tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83686002293477522722024-03-05T22:18:18.695-08:00On my Way to being a Chic & Fit Mommy;)ChicFitMommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05834155548331429378noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8368600229347752272.post-46463125540001539632013-08-09T20:59:00.001-07:002013-08-09T20:59:56.508-07:00Got my Shakes & my workouts!Got my workouts done:)<br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/102982941010452954148/MyBlogPhotosIPhone#5910335385420373026'><img src='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-6tEp1RXze94/UgW6t_9nHCI/AAAAAAAAAA0/auzVvhp3ank/s288/1376107120.721590.jpg' border='0' width='187' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />Super Pumped to start my shakeology!<br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/102982941010452954148/MyBlogPhotosIPhone#5910335395958378194'><img src='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-p08XBcpLck4/UgW6unOETtI/AAAAAAAAAA8/n5qv60tj4LM/s288/1376107086.545420.jpg' border='0' width='640' height='640' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone<br />ChicFitMommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05834155548331429378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8368600229347752272.post-65252990300954266842013-08-06T19:37:00.001-07:002013-08-06T19:37:36.327-07:00Coffee Withdrawal I decided on Sunday to give up coffee and I have been feeling absolutely miserable these last three days. I mean, nausea, fatigue, major headaches, and I mean just about the worst withdrawal ever. I haven't been able to eat much or do much. Hopefully tomorrow I will feel better and will be able to restart my workouts...I'm starting to miss them.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been a long time coming, but I have finally figured out how to win this battle! Hard work & determination! I had to change my way of thinking and accept that it wasn't going to happen overnight...that it was going to be a long and slow process, but that if I kept doing the right things that it would happen... I have lost almost 30lbs and I still can't believe that it's happening. I still have another 25lbs to lose and I'm super excited to have finally decided to become a beachbody coach. I'm anxiously awaiting my shakeology and definitely pumped up to lose the last 25 pounds! </span><br />
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Now, on to the dreaded subject........Yes, I gained some weight back..I'm 185 so while I haven't gained it all back, I still gained some. Living with other people made it extremely difficult to stay on track. I tried but it was way too frustrating and stressful for me. Now, I have been home for over a month and I have tried over and over again to get back to what I was doing before we moved that first time, but I'm having such a hard time and to top it off it's holiday season so I mean, who want's to eat healthy during the holiday season? Not me!<br />
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Since I'm fairly new to this raw lifestyle I have been eating raw cereals, smoothies, cold soups, and juices. My husband's gift to me for Mother's day was a brand new Vitamix and I'm seriously loving it. Makes, blending smoothies and juices SO much easier. <br />
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It's been a busy couple of weeks and I am still eating a (mostly raw) plant based diet but, living with my in-laws (temporarily) has made it harder because I feel I'm obligated to eat what they are eating. This weekend I decided to get back on track and announced to my family that I'm doing a personal challenge of 30 days strictly plant based raw food diet in hopes that they will be understanding when I don't eat the same thing they are eating:)<br />
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I will do a weigh-in tomorrow morning and will make and honest effort to post pictures of my snacks and meals during these next 30 days. <br />
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This year has been, by far, the best ever. I'm so excited about everything and I look forward to what tomorrow will bring! <br />
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I am STILL juicing (yes, you read right!) and eating right. I have lost 17lbs (maybe more been a few days since I weighed myself). I started working out last week and today for the first time in almost 4 years I was able to run for 30 minutes straight! Watching "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead" definitely gave me a clean start and watching "Hungry for Change" just made everything "click" in my brain. I just got it. I <i>finally</i> got it and it feels SO incredibly good to know that I can eat. Yes, I can eat and I won't get fat...well as long as I follow a plant based diet. I still eat meat and animal products but not nearly as often as I used to. I can go to a party and eat pizza or a hamburger and maybe some chips with dip, followed by the cake and ice cream and I won't feel bad because I know that tomorrow I will go back to my now-normal way of eating. It's just really great. I just feel so at peace now...just really really great.<br />
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Onto <i>other</i> news (hehe) my hubby got a promotion and so we are in the middle of moving back up north. We are finally going to buy our own house (yay!) super excited about that and I've decided to go back to work...part time <i>maybe</i> full time still thinking about it...not going to be easy after being a SAHM for 4 years. <br />
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I know I haven't been writing much lately and I'm sure it's going to be another few weeks before I write again but I'll come back:) <br />
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So, today marks 17 days of juice fasting. I cannot believe I have been able to stick with this as long as I have and how easy it has been. As of this past Saturday I have lost 13lbs and I'm feeling great. No hunger, no anxiety, no stress. I'm feeling great.<br />
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I know I have been gone for quite a while, but seriously I had been feeling pretty defeated and down. I gave up and was eating like a crazed elephant trying to fill a bottomless pit...not good. Then, for whatever reason, my older sister started doing a juice fast (where you eat nothing but veggies and fruit juice) and told me about this movie that she had watched that inspired her to give it a try. The next day my husband and I watched the documentary "Fat, Sick, & Nearly Dead" and decided to give it a try. Today I am on day 12 of my fast and I have never felt better. I have more energy, I'm not hungry, I don't get those terrible muchies late at night anymore. I'm satisfied the majority of the time and amazingly I am learning to deal with time not spent eating. I'm watching t.v. and little by little that urge and need to grab something to eat, is slowly vanishing. I'm so excited! Yes, I have lost weight but what has kept me going has been that liberating feeling of no longer having to depend on food to get through my day, my anxiety, my emotions. NOTHING BUT FRESH VEGGIE AND FRUIT JUICE OUT OF A JUICER. NO SUGAR, NO SALT, NO COFFEE, NO DAIRY. JUST JUICE.. and it's working! I feel good!:) I hope to do this for 30 days and then ease back into eating a veggie/fruit based diet with meat and grains once or twice a week.. this is like cleaning myself out inside and out and learning to eat again:)<br />
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I have been struggling a lot lately, but I'm still here:) Still fighting through the issues and moving forward. I learned that my biggest problem is after dinner. I'm not quite sure why but I get anxiety attacks (at least that's what I think they are) where I just feel super overwhelmed and I just eat till I can't eat anymore. I remember one of my followers mentioned she was taking B-complex and that it was helping her, so I decided to give it a try and see what it did for me. While I was researching B-complex I came across Glucamannan (Konjac Root) and ginkgo biloba so, I decided to try them. I just started taking the three supplements these week and while I have seen some improvement in the way I feel at night time, it is still too early to tell if it really does work for me. I will let you know. Also, does anyone know of a supplement to help with anxiety but that DOES NOT put you to sleep? I bought Valerian but then realized that most people use it to get a good night's sleep and that's ONE thing I do not need help with:) I just need something to relax the nerves I guess:/ :D<br />
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I wish I could turn back the hands of time (who doesn't?!) and just start all over again! Well, not entirely over, just from high school on:/ Really, I wish I had known what I wanted to do with my life<i> then, </i>then maybe today I would feel old but accomplished...not just old:/ I guess I'm feeling a little defeated today but not to worry because I don't give up easily. Sooner or later I will figure things out...<br />
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<br />ChicFitMommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05834155548331429378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8368600229347752272.post-90089659698100477082011-12-12T07:03:00.000-08:002011-12-12T07:03:42.062-08:00Done.Done counting calories. Done eating light and fat free. Done thinking about food 24/7. Done feeling guilty every time I eat. Done. Done. Done. <br />
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Seriously, this weigh loss journey sucks. I'm super fed up with everything and I don't want to think about what I can and can't eat anymore. So, this morning, I'm drinking my coffee with honey and real whole fatty milk. Yes, and it's so freaking delicious that I'm probably drinking two cups. Yes. I. am. You, know since day one of this journey I have beat my self over and over again over the things I should have done or shouldn't have done. Should I eat that? I shouldn't eat that! I. AM. OVER. IT! That's it, I'm giving up diets and my daily fights with food. From now on I'm going to eat what I want as much as I want. I'm not going to beat myself up over it and I'm going to enjoy my life instead of obsessing about food every second. <br />
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In other news: I started running. Yes, you heard right. I'm running and I absolutely love it. I'm not running to lose weight but rather to unwind and relax. It's just makes me feel so good, I have so much more energy, I feel so great afterwards and the end of the day, it really makes my day so much better. What got me started? My chiropractor. Yep, he's a runner and I'm not sure why but we started talking about running and marathons and I remembered how much I loved running back when I was single. I also remembered some goals I had and how I gave everything up when I got married and had my son. So, I decided to give it a try and now I look forward to the end of the day when I can just go and run. The first day I ran I seriously felt like my legs were made out of iron, they felt SO heavy I was only able to run about 4 minutes before I had to stop running and keep on walking. That was the beginning of last week. The last two days I have walked one mile and ran one mile. I'm doing a total of 2 or 4 miles a day depending whether or not I go walking in the morning. This week my goal is to up my running by half a mile. Wish me luck!:)<br />
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These past two weeks were definitely super busy for me. Having to prepare for the party and to travel out of town for Thanksgiving definitely had me running all over the place like a chicken with no head:/ I was a little worried the party was going to turn out to be a huge flop, being that all of our families had to come from out of town, but I'm happy to say that it everyone made it and we had a really good turn out. My baby is now 3 years old:( They grow so fast!</div>
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This year we drove up north for Thanksgiving to spend it with my hubby's family. We left Wednesday afternoon thinking we weren't going to get traffic, but who was I kidding?! There was traffic everywhere:| So, anyways for the first half of Thanksgiving day we spent it with my father in law's side of the family and I stuffed my face with chips because people were about 2 hours late and by that time I had already satisfied my hunger with the chips and salsa. Yes, I was super annoyed. I hate waiting and making people wait. The second half of the day we spent it with my mother in law's family and that went well a lot better. We got there and the Turkey was pretty much done and people were there already so we really didn't wait long to eat and omg did I eat? oh, yes I did. Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, cheese broccoli, cornbread, mushrooms, pie, cake, omg it was all so delicious!! It was super good but we definitely over ate then and the day after for our second Turkey day:/ at my sister in laws place. This whole weekend was just a food fest and me and my hubby definitely over indulged:/ Good thing it only happens once a year:D lol It was all really good food and we all had a pretty nice time with his family, so all in all it was a great Thanksgiving weekend. We drove back home Saturday night to avoid the traffic on Sunday and that was a pretty good decision because we got to go buy our Christmas tree and pull out all the decorations (which were not much being that last year we lived in an apartment so we are definitely going to be buying more decorations) but as of right now my house has the Christmas light, the tree, and the nativity all set out. I'm hoping this weekend I can go and get a few more decorations to put up. I'm thinking big ornaments for the outside bushes and trees but I'm not so sure my hubby will like that lol. </div>
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Ok, lastly I am back on the wagon as of yesterday. I went for a walk, I tried to restrict what I ate but that was a huge mistake because I ended up overeating and binged:/ So, today I'm just going to eat what I want but go back to trying to just eat what I need. We'll see how that goes. </div>
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On a different set of news I finally got my hubby to go for a walk with me:) I'm going to try to go for a walk everyday this week and hopefully get more energy out of it along as more will to stick to a healthy lifestyle. I hadn't been doing too good but snapped myself back into it yesterday and I'm hoping with a little bit of a workout everyday and some good healthy eating I can lose 1lb a week...hopefully or even just half a pound as long as there is a loss!:)<br />
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On the weight loss front, it's been a little hard these past few days since my husband hasn't been trying as hard as he used to but I'm not giving up. I am going to start going for walks today and I'm hoping that by starting out easy and just do a little bit more everyday it'll be easier for me to get used to doing some activity everyday. I really need to make sure I make it a habit.<br />
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I know I have't told you guys but I occasionally babysit some kids to keep me and my son busy during the week. Anyways, yesterday one of the kids I had was so wound up I had to call and get him picked up because I just could not handle him anymore. I mean I consider myself a pretty patient person but yesterday I was literally shaking and close to crying because I just couldn't get him to calm down, mind you he's only 3 but he gets so so angry and so upset over the littlest things and his reaction is just to automatically hit:( I know he's only 3 and that I'm the adult but once I reached that point of "I don't think I can do this all day" I had to call the parents to get him picked up before I went nuts. When he got picked up I had a major binge session (that I haven't had in a while) and it took a long time for me to finally relax and get back to being okay. I had to talk to his dad, his mom, and his grandma:\ I didn't mind talking to them but I really felt like they need to communicate better with each other and communicate with me when the little boy is having issues at home so that I can understand his behavior better and be able to work with his family to make this work. They brought him over again today and again he is just so angry all the time and so frustrated but I think because i prepared myself for it I was able to handle it better today. He's napping now and I'm seriously hoping that he gets picked up early and <i>that</i> made me think maybe I need to stop having him over... I feel bad I don't know what else to do?? It really stresses me out when he comes (he only comes once or twice a week) and by the end of the day I'm so on edge that I just want to lock myself in the room and not deal with my son or my husband:( unfortunately I can only do that for like 5 minutes before my son comes looking for me and I don't get any down time till I'm ready to go to sleep and my husband has to put my son to sleep... So yeah, what would you guys do?<br />
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I feel as if I've gone way too long without blogging, but in reality it's only been a few weeks...two? three? for sure no more than a month:)<br />
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So, here I am! it's been a good couple of weeks for me and I'm pretty happy right now the way things are. My husband finally jumped on the wagon with me and has been making more of an effort to eat healthier and make healthier choices and in seeing <i>him actually do it, </i>it has definitely made it easier for me to start making the changes needed towards a healthier lifestyle. I have been cooking and baking everything the "healthy" way and have been focusing on portion control a lot more. I'm no longer counting calories as much as I just try to "listen" to what my body is telling me. I'm eating the foods I want and I am making sure that I'm aware of <i>what</i> I am eating and <i>how much</i> of it. I do feel like it's making a difference but I won't know for sure until I step on the scale and<i> that's</i> one thing I have been avoiding...but when I <i>do</i> decide to step on it, I hope I can see a change for the better in the numbers that pop-up. I really do:)<br />
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I'm taking a break! Yes, I'm stepping away from blogging at least a few weeks. I'm still going to log on and read my favorite blogs but I'm not going to post anything until I'm ready again.<br />
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Just wanted to let you guys know I'm still here, still trying, still motivated. I haven't been in the blogging mood lately sorry:/ <br />
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Anyhoos, we are getting ready to go visit my in-laws again this weekend so, I will most likely not blog anything until Tuesday or Wednesday. I am trying a different approach to the whole eating part so I will let you guys know how I do and what my weigh in numbers are (either Monday or Tuesday). I have been doing my bodyrock workouts except the last two days (too damn hot) and now that I think of it I probably won't get any workouts today or this weekend for that matter. Okay, well as always I hope you guys have a great weekend and I will see you next week!:) <br />
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