Time to start again.

So I've decided to start up Game On with myself. I don't want the pressure to be perfect that I feel when I do it with a group. But I'm still unhappy with where my body is. I must say though I was pleasantly surprised at my weight this morning.

Starting weight: 141.4

Goal weight: 135

Good Habit: Read personal book for 10 minutes a day.

Bad Habit: Brush teeth every night.

Communications: Since I don't have teammates or opponents, I've decided that for communication I will try to blog something about the experience every day.

I'm still trying to come up with some sort of reward for myself (other than hopefully losing weight) for doing this. so far I don't have anything that I know will REALLY push me. So I will keep thinking for a while.

Sariah

Plus skim milk

My 5 things

The Challenge today

So, I challenge you to write down 5 things that you could give up or change about your routine.  It's hard to do, when we've already given up and made so many lifestyle changes to make this diet work for us.  But if you're ever feeling bored of your routine, or stuck in a rut, then you need to change something to push through your pleateu.

So my 5 are:

1) have the daytime dishes done before James gets home

2) vacuum out my car once a week

3) paint  or craft with Sariah once a month

4) sit down at computer and blog once a week

5) stop always being on the phone/ pay more attention to my kids at meals

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Thanks

My 40 things I'm thankful for:

First 10 about myself
1 I am healthy
2 I am able to run
3 I am a mother and able to bear children
4 I know that God lives
5 I know I am a daughter of God
6 I have thick and forgiving hair
7 I am fair skinned
8 I am a woman
9 I have a degree
10 I am more confident than ever before

Other things
11 I have had more time with my father than expected from his cancer
12 I have no regrets in my relationship with my father
13 I am blessed with loving forgiving parents that I have a strong
relationship with
14 I have a house
15 I have an awesome husband
16 My husband provides so that I can stay home with my children
17 I have two BEAUTIFUL children
18 My children are healthy
19 My sister Meagan for being my best friend
20 The Gospel is an active part of my life
21 The Savior loves me and provided a way for me to repent
22 I have a close and supportive family
23 I can listen to General Conf at home
24 I have an iPhone
25 I can be active
26 I have time to play with my kids
27 I am sealed to my husband for eternity
28 I will see my family after death
29 I was born into the covenant
30 I am smart and a good student
31 I have a treadmill
32 I have great internal value
33 Sunny warm days
34 Chocolate
35 Coupons and being thrifty
36 The scriptures
37 My rockin' camera
38 Food on my table
39 The guidance of the Spirit
40 My patriarchal blessing

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Trying to change the blog

So I'm not posting pictures of my food anymore since I made a worksheet to track what I've done. So I'm hoping to start using the blog to talk about my progess and feelings etc. So hopefully I will post often so I can remember this process!

Post Week 1 Summary

So week one is over and week two begins today. Here's a little recap of thoughts, feelings and results.

First item: my weight!

So one thing I'm not sure I like about the game is that is makes me a little obsessive about my weight. I'm trying to remind myself that it is more important that I am getting healthier and making better choices and losing the weight isn't the most important thing. With that said here were my weights this week:

Mar 22 (starting weight) 149.8
Mar 24 148.0
Mar 25 147.8
Mar 26 147.6
Mar 27 148.6- Okay coming back to this later!
Mar 28 148.4
Mar 29 (today) 146.6

Net pounds lost - 3.2
Percentage of weight lost -2.1%

So coming back to Mar 27. This really got me down. This wasn't after a day off or anything. I had eaten properly and exercised, but still gained a full pound in a day. It really got me down. I had worked super hard getting a perfect score all week. So after that was my day off and I lost just a little bit. This is where I really had to have a heart to heart with myself. I know that I want to get down to 135. I think that is a healthy reasonable weight for me. But I also know that I am seeing differences. I can tell my stomach- which is the area I am really unhappy with- is getting smaller. I've had more energy. All that is good. But I of course felt WAY better when I lost that pound and then some this morning! :)

Measurements:

Body Part ~~~~~ Mar 22 ~~~~~~ Mar 29 ~~~~~ Difference
Arms ~~~~~~~~~~ 10.5 ~~~~~~~10.5 ~~~~~~~~~~ 0
Chest ~~~~~~~~~~ 38.0 ~~~~~~~ 37.0 ~~~~~~~~~ <1>
Waist ~~~~~~~~~~~36.5 ~~~~~~~35.5 ~~~~~~~~~~~<1>
Hips ~~~~~~~~~~~~38.0 ~~~~~~~37.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~<1>
Thighs ~~~~~~~~~~~22.0 ~~~~~~~22.0 ~~~~~~~~~~ 0

BMI:
Mar 22 23.5
Mar 29 23.0
Difference -.5

I will do updated pictures tonight with James! But so far I'm VERY happy with my results.

Dinner

Yummy quesidilla!

Meal 3

Lunch

Lunch

I did

I did finish my 3 rd liter with dinner.

Meal 5- day 1

Extra milk day 1

Day 1- meal 4

100 cal- day 1

Day 2- Meal 1

Meal 3

Apple slices with mozzarella and almonds. Warmed in the microwave for
30 seconds- yum!!!!

Bottle 2 done

Liter 1 Done!!

Lunch

Breakfast

Okay so it's day one. First meal-breakfast. I made

(carb) 1/2 cup oatmeal
(protein) with 1scoop of James' protein mix.
(fat) and 8 almonds.

I also had my 1 glass of milk freebie.

So how was the first meal? Umm the milk and almonds were delish! Hehehe. Yeah the oatmeal was edible but barely. I will definately try something else tomorrow!

Before Pictures

Okay so this blog maybe a little graphic! But it is the reality! Here are my before pictures that James so kindly took. I was smiling at first but he says that you aren' allowed to smile in before pictures. So he told me to think fat thoughts! Yeah thanks honey!

I love Biggest Loser and decided that if I really wanted to SEE the results I needed to really SEE the before. So here are my "biggest loser" befores.

Yikes!! Yes this is my TROUBLE spot!! Thanks Sariah and Ben!!