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Making Progress

Since I was off today I made a 3 egg omelette with feta cheese and it was so good and low carb.  

Here are my stats for today.  I did swim so that isn't in my activity stats because the BodyMedia isn't waterproof.  I feel so good mentally and physically when I am following a plan.  It's weird though all my happiness shouldn't be dependent solely on my eating and exercise plan but it is right now.  Maybe that is how successful people do it, total obsession.

My short term goal is to weigh 300 by July 31.  

BodyMedia Fit and Food

So I started off just eating watermelon but then I thought that is dumb and unhealthy to just eat watermelon all day. Especially after I worked out I had a headache and felt weird.  Therefore, for dinner I ate a chicken breast with tomato sauce and goat cheese.

I'm loving my BodyMedia band. I just feel like I have more knowledge about how many calories I burn a day.  I honestly thought I was burning about 4000 - 4500 calories a day when I work out but apparently I'm burning less then I thought.  

I workout!  

I hosted a family dinner Sunday but I didn't want to completely blow my calorie count so I made a Greek chicken souvlaki salad bar.  I'm not sure my meat and potatoes family enjoyed but I did.  

Hello July

Today's weight 318. Total lost 13 pounds since I stated this blog.

The scale is going down but very slowly.  I know I definitely ate and drank too much over the holiday week/weekend but I'm learning and not giving up.

I want to lose weight faster, with lasting results, and I think the only way to do that is to cut out carbs but it is so hard.   From everyone I talked too who lives a very low carb lifestyle they started by doing some sort of detox.  So I am going to try this.  I probably won't make the soup but days 1-6 seem doable.  Ha ha, I always say that until I actually start doing it.  I need to remind myself it is only 6 days. Everyone I talked to says once you get through that carb crash day 3 or 4 you are ok.  I want to just live a low carb/ low sugar lifestyle for the rest of my life.  I want to crave fruits and vegetables not sugar and bread.  

In addition to diet, I have been trying to keep better track of my calories burned and my exercise so in order to do so I bought the Body-media arm thing.  I am a numbers kind of girl and seeing input    versus output I think will help motivate me to eat less and move more.  

This was yesterday and In order to burn this many calories I did the stairs twice at work, two floors, walked a mile on break and did a 45 minute Jillian Michael's video, which is a lot for me in a day.