterday I moved back up to my college town so I was preoccupied by packing and driving and stuff. Please forgive it.

I did my first workout yesterday! It went really well. I definitely need to challenge myself a little more as far as the weight training is concerned. I'm pretty sore around my shoulders and peck muscles, but my legs are absolutely fine. Definitely can use more weight, which is super exciting for me. See, after I had surgery in July on my knee, I didn't use it much. Even during my PT sessions, it wasn't much. So, consequentially, the quad muscle in my right leg went down a lot and wasn't as strong as it used to be. It's getting there again but it's taking a while. So, the fact that I was pumping 100lbs on the leg press without pain and am not sore today is pretty exciting to me! I've always loved the muscle in my legs and prided it, so when it went away, I wasn't too thrilled. The fact that it's coming back is like woah exciting! =)

My brother/personal trainer gave me an interval cardio routine to do. I do 2 minutes of relatively light elliptical (again really exciting because a few months ago my knee said no way to the elliptical) and then 1 minute of intense level and speed. I loved it! I was out of breath and sweating, but it felt pretty outstanding! On a side note, I have asthma. It's not bad and I don't have asthma attacks, but if it's cold weather out, then when I work out my chest tightens up and it gets hard to breathe deeply. My dad thinks I might should get an inhaler. It doesn't hinder me right now, but I guess eventually it could. So I'll probably get some sort of inhaler that I can take before and after working out so that I can breathe easy.

Today, I just got done planning my meals from now til Sunday. I plan on shopping every week so that I can plan my meals better. I'm not going to be home Friday til Saturday afternoon so I don't have much to get today. I am however going get some basic things that will last a while or that I'm eating within the next few days. Like granola bars, nuts, fruit. My brother recommends those snacks but I'm open to other suggestions. =)

So, everything is good right now. I'll be back at the gym tomorrow and starting school next week. I can't wait to get back into the swing of things! =)

My prayer requests today are for you to pray I can control my eating even when I go on the retreat(Friday-Saturday) and that I can figure out the right weight to start off with with weight training.

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

--Maggie Mae

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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