karencovert

Hello all. I know it has been a while since I posted a message. I have been busy with school and other things. I have still been trying to lose all the extra weight that I have and in the beginning when I started, it fell off. I think for the most part the first 18 pounds were water weight, which is a lot of water to be retaining.

My new plan is to actually start a gym plan. I got a membership the other day to one of the gyms near where I live and I am going to try to go 2-3 times a week. I am going to go tomorrow, wednesday and friday. On wednesday I have an appointment with a personnal trainer and she is going to do a health workup and see what I need to do in order to get healthy and fit. Then, hopefully she will give me a work out plan together that will be easy for me to follow and at the same time help me lose this extra weight.

I have still been doing really good with drinking water and unsweet tea, and have been trying to stay within 1500 calories a day. Some days I get less and some I get a little more, but for the most part I have been trying to keep to the diet. I think for the most part it isn’t what I am eating but it is the fact that I am not active. I wish I could turn back time and not have gotten lazy after I stopped swimming on the swim team in school. When I started it was hard, but then once I got conditioned and in shape it came really easy to me. I could have continued to work out, but I got lazy which I wish I could take back. Now, I have to start all over and it is going to be really hard, but I would rather get healthy while I want to, instead of becuase I have too.

Well, that is it for now. I am going to look over my homework and make sure it is good to be turned in tomorrow.

Hope everyone has a great holiday.

Karen

Hey everyone, well it is Sunday and I am still hanging in there. I still have a bunch of stress and my nerves are still playing up. I hope that the medicine I am on will begin to work and it will make me feel better and get rid of my stress. The stress I am under has caused me to not be hungry, but I have been trying to eat. There are some days when I am under my 1200 calories and there are some days when I am slighty over it. I just don’t feel much like eating and I know that is not good for me, but I just don’t know what to do.

Any suggestions?

xoxo

Karen

Ok, so the stress is still there and the worry is still there, but everyone is telling me everything will be ok so, I hope it will be. I did farily well on my eating today. I actually ate breakfast and even though (yet again) it was McDonald’s I didn’t eat as much as I usually do. I had one breakfast burrito and a hashbrown with a large unsweet tea. So, not to bad and better then the country big breakfast or the sauage egg cheese biscut 2 hashbrowns I used to eat.

For lunch, I went to my nephews elementary school and ate lunch with him. We had grilled cheese, chili, chocolate milk and apple sauce. It was good and fun. It has been a long, long time since I was in an elementary school much less eating a school lunch.

For dinner we sorta had breakfast for dinner, but it was good. I had a 100 calorie Thompson enlgish muffin, with a piece of Kraft fat free American cheese, half an egg, and a serving of baked lays followed by half of a Granny Smith apple.

So, food wise not too bad. I added snacks to my food journal just in case I get hungry later, but I am still holding my calorie intake at 1756 which isn’t the best, but it is still pretty good. I haven’t ate the snacks yet so that may go down, but that number is including them. So, so far so good.

Yesterday I weighed myself and it was zeroed out and it said I was at 302 which made me down 6 pounds then the last time I weighed. Today I weighed and it said 300 so, I am gonna check it later this evening to get an accurate because I don’t see how I lost 2 pounds in one day.

Well, that is it for right now, there really isn’t anything else going on with me other then my stress that is going on but hopefully that will turn out good and I can move on with losing weight and getting healthy.

xoxo

Karen

Well, today has still ended up crappy, but I am still trucking along. Hopefully, the worst that I am imagining won’t happen. But, on a better note I did walk around Walmart twice today. Once for a 1/2 hour and the second for 45 minutes. So, that is some good walking today and it said on the exercise journal that I burned 330 calories doing that plus carrying in the groceries up the stairs.

So, far today with all my food intake (including snacks) I have ate 1521 in calories which is less then yesterday so that is really good, considering that all I wanted to do is stress eat all day. Once the food settles I am gonna check my weight and see if I have lost any over the last two days, but I doubt it since I just began.

So all in all it was a horrible day, but a good day for my calorie intake. I think tomorrow will be better food wise because we are not eating at McDonald’s so that will cut down on some of the calories that I will be eating for lunch.

Hope all is well with all my other diet buddies.

xoxo

Karen

Ok, so I woke up today ready for another good day like I had yesterday and it went downhill real fast. I am not going into detail, but my stress level is way up today and I am determined not to eat because of that stress. I amy actually go out and try to walk it off and see if the fresh rainy air won’t do me some good. Hopefully, the thing that has caused me stress will actually turn out for the good and that way I can continue to try to maintain my stress level so that I will not eat everything under the sun like I did before while stressed.

Today we hade McDonald’s again today and I went with a plain cheeseburger happy meal and a loarge unsweet tea with 5 splenda’s. I also made me a big batah on unsweet tea last night to drink around the house with the splenda that we got. I also bought a scale today so that should be fun to use, hopefully it will tell me good things and not bad things. I am going to wait until later this evening after all my eating is done so that I can get a true weight and do’t have food sitting in my stomach.

So, far that has been my day, but it is still early but we have a pretty sensible dinner planned out for tonight. I need to buy some sort of mini breakfast food to eat because I really don’t eat breakfast unless we are out and about during breakfast time.

Hope all is well with all my fitness and diet buddies.

Speak soon

xoxo

Karen

Ok, so before i go to sleep since I am shattered I thought I would blog with excitement that I did so weel today. Had a total of 1654 calories today which is way better then I am used too. I am gonna shoot for lower, but if I can keep it there in that area I will be happy and hopefully start dropping some of this weight.

So, tomorrow I am gonna step up the exercise and walk a bit more and throw some sit-ups, crunches and push-ups into the mix and hopefully that will also help me on my way to my goal weight.

I do want to thank all the great people that I have met so far on her for their inspiration and their kind words and boosts…it will needed and well appreciated.

See ya tomorrow

xoxo

Karen

Hello all, I woke up this morning determined to be good today, but then remembered that my mom had a doctor’s appointment so I knew that I would be eating out. So, of course we went to McDonald’s, but I did change up my menu a bit today. For starters I only ate one cheeseburger instead of two ( I know they are still bad for ya, but it could have been worse). Second, my mom and I split a french fry, but even though we split one we didn’t eat all of them. Third, instead of my normal large coke or large sweet tea, I actually drank a large unsweet tea and put in some splenda, which actually tasted pretty good today.

So, all in all the McDonald’s trip sounds bad, but coming from a person who could eat a 20 piece chicken McNugget and a large fry and coke, I think I did pretty good. Next time we are gonna have a grilled chicken salad and split it.

So, after we ate my mom and I went to walk around Walmart for about a half hour before her doctors appointment, which I think would qualify as exercise, then we went to the doctor only to find out that he went out of town and they had spent all day trying to reach us to tell us that he wouldn’t be there and we had to reschedule…grrrrr.

So, when I got home I thought that I should get out and walk some more so I took y dog Honey for a walk, since she is a spoiled princess she didn’t like that too much so next time I might take our other dog Chewie for a walk instead. So all in all I walked about 40-45 minutes today so far, but I might try to go out later tonight for another walk.

Now, we are trying to decide what to have for dinner, that is healthy.

Hope all of you are doing well.

xoxo

Hello everyone, My name is Karen I am 31 and live in Kentucky. I am a Psychology student working toward my Bachelor’s degree in hopes of one day being a clinical psychologist. I have been trying to lose weight for some time now and just never had the right motivation to do it. I recently realized that if I set my mind to it I can do anything and have been trying to feed on that positive attitude to get me started in the right direction for weight lose.

So, after talking with my friend Dennis who is a member of Buddy Slim I joined in hopes of keeping my new found motivation and using it to better my life and shed a lot of the extra pounds that I have acquired over the years. I alos think it would be great to meet other people who are going through the same challenges that I am and maybe make some new friends along the way that will help to keep my ass motivated.

Another bit of motivation for me comes from looking at my parents and seeing the countless health issues they have and  the fact that I do not wish to follow down that same road.

We all have to start someone, so this is my starting point.

xoxo