Weight Loss Journey

This week’s update is going to be a two-week update since I didn’t post any updates last week. For week 8, I lost 0 pounds. 🙁 And for week this week’s update, I’ve lost .5 pounds. It’s something.

I know that part of the problem is that I haven’t been eating the healthiest in the last few weeks. We celebrated two birthdays in our family which involved two cakes and pizza, twice. AND, I’ve finally come to the hard conclusion that I actually have to stop drinking frappes every day instead of just saying it. I’m now only having frappes nearly every other day. I say nearly because I totally forgot I had a frappe yesterday before it was too late today. I totally thought yesterday was my frappe-free day. Whoops! 😉 Someone’s got to drink it! But I promise not to have any tomorrow.

Anyway, I’m already getting back to eating healthier, and now that the weather is shaping up, we are going to get outside and walk a lot more often. We’ve already taken two family walks in the last week, one to the park and one to Walgreens. I love that Walgreens is so close to us! I’m hoping to lose at least one pound by next week’s update, but overall, I’m happy to still be losing and inching closer to my goal of losing 50 pounds this year.

Okay, time for the weekly update on how much weight I’ve lost.  This week’s weight came in at 217 lbs., so, I lost 1.5 lbs. from last week! Altogether, in seven weeks, I’ve lost 11.5 lbs., and I’ll well on my way to losing my goal of 50 lbs. this year.

I’ve been exercising steadily 2 times per week at the school’s fitness center for 1.5 hours each time I’m there. I mainly walk on the treadmill and ride the bike so that I can read. I usually spend the first 30-40 minutes reading my Bible, and lately I’ve been reading a school book for the remainder of the time because I’m being eaten alive by how much reading some of my classes require.

This week, I’m also going to get back to exercising with Ruben in the mornings. It’s going to be us, some weights, and a Biggest Loser DVD. Fun!

Overall, I’m encouraged at my weight loss thus far, but I’d really like to be losing two pounds a week instead of one. I know part of my problem is that I  have a homemade frappe almost every day. That most certainly has something to do with it. I’ve tossed around the idea of putting the frappe machine away up high so that when the thought crosses my mind to have a frappe because the frappe machine is out of reach, I’ll just say, “nevermind….”

I’m not there yet, though.

I need my frappes. Perhaps I’ll try to have one every OTHER day only. Hmmm….we’ll see if I can do that this week. 😉

I’m going to give just a quick update this week on my weight loss because I’m not at home (I’m doing the web design program today.  It’s thankfully ending tomorrow.  I’m glad because this has been a tough month for my children with me having been gone more than usual. David has been acting especially weird lately, and he’s extremely attached when I am home.), and when I get home tonight, it will be brief because I have a 3.5 hour class this evening.

I lost one pound this week, so, my weight came in at 218.5 pounds on my weigh-in day.  Very exciting! I’m happy to have finally reached my pre-fourth child weight.

Well, it seems like it’s been more than 5 weeks since our family started on the path to healthy eating. But it hasn’t. Overall, everyone is doing wonderfully with the diet changes, even the kids.  Although, they have lamented the fact that we don’t buy pepperoni pizza anymore. Pepperoni has nitrates (which have been known to cause cancer) in it which we are trying to avoid. They do realize that we are making changes in our diet in order to be healthy, and their attitude along the way has been positive overall.

Time for the update!  This week I weighed in at 219.5 lbs. That means I lost one pound since last week, and I’m still well on my way to losing 50 lbs. this year. I was just telling my mom last night that I’ve lost 9 pounds so far, and this is the first time in ages that I’ve tried to lose weight and actually lost weight consistently every week since I started.  It’s normally a roller coaster of going down a pound and then up a pound and then back down in order to finally keep that pound off.

I think at 219.5 lbs., I’m almost at the lowest weight that I’ve been at since giving birth to our fourth child, who is almost 2 years old in a couple of weeks. I think my actual lowest weight since having David is 218.5 lbs.  We’ll see if I can get there for next week’s update!

I a finally noticing a change the the way my clothes fit….just a little bit better, and my face looks a little less round.  I feel great overall, and I haven’t been starving myself in any way shape or form.  I’ve been cooking (or should I say “cooking” because you really don’t cook when you make things raw…there’s a lot of food processor, blender, and dehydrating action going on instead) quite a bit this past week trying new recipes, and when I’m in the kitchen cooking, I’m eating.  A lot.

Most of the raw foods recipes that I’ve tried have been delicious, but there are a couple that I know I won’t be making again.  They’re the ones that just turned out okay, and I had to eat mostly by myself.

I’m hoping to share a few recipes with you this week that turned out deliciously!

Oh, and one last thing. I haven’t been able to kick the homemade frappe habit. I confessed to my mom that I had a frappe everyday last week, but only because I reasoned with myself that they’re really not that bad. I’ve “healthified” them.  Okay….there’s coffee grounds, water (1/2 cup), lots of ice (nothing bad there…), almond milk (1/4 cup and in place of regular or even Organic milk), a little vanilla extract and about 2.5 tablespoons of raw sugar.  See…not that bad.  Right? I call these my vanilla frappes. 😉