Losing the last 20: May 2008

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Update

Well....I kind of neglected my blog for a while. I just got super crazy busy with pictures and didn't think about it. To be honest, in the past 5 days I have eaten 2 cartons of fat free ice cream by myself. I also have worked out for a minimum of 1 hour every single day. I bought new jeans the other day and they ended up being a size 0. Yeah strange I know. I was way smaller in high school and I think I wore a 3 then. I think it's that brand of jeans or something. I also had to buy new dress pants for wedding season (it's way too hard to shoot weddings and get in all those funky angled positions in a dress) I found some cute pants and they were a size 2. I want to stay this size, but I want my tummy thighs and arms to tone up a bit. My arms don't bother me much, but my tummy and thighs do. I have a lot of extra skin from having Garrett (it wasn't bad after Savannah) and losing weight. The stretch marks are really bad. They are loose and saggy and look like big wrinkly scars. I don't know if there is a surgery for my legs, but I am thinking about a tummy tuck. When I had Garrett my muscles seperated in my stomach and the dr. said that's the only way to fix it. It's super gross and scary but I would consider it. I don't know. I also think after every mommy is done having kids they should be granted a free boob job! Yep I said it. I don't think that one will ever happen because there is nothing really wrong with them just could be better ;). Anyway...I will keep working out and posting once in a while but I'm slammed with pics right now and get a little forgetful.

Friday, May 9, 2008

Back from AZ and ready to roar Day 1

Breakfast: 1 100 calories kudos m&m bar

Lunch: lettuce, cheese and ham with a little ranch dressing

Snack: 1 1/2 steak fingers

Dinner: turkey, olives, pickles and a little mayo

Snack: 1 100 calories kudos m&m bar

Snack: 6 pb saltines

Exercise: ran 1 mile, did 45 minutes of weights and 10 minutes on the leg magic machine

Thoughts: During my break from writing this down I thought I would gain a little weight. I actually ended up losing 5 pounds! I am now 5 pounds under goal so now my goal is to gain 5 pounds and tone up. Wish me luck!

Here's a few pics. We'll call them the Pre After, but Post before...maybe mid?

Smart women, Dumb diets (from SELF magazine)

Here are some things that you should AVOID doing while trying to lose weight

1 - Cutting out a food group : You'll lose weight when you virtually cut out a food group because you drastically reduce your calorie intake. But, deprivation sets you up for cravings, and you're likely to overdo it. Once you add that group back in, the pounds will come back on.

2 - Eating nothing but rice cakes : Rice cakes aren't only low in calories, they're among the most nutritionally devoid foods out there. You'll miss out on vitamins and nutrients such as iron. This will not give you the fuel you need to live and will break down muscle in order to give you energy.

3- Skipping and skimping meals (I am sooo bad about this) : If you're eating only small amounts or skipping meals, you'll be getting merely a few paltry vitamins and some sugar. Not only do you raise the risk for abnormal heart rhythms by eating so little, but the body starts to take minerals like calcium from bones!

Brandi's Tips and Tricks...updated weekly...found in random places

So you ate sugary cereal for breakfast and chomped into a big fat burger for dinner. Relax! No one needs to be a perfect eater all of the time. Berate yourself for not doing better and you could trigger emotional overeating. To ease your mind I've found everyday diet flubs you can stop stressing about.

1- Eating Empty Carbs : As long as half of your daily servings of grain are the 100 percent whole kind, the rest can be whatever you like. Pasta, bread and cereals made with enriched white flours still offer important nutrients such as folic acid.

2- The Only Veggie You Like Is Carrots : If you are eating carrots instead of fries, you're doing pretty well! You'll likely get bored with one food eventually. To expand your repertoire, try a veggie similarly sweet and crunchy (such as a red bell pepper)

3- You Love Red Meat : What's your beef? There's no need to eschew red meat, but choose lean cuts (flank, top round, sirloin) and keep portions to no more than 4 ounces per meal, 3 times per week. Besides being a good source of satiating protein, red meat is also rich in iron and zinc, two nutrients your body needs to maintain healthy cell production.

4- You Don't Read Labels : Great, then you're not being led astray by the healthy, sugar-free claims, which can entice you to overeat. But also check the nutrition panel for partially hydrogenated oils. If you see them listed, leave the product (and its trans fats) on the shelf. Even perfect eaters have limits!

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