Yesterday was very interesting. I had set out to lose weight and eat more healthy. That turned into this idea to dramatically cut down on the calories I was eating. That turned into a sudden urge to go run around my neighborhood, which I did. Then I got home, let everyone wake up and I jumped on the scale. Wop, Wop, Wop!! I actually weighed more than I had the night before and I was starving. Getting down to just 1200 calories is going to be a real issue for me as I have trained my body to want more food than it has in the past. I can put down alot more calories and its hard to reduce that by probably half. I ended up getting so frustrated that I ate how I wanted to which was bad. I had the three trailnut bars, a handful of chips, half a McDonalds's biscuit. For lunch, I had two ham and cheese sandwiches, fries, a coke, and then a cookies and cream hershey bar. For dinner, I had 4 steak grilled taquitos, more drink, and I think that was about it. I am not sure though!! I ate so much food yesterday that I felt bloated almost the whole day.
Today I hope to do better although it is not looking good. I have already had two nutrigrain bars and its only 5 o'clock. If I am going to eat better and lose weight, I have got to be willing to sacrifice, and I have to be find a way not to feel so dang hungry. I seriously feel hungry almost always. Like I could always eat and eat something big at that. I have found that milk has a filling affect. Maybe I should try drinking more of that to stave off the hunger.
Anyway, more things happened yesterday than just messing up my diet plan. My dad and I had this crazy idea. We are running out of space in this house with 5 people living here and the boys need their own space. Ding Ding Ding, they should rent our house from us. Not only that but since the Walkers are trying to sell their house at a price we can afford, why don't we buy theirs? Its still up in the air but its getting closer to being on the ground. Their house is beautiful, single story, plenty of room for our family with the third bedroom and its in a good neighborhood. What more could we ask for? Now, granted, this is not our dream house but it is definitely a house we could live in forever!! Yay! So, everyone is excited for all of this, we just have to make sure the numbers will work on paper and close on the Walker house. Let's get this party started, really!!! I really hope it all works out for everyone!
I am getting tired so I think I am going to have to go to bed. It has been a long day and waking up at 4 is not conducive to me eating less. In order to eat less, I am going to have to sleep and wake up when everyone else does. I hope I am able to keep my diet going right this day and not mess it up royally like I did today/yesterday!! Anyway, I am considering making this blog public so everyone can view it! We will see.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
BMI- Body Mass Index
Currently I have BMI of 28.4? I think? I didn't mean to but exited out of the page that had my BMI calculation so I am going on memory alone. Either way, the number it gave me indicates that I am not obese, but definitely over weight so we need to change that. It also says that I can weigh between 107-145 lbs. I would like to get to about 125 lbs so that means I need to lost about 40 lbs and I think I can do that over time. I am going to have to do this gradually and build muscle while burning fat. So anyway, I just wanted to make sure I documented my BMI so I can go back and look at it later on. Thanks!!
SO...we are throwing another wrench into this thing
Okay so on top of wanting to look prettier by doing my hair and makeup every day, I also want to be healthier and weigh less. I have joined a gym, thanks to my beautiful husband who is willing to fit the bill for it. I begin on Monday with a personal trainer. We have not decided whether or not we are going to keep a personal trainer. One session comes free for those who join the gym and I am definitely taking her up on it. But anyway, the reason I am writing this blog post is because on top of exercising regularly, I am going to have to start eating better. One way to do that is to write down everything I have eaten or drank for the day, thus comes this post. Today I have eaten
3 fruit and nut bar and drank almost 20 fl. oz of water.=== 420 calories
150
210= 780 calories
Since I am waking up at 4-6 every morning, I guess that will be my breakfast. I am going to try hard not to eat anything else until 8 this morning and then that will either be a fruit or something equally nutritious. I am going to drink more water and cut out most of the caffine. I have decided that I can drink one cup of coffee in the morning to get some caffine but after that, no more!! On top of that, I am going to try to lay off of high sodium foods and not eat as much dairy or meat. If I have meat, it will need to be very lean meat. So that means, no going to McDonald's for breakfast, Hardees for lunch type thing. The only meal I am going to have to sacrifice on would be dinner. That is until I can get everyone eating the right foods at the right time. There will be no more sweets for me. I can live without sugar, what I can't live without is a better body image.
3 fruit and nut bar and drank almost 20 fl. oz of water.=== 420 calories
150
210= 780 calories
Since I am waking up at 4-6 every morning, I guess that will be my breakfast. I am going to try hard not to eat anything else until 8 this morning and then that will either be a fruit or something equally nutritious. I am going to drink more water and cut out most of the caffine. I have decided that I can drink one cup of coffee in the morning to get some caffine but after that, no more!! On top of that, I am going to try to lay off of high sodium foods and not eat as much dairy or meat. If I have meat, it will need to be very lean meat. So that means, no going to McDonald's for breakfast, Hardees for lunch type thing. The only meal I am going to have to sacrifice on would be dinner. That is until I can get everyone eating the right foods at the right time. There will be no more sweets for me. I can live without sugar, what I can't live without is a better body image.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
New hair style and makeup
This is a picture of my latest hairstyle and makeup. Today all I did was straighten all the hair including my bangs, and sweep my bangs to the far right side of my face. For makeup, I did a very natural look with the rest of the makeup and did black liner all around my eye.
I really do not have any inspiration for tomorrow so who know what I will do with it. I can look for inspiration but I am seriously not sure if I will do anything with the hair tomorrow!
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Haircut and Highlights January 2012
These are some pictures of my new haircut and style with highlights. On Saturday, Nicole from Spoiled Rockin Kidz styled it after she gave me an amazing cut. On Sunday, I flipped all the layers out and pinned my bangs to the side. On Monday, I wore it straight and curled the ends under. And on Tuesday, today I curled it all in little loose curls.
Tomorrow I plan on washing, drying it and straightening it without any curl. With that look, I am going to be doing my makeup very naturally with black eye liner, a brown lid and some lip gloss. Well and of course, Mascara! Pics to come!!!
Okay so it has been a LOOOONG time since I blogged last
So I went to start a new blog on blogspot and found that I still had this one up and running, which is a good thing. Normally I would delete this blog and start fresh but I think its a good idea to just pick up where I left off and try to make this one something I can be proud of.
With that being said, there is alot of interesting things going on in our lives right now. Jeremy switched jobs and is doing great. Gracie just turned three and boy oh boy, has it been a roller coaster or what! She is doing great and some days she is doing better than great! I am thankful for my little girl.
Other news, my two brothers have moved in with us so we are now a 5 member family in a two bedroom house! It gets interesting but overall, it has been great as well. I have been recently diagnosed with Bipolar 1 disorder and that has been causing all kinds of up and down as the name hints to. I am up so high and then I drop down so low. Its okay today and at this moment, so lets be thankful.
So, every few months to years, I decide that I need a revamp, spiritually, physically or both. This month it is definitely both although I am working harder on the physical now. I have been interested in makeup and hair for quite some time but have just now got up the gumption to actually try some things myself. So I am! I recently got my hair cut into this cute little do with layers and blonde highlights, love it! I am also slowly but surely getting into makeup, meaning I am buying quality stuff and actually wearing it everyday. Along with that and along the same lines as the hair cut talk, I have been styling my hair differently each day. Today it was curls, pictures to come soon! I am overall just exercising the right to be more girly and have fun with colors. Nails are painted greenish blue as we speak and my toes are in check as well.
My major concern right now is how I am going to lose weight. Almost every woman I know has either just lost a significant amount of weight or wants to. I am one that wants to but how much yet, thats hard to say. I think I would like to join and gym and use the nervous energy I have with being bipolar for the good of my body. I also have an elevated appetite with the medicine that I am so I need to watch what I eat like whoa! (Yes I did say, like whoa)! Anyway, so I am going to be hopefully blogging on the struggle with losing the 25 lbs I need to lose and getting to a place I am most healthy at.
I hope that I will be able to and want to take the time to make this blog into something great. I will talk about spiritual issues as well but for now, its more about the physical. We did recently leave our church and are going to be visiting other churches soon. Not only that but I am going to be counseling with some ladies from our previous church about the biblical aspect to being bipolar as I know there is one. I have also started a new bible study at that church and we are going to be going through James through the perspective of a mom. I am excited about all of those things and look forward to blogging about it all. My eyes are starting to blur so blog time may be over at the moment. Stay tuned for more updates!
With that being said, there is alot of interesting things going on in our lives right now. Jeremy switched jobs and is doing great. Gracie just turned three and boy oh boy, has it been a roller coaster or what! She is doing great and some days she is doing better than great! I am thankful for my little girl.
Other news, my two brothers have moved in with us so we are now a 5 member family in a two bedroom house! It gets interesting but overall, it has been great as well. I have been recently diagnosed with Bipolar 1 disorder and that has been causing all kinds of up and down as the name hints to. I am up so high and then I drop down so low. Its okay today and at this moment, so lets be thankful.
So, every few months to years, I decide that I need a revamp, spiritually, physically or both. This month it is definitely both although I am working harder on the physical now. I have been interested in makeup and hair for quite some time but have just now got up the gumption to actually try some things myself. So I am! I recently got my hair cut into this cute little do with layers and blonde highlights, love it! I am also slowly but surely getting into makeup, meaning I am buying quality stuff and actually wearing it everyday. Along with that and along the same lines as the hair cut talk, I have been styling my hair differently each day. Today it was curls, pictures to come soon! I am overall just exercising the right to be more girly and have fun with colors. Nails are painted greenish blue as we speak and my toes are in check as well.
My major concern right now is how I am going to lose weight. Almost every woman I know has either just lost a significant amount of weight or wants to. I am one that wants to but how much yet, thats hard to say. I think I would like to join and gym and use the nervous energy I have with being bipolar for the good of my body. I also have an elevated appetite with the medicine that I am so I need to watch what I eat like whoa! (Yes I did say, like whoa)! Anyway, so I am going to be hopefully blogging on the struggle with losing the 25 lbs I need to lose and getting to a place I am most healthy at.
I hope that I will be able to and want to take the time to make this blog into something great. I will talk about spiritual issues as well but for now, its more about the physical. We did recently leave our church and are going to be visiting other churches soon. Not only that but I am going to be counseling with some ladies from our previous church about the biblical aspect to being bipolar as I know there is one. I have also started a new bible study at that church and we are going to be going through James through the perspective of a mom. I am excited about all of those things and look forward to blogging about it all. My eyes are starting to blur so blog time may be over at the moment. Stay tuned for more updates!
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