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Watch the movie ‘Hungry for Change’ for FREE from March 21-31

March 19, 2013 by Sandra 9 Comments

Are you interested in improving your health and don’t know where to begin? Are you wanting to lose weight but don’t know where to start?

Then I have a fantastic resource for you.

The movie Hungry for Change is going to be free to watch from March 21st through March 31st. I watched this movie last year during the free screening and loved it. It was another eye-opening film that gave me the desire to live a healthy life and seek to make positive changes in my diet. Watching this movie caused us to once again think about the foods that we are putting into our bodies and how those foods affect us.

And all you have to do to watch it on March 21st is sign up on the Hungry for Change website. Then in two days, you’ll get instant access to the movie. It’s 90 minutes long, and I recommend watching it in one sitting, if you can.

The movie is made by the same people who created the extremely popular movie, Food Matters – which also helped shape our view of food and the way we eat today.

*I didn’t receive anything for recommending this movie. I just think it’s a great movie. I care about your health, so I thought I’d share it. I’d love to hear your thoughts after watching it. 🙂

Losing the Baby Fat Weight Loss Update: My Before Picture

March 2, 2013 by Sandra 14 Comments

I finally had an excuse to take extra time to straighten my hair and get ‘fixed up.’ I was headed to Chicago to a blog networking event, and since I was trying to look nice for that event (and a Girls Night Out (at church) with my mom and cousin after the blog event), I thought it was the perfect time to take a BEFORE picture of myself.

Because who knows when I’ll be able to buy new clothes, straighten my hair, and wear makeup again? 😉

I have five kids, and getting away to shop for new things (even bought cute shoes and a new purse to replace my ~~gross~~ well-worn old purse) and then be able to spend time working on my hair and makeup, well, it’s not an everyday occurrence.

Seriously, though, I’m not the type of girl who likes to have awkward I-just-ate-a-whole-bag-of-potato-chips ‘before’ pictures. You know the ones…in the informercials. That’s not me.

This is me.

I know what you’re thinking…and, no, I did not wear those black pants to the blog networking event. 🙂 I wore a cute pair of size 14 dress pants that I found on clearance at Kohl’s. I did wear the shirt, though. It went great with the pants, but I missed getting a picture of the final outfit that I wore out.

My current weight and measurements

Going along with my before picture, I’m going to share my measurements and pants size with you guys. This is brutal honestly here.

Weight (3-1-13): 188.5 lbs.

Body Measurements

Waist: 42.5 inches

Hips: 46 inches

Bust: 40.5 inches

Right arm: 14 inches

Left arm: 14 inches

Pants size: 14

How I’m going to lose the weight I want to lose in 2013

I haven’t lost any weight since my last update almost two weeks ago. That is a bit of a bummer, but I know that it’s going to change. I now have a regular accountability partner that helps me to stay on track with exercise. She and I email each other every Monday to give updates on our progress, and we check-in to make sure we are working on the things we told each other that we wanted to be held accountable for. It’s going great!

Besides having an accountability partner for exercise, I’ve started the Shaklee 180 program. It’s an all-natural weight loss program, and I’m enjoying it so far. I’ll be updating you once a month on my weight loss using Shaklee AND I’ll be vlogging, too!

Vlogging = video blogging

I’m going to upload one weight loss video a month to YouTube and share it here on the blog. I’m a little nervous about that…but I’m hoping to share my weight loss progress ‘in person’ and encourage my blog readers who are trying to lose weight, too.

Suffice it to say, it’s going to be a fun and interesting year as I continue on my path to a healthy weight. 🙂

How is your weight loss progress coming along?

Losing the Baby Fat Weight Loss Update: I lost 4 pounds!

February 18, 2013 by Sandra 6 Comments

Thank you to everyone who followed my posts last week during my partial juice fast.

If you read the title of this post, you already know how much weight I lost — a total of 4 lbs. last week! 🙂

My eyes were wide when I looked down at the scale this morning. I wasn’t expecting to see that I’d gone from 192.5 lbs. to 188.5 lbs. in one week.

And I did it without starving myself, as you all well know, because I shared all of my meals with you.

This week, I’m still going to juice as often as I can, and I’m going to start walking on the treadmill. On Sunday, I was able to unpack the last huge box that was left on the treadmill, so now I have no excuse as to why I can’t get on and start moving.

I also have an accountability partner in my friend, Patty, and we’ve agreed to email each other once a week to see how we’ve done with our weight loss goal for the week. My goal this week is to walk on the treadmill 4 days. Knowing I’m going to check-in with Patty next week is definitely going to help me to stay on track with this goal.

And now here’s what my weight loss progress looks like so far:

Beginning weight: 192.5 lbs.

Current Weight: 188.5 lbs.

Goal Weight: 152.5 lbs.

# of total pounds I want to lose in 2013: 40 lbs.

# of pounds to go until I reach my goal: 36 lbs.

Total # of pounds lost to date: 4 lbs.

How is your weight loss progress coming along?

Losing the Baby Fat: Friday’s Meals

February 16, 2013 by Sandra 2 Comments

The partial juice fast is over, and I’m glad I did it. I had juice six days this week (including today – Saturday), and that’s a big accomplishment.

I’m feeling good other than being sick, and I’m looking forward to incorporating exercise into my daily routine. I might as well, since the treadmill is almost finally clear of all the boxes that were stacked on it. 😉

I’m hoping to unpack the final, huge, and overly-full box on Sunday. It’s the one with a bunch of random stuff in it that I don’t know where to put yet.

Anyway, here is what I ate on Friday:

Breakfast: This is not the norm, but I ended up skipping breakfast. 🙁 After I woke up on Friday morning, I got busy with cleaning, getting the kids breakfast, and helping them with school. Before I knew it, it was nearly lunchtime, and I hadn’t eaten…or showered.

Snack: It gets worse. After skipping breakfast and getting a shower in, I shared a fun-size twix candy bar with my baby girl as my first piece of food of the day. Bad, I know.

Lunch: coffee, hamburger, tater tots, corn, and broccoli

For some reason, the hamburger didn’t sit well with me. I had that “hard to breath” feeling that I get sometimes when I eat chinese takeout. No one else complained, but when my husband had leftovers later that night, he told me he was having that same feeling. Weird, but we ended up getting rid of the rest of the leftovers. I think I read somewhere or watched something that made me think we are probably having an allergic reaction to the hamburger.

Anyway, moving right along.

Lunch Dessert: plain cupcake without frosting

Snack: juice (apples and lemon) — I love this juice! I could drink it everyday. It tastes like lemonade.

Dinner: We had a highly unstructured dinner, which isn’t normal. But I ate asparagus (which was mushy, because it overcooked while I chatted with my mom :)), greek yogurt, tortillas chips with a cheese dip that my mom brought over, and coffee

Snack: tea and popcorn

I’ll post my total weight lost this past week on Monday, and I promise to post my “before” pictures as soon as I can. For now, it’s back to my to-do list…

How was your week? Did you enjoy reading these posts? I’m thinking of sharing more juice recipes here on the blog and possibly doing a partial juice fast with updates like this maybe once a month.

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