Friday~ "e" is for bra & underw"e"ar

Ok.. so apparently I've put it off for long enough. I'm on the tightest hooks of my 36's & have officially lost pretty much the only good thing about having some extra weight on you. So either I need to go buy some tissues or I need to make a stop to VS. hmmm free bag with $75 purchase this weekend. Let me think about that! NOT. That & I need to go to Kmart or someplace to get some non-fancy ones that don't look like I lost my butt & forgot where it possibly could have gone while I'm working out. I also still have to hunt for the elusive swim suit. I'm going to hold off a bit yet, as I'm pretty sure i'm not quite done shrinking. Currently wearing a 9/10 JR pair of jeans & they're needing a belt. :P
Breakfast~Choc. MRS & .5 pink lemonade Spark
Lunch 12:45pm~ .5 of a partial chicken breast, 15 cherry tomatoes & few bites of salad. Really... full already?

3:40pm~ the rest of the 1.5 c. of side salad with 4 small green olives & Italian dressing. Not really that hungry but it will be a later dinner & I'd put dressing on it so we all know what happens when dressing sits on salads too long. :P

Thursday~ April 28th "e "is for Curv"e"s

Stupid rain go away I wan tto take the dogs for a walk early some morning. I'm hoping to do something different every morning on "e" & see if it turns me into even more of a morning person from a "well ok I'm ready to go, I'll get up the alarms about to go off" & improve that to "WhooHoo what a great morning!" I took a shower (I usually don't shower in the AM) so that was an additional add on to the morning.
Breakfast~ Choc. MRS, .5 scoop pink lemonade Spark
Lunch~ side salad of lettuce, carrot, red cabbage, basalmic dressing & 1 HB egg
3pm snack~ 6oz Greek peach yo-plait yogurt. (higher in cal. but much more protein & better for you)
30 min. of Curves in La Crescent tonight! (a new class for May)
1 person showed up, it was kinda last minute but I'm sure there will be more on Saturday am.
Dinner~ 1 pork cutlet, some baked yams & zucchini, .5 serving of corn stuffing & small side salad with some olives, cherry tomatoes & Italian dressing. 3 small PB choc. bunnies & 1c. of dark choc. milk.

WED~ "e" is in V"e"t

So took our foster pug Gina to the vet to get her shot boosters. I had to get up EARLY... or well early for me... which means I'm glad I did switch to MNS "e" as mornings have been getting much easier having been on the vitamins & not as tired lately but was REALLY easy getting up being on "e" I've also dropped the Amplify AT & no Spark due to just starting the new set & wanting to know how it worked before amplifying or Sparking it up. Gina went outside... I'd assumed it was safe... NOPE we had Poo in the kennel too. Awesome to stop by the side of the road & have to hurry before she turned the back into a poo fest.

breakfast~ granola bar 80 cal. Why? because Lunch is going to be my "bigger meal" of the day at River Jack's soup & salad bar. So I had some of the chicken & rice soup (not even the cup full) it was too creamy. Raspberry chicken breast half, some of the mango porkroast (tiny bit less than a serving). 1 serving of steamed veggies, 4 small chunks of browned potato (baked?) it wasn't deep fried or anything like that & 1/2 of a small slice of cheese cake & strawberries & some choc. drizzled on top. So full.... uggghhh I didn't eat that much but I have a feeling the food police might be in shortly.
So I was let of just with the overfullness warning. I'm feeling a bit better now & still full at 5pm.
Dinner is at 9pmish tonight & might possibly be a MRS... Ok perhaps I'd misjudged my timing.
OH I'd forgotten to type in that I did 2.5 hours of Zumba type activities.
After grocery power-sale shopping & finding the best kind of "buttery spread" with Melissa (she loved it) I made it home & after getting settled... went WHAT? 10pm already. I'm not even hungry. I did have 1 HB egg (a few tiny sprinkles of chicken pleasoning & .75 c. of juice with my L-glutamine (Catalyst) & 2 nighttime recovery pills. WoW will 2.5 hours of Zumba kick your butt after almost 1 WHOLE week off! Luckily 30 min of Zumba in the Circuit was a nice way to break back into getting back in yesterday before my 2.5'er today.

Tues 4/26~ e is for energy....

Ok so new set of 14 day vitamins to try... I'm switching to the "e" as "c" when paired with Thermoplus is working FAR too well. NO Spark this AM since I should have more than enough from the e which has proven to be the case as guessed.
Thermoplus has balanced out the food part quite well today.
Breakfast~ MRS shake & water.
Lunch~ spinach wrap with small amount of thin sliced roast beef 1tbs of guac & rice "cheese" & small green apple.
Full. I even had to force myself to drink more water to take my lunch pills.

Monday 4/25 Meeting the AdvoCare CEO

Breakfast MRS (choc.) & grape Spark
Lunch~ Rice noodle bowl (veggie & most of the oil left out)
Dinner~ catered in to Stoney Creek.
What an AWESOME night it's going to be! CEO is pinning JP & Angela (They now make selling AdvoCare after 9 years in 2 weeks what most of us make on a 2 income household in an entire YEAR combined!)
Kim made Ruby pin in about 2 yrs. (about 80K/yr) & Amanda pinned silver (about 13K/yr) She's only been actively selling since JAN. of THIS year 2011!
There is still time to come to the informational meeting & to meet a lot of these people at 7:27pm tonight at Stoney Creek Inn in Onalaska! Not to mention that there are about 22 more chances for me to win a rookie bonus that could be up to 7k EVERY pay period for the 1st 24 pay periods your an Advisor & I'm currently ranked 158 in the nation of the eligible advisors that could possibly get an all expense paid trip for 2 to the Bahamas at a 5 star resort.... After a pending direct to Advisor customer we'll be in the top 100. (the top 25 go to the bahamas!) Since ALL of my business transactions from other people are all new legs of business, I only need about 2.6 more new Advisors (as of right now with current standings) to get into the top 25! I'll say it's looking pretty good right now!
Dinner~ 4 Swedish meatballs, 3 chicken wings (small) .5 slice of cheese, 3 mini carrots & small amount of dressing. Some various fresh fruit & almost 1 piece of the red velvet cake.
Post dinner bedtime snack (I snuck 1 choc. PB mini bunny) & had .5c juice & L-glutamine.

Easter weekend 4/23-24

OK so really quick Breakfasts consisted of: Sat. (organic granola bars) no HFCS &  sugar free (not lo-cal) 1/2 or cc muffin (Sunday). & fresh fruits.
Lunches was 1/2 of a healthy turkey/artichoke subs with mustard & other veggies on it.
1/2 Spark on Sat & 1/2 SLAM on Sunday.
Dinner Saturday~ Culvers Beef patty melt & most of a small brownie concrete mixer (hubby said he was going to share & I'm no longer believing him.) The AdvoCare "food police" came in that evening & made me feel not so hot. (not bad but not great as usual) I suspected a warning & it was heeded.
A couple of organic olive chips & fresh guac. & 3 choc. mini PB bunnies thru the weekend.
Sunday Dinner was some broasted chicken (almost all of the skin removed) baked yams & zucchini & some corn bread stuffing with cranberries & fresh apples in it. small slice of straw-rhubarb pie (I don't like the crust anyways so that edge was passed on,)

Friday 4/22~size 6, 136 in under 6 mo.

Breakfast~ Ok this is getting like just unbelievable... 11:20am just now finished my Choc. MRS. it was yummy & tasted just fine. Savored every last drop as always. Pink lemonade Spark started at about 11am. Pretty soon i'm going to be eating lunch at like 2pm or something as i'm just not hungry or feeling the urge to stuff my pie hole. Wearing comfortably shrunken & not new pair of 7/8 jr's jeans... yeah we're talking size 6 women's baby. Anything in double #'s has been put away as it's now falling off of me. 10's need a belt if I do want to wear them.

My only regret right now is (besides having to keep trying clothes on a day ahead of time that I just wore the previous week) is that I didn't start AdvoCare sooner... darn what if's... I could have not had to have had my friend's wedding dress altered to fit my fat gut 2 weeks before my wedding? I could have done this years ago & never have even had to have bought size 16's. Gaining weight had put undue stress on my body, borderline high blood pressure & more. Don't wait if you've been thinking about it... I wish I would have listened to my friend Amanda sooner. The cost was what kinda turned me off of it, but come to realize financially it's already paying for itself & then some not even 2 mo. after actively sharing my story & products with other people.
     I know there are people out there that the 24 day challenge isn't financially in their budget... I was one of those people...
But starting with a distributorship & getting on some products & sharing with others that you know are interested will work & get you able to try more products too. There are so many ways that a lot of people don't even realize the savings that happens. Our grocery bill got cut practically in half! Not to mention even having the luxury of switching to Organic & other specialty items. Eating out got cut in 1/2 as the same meals out now last like 1-3 MORE for take home dinners. The list just goes on & on. Not buying stuff anymore for breakfasts at KT or forgetting lunch MRS there to save having to go out to get something from work. etc.
1:15pm lunch... stomach never made up it's mind & kept quiet, so I just did for it. 1/2 egg bagel sandwich with low-fat cream cheese & turkey thin slices on it. 1 med. banana... I was so full that I almost forgot I had to take more water to get my with meal vitamins down. I remembered though 2pm finally finished with the food.
3:40pm small apple. It was sitting there so I figured I should eat it. LOL
Dinner was lobster & regular pesto pasta, steamed canned spinach & 2 choc. PB mini bunnies.

Taking it over Thursday~4/21

Just updated my new Zumba schedule for May & Summer. Played some do-si-do with a few locations trying to find times that would work out good for them. I hope I've left myself enough travel time.... on Saturday in particular.
101241.zumba.com

Breakfast! Berry MRS & grape Spark, milked until sometime around 10:50am. Just not in a hurry or all that hungry. WoW, what a difference. Had I been doing this 3.5 mo. ago it would have been SNARFED breakfast & can't wait until noon when I've TOTALLY got to eat since my stomach would be griping, growling & throwing a fit.
Lunch was a spinach wrap from Lindy's with roast beef, turkey, Provolone, sprouts & guac on it.
Dinner~ chicken breast, stewed tomatoes, 1 serving canned spinach, buttery spread & 1 can of potatoes... yeah, a whole can.. totally had a craving for canned potatoes with butter spread & pleasoning, 1c. chic choc rice milk & 3 squares (1 serving) 72% dark choc.
No juice or L-glutamine as I didn't work out today.

Wanted Wednesday~4/20

WoW feeling way wanted this AM. Have 2 fitness centers contacting me to be a Zumba instructor... I am waiting for determining who wants me when. My poor NZH (Neglected Zumba Husband) will be disappointed I fear with the outcome.... but yet possibly thrilled when he sees the checks from Zumba & Advocare coming in. :)  You can ALWAYS check out my most recent Zumba activities at 101241.zumba.com

Breakfast~ Choc. MRS (for almost an hour) & orange Spark.
Lunch OCB (old country buffet) Yeah... the challenge of challenges! It was so EASY! I seriously had like 1 plate of food (most veggies & a few other items & was FULL!) SOOO happy! I felt a little sneaky pocketing a few CC cookies but PHHHFFTTT whatever! I didn't eat that much to begin with.
 2.5 hours of Zumba activities. I wasn't hungry for dinner (still full from lunch) so I pulled a naughty & skipped dinner.

I took AdvoCare O2 45 min. before working out & I think it worked great & I noticed a difference in being able to breathe & not being out of breath as quickly. It was kinda like making Zumba easy to do that much. I also took Catalyst before working out.
Bedtime was nighttime recovery & my L-glutamine & 1 c. of juice before bed.

Tues 4/19~ guilty loser...

OK so final SNAP fitness weigh in -2.5lbs or about 1.89% of my body weight this week. Ok so I'm happy that the trend has amplified itself. I do happen to feel kinda guilty though. Nothing like having part of a mall pretzel & ColdStone Creamery (split) & Ciatti's (several nights split up) & oh yeah I'm sure a few other fast food places in there too.... AMAZED that I had a super good loss week even with all that packed in to the later part of my week. I feel kinda guilty actually. I won't go into details which would make not only me, but you drool.

Anyways~ Breakfast~ Choc MRS & 1/2 scoop mandarin orange Spark
Lunch... way delayed took pills at 11:40am long story short ate lunch at Hooters at 1pm. 8 boneless breaded spicy garlic chicken wings some bleu cheese dressing (positive not low cal or anything) & a pickle spear. The wings weren't that large so it's not like I overate or anything really.
3pm~ feeling still stuffed stupid...at least not feeling the greasy badness from the food police (usually its during cleanse that most people feel bad). I hope I'll be able to move more for my 30 min ZIC at Curves at 5:30pm tonight. They're still saying 6-8" of snow so hopefully it won't be cancelled.
It was cancelled due to the weather. :( It's ok a day of rest is good. 2.5 hours of Zumba tomorrow. I'll be trying a new AdvoCare product O2 from the performance elite line.  So we'll have to see how that goes. Will for SURE be using Nighttime recovery as well. just 18lbs. to go to be at my goal weight! I'll be switching over to the performance elite line then & energy lines that Advocare offers. :) I can't wait! I've been so impressed with everything that I've tried so far. With the seasonal support pills I've noticed a difference since it's my "off" week for not taking that. On the bottle it says for max effectiveness to be on 7-10 days & off 7-10 days & to cycle.
Dinner 8pm ~ 1.5 servings of mushroom risotto, 1 of stewed tomatoes, 1 of chicken , 1.5c. dark choc. almond milk 2 double stuft Oreos. .5c. juice & l glutamine.
Bedtime a little early tonight, but I've got some laundry to put away... amazing how that stuff never puts itself away on it's own. At least it's clean laundry. :)

Mon 4/18~ Who's tired & sore? NOT ME!

Ok, so after almost 3 hours of Zumba yesterday & nighttime recovery & staying up WAY late until about midnight on a work night. (which I'd never recommend) Guess who's tired & sore? NOT ME!
9:30-10:30am Breakfast ~ Choc. MRS & pink lemonade Spark.
11am mid-morning snack~1 small banana
Noon~ 30 min prior to lunch pkt.
12:36pm Lunch~ 1/2 egg bagel with low fat CC & no fat turkey thin slices (about 4) & an apple. Got 1/2 way thru the bagel took a break to eat the apple & then was full.
2pm~ S'mores Luna 80cal. bar. not all that hungry but really craving choc. for some reason.
4:15pm 1 small banana
Catalyst~ 10 min prior
45 min Zumba with Jonathan. Lots of fun & a lower intensity workout than usual since I wasn't instructing it.
9pm dinner~ roasted chicken, stewed tomatoes & 1.5 ears of corn on the cob, 2 ~1" dark choc. chunks of choc. 1.5c. dark choc. almond milk.
Bedtime .5c juice & L-glutamine

Weekend 4/16~ 4/17

Ok so I had a reasonable amount of food this weekend some cheating. However, I am REALLY busy with  lately with people thru the 24 day challenges they're currently going thru. have a garden that needs to get planted & more. Went to Trader Joe's, shopping for smaller clothes (size small & size 6) & more. I did cheat & split a Cold Stone Creamery ice cream dish & fresh pretzel at the mall with hubby. Sushi for dinner on Saturday, home made burgers for lunch on Saturday & fresh salads galore. Hope that sums it up enough to get an idea. Not that I'd suggest all of my choices but wanted to give an idea that I'm human too & can't be good all of the time. MODERATION is the key! GTG have calls to make, Zumba to do & a garden to plant! Dinner was veggie cheese burgers on wheat buns & salads. Don't forget dark choc. almond milk & some juice both nights with my L-glutamine. Not to mention nighttime recovery on Sunday night too.

Fri 4/15~ up before the alarm

ok... so apparently sleeping in is no longer a possibility. Even getting to bed a little late. I feel GREAT when I wake up. I have the mental stigmata still going on saying... I can but my body says get your keister outta bed.
Breakfast Choc. MRS~ Grape Spark both were milked 'til I kid you not 11:30am. Not hungry.
Lunch 1pm~ 1/2 wheat Girf remaining from yesterday's lunch & avocado. Full. WoW that was like stupid easy. Water as always.
4:22pm 1 banana.
Dinner~ whole wheat bun, cheeseburger & salad 2 c. dark Choc. Almond milk.
.5c. juice & 1tsp L-glutamine

THU 4/14~ my stomach no longer appreciates sodium sticks...

woke up with the alarm. :) I also forgot to post yesterday that I officially have lost 40lbs! yeah, that's right I picked up the 20lb. pair o' dumbells & went WOAH... wow that's like crazy!
Ok so i'm not starting the day off eating right... I don't know what possessed me to go into KT (after filling up & spending WAY too much money on gas) I guess I figured I wanted some bananas & if they possibly had a chicken & bacon roller bite I'd get just 1 (sodium stick) I've seen the cal. count & all for them before not too bad, however like 90% of your daily intake for sodium for the day. :P then I was like pretty hungry when I got to work & tried to have a banana too. 9:45 my stomach has been putting up a fight going WTH did you feed me you crazy chic? I don't want this.... & you'd better hope that I don't have a full out revolt later today on you. The banana isn't going to work for a peace offering either... no way girlfriend! *side note in the past it was nearly a multi-weekly ritual to get about 2. Then it was 1... only 1 maybe 2 times a week in Oct. 2010 then it was only 1 once a month... I haven't had one in maybe over 3 mo. since starting Advocare? I'm pretty sure. I haven't had any of this since I'd started Advocare.
Not even a desire for it... pretty good seeing how i'd tried on my own to kick it numerous times & this is probably one of the longest I've not had it. Don't even want it either... so I'm sure it will continue.

Diet Mountain DON'T! Is total chemical badness to put into your body!

 Well AdvoCare, my wonderful food police you have once again foiled my plot to eating crap I shouldn't be eating. I won't be doing that again... what's even better? It didn't even taste good... or not as good as I'd ever remembered it tasting. Now I'm not saying that it makes everything taste not as good anymore. But if I could at least get some of the bad food to taste like what it is "crappy" it has helped.
Lunch at Erberts & Gerberts~ 1/2 of a whole wheat Girf no mayo, guac instead. Lunch date with Amanda. Was nice to see her. Also, was nice to run in to another past Tribune co-worker briefly too.
Happy B-day to my Mother-in-law! Celebrating with Dinner at Ciatti's.... hubby will hopefully remember to bring some Leptilean® as I need help cutting down from snarfing super yummy gourmet Italian food. It's kinda like the AdvoCare SWAT team of food police. :)

WED~ 4/13 Wild Zumba daze

I was up BEFORE my alarm went off... yeah... before... seems like this is happening more & more. Not to mention less times up during the night as well.
Breakfast~ Choc. MRS & 1/2 pink lemonade Spark
Late snack ~ 1 clementine
50min~ Zumba session
Lunch 1:30pm~carrots & salmon dip
4pm~afternoon dinner/snack .5 soy protein MRS :P  not yummy...why do I even bother. I wasn't hungry enough for my Berry MRS but yet keep thinking that something else would be ok?
30 min of~ZIC at Curves Holmen (Catalyst 15 min before)
50 min Zumba Toning
1 hour Zumba
Dinner~ Salad with 6 sm. green olives, 5 chick. fingers w/ BBQ & 1/2 scoop Fro Yo & 1 Tbs hot fudge. 1.5 c. drk. choc. almond milk
O 'holy crapper late again & a bit whipped make sure I don't wake up a 90 yr. old lady so~ nighttime recovery... & .5 c. juice & 1tsp L-glutamine

Tues 4/12~Busy day at work

Breakfast~ Choc. MRS & 1/2 pink lemonade Spark
Lunch~ 1 chic. breast & 1 serv. pesto pasta/gnocchi
30 min of~ZIC at Curves Onalaska (Catalyst 15 min before)
Dinner~ Salad with 6 sm. green olives, 4 chicken fingers & BBQ (very minimal) .5 serving of pesto pasta/gnocchi & 1 scoop Phish food (FroYo) & 1 Tbs. hot fudge

Monday 4/11 spa night & SNAP weigh in.

.5 lost according to the lying SNAP scale. Not to mention abnormal AM weigh in there so  not surprised at all that it wasn't 1.5lbs lost... It would have been had I weighed in at night minimum. However, tonight is spa night which means massage & possibly infared sauna night. Which trumps a weigh in any day. Besides I'll probably get a better loss next week then when I weigh in at night again.

Breakfast 9:30-10:30~MRS & pink lemonade Spark thru mid morning..
Lunch~12:50pm My stomach hit the snooze button & I woke it up at 12:10pm by taking my 30 min prior pills... it then wacked the snooze again...until that time. 1 sl. leftover pizza from yesterday & 1 jumbo orange. full.
8pm dinner~ small NY strip steak, gnocchi & pesto mix from last night & salad with ranch & green olives (minimal as always) 3/4 scoop ice cream with 1 Tbs. fudge. 1.5c. dark choc. almond milk.
1/2 c. juice with 1 Tsp. glutamine

Wknd 4/9~ 4/10 good news comes in black garbage bags.

Breakfast~MRS
Curves ZIC 2 33~min sessions weigh in 139.2 YES~~ finally now only under 140 but I've now lost 39 lbs.!
Lunch~ Grizzly's various appetizer platter (shared with hubby) way bad food & not even going to go there. I didn't pig out & ate a normal portion amount of food but very little veggies.
felt stuffed stupid. Went out & got my eyes checked & they hardly changed at all my 140 present to myself was to get more contacts (I was almost out) that & I got 2 t-shirts & a NEW rototiller on sale!
Orange Spark~ yeah it was later in the day but at the mixer it was a peer pressure thing. LOL
Dinner~ I kid you not 1 Advocare double choc. snack bar. It was yummy but I'd still have possibly wanted an MRS instead. I also had a giant orange. Wasn't that hungry after the lunch we'd had (it seriously wasn't that much food)
~Nighttime recovery~ I wasn't that sore in the AM but my body was saying that I'd possibly needed it the night before.

Sunday~ Breakfast~ 1.5c. Granola cereal (cherry choc.) & almond milk
2 hours of Zumba & Zumba Toning~ Bowlgame Berry SLAM beforehand. I didn't have time to Spark myself earlier & wanted a boost doing a 2 hour back to back teaching.
lunch 2 pieces of Domino's pizza green olives, mushrooms & beef. Salad with tomato, artichoke & avocado with basalmic dressing & a Domino's choc. lava cake.
No Aqua Zumba~ hubby said weather was too bad with tornado sirens going off & softball sized hail near where I would have been heading. It was too unpredictable so I had to miss. Hopefully the instructor will let me attend 1 more class but not expecting it.
supper~ 1 chick breast, gnocchi & vermacelli with a small amount of pesto & olive oil. Salad with 4 small green olives & small amount of ranch dressing. Berry Zero vitamin water. (sale item) I didn't like it much so glad I only got 1. Full so no dessert & really trying to limit it to just 1 a day or less.

Tried on clothes after supper from a person who wanted to donate clothes to GoodWill but also wanted to pass on some to me, as she knows how hard I've been working at losing weight & how rapidly I've been shrinking out of my work clothes. :) I tried on 6's 8's & 10's (all previously worn) & guess what??? THEY ALL FIT! So now I have clothes galore for fall & don't have to worry about work clothes for awhile. (or at least not as much) I passed on everything that didn't fit (was too big or long) or I didn't like the style of. I kept 3 might fit next week items too at this rate I can't hope not too. I've been getting down past where I'd been in SOOO long I almost don't have any pants in the 6-8 size range anymore. I just need some more workout ones (or do laundry more often)

FRI 4/8~ So happy to help people~ & I don't like jeans day anymore...

OK I officially hate jeans day....& it's mostly Advocare's fault. I almost was late to work since I pulled the jeans that fit me just hunky-dory fine last Friday out of the clean clothes basket & now they don't fit... I know totally sucks huh? It's not why you might think they don't fit....LOL
      I'm going out during lunch & getting a belt out of my bag, as I feel like a gangsta pulling my pants up every 25 min. if I leave my desk. I almost lost my PJ bottoms out with the dogs this AM too. (Don't worry I was wearing a housecoat) So no free shows... This weekend if it has an "L" on it it's going away as they are the ones that are size "L" are just dropping off of me. Wearing high heels & jeans too. Apparently, casual Friday doesn't involve gym shoes. Guess I'll have to switch them out when I go walk to get lunch. E&G's coupons 50% off were great I get 2 lunches (since 1 sandwich lasts 2 meals) for like $2.50 with the paper coupon! paid .71 cents for a sandwich extra (2 meals mind you)

9:35am~ Choc. MRS ~LOVE them, but I know people are probably getting sick of hearing me say that.
Today it was challenging to drink. I'm just not hungry... which is totally becoming the norm. I still can't believe I used the word challenging & chocolate in the same sentence & it wasn't regarding eating like a TON of it or something...
But yet somehow disappointing, since I really do like them. Perhaps I might need to switch it up this weekend & go back on MNS 3 instead to see how it does. (3 is for wellness not mostly appetite control like "C") but I might wait another 14 days yet.... I wanted to possibly try "e" for energy but think that might just be a bit too much energy for during the week days, if I don't work it out of my system later on in the day.... not to mention my "e" got sold already, so I'd have to wait possibly a week to do that anyways unless I asked for an exchange from an uplink. I bought 4 btls of Catalyst on sale & split some shipping... I've got all but 1 of them already sold before they even come in...4 days from now.
12:15pm. Still not hungry but took my 30min pre-pills at noon.
1pm~ finally got around to eating 1/2 a wheat "Narmer" from E&G it was really good & filling, I'm full. I also had them take the mayo off of it since it has guac. on it too.
3:50pm~ Snack time of some cashews & some dried raspberries (not even a serving)
 dinner~ Cheese burger single with 1Tbs. guac & 4 mac & cheese breaded baked bites. (Technically dessert really)

THU 4/7

Since I was running EARLY this AM. (which is getting much easier to do) now that the cold is removing it's unwanted germs from my body. I decided to try on a skirt that has NEVER fit me since I'd bought it about 5 years ago. It's a size.... 6! Yep, buttoned right up. tiny bit snug but not to the point that I can't breath sitting down at my desk.
9-10am Breakfast~Choc. MRS & 1/2 scoop grape Spark
12:30pm ~lunch 1/2 bun with remainder of fish/cheese leftovers from yesterday & mashed potatoes. Carb intake for today has been completed. LOL
2pm~ 120 cal. jello dessert 3pm still picking at same said cup. Apparently, I wasn't that hungry for a snack.
3pm~1/2 scoop Pink Lemonade Spark... We'll know later tonight if I'm going to regret doing it so late in the day. I didn't sleep all that well last night due to being a little achy.
6:15pm~ Worked out at SNAP on some machine that's a cross between a stair & ellipical machine for 15 min. It's NOT a stride machine but is exclusive to SNAP fitness ctrs. It really kicked my butt (but I let it) since I ramped it up & did a pretty good workout. I went & did some walking outside too a little later on didn't want to do too much since it was a relatively resting day for workouts for me.
grape rehydrate. I Sparked someone for tomorrow that I'd met at SNAP she seemed pretty nice I'd like to hang out with her more & got another RSVP to Amanda's mixer from a Zumba client. So it was going well... hopefully there will be enough chairs there for it. It's always nice to meet new people & is a great conversation starter too!
Dinner 8pm~ not really hungry had 1.5c. hamb. helper remix with all the extra veggies we usually add into the "helper".
Was 2 whole days behind on FB so I wasn't happy about that, I got caught up but didn't get to bed as early as I'd wanted too.
.5c. juice & tsp L-glutamine. Basically routine since I workout at least a little almost every day it seems.

WED 4/6~SNARF IT ALL!

Breakfast 1/2 of a non-Advocare MRS... the rest got pitched... once again if it doesn't taste good I'm not going to bother drinking it. I had some higher hopes as I'd been told that it tasted good.... I was wrong. about 70 cal.
was consumed. I didn't feel very full either afterwards.
Grape Spark.
Thank goodness for MNS "C" as lunch was at 12:20pm Red Lobster~ 1 cheddar biscut, I ordered the crunchy fish sandwich with tomatoes... WAIT.... before you go & say it was fried.... I took 1 of the fish patties w/ cheese off of it (they put 2 huge amounts on it) and top 1/2 of the bun off. I also put the mashed potatoes into the to-go box right away. so it was 1/2 the bun 1 fish patty w/ cheese, tomatoes & lettuce on it. The server was like... you want a box right away? Puzzled look on his face... I'm like when you get a chance. I felt like saying, "dude, I just spent 5 mo. getting fat off my body, I know I can't eat this all in 1 sitting anymore & TOTALLY know I shouldn't!"
Anyways, off to Curves & S N'S for 2.5 hours of Zumba!
5pm~MRS for dinner
Yes, I made it thru 2.5 hours of Zumba... man was I beat.
.5c juice with L-glutamine for bed time.

Tues 4/5~ what fun a dentist day!

ok so my whole AM was totally out of schedule. My AM dentist appt. ran way late. Good news is that my blood pressure DRAMATICALLY dropped. Amazing what dropping 38lbs. will do for that...
10:45am~ choc. MRS for super late breakfast.
12:50pm~ lunch spinach wrap with 98% fat free turkey, 1 slice colby cheese & guac., 1 ~120 cal. dark choc. mousse cup & 1 clementine (some wasn't sweet & I threw a segment out).
Thinking about a snack 4:30pm might have a few dried raspberries.
Zumba in the circuit 30 min. Curves of Onalaska. (forgot to take my Catalyst) I'm TOTALLY taking it tomorrow!
7:30pm some guac. & guac. organic naturals chips. not many like 1 serving.
8:10pm Dinner 1.5 c. hamburger helper made with almond milk, 1.5c. drk choc. almond milk. peas & green beans & some ice cream therapy. (only 1 serving) I feel horrible afterwards... It tasted really good & luckily my hubby was there to stop me. Emotional eating it I think, not very sure. Still kinda miffed I only lost like 1-1.5 lbs. this week but  I can't trust that dumb scale anyways & it wasn't a gain week & I'd done a TON of Zumba Toning the past week... I dunno perhaps it's time for bed. I don't like people poking at my gums either & the cold did feel good.  Some issues came up today at work that kinda stressed me out, but don't really want to talk much about. (it wasn't about the Advocare job issues or anything).  I ate too much food again... I should have stopped before dessert or something again.
1/2 c. juice & 1tbs. L-glutamine.

Monday 4/4~ Weigh in day did I make it?

9:45am breakfast~Choc. MRS & grape Spark
Stomach apparently hit the snooze button & didn't inform me it was even time to eat until I noticed the clock & went... well it's 12:15 I should probably take my pre-lunch vitamins as I might be hungry soon... I had gotten out more food to eat but it went back into the fridge as I'm full. Which means stop picking & put it away for possibly a snack later if I need it.
12:45pm lunch~ 1.5c. lettuce (carrot, cabbage mix) & 1 T. Ceasar dressing (NOTHING ELSE ON IT!) & 6 oz. Yoplait Greek yogurt, honey vanilla flavor.
2pm snack 1 gummy worm... seriously... I don't know what possessed me to do it, but it tasted like yucky who knows what.... worms I guess...
1 hour of Zumba with Jonathan. I talked Amanda into going with me. What a trooper doing 2 workouts in a day! We both made it thru class even with a cramp in my side too, which is unusual. I'd gotten one during class too but not sure why either.
FYI~ no afternoon snack other than that yucky 1 worm I tried.
weighed in on the lying scale from SNAP... subtracting it's usual overage I made it to 140! I hope that when I possivly do have a kid, my girls will get larger again. I almost lost my sports bra during Zumba today... nothing to hold it down anymore. :( Lost 2" off my chest measurement in the past 2 mo. I only lost (according to the evil SNAP scale I don't trust) about 1.5lbs. this week. HOWEVER... I did like 5 hrs. of Zumba Toning this week which means pants on the ground (or apparently bras & girls in the air) muscle/fat trimming week & not a big lbs. loss wk. for me. Seems to be par for when I do more than normal amounts of ZT for me in the past few months. So not sweating it too much.
 8:40pm... starting to think about dinner. Yeah... this is me typing that i'm STARTING to think about having dinner. 1 portion of Mahi-Mahi. last scoop of the rice & tomatoes, peas & green beans, & a scoop of ice cream & hot fudge... yeah well I needed the comfort food just tonight after that scale betrayed me somewhat. I'm cracking down on me & am not going to have a high cal. dessert for dinner again until Friday (at the earliest).
1/2 cup juice with 1tsp of L-glutamine. Really going to have to try the nighttime recovery... I heard Amanda's been not sore the next day at all after taking it...

4/2 & 4/3 weekend

OK, so apparently i'm slacking on the wknd typing in the blog. I've been fairly good & only cheated a little. I did 2 ~30 min sessions of Zumba in the Circuit on Sat & practically 3 hours of Zumba (regular, toning & aqua on Sunday) I also got in a bit of dog walks & such. I'm confident my weigh in on Monday will be good & I'm hoping to post that I'm 2/3 of the way to my goal already! To think it would take me ALL year to achieve that was reasonable! The rate i'm getting there so far is just nuts! Anyways, hope that's enough for you all.

FRI 4/1~I Pity the Foo.

AM~ I ate an entire bag of Double Stuft Oreos for breakfast & crushed them up into my MRS....
& poured myself a double shot of grape Spark!

Ha...
OK, I'm totally not fooling anyone...

AM~ I had my Choc. MRS & grape Spark regular amounts.
Lunch 12:30PM ~Kept getting distracted & didn't feel the urge to eat until this time. 3 mo. ago I would have been going.. come on Noon... I'm starving & poking my stomach every 5 min. telling it to shut up & stop growling. 1.5c. spinach & lettuce salad with 5 small green olives & 1 Tbs. Italian dressing, 1HB egg, 1 clementine, 1 small dark choc. mousse jello cup (will pawn other 5 off on hubby) I totally wasn't impressed & won't be eating it again.


~As far as pity the foo title~ I TOTALLY wish I'd heard of Advocare back in Oct... or like anytime in the past 5 years... well now is as good of a time as ever. I'm sorry that I'm SOOO Excited about it, but seriously you'd be too after trying for 6 years to dump almost 35lbs. now. That's 1 BIG A$$ bag of dog kibble I'm not carrying around on my body anymore! I'm not worried when I go in my closet to look for clothes anymore, or go into VS to get a bra. It was always my personal joke that they don't sell fat people clothes at VS because they don't want fat people wearing them... well I can now go there & find my size & that means I'm not one of those "fat people" anymore & hopefully in a few months I'll be able to post i'm once again one of those "skinny people".

I find myself  now "these days" in that mythical place that every "morbidly obese" (according to my height/wt. chart when I'd finally started & gave up that just exercise & water would be enough) person only dreams is possible, but never expects to find. The place where all of a sudden, all of "this" just gets...well...easy.

I pack my lunches and prep my dinners, I have my workout schedule & Zumba classes, I'm managing at my job & not worried about what might happen if the granite counter of goodness has something on it at the office, and I have my general plan for the week & how it's going to turn out & most of the time, I'm not that far off! Nothing seems unmanageable, or insurmountable, or impossible. In fact, spring has sprung and everything is looking pretty great! I'm even not hitting snooze as often (unless i'm sick or Gina was interfering with it)

Deep down I know that no one's taking anything from me, because I'm not in a place anymore where I'm going to let them have it. I like my "easy". I've grown very fond of my "easy" and I'm getting quite comfortable in it. So to those that want to take away my "easy" I say - GO GET YOUR OWN EASY!!! *cough* it's for sale online at: ADVOCARE or on the link next to this blog.

One of the major things that always held me back from losing weight and keeping it off in the past was this idea of "easy". I didn't think it was possible. Because it was so unattainable in my mind, I figured it was pointless to even try working towards it, other than thinking exercise was the key to staying skinny like I'd learned over the last decade was the way to do so. That & not to have kids would keep me skinny (obviously, that theory didn't work). It was too far in the distance to be seen - it could only be imagined.  Not focusing too hard on the distant future and what it might or might not look like. For me, I know that I'm about to enter uncharted territory as far as my weight is concerned that I haven't seen in 6 years. But, there's an ease that comes with that too because every day I live right now, I know that all I'm doing is taking it one day at a time, and that's all that matters. That's all I can control. Today is mine. Tomorrow will be mine tomorrow & not until.  20, 25 more pounds from now, I'm still going to be living - one day at a time. (And hopefully with as much ease as I've learned to enjoy these past 2 months).

It was also a shock to me to learn that forgetting to eat constantly could also FINALLY be easy... or at least MUCH easier. It's ok to "only eat 1 scoop" & then stop, it will still be there the next day.  Or to not eat my fill or money's worth at the AUC2E buffet, or put something back in the fridge for the next meal. But that's also not the easiest fact to digest. As fat people, it is somehow drilled into our subconscious on a daily basis that the only way we are ever going to succeed in weight loss is to remove ourselves from the rest of the world, check into a ranch for 6 months, work out 6+ hours a day & eat 1200 or fewer calories to compensate for it. I'd like to say I'm living proof that that method couldn't be further from the truth. Especially, if you can't afford to take a 6 month leave of absence from YOUR LIFE.

When you do it like that - check out for weeks on end to "deal with the weight" - integration back into a normal existence is often extremely unsuccessful. Your life is happening now - all of it. You can't just put certain pieces of it on hold to go deal with other more pressing issues, because what then happens is that the stuff you put on hold becomes the pressing issue. You have to live the whole thing - all at once. It isn't always pretty, but at least then the pieces all move together.

My psychological issues are intrinsically tied to my weight (and the gain or loss thereof). Learning to live a COMPLETE life with ease means that eventually my body will find it's own ease and will settle at a weight that is comfortable. THAT'S something that I can get behind and continue to believe in.