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didnt know what to title this but this is my day today. i am feeling thinner!!! finally! RESULTS! even though i cant weigh myself cuz i got my period today, i know that i am losing. screw the scale!

mmmmm i love my blackberry,cantaloupe,grape,strawberry,mango smoothie. lol

its good!!!!!

my workout today was an hour burning 500 cals… this was my 4th day in a row, and actually #7 out of 8 i think…im feelin so good about myself!

The following food and situations have no calories to speak of …  (wish this was true, its a joke)

OTHER PEOPLE’S FOOD: A chocolate mousse that you did not order has no calories. Therefore, have your companion order dessert and you taste half of it.

INGREDIENTS IN COOKING: Chocolate chips are fattening, about 50 calories a tablespoon. So are chocolate chip cookies! However, chocolate chips eaten while making chocolate chip cookies have no calories whatsoever. Therefore make chocolate chip cookies often but don’t eat them.

FOOD ON FOOT: All food eaten while standing has no calories. Exactly why is not clear, but the current theory relates to gravity. The calories apparently bypass the stomach flowing directly down the legs and through the soles of the feet into the floor, like electricity. Walking seems to accelerate this process, so that a frozen custard or hot dog eaten at a carnival actually has a calorie deficit.

CHILDREN’S FOOD: Anything produced, purchased or intended for minors is calorie-free when eaten by adults. This category covers a wide range, beginning with a spoonful of baby tapioca — consumed for demonstration purposes — up to and including cookies baked and sent to college.

UNEVEN EDGES: Pies and cakes should be cut neatly, in even wedges or slices. If not, the responsibility falls on the person putting them away to “straighten up the edges” by slicing away the offending irregularities, which have no calories when eaten. If pie or cake is neatly cut, but the remainder is not easily divisible into equal servings, it’s also permissible to even things up … without calorie consequence.

TV FOOD: Anything eaten in front of the TV has no calories. This may have something to do with radiation leakage, which negates not only the calories in the food but also all recollection of having eaten it. Entire no-calorie dinners are now manufactured and frozen for this purpose.

FOOD THAT DOESN’T TASTE GOOD: doesn’t count. This is an enormous category covering a diverse range including airline food, cafeteria meals, and dinner at your sister-in-law’s. Also dinners manufactured to be eaten in front of the TV.

ANYTHING SMALLER THAN ONE INCH: contains no calories to speak of. For example: chocolate kisses, maraschino cherries, cubes of cheese.

LEFT-HANDED FOOD: If you have a drink in your right hand, anything eaten with the other hand has no calories. Several principles are at work here. First of all, you’re probably standing up at a cocktail party (see “Food on Foot”). Then there’s the electronic field: a wet glass in one hand forms a negative charge to reverse the polarity of the calories attracted to the other hand. I’m not exactly sure how it works, but it’s reversible if you’re left-handed.

CHARITABLE FOODS: Girl Guide cookies, bake sale cookies, ice cream socials and church strawberry festivals all have a religious dispensation from calories. It’s in the Bible.

CAKES WITH WRITING ON THEM: Primarily fat, starch and sugar, all cakes are horrendously fattening. However, the calories can be eliminated simply by inscribing “Happy Birthday, Charlie” or “Good Luck, Alice” in colored icing. Not only is it unnecessary to decline, it’s impolite.

FOOD ON TOOTHPICKS: Sausages, cocktail franks, cheese and the like are all fattening unless impaled on frilled toothpicks. The insertion of a sharp object allows the calories to leak out the bottom.

LEFTOVERS: An extra pork chop, the crust of bread, half a Twinkie, anything intended for the garbage has no calories regardless of what happens to it in the kitchen.

FOOD EATEN QUICKLY: If you are rushed through a meal, the entire meal doesn’t count. Conversely, if you have ordered something fattening and now regret it, you can minimize its calories by gulping it down.

CUSTOM MADE FOOD: Anything somebody made “just for you” must be eaten regardless of the calories because to do otherwise would be uncaring and insensitive. Your kind intentions will not go unrewarded. (See “Charitable Foods.”)

I am feelin so motivated!

today i worked my ass off at the gym, really pushed myself and i burned 700 calories. im feeling really great about my body and the transformations that are coming along with it!

my weigh in day was supposed to be march 1st, but i am getting my period tomorrow, so i think im going to wait until march 15th. my goal for march 15th is 170. right now im at 174.2 i think i can do it, what do you think guys!??

WOW! today i got off work at 12:00 and did NOT want to work out today. i came home and was exhausted, laid down planning on napping for a little bit, and woke up at 6:30! at 7 till 9 is usually my 2 hour night at the gym watching the biggest loser, but i decided not to go. so i watched the first hour of the biggest loser, and then they announced that the 2nd hour will be on tomorrow night instead, because of the presidential speech. so, i dont know how or where it came from, but this motivation just kicked in me to get my ass to the gym! so thats what i did! i was there for an hour and 40 mins! i am just amazed at myself.. it is almost march and i am still going to the gym. i joined beginning of january, and my workout ruitines have never lasted this long or this consistent. i go to the gym a lot, and compared to the past 8 months before that i didnt work out once!

i am just so amazed at myself. im very proud and i feel like with every workout i am coming into my own. my body is just getting stronger and stronger and hopefully some more weight will drop off soon. i am in this for the long haul and i am finally content with the fact that this will come off when it does.

for anyone who cannot get themselves to the gym for anything, i would suggest just going. i know that sounds simple, and stupid, but it is not. think about this. just GO. dont think about it. come home from work, and just put those workout clothes on and go. dont think about the fact that you dont want to. dont allow those thoughts into my head. you just put the clothes on and go, and have faith that once you get there you will have the motivation to do SOMETHING. doesnt matter how much of anything you do. as long as you went and did SOMETHING, you are forming a habit. a very good habit that can help this journey be much more enjoyable. i sweat out all of my anger, emotions, and frustrations, without even knowing it!

ok, maybe not all together in the smoothie… but i had two eggs and 3 pieces of bacon for breakfast, which equals 216 calories, and my mom had like 5 pieces of bacon and eggs and hashbrowns… so i feel i did very good and i did very low in calories… but im still craving something!! i think i am going to make myself a smoothie. yes indeed.

mmmm!!

oh and last night i went to the gym, not even wanting to be there but forcing myself to go… and i REALLY did not have the motivation to work out. i only did a warm up for 3 minutes instead of 15 or so.. then i got onto my fav machine for only 20 and couldnt do anymore, burned 217 cals and was feeling bored and just wanted to leave, BUT i DIDNT!!! i kept myself making goals like, ok you can stop at 400 cals burned, and once i would reach that i would just set another, because i acknowledged that i could leave at any time, i was not FORCED to be there, and that if i just kept going that i would feel better and better about myself achieving each goal. so i ended up burning 700 calories, and thats REALLY good for not even wanting to be there in the first place!!! i was there an hour and 10 mins. so i am VERY proud of myself

looks like my march 1st weigh in is going to be very nice to me if i keep this up. 7 days until weigh in :). i can cover a lot of ground by then!

as far as exercising today, i can feel my muscles moving around and recovering, building up… its a strange feeling, but i know that my body needs this day to recover and let my muscles do what they need to do !

I went to the gym tonight and worked on a NEW machine…

there are only 4 of these at the gym. I AM IN LOVE WITH IT. its called an AMT 100i, and the way that it works is that you can make as big as strides as you want, it lets you have full range of an eliptial but the freedom to just do stair steps, small strides, switch it up… so i was kind of doing a 2 step, like doing the stairs and then pushing one foot forward a little… it was AWESOME!!!! it burned after 7 minutes, and i managed to do 65 minutes!!! my 60 and then the cool down. i burned a total of 852 calories tonight!!!!! and i was there an hour and a half!!! i FELL IN LOVE. it is such a challenge, i was only on resistance 1 haha

oh and food…. im craving EVERYTHING in sight. but im trying really hard to resist!!!

im gonna get ready to read all of your blogs and see how you all are doing!! best wishes.

So… The past 3 weeks probably, maybe 2 im not sure, i have been eating a lot of fruit smoothies. Home made, with just raw fruit, a little bit of skim milk and ice. I have not written anything in my food journal since the 29th of january, and i got it back out today. I ate a smoothie this morning, worried that they might be too many calories, but i didnt care, i was avoiding the # that could possibly be in the smoothie. SO… since yesterday i had an amazing diet day-not sure how many calories i ate, BUT i know it was up by the 1700-2200 range, which sounds like a lot, BUT TUESDAY nights are my biggest loser nights! SO, i go to the gym for the full two hours of the show, and since i dont wanna miss any of it, it forces me to keep working out for the full time. I did the bike for 30 mins, the treadmill for about 40 mins, an elyptical for a while, and then used the crossramp for the remainder of the time. I AMAZED MYSELF! I was EXHAUSTED! BUT… I BURNED A WHOPPING 1006 CALORIES!!!!!!! i worked my ass off and i was sooo sore! i even got myself to stay on the machine for an extra 10 minutes so i could reach the 1000 mark. 

THEN, i came home and really wanted to eat this left over meatloaf that im sure is FULL of calories and grease… BUT i cooked myself some salmon with lemon pepper seasoning and had a little thing of easy mac. Then i had a 100 calorie pack of fit&active oreo cookies. SO, i went to bed feeling so good about myself and my choices, someting that i havent felt for a few weeks now. Even though last week i weighed in at 173.4, i went out of town that day and completely lost track, completely fell off the wagon. Ate WHATEVER i wanted. SO, after feeling so great about my choices yesterday i decided that after i ate that smoothie i was going to look up online the calories in all of the fruit and FACE THE NUMBERS, regardless of what they were. TURNS OUT, this is what i found!

The cals in the smoothie i made:

Milk-70 cals

blueberries-39 cals (i was amazed!!)

strawberries-20 cals (even more woah factor for me!)

cantaloupe-50 cals

so in this smoothie i ate, it turns out it was only 179 calories when i was TERRIFIED to look up the #s for the past TWO-THREE weeks!!!! wow. so now i know i can eat these pretty much whenever i want. they are very filling, and FULL of good stuff.

So for breakfast i had 179 calories, and for lunch i had two pieces of salmon and a box of frozen teryaki veggies. I am feelin great!! so im at 734! and i prob wont go to the gym today cuz i am still so sore!

I am going to put the scale away until march 1st. That leaves me 11 days until weigh-in and i think i need the time to focus on the food rather than the numbers. January really screwed me up mentally. I was going to the gym 5-6 days a week working my ass off but probably not eating enough, and was having female probs. This threw me off for the past 3 weeks cuz i havent gone to the gym too much. maybe 3-4 times in 3 weeks!!!! aah! so im letting go of the past and moving on to the future. im going to let my #’s on the scale go. Maybe i will only weigh once a month. that way it will be something to look forward to MORE and put more time and dedication into whats really important: whats going in my mouth and whats coming out at the gym.

Also, I am thinking that I will only go to the gym 3 days a week but do a HARDER workout. that way, 3 days a week i will have a really high caloric day and a hard workout. I think i shocked the crap out of my body working out so much so quickly. So we shall see how this works out, but i think on non workout days i will stay under 1500 calories, and on workout days i will jump up depending on how much i burn. Maybe this will get me past the 170’s. im tired of the number 7, it is no longer LUCKY!

so i am back after a week of not blogging and with a new attitude.

So, heres a breakdown of my new goals:  

 Do not step on the scale until march 1st

On non-workout days eat no more than 1500 calories.

On workout days-work out for at least an hour and a half

On workout days- eat more calories to account for the workout

Focus on staying positive and not looking back at the past at disappointments.

 drink 100 oz of water a day

Im down to 173.4!!!!!!! yay! i dont understand how im still losing! maybe recovering from being on my period so long. im kinda mad at myself for the week and a half now that i havent really been paying attention to calories. maybe im not eating as many as i think i am, thats y im losing. WHO KNOWS! im out of town right now visiting some old friends, but when i get back thursday night, FRIDAY ITS ON!! I am counting ever calorie that even comes within 10 ft of my mouth

this is JUST the motivation i needed to get myself back on track strictly and back into the gym!! WOOOOHOO EVERYONE! I CAN NOT WAIT TO SEE THE 160′S!

Yaaaaaaaaaayyy!!! My manager called me this morning and said that he was sick, and wondered if we could go in late together. Since im still completing my 100 dogs, we have to work side by side. So i told him thats fine, im sick too, and he was like well we dont have any dogs so just stay home today, and we will work tomorrow. So, i have the DAY off! and since im full time now, i get sick days so this is kind of enjoyable being full time!! Cuz tomorrow i work 7-3:30, and then im off for two days. LOVELY

I weighed myself today and im at 174.2!!! Im movin down again!! I was gonna start my exercising again today but my throat hurts really bad and my nose is all stuffy, it wouldnt be easy for me to do anything! So ill just stick to the diet today!

I had another date last night with that guy, he is very sweet. I am thinking i had the wrong impression of him. I COULD be wrong, cuz my instincts can be wrong, very wrong, but as of now im THINKING that he is genuine. we shall see!

YAY FOR LOSING!

I have been VERRRY busy this week! sorry buddies! i have been slacking on checking the site, but dont confuse this with a lack of motivation! NO SIR-EE. i have been thinking about you guys all week. I havent worked out since monday, was too bloated all week, and quite frankly, felt like shit being on the 2nd period of the month, and for 11 days. On thursday i was stuck in bed from the time i got off work (3) till the next morning. i felt faint and my stomach hurt bad, and my whole body ached. It had to be from the lack of iron and vitamins that was losing being on a period 18 days out of 30. jeez. 

ive been eating a lot of fruit smoothies lately, just a bunch of different fruits ex. blueberrys, strawberrys, banana, grapes, raspberrys, kiwi, with a tad of milk and ice and blend it all up in my magic bullet. im loving that new thing!! every time i eat those smoothies i feel my stomach turning!! its great. i can tell it really wakes up my metabolism!

anyway, today was my last day of grooming school! For you guys that dont know much about it, it lasted a month long, and petsmart paid for me to be trained to become a dog groomer. So i have been doing this for a month long and learning how to do different haircuts on dogs! But today was the last day!! Im so excited. So now im still not a paid dog groomer, i have 100 dogs to complete (grooms) and then after that am officially a dog groomer!! woooohooo!!! So since monday i have pretty much stopped looking at calories. I know it was a bad idea, and i wouldnt even say that i fell off the “bandwagon” because i realy didnt go crazy. I just got tired of looking at calories strictly and gaining a lb a day in waterweight. so i stopped. I still feel small! lol. so no loss there. BUTTTTTTT,,,,,,, after today i REALLY WILL be kicking butt back into gear because i ended my period yesterday and i am on a new kind of Birth control that has progesterone only (i think thats how you spell it) So its supposed to help with the bloating, and the irregularity.  Another reason why i can finally kick butt now is that when i was in grooming school we would all go out to lunch together. It was never really my choice where we went, so i was drug to mcdonalds, buffalo wild wings, etc every day, and didnt really have the healthiest options to chose from. Now, im not in school anymore and I can eat what i want when i want. Like, i can take lunches whenever i feel i need to, so that im not starrrrrviiing by the time lunch comes and i make a bad choice. So, im excited to jump back on with you guys, i was so miserable from water weight. but now my hormones should be back on track, and ill be back in the gym and losing in NO TIME!