Date: 10-26-09
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 187.5 (188.2)
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 1.3 (2.6)
Total Weight loss: 32.1 (31.4)
Pounds left to lose: 12.5 (13.2)
These are my stats from Monday the 26th. I am all out of energy lately. I’m flat out exhausted. 8 more days and one last weigh in until I set sail for my 10 day vacation. This week I was the biggest loser again and get to claim my prize on the upcoming Monday. I am still holding strong in fourth place in the overall standings, but fighting hard for the third spot. Keeping up with my normal pace as usual.
I will update again before I head out for vacation with details of where my diet stands and my plans for not gaining while on vacation. I just wanted to keep my stats current and weekly. Sorry for the skimmed details.
Stay tuned and keep up the good work.
<3 Tiffany
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Keep up the good work.
Date: 10-19-09
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 188.6 (190.8)
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 1.3 (2.2)
Total Weight loss: 31 (28.8)
Pounds left to lose: 13.6 (15.8)
I decided to do my stats a little differently from now on. The stubborn side of me can’t choose to post Biggest Loser stats or my own from home. I feel like I want to have honest numbers up for the contest but I also don’t want to discredit the main scale I have been weighing on since day one. Well day one after the big scale fiasco of 09’ I blogged about. Anyways the stats in black are my stats from home and I decided to change the color and put my Biggest Loser stats in parentheses. I will do it this way from now on.
I didn’t update because of a lack of time and motivation last week after the Biggest Loser results came back in. I won top Loser for the week! Whoop. I also moved up to third place in the overall standings. I don’t count on staying there because of how close the others are, but only time will tell. Another 2.2 pounds down this week. My prize was also a choice of a few certificates. I ended up choosing one for a free t-shirt from Cleanline. I am sure I will just give it to my sister, I can’t imagine shopping there. I think I would feel too out of place.
Seventeen more days left until my cruise. I am taking a ten day or so break from the Medifast diet. I think it will be a good test to see how I will do when I am ready to really transition off of it. Although, free food, room service, and endless amount of time for drinking isn’t exactly a real world situation test. It’s sort of a drastic test and one that I am concerned about. I am worried about how much I will gain back and about how difficult it will be to start up again after I am back in my normal swing of things. My family just wants me to relax and have a good time and not worry about it. I think after a couple days I will be able to. Seventeen more days to slim down a little bit more for the fitted dress I got. I will post a few pictures when I get back.
Lately I have been using my aunt as an even bigger motivation. She is looking so great and only a few pounds away from my second goal of 155. I couldn’t imagine getting down to that size but I believe that anything is possible if I try hard enough.
My goal this week is to learn a healthier way to deal with the random “snack attacks” I get on the weekends, or when I have a lot of down time. I have been obsessing (that maybe too strong a word) with food and watching the clock for when I can eat next. I am not usually hungry let alone starving to the point of staring at the clock. I am just bored and use food as a way to occupy my time. This is such a negative habit to have and even more dangerous for after I am finished with Medifast. I haven’t found a good way to deal with this yet. I am defiantly interested in some feedback from people who have found constructive ways of dealing with it. Sometimes that extra bottle of water just doesn’t cut it! I have managed to still stick to Medifast to the T, but am just searching for something to ease my way a little bit.
Quote for today by an unknown author. Remember this as we are on our journey to loving ourselves Inside and out!
“It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.”
<3 Tiffany
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 188.6 (190.8)
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 1.3 (2.2)
Total Weight loss: 31 (28.8)
Pounds left to lose: 13.6 (15.8)
I decided to do my stats a little differently from now on. The stubborn side of me can’t choose to post Biggest Loser stats or my own from home. I feel like I want to have honest numbers up for the contest but I also don’t want to discredit the main scale I have been weighing on since day one. Well day one after the big scale fiasco of 09’ I blogged about. Anyways the stats in black are my stats from home and I decided to change the color and put my Biggest Loser stats in parentheses. I will do it this way from now on.
I didn’t update because of a lack of time and motivation last week after the Biggest Loser results came back in. I won top Loser for the week! Whoop. I also moved up to third place in the overall standings. I don’t count on staying there because of how close the others are, but only time will tell. Another 2.2 pounds down this week. My prize was also a choice of a few certificates. I ended up choosing one for a free t-shirt from Cleanline. I am sure I will just give it to my sister, I can’t imagine shopping there. I think I would feel too out of place.
Seventeen more days left until my cruise. I am taking a ten day or so break from the Medifast diet. I think it will be a good test to see how I will do when I am ready to really transition off of it. Although, free food, room service, and endless amount of time for drinking isn’t exactly a real world situation test. It’s sort of a drastic test and one that I am concerned about. I am worried about how much I will gain back and about how difficult it will be to start up again after I am back in my normal swing of things. My family just wants me to relax and have a good time and not worry about it. I think after a couple days I will be able to. Seventeen more days to slim down a little bit more for the fitted dress I got. I will post a few pictures when I get back.
Lately I have been using my aunt as an even bigger motivation. She is looking so great and only a few pounds away from my second goal of 155. I couldn’t imagine getting down to that size but I believe that anything is possible if I try hard enough.
My goal this week is to learn a healthier way to deal with the random “snack attacks” I get on the weekends, or when I have a lot of down time. I have been obsessing (that maybe too strong a word) with food and watching the clock for when I can eat next. I am not usually hungry let alone starving to the point of staring at the clock. I am just bored and use food as a way to occupy my time. This is such a negative habit to have and even more dangerous for after I am finished with Medifast. I haven’t found a good way to deal with this yet. I am defiantly interested in some feedback from people who have found constructive ways of dealing with it. Sometimes that extra bottle of water just doesn’t cut it! I have managed to still stick to Medifast to the T, but am just searching for something to ease my way a little bit.
Quote for today by an unknown author. Remember this as we are on our journey to loving ourselves Inside and out!
“It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.”
<3 Tiffany
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
A Few Firsts
Date: 10-13-09
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 189.9
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 8.3
Total Weight loss: 29.7
Pounds left to lose: 14.9
This blog entry is going against the grain a little bit. I am going by my scale at home which I have noticed is about two pounds lighter than the biggest loser scale. I will post my biggest loser stats as of yesterday.
Date: 10-12-09
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 193
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 5.2
Total Weight loss: 26.6
Pounds left to lose: 18
It has been two weeks since I posted. The day before last Monday’s weigh in, I came down with the local flu bug around here. I barely got through work on Dayquil and luck. After work I was straight to pajamas and bed. Blogging was not on my priority list (sorry!). I severely went off the plan but not in the worst way. I didn’t cheat at all. I didn’t eat anything that went against the plan. I just simply didn’t eat much. My appetite went away completely. Eating every two hours was simply not an option. I managed to get my morning shake in everyday and one other Medifast meal. For dinner I had to eat something because by that time at night the Dayquil/Nyquil was making me nauseous and giving me the shakes. I scrambled up three eggs and no green serving. Choked it down and called it good. I also would throw in a sugar free popsicle sometimes at night to help soothe my throat and give me some extra calories. I also found sugar free cough drops too. With the extra calories of the cold medicine (yep you heard me!) I wasn’t really as high on my intake as I needed to be but I that is how I managed. So far I am only a few days back on my schedule and no issues. I thought this might mess me up a bit and planned on gaining back a few of the pounds I shed but so far no gain. I will keep you posted as I keep up with my regular intake. Guess being sick didn’t affect it as much as I imagined.
Another first for me this weekend was an overnight trip and my first dining out experience. I was pretty worried about having to be a little picky about where we could go out to eat. I brought a variety of food just in case I got a craving for a certain Medifast meal. I continued with my morning shake each day and found it to be easier to live off the bars mostly. On the go it’s a little difficult to have oatmeal or some soup although not impossible. I just found the bars and honey mustard pretzels to be the most practical.
I found eating out to be rather easy and nice change to my previous restaurant habits. The breakfast skillets did look delicious, and the honey BBQ boneless wings were hard to stare at. Over all I enjoyed my dinner just as much, than if I had ordered something fattening. Most important lessons:
· It’s okay to be picky. If you see something in a dish you know won’t be good for you, order it on the side or ask them to exclude it.
· Always order any dressings or toppings on the side. This leaves the portion in your control. Normally on my mixed salads I just eat the amount of dressing they top my salad with. This time I knew how much I was drizzling over top and didn’t go overboard. I also knew I was within the right amount of dressing that I should use.
· That crispy fried chicken topper looks so good for a salad. Make it grilled. I promise it will taste just as good!
Keep up the good work. I know I am starting to feel more confident every day about my ability to stick with this. I still have my moments of overstress and anxiety. Let’s all just keep taking it one day at a time.
<3
Tiffany
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 189.9
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 8.3
Total Weight loss: 29.7
Pounds left to lose: 14.9
This blog entry is going against the grain a little bit. I am going by my scale at home which I have noticed is about two pounds lighter than the biggest loser scale. I will post my biggest loser stats as of yesterday.
Date: 10-12-09
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 193
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 5.2
Total Weight loss: 26.6
Pounds left to lose: 18
It has been two weeks since I posted. The day before last Monday’s weigh in, I came down with the local flu bug around here. I barely got through work on Dayquil and luck. After work I was straight to pajamas and bed. Blogging was not on my priority list (sorry!). I severely went off the plan but not in the worst way. I didn’t cheat at all. I didn’t eat anything that went against the plan. I just simply didn’t eat much. My appetite went away completely. Eating every two hours was simply not an option. I managed to get my morning shake in everyday and one other Medifast meal. For dinner I had to eat something because by that time at night the Dayquil/Nyquil was making me nauseous and giving me the shakes. I scrambled up three eggs and no green serving. Choked it down and called it good. I also would throw in a sugar free popsicle sometimes at night to help soothe my throat and give me some extra calories. I also found sugar free cough drops too. With the extra calories of the cold medicine (yep you heard me!) I wasn’t really as high on my intake as I needed to be but I that is how I managed. So far I am only a few days back on my schedule and no issues. I thought this might mess me up a bit and planned on gaining back a few of the pounds I shed but so far no gain. I will keep you posted as I keep up with my regular intake. Guess being sick didn’t affect it as much as I imagined.
Another first for me this weekend was an overnight trip and my first dining out experience. I was pretty worried about having to be a little picky about where we could go out to eat. I brought a variety of food just in case I got a craving for a certain Medifast meal. I continued with my morning shake each day and found it to be easier to live off the bars mostly. On the go it’s a little difficult to have oatmeal or some soup although not impossible. I just found the bars and honey mustard pretzels to be the most practical.
I found eating out to be rather easy and nice change to my previous restaurant habits. The breakfast skillets did look delicious, and the honey BBQ boneless wings were hard to stare at. Over all I enjoyed my dinner just as much, than if I had ordered something fattening. Most important lessons:
· It’s okay to be picky. If you see something in a dish you know won’t be good for you, order it on the side or ask them to exclude it.
· Always order any dressings or toppings on the side. This leaves the portion in your control. Normally on my mixed salads I just eat the amount of dressing they top my salad with. This time I knew how much I was drizzling over top and didn’t go overboard. I also knew I was within the right amount of dressing that I should use.
· That crispy fried chicken topper looks so good for a salad. Make it grilled. I promise it will taste just as good!
Keep up the good work. I know I am starting to feel more confident every day about my ability to stick with this. I still have my moments of overstress and anxiety. Let’s all just keep taking it one day at a time.
<3
Tiffany
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