What a week...as I reflect back on all this past week brought it was incredibly busy but all in good ways...mostly! I realized though, busy means I don't always give myself enough time to think about ME and what I should be doing, when I should be doing it.
I can count more than a few times this week when I was a 'late thinker' when it came to the program and what I was doing, what I was accomplishing, or not! I mean, I essentially don't deviate from protein, 'healthy' carbs and water, with the occasional cocktail. Yes, to those of you who know me well that are reading this, everyone has a different definition of 'occasional'!
However, this week...as I reflected back, after weigh in, I realized there was more than one occasion that I thought "after the fact" about what I did. The first one was on Tuesday night when I had a work dinner at Ruth Chris Steakhouse. First of all, fabulous! Second of all, I also ate lunch out that day. Lunch I had salmon and steamed veggies, all good stuff, no problems, no issues...on target all the way. Dinner I had filet medallions with shrimp, no butter, asparagus and a Caesar salad (no dressing, no croutons, lemon wedge on the side). I also had a couple of cocktails. That dinner was amazing. However it wasn't until I started typing this blog that I thought back to that entire days and said, UM...duh! Out of the 16 servings of protein I can have in a day, only four of them come from "lean" proteins and the other 12 are considered "very lean". Not typically an issue, except when you eat steak and salmon for your only proteins of the day (other than breakfast) and there was more than four ounces! OOOPS! That's oops # 1.
Alas, we didn't stop there...the next day Todd cooked dinner for he, Elise & I and we had steak and veggies and salad and I stopped during our salad making and picked out my salad before I ever finished making theirs...way to go, me! Dinner was excellent and we then started coloring Easter eggs, while snacking on the fresh fruit Todd had cut up. I absolutely love fresh fruit this time of year. Strawberries just at the peak of freshness and pineapple, chilled and sweet...YUM! So we all went to town on our healthy dessert. I got home, and don't you know...pineapple is not on the list! Eight weeks on this program (the 2nd time around) and you'd think I could know that...but I never even thought about it, until it was too late.
So, you're thinking now, well, that's got to be it, what else could she have done?! Ahhh, along comes Friday night. We went out to see a friend who is starting to play with a new band, we had a cocktail or two and by the end of the night we were chatting with all the people left in the bar and all the band people. In case you didn't know, I talk to everyone! :)
We were hanging out with some people I knew from a year or two ago and they decided we should do a shot...with Red Bull...something I swore off, a long time ago. That is, until Friday night, apparently. When did it dawn on me, you ask? Oh, I believe it was Sunday, as I was downing a gallon of water and trying to think of how I had done this week, since my weigh in was Tuesday instead of Monday. That's when some of these things hit me in the head.
I really need to pay attention to what I'm doing a little closer. I have the food list, shoot, I know the food list. I just flat out didn't think. Of course, last night I was stressing out over it, but really, at that point my fate was pretty much sealed for weigh in today.
Let's chat about weigh-in today...If nothing else, this brought a smile to my face while I was there this morning.
When I signed in, there was a few new people in the front, and when the medical assistant came to bring me back, she was new too. She mentioned her name (and I feel awful that I forgot it) and that she was filling in from the Sarasota branch. She then proceeded to tell me that I looked very much like the "lady on the website" to her, and she wanted to know if that was me. I said yes, unwillingly, since that "lady on the website" is still 20 pounds away from goal, but...I said yes.
She was thrilled, she thought that it was awesome that I was there and that she got to meet me. She called me a celebrity and said she was excited she'd gotten to meet "a celebrity". I reminded her that while I thought that was sweet, I was so NOT a celebrity! She was very sweet and she made my visit a bit brighter for sure. I sometimes run into people who mention to me that they saw an ad with me on it. Dr. Garcia's office still has my video on their website (insert shamless plug hyperlink here: http://garciaweightloss.com/t-videos.aspx) :-)
As well, the office has used my photos for mailings and advertising around the Tampa Bay area. I remember once a guy I work with told me he saw me in his mailbox. That was before restart, and I'm pretty sure I wasn't fitting in his mailbox, but the Val-Pak ad was there. He thought that was pretty cool.
Anyway, all that being said, you'd think I had a horrible week, and now that you've been patiently reading, I'll let you know how it was.
This week I ended up with a loss of 0.8 pounds and 1.5% body fat. Nothing to shake a stick at after the week of late thinking that I had, for sure. For those of you keeping track, that brings the 8-week total to 28 pounds.
That's about equivalent to four newborn babies, 112 sticks of butter, 5.5 bags of sugar, the weight of a car tire and then some...I went back and looked at "Round 1-Week 8"...I wish I would stop doing that, because I was further along in my progress then, but...I wasn't anywhere near as comfortable with the belief that I can do the maintenance and will not have to do this for a "Round 3"...I need to stop looking though! It is ... what it is ... my lifestyle is much different now, I exercise better, I'm losing inches...maybe next week I'll post those, some of them are dramatic to me, yet I've not even told anyone! :)
This week I also decided to purchase some of the protein/carb supplements. Sometimes I have a hard time getting all of my servings in, so the shakes/puddings and the snack bars might help with that. I definitely need to pay attention there, though, and plan my days out. Those are equivalent to the "lean" protein, and we know what happens to me there!
For now, I keep chugging (water) along, on to the next week and those results. This week I'm hoping to hit at least 2 pounds of a loss. I have a 30-pound goal treat in mind and I can't wait for tomatoes to be added to the list!
Once again, to those of you who put up with me through the day to day, meal to meal aspect of this program and have yet to give up on me...thank you! I couldn't do it without the support of my friends, family and Garcia-Carrollwood office staff! You all are the best! Have a fabulous week, I know I will!
April 26, 2011
April 20, 2011
A little behind...Weeks 6 & 7
My apologies to everyone! Work has been crazy and I just haven't had a lot of time to think about my blog posts.
I try to post something meaningful and an accurate depiction of my week (or weeks in this case), along with realizations, struggles, challenges, successes or whatever the case might be. Sometimes I know days in advance what I want to blog about after my weigh in result and other times my creativity just hides and I can't think of anything meaningful.
A few weeks ago I was going to post in regards to being someone who likes to maintain control over every aspect of my life, yet, apparently my weight issues/struggles are something I can't 'control' unless I pay full-on attention and use the resources from Dr. Garcia's office to help me hold myself accountable. It just sounds funny to me that someone who is a control freak needs accountability!
Live and learn I guess, because during Round 1 as I was closing in on my goal, I didn't think I'd need the accountability that standing on the scale gives me on a weekly basis. I think I thought I was successful, I learned what I needed to do, so I could just "do it"...but when I wasn't checking in, I quickly learned it was easy to not do it and not have to think much about it.
This time...no doubt about it, maintenance is mandatory! I have an incredibly supportive circle though and they encourage me to do the right things, remind me to drink the water and assist me in every aspect of the program.
SO over the last two weeks, and if you've made it this far in this blog post, you should know, I wrote this post last night, while coloring Easter eggs with Todd & Elise and I posted it...however, just found out it only posted a portion of it...so if the thoughts seem a little scattered it's because I just emailed all of you and told you it was done...then it wasn't!
So...the last two weeks. The end of week six proved to be a successful week with a 2.8 pound loss for a total of 25.4 and week seven ended with a 1.8 pound loss for a grand total to date of 27.2 and I really couldn't be happier. Well, I could...it's prime time for tomatoes here in Florida and I can't have them until I hit 30 pounds...then I'll be really happy!
I have also made the decision that I am going to continue for another 20 pounds. If I do that, I'll be 5 pounds more than when I hit goal last time. I heard from several people last time that I went too far and so maybe 5 pounds will be ok. I've asked Jen and Todd, the people who see me the most, to keep this all in check with me though. Last time I didn't necessarily think I had gone too far down in weight but other people thought I did. This time I've reached out and asked them to let me know when enough is enough if they think so before I do.
To all of my support system though, thank you so much. Without you all, I wouldn't be able to continue this through the daily struggles of "life" getting in the way. Sometimes it's easy to just run into somewhere with a drive-thru and make a quick, non-healthy choice, but even when we are sometimes in a hurry to get home from what we've been out doing or we need a quicker lunch than normal, my friends, boyfriend and family all make that sacrifice for me to be able to find something I can eat other than fast food. You guys all deserve an award for putting up with me as well!
Thanks, again...now I'm off to have lunch and drink another liter of water or two, before 3:30 this afternoon...today's water goal!
I try to post something meaningful and an accurate depiction of my week (or weeks in this case), along with realizations, struggles, challenges, successes or whatever the case might be. Sometimes I know days in advance what I want to blog about after my weigh in result and other times my creativity just hides and I can't think of anything meaningful.
A few weeks ago I was going to post in regards to being someone who likes to maintain control over every aspect of my life, yet, apparently my weight issues/struggles are something I can't 'control' unless I pay full-on attention and use the resources from Dr. Garcia's office to help me hold myself accountable. It just sounds funny to me that someone who is a control freak needs accountability!
Live and learn I guess, because during Round 1 as I was closing in on my goal, I didn't think I'd need the accountability that standing on the scale gives me on a weekly basis. I think I thought I was successful, I learned what I needed to do, so I could just "do it"...but when I wasn't checking in, I quickly learned it was easy to not do it and not have to think much about it.
This time...no doubt about it, maintenance is mandatory! I have an incredibly supportive circle though and they encourage me to do the right things, remind me to drink the water and assist me in every aspect of the program.
SO over the last two weeks, and if you've made it this far in this blog post, you should know, I wrote this post last night, while coloring Easter eggs with Todd & Elise and I posted it...however, just found out it only posted a portion of it...so if the thoughts seem a little scattered it's because I just emailed all of you and told you it was done...then it wasn't!
So...the last two weeks. The end of week six proved to be a successful week with a 2.8 pound loss for a total of 25.4 and week seven ended with a 1.8 pound loss for a grand total to date of 27.2 and I really couldn't be happier. Well, I could...it's prime time for tomatoes here in Florida and I can't have them until I hit 30 pounds...then I'll be really happy!
I have also made the decision that I am going to continue for another 20 pounds. If I do that, I'll be 5 pounds more than when I hit goal last time. I heard from several people last time that I went too far and so maybe 5 pounds will be ok. I've asked Jen and Todd, the people who see me the most, to keep this all in check with me though. Last time I didn't necessarily think I had gone too far down in weight but other people thought I did. This time I've reached out and asked them to let me know when enough is enough if they think so before I do.
To all of my support system though, thank you so much. Without you all, I wouldn't be able to continue this through the daily struggles of "life" getting in the way. Sometimes it's easy to just run into somewhere with a drive-thru and make a quick, non-healthy choice, but even when we are sometimes in a hurry to get home from what we've been out doing or we need a quicker lunch than normal, my friends, boyfriend and family all make that sacrifice for me to be able to find something I can eat other than fast food. You guys all deserve an award for putting up with me as well!
Thanks, again...now I'm off to have lunch and drink another liter of water or two, before 3:30 this afternoon...today's water goal!
April 4, 2011
Completion of Week 5....And a busy week it was!
Another week down! Week 5 seemed to be an incredibly busy week for me. I traveled for work to Sarasota on Monday/Tuesday for agency meetings and then Wednesday through Friday to Orlando for a convention and then had a pretty busy weekend as well. We had a few days of really crappy Florida weather as well this week.
When we arrived in Orlando, there were tornadoes, super high winds, chairs on the pool deck blown over on top of each other, just a big mess...and don't you know it was as soon as we got out of the car to get into our room!
I don't think I ate more than two meals at home last week, including breakfasts. Dinner out each night, lunch as well. That used to be enough to freak me out regarding having to stand on a scale on Monday mornings, but really, while at times the choices were a little boring, it was easy to stay on track with the food plan this week.
My struggle this week with the travel and work commitments was more on exercise and drinking the water. I didn't make it to the gym all week, didn't do anything while traveling, the weather was awful until our last day in Orlando, and then the weekend was full of beautiful weather and lots of time outside enjoying it, but no exercise...ooops!
It's difficult to drink the water when I am working some days. Sometimes it's super easy and I'm thirsty all day and that makes it easy to drink but sometimes I just kind of forget to drink it. I know that probably doesn't make sense but I get busy doing other things and forget about the water. I've never been good at just drinking water. I'm not a big fan of water, it's rather boring. I know it has a ton of benefits, but it's just blah! I'm on a mission this week to finish the water every day, though! We'll see how that works!
I'm happy to say that even eating out every meal for the week, this morning's weigh in showed a 2.8 pound loss, for a total of 22.6 in the five weeks. I also managed a body fat loss of 1.2%. Completely not sure how that happened, but I'll take it!
I'm happy with the progress, and know that "round 2" has been so different than the first time through the program. I'm committed to keeping up with maintenance one I hit the goal this time and I know my support system will help me to make that happen!
So, off to drink the last of the water for today...have a great week, everyone!
When we arrived in Orlando, there were tornadoes, super high winds, chairs on the pool deck blown over on top of each other, just a big mess...and don't you know it was as soon as we got out of the car to get into our room!
I don't think I ate more than two meals at home last week, including breakfasts. Dinner out each night, lunch as well. That used to be enough to freak me out regarding having to stand on a scale on Monday mornings, but really, while at times the choices were a little boring, it was easy to stay on track with the food plan this week.
My struggle this week with the travel and work commitments was more on exercise and drinking the water. I didn't make it to the gym all week, didn't do anything while traveling, the weather was awful until our last day in Orlando, and then the weekend was full of beautiful weather and lots of time outside enjoying it, but no exercise...ooops!
It's difficult to drink the water when I am working some days. Sometimes it's super easy and I'm thirsty all day and that makes it easy to drink but sometimes I just kind of forget to drink it. I know that probably doesn't make sense but I get busy doing other things and forget about the water. I've never been good at just drinking water. I'm not a big fan of water, it's rather boring. I know it has a ton of benefits, but it's just blah! I'm on a mission this week to finish the water every day, though! We'll see how that works!
I'm happy to say that even eating out every meal for the week, this morning's weigh in showed a 2.8 pound loss, for a total of 22.6 in the five weeks. I also managed a body fat loss of 1.2%. Completely not sure how that happened, but I'll take it!
I'm happy with the progress, and know that "round 2" has been so different than the first time through the program. I'm committed to keeping up with maintenance one I hit the goal this time and I know my support system will help me to make that happen!
So, off to drink the last of the water for today...have a great week, everyone!
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