Today is a rest day... for exercising! That's a good thing cause I hurt all over. The legs and thighs.. oh my... they hurt!! No really... they hurt!!
Daily comments:
Today is weigh in day!! I lost 3 pounds... 172. Yea!! I am heading back in the right direction.
Inspirational Thought:
Lose the Weight for Good!
By Kate Torgovnick
Chris Spirou, 40
Heaviest weight: 270
Current weight: 140
Lost: 130 pounds
Kept it off for: 4 years
My story: I come from a Greek background where life revolves around food. So I always ate — a lot. When I had kids, I wouldn’t eat all day because I was busy running around in my Oceanside, NY, home. But by late afternoon, I’d feel so famished that I’d scarf down the first thing I saw. I’d tell myself, I didn’t have breakfast or lunch, so I can eat half a cake. I ballooned to 270 pounds.
Worst moment: Not wanting to attend my own son’s christening. I was sick of people saying things like, “You’re such a pretty girl — you just need to lose a few pounds.”
Turning point: During my second pregnancy, I developed gestational diabetes. The doctors warned, “At the rate you’re going, you’ll be a full-blown diabetic on insulin in five years.” My sister had just lost weight with Jenny Craig, so I joined, too.
How I lost it: With Jenny Craig, you get three prepared meals a day. In the beginning, it was an adjustment, because I would get one piece of chicken when I was used to eating three. I had to fill up on healthy snacks like fruit and low-fat yogurt. Now I eat grapes and berries like I used to eat chips. After I got down to 200 pounds, I started using a 10-minute Jenny Craig exercise tape. Then I worked up to harder videos, like Tae Bo, which supercharged my weight loss. After a year, I was down to 150 pounds.
Biggest payoff: My blood sugar levels are normal. And after I hit my goal weight, I was asked to be a Jenny Craig counselor. I said yes!
Stay-Slim Secrets
• Fill up on veggies. If a dish calls for a cup of peas, I’ll triple the amount. And I eat salad daily.
• Make healthy snacks accessible. When you buy produce, take 15 minutes to clean everything, chop it up, and put it in Tupperware.
• Exercise in the A.M. Just wake up and go. If you think twice about it, you won’t.
• Have a cappuccino after dinner instead of dessert. It has fewer calories.
Heaviest weight: 270
Current weight: 140
Lost: 130 pounds
Kept it off for: 4 years
My story: I come from a Greek background where life revolves around food. So I always ate — a lot. When I had kids, I wouldn’t eat all day because I was busy running around in my Oceanside, NY, home. But by late afternoon, I’d feel so famished that I’d scarf down the first thing I saw. I’d tell myself, I didn’t have breakfast or lunch, so I can eat half a cake. I ballooned to 270 pounds.
Worst moment: Not wanting to attend my own son’s christening. I was sick of people saying things like, “You’re such a pretty girl — you just need to lose a few pounds.”
How I lost it: With Jenny Craig, you get three prepared meals a day. In the beginning, it was an adjustment, because I would get one piece of chicken when I was used to eating three. I had to fill up on healthy snacks like fruit and low-fat yogurt. Now I eat grapes and berries like I used to eat chips. After I got down to 200 pounds, I started using a 10-minute Jenny Craig exercise tape. Then I worked up to harder videos, like Tae Bo, which supercharged my weight loss. After a year, I was down to 150 pounds.
Biggest payoff: My blood sugar levels are normal. And after I hit my goal weight, I was asked to be a Jenny Craig counselor. I said yes!
Stay-Slim Secrets
• Fill up on veggies. If a dish calls for a cup of peas, I’ll triple the amount. And I eat salad daily.
• Make healthy snacks accessible. When you buy produce, take 15 minutes to clean everything, chop it up, and put it in Tupperware.
• Exercise in the A.M. Just wake up and go. If you think twice about it, you won’t.
• Have a cappuccino after dinner instead of dessert. It has fewer calories.
Read more:
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/weight-loss/lose-weight-inspiration-stories-2
If God is for us, who can be against us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8: 31b, 35, 37-39)
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. (2 Corinthians 12:9)
Food Diary:
Breakfast: Egg sandwich: 2 slice of 100% whole wheat bread, miracle whip, 2 egg whites and 1egg
1 small grapefruit, and light grape fruit juice
Lunch: leftover homemade vegetable stew with stew meat
Dinner: Hot sauce and chips
Snack: sugar free chocolate pudding
I really like the success stories! Just think, we are on our way to a success story, too! Go Wendy!
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