Days 71-142, June 9 - August 18, 2012

Wow, this time it has REALLY been a long time since i've written. I guess i kinda forgot i had it. It has been so busy this summer! I am doing good on my diet though, i have lost 20 lbs now! yay for me!!! I just hope it keeps going, even if slowly but surely. I have been riding, and still eating MOSTLY vegan. I haven't cheated with meat at all, but boy dairy keeps slipping in. So hard!!!!

It is killing me to wait until i hit 199 to buy my ipad. That is what i told myself would be my reward for getting that far. I changed it to 199 from the final ultimate goal (which is 165), because i knew it would really take way way way to long to get there, and i can't wait THAT long to get my ipad! I will have to think about another reward for the final goal weight. :) anyways, i hope i get to 199 by christmas so i can buy it then. I think that is doable. I am at 213 right now, so that would be 14 pounds and there are 19 weeks until christmas. If i keep going 1 lb a week, i can make it by thanksgiving. I have thought about just buying it now, but i don't know if it will ruin my motivation! That is one of the things that just keeps me going cause i think i have to lose this weight and eat good and ride my bike because i want my ipad. :)

Thinking maybe i should read my 21 jumpstart your metabolism book again, just to get some more inspiration. Sometimes it feels kinda stagnant. And i need to try to find some new foods. I keep buying tofu, and then end up not making it and it goes bad. maybe i should see if they have frozen tofu. hmm haven't thought of checking that yet.

I hadn't had eggs for a long time, but then i got some fresh from the chicken from a family i house-sit and chicken-sit for :) I decided to eat some and then gave the rest to my mom. So GOOD. I had an egg sandwich for breakfast, and it was soooo soooooo soooo yummy. I have missed eggs, almost as much as cheese.

Okay, well that is enough update for now. I will try to keep up. i should really use this as a journal to keep inspired and just writing my thoughts down.

Days 63-70, June 1-8, 2012

I am proud of myself today! We had a pizza lunch and I didn't eat any!! I resisted! And I LOVE pizza! So that was one good step. This week was hard because I had to work through my lunch a couple times this week, and it rained on Monday, which was weird! So, I only got to ride my bike one day! And I rollerbladed only one day too! I was disappointed at the beginning of the week as well, because I weighed in and I had gained a few pounds back. BUT I am attributing it to my normal time of the month. So, hopefully when I weigh in on Sunday the weight will be back off! I am going to the Giants game on Sunday, and I am going to try to be good but i LOVE garlic fries! I don't know what else I might eat there, definitely not a hot dog. I do like hot dogs!

Well, we will see how it goes. Wish me luck, I am slowly making progress.

Days 52-62, May 22-31, 2012

Hello Again, finally! :) I am down 16 lbs!!! Yay!!! 217!! So, just 18 more lbs to go until under 200, which I hope to hit by the end September. That is 18 weeks from now. Wish me luck!! It is going good still. I am still eating 97% vegan. My weakness is still with the dairy, and the traces in morning star veggie meats that I am not going to give up. I feel like I was pretty bad today though, I feel like I ate too much. I went to Chipotle and didn't ride my bike so that is probably why I don't feel that great about today. I definitely feel better when i ride by bike, but i do like to take a lunch with my work friends once in a while you know? It has been hard to fit in roller blading the last few weeks too because my mom has been out of town, and i only go with her, then this week has just been so busy!

I think I found a little bit of a weigh-in trick. I have been actually weighing and logging my weight on Sunday night. But I find if i weigh myself on Friday night so i kinda know where i am at, it inspires me to be better on the weekend so i don't gain a lot back or make less progress than i see i am making friday night. So, it is working psychologically to do that. :)

Days 46-51, May 16, 2012 - May 21, 2012

So, here I am again, having slacked on my writing. But I am back today! 1st of all, I am very proud of myself because i made good choices this weekend. :) One of the biggest good choices i made, was that I went to go see my sister in Modesto, and on Sunday morning we went out to one of my favorite places for breakfast, and i usually get Huevos Rancheros and I really wanted to eat that!! But I didn't! I had oatmeal and toast. It was really good and filling, but NOT huevos rancheros :(. And on Saturday night we went to one of my other favorite places to eat, and I made good choices there too! Salad instead of french fries (but I did sneak some french fries from Jenni!), and a garden burger. My good choices and exercise during the week, were worth it though because I lost 3 lbs this last week!!! I weighed in last night at 219. My next big goal step is to get down to 199. I have to try to think of the little goals though. Like the next 5 lbs in the next 5 weeks because that is the normal pace that i have been going. I really hope though that i can go a little faster like this last week!

My mom bought me a couple of cookbooks, but i have only gone through them at the bookstore when we decided to buy them. "Cooking with Trader Joe's Skinny Dish" and "Vegan Cooking for Carnivores." I really want to try some recipes! But i haven't made time yet!

Okay, out for tonight! Thanks!

Days 39-45, May 9-May 15, 2012

Hi Everyone! Sorry, I am slacking on my writing. It has been a long week. My grandmother died. I had a couple of binges with chips and soda.

I lost the pound that I had gained, so at least that is good, but I didn't lose any more yet. I want to lose weight faster!!! One pound a week is soooooo slooooooow.

I am still torn with whether or not I am trying to be 100% vegan. I think I found some good creamer that i can use that is dairy free, so that is good. I need to try to like soy milk in my starbucks coffee or i need to completely cut it out. Then I need to cut out veggie meat that has egg and milk products in it. So, anyway still thinking. Maybe I will lose weight faster if i cut out those things more completely? More strictly?

Okay goodnight, i will try to write more often. I know I say that everytime. :)

Days 34-38, May 4 thru May 8, 2012

Hello! Auuggghhh! It has been too long since I have written again! Today i went out to dinner with my parents at House of Genji in san jose. It was yummy! I had a vegetable platter this time, instead of my usual chicken/steak dinner. And I really liked it! And this is the first time I have eaten there that I haven't felt sick, or had to take some food home. I ate it all, and i don't even feel sick. One thing bad though, I had fried rice, and it had egg and chicken broth in it.

I weighed myself at my normal time on sunday night, and i gained back a pound. So, either I didn't exercise enough last week, or I ate too much. Also, it could be lady time water retention! That is what i am hoping it is, but in any case it has motivated me to work harder this week! So far so good. I rode my bike both days and I stuck to my diet both days.

It is very very hard to be 100% vegan. I definitely am not. But i know i am pretty close. As long as it is working, that makes me happy. Talk to you soon!

Days 28-33 - April 28 thru May 3, 2012

Sorry it has been a while since I have written!!! I will try to be better at writing my thoughts daily.

I am down 11 lbs total as of 4/30/12!!! Yay!!! That makes me happy!! It still feels so slow though. I don’t feel it in my clothes yet. I am still in the same size pants, because I was trying to hold out until I could buy ones in a smaller size, but the crotch split and I HAD to buy new ones, and I just couldn’t squeeze into a smaller size. Bummer! Oh well. Soon! Soon I will be down a size!!

 

I have been having a hard time making the time to cook right. It seems I am doing okay, but just wish I made more time to try other recipes etc. I did try this recipe for zucchini tots that I found on pinterest (http://thetwobiteclub.blogspot.com/2012/04/zucchini-tots.html) and I didn’t really care for them. They were super easy though and I think I need to experiment with them, because really my only problem with them is I think there was way too much onion. Maybe cutting back on the onion or substituting with some other veggies will help overall.

 

I have found so many recipes on pinterest, and sites recommended by friends, and forks over knives, and my 21 day jumpstart your metabolism book, and I have no time to try them all!! I guess that isn’t true, I lied. I am not making time to try them.

 

I have still been exercising pretty consistently too, because that had better make the weight come off faster than 1 lb a week!! Riding my bike during my lunch hour at work in Gilroy. Today I was proud of myself because I rode a little longer route than I have been.Yay for me! But it was super windy, I hate it when it is like that! I have also been rollerblading with my mom some of the evenings. 

Anyway, overall, things are going well. I am just going to stay confident that it will keep working, and keep making good choices.