Weight Loss Journey

I have good news this week! After not losing any weight for more than two weeks, I’m finally down another 1.5 lbs. I weighed myself Sunday morning, and I was 213.5 lbs., so, thus far I’ve lost a total of 15 pounds in the last 14 weeks.

I’m now down to my lowest weight in four years. The last time I was this weight was just before I became pregnant with our third child, Isaac. As far as my diet goes, I’ve been eating lots of vegetables – mostly cooked. I haven’t eaten any meat (except for lunch meat when we went to the zoo) in at least two weeks, and I’ve cut back on my salt intake. Salt seems to really kill weight loss for me, not to mention it makes feel puffy and bloated.

I did workout three days last week, and we went to the zoo one day last week. I like our zoo days because then the whole family gets in quite a bit of walking. We normally leave around the time our feet start to feel achy which is about 3 hours into our zoo time. I don’t think we’ll be visiting the zoo this week, though. I have lots of school projects to get caught up on before the semester ends next month. 🙁 This does means good things are in store for the blog, though! I have to do a podcast – which I will be doing on my journey to becoming a work-at-home mom, and I’m also going to do some kind of video although I haven’t nailed down the topic for this one yet.

This week I’m going to stay on track with my eating and hope for another pound to leave me by next week….

You may have noticed that I haven’t been keeping up with my weight loss posts lately. Well, that wasn’t an accident. I’ve been avoiding writing any of those posts for the last few weeks because I haven’t lost any weight. 🙁

It’s a bit discouraging, and even after I have given up my homemade frappe habit for almost two weeks now! Oh well. I’m moving forward, and I’m hoping for a loss this week. To help encourage this a bit more, we’ve really added to the amount of vegetables that we are eating lately. And I know this obviously isn’t “raw” but I’m cooking a lot of our vegetables. It makes eating them so much more enjoyable. We’re eating green peppers, mushrooms, potatoes, red peppers, olives, tomatoes, carrots, lettuce, and avocado, to name a few.

Overall, I’m feeling pretty good. I’m still exercising 2-3 days a week. I just want to see the scale cooperate a little more. 🙂

 

Wow. Week 11. It’s been eleven weeks since I began this weight loss journey. Time does go quickly, doesn’t it?

Well, I’m happy to report that I’ve lost another pound. That puts me at a weight of 215lbs. and a total weight loss of 13.5 pounds thus far. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’m not going to lose two pounds each week. I’m going to have to settle for half a pound to one pound of weight loss each week. I’m okay with that. As long as I continue to lose weight at this pace, I’ll be able to reach my 50 lb. weight loss goal for this year. 🙂

I’ve picked the homemade frappe habit back up to every day. I couldn’t help it. Last week was a rough week because of all the doctor’s appointments and the constant pain that David was in. I’m telling you, none of my children has ever been in the kind of pain David was suffering for more than a week. It was horrible. It was like he was a stranger to us at times. That virus was wreaking havoc in David’s mouth and in our family. But I’m glad it’s on its was out, and David is back to being David. Thank you to the friends who prayed for us last week.

As promised, here is an updated picture of me so that you can see the progress so far. This first picture is of me when I started on this journey:

This is me today.

Are you on a journey to lose weight? I’d love to hear about it and know what you’re doing to get the weight off.

Last week was a pretty good week as far as eating goes. I lost .5 lbs. which brings me to a weight of 216 lbs. and a total weight loss of 12.5 lbs.

This week we are going to concentrate on eating more raw foods. I had been doing a pretty good job of this a few weeks ago, but when school really picked up, I put this on the back burner and concentrated on quick and easy meals. I’m going to go back to my raw foods recipe book and choose some recipes to try this week. I’m planning on making grocery shopping trips to Whole Foods and Trader Joes tomorrow to gather the ingredients I’ll need.

I’ll post an updated picture next week to show my progress so far! 🙂