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You are what you eat. Eat healthy, be healthy. Eat smart, be smart. 

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I’ve Been Bad

So I have been bad lately. Very. Bad.

But, I am not gonna have another day 1. Because I have been bad, doesn’t mean I have to start over. It just means I get back on track. So I will post my days as if I didn’t miss any starting tomorrow. 

Until then, stay strong y’all. Everything is what you make it.

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Day 6

Man, I was hungry today. No matter what I ate, I was still hungry.

I started my morning the usual way, with my smoothie. Then for lunch, I ate the left over bacon parmesan spaghetti squash from the other night. Still hungry, I ate about 2 cups of cantaloupe and 2 cups of green grapes. This is more than a serving size obviously, and I wish I hadn’t eaten that much, but I did.

Then, hungry again about 2 hours later I ate a honey n’ oats granola bar. 

For dinner, I made bbq chicken on the grill, roasted broccoli, and sweet potato brûlée. I had never made this sweet potato dish before, and it definitely made enough for an army when I only had my boyfriend and myself to feed, but it was yummy!

Recipe:

5 ½ pounds of boiled sweet potatoes

3/4 cup of 1% milk

3 tablespoons of light sugar, softened

½ teaspoon of salt

1/4th teaspoon of ground cinnamon (I added more though for taste)

1/8th teaspoon of ground nutmeg

Mix all together, put in a baking sheet and then cover with ½ cup of brown sugar

Broil for about two minutes or until brown sugar on top melts, then let sit for about 5 minutes for brown sugar to harden!

This was very yummy and 5 smart points a serving (serving is half a cup)!

This makes 14 servings, so great for a dinner party or pot luck!

I also made another batch of cookies, this time with baking soda, and they turned out much fluffier! It is amazing what ¼ of a teaspoon of baking soda can do for a cookie recipe!

Overall, not a great day for the diet. I snacked a lot more than I should have! I was working outside a lot, and I think I was confusing dehydration with hunger a lot today. 

Hopefully, tomorrow will be better! I won’t let this discourage me!

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Day 5

So I didn’t have time to post yesterday. So days 5 and 6 will have to both be posted today. 

Yesterday was a bad day for eating out. ALL THREE MEALS. I promised a friend I hadn’t seen in two months we could get breakfast, so I got a parfait crepe and a Diet Coke instead of coffee because I put way to much sugar in coffee and didn’t need the added calories.

Yes, I know Diet Coke is bad for me. Not the lecture I will listen to, you can talk to a wall like my mother does when it comes to that.

Then, for lunch my parents wanted to go to Kickback Jacks. This is what I get for going home between school ending and work starting these past 2 weeks. I tried to be healthy though and got a chicken Caesar salad. Then I went to the gym and ran three miles on the treadmill in about 31 minutes, and then did 20 minutes legs with the bar. I. Was. Drenched.

I have noticed in the past few months, while having gain so much weight, that I sweat even more now. I mean, every part of my body was completely soaked. I could feel the sweating pour down my back. Not dripping, pouring.

So, I was going to make a weight watcher’s recipe for homemade pizza last night. I had it all planned and was excited, then my boyfriend changed our plans because he wanted to eat dinner with his parents so he could get a paycheck. Totally fine, I get it but also that meant THREE meals that I would be eating out that day.

I had to rush home and shower, but it was already 6:30 and I was starving. So I ate two of my low point cookies to sustain me so I wouldn’t gorge myself at dinner.

We went to a small restaurant with a limited menu, so of course I had to get a Caesar salad to be healthy. Tried to mix it up some and got shrimp this time. It was a small salad, and I won’t lie I ate some of my boyfriend’s parmesan fries (but only a handful, really).

My boyfriend’s mom LOVES dessert. She kills me because she always is baking, buying, or wanting to get dessert. So of course she wanted ice cream, and I didn’t wanna leave her hanging because I love her. So I asked for a  SMALL SINGLE SCOOP of mint chocolate chip. SMALL. Seems simple, but yet I got handed a LARGE single scoop (should be categorized as two scoops, don’t lie to me lady). I only allowed myself to eat about 1/3rd of the cup, because I will not lose myself to these calories again.

If I ate it all, I would want more today and tomorrow. My sweet tooth is accelerated when I feed it, so I can’t. 

As of this morning, I have lost 5 pounds. I hope it isn’t water weigh, but at least I feel like my stomach is less bloated now. 

Gotta keep going, this is the time for me to finally change myself and be healthy,

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Cookie fail! 

Should have followed the recipe!

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Day 4

I tried a new recipe for dinner tonight, Bacon Parmesan Spaghetti Squash.

Recipe:

1 Spaghetti Squash, halved and baked until shreddable

4 pieces of bacon, cooked to a crisp and crumbled

Half a cup of shredded cheese

1 ½ tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil

Salt and Pepper to taste

As a picky eater, I was very concerned about this recipe but it went great. It ended up being delicious. 

For breakfast I drank a smoothie as always. For lunch my mother wanted to go out again, so I got another chicken, apple, and gouda salad.

For dessert, I just made weight watcher’s cookies, but I failed epically. 

Recipe:

2 tablespoons of softened light butter

2 teaspoons of canola oil (I used olive oil because thats all I had)

½ cup of dark brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/8 teaspoon table salt

1 egg

3/4 cup all-purpose flour

½ baking soda (here was the biggest fail, I forgot to get it at the store so just skipped this step)

½ cup of sugar free chocolate chips

If you try this recipe and it goes better for you send me a picture of your cookies. I will post a picture of mine shortly.

Overall, a very busy and good day. Worked outside all day in the heat and sweated a lot. Hopefully things continue to go well!

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Stop What You’re Doing!!

Stop. Starving. Yourself.

Search weight lose on Tumblr and so many things come up talking about fasting, only drinking water, only eating 200-850 calories today, and it infuriates me.

Stop promoting this lifestyle. This. Is. What. Crushes. Self-Esteems. 

Stop it.

Your body needs calories for energy. Your body needs nutrition to continue functioning. Yes, you should drink water, but that isn't all you should consume in a day. Two hundred calories is not enough to sustain a person. 

Stop Starving Yourself.

It’s about portion control. Its about the kinds of calories you put in your body. Its about health. STARVING YOURSELF IS NOT HEALTHY.

Stop promoting this lifestyle, skinny isn’t the goal. HEALTHY IS.

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Day 3

I eat out too much. I swear every day I eat out at least once. It seems everyone in my life wants to go out to eat now when I am trying so hard to stay on track.

This morning I drank my smoothie and drove an hour to my parents house to provide some manual labor to my mother with a bad back and shoulder. It has been extremely humid so everything I do outside works up a crazy amount of sweat. Ew, yes I said SWEAT. I wouldn’t count it as a workout though, just as you wouldn’t count the sweat you work up in a sauna as a workout.

But, I didn’t eat again until 3:00 this afternoon. Now, I do not suggest this. Eat when your body is actually hungry, but in my case I knew I would be eating a big meal between lunch and dinner instead of having both individually. My father LOVES linner. Eating at 3 or 4 is the perfect gap between lunch and dinner crowds, so seating and service are usually very quick. 

We went to Longhorn Steak House and I ate half a loaf of bread. That is what I get for not eating something when I was first hungry. Instead, I let my stomach growl for several hours and then as soon as the bread hit the table I was munching down, hard. For my actual meal, I had a Caesar salad with steak. I know chicken is healthier for you, but how do you go to a steak house and not eat steak??

Since it is only 5:00pm now, I am sure a snack will be in my future but against I will try to stick to strawberries and not get on a junk food kick before bed.

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Very true. I must admit I have been struggling with motivating myself for the past few weeks, that is one of the reasons I have been very inactive, I’m sorry. I am trying very hard to get back on course and become more motivated and I believe I can do it.

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You are what you eat. Eat healthy, be healthy. Eat smart, be smart.

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Day 2

Of course it is day two, which means I fucked up the diet. I started great. I had another healthy smoothie for breakfast at the crack of dawn before driving an hour to run a 5k race. First place in my age group, but still don’t know what my time was. That was great, but then my friend’s family insisted they take me out to lunch for coming so far to run their race.

After that run, I didn’t even try to have the mental strength to order something healthy. We went to Texas road house, and as everyone knows that means ROLLS. My biggest downfall is my love for carbs. I had FOUR ROLLS. FOUR. And it didn’t stop there. I had some fried onions, a Caesar salad, barbecue, AND a sweet potato. ALL IN ONE SITTING. I didn’t finish roughly half of my meal because I had filled up on rolls prior to, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t consume WAY too many calories.

THEN, of course we had to go to a birthday party that afternoon. AGAIN THERE WAS BARBECUE. Also mac n’ cheese and grapes. There wasn’t cake which would have saved me some calories, but of course my boyfriend’s mother goes and buys a cake because she had only gone to the birthday party for the cake. 

So how could I say no when she bought us a cake? I COULD HAVE, but I didn’t. Today was bad, but tomorrow WILL be better. I am not going to let this day already break my motivation to get healthy and lose weight.

This is about me, and I make mistakes. But I will not give up, not this time. Stay tuned people, as the struggle continues tomorrow.

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The Trouble of a Picky Eater

Exercising has never been my issue. It has always been diet. As a picky eater, it is very difficult to eat healthy. I just recently started expanding my palate to incorporate more vegetables. Sweet potatoes, zoodles, spaghetti squash, and more. 

But I didn't eat any of those today. It was an interesting day because my mother and my boyfriend wanted to go out for lunch and for dinner. What did I do? I ate salads at both meals. Different salads of course to allow for diversity.

As always, I started my morning with a spinach, strawberry, and banana protein smoothie. Then for lunch, I ate a grilled chicken, apple, and gouda salad without the dressing. Now, I didn’t avoid the dressing for health. I didn’t have dressing on my salad because the only dressings I like are Caesar and the Italian dressing from Olive Garden. Also, there were craisins in my salad, and that is not my forte. Then for dinner I just ate a grilled chicken Caesar salad from Chopt, but of course I had to add bacon (not healthy but still a salad). 

The goal is to not eat anything else tonight, but if I do I will eat a bowl of strawberries.

In addition, I went to the gym and ran two miles with some light hills. Then I did some abs and arms. Again, exercise is not my issue it is diet. Overall today way a good day one.

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Great smoothie for weight loss

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Healthy Smoothie Option

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Day 1 BMI Chart

Height: 5′4

Weight: 185

Gender: Female

Age: 23

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Day 1

It’s day one, but I have said this a million times before. Every week there is a day one, where I am going to get my shit together and change my ways. Every week, I struggle for two or three days and then give up and say to myself: I will just start next Monday, it will be the real start then. It never is. 

That is the point of this blog. To document my struggles, and to hopefully help someone else also going through this struggle.

I have done weight watchers many times. For the first time when I was ten. My mother took me to my first meeting and pushed me hard to lose the weight because I was nearing obesity as a child. 

Most recently, I lost 9 pounds leading up to my sister’s wedding. But that was 30 pounds ago now. Once the wedding was over, so way my motivation.

Something has to change. I am 5′4 and roughly 185 pounds. Just four years ago I was 135 pounds. Fifty pounds in four years. That is out of control and unhealthy.

So here is the start of my day one again, but for real. Through this blog I will document my struggles, my exercise, my daily meals, and all the weight watcher’s recipes that I try.

Thanks for joining me in this journey.