loss and acupreassure

I went to the gym tonight and hopped on the scale not to focused on results but more hoping to maintain my recent lb loss. only to find that not only had i not gained it back but had lost another pound and a half! I'm steady at 201.5 and keeping my fingers crossed for my rather shocking but welcome metabolism boost! On a more intense note i have been having some serious muscle pain in the upper left thigh were i have been growing a considerable amount more of muscle. According to Google and yahoo answers research "growing pains" can occur in an adult when your muscles have a spurt of growth and these "growing pains" can come and go much like my sporadic leg pain has. I have been engaging in muscle acupressure at home for some much needed relief of my sore muscles. Hopefully i will see you again soon with more good news of the 100's!

Update

I just finished my 3 day carb fast and the results were very satisfying. I went from 208 to 204 hopefully the next four pounds will come off just as quickly. :)

72 hour metabolism boost

Being kind of a lame-o I've not entirely stuck to my diet this past two weeks. I got my monthlys about 3 and a half weeks ago and it lasted 21 days, i was naturally by week two bloated cranky and irritated that it was lasting so long. My kitchen doesn't carry any bad choices but my diet lacked balance and we ate out for soup a few times and mostly just tried not to do to much damage. Vowing that if my period ever ended I would get back on track. I'm at 208 lbs.

I was talking to a friend at work who hit a plateau in her weight loss and she stopped eating carbs. of any kind except the ones n fruit and veggies. So i am going to give it a try. 72 hours of no carbs just lots of protein, fruit, vegetables and water. Lets see what happens. with any luck it will boost my metabolism and jump start me to the 100's !!! I will be back on Thursday with the update. Wish me luck:)

The weight loss flip book

These are some of my pictures. I wanted to make a flip book with them so when i was thin i could look at it and see the succession of my weight loss. There are many more pictures that show the places it all came off more accurately however those feature me in my underwear and bra and i would be happy to share them with some of you but not with the world wide web. And since i am about the the half way point of my weight loss goal i thought this would be a great way to review progress. Hope you like it.

Muscles and a word to the weary

Me today. One month ago.

Ive been at the gym 7 months now consistently im down 1 more pound this week and i am just starting to show signs of biceps and muscle definition. I am proud of my little muscles and my rather hard strong legs they were hard work to come by and there were moments were i walked back to my car from leaving the gym wishing i could go in this way and come out 2 hours later that way. I kept truckin on and eventually it started to show. Coming from an almost 250 with a 44 percent body fat is a hard place there is so much fat layered over your muscles underneath it seems like they aren't really there at all.

I wanted to find the magic combo that made the pounds fall off and my bikini body ready for the beach. I think instead i found this lifestyle that keeps me energized and on a track to healthy. i wanted to find the formula of sucess and share it with all of you so that we could all be comfortable in the bodies we desire. Instead here are my findings so far that i have to share:

Health is not something to be atained but a lifestyle to learn. much like all the things you learn in school you have to practice a healthy lifestyle and sometimes you still get it wrong from time to time, it doesnt mean you cant do it it just means you have to practice harder. Food, its everywere, you ahve to make choices on what you decided to fuel your body with. KNOW WHATS IN YOUR FOOD. Read labels ask questions eat as much unprocessed food as you can...drink water lots of it. 90% of the weight loss process is driven by what kind of food you eat, keep track of it so you can not just think but know what your eating. And finally live everyone has a day when they need a cookie dont deny your self the treat every now and then.


More reciently ive had friends that are frustrated with their own qwest for health, wellness or weight loss i can say this of my own experience, when your frustrated with results bare through it tweak your diet move around more. Not getting results doesnt feel good but quiting all together feels much worse.

Broken but not defeated

So i found out more reciently that my bathroom scale is 8 pounds light, that was a sad day. I stopped logging food a while back. It seemed like it was repetitive motion and i was writing the same thing every day. Now that its been a few weeks since i stopped I don't have any logs to look back at but maybe my diet is not properly balanced. I picked up a food diary today and am keeping a log on the refrigerator so every time i open it to get something out i can log it. Hopefully the logging will make my food choices more aparent or keep me on track better. Still at 208 this is a frustrating weight maybe with a little more hard work i can get past it.

Is it broken or am i wonderful?

I lost 5 pounds last week which is almost too good to be true but it was accurate. I weighted in this morning for the week and i am another 4 lbs smaller? Does my scale work right? Am i an even 201, which is fantastic considering how hard i've been working to get under 200. I am in search of another scale today to find an accurate result, we shall see and i will be back with the update.

To be continued...................